Tony Oliva

Bank Calls Gun Owner Over Gun…TWICE!!!

So in honor of the new fiscal year I thought I would share a story of a gun owner and his recent dealings with his bank. That gun owner happens to be me and the bank in question is First Niagara.

A Gun Owners Take on Embattled Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis

What if a taxpayer funded employee of the government was a religiously based pacifist who didn’t believe in the use of firearms? What if, based off that religious belief, they refused to issue any concealed carry permits or refused to transfer gun purchases?

Left Coast Pols Can’t Ban Them So They’re About To Tax Them Out of Existence

In Seattle, a plan is to be voted on to tax every gun and every single bullet that is sold in the city.

FL Rep Has Sites Set on Ending Criminal Empowerment Zones on College Campuses

On August 3rd, Florida State Rep. Greg Stuebe (R) of Sarasota introduced legislation that would allow the concealed carry of firearms on college campuses.

FINALLY: Jackbooted SWAT Thugs Lose Immunity After Throwing Flash-bang Grenades at Innocent Grandmother and Granddaughter

A grandmother and granddaughter were enjoying a nice afternoon at home. That is before squad of shocktroopers from the local SWAT team shattered the front door and tossed in a couple of flash-bang grenades.

Infantry Colonel has interesting take on retorting gun control arguments

As long time readers of Bullets First know, I have ranged both far and wide in my defense of the 2nd Amendment in regards to rhetorical analysis and repudiation of gun controllers arguments and claims. Anyone who utilizes the search feature on this site can find articles dealing with the meaning of the word militia in 1700’s America, the private letters of our Founding Fathers that illustrate their belief in the right to keep and bear arms, the racist roots of gun control, the true numbers that reveal that places with more legal gun ownership are safer and so on. But I’m not sure that I have ever used the powerfully devastating “new” argument against gun control that former Infantry Colonel Kurt Schlichter has penned recently. An excerpt: American gun owners are beginning to respond with a fresh, powerful argument when facing anti-gun liberals. Here it is, in its...

God and Sam Colt come together to protect Pastor

As the old adage goes: “God created man, Sam Colt made them equal.” It’s with this in mind that I take you to the Church of New Beginnings in Baytown, Texas where Pastor Benny Holmes utilized the Lord’s protection in the form of a .45 pistol to protect himself from a church robber. At about 6:15 in the morning while Pastor Holmes was asleep inside, a would be robber breaks through the door of the church. Pastor Holmes hears the noise, arms himself and then goes to see who would defile his church. He found career criminal Lee Marvin Blue Jr (27), whose rap sheet dates back to 2005. Upon finding Blue stealing the churches laptops Pastor Holmes commanded him to stop twice but Blue ignored the Pastors words and advanced upon him. It should be noted that Blue is built like a linebacker who busted in the door...

14 Steps To Help Your Survival On the Upcoming Disaster

We all like to think we can “rough” it when the $h!+ hits the fan and that we are conditioned to be Mountain Men and Women if the times call for it. But I have to question, have you made any plans or contingencies beyond a bug out bag and a few weeks of food? See, there is more to surviving a disaster than being a badass. It takes some thought and preparation to not only survive but thrive in face of a life changing disaster. For instance, Iran will soon have a working nuclear bomb thanks to President Obama. For a quick moment Iran was all nicey nice with the US and before the spittle was dry on the Ayatollah’s boots from all the licking Obama was doing, the Iranians once again started the “death to America” rhetoric. Our good friend and radio host Tamara Jackson, recently did a show...

Model and Actress Kelly Carlson Carries A Firearm for Self Defense

Model and Actress Kelly Carlson is not some gun hating Hollywood actress, quite the contrary. She recently opened up on her pro gun viewpoints and why she herself carries a firearm. Despite being trained in the Filipino martial art of Kali since the age of 19, Carlson understood that some situations may arise where Kali wouldn’t be enough. “Owning a firearm…was life changing for me because women for sure, but even men too can be in a very, very vulnerable position with no options if you have intruders or any scenario where you’re being dominated physically. [A firearm] is the only equalizer you have.” Carlson has recently revealed that in 2012 she was a victim of a stalker who hired 7 men to break into her house, compromise her electronic devices and ambush her. After several break-ins and being followed on the streets, she contacted law enforcement who were not...

Bruce Jenner Makes Me Want To Vomit

To paraphrase Snoop Dogg, “Bruce Jenner isn’t news, he’s a science experiment.” I couldn’t agree more. Shame on ESPN to be force feeding the sports watching public with this liberal dogmatic crap, continually hammering in this lie that having a sex change is somehow normal or a courageous act. No. It is a mental disorder. It even has a name, Body Dysmorphic Disorder. We don’t champion anorexics or bulimics for being “brave” enough to starve or vomit their way to a thinner body. There is nothing brave or natural about chopping off parts of your body and taking a plethora of drugs to change your sex. It’s a psychological disease that needs treatment and therapy and all the people who are cheering for Bruce Jenner’s mutilation of himself are fooling both themselves and this man whose mental disorder has led him down a path of Frankensteinian horror. Posit for a moment...

NAACP Acting Just like the Taliban and ISIS

I remember years ago how disgusted I was when the Taliban, left unchallenged, made it a mission to actively destroy history. I remember watching the Buddha‘s of Bamiyan, after surviving 1500 years of wars, mother nature, erosion and all things that threatened it over 15 centuries, were destroyed by dynamite by the hateful, small minded and petty fools of the Taliban. For history buffs the video below may be a little difficult to watch. In an instant, some ignorant hate filled terrorists destroy history because they don’t agree with it. ISIS is no better as you can see in the photo below of them rampaging through a Museum of Assyrian Antiquities in Nimrod, Iraq with sledgehammers. These savages take glee and cheer the destruction of all history that they do not agree with. All in order to promote their own, narrow ideological dogma. And now the NAACP can...

