Guns and Gun Rights – Page 15

Monday links too

Published May 7, 2018 11:04 am by Claire

Ticketmaster wants to use facial recognition to grant or deny you access to concerts. Wonder how many millions will cheerfully sell themselves for such privileges?

Good on you, NSSF and Springfield Armory. A sporting goods store that lobbies against firearms deserves to be cast into outer darkness.

Will Cuomo get away with using regulatory power against the NRA?

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Friday links

Published May 4, 2018 1:36 am by Claire

Although things aren’t looking good for gun rights, gun owners are increasingly young and female — and that’s got to be a good sign. (H/T LA)

This, too: Students walk out of school in support of the Second Amendment. Though we should have heard a lot more about it than we did.

Simpsons creator Matt Groening is unapologetic about Apu and calls out those who gain attention by pretending to be offended.

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Midweek links

Published May 1, 2018 6:18 pm by Claire

Banks and credit card companies are colluding against gun owners and gun businesses.

Medical ethics should change its name to something else.

Should it be a crime to provide illegal immigrants with food and water?

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Weekend links

Published April 28, 2018 1:28 am by Claire

Palantir knows everything about you. And they want more paying customers for their snoop system. (H/T JW)

Why humans are increasingly unaware of their own ignorance — and why that’s a big problem.

Court rules that a man can’t be denied his self-defense rights because of some stupid, harmless “felony” he committed nearly three decades ago.

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Thursday links

Published April 26, 2018 8:03 am by Claire

If you’re a prominent pro-gun Parkland student, prepare to be grilled, insulted, and generally abused.

In London (and to a lesser degree, all across England) violent crimes continue to soar. Murders up 44%! But worry not. The problem is entirely the fault of knives. A little knife control will take care of that.

The growing audiences drawn by people like Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Ben Shapiro (who wrote the article) show that people crave and appreciate meaty arguments — even and perhaps especially when the mob doesn’t want those arguments heard.

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Tuesday links

Published April 24, 2018 11:35 am by Claire

Herschel Smith to the gun confiscationists: On tactics, you go first.

Penn State decides that a 98-year-old campus club for outdoors enthusiasts can no longer … erm, go outdoors. Seems it’s simply too dangerous.

Did you know? Earth has just emerged from the greatest two-year cooling period of the last century.

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Friday links

Published April 20, 2018 1:32 am by Claire

Bill Gates and other villains back a plan to live-stream unfiltered video of every moment of every inch of activity on planet Earth.

We cannot do good if we’re not free to do wrong.

3D printing and shooting of 9mm bullets. (Short video H/T MJ)

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Savage, Stamboulieh, and Codrea on the ATF and bump stocks

Published April 18, 2018 11:14 am by Claire

David Codrea, bless his always on-the-ball self, has taken a deep dive into ATF paperwork and surfaced again with hard questions for the infamous bureau and the Trump administration. The issue is bump stocks, the attempt to ban them — and more. David links to the original documents (FOIAed by wonder-attorney Stephen Stamboulieh) if you want to take that same dive. Note that the power of the names Savage and Stamboulieh (aided perhaps by a slight desire to dodge blame while throwing some other fedgov agency under a bus) pulled those 700+ pages of documents out of the ATF in…

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Midweek links

Published April 18, 2018 10:24 am by Claire

Bill Buppert (inspired by Kit Perez) against humdrum activism.

British woman says she gut-shot a machete-wielding intruder with a crossbow. No arrests yet, either of the gangster and his friends or the tough granny.

She wanted only to be a housewife and mother. But this French woman became a spy, survived torture, and made a Nazi pay for his crimes.

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Weekend links

Published April 8, 2018 9:10 am by Claire

As a fire kills a man and injures six firefighters in Trump Tower, some “progressives” rejoice. (H/T M)

Don’t feel too bad about poor Mark Zuckerberg being grilled by congressional committes. They have hundreds of thousands of reasons to go light on him.

Technological Big Brother increasingly rules India. Alternatives: submit or starve; submit or be shut out of normal life.

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