Posts in 'Tyranny'

New DC Mayor to City: “You have a mayor who hates guns”

New DC Mayor to City: “You have a mayor who hates guns”

To be honest, I am a fan of politicians who shut the filter down and are totally honest.  At least until their handlers get a hold of them and they inevitably backtrack on whatever controversial belief they had recently pontificated on. The most recent case of this is with self professed gun hater and rights infringer, Muriel Bowswer, the new Mayor of the District of Columbia.  It’s no shock that a gun hating liberal Democrat has been elected as Mayor of DC, but what was a bit different is that Bowswer didn’t hide her disdain behind the false narrative of other gun controllers by saying she was just against “illegal” guns.  No, Bowser is against ALL guns. While speaking at the Washington Interfaith Network Meeting Bowser spoke quite candidly about her disdain for gun owners, the Constitution and the peoples’ rights in general by saying: “You have a mayor...
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The VA Tries To Trick Veterans Into Adding Their Firearms To A Federal Registry

The VA Tries To Trick Veterans Into Adding Their Firearms To A Federal Registry

Any rational minded person understands that the reason you have a firearm registry is in order to make it easier to confiscate those weapons later.  I mean, a registry doesn’t stop crime, it doesn’t help solve crimes either unless someone actually LEAVES the gun behind, and it doesn’t make anyone safer. What it does do is give the Federal Government an EZ Pass on the highway of tyranny.  This is of extra import when it comes to military veterans as the Obama administration has all ready made it clear that  it views veterans as a terrorist subset of Americans. Case in point, Operation Vigilant Eagle, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009.  Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are being characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” How easy is it to...
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Can’t Sleep? In New York They’ll Seize Your Guns For Insomnia

Can’t Sleep? In New York They’ll Seize Your Guns For Insomnia

The inevitable erosion of the 2nd Amendment continues undaunted in the Empire State fiefdom of Andrew Cuomo.  The following story is a chilling reminder that the state will go to great lengths in order to strip you of your rights to keep and bear arms and will do so unabashedly by invading your privacy and violating doctor/patient confidentiality. Donald Montgomery was a Navy Veteran and a retired police officer with 30 years of exemplary service under his belt.  In May of 2014 after moving from his previous home in Rochester to Long Island, Montgomery was having some trouble finding restful sleep.  A common occurrence that afflicts people getting on in years but also one that is understandable in people who move great distances after living a long time in one area. Retired Detective Sergeant Montgomery voluntarily sought out help in order to get a handle on the insomnia.  Unfortunately,...
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New Year, New Laws, Same Absurdity

New Year, New Laws, Same Absurdity

Welcome to the year 2015.  Along with the big party  and the personal resolutions there is yet another tradition that comes with the dawn of a new year.  January is often the time when laws from the previous year are enacted.  This year is no different. With the Federal Government this is the year where citizens will be forced to pay a fine if they do not yield to the governments dominion over their lives and purchase Obamacare. But of course that is not all, there are 3,541 new rules and regulations that rang in their first new year along with us in a register 78,978 pages long.    While among those 3,541 new rules and regulations there are plenty of personal infringements and undermining of small businesses, I want to focus on the new laws passed on the STATE level that are just awful.  So bad I question whether...
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Top Ten Gun Control Zealots Of 2014

Top Ten Gun Control Zealots Of 2014

As we look back on the year that was, 2nd Amendment supporters can see some good, some bad and some ugly.  The good being the movements expanding carry laws, the pick up of constitutional carry states, the defeat of Federal legislation to limit our rights. Then we have the bad.  The passage of Washington State’s I-594, the continued existence of NY’s Safe Act, the failure to remove Hickenlooper from the Governorship of Colorado. Of course we have the ugly.  Ghouls like Michael Bloomberg, Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety; with their hate speech, calls for violence against gun owners and over the top vitriol these individuals are truly ugly on the inside. With the year in review, who were the worst of the worst villains who sought to deny the rights of free people and were willing to shred the Bill of Rights in order to trample...
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Harrisburg Adamant About Keeping Illegal Ordinances On The Books

Harrisburg Adamant About Keeping Illegal Ordinances On The Books

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a new state law going into effect on Jan. 5th, Act 192, dictates that any local municipality that has illegal firearm ordinances on the books will be financially responsible to those citizens who have their civil rights violated because of them. While a number of cities and towns are repealing their illegal gun ordinances so as to avoid both the persecution of the innocent and now the financial fallout of said persecution (the latter seemingly being the driving factor behind the recent compliance), Pennsylvania’s capitol of Harrisburg remains obstinate. Just to be clear, the illegal ordinances on the books of many municipalities are all ready legally unenforceable.  The new law though, gives the pre-emption in Pennsylvania teeth, allowing successful plaintiffs to force municipalities to pay their legal fees, expert witness fees, all court costs and any compensation for lost income when they are victims of...
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This is What New York Crazy Bleeding Over Into Pennsylvania Looks Like: Raising Kane

