A 135-piece cube transforms into a functioning .45 caliber pistol.
H/T: Geeks are Sexy.
Air Bloomberg
Mayor Mike is expanding his news media outlet to include opinion pieces. According to the NY Times:
“… At the mayor’s urging, his giant media company will soon make a splashy foray into opinion, churning out columns and essays on issues as varied as gun control and deficit spending. At the center: up to two editorials a day that channel the views of Mr. Bloomberg himself. The mayor, a keen student of power, is privately conceding to friends that he will not be a candidate for president … He has told associates that his new op-ed project, called Bloomberg View, will allow him to maintain, and perhaps even deepen, his influence, long after the 24-hour spotlight of public office recedes …”
If he’s such a keen student of power, how come all his efforts to move gun control have been such a failure? He’s spent millions on advertising and PR stunts and it’s gotten him nothing. From a business standpoint, I can’t see there being much of a market outside of some traditional leftist areas for his op-eds and those areas are already served by the Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, etc. He’s not bringing anything new to the table.
“… The notion of media barons using editorials to shape public opinion and policy according to their personal views is an old one in American journalism. William Randolph Hearst, for example, often wrote front-page editorials for his newspapers. Mr. Bloomberg, it would seem, is casting himself in that mold, though there are no plans for him to begin writing signed editorials. For now, he is content letting his trusted deputies speak for him …”
The problem here is that technology has opening up new media outlets which didn’t exist in Heart’s time. For such a keen student of power, he’s learned nothing from the failure of Air America which was funded by other rich leftists wanting to move their agenda. Bloomberg View looks to be essentially the same thing.
Manhattan jury finds man who had loaded gun in car not guilty
Talk about being ungrateful
Jeanne Assam, the woman who stopped a crazed killers rampage by shooting him back in 2007, came out as gay.
Now, according to her, the church where it happened doesn’t want her. Talk about being ungrateful.
Possible lead issue
Sen. Diaz has requested the Health Committee take up his bill S-292, which pertains to lead poisoning. It would require the Commissioner of Health to report to the Attorney General whenever “in the opinion of the Commissioner” a manufacturer, distributor or retailer is using “improper measures” which could lead to possible lead poisoning. What exactly “improper measures” are is entirely up to the Health Commissioner. The bill is vague enough to be abused by politicians with an agenda.
For example, perhaps lead ammo should not be sold in cardboard boxes and should only be available in childproof plastic clamshell packages. There already have been efforts to ban lead bullets so this line of thinking cannot be discounted.
More Mayors behaving badly
This is a little old, but I didn’t know the MAIG connection until now. Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins has been charged with various offenses including selling counterfeit sneakers and failing to collect sales tax.
According to the Times Herald-Record:
“… Authorities searched the business G Man Beauty Supplies and Jenkins’ Clinton Avenue home on Feb. 11 [2010] and found 300 pairs of counterfeit Nike sneakers and suspected knockoff movies. A small amount of marijuana was recovered from the home. The two are further charged with five sales of counterfeit shoes from September 2009 through February, and failure to collect sales tax …”
“… The [tax] fraud charges were part of 16 counts including felony trademark counterfeiting stemming from a raid on Jenkins’ home and retail store. Prosecutors say the fraud charges had to be retooled after they were tossed by the judge on a technicality …”
Jenkins is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He maintains the charges are politically motivated.
Justice is served
The story: Florida man comes to Manhattan to help his girlfriend move, inadvertently leaving loaded handgun in glovebox of his truck. Attracts police attention when he makes a wrong turn. Police see pistol when he retrieves registration info from glovebox. Police charge him with violating the Sullivan Act.
D.A. Cyrus Vance wants his head on a platter.
Citizen Ryan testifies in his own defense.
Jurors recognize BS and find him not guilty.
Mayor Mike must be pissed.
Schumer’s proposal
Chuck Schumer is proposing “modest” new gun control. According to WNYC:
“… Under the plan endorsed by Schumer and Bloomberg, states and federal authorities would be required to increase the percentage of denied gun permit applicants to the national gun database. The penalty for not reporting would be a loss of federal funding for crime prevention …”
However, the Wall Street Journal tells a different story:
“U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday he will propose legislation requiring all gun buyers to undergo a background check and broadly increasing penalties against states that don’t contribute names to the national background-check system …”
My guess is that his bill will prohibit all private firearms transaction and he’s trying to bury it with the other stuff to make it seem more innocuous.
Kathleen Rice redefining AWB
Nassau D.A. Kathleen Rice arrested several Long Island gun dealers last week in a much publicized series of stings. I don’t have all the facts, but it appears to be a politically motivated set up. It came just days after Mayor Bloomberg announced his push to try and get Congress to prohibit private firearms transfers. There is no way this is a coincidence.
Essentially what Rice is trying to do is redefine what an “assault weapon” is by asserting that AR-15s with flash hiders removed and collapsible stocks pinned so that they cannot collapse are in violation of state law. Tom was on NRANews last night and talked about it.
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Explain this then Carolyn
The House just overwhelmingly voted against allowing the ATF to spend any monies to track multiple sales of semi-autos along the Mexico border.
So Carolyn, where exactly is all this building momentum for your magazine prohibition bill?