Constitutional Carry: New Hampshire Falters While Maine Rises

In an update from earlier articles I have written about the 2 New England states bucking the gun control trends from nearby states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, Maine and New Hampshire have both passed legislation allowing their citizens to fully exercise their right to keep and bear arms without the bureaucracy, cost, or invasion of privacy and human dignity that goes along with begging the government to do so. Unfortunately, New Hampshire’s leading mouth breather, Gov. Maggie Hassan has gone against the will of the legislature and the will of the people by vetoing the Constitutional Carry measure. Hassan gave the standard two faced talk from both sides of her mouth by stating that she supports the 2nd Amendment but by eliminating the need for people to beg the government to exercise their rights it would “compromise the public safety of our citizens.” No…the only thing it...

The Insidious Erosion of the Second Amendment

The tragic case of 39 year-old Carol Browne of Berlin Township New Jersey is the first. Ms. Browne was dutifully waiting on a lethargic bureaucracy for her concealed carry pistol permit in order to defend herself against an abusive ex-boyfriend when he accosted Browne in her driveway on June 3 and stabbed her to death.

PROOF that Wounded Warrior Project uses less than 52% of donations to help vets

I wrote an article at the end of 2014 “Stop Donating To The Wounded Warrior Project – They’re a Fraud” discussing how little of the donations that the Wounded Warrior Project gets actually goes to helping veterans in need. From the hundreds of comments that article received, a vase majority of people echoed their own personal frustration in dealing with the Wounded Warrior Project and how they were made to feel more like stage props for fundraising campaigns than actual human beings in need. Of course, there were a few vehement, “head in the sand” supporters of the WWP who accused me of being anti veteran (even though I am a vet myself) and of anyone who said anything bad about the WWP as being ungrateful or having a nefarious ulterior motive. Even when I engaged these blind followers and told them about how the breakdown of money is spent they...

Political Correctness Kills the Dukes of Hazzard; TVLand Pulls Show off Network Because of the General Lee

Just’a good ol’ boys…Never meanin’ no harm. But apparently that’s not good enough for the rabid, foaming at the mouth, thin skinned radicals of the left. In case you haven’t heard, the cable channel TV Land has kow towed to progressive pressure and pulled the Dukes of Hazzard from the lineup. Why? Because the General Lee, the iconic television car has the Stars and Bars emblazoned on its roof. Never mind that the Duke boys were in no way racists. That the General Lee was never used in a hit and run against a black person or in anyway could be viewed as being inherently racist. No. Just the fact that some people may have a sense of pride in their heritage, liberal progressive mouth breathers feel they must stomp it out as quickly as they can because of an isolated incident. Not only has TV Land pulled the...

Poughkeepsie, NY: Agree with Gun Control or “shut up and get out”

Another day, another example of liberal hypocrisy where everyone’s opinion matters and voice should be heard…so long as you agree 100% with their liberal ideology. This was initially published on Mental Recession: During a recent city council meeting in Poughkeepsie, New York, Democrat councilman Joe Rich appeared to lose his cool with residents who opposed restrictive gun legislation, telling them to “shut up” and stay out of his city. Representatives for the Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE) gave a presentation to the council on the negative impacts of an ordinance requiring mandatory storage of firearms. After defending the ordinance because some people might break into one’s house and use their own gun against them if they don’t lock it up, a mind-numbing defense of the concept of mandatory firearm storage, Rich accused the group of not wanting gun laws to work because it would cause Second Amendment supporters “a...

Uber Bans Drivers and Passengers From Being Armed; Driver Promptly Robbed At Gunpoint

In another example of anti-gun asininity, San Francisco based company Uber Technologies Inc. came up with the brilliant idea to ban its drivers and users from carrying firearms while using the car service. From their June 10th Policy Change: UBER FIREARMS PROHIBITION POLICY We seek to ensure that everyone using the Uber digital platform—both driver-partners and riders—feels safe and comfortable using the service. During a ride arranged through the Uber platform, Uber and its affiliates therefore prohibit possessing firearms of any kind in a vehicle. Any rider or driver found to have violated this prohibition may lose access to the Uber platform. I highlighted the truly inane part. Once again, liberal gun grabbers seem to think that it is better to FEEL safe than to actually BE safe. In less than a fortnight this policy was shown to be the train-wreck it was destined to be as an Uber...

Gun Owners To Cuomo: Take Your Unconstitutional SAFE Act and Shove It

I have been long fighting the good fight about the tyrant of the Empire State, Andrew Cuomo and his constitution shredding SAFE Act. It is good to see that I am not alone. Our friend, Rusty Weiss at Mental Recession passed along this article detailing how the gun owners of New York feel about their would be potentate. Between abject apathy and fiery condemnation to Cuomo and his unconstitutional edicts, the people by and large have basically just IGNORED both the governor and the law. To quote Tom King, president of the Albany-based New York State Rifle and Pistol Association: “It would appear the people have just bypassed the legislature and simply repealed it on their own.” Here’s the article in its entirety: After a much-publicized court battle between State Police and gun groups, numbers for the registration of so-called “assault-style” weapons under Governor Cuomo’s unconstitutional SAFE Act have been...