“An Iraq War veteran who filmed himself loading a shotgun in the nation’s capital was given two years of probation—but has no plans to stop his gun rights activism,” nydailynews.com reports. “Adam Kokesh told Judge Patricia A. Broderick during his sentencing on Friday that he would ‘refrain from civil disobedience.'” This from the man who said (in the aforementioned video) “we will not obey.” And so, “Hours after the hearing, he uploaded a YouTube video [above] and pledged to continue vlogging about gun rights . . . All of the charges against him amounted to more than seven years in prison. But Broderick suspended Kokesh’s one-year jail sentence in favor of two years of probation after noting that the man had followed all her orders since his release. Kokesh also received credit for the 120 days he already spent in jail. In return, Kokesh must register as a gun offender.” Does he count this as a win? Does anyone?
Another excellent article from TTAG. I can only offer one comment – the “vigilante” movement is largely based in the Mexican state of Michocan, which is in southern Mexico, not northern as stated.
is that toupee serialized and registered, ese? shockly!
The guy in the back is totally rolling his eyes, LOLOL
automatic sniper rifle ??????
Another foolish politician
If even the ATF doesn’t require it, how in the name of all that is good are you supposed to register it so it can be “tracked” to all the owners?
“Four shots were fired, the miscreants fled on a motorcycle, the gun turned out to be a fake and no one was hurt.”
That’s must be how a DGU and the accompanying adrenaline dump will F ‘up your aim.
D*mn, I would hope a former Marine would get at least one to connect.
I’m always concerned of this effect if I (God forbid) ever have to “clear leather” (Kydex in my case).
I like the idea of the personal satisfaction of building from an 80% lower but I really dont understand the advantage of it over a known 100% lower. If some universal confiscation started occurring I’m pretty sure all my weapons will be lost in an unfortunate canoeing accident. Can somebody provide some hypotheticals of the advantages of the home built 80% in the resistance to some of the recent CT/CA/NY gun grabber laws?
The thought of firing anything full auto and suppressed makes me giggle a little.
Stupid NFA…
I can’t say if it was a good shoot or not, I don’t know their policies or equipment, maybe if he had a taser he could have shot him with that, without one though a man with a knife was told eight times to stop and drop it but kept advancing on the officer.
What is of interest to me, is that if this shooting was analyzed for one of those ridiculous stopping power studies. Whatever caliber it was would appear to be weak, needing five shots to drop the guy, but in reality the officer reflexively fired the five shots before it’s likely he could even see the effect of the first shot.
Additionally every cop in the nation should have one of these cameras mounted to them, maybe better placed than this one though, so holding your arms up doesn’t block the view.
Reading this thread and clicking on links (like the Conservative Treehouse and Nlets). Bing search on Iowa Fusion Center and LEIN to see what they will admit to doing.
Come back to the laptop and the idiot integrate video wemcam at the top of the screen is lit up/on as is a software icon on the taskbar. This being a gimcrack that has NEVER been on or used in the 2+ years since bought this ASUS. No Skype or anything else. What the……..
BING? Really?
I like it because of how many civilian disarmament proponent s its gonna piss off
Gotta admire the Mephistophelian beard.
I’m glad he’s out. It’ll be interesting to see what happens from here.
Hmmm.
One part of me wonders what would happen if a thousand of us did the exact same thing.
The other part thinks he show boated himself into being. Non gun owner. And really, for not a very good reason.
So, he’s a prohibited person now? Way to show ’em smart guy.
Exactly. He’s a dumbass. His little stunt did us no favors either.
Yeah! You go ahead and show your oppressors exactly what you think of their idiotic laws! By obeying them without question. Liberty or death! Just not inconvenience, or I like my liberty but it’s not really worth sacrificing for.
Why does TTAG consider this guy important? Again. Still.
As HK-47 so eloquently said, “he is a fleshy meatbag, master. Nothing more.”
Moving on to more important things/people/lint in my pocket…
Kotor is out on iphone. My mind has been blown
Meh, out of the tacticool stuff this year I like the Nu-BAR a lot better.
Who took the last present from under the tree?
Looks classy.
How does it compare to the Tavor trigger with the reset spring taken out?
Piers Morgan still has a show? Does anyone other than people who lost their remote control or leave the tv on when they leave the house watch?
Avoid all Miramax contact to really hurt him in the wallet.
NOTHING in this picture was ‘Made in the USA’. Sad, very sad.
I want to personally congratulate Miss Duff on her shooting prowess… And also her face.
I’m glad at least he said what he said about stopping production of his infamously violent blood/gore fests…will be interesting to see what he comes up with.
Maybe another Jewish movie producer should focus on the Polish uprising during WWII and how firearms were key to this event.
‘Merica…let the ideas swirl and battle!
Sounds alot like Hitler. (ducks)
So … A buddy and I each grab a barrel and pull, and whoever comes away with the trigger on his half, wins, right? Are we supposed to make a wish first?
