After a fearsome farrago of fury over the state’s complicity in providing information on Missouri CCW holders to feds at the Social Security Administration, DHS and your friendly neighborhood Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Governor Jeremiah “Jay” Nixon (D-Mizzoura) is walking things back. To those of you just tuning in, the Department of Revenue — after much legislative poking and prodding — finally admitted last month that it was scanning CCW endorsement holders’ personal identification documents and funneling them to the busy little drones D.C. And since one blatant violation of state law wasn’t enough, the Highway Patrol figured that sharing lists of CCW holders with our benevolent overlords too would be twice the fun. To top off the nose-thumbing, when a Senate committee finally dragged Revenue Department Director Brian Long before them last week, he told them to FOAD as he had no intention of halting the program . . .
That’s the same Brian Long who announced his resignation Monday after all of three months on the job. Poor Bri. It looks like the job just proved to be too much for him.
“My brief tenure as director has taken a toll on me and my family that I could not have anticipated when I accepted the position in December of 2012,” Long said in his resignation letter, addressed to Nixon. “I leave with great admiration for the dedicated and hard-working employees at the Department of Revenue and for the leadership of your administration.”
Chalk it up to wanting to spend more time with his family. That, and a call he no doubt got over the weekend from the Gov’s chief of staff trying to staunch some serious bleeding.
Speaking of the Jay-bird, he’s poo-poo’d the whole mess as a tempest in a Tenifer teapot since the story originally broke.
“This Department of Revenue and this state of Missouri is not collecting a bunch of un-useful data to send to some sort of magical database someplace to mess with people – it’s not happening, okay?” Nixon said. “They’re just not doing it, I mean, you know that and I know that.”
Making the boss a blatant liar is never good for your career. Hence Long’s exit, stage left.
Now Nixy seems to have concluded the heat he’s getting for ratting out Show Me State concealed carriers more than outweighs any perceived benefits the state may be getting from its supine federal cooperation. He’s decided to shut down the DOR shredding scanning party and promised to delete concealed carriers’ documents fromt the DOR system.
From riverfronttimes.com:
Gov. Jay Nixon announced today that the Department of Revenue will no longer scan or retain certificates of qualification for Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) endorsements.
“It has been determined that the scanning and retention of concealed carry certificates are not essential to the integrity of the license issuance process,” Gov. Nixon said. “We will continue to work with policymakers to ensure the security and privacy of our license issuance process.”
Still, state Republicans aren’t happy. The DOR’s activities appear to be in direct contravention of a Missouri law prohibiting compliance with the federal REAL ID act and they’ve shared their thoughts on the matter with the newly named interim director. And while Mr. Long becoming a speedbump under the Governor’s bus is intended to cool things down a little, this doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon.
dude’s lucky those cops weren’t L.A. cops.
McCain just spent 10 minutes waving a bloody shirt…
How many times did he use the phrase “my friends”?
Obsolete weapons in modern warfare??? … here I share, for those who care about us soldiers, an example of the real value of a bayonet as part of our gear
The battle
Location: Nayaf… April 4, 1994
When Toloza and 16 soldiers arrived that morning at the headquarters of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, saw their 350 occupants were gone and they were surrounded by militia.
After several hours of combat, Salvadorans ran out of ammunition and soldier Natividad Mendez, Toloza’s friend for three years, lay dead on the floor, after receiving two bullets probably fired by a sniper. Twelve others were injured and the fire raged.
The wounded were placed in a transport and Toloza and three other soldiers tried to reach their base. Soon they ran into fighters of Al Sadr. A dozen of them tried to capture one of the Salvadorans. Toloza’s immediate reaction was to defend his mate, all he got in his hands was his knife. When reinforcements arrived, Salvadorans and a small American contingent resisted attacks defending two bases while trying to recover control of a hospital.
Spanish troops failed to fight and only after long delays agreed to send vehicles and soldiers to evacuate the Salvadorans. The chief of operations, salvadoran Colonel Francisco Flores said he did not question the decision of the Spanish, but added in an ironic way, that could have helped before.
Tolozas Patrol Status
One of his friends was dead, 12 others were wounded and the remaining four soldiers were still fighting, surrounded and almost out of ammunition. Corporal Samuel Gonzalez Salvadoran Toloza said a prayer, opened his knife and attacked Iraqi fighters.
