There’s been a lot of internet buzz about the Department of Homeland Security’s “new” MRAPs (a.k.a., tanks). I’ve been holding off posting about the story; there’s a lot of bad intel out there about government gun grabbers. Just because gun owners are paranoid doesn’t mean Uncle Sam is as bad as they think it is. Sometimes, of course, it’s worse. But it appears that the report that the DHS has purchased 2700 new MRAPs is wrong. Here’s the 411 from the official spokesman for Das Vaterland. I mean, Homeland . . .
The MRAPs were transferred to DHS from the Department of Defense, free of charge. But despite recent reports, they have actually been in service since at least 2008.
“The MRAPs we have are not new,” Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for DHS, told Business Insider. “We have been using them for years.”
“[The vehicle] is used in the execution of high-risk warrants — including drug trafficking, smuggling, and contraband,” Feinstein told Business Insider. “We have 16 MRAPs nationwide.”
Sixteen is a lot less than 1700. But still . . . drug trafficking? Isn’t that the DEA’s deal? Or the ATF if it’s guns. Or the CIA if it’s foreign terrorists. Or is that the FBI? They do explosives too, right?
You know in all this excitement I lost track of all the federal agents with SWAT and SRT teams ready to enforce federal gun control laws of one sort or another. But I do remember that the DHS recently raided a New Mexico gun dealer, confiscated his guns and charged him with . . . nada.
So the DH is out there, grabbing guns. But they only have 16 heavily armored troop vehicles with which do it. Feel better now?
The future of “farming” wild animals maybe, but anything you do with a tracking point should not be called “hunting.”
In some parts of society we give 19 year olds select fire rifles, machine guns and even 120mm cannon.
Hey correct me if I’m wrong here, but what would be the legal situation if Ares decided to defend their property and shoot off the ATF? Obviously, it would get sticky real quick, but I believe you are allowed to defend yourself from ANYONE who you have a restraining order against.
It will never see a comittee vote, much less a full vote. It can’t even be sent to comittee unless a member of the other house sponsors it (just learned that today). It’s DOA, meant to give her something to run on next cycle, and to act as a distraction. Sure, call her office, but don’t spend too much energy on this, save it for the legislation that will be heard and might actually pass. As a lifelong FL resident, looking at the R controlled house, senate, and govenor, gun rights are safe this time around in FL. If you want to help us, call our govenor and tell him to reverse his flip-flop on Obamacare.
And still we will hear the oft stated “The cops are outgunned” horse$hit line. Between armored HumVees, the MRAPs and the who-knows how many thousands of “re-purposed/transferred” M-16/M4 rifles (sorry Personal Defense Weapons) from the DoD, I can’t hardly imagine that anyone is outgunned except the civilian populace.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
I will not go quietly into the night.
There were fewer than that at Waco
…and we believe this why? I don’t trust anything the government says.
The only thing that makes me angry ammo-wise is not being able to find any. But I manage my anger by calling out h0es like her.
Wow, I feel better already.
Ernest Tews, meet Audrey Gibson. Feel free to reproduce and have children as stupid as you.
So let me get this straight…I’m supposed to put my phone to my ear after putting up 2x4s on the windows, then grab bleach go into my room, close the door and do my laundry while singing????
Exactly. And when the guy with the crystal meth hardon joins you in the closet just go to your happy place til he’s done.
Id have no problem if they bought them in mass. They are protection, nothing civis should be prohibited from owning either.
Do we know where the 1700 figure came from? I mean, I saw it on Drudge, but the original source?
Its time the “police” get back in their cop uniforms and stop all the olive drab/camo and extreme military get ups. This is sooooo much like ’30s Germany!
In Georgia this will get you dead real fast. I see the point of who is the victim and who is the bad guy. In this point you are walking into a crime scene and you do not have all the puzzle pieces to know what is truly going on. But law here is that you can use deadly force if someone is harming another.
The blame for all of this falls squarely on the responsible American citizen. Eternal vigilance is the price of the freedom, and we’ve been weak-kneed at our posts.
It’s impossible to prevent corruption, and the power of politics always attracts the morally bankrupt and fascist-minded. They’re like vicious dogs, unable to control their nature, but a very real threat regardless. And a vicious dog that attacks you needs to be dealt with by the dog owner. The fact that any of the politicians on this list are still breathing is a failure of true Americans to act.
