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Democrat Eric Swalwell Calls for Buyback of All AR-15s

Post author By Grumpy
Post date September 1, 2023
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) used a Monday post on X to call for a buyback of AR-15s and firearms that Democrats refer to as “assault weapons.”

He also wants a ban in place to keep future AR-15s from being manufactured or sold.

Swalwell posted:

The attacker that struck the Jacksonville Dollar General on Saturday was armed with a Glock handgun and an AR-15-style rifle. Therefore, banning the rifle would not have prevented the attack from occurring.

Moreover, on October 10, 2022, Breitbart News reported FBI data showing more than twice as many people were killed with knives and other cutting tools than were killed with rifles in 2021.

Additionally, on October 11, 2022, Breitbart News pointed to FBI data showing more people were beaten to death with fists and feet in 2021 than were killed with rifles.

It is important to understand that the rifle category includes rifles of every kind: lever action, pump action, single shot, semi-automatic, bolt action, and the rifles that Democrats refer to as “assault weapons.”

The latest figures from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) show there were more AR/AK-style firearms in circulation “than Ford F-Series trucks on the road” as of July 21, 2022. The NSSF estimate, published by Breitbart News, showed nearly 24.5 million such firearms were in circulation at the time.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

———————————————————————————- Just remember that this is the same guy who was boffing a RED CHINESE SPY FORVER!

Contact with suspected Chinese spy

In December 2020, Swalwell was named in an Axios story about suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang or Christine Fang,^[66]^[67]^[68] who had since at least 2012 been cultivating contacts with California politicians who the Chinese government believed had promising futures in politics.^[69]^[70] Axios reported that Fang participated in fundraising for Swalwell’s 2014 congressional election bid, met Swalwell at events, and helped place an intern inside his congressional office.

Swalwell ended ties with Fang in 2015 after U.S. intelligence briefed him and top members of Congress on concerns that Chinese agents were attempting to infiltrate Congress. Axios reported that Swalwell was not accused of any impropriety and that officials did not believe that Fang obtained classified information from her contacts.^[71] Also in December 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle quoted an unnamed FBI official familiar with the investigation as saying that “Swalwell was completely cooperative and under no suspicion of wrongdoing”.^[72]

In March 2021, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy moved to remove Swalwell from his seat on the House Intelligence Committee, which was tabled 218–200–3 on a party-line vote. Swalwell suggested that someone in the Trump administration may have leaked the information to the press, as he had been a vocal critic of Trump and served on two committees involved in Trump’s impeachment.^[73]

The December 2020 Axios story said Fang had had sexual relations with two unidentified Midwestern mayors, but not with Swalwell, though allegations persisted he was a national security threat by being associated with Fang. Since the report, Swalwell has received death and rape threats against him and his family. After McCarthy became Speaker in January 2023, he announced he would remove Swalwell from the Intelligence committee, saying, “If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Swalwell on any committee.” Swalwell characterized McCarthy’s action as “purely vengeance”. Intelligence Committee members are term-limited and Swalwell’s membership expired in January 2023.^[74]^[75]^[76]^[77]

The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Swalwell in April 2021. The committee wrote him in May 2023 that the investigation had been closed with no further action.^[78]

You have to be kidding, right!?!

‘Ghost Gun’ Piece Hardly the First National Review Second Amendment ‘Fail’ by David Codrea

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Post date August 31, 2023
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It figures. He’s the “conservative” who “justified” the Brady Bill and “assault weapon” ban by saying they prepared Americans for gun confiscation. (National Review/Facebook)

“Political observers expect the Washington Post and the New York Times to carry water for Joe Biden’s Department of Justice gun control agenda. It’s surprising when the conservative National Review seemingly bends over backward to defend the weaponized agency in a poorly researched and written piece,” the National Rifle Association stated in a Wednesday release. “On August 9, National Review published an item with the confident title ‘Yes, the ATF Can Legally Regulate Ghost Guns.’ The ill-informed piece was written by a summer intern. If it was an unpaid internship, the publication got every penny’s worth.”

While correct in its analysis of why the National Review is wrong, what’s really surprising is that the NRA is surprised at all. The publication has been a haven for collaborationist right “Vichycons” since its inception and has never shied away from advocating for more compromises on the right to keep and bear arms than even Wayne LaPierre. And by its veterans, not just by its interns, who arguably do what they’re told.

Without ever setting out to do it, I have over the years compiled many examples of NRO (National Review Online) outrages that in no particular order include:

Advocating for Robert Bork on the Supreme Court, the jurist who said:

“The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possibly tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.”

