Gun seller may sue Everytown for Gun Safety for defamation

Posted: February 6, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Imagine that-Bloomberg’s minions lying right before they attempt to get anti-gun legislation introduced and passed.

Then there’s this..In Vermont, an online petition asking Attorney General William Sorrell to investigate the tactics used by Everytown for Gun Safety has garnered more than 500 signatures in five days.  Only 500 signatures???!!!!  Bloomberg and his millionaire and billionaire pals,along with his minions which help introduce this bullshit on state’s ballots and run his anti-gun front groups Everytown and Moms are going to go state by state and get the same shit enacted as they did in Washington state if gun owners don’t get off their asses and fight this bullshit.

MOUNT HOLLY — A firearms dealer accused by a gun safety group of not conducting background checks is mulling a lawsuit for defamation of character.

Bobby Richards is the owner and operator of Crossfire Arms, an online firearms business based in Mount Holly, about 15 miles southeast of Rutland. His business was identified in a recent report by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety — which has since retracted some of its claims — as an unlicensed dealer that sells guns to criminals.

That is not the case, according to Richards and his attorney, Rachel Baird.

“In the blatantly false and malicious report distributed to a worldwide audience, Everytown misappropriated Crossfire Arms’ logo and defamed its owner Bobby Richards and Crossfire Arms by characterizing both as vehicles for the unlicensed sale of firearms to felons, fugitives from justice, domestic violence abusers and other unspecified criminals,” reads a statement released by Crossfire Arms.

According to Baird, Richards has a federal firearms license and conducts the background checks required under federal law.

“Bobby and I are exploring his claims that will focus primarily on the torts of slander and defamation, including placing Bobby and Crossfire Arms in a false light,” Baird said.

On its website, Crossfire Arms states, “Crossfire Arms, LLC is a licensed FFL dealer. In accordance with federal and state laws, we cannot ship a firearm directly to an individual or to a location that does not hold an FFL (Federal Firearms License).”

“Firearms will only be shipped to another licensed gun dealer within the United States — this can be your local gun shop, pawn shop, sporting goods store, etc,” the website states. “The receiving gun dealer then handles your background check and the transfer of the firearm to you.”

The report from Everytown for Gun Safety comes as state lawmakers consider a bill to tighten the laws surrounding criminal background checks.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20150203/NEWS03/702039956

Two Philadelphia police officers charged in beating of motor scooter rider

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A grand jury has criminally charged two Philadelphia police officers with knocking a man from his motor scooter, beating him and then falsely accusing him of assault, in the latest case of alleged police misconduct in the United States.

Officers Sean McKnight, 30, and Kevin Robinson, 26, were charged with aggravated assault and related offenses in the May 2013 incident which occurred after a traffic stop in a gritty section of north Philadelphia, said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams.

The victim, Najee Rivera, said he fled in fear on his scooter after officers exited their vehicle with their batons extended. That, according to Williams, enraged the pursuing officers.

One of them hit Rivera in the head with a baton as their patrol car knocked him off his scooter, prosecutors said.

Rivera was hospitalized with a fractured orbital bone and numerous lacerations to the head. But McKnight and Robinson filed paperwork claiming Rivera attacked them.

Rivera’s girlfriend, however, had canvassed the area of the beating, and turned up surveillance video of the beating.

“The video undermined every aspect of the officers’ account,” Williams told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. “None of it was true except for the blows inflicted on Najee Rivera.”

http://news.yahoo.com/two-philadelphia-police-officers-charged-brutality-motorist-162556151.html

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Then we’ll shoot you,tase you,pepper spray you,strike you with a baton, and throw you to the ground anyways…

Chinese herdsman stumbles onto a 17-pound gold nugget

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Imagine it! You’re walking along and nearly trip over a 17-pound (7.85 kilograms) gold nugget. File that under a most improbable gold bonanza.

But that’s exactly how it played out for one lucky sun-of-a-gun farmer in China.

Berek Sawut, a Kazak herdsman from Qinghe County in Altay Prefecture told Chinese news agency Xinhua that he found the giant nugget “practically lying on bare ground.” The area is in China’s far western Xinjiang Uygur region.

That gold nugget, assuming it’s at least 80% pure, would be worth 1.6 million yuan ($255,313 U.S. dollars), says Xinhua, which also points out that a 1.84 kilogram nugget was discovered in the region in 2010. Gold GCJ5, -0.04%  for April delivery was trading at $1,261 an ounce on Thursday.