Very soon, every American will have a choice to make. Live as a slave, die fighting, or move to another country where perhaps the chains are a tad lighter.
Well, that was a cunning stunt.
No harm in a little burglary on the way home to Mom and Pop, right? He was acquiring gifts for them.
But that HEADLINE! It’s confusing. Stolen shotgun triggers? REALLY?
I am concerned about the fact that every federal agency from the Postal Service to the Social Security Administration has a SWAT team, equipped with automatic weapons and some form of armored vehicle.
I am more concerned with the fact that the Attorney General has issued a statement to the United States Senate that the President of the United States has the legal authority to order the execution of an American Citizen on US soil wihout so much as a trial (or even an indictment). I am more concerned that the NLRB (which at least to the best of my knowledge doesn’t have a SWAT team) has declared that since it disagrees with a unanimous ruling by a US Court of Appeals that they will not abide by the ruling.
The disregard for the law and the United States Constitution by the current regime (and I do not use that word lightly) should scare all of us. Yet we become distracted by stuff like the Sequester (OMG a 2.5% cut in the budget…the sky is falling), our current dictators golf game, and yes, gun trucks in the hands of DHS.
What concerns me is that just about everyone on this forum pretty much agrees with you whether they’re conservative or whether they’re liberal, but no matter how bad it gets, they will ALL pretty much re-elect the same crop of feckless self-serving elites every chance they get, based solely on their belief that the idea of electing anything other than a republican or a democrat is a pipe dream.
Well that’s the end of the “guns don’t kill people” argument. They may not pull their own triggers, but pull stunts like this if given the chance.
Be careful in those gun safes out there.
See? Again we learn to never trust anything being claimed by Alex Jones. Why do people keep falling for his lies and trickery?
Where is Bleach & Ammonia when you need them?
Logistically they are easily defeated.. Shoot the 700 pound tires, in a short time they will have 0 tires to place on them.
Bravo Bruce..
Now about that Malt Scotch… 😉
I think a road trip to the great white north is in order lol
The reality is, as we have seen time and time again, the citizen disarmament bunch want just that. They clearly do not refer to the wide breath of studies and statistics, and use a narrow point of view. They seem to have lost the idea that we are, or were, what ever freemen. We wish to not loose any more of that and certainly not to his ilk.
I will not say the sky is falling but it is in a sense. Really… Our liberties are being chipped away day by day. The Tin Foil Hat crowd is having aneurisms over Eric Holder’s response to drone attacks on US soil. It clearly shows this administrations complete and total disregard for the constitution and other federal laws. The more you read the more you pretty much begin to freak out.
Question Robert:
Do you ever get flack from your LE friends, co-workers, acquaintances, whatevers about the stuff you post & host here? You are definitely anti-cop (bad cop) when you need to be.
.308 is a great round, but for an AR platform, and half the cost you can use .300BLK
Having a lighter rifle that is fed with the same cartridges my AR15 spits out, is fine by me. If I wanted to go .308 I would skip the AR-Money-Pit (AR10) and start out with a Rem700. It’s scary how much more AR10 parts cost compared to their intermediate counterparts.
We had to deal with this crap in the 90’s too. Here’s what I remember of Morris Dees and the SPLC:
1. He’s a pervert. His wife (ex-wife, actually) said so in the divorce filing.
2. He’s a Jewish red diaper baby – with all the bizarre blindness to left-wing violence that comes with that. Environmentalist torched a development? Nothing to see there, move along. Weathermen bomb people? Nah, that’s just ‘political activism.’ Whiney little commie kills JFK? Somehow, that’s caused by the right wing anti-catholic bigots. And so on.
3. He’s on the grift for money. Always has been, too.
The SPLC shows the power of the ginning up a group, giving it some fashionable name that causes the press to take note and pumping out “studies” that play into the bias of the media. When you look behind the curtains of the SPLC, you find just how threadbare an operation it really is.
I wish more networks would offer online subscriptions so I don’t have to buy a package of channels on cable, of which I’m only interested in 1 or 2 of those
Hey Ernest, right next door to you in Pennsylvania it’s perfectly legal to be knee-walking drunk and have every gun you own holstered around your waist.