This is What New York Crazy Bleeding Over Into Pennsylvania Looks Like: Raising Kane

When voters are suckered into voting for a candidate backed by billionaire gun hater Michael Bloomberg, they really shouldn’t be surprised when she makes it her priority to undermine the 2nd Amendment and follows lockstep with marching orders coming from the Bloomberg command center. Bloomberg backed crony, Kathleen Kane, is the Attorney General of Pennsylvania.  Kane, as you might have recalled in earlier articles here, received a PERFECT score from CeasefirePA, the local radical gun control group in the commonwealth.  In order to receive a perfect score, Kane would have had to answer that she is a little tougher than the Gestapo in her desire to stamp out the 2nd Amendment. Over the past 2 years she has went on a jihad against reciprocity agreements with other states, including Florida and Utah. But the greatest umbrage is that now she out right REFUSES to do her job. Allow me to explain....
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Defenders of Ferguson Threatened By Feds At Gunpoint

Defenders of Ferguson Threatened By Feds At Gunpoint

Ronald Reagan famously once said: “Government is not the solution to our problem…government is the problem.” I am therefore not surprised that white Oath Keepers were trying to keep the city of Ferguson from burning to the ground by protecting stores and property from being torched by out of town agitators and race baitors, the Obama administration mobilized the feds to shut it down.  I guess having armed citizens doing the job of keeping people safe was making the government look bad. From Liberty Unyielding: After a horrific night of arson, vandalism, and looting in Ferguson, Mo. last week following a grand jury decision, members of a militia calling itself the Oath Keepers have been arriving to guard over the persons and property the local police are unable to protect. The city initially welcomed the group’s assistance, but as word of their presence spread, state and federal politicians allegedly...
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Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Despite not being an open carry state, nor its moderately high cost of a CCW, Florida is not known for being a hotbed of Gun Control fever.  That is why I was so surprised to hear about Florida Statute 790.29.  The statute expressly prohibits paramilitary training; teaching or participation.  Basically anything that could very loosely be described as a militia. I heard about it because a man was facing 30 years because he violated it. Here’s the statute in it’s entirety: 790.29 Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited.— (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the “State Anti-paramilitary Training Act.” (2) As used in this section, the term “civil disorder” means a public disturbance involving acts of violence by an assemblage of three or more persons, which disturbance causes an immediate danger of, or results in, damage or injury to the property or person of any other individual...
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NH Dem Shows True Colors, Vows To Infringe EVERY Right To Thwart Libertarians

NH Dem Shows True Colors, Vows To Infringe EVERY Right To Thwart Libertarians

In case you are unfamiliar with the Free State Project, it is a socio-political experiment conceived back in 2001 in which Libertarians would pledge to move to a state en masse in order to establish a Libertarian run state government, an example of true Constitutional governance.  The state eventually chosen was New Hampshire and the number of people required being 20,000. After 13 years, as of October, the number is at 16,174 pledged with another 1,654 “early movers” who took the initiative and moved before the 20K pledges were hit.  In other words 17,828 people have all ready committed.  Organizers of the FSP believe that they will hit their objective and begin the mass migration to the New Hampshire before the 2016 election. While I love seeing this finally coming to fruition and am really looking forward to what New Hampshire can become, not all from the Granite State...
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Judge Rules Cops Can Now Break Fingers To Compel People To Open Cell Phones

Judge Rules Cops Can Now Break Fingers To Compel People To Open Cell Phones

In another shocking display of jurist malfeasance, Virginia Circuit Judge Stephen Fucci has ruled that police can pry open your hands and force you to unlock your cell phone that has a fingerprint security feature. Not only is Fucci’s ruling an affront to both the 4th and 5th Amendments but is also shockingly ignorant. According to Judge Steven C. Fucci: while a criminal defendant can’t be compelled to hand over a passcode to police officers for the purpose of unlocking a cellular device, law enforcement officials can compel a defendant to give up a fingerprint. Here’s the rub though, with the advancement of technology, more and more things are going the way of biometric scans.  The logical conclusion to Fucci’s ruling is that any biometric lock, be it fingerprint swipe or iris scan can be searched without a warrant or permission or consent from the owner. This extends beyond...
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Here’s Some Advice, STOP Moving Into Houses Run By HOA’s

Here’s Some Advice, STOP Moving Into Houses Run By HOA’s

Homeowners Associations may have started out with the best of intentions but have morphed into a ego driven, group think run, oligarchy of nosy nimwits who seem to, more often than not, hate America. As I had written earlier in the month, such a group in Indiana had fired a groundskeeper for having a gun at his OWN home. But this is not an isolated incident but rather a reflection of HOA’s and private communities who are run by people who think they can have their own fiefdom. Once again in Indiana, this time Fieldstone Homeowners Association has told Korean War Veteran, Bob Willits, that he cannot fly his American and POW/MIA flags in his OWN FRONT YARD. The HOA claims that it isn’t against the flag but that it is on a flag pole. Basically they are saying that they don’t have a problem with the flag being displayed…they...
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IRS Sets Precedent For Governmental Gun Seizure Without Charges

