“Obama refuses to act on gun flow into Mexico.” Given how they’ve chosen to act to date, I would think this should accomplish quite a lot to reduce trafficking.
Author: Sebastian
What Righthaven Has Accomplished
Less protection for newspapers under the copyright laws. I’m sure this isn’t what they were intending.
Another View on the Florida Doctor Bill
Brady Campaign Reports on White House Meeting
On Tuesday, I attended a meeting at the U.S. Department of Justice with representatives from the White House, the Vice-President’s office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the FBI, and others from the Obama Administration, along with leaders from the gun violence prevention movement, to discuss how to reach the goals outlined in the President’s statement. Officials from the Administration indicated that this was the first of what they hoped would be a series of discussions. They said they had not settled on, or excluded, any relevant proposals.
The question in my mind is whether the Administration intends to keep this “series of discussions” going right on through the 2012 elections, or whether he’s going to be foolish enough to get behind specific Brady proposals before then. Helmke noted that the length of the meeting (90 minutes) and the number of White House officials at the meeting “signaled to me that the President is serious.” We’ll see.
Quality Control, It’s Not Hard
Tasty Baking Company, which makes Tastykakes, is in serious financial trouble. They essentially face going out of business within the next few months, largely due to their management’s poor decision to stay in Philadelphia, and build a “green” bakery, which has not worked out very well for the company, even with a massive infusion of my tax dollars to save green jobs or some crap like that.
Just about every store around here has been having specials on Tastykakes, so we’ve been buying every once in a while. If my tax dollars are going to subsidize them, I might as well eat them. First thing I noticed they are cutting corners on quality control from when I was a kid. A little defect here, and little defect there, I can deal with. No longer. Today was the last straw.
For those of you who grew up or have lived in the Philadelphia area any length of time, you will be able to relate to my extreme angst that Tasty Baking Company sold me a Butterscotch Krimpet with one of the Krimpet’s only partially covered with butterscotch. Anyone growing up having to split a package of Krimpets with their sibling understands the kind of war this will bring about. Villages have been burned over less. We need a UN resolution that “authorizes all necessary means” to ensure this won’t happen again. Seriously Tasty Baking, if you’re going to take my tax dollars, don’t you dare short me on butterscotch!
More on the Florida Doctor Bill
Must Be Why He’s Playing Up His Sportsmen’s Creds
John Tester is looking vulnerable in Montana. Tester is co-chair of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, a fact which I have seen floating around in the news quite a bit lately. He’s really going to look like a fool if Obama pushes gun control, despite Tester’s assurances during the 2008 election that we didn’t have anything to worry about. Tester himself, however, has been legitimately very pro-gun, even sponsoring a bill to fix the problem with reimportation of M1 Garands and M1 Carbines. I sincerely hope if President Obama decides to make gun control part of his legacy, Tester will distance himself from Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Hat Tip Instapundit.
More on Constitutional Carry in Colorado
Despite NRA support for this bill, HB 1205 faces an uphill battle as the Democratic leadership in the state Senate has consistently assigned pro-gun bills to the Senate State, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee. Their designated “kill committee†has predictably defeated pro-Second Amendment bills by 3 to 2 partisan votes during the last several years.  In addition, Colorado Governor and former Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) has been a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns and he would almost certainly veto such legislation.
If you follow the link, they provide contact information for the committee members. It doesn’t look good in the Senate, but we definitely won’t get Colorado if we don’t try.
Coat tax
From a Colorado legislator, who is sponsoring a bill to eliminate the permit requirement in Colorado:
Holbert, who sponsored the legislation, said the permit is akin to a “coat tax†because it is necessary only when a gun is covered, such as by a coat.
I had never thought of calling a CC permit a “coat tax” before, but it works. Colorado’s House passed the bill. It’s on to the Senate. If Colorado can pass Constitutional Carry, I’m hard pressed to find a reason Pennsylvania can’t do it.
National Review on ATF Scandal
Glad to see National Review questioning the need for more gun laws to stop trafficking to Mexico considering the current scandal.