Very progressive of the governor. In essence, agree….or agree to be locked up.
/rant on
I literally hate it when people misuse the word “literally”. Literally, I do.
http://thewritepractice.com/stop-saying-literally/
\rant off
Is it me, or does Cuomo just looks like a dictator in every photo of himself…
Here is my inexperienced take on it…
To me it may be similar to a Geissele SD3G, but it has the ability to turn the quick reset off. And in my opinion is a very useful feature.
Someone should tell him about Colorado …. 🙂 …..
We already know who New Yorkers are. The sort that will about vomit when they see a rifle in the trunk of a car.
He, like Cuomo, are true effing idiots. Period.
slap a gun on a gun and call it a new gun?
is Gilboa owned by gillete? If so, i’m holding out for the mach 3, or the fusion!
His calm demeanor and mild rhetoric are effective in exposing the dangerous radical extremist terroists GOP citizens of NY. At least the Democrats are the party of acceptance, tolerance and sensibility.
I fear the Democrats reluctance to use the terror tactics of the GOP puts all NYers in danger. They need to drop their adherence to civil discourse and use the tools of the hostage taking Teaparty.
It might even be time to round up anyone who opposes the Democrats, for their own safety. Some time in a FEMA re education camp to consider the error of their radical positions, until they can be re admitted into polite Democratic society.
so I’m to understand from this point forward this ass clown is going to make “chick flicks”…go for it clown
Movie theatres, where you can pay 20 bucks to sit in a sticky seat behind some loudmouth with a big wig and maybe get shot by a punk with an AR15, or a grumpy old retired cop, or a gangbanger.
Yes, lets all line up to give our money to Hollywood and have our eyeballs smeared with inane idiotic vile retreaded (sorry, re booted) propagandized liberal leaning crap.
Or you can stay home and watch old John Wayne (or fill in the blank) movies on your flatscreen.
Choices.
Id like to introduce you to UTorrent and Torrentz.com 🙂 Keep your money
I love how Snopes, in the face of several instances of this being documented, considers it ‘undetermined’ because BOA denies it.
Snopes is absolutely worthless when it comes to fact-finding anything related to politics, the current administration or common liberal agenda items.
Larry
I doubt they’ll go down the path of direct confiscation. Too much political risk, as even a blind statist realizes a SWAT unit could kick down their door just as easily as the despised NRA gun nut in Unit 1408.
Nope, what begins now is the ‘Detective Phase”. CT is likely going to follow California’s lead and establish a branch of “gun cops”, whose only job will be tracking down unregistered hardware. They’ll roam the ranges and streets of CT looking for people with unregistered gear-again much like how CA LEOs harass gun owners on occasion.
For some folks in CT who civilly disobeyed, they should keep a jaundiced eye on their mailbox for a nastygram and an attorney on retainer.
“I doubt they’ll go down the path of direct confiscation. Too much political risk, as even a blind statist realizes a SWAT unit could kick down their door just as easily as the despised NRA gun nut in Unit 1408.”
That gets weighed against the political risk of allowing citizens to remain armed and believing in self-determination. They can see the ability to control people by fiat pen-stroke from where they are now. The only thing keeping them from that level of free exercise of power is the consideration of all those people who might feel they can say “no” and not necessarily be pushed out of the way.
Think how much harder they could press on citizen harassment, IRS persecution, and lifestyle-criminalization if they didn’t have to worry about their police balking or the private citizens standing up for their rights.
Further, they will continue to dehumanize anyone who opposes the agenda. It’s already socially acceptable to communicate that a rifle-owner is a sub-intelligent, uncivilized, dangerously-savage “redneck” (or other pejorative) who could at any moment begin growling and shoot someone at random. The police *must* go to great lengths to protect the populace from such a domestic threat, musn’t they?
If, in fact, there are actually > 300,000 incidents of disobedience, there is very little the state can do. It would swamp the entire police and judicial systems in CT. If the number is < 10,000? That may be something they'd start with. We already know the state maintains sales records for these firearms, so directly comparing that with registration lists defines the master set of people who potentially disobeyed.
I would expect the state cops in CT to prioritize the list to people who have purchased multiple currently-banned firearms and to then go through the SWAT storming, confiscation, and charging route. Sort of do it as a trial balloon to see how it plays out. If the people they go after are, for want of a word, backwoods, mobile home occupants, and it's a few per week, I don't think people in CT are going to care much. Once they start SWATing "upstanding" citizens like business owners, doctors, and lawyers, it will get much more interesting.
If CT authorities had difficulty registering 50,000 firearms and 40,000 magazines, there would have been chaos if a majority decided to register. Was CT incompetent? Or were they “unprepared” on purpose? Now they can remove guns/mags from the state via prosecution, or hope some will move them out of state to avoid prosecution. This is just speculation, but nothing I’ve seen so far suggests the grabbers play fair.
Its all fun and games until someone loses 3 distal phalanges.
