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  2. In your “Notes from the Redoubt” you noted that Idaho will be moving prisoners to Texas.
    Aren’t there laws about moving pollutants across state lines?

  3. I watched the “60 Minutes” segment with great interest and got my expected eyefull. I note they buried the segment by scheduling it vs the Olympics so that it would not get the viewership it normally would. Mr. Steve Kroft gave us a liberal slant on the issue disguised as impartial reporting. His vitriol and outright hostility came through loud and clear. If a legal and licensed concealed firearm carrier goes to any state or municipality then why infringe on their 2nd Amendment right? Like the USCCA advocate stated, it’s should be like a drivers license. You have been tested and approved by your state. That should make you approved in ALL states. Also, the claim that was made that a firearm is needed in remote rural areas for protection but not in urban areas because of the police response to 911 is ludicrous. The police cannot protect you from being assaulted. The only person who can protect you is YOU! Another “60 Minutes” hatchet job that shows why people are not willing to be interviewed by then.

    1. I expect (and am in favor of) the trend of states adopting concealed-carry legislation to continue. If federal lawmakers feel as if they are granting us a right, then can also believe they can take it away. The ultimate solution would be for the 2nd amendment to be universally accepted throughout the country governed by that document. Fundamental to that recognition would be the requirement to have judges that regarded the constitution to be the law of the land. Since we don’t have that, our rights are always in jeopardy and are not guarded or preserved by more laws and lies but by continual vigilance.

  4. In “News from the American Redoubt”, I find it interesting that the article on “healthy states” has no reference to the greatest health issue our country faces: obesity.

  5. About the article on Idaho moving prisoners to Texas and the prisons being squalid, With hundreds of inmates with nothing to do, I would initiate a clean or eat a basic calorie per day allotment of the cheapest food available, regardless of it’s taste. Also withhold other privileges until the problem solves it’s self. If the fed’s do not like this, turn the prisoners over to them. Prison is punishment, not a girl scout camp. I think that Former Governor Arnold Schwartsinager’s idea of farming them out to private Mexican Prisons for 1/4 the annual price should be revisited.

    1. I cannot agree. First of all as we know not all prisoners are guilty of breaking laws. Second not all prisoners deserve prison as the “laws” they broke may either be unconstitutional or merely some lawmakers personal agenda. But indeed some prisoners deserve to be locked up but most certainly not tortured. Our prisons should be safe, humane and just. Our efforts should be to make sure we are sending the right people to jail and then our jails wouldn’t be so over crowded. Prisons should be more than punishment they should contribute to rehabilitation too.

      1. One Guy

        Agreed. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, due largely to malum prohibitum garbage and the corrupt prison industrial complex running our penal institutions. Let’s start eliminating some of these nonsensical laws, expanding freedom, and THEN focus on REAL criminals (you know, the ones who violate life liberty or property, as opposed to the junkie heroin addict who otherwise minds his own business) and keeping them
        off the streets. NOTE: I do not use or advocate the use of illegal drugs.

  6. re:
    “…usefulness of serial numbers in tracking gun crimes…”

    Editor(s), your use of the term ‘gun crimes’ is misleading. Guns do not commit crimes.

    And for the record, I object to the term ‘gunman’ to describe a criminal in possession of a firearm.

    As an American, I am a gunman.

    During my time in the military and subsequent contracts overseas, I was a gunman.

    I will be a gunman until my last breath.

    ‘Gun crimes’. A progressive marxist liberal totalitarianist thug might use that term. You can do better.

    1. I wouldn’t be too upset over the usage “gun crimes”. Technically you are correct, but the term isn’t based on any concerted attack against firearms rights, it’s simply a contraction of “gun related crimes”. The English language is a lazy language – it does things like that a lot. It’s kind of like using “satellite dish” to describe your “satellite receiver dish”. Yeah, we all know that the average Joe does not own a multi-billion dollar satellite with a parabolic microwave communications dish antenna on it. It’s just referring to the parabolic microwave communications receiver dish mounted on his roof. If you get upset over the usage of “gun crimes” then to be consistent, you really need to rid your language of all contracted terms. That might not be a bad idea as our language has devolved to a very informal slang. Getting rid of all those contractions would certainly make it more formal.

      1. The contraction of language has been used to advantage by leftists pushing “pro-environment” propaganda. “Anthropogenic climate change” – man caused climate change – has been shortened to “climate change.” And since the climate does indeed change (e.g., we no longer have 2000 feet of ice over most of N. America) they make it seem like only idiots and evil people could be “climate change deniers.”

    1. I strongly believe that he thinks that throwing others “Under the Bus” will let him stay in business for longer.
      A Quisling like this should hang his head in shame…

  8. Honestly, Wiley’s “Judith and Holofernes” should have been used as-is for Michelle’s portrait. At least it would have accurately portrayed Michelle as a black woman as well as her hatred of whites.

  9. RE: Federal Reciprocity Bill
    If Mr. Steve Kroft had any Consitutional sense he would understand that “Gun Rights” are NOT a states rights issue (like marriage, issuing driver’s licensing, property rights, etc.). The 2nd Amendment squarely states that the “…right to keep and bear arms will NOT be infringed.” Although state and federal authorities have and are violating this Constitutionally protected right, it really is not a state’s right issue!

  11. Regarding guns and serial numbers:
    I personally do business with firearms forensic teams. They routinely recover stolen weapons and return them to their owners, when the owners have filed a police report which contains the serial numbers of the weapons.
    I have never known any of these firearms techs to “confiscate” any weapon from its lawful owner. Without exception they are pro-2nd Amendment and pro-gun rights citizens in their personal lives.
    “Confiscation” is still, at least through today, a non-issue.

  13. I am a fan of Cody Wilson’s Ghost Gunner, but am disappointed that only the software is open source. I understand that they need to make money to continue their business, but I am hoping that they will eventually (perhaps when it becomes obvious that TPTB will make it illegal) open source the hardware as well.

    Mr. Gray makes a good point about the positive uses of serial numbers on weapons. However, there is nothing stopping a maker so-inclined from serializing their gun after manufacture. I would consider doing this for the reasons he mentions, and only I would have the serial number until it was stolen and reported as such.

    LL Bean does make the case that they have seen a large increase in abuse of their lifetime return policy, with people buying used and worn out products, or even retrieving them from trash, and then returning them to the store for new. They claim that they have lost more to abuse of this program in the past year than they made from the sales of their signature boots. I’m not sure how they know this, but assuming it is true it is at least understandable and the abuses of the few once again cost the many.

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