So you can start shitting yourself any time you like.
If this is satire it is not funny.
Am I the only person who thinks words like “Operator” shouldn’t be used for law enforcement?
(Unless of course, you’re answer and direct phone calls at your local police station. Then the term is simply descriptive.)
Right you are. And get rid of those punkass shades when you’re talking to me private. Everybody wants to be Johnnie Rambo.
Ironic that my Modern Musket hat arrived today . . .
I don’t understand how this and the SCAR 17S both got 3-star ratings from Nick despite the latter’s apparent superiority in accuracy, reliability, weight, etc., while having a comparable MSRP.
another problem: if the gun and watch are separated.. more than 1,000 yards from each other.. they both explode.
I own Charter Arms DAO .38special undercover,it shoots to point of aim,does not give a lead shower,is reliable with anything I feed it,low power loads,+p loads ,if it fits it works!Used it in my states ,(Mississippi),enhanced ccw class shot a 98 out of a possible 100 great little revolver,depend on it every day,just did one change to it,I carry it in the appendix carry,so I changed the boot grip to the full combat grip,but it leaves the option,if I want to carry in the pocket during our very hot summers,to go back to the boot grip.Also looking forward to a 9mm revolver,and the .45acp version coming out in late fall.Ya’ll have a good one,and Keep your powder dry.
The problem now is that Bloomberg and his pet group MAIG will devote more resources to the states. He dropped a couple of million on the Illinois primary, and here in Colorado MAIG has hired a high dollar wh*re, er excuse me, lobbyist, to work the legislature on behalf of the civilian disarmament bills. Plus he’s spent untold sums on major media buys.
You can count on seeing him dumping lots of cash to anti candidates in 2014, so be prepared.
I don’t think I would recommend this gun for someone looking for a .308 AR due to the limited upper selections. By the time someone is looking for a .308 AR they usually already have an AR-15 or they have no interest in 5.56 so the “niche” of this gun is lost on them. However, if the gun was say $1500ish and came with a 5.56 upper it might make a good first AR. That way a new user could get a gun to practice adding a trigger to, modifying to make reliable, and eventually have the option to swap in a .308 upper if they desire.
And this sums it up rather well.
Let’s be honest about a few things:
Most gun owners don’t give a crap about the Constitution or civil liberties, any more than the ACLU does. It’s just a convenient talking point. And most of us aren’t going to be victims of violent crime. Statistically, we’d be better off losing weight and getting a portable defribulator — those are more likely to save us than a gun ever will.
Likewise, the proponents of gun-owner control don’t give a crap about “public safety” or “the children”. The death of children is just something to exploit to advance their agenda.
Both Left and Right would be more than happy to have some type of dictatorship, as long as it is their guy in charge, and it was the other guy who is getting shafted.
So why are we so passionate about our gun rights?
Unlike all the other political stuff we can talk about, our guns are tangible objects. We paid money for them. We own them. We can physically touch them. Collectng and shooting them — whether alone, with family, or with friends — is something we do. We do nothing wrong with them. Violating our right to own them upsets us in a very personal way that, say, warantless wiretapping or Gitmo never can (at least not yet). The anti-gunners are dictating what we do in the privacy of our own homes.
And their double standards and hypocrisy are not lost on us.
The Democratic Party believe that merely having to show a state issued I.D. card to vote once every two or four years is an intolerable violation of an American’s (and a Mexican‘s) 15th and 24th Amendment rights, targeted at the poor and minorities and disabled and elderly. Yet they insult our intelligence every time they tell us that the burdens and restrictions they want to place on law-abiding gun-owners are not an attempt to disenfranchise us from exercising our 2nd Amendment rights.
Imagine showing up at the polling place, having two fill out a two page form, give the poll worker your drivers license, and have a background check run before you could vote? And mail-in ballots would be illegal. Democrats would be rioting in the streets.
When I was at the Colorado House Judiciary Committee hearings last month, one phrase that proponents of gun-owner control used over and over again was “the right to life”. Regardless of one’s positon on abortion, the Democrats never talk about “balancing” the rights of the unborn child’s “right to life” with that of the mother. But they’re more than willing to take away our rights in the name of “balance”.