The odds of such a thing happening, of course, are not as rare as, say, finding 1,400 rare U.S. gold coins practically in your backyard. And yes, that actually happened to one lucky California couple a year ago.

It can’t be confirmed if this is indeed it, but this supposed image of that China nugget was floating around earlier on Twitter.

Oddly enough, on Feb. 5, 1869, the world’s biggest alluvial gold nugget (i.e., gold deposited by water) was found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. Dubbed the ‘Welcome Stranger,’ the nugget had a gross weight of 109.59 kilograms, and had to be broken into three pieces because there were no scales large enough to weigh it, according to Wikipedia.

Last month thieves smashed an SUV into a Wells Fargo museum in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday and made off with gold nuggets and ore worth more than $12,000.

But that’s not a strategy we’d recommend in trying to get your own chunk of gold.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinese-herdsman-stumbles-onto-a-17-pound-gold-nugget-2015-02-05?siteid=yhoof2

TSA Earns Gestapo Nickname

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Man held 20 hours after asking to file TSA complaint

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A traveler detained for more than 20 hours after a search of energy bars and a sports watch in his carry-on bag at an airport has sued the Transportation Security Administration and accused a TSA supervisor of lying.

Architect and runner Roger Vanderklok said he was arrested after asking TSA workers how to file a complaint. He said he spent nearly a day in a holding cell without being questioned by police or given the chance to call his wife, who was frantic.

“It’s difficult to lose control of your existence. That’s what it amounts to,” Vanderklok said Wednesday. “I was absolutely terrified.”

According to Vanderklok, the TSA supervisor lied to police and again in court when he said the 58-year-old runner had made a verbal threat during the January 2013 security check at Philadelphia International Airport. Vanderklok was on his way to Miami for a half-marathon.

The TSA said it was concerned about the gear in his bag: what turned out to be the watch and the power bars, wrapped in a small PVC pipe for protection. Electronics and “organic mass” can be used to make bombs, TSA Supervisor Charles Kieser testified at an April 2013 criminal trial.

But Vanderklok’s lawyer, Thomas Malone, argued in court: “I don’t think PowerBars are consistent with bombings, nor are watches.”

A judge quickly dismissed threat charges against Vanderklok, who filed his lawsuit Jan. 23, seeking unspecified damages for what he considers a retaliatory arrest. The Philadelphia Daily News first reported on the lawsuit Wednesday.

Malone doesn’t challenge the TSA’s effort to investigate the items in the carry-on but says airport security footage contradicts Kieser’s testimony.

Kieser testified an agitated Vanderklok raised his hands and repeatedly pointed a finger at his face.

“The passenger made a bomb threat to me,” Kieser testified, according to a transcript. “(He said) I’ll bring a bomb through here any day that I want … and you’ll never find it.”

Vanderklok insists he said nothing about a bomb. The security video shows him standing calmly with his arms in front of him holding a laptop, his lawsuit says.

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The TSA does not comment on pending lawsuits, a spokesman said. Kieser does not appear to have a listed phone number.

The city’s chief deputy solicitor, Craig Straw, said his office had not seen the lawsuit.

http://news.yahoo.com/suit-man-held-20-hours-asking-file-tsa-210427933.html

Hobbit ring = Terrorist

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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“It also highlights the way the “education system” is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens.”

“A Kermit [Texas] parent said his fourth-grade student was suspended Friday for allegedly making a terroristic threat,” the Odessa American reported Friday. After seeing “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” nine-year-old Aiden Steward allegedly brought a ring to school and told a classmate it was magic and could make him disappear.

The boy’s father, Jason Steward, said Kermit Elementary School Principal Roxanne Greer informed him “threats to another child’s safety would not be tolerated — whether magical or not.” For her part, Greer declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements.

The incident does illustrate the seeming paradox of schools that have programs against bullies essentially assuming that role. It also highlights the way the “education system” is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens. As this column has shown before, things were not always that way, and many of us remember a much different time.

The ultimate problem is that schools, via illusory “gun free zones,” provide those intent on making a name for themselves through acts of unspeakable evil a practical guarantee they will get what they most desire: success. Until that paradigm changes, expect ever more ridiculous examples of “zero tolerance” insanity to continue to make the news.

http://www.examiner.com/article/hobbit-ring-school-suspension-merits-closer-look?CID=examiner_alerts_article

New Mexico: Anti-Gun House Bill 44 to Receive Public Hearing on Saturday, February 7

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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On Saturday at 2:00 p.m., in Room 307 of the State Capitol, the House Regulatory & Public Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on NRA-opposed House Bill 44, sponsored by anti-gun state Representative Miguel Garcia (D-ABQ).  HB 44 criminalizes non-dealer firearm transfers at gun shows, which would lead to the end of these events as we know them.  Misguided gun control advocates will be in Santa Fe to support this deeply flawed measure, so please attend this hearing to show your opposition.

