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About 20 miles from my old house! Grumpy
A few days ago I posted about the irony of Antifa claiming they were “true Americans”. When John Schussler then asked, “What looting, bombings, or beatings are you referring to?”, I was shocked. I thought everyone was up to speed on those activities. Apparently, there are some information bubbles that sufficiently insulate people from reality.
The data is so overwhelming that I can’t imagine the legacy media does not know the truth. They are blatantly lying if they say Antifa is peaceful or does not exist as an organization. The people who believe the lies are, at best, willfully ignorance.
Here are some of the evidence links I found:
- First Antifa terrorism charges filed in Texas
- Unmasked (book by Andy Ngo)
- Antifa Defense Fund
- Advocating harassment and violence
- Travis County DA: Three members of ANTIFA arrested for looting Austin Target store | FOX 7 Austin
- Antifa launch ambush firebomb attack on Atlanta police – Andy Ngo
- Multiple police officers injured in violent Portland riot at ICE facility | Fox News
- District of Oregon | Four Defendants Charged with Assaulting Federal Law Enforcement Officers, Other Offenses During Protests Near Local ICE Office | United States Department of Justice
- Multiple police officers injured in violent Portland riot at ICE facility | Fox News
- Andy Ngo, May 2019 | X
I highly recommend Andy Ngo’s book, Unmasked.
See also what Jonathon Turley has to say about them.
Turley has also written a book on them which I was not aware of until today.
I gave the listed links above to Copilot and asked for a blog post with citations supporting my assertion. This is the result:
Documented Criminal Acts Attributed to Antifa: A Summary of Reported Incidents
In recent years, Antifa-affiliated individuals and cells have been implicated in a range of criminal activities across the United States, including looting, bombings, assaults, and attacks on law enforcement. While Antifa is not a centralized organization, its decentralized networks and ideological cohesion have led to coordinated actions that, in several cases, escalated into violence. Below is a summary of documented incidents drawn from news reports, federal indictments, and investigative journalism.
1. Firebomb Ambush on Police in Atlanta
On March 5, 2023, a group of masked Antifa militants launched a coordinated ambush on police officers at the construction site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
According to journalist Andy Ngo, the attackers used explosives, firebombs, and rocks, injuring officers and setting construction equipment ablaze. The incident was widely reported and documented with video evidence on social media platforms.
2. Looting in Austin, Texas
Three individuals identified as Antifa members were arrested for looting a Target store in Austin during a protest. The Travis County District Attorney’s office confirmed their affiliation and charged them with burglary and theft. Fox 7 Austin reported that the suspects were part of a broader protest that devolved into property destruction and theft.
3. Attack on ICE Facility in Texas
In a federal indictment unsealed in 2023, the Department of Justice charged two men affiliated with a North Texas Antifa cell for attacking an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that the men used incendiary devices and coordinated the attack as part of a broader anti-government agenda. The case underscores the federal government’s concern over violent extremism linked to Antifa ideology.
4. Assaults on Federal Officers in Portland
During the height of the 2020 protests in Portland, Oregon, four individuals were charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers. The Justice Department detailed how the defendants used projectiles, including explosives and rocks, to breach federal property and injure officers. These incidents were part of a series of nightly confrontations that often involved self-identified Antifa participants.
5. Explosives and Riots at ICE Building in Portland
Fox News reported that rioters breached an ICE building in Portland using explosives and rocks, injuring officers and causing significant property damage. The report noted that many of the participants wore Antifa insignia and coordinated their actions through encrypted messaging platforms.
6. Investigative Reporting and Firsthand Documentation
Independent journalists such as Andy Ngo and Wiretap Media have extensively documented Antifa-related violence through firsthand footage, interviews, and social media posts. Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy compiles years of investigative work, detailing incidents of beatings, arson, and organized attacks on government institutions.
Conclusion
While Antifa is often described as a loosely organized movement, the documented incidents above suggest that its adherents have, in multiple cases, engaged in coordinated criminal violence. These actions have targeted law enforcement, government facilities, and private property, often under the guise of protest. The evidence presented here underscores the need for continued scrutiny and legal accountability for violent extremism, regardless of political affiliation.
Sources
- Antifa Launch Ambush Firebomb Attack on Atlanta Police
- Travis County DA: Three Members of Antifa Arrested for Looting Austin Target Store
- DOJ: North Texas Antifa Cell Attacked ICE Facility
- Four Defendants Charged with Assaulting Federal Law Enforcement Officers
- Officers Injured as Portland Rioters Breach ICE Building
- Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
Familiarity breeds … skill. Mas shot this 60-shot timed group in front of students in Michigan in 2023 with a Springfield Range Officer and Winchester .45 hardball. Mas’ first .45 — a 1918 production Colt 1911, subsequently modified.
