Janet Mercereau, the widow of a Staten Island fire marshal, has been indicted in the murder of her husband. She has always been considered the prime suspect because “three bullets were fired from the fire marshal’s own service revolver issued by the FDNY. “
Just one question: Why in the world does the Fire Department get to issue guns to its members? Is there some advanced fire-fighting technique I don’t know about?
Tired of drab gunmetal blue and black dominating your arsenal? Do a fashion makeover on your weaponry with The Bloomberg Collection of designer gun paints and camouflage.
Wisconsin-based Lauer Custom Weaponry is honoring our hoplophobic mayor with a line of brightly colored paints for each of the 5 boroughs — Manhattan red, Bronx rose, Brooklyn blue, Queens green, and Staten Island orange. They even include a stencil of Mayor Mike’s face for the barrel of the gun.
If urban camouflage is more your taste, Lauer also offers the Bloomberg Collection EZ Camo Kit with a brick-wall-and-graffiti motif for only $129.
Not surprisingly, our ingrateful mayor doesn’t appreciate the tribute. “By coloring these guns, a real one looks like a toy, and a police officer won’t be able to tell the difference,” the mayor huffed.
That’s the same excuse Bloomberg and his nanny-state allies used in 2003, when they tried to ban all toy guns from New York City — until the Manhattan Libertarian Party rode to the rescue.
Of course, it’s a total urban myth that cops are shooting innocent kids because they mistake toy guns for real ones. There’s been exactly one documented incident in NYC since 1994 of a truly innocent child playing with a toy gun and mistakenly being shot. That was in the case of a deaf child playing in a darkened hallway who couldn’t hear the police order him to drop the weapon. The other “children being shot while playing with a toy gun” are inevitably gang-bangers using a fake gun to commit a real robbery.
On the other hand, the police do sometimes mistake a wallet or a cellphone for a gun, with deadly consequences, but so far they haven’t called for a ban on wallets and cellphones.
As of 2006, anyone who uses, buys or sells a gun-coloration kit in New York faces a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.
Here’s a modest proposal: How about the police refrain from shooting their own guns until they have positively identified a lethal threat? And by threat I don’t mean the mere presence of something that may or may not be a gun. Like say, oh I don’t know, a gun barrel pointed at person, the suspect refusing an order to drop the weapon pointed at a person, or bullets emerging from the barrel.
With the string of recent shootings on college campuses, it’s not surprising that some of our best and brightest have figured out it sucks to defenseless. There’s a grassroots effort underway across the country to allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus. That effort has spread upstate to Cornell University.
Jacob Rieper at the NYSPRA blog points out that the ”gun control” crowd is obviously putting students at greater risk, not less:
The proponents of “gun-free zones” aren’t just doing nothing, they are creating target rich environments full of helpless victims. Notice how many of these mass shootings take place at gun shows, gun clubs, Camp Perry, etc.
Indeed. If those big bad gun shows are the problem, you’d think that someone would have gone on a shooting spree at one by now. For some strange reason, the killers always choose a setting where no one can shoot back.
It would be great to see some students at my alma mater NYU or other local universities take up the cause. Of course, there’s no chance of any of them getting a concealed carry permit from the NYPD, unless they’re celebrities, so I suppose it’s moot. Mayor Bloomberg would much rather see a classroom full of dead bodies than a student with a gun in her bag. The dead bodies make for better photo ops.
Okay, who’s the wise-guy who sent Mike Bloomberg a gift membership to the National Rifle Association?
Mayor Bloomberg, who is leading a national crusade against illegal guns, said Wednesday he’s a member of the National Rifle Association - well, sort of.
“They gave me a gift membership to the NRA. You can’t make this up. It arrived four weeks ago,” Bloomberg told a group of mayors and police gathered at a gun summit in Baltimore Wednesday.
“I’m just waiting for them to survey their membership,” said Bloomberg, who vowed to give his powerful rivals an earful on gun violence.
The NRA has publicly attacked Bloomberg for pushing the federal government to make more gun-tracing information available and for suing gun stores known for selling firearms used in city crimes.
The association’s magazine last April featured a cartoon of Bloomberg as a giant octopus on its cover with a headline that blared “Tentacles!”
The article said the big city mayor was extending “his reach, and his illegal anti-gun tactics, across America.”
The one-year membership was given anonymously, but a spokesman for the mayor said Bloomberg planned to keep it.
It was unclear if the gift was a gag.