HB 44 is just the first step toward criminalizing ALL private transfers of firearms; in fact, the first version of this bill from the 2013 session did just that.  No background check legislation will ever be “universal” since criminals simply ignore the law.

Why You Should Oppose HB 44

It’s an ineffective crime control proposal.  In April of 2013, PoliceOne conducted a national survey of 15,000 active and retired law enforcement officers of all ranks and department sizes on the topics of gun & crime control.  Nearly 80 percent said that a prohibition on private non-dealer transfers of firearms between individuals would not reduce violent crime.

Current laws are not being enforced.  According to a 2012 report to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 72,000 people were turned down on a gun purchase in 2010 because they didn’t clear a background check.  Only 44 of those cases – or just .06 percent – were prosecuted.  A 2013 study by Syracuse University showed that gun prosecutions had hit a decade low, down 40 percent from 2004.  Existing laws are not even being enforced and proponents are calling for expanding background checks to cover private firearms transactions.

Gun shows aren’t a source of crime guns.  A U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of state prison inmates who had used or possessed firearms in the course of committing their crimes found that 79 percent acquired their firearms from “street/illegal sources” or “friends and family.”  This includes theft of firearms, black market purchases of stolen firearms and straw purchases.  Only 1.7 percent obtained a firearm at a gun show.

It may lead to gun registration. Most importantly, because a January 2013 internal U.S. Department of Justice memorandum summarizing so-called “gun violence” prevention strategies stated that the effectiveness of “universal background checks” depends on “requiring gun registration.”  Even though HB 44 currently contains prohibitions on the development of a state or local registry of gun buyers, supporters of the bill are likely to eventually claim the need to repeal these important protections in order to enforce its provisions.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150204/new-mexico-anti-gun-house-bill-44-to-receive-public-hearing-on-saturday-february-7

NRA-ILA: Gabby Giffords’ Gun Control Group ‘Just Making Stuff Up’

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Arkansas: Campus Carry Bill to be Considered by House Committee Tomorrow

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), ought to rename themselves “Anti-Gunners for Irresponsible Statistics” in light of their “bogus claim … about the number of firearm and car accident deaths among young people each year.”

According to the NRA-ILA, ARS “claimed that there are more than 30,000 firearm-related deaths, plus more than 30,000 car accident deaths among young people each year.” However, the NRA-ILA points to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) numbers, which show the number of accidental deaths among young people aged 0 to 19 years was 3,753 in 2013, while accidental firearm-related deaths for that same year were 124.

They use 2013 because that is the most recent year for which data is reported.

Even if all deaths are included–rather than accidental deaths only–the CDC shows all car deaths among young people 0 to 19 in 2013 was 3,776, while the number for all firearm-related deaths for young people age 0 to 19 was 2,465.

In other words, no matter how you look at it, ARS’s claims do not add up.

It should be noted that the claim that caught the NRA-ILA’s attention was ARS’s projection that “2015 will be the first year young Americans are more likely to die to from gun violence than car accidents.” Note that the ARS had to include all gun deaths–intentional and accidental–rather than only accidental car deaths to get the numbers close enough to keep the projection from being immediately discarded.

In fact, the NRA-ILA described it best as a “bogus claim.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/03/nra-ila-gabby-giffords-gun-control-group-just-making-stuff-up/

Since when is anything spouted by any anti-gun group not based on lies,half-truths and obfuscation?

How Reality TV Is Teaching Us to Accept the American Police State, by John W. Whitehead

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From John W. Whitehead, a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.”—Etienne de La Boétie, “The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: How Do Tyrants Secure Cooperation?” (1548)

Americans love their reality TV shows—the drama, the insults, the bullying, the callousness, the damaged relationships delivered through the lens of a surveillance camera—and there’s no shortage of such dehumanizing spectacles to be found on or off screen, whether it’s Cops, Real Housewives or the heavy-handed…

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SHTF Home Defense

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From Forward Observer Magazine…

SHTF Home Defense: Part 1 – Defending the Perimeter

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-1-defending-the-perimeter/

SHTF Home Defense: Part 2 – Defending the Home

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-2-defending-the-home/

Read.

Learn.

Train.

Do More PT !

A Reader Sends: For All You Mechanics

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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