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Dance of the lemons.

And you wonder why London’s gone to hell in a hand basket. The anti-gun bigotry there is so dominant that Olympic shooting champions are being treated like criminal influences on British children. Via the London Evening Standard (hat tip: Cameron Gray)… Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson’s Olympic ticket giveaway. [...]

Yesterday, I gave you full coverage of the attempted second jihad attack on our soldiers at Fort Hood. As I noted, a vigilant gun dealer in Killeen TX is being credited with blowing the whistle on the jihadi plotter who visited his store. Cam Edwards at NRA News interviewed the hero. Meet Greg Ebert and [...]

On Monday, I noted brewing questions about a Fast & Furious-like gunwalker operation out of Tampa, Florida, that allegedly put weapons in the hands of MS-13 gangsters in Honduras. House Republicans are turning up the heat on several agencies. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (FL-09), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter yesterday [...]

In the wake of swelling outrage over the Obama administration’s fatally botched Fast and Furious straw gun purchase racket, the DOJ is punishing the very whistleblowers who protested the scheme in the first place. This is a head fake. Instead of exercising more control over lawless bureaucrats within its own agencies, the Obama administration is [...]

Thanks to vigilant pressure from 2nd amendment bloggers and House GOP Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, the White House is set to throw acting ATF director Kenneth Melson under the bus over the Project Gunrunner/ Fast and Furious scandal (all background links below). Internal documents released this week show he was intimately involved [...]

Graphic via CBS News I’ve been keeping you abreast of all the Obama administration’s Project Gunrunner stonewalling since March (links/chronology below). Today, vigilant GOP House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa is holding another hearing to pressure Team Obama for the whole truth. On Monday, Issa and GOP watchdogs spotlighted DOJ obstructionism (Sipsey Street [...]

I’ve been red-flagging this most explosive homeland security scandal for you for more than a month. Independent citizen journalists, inside whistleblowers, and relentless GOP watchdogs on Capitol Hill led by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa and GOP Sen. Charles Grassley have kept up the pressure on the Obama administration to come clean on this deadly, stimulus-funded [...]

Yesterday, I brought you up to speed on GOP Sen. Charles Grassley’s fight with DOJ over its Project Gunrunner stonewalling. Today, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa warns that DOJ’s intransigence could lead to contempt proceedings. He released a letter this morning to acting ATF chief Kenneth Melson. You can read the PDF version here. The key [...]

Tick, tick, tick. Another Project Gunrunner disclosure deadline approaches for the Obama Department of Justice. And GOP watchdogs are hammering away at yet another stonewall erected by corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder. Late last week, Sen. Charles Grassley roasted the DOJ for failing to produce documents he requested in February — and released his own [...]

The “Burrito Wall” Just when you think the open-borders crowd and Berzekeley professors can’t get any more insane, along comes another one to leave you flabbergasted. Meet UC Berkeley architect professor Ron Rael. He would like to completely declare surrender of our sovereignty and border security, and turn the border wall (what little exists) into [...]

Our GOP watchdogs are on the job. Project Gunrunner is not just going be swept under the rug by Obama’s corruptocrats. Just in… April 1, 2011 Contact: Frederick Hill (202-225-0037) Chairman Issa Subpoenas ATF for ‘Project Gunrunner’ Documents Subpoena comes after ATF fails to meet earlier deadline WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the [...]

Stop ATF’s anti-gun zealots by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the “community organizing” in the world couldn’t curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s [...]

Graphic via CBS News I’ve been tied up on other things, but have been following the Project Gunrunner scandal closely — and delve into the basics in my syndicated column today. To its credit, CBS News gave this deadly Obama culture of corruption nightmare mainstream coverage last month. But it’s been brewing on the blogs [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In the past, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has criticized Arizona’s immigration law from afar, but when it comes to gun law enforcement in that state, he seems to be operating a bit out of his mayoral jurisdiction, don’t you think? NEW YORK – Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers [...]

I sympathize with GOP Rep. Peter King’s security concerns. But he’s doing an embarrassing Chicken Little dance in the wake of the Tucson massacre. Apparently compelled to jump ahead of all the liberal gun-grabbers in Washington, GOP Rep. King has drafted a bill to ban law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms within 1,000 feet of government [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is sponsoring a “Peace walk, run & rally against violence.” Here’s a list of participants: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 New York City Join hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, former New York Giant Michael Strahan, our New York City/Bronx Million Mom March Chapter, and others [...]

Liberals in Ohio have quite a track snooping on private citizens. Democrat state officials abused their access and plundered through Joe the Plumber’s records. And now, the Ohio Democrat Party has been caught trying to illegally obtain info on concealed carry permit holders in the Buckeye State in order to bombard them with anti-gun propaganda. [...]

First, the good news: The Supreme Court affirmed the Heller decision on the individual right to bear arms and essentially and effectively struck down the city of Chicago’s sweeping gun ban: The Supreme Court ruled for the first time Monday that the Second Amendment provides all Americans a fundamental right to bear arms, a long-sought [...]

This could cost Texas Governor Rick Perry the endorsement of PETA, but to save the life of his dog, it’s worth it: AUSTIN, Texas – Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don’t mess with my dog. Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday he needed just one shot [...]

Oh, you are just going to love MSNBC’s explanation for why the network doctored up video of a black town hall protester carrying a gun to suggest that gun-toting Tea Party folks are all white racists. This takes the cake. I don’t think there is a Cone of Shame big enough:

Sen. John Thune sponsored an amendment to the defense authorization bill allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their weapons across state lines as long as they abided by other states’ CCW rules and regulations. The Senate just voted down the measure by 58-39, falling two short of the 60-vote threshhold needed to block a [...]

Not everyone is ready to roll over and be a victim. Thank God: A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked [men] who burst into an apartment. Channel 2 [...]

Conviction.

Witch hunt.

Excellent myth-buster piece from William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott at Fox News on an anti-gun rights lie. Countering the double-barreled propaganda from both the gun controllers and the open-borders lobby is a job most of the MSM refuses to do: You’ve heard this shocking “fact” before — on TV and radio, in newspapers, on [...]

Homeland insecurity alert.

Look at what they’re doing in Oregon to licensed concealed weapons owners (hat tip – Orbusmax) Washington County’s sheriff is asking 10,000 people who hold concealed handgun licenses whether they want their names made public if it is requested as an Oregon public record. Sheriff Rob Gordon said he believes that people obtain these licenses [...]

Misfire.

Shooting his mouth off.