The FBI needs to be set back on it’s intended path of investigating real crimes and arresting real criminals. When you have to live in fear of what they can and will illegally do (and get by with it) it is past time to rout the crooks.
“Religion is poison. It has two great defects: it undermines the race…(and) retards the progress of the country.”
-Mao Zedong
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Well, not “Rightwing Extremist” terrorism. The Church has gone Woke, as Policy.
The FBI has always been a Politically-Driven Government Agency. It’s NEVER been apolitical - merely its internal politics have now shifted sufficiently left that its become Useful as a Weapon against the Citizenry.
J. Edgar would Beam with Pride.
The Pope may be woke, but the congregation may not be. Have you heard about the “extreme radical right wing” “Church Militant” movement? Or the “Catholic Cyber-Militia”? The FBI is all over “the problem of Catholic militant radicalism.” They’ve actually got undercover agents infiltrating Catholic churches. Wow.
How many of those are Vatican-Endorsed?
I’m not going to debate further, this divergence Will Not end well.
Well, I am younger than you. But to be fair, the NRA never bragged about supporting Hughes in all that mail they sent me in the 90’s/early 2000’s. I only learned about it from a commenter on a YT video, several years ago. Oddly enough, gun grabbers seldom mention this, either. Perhaps the NRA is their very own “the devil you know”.
At this point, I’d rather give the owner of my LGS $20 than the NRA.
The NRA, like everyone else, doesn’t like to brag about their ****-ups.
There’s a good reason that they didn’t brag about their involvement with the Hughes Amendment 10-20 years later – they were trying to bury that ****-up forever.
Needless to say, the NFA community really got cheesed-off at the NRA for supporting the Hughes Amendment. WLP thought he was doing such a great thing by selling-out the NRA’s protection for machinegunners. He was caving to political pressure for gun control and agreed to – in his words – cut off an arm to save the body. We didn’t see it that way. None of us believed that he had the discretion to betray any subset of the 2A community as he did. We were in 100% agreement that he had betrayed the 2A by abandoning the protection of milita-effective weapons and that he had reduced the NRA to a political lobby supporting people who collect antique muskets and Fudds who hunt with shotguns and muzzleloaders. At the shoots people were talking about what we’d do to him if we ever got our hands on him… From that day forward, machinegunners quit the NRA and have hated WLP.
I was blowing up dynamite/cars with a belt-fed at the firepower demo at the 1986 SOF convention when Pete Kokalis (emcee) called a cease fire. WLP had shown up at the firepower demo and wanted to make a speech on the PA. Pete got in his face and read him the riot act over the PA system. Once everyone on the firing line realized what was happening, it turned into an angry mob and it started to get ugly. Robert Brown had security escort him off of the range for his own safety and banned him from attending all future SOF activities. The day didn’t quite turn out as WLP had planned.
Of course the story about WLP being escorted out of the SOF convention with his tail between his legs as an angry mob of machinegunners wanted to rip him a new one was never a feature story in the American Rifleman.
I think WLP seriously miscalculated the strategic value of having endorsed the Hughes Amendment. I don’t think he expected the backlash that he would get, and he’s been regretting that decision ever since. It’s just too bad that he made that decision at an earlier time. Back in 1986 there weren’t first-person shooter video games like there are today, LARPing wasn’t as common a thing, and there wasn’t a new generation of pro-2A supporters. Given the backlash that has come from the pistol brace rule, and peoples’ enthusiasm for NFA items today, I think the Hughes Amendment would likely receive opposition today from the NRA rather than the support it received in 1986. I think that one of the reasons that the NRA has joined in the pistol brace lawsuits is because WLP learned a hard lesson in 1986.
I turned it off and watched as a child for some of the very same reasons. I thought I remembered the leader of those freaks becoming the exact thing he was preaching against.
Man, those years get fuzzy for me anymore. I think I was between jobs about to head back to the gas patch. My daughter was born in 91 though. She’ll be my either “Sweetie Pie” or “Punkin” forever.
is it me or does anyone else envision a bunch of rednecks sitting around a helium tank, tying some shower curtains together with duct tape and saying, “Yaw watch this crap 
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I find this sweeping bill to be…disturbing at best. I think all agree that any Fudd that beats women because they’ve never, and could never, win a fight with another man so takes out his aggression on those weaker, shouldn’t be able legally purchase a firearm. On the other hand, however, I can personally attest that there are women out there that will beat the heck out of themselves then try to get the man in trouble for domestic violence because of an argument. The passage of this bill would mean that poor sap would have his 2A rights stripped from him. Any thoughts?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmakers-target-boyfriend-loophole-latest-gun-control-push
Still better than not having the will at all.
IMO-The Chi-Coms are uniting Americans over this spy balloon business. Our politicians have the deer in the headlights and appear to be overwhelmed.
Maybe President Biden could allow some of those F-15s on standby against American Citizens to go patrol America’s airspace. 
Here in By God, Alabama we are ahead of the Federal Government on this. We already have Guys and Gals living in tree stands right by the Suburbs. Like a perimeter tower. 