If you merely suggest that a minor child should be required to notify her parents of an abortion — don’t even think about parental permission — Democrats have a conniption.
And as for being “pro-choice”, they are willing to deny a woman her right to choose how to protect herself from rapists (eg, that despicable creature Evie Hudak).
should be the Party slogan.
Democrats are willing to restrict CCW in certain areas — such as college campuses — not for safety, but simply because some ignoramuses and bigots feel uncomfortable with the idea of people carrying concealed weapons. Yet would they be as accomidating to people who felt uncomfortable with Muslims on airplanes?
If a parent said that she felt “uncomfortable” or “unsafe” leaving her children with a gay teacher or day care worker, would Democrats be understanding of her irrational fear, or would they slander her as a hateful bigot?
Then there’s the elephant in the room: race.
It’s been a long time since I’ve crunched the numbers, but if trends haven’t changed — and I don’t think they have — blacks commit violent crime at a rate higher than the genral population, and at a rate roughly equal to (if not higher) than gun owners. If Democrats are willing to “balance” the rights of gun owners with the needs of the public, then they should stop complaining about Bloomberg’s dispicable “stop and frisk” gun-control measure which disproportionatley targets young black and Hispanic men, but rarely finds any guns (about 0.2% of the time out of 4 million random searches in 10 years).
The fact that race “is not a choice” is irrelevant. If you really believe in collective punishment and “balancing” rights with public safety, then racial-profiling is a valid crime-fighting strategy. (Also, voting, abortion, practicing Islam, and illegally crossing the border are choices).
Gun-owners are a hated group, and we know it. And it’s acceptable to hate us in ways that’s it’s not (and should not) be acceptable to hate blacks, gays, Mexicans, Muslims, etc.
After World War I, the victorious allies robbed the Germans of their dignity by requiring them to pay usurious reperations and disarming them. When the economy collapsed, the conditions were ripe for someone to exploit that resentment. Whether that resentment was justified or not is irrelvant, because it existed — fueled by the western mistreatment of Germany throughout the 1920s.
The Democrats believe that they’re going to be welcomed as liberators for disarming the American population. They are creating a culture of anger, resentment, and contempt among a large group of people who would rather be left alone, while we are facing another economic collapse — conditions ripe to be exploited.
And when that day comes when the gays, blacks, Muslims, Mexican, or whoever are put on cattle trains to wherever, or women are reduced to the legal status of breeding cattle, I will have stopped caring.
Why should I speak out for the rights and dignity of others, when the Democrats are taking mine away?
[ Note: As a piece of writing, this is not as good as I’d like, since it’s a collection of recent thoughts that I’m still working on articulating. I’m also in a hurry, since I’m heading down to the Colorado state capitol in a futile effort to speak with some senators before tomorrow’s vote . And while this post is critical of Democrats, I have no love for the Republicans or libertarians, but the things I hate them for are not relevant right now. I really wish the gun-owner rights movement could separate itself from the rest of the right-wing bullshit ].
Car or truck: Yes. Motorcycle: Yes. Airplane: piss on the airlines!! Hope they like the fact that they are just as stupid as a lot of our politicians. As mentioned above they could band together and negate the TSA but noooo! Got to have all of them almighty dollars they can to treat you like shit for the supposed privilege of flying. Not me!
Thanks for the letter Bill, it encompasses the dilemma and feelings of most of us. We haven’t hurt or even bothered anyone, are already careful of our collections and only ask to be left alone. Even after going through many humiliations and treated like criminals, we are now actually determined to be criminals.
Time to push back.
Now they have to have a final vote Monday and there is a few Dems on the fence we still could kill the bill only if Colorado gun owners keep up the heat.
Where can i buy some of those silver bullets?
I used to live in Austin before I moved back east, and I am in Austin now for SXSW. Between TTAG moving in and the mild spring weather I wonder why I left.
And here I was considering a 700. Maybe I’ll get that Weatherby.
Will everyone here please learn just what the PISS they’re talking about? The Remington plant in Ilion NY IS Ilion. If that plant leaves, so does most of the jobs for the area. You keyboard warriors would do well to go visit Ilion yourselves, sometime. Maybe then you’ll see it’s not as simple as opposing the SAFE Act.
