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Thursday, October 3, 2024
A Houston Drug Cop’s Murder Conviction Highlights the Potentially Deadly Consequences of ‘Testilying’: Similar Scandals Across the Country Suggest the Problem Is Widespread - Ammoland.com
Nearly six years ago, Houston drug cops killed a middle-aged couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, after breaking into their home to serve a search warrant. Last week, a jury convicted Gerald Goines, the former narcotics officer who obtained that no-knock warrant by reporting a heroin purchase that never happened, of felony murder.
Although that outcome was highly unusual, the dishonesty that led to Goines’ prosecution is much more common. When your job involves creating crimes by arranging illegal drug sales, it is not such a big leap to create crimes out of whole cloth, especially if you are convinced your victim is guilty.
Goines targeted Tuttle and Nicholas based on 911 calls from a neighbor, Patricia Garcia, who described them as armed and dangerous drug dealers who had sold her daughter heroin.
Garcia, who did not even have a daughter, later admitted she had made the whole thing up, pleading guilty to federal charges related to her false reports.
In his search warrant affidavit, Goines claimed a confidential informant had bought heroin from a man at 7815 Harding Street, where Tuttle and Nicholas lived. Goines later confessed he had invented that transaction, although he claimed he personally had bought heroin at the house the evening before the raid.
Prosecutors showed that was not true either. They presented evidence that Goines was 20 miles away from the house at the time of the alleged drug purchase and had not visited the location that day.
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FBI Report Shows Dramatic Violent Crime Drop as 29 States Went Permitless - Ammoland.com
The FBI’s national crime report for 2023 shows a record-breaking decline in murders during a year when the number of states adopting so-called “constitutional carry” rose to 29, undercutting a popular—and obviously false—claim by the gun prohibition lobby that more guns result in more crime.
By no surprise, anti-gunners—including the national media—have ignored that fact. However, the popular HandgunLaw.us website has a complete list of all 29 permitless carry states with the dates their laws became effective.
According to the Brennan Center, “The bureau’s data closely aligns with predictions from independent experts, all of whom estimated steep drops in murders in 2023 and 2024 alike. Indeed, it’s clear that the 2020 murder spike that coincided with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has substantially (but not completely) receded.”
A careful glance at the FBI National Instant Check System raw data for background checks suggests continued strong firearms transactions over the past few years. The FBI report was released a week ago, yet there has not been a lot of national ballyhoo.
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ATF’s Flawed Case Against FRT Triggers: Has ATF Already Lost with Their Losing Argument? - Ammoland.com
NAGR’s Hannah Hill recently pointed out a critical flaw in the ATF’s legal strategy as it tries to defend its position in the Forced Reset Trigger (FRT) case.
In her words, “if the trigger is being engaged multiple times, you’ve conceded that it’s more than one function of the trigger.”
That single observation sums up why the ATF is once again facing an uphill battle in court. Despite already losing six times on this issue, the ATF is trying to reframe its argument—an approach that’s unlikely to hold up.
At the heart of the case is the same question that plagued the ATF’s bump stock ban: how does federal law define a “machinegun”?
The ATF’s oral argument hinges on trying to equate the movements of the shooter’s finger with the mechanical function of the trigger. As Hill points out, the courts—especially the Fifth Circuit—have already rejected this kind of reasoning. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Cargill v. Garland made it clear: the definition of a machine gun revolves around the mechanical function of the trigger, not the shooter’s hand or finger movements.
Shelby Baird Smith, emphasized this very point in the wake of the Cargill decision, stating that the Supreme Court’s ruling “held that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock does not qualify as a machinegun…such a rifle cannot fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.’” (Cargill Decision Against ATF Demonstrates Textualism in Action).
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Wednesday Morning Cartoons - Robotix - The Movie (1985)
Does anyone else hear the Ghostbusters Theme in the intro theme of this Transformers knock off show?
Some health issues popping up again.
It's taken me months to wean myself off the pain and neuro meds, and I can say I've gone 13 months WITHOUT needing any prescription pain meds. Until now. I have gall stones in addition to all the herniated discs, pinched nerves and other damage to my spine and joints. Right now the gall stones have had me throwing up so badly I think I gave myself an abdominal hernia. Up until now I've been dealing with my pain with a combination of aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen and benedryl. This is the first time since I quit taking narcotic pain meds that I seriously wish I had some. I got tired of how after taking my meds, I would check out mentally for 30-90 minutes because it felt like I was looking at the world through a frosted glass window. After dealing with that for for over 10 years and the time it took for my brain to get clear was taking longer, I finally said enough, and quit taking all of the pain meds. I think I slept more for the 2 months after I quit taking those meds, than I did in the previous 6 months. The pain was and is debilitating at times, but my mind is clear. I no longer wake up in the morning and having it take 20-30 minutes for me to be properly oriented. Before, while taking those meds, when I woke up it could take up to an hour for my brain to properly click in to the point I could be fully functional, mentally and physically.
Saying all that, I REALLY wish I had something a little stronger than OTC meds, because if I took the amount truly needed to cut down the pain, I would seriously damage my liver and kidneys.
So posting may or may not be light, it depends on my pain level and how well my brain is functioning.
I already have several posts pre-scheduled, and I am scheduling this to go live at 0645 on the 2nd.
I am half tempted to have a glass of rum or scotch. I haven't had any alcohol since Independence Day, when I had a beer. The problem is acetaminophen and alcohol don't play nice together. I happen to like my liver, I don't need to torture it with a combination of those 2.
But please be aware, that posting may be light until this gall stone attack has been recovered from. It could take 8-12 hours, it could take 3-4 days. I have no idea what causes them, other than I think the casserole I had may have had a lot of cheese in it. Dairy, in particular cheese, has been known cause my gall bladder to do stupid stuff.
Also I am still paying off the repair for my air conditioning. I still owe $275. If you can spare any funds yourself, you can send me a donation by using either of the QR codes over on the right, or the links below.
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Thank you for reading my scribbles and postings.Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Do you like jazzy music? Try this band. - muggy - High Flying
If you enjoy this, please go to their YouTube Channel, muggy Official, and subscribe to it. Also leave a comment there, any comment to help boost them in the algorithm. I found them because of Wave Potter, so I commented under his comment myself.