“And I drink Hal——oh god—-dsbur—–ohfu*kohchristohlordoursaviour–_ggggghhhh–whoartinheavenhallowedbemyrectaltissue–beer with a shotgun!– pleaseletmepassthisglassandsurvive!
…someone’s been watching that episode of The Simpsons again.
I’m laughing because I suspect that somewhere, someone has a picture of Harvey with a goat.
Just remember that programs usually go through a testing phase. Kinda like the obamacare website thingy. If it don’t work so well, they change it. They tinker with it. It gets better with each new day.
Point being, CT represents a trial. First one out of the gates. By the time they get to Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota etc. they will have it all down pat. As Patton said in the movie, they will “go thru them like crap thru a goose”.
Funny.
On the one hand he is like… I want a violence-free society and I believe removal of guns from the populace is going to do this… then in the other hand he is saying from here forward i’m not going to promote violence with guns. Sure… a Hollywood producer… going to say “no” to money?? Right. The media sensationalize violence with guns. Hollywood sells us violence with guns. This is because that is where the money is.
That was fairly dangerous. I wouldn’t try it. However, I found it extremely humorous and very ballsy. I like this man. I think he is an idiot. But I like him.
Enclosed in an e-mail received from NHFC is a memorandum from Michael Hammond of Dunbarton, NH, which reads in part:
“MISSTATEMENT #6: “But if a person is wrongfully denied under NICS when their records don’t show a judicial disqualifier under federal law, there is now a simple appeal process to reverse the NICS entry.”
RESPONSE: It is hard to believe that the writer has ever attempted to correct an erroneous NICS entry, much less attempted to do that in a case where there is legal ambiguity.
We receive complaints with regularity from people who try to invoke the Brady Law rights, only to be brushed off by the FBI.
Furthermore, we have discussed this issue with the state’s top pro-gun attorney, and it would take $10,000 for a gun owner with such a grievance to walk through her door. [And, incidentally, lest our attackers have any doubt about who the state’s top pro-gun attorney is, we are talking about the counsel to the New Hampshire NRA affiliate.]”
I don’t know who among us has $10,000 available to BEGIN to ATTEMPT to overturn a decision to remove their 2nd Amendment rights. I don’t. For people of my modest means, such a perceived “remedy” would, effectively, not exist.
There are several reasons I oppose such legislation, all of them already stated more eloquently than I could do. I just wanted to add this little piece, as I hadn’t seen it mentioned.
Great thread, folks!
How nice of that guy to introduce me directly into his digestive system. I will leech out into his nervous system and slowly kill him. Just like my brother paint chips did to his brain during childhood.
Lead is the only metal loaded into shotgun ammo these days?
I very much appreciated the gov’s comments, since they ensured that NY is permanently off my list of tourist destinations. I sent him an e-mail to this effect, which I am sure he will ignore.
Come visit Home Depot for our after Christmas 30% off selected bathroom tiles and shower fixtures sale.
My only comments are:
1) Mr. Weinstein is a hypocrite. HIs violent films, many of which I have viewed and enjoyed, have made him a millionaire. Good for him. It’s America, where hard work and ingenuity can make you rich.
2) Mr. Weinstein appears to have an inflated opinion of himself, and his influence on American society through his films. Michael Moore appears to have the same affliction, and tried something similar with the film Bowling for Columbine. Both are liberal, self aggrandizing blow-hards who believe they know what is right for America better than Americans do. Let them speak, and produce their films, I say. I have spent the majority of my adult life, nearly 30 years, defending their rights, and all our rights as defined under the U.S. Constitution. I am a proud member of the NRA, and will continue to be a member, and provide the financial support that I can so that the NRA can represent those of us who believe in our 2nd Amendment rights, and retort on our behalf when people like Weinstein, Moore, Feinstein and Bloomberg think they, as a single individual, speak for the rest of us.
I don’t agree with any of the views of the four individuals I’ve mentioned above, and quite frankly, don’t particularly like them. I would prefer they move out of the U.S., denounce their citizenship, and live somewhere else. But they’re here, and have venues to express their views across a broad spectrum. Thankfully I have such venues as The Truth About Guns, and the National Rifle Association to express my views.
“Wish they were even alive when I get through with them”? Really? That’s almost threatening in it’s context. But then again, Saddam Hussein proclaimed Desert Storm would be the “Mother of All Wars”. I suspect Mr. Weintsein’s film will make him some money, but in the end, it will make little difference to our 2nd Amendment rights. Of course, what I really would like to see is no impact on our rights, and the film to flop at the box office, Blu-Ray purchases and on Netflix, then Mr. Weinstein shut his mouth, and go away.
And now I will kick myself in the nuts for just having ordered a black 2022 just last week.
Register as a “gun offender”?!!!! Why don’t we mandate that libs register as Constitution offenders and put a bounty on them.
In his defense, all of his digits were behind the business end.
Also, Germans.
So who wants to go down to Mexico and get in some trigger time? I see a business opportunity on the horizon.