Remington is more than their contracts, more than their products… They have to worry about the jobs and people in Ilion.
Remington very recently won an $80 million federal contract for a new sniper rifle. I can’t help but wonder if the contract win was consideration for Remington remaining in Ilion (perhaps influenced by the Cuomo and Obama / Clinton political ties). Closing the factory would be devastating to upstate NY and a political problem for Cuomo’s presidential aspirations.
I think a good part of the SAFE Act will eventually be declared unconstitutional. I would hate to see workers lose their jobs over a flawed law that will eventually be reversed.
things have incorrectly been blamed against the “right wing” for decades. In the 1960s when the Yale hockey rink was bombed, it was blamed on right wingers. Conveniently, there were 13k+ left wingers protesting in New Haven that day. But of course it couldn’t be them.
And Loughner was claimed to be influenced by Palin. He shot Giffords because he asked her a nonsensical question and she didn’t answer it up to his standards. In Colorado, the media tried desperately to connect James Holmes with the Tea Party. They did, but it was a 50 year old guy and not the college student James Holmes who committed the Aurora attacks.
A gun light on a house pistol is not meant to be used like a flashlight pointing straight ahead. The pistol is held in low or high ready. The light, when needed, is used as a bounce light off the floor (much like bounce flash on a camera) vastly mitigating the brightness issues people mention. It is as illegal to sweep someone in the dark as it is with a gun light on, so low or high ready is the rule in any case. Use of the light is optional. If the house power has gone off, it is extremely useful to have the light mounted. For a camp gun or cabin defense long gun a light is very advantageous. For a CCW pistol a pistol light seems counter-productive as to size and likely need. A very bright small flashlight for carry makes more sense, as you can use it for those needs during which drawing your firearm from concealment would be absurd.
IR Lights and IR Lasers only.
Taking friends shooting can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. I think a few friends were a little shocked when the wise-cracking, sarcastic guy who does not take life or anything else too seriously disappeared and was replaced by my former NCO self (minus the cuss words). I’m all for laughter, but giggling when you’re holding my Glock, not so much. We can laugh later, but if you’re on a steep learning curve, you need to take stuff seriously, like right now.
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Given the following Federal law (look it up), the AR-15 is very useful for arming the “unorganized militia”, as defined below.
10 USC § 311 – Militia: composition and classes:
(a)The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b)The classes of the militia are—
(1)the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2)the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
[For those of you who remain in denial about the meaning of “militia”, this “class” (b)(2) means EVERY able-bodied American male between the ages of 17 and 45.]
Women and senior citizens are welcome to sue for age and gender discrimination.
Living in the land of dopey laws is fun, can’t wait to break the next one. Nicely written Nick and I hope your logic holds for the other stuff. By the way, love your Icon.
I took my mom out for the first time this Saturday (also a former gun control advocate and teacher).
Her response to the shootings was the opposite of most anti-gun folks. She wanted to real to shoot.
She shot my glock 19. On the way home she asked, “How much would a glock 19 cost if I decided to buy one?”
For “hit the road with your life on your back, solo” situation, I’ll take an AR-15 or even something lighter.
I sent them this:
Please pass this in C.O.. Please run off your businesses so that they can then move to TEXAS! We Texans welcome all businesses that leave their heavily regulated states to enjoy a more business friendly atmosphere especially those involved in the fire arms sector.
So… we shouldn’t enact new laws, we should enforce the existing laws we have, except we shouldn’t because … the laws might be changed in ways that are disagreeable.
I have a problem with this type of argument. 🙁
The no-fly list example is a good one; because there is no public process for appealing inclusion on the list, and it appears to be extrajudicial, our representatives should have ample reason to not legislate its use. But our representatives *are* empowered to do just that.
Less paranoid absolutism, more realistic objection, please.
102 rounds?! I’m surprised they didn’t call in an air-strike!
Sorry hunny…the cats already out of the bag: The Dems ARE gun grabbers…we figured that out already all on our own. Now get back in the kitchen and make me some pie…
Out here on the north side of Houston, TX while driving at approx. 6:30pm my husband and I saw easily over 100 military utility vehicles being transported by train. No joke even freaked my 11 year old son out
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