IRS Sets Precedent For Governmental Gun Seizure Without Charges

In America we have this understanding that we are innocent until PROVEN guilty.  Unfortunately, a law concerning the Internal Revenue Service has flipped that notion on its head and it is a reversal of fortune that believers of 2nd Amendment should take notice of. Using the “Civil Asset  Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000” the IRS can quite simply seize a persons entire fortune without actually filing any charges against them.  It is up to the victim of the IRS to hire a lawyer and pay the legal fees in order to prove that their life savings are legitimate. Initially concocted under the notion of combating drug traffickers, gangsters and terrorists, the Act has been used mostly against law abiding citizens.  In 2012 for instance, 639 people had their assets seized, only about 1 in 5 of which ever led to any criminal charges.  That means 80% of those people...
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DC Police Chief States Victims of Crime Not Worthy of a Carry Permit

DC Police Chief States Victims of Crime Not Worthy of a Carry Permit

It is not surprising that, even after a federal judge ruled against the District of Columbia’s carry ban, DC has gone to great lengths to deny the right to keep and bear arms from as many law abiding citizens as possible.  The city council and mayor have modeled their draconian carry requirements after places like New York City where policy seems to be made that makes it all but impossible for “regular people” to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. Don’t get me wrong, if you are buddies with the issuing authority, are rich, have friends in City Hall or in the Mayor’s mansion then you have no difficulty whatsoever of getting the government’s ok to defend your life if necessary.  But if you do not have the money, connections or fame then you’ll probably find yourself denied your rights by a petty and petulant issuing authority. The petty and...
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Police in NY Demand Facebook Profile and PASSWORD When Applying For Permit

Police in NY Demand Facebook Profile and PASSWORD When Applying For Permit

Once again Cuomo and his rights shredding legislation, the SAFE Act, has matriculated to its inevitable evolution, that of casting off any pretense that law abiding citizens have privacy, rights or freedom within the Empire State. In Watervliet, NY the police department is REQUIRING that petitioners for pistol permits hand over their Facebook profiles as well as their PASSWORD.  Would you like my pin# and a key to my safety deposit box at the bank too?  Heck, why don’t I invite you over on the night of my wedding and let you sleep with my wife all Braveheart primae noctis style. It’s getting to the point that I’m not even surprised at Cuomo’s corrupt administration and blatant disregard for the rights of his citizens.  Citizens…it’s also getting to the point that I wonder how long New Yorkers will even warrant being called that; for they are on the fast track to...
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Cuomo To Sign SAFE ACT 2 Into Law If He Gets Reelected

Cuomo To Sign SAFE ACT 2 Into Law If He Gets Reelected

If Governor Cuomo is reelected the framework is all ready in place for passage of SAFE ACT 2.  While the Cuomo administration is hesitant to refer to it under that name during an election cycle, it will still be one of the first things he does upon his new term even if he has to manipulate the legislative process again in order to ram it through. Here are the 10 key points of SAFE ACT 2 that will punish law abiding citizens, legal businesses and in general diminish the sparse amount of liberty that remains in the increasingly appropriate named “Empire State”.  My commentary italicized. 1. Safe Storage – Requires that weapons be stored with a safety locking device or in a safe storage depository when left outside the immediate possession or control of the owner or other lawful possessor.  Failure to do so will result in a Class A misdemeanor....
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New Gun Law In California: Salem Witch Trials Reborn

New Gun Law In California: Salem Witch Trials Reborn

It is a dangerous precedent when one person need only point a finger at another person and cry “WITCH” and that person gets burned at the stake, drowned, or pressed to death.  Yet that is exactly the situation being fostered in California now that a new gun control measure has been put in place where a person’s property can be stolen by the police and they are considered guilty just because a relative points to them and cries out “gun owner.” The new law (AB-1014) allows families to petition a court for the seizure of guns from a family member, and then empowers police to confiscate firearms from that family member. Here’s all the wrong with that.  First off, due process is chucked out the window.  Basically people can go directly to judge, without any investigation or proof, and claim that someone who is related to them may be...
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Entrepreneurs Railroaded by 1986 Gun Control Bill

Entrepreneurs Railroaded by 1986 Gun Control Bill

In 1986 a gun control bill ludicrously dubbed the Firearm Owners Protection Act passed through congress.  It had a wide ranging number of gun control measures but the most prevalent one is that it banned the manufacture and sale of machine guns built after 1986. All automatic machine guns built prior to that year were still allowed to be transferred after paying an extortion transfer fee and special stamp tax.  Side note, didn’t we fight a revolution back in 1776 against stamp taxes?  (yes, stamp, same tyranny).  The number of legal machine guns with proper paperwork in the US stands at around 196,000 weapons. The point is that if you want a fully automatic machine gun you are allowed to get one so long as it was made prior to 1986 and you can afford it.  Since there is a finite supply the prices for these weapons have skyrocketed over...
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