I have to admit, I’m jealous that I didn’t think of this prank sooner. But I don’t suppose there’s any chance he’ll actually read his subscription to 1st Freedom.
I usually try to keep local stories on this blog confined to New York City or New York State. But this new program in Boston is so mind-boggingly fascist and ingeniously evil, I had to share. Plus, it’s only a matter of time before a similar program makes its way to New York, so you can say you read it here first.
So the stormtroo–um, I mean police officers–in Beantown have initiated a new “voluntary” program where they knock on doors of private houses and ask if they can come inside without warrants to search for illegal guns. Presumably they are counting on the sheeple being too intimidated to just say no, and naturally they are preying on minority and immigrant communities first.
And woe be the minority or immigrant who has the courage to refuse entry. Think they won’t be targeted for a little extra “community policing” surveillance and enforcement?
While Florida police investigate the killing of NFL star Sean Taylor, somebody might want to ask how his murder could have been prevented. New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce, a former teammate of Taylor’s, is on the right track. Pierce is pissed that high-profile targets like Taylor are rendered defenseless by the state.
“Somebody like Sean, he can’t defend himself,” Pierce said. “He has to keep a machete in his house. That’s ridiculous. Celebrities and athletes get put in such a fishbowl and when they need to protect themselves, they can’t. You are vulnerable. When an athlete gets caught with a gun on a routine stop it’s, ‘He has a gun, why?’
“Maybe he’s driving a $100,000 car and has $100,000 in jewelry and a lot of cash. Everybody knows who he is. Athletes don’t rob anybody. Athletes are not on a killing spree.
“They got all the money in the world and, yeah, that’s what everybody wants.”
So why was Taylor denied his right to self-defense? After all, Florida is a “shall issue” state, meaning that qualified citizens are automatically granted ”permission” to exercise their Second Amendment right. My guess is he was disqualified over his conviction for opening a can of whup-ass on the thugs who tried to steal his SUV awhile back. Like Pierce said, Taylor had what everybody wanted. And now he’s dead, because Schumer and his ilk will not allow people like Sean Taylor to defend themselves or the fruits of their labor.
The good folks at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership just released the handbill above, which nicely distills the real motivation behind Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun agenda. Mayor Bloomberg is one of several self-defense-hating politicians the JPFO skewers in a series of handbills designed to promote their new documentary, The Gang. Why not print out a few and leave them around town?
Here’s a hilarious clip of Tucker Carlson humiliating dim-witted Long Island Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy:
It’s like Guns for Tots, only with real guns. Some Virginians are getting Mike Bloomberg’s panties all knotted up by giving away firearms in his honor:
Openly armed firearms enthusiasts packed a normally sedate government building, hoping to win a pistol or rifle and at the same time send a defiant message to gun-control advocates, especially New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group, organized the “Bloomberg Gun Giveaway” in large part to thumb its nose at Bloomberg, who accuses some shops of allowing illegal purchases of firearms that later were used in crimes in his city…
Anybody who showed up at Thursday’s event was eligible for the drawing - except Bloomberg and his immediate family.
Asked Thursday about the giveaway, Bloomberg said, “I think it’s sick, is the nicest ways to phrase it.”
Speaking of Virginia and guns, the new V-Tech Rampage game is causing lots of outrage. I’m outraged myself, mostly because the game itself is so lame. It looks and plays like it was designed for the Commodore 64.
My friend and the chairman of the NYC chapter of the Shooters Committee on Political Education, Dave Forgione, emails the following:
Last Night on TV was Councilman Hiram Monserrate and State Senator Eric Adams. Monserrate was doing all the talking. He said that they were going to close the loophole in NYC that allows anybody without a pistol permit to walk into a gun store in NYC and buy handgun ammo, parts, accessories, clips (magazines) and get this: parts to convert a semi-auto to full auto.
Yes you heard right, Councilman Hiram Monserrate thinks that anybody can walk into a gun store in NYC, of all places, and buy the full auto parts for a submachine gun without so much as showing a pistol permit!?!
This guy is a real BS Artist with an imagination. I guess he never heard of the “National Firearms Act of 1934.” And by the way, you do have to show a pistol permit to buy pistol ammo in NYC. Regardless, he also wants to stop the sale of pistol accessories, mags and other parts. What’s next, NYC compliant barrels and slides with serial numbers?
Please contact them:
Councilman Hiram Monserrate 718-205-3881 212-788-6862
State Senator Eric Adams 718-284-4700 518-455-2431
Thanks,Dave Forgione
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