The second quarter of the year has become my 1911 period, because my all-time favorite shooting contest, the Pin Match (www.pinshoot.com) takes place every June.
These days I do my best in that type of tournament with a hot-loaded 1911 .45, and I’ve found that carrying and teaching with the gun you compete with gets you better acquainted with it.
A Beautiful Friendship
I started live-fire handgunning with a double-action revolver, but as a boy reading the work of Jeff Cooper, I desperately wanted a .45 auto. This was back when the 1911 was the only game in town.
My best Christmas present ever was at age 12 when my dad bought me a mil-surp 1918 production Colt 1911 we’d picked out for $37.50. I bonded with it immediately and still have it, modified from its original configuration.
Those classic .45 autos have been good to me over the years. I’ve shot them in the bulls-eye matches now known as Precision Pistol, Bianchi Cup, the old Wyoming Shoot for Loot, PPC and countless qualifications.
1911s won state and regional championships for me and tied a then-national record for pin shooting. I carried 1911 .45s at times both off- and on-duty on all three police departments I worked for over 43 years and was wearing a Springfield Armory Range Officer the day I retired from law enforcement in 2017.
Late April of 2025 found me switching back to the 1911 after several months of teaching with — and daily wearing — an out-of-the-box 9mm GLOCK 19 Gen5. I had no complaints with the 19. It was easy to carry; 15+1 rounds of Speer Gold Dot 124-grain +P or Winchester Ranger-T 127-grain +P+ are reassuring.
It never once jammed in thousands of rounds, including two Rangemaster classes with Tom Givens that included winning a challenge coin for a Casino Drill and several live-fire classes at the Tactical Conference in Dallas and a clean score in the match there.
Nonetheless, going back to the 1911 was like the proverbial handshake of an old friend.
The “going back to your first love” thing isn’t just about romance or 1911s. It’s about long-developed habituation and long-earned confidence.
Our editor, Brent Wheat, is a retired career cop who finished his police career with a GLOCK 22 and is highly competent in the most modern handguns but finds himself carrying a little Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolver more than anything else these days. He and our editorial director Roy Huntington, retired from San Diego PD, discuss some of that on the FMG YouTube channel.
Familiarity breeds … skill. Mas shot this 60-shot timed group in ,br> front of students in Michigan in 2023 with a Springfield Range Officer and Winchester .45 hardball. Mas’ first .45 — a 1918 production Colt 1911, subsequently modified.
Habituation Factor
The more we perform certain skill sets with certain tools, the more we groove in the myelinization of neural pathways, creating what we colloquially call “long-term muscle memory.” Lots of trigger time with a favorite pistol creates automaticity, “unconscious competence,” a bond between user and machine.
The ability to perform a physical skill without thinking about it leaves your mind free for more critical decisions like “Do I have to shoot in this potentially life-or-death situation?”
Habituation gets a vote. It also leads into another element: confidence. Decades of training and research have taught me confidence and competence intertwine, like a yin-yang symbol. Competence proven to yourself (and others) gives you confidence; confidence gives you the reassurance to deliver the competence that you have developed when it counts. True in a pistol match, true in a fight — true in life, when you think about it.
Trusted carry. Here’s Capt. Ayoob’s last day on the department with then-Chief Walt Madore. Walt’s .45 is an S&W M&P; Mas is wearing a Springfield Range Officer.
Features Support Competence and Create Confidence
John Moses Browning’s genius was on full display when he designed the 1911. Its grip angle points well for most people. From my first day to now, when I point, the sights are right where I want them, immediately.
The 1911’s short, sweet, sliding trigger remains the standard by which other defensive pistols are judged. Its mandatory cocked-and-locked carry requires a manual safety that creates a proprietary nature to the user.
A handgun retention instructor since 1980, I’ve documented many cases where a Bad Guy got the Good Guy’s gun but failed in his attempt to shoot him because he couldn’t find the safety. A properly habituated lawful user, by contrast, always swipes the ergonomic thumb safety into the fire position before pressing the trigger.
Advantages
The 1911’s slide/frame profile is the slimmest you will find in a powerful .45 or 10mm pistol, helping to make it concealable and comfortable to carry, particularly in the waistband. Today in my old age, with severe back issues and sciatica, my body still gives a relieved “Aahh … good message when I strap on a 1911.