In one of the few cases of combat in the Iraq conflict, Toloza stabbed several attackers who had gathered around one of their comrades. The attackers withdrew stunned momentarily, just at a time when a column came to rescue the Salvadorans.
We never thought of surrender. I was trained to fight to the end, said Toloza, one of 380 Salvadoran soldiers whose heroism has been the talk, while abundant criticism against other members of the coalition.
After Action Review
Back then, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the Centralamerican unit has earned a fantastic reputation among the coalition members.
Phil Kosnett, who directed the Coalition Provisional Authority in this holy city of the Shiites, said he owes his life to Salvadorans who repelled an attack in March well organized resistance against the three vehicles of his convoy. Kosnett has proposed that six of Salvadorans receive the Bronze Star medal awarded by the U.S. Army who show exceptional courage in combat.
It is said that some smaller contingents come from interest. With Salvadorans, that is not the case. They gave people a lot more than we would expect of them. Are perhaps the bravest troops and most professional I have worked, Kosnett said.
Salvadorans say they came to Iraq to keep the peace, not to fight, perhaps to placate public opinion in his country.
We did not come here with the intention of firing our weapons, said Col. Hugo Orellana Calidonio Cuscatlan battalion commander. But we are prepared to repel an attack. Our country went through a similar situation 12 years ago. Therefore, the people of El Salvador can understand what is happening here.
We’re here to help and we’re doing, our relationship with the people was excellent, they were happy with us, Orellana said. But that did not stop that April 4that elements loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr took control of the city and attacked Camp Baker.
Cheers,
THIS IS NOT THE END! DO NOT LET DOWN YOUR GUARD! This was just the opening salvo in a FOUR YEAR assault against our 2a rights. As long as the Dems and company are in power, we will be fighting for our rights on the Federal and State levels. Today may be a battle won, but the war is far from over…
I’d rather live in a world with evil than a world without, because anyone can step into the role of evil at any given time. In the perfect non-violent utopia, if one individual decides to stray from good, there will be many helpless victims unable to react appropriately. The sad story of the dodo is a good example. It is best to be well rounded and be able to react to anything life may choose to throw ones way. In that sense I view evil as a vaccine: If we can survive it, we will only be stronger as a consequence. If we choose ignorance and pretend the monster will vanish with a few laws, we will always be weak.
What we have here is a lazy cop (the fat one who started the trouble). Obviously too lazy to learn what the law says, and to lazy to check once he is challenged. Instead, he turns into a bully, which is quite evident by his claim that he is GOING to disarm the gunowner. Then we have a supervisor who doesn’t know what to do, and apparently is nervous because the camera is rolling. After a quick confab with sarge and the other officer, the fat lazy one decides that he felt “threatened,” and that’s why the gun owner must be arrested.
I think Temple police better invest in some training, post-haste. Because, as the number of these posts prove, people care about the Second Amendment and their personal rights. Those who would try to take them away should reconsider what is at stake.
“Would the outcome have been different had the crowd been packed with 2A people?”
How could that possibly make any difference in this situation? Now, if the crowd had been packed with bomb-sniffing dogs, particularly around the start and finish lines…
OH. WAIT… IT WAS!!!!
I just wanted to say good job on the fast updating page.
Thaks for keeping us informed.
58-42 the you and your dad are now felons because he picked up a rifle for you amendment barely failed to pass. Good god. Voting on the national reciprocity amendment. My breath is not being held. It sickened me to hear Schumer mention Dallas out of his freedom hating mouth.
Right about now, Lautenberg is thinking, “I carried my bedpan all the way to Washington for this?”
I keep thinking of that old “Far Side” cartoon with the Vikings puling as hard as they can, and behind the longboat is a Viking on water skis.
Yeah, it’s like that…
Before you folks get too happy about how the evil gun grabbers won’t be able to create a database of gun owners because common sense gun safety restrictions were defeated, think again:
What is CISPA?
CISPA, known officially as H.R. 624, is a cybersecurity Bill currently going through the motions in the lower house of Congress, the US House of Representatives. It is designed to help prevent and defend against cyberattacks on critical national infrastructure and against other internet attacks on private firms by obtaining and sharing “cyberthreat information”.
Its sole purpose is to allow private sector firms to search personal and sensitive user data of ordinary US residents to identify this so-called “threat information”, and to then share that information with each other and the US government — without the need for a warrant.
(Source: ZDNET)
Paper registries of gun owners are so last millenium…
So Nick, still wear your Obama shirt to the range these days?