Bragging about praise from Charles Krauthammer, the “moderate liberal/independent conservative” who wrote:

“The Brady Bill’s only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.”

And:

“Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic, purely symbolic move. … Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.”

Savaging a Second Amendment lawsuit many of us “non-compromisers” found promising and were working to promote and then reneging on their commitment to allow for a rebuttal by an attorney with Supreme Court experience.

Advocating for importing more immigrants, just like the anti-gun “pathway to citizenship” Democrats are counting on.

Giving a home for years to insufferably “moderate” David French, and promoting his insanely self-contradicting contention that “Gun-violence restraining orders (GVROs) make us all safer while empowering the individual and protecting liberty.”

Selling its soul:

“Conservatives must finally recognize something that’s very depressing and very important: the conservative intellectual movement in America didn’t just fail. It aided and abetted the Left for money. The Left bought off the Right’s leading conservative intellectuals. And its think tanks. And its “flagship” magazines. This is not hyperbole or conjecture. I’ve got the receipts. Until conservatives understand the depth and breadth of that betrayal, they won’t have any chance of rebuilding that movement out of the ashes any time soon.”

Defending state restrictions on bearing arms as a “federalism” issue and dishonestly (and snarkily) arguing that restrictions on abuses of a right are equivalent to restricting the right itself.

Declaring, “Liz Cheney undertook a stunning act of political courage [when] She voted to impeach President Trump…”

Falling for “Baby Steps toward a Workable Middle Ground on Guns”:

“[W]e gun-rights advocates should take this opportunity to meet the other side more than halfway, as they have moved more than halfway in our direction.”

All this should surprise no one who has been paying attention for a while, because the founder of National Review, William F. Buckley, was also an idiot on the right to keep and bear arms who wrote:

“Pass Brady Bill More As Symbol Than Deterrent To Crime … It is hard to know how an imposition of that nature seriously deprives us of the right guaranteed under the Second Amendment.”

What’s harder to know is why any gun owner who believes in rights as articulated by the Founders would give defeatist and wrong-headed frauds the time of day, let alone be influenced by their equivocations. The battle for the soul of the Republic is existential, and freedom will never be won by listening to tepid apologists for infringements such as these.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year – Rafael chair

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Post date August 28, 2023
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“One year from now – Israel will be the first country to have partial laser protection. In two years there may be complete protection,” said Yuval Steinitz.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel’s ground-breaking laser system experiment carried out in the south of the country by the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research and Development (DDR&D, or MAFAT in Hebrew) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

(photo credit: DEFENSE MINISTRY)

Israel will have partial laser defenses by this time next year, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems chairman Yuval Steinitz told Army Radio on Sunday.

“One year from now – Israel will be the first country to have partial laser protection. In two years there may be complete protection – against missiles, shells, rockets, or anything else. This will protect us both in the South and in the North,” said Steinitz.

Israel’s push for laser air defenses

This past February, senior Defense Ministry official Brig.-Gen. (res.) Danny Gold said Israel’s air-defense lasers, when fully deployed, will be able to shoot down the drones Iran has been sending Russia to use against Ukraine.Speaking at the Artificial Intelligence conference at Tel Aviv University at the time, the MAFAT [Directorate of Defense Research & Development] director said his ministry was working on developing “the next generation of using lasers.”

He talked about multiple successful tests destroying rockets “with a very sophisticated laser-weapons system…. We have done the same for mortars, rockets and UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], like the Iranian UAVs they are sending to Ukraine. The same concept of UAV, we can shoot them down.”

In February 2022, then-prime minister Naftali Bennett proclaimed that Israel’s ability to use lasers had progressed significantly and could be operational much sooner than people had expected.

BORDER Police officer checks a unit at a laser system aimed to intercept incendiary balloons, near the Gaza border. (credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)

This past January, outgoing IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi told The Jerusalem Post, “The laser-defense system is truly great news. It will be both land- and air-based. I do want to be cautious regarding timeframes. In another two years, we expect to deploy systems along the Gaza Strip border to test this tool’s effectiveness.

“It has worked very well in field tests. If this experiment works – and we continue to integrate and enhance the laser-defense system over two years – we will move as fast as possible to deploy it across the entire North. I cannot commit to a specific number of years. I don’t want to be optimistic and I also don’t want to be pessimistic.”

Kohavi added, “I know that there has been great progress over the last three years, and we invested a lot of money in this. We defined the laser-defense system as having multiple benefits that we would need to invest a lot in. I am happy that it has progressed so much.”

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