If the sciatica gets bad, there are always my several lightweight aluminum frame Colt and Springfield 1911s, my Wilson Combat SFT9, or my 12-shot Walther PPK-size Smith & Wesson cocked and locked CSX 9mm.
Need a Ferrari instead of a Chevy? I love shooting my Wilson Combat, Ed Brown, and Nighthawk 1911s, and my custom Colts by (in alphabetical order) Dave Lauck, D.R. Middlebrooks, Mark Morris, and the late Jim Clark, John Lawson and Mike Plaxco. The 1911 I teach with is a box-stock Springfield because students need to know it’s the technique the instructor is teaching, not the gun, that delivers the performance demonstrated.
And when you have to demonstrate performance, does it not make sense to do so with something you’ve been shooting for a very long time?
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The single shot that killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s last week upended decades of the gun control debate.
As high-profile shootings piled up, activists said the solution lay in background checks and bans on semi-automatic AR-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and 3D-printed firearms.
But authorities said the shot that killed Mr. Kirk came from a Mauser bolt-action rifle chambered in .30-06 caliber — a classic hunting gun and the type of weapon that had previously been immune from the gun control debate.
“As usual, the Democrats wasted no time before weaponizing the assassination of Second Amendment advocate Charlie Kirk to promote their unconstitutional gun-grabbing agenda,” said Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America. “But the murder weapon is a sporterized, Mauser Gewehr 98 — a bolt-action rifle first manufactured in Germany over a hundred years ago in 1898. So, when Democrats call for ‘assault weapons’ bans, every gun owner must realize that means grandpa’s old hunting rifle too.”
Bolt-action rifles load each round one at a time by manually working the bolt.
The rifles usually at the core of the gun debate are magazine-fed semi-automatic guns, in which the firearm itself automatically brings a new round into the chamber after each trigger pull — though, like a bolt-action, each trigger pull fires only a single round.
Automatic rifles, or machine guns, fire continuously until the magazine or belt is empty. They are already heavily restricted under U.S. law.
The ammunition used to kill Mr. Kirk, .30-06, is considered a high-powered cartridge, meaning it can deliver a more powerful punch at a longer range.
The AR-style rifles that have dominated the gun debate in recent years generally use what’s known as an intermediate cartridge, which is a balance between high-power ammunition and lower-powered ammo generally used in handguns.
Using a bolt-action rifle is a rarity in high-profile shooting crimes, though Lee Harvey Oswald used a bolt-action 6.5 mm Carcano rifle to assassinate President Kennedy in November 1963.
According to data compiled by The Smoking Gun website, a bolt-action rifle was present in only five of the 263 deadliest shootings in U.S. history and was almost always a secondary weapon, often never used. So-called assault weapons were used in 71 shootings, with AR-15-style rifles the choice in about half of those.
Mr. Kirk was talking about mass shootings during one of his signature “Prove Me Wrong” events at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when he was fatally shot.
Law enforcement recovered the bolt-action rifle that they say was used in the shooting from the woods near the school campus. It was wrapped in a towel.
A spent round was in the chamber and shell casings left beside the gun were etched with messages. Among the messages were “Hey fascist, catch!” and “If you read this you are gay, LMAO.”
On Friday, police arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah, in connection with the shooting death.
Mr. Robinson had confessed to a family friend, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said. The friend contacted the Washington County, Utah, Sheriff’s Office.
Guns quickly became a focal point for many on the left in the wake of the slaying.
Some commenters online suggested a sort of justice in Mr. Kirk’s death, given his vehement opposition to gun control.
A clip of Mr. Kirk talking about the tradeoffs of gun control made the rounds: “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
Members of Congress called for a renewed debate on restrictions.
“Pass some gun laws!” shouted Rep. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut Democrat, after the House held a moment of silence and prayer for Mr. Kirk.
Rep. George Latimer, New York Democrat, later told reporters outside the chamber, “Does it take shooting a conservative to start to realize the gun scourge? I hope they realize it.”
Second Amendment Foundation Founder Alan Gottlieb said Mr. Kirk’s shooting upends much of the rhetoric surrounding guns.
“Democrats treat all guns like they are ’assault weapons’ and want to ban them. Guns don’t have brains to hate with or fingers to pull their own triggers. Attacking gun ownership will not solve any problems,” Mr. Gottlieb said.
Originally published by Kerry Picket at The Washington Times.