OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

by | Oct 8, 2024

OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

The Biden-Harris Administration has overreached its authority again, and even more FBI lies have been exposed.

OVERREACH AGAIN

Many of you know I was the President of the Iowa Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) for four years before I later served as your IFC president. SCI is now calling out the Biden-Harris

Administration for its anti-hunting/anti-gun overreach on Federal Lands. From SCI:

Safari Club International Opposes Biden-Harris Administration’s Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan

Today, Safari Club International (SCI) voiced its strong opposition to the recently announced Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan.

“In promulgating this proposal, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture have exceeded their regulatory authorities by closing off these public lands to responsible recreational activities, thereby threatening vital conservation funding.

The plan also imposes severe restrictions on vehicle access and establishes a total ban on recreational shooting on the entirety of Bears Ears National Monument’s (BENM) 1.3 MILLION acres, a move that will have substantial economic and conservation consequences. 

“This policy doesn’t just hurt sportsmen and women—it undermines the entire ecosystem of conservation funding,” said SCI CEO W. Laird Hamberlin. “By shutting down recreational shooting, the plan takes a sledgehammer to a critical funding source for conservation projects and disregards the public’s right to access the lands they help sustain. SCI is proud to oppose this proposed resource management plan as part of our longstanding mission to be First for Hunters.””

You can follow this link to read the SCI press release. 

FBI LIES AGAIN

Just over two weeks ago, the FBI corrected its previous year’s crime data, clearly trying to protect the Biden-Harris Administration’s election chances this November. Special thanks to America’s crime data guru Dr. John Lott and his Crime Prevention Research Center for highlighting this data “revision”. From Dr. Lott:

A week and a half ago, the FBI released its final crime data for 2023. However, the news media completely missed how the FBI had revised its “final” crime data for previous years. For a year, the media claimed that violent crime fell in 2022. Oops! What had originally been a 2.1% drop in reported violent crime was actually a 4.5% increase. By the way, that increase in 2022 was bigger than the claimed 3.5% drop in 2023. I have previously discussed the problems with the FBI’s measure of reported crime, but you would think that after a year of using the 2022 crime data to claim that crime was falling, someone in the media would mention they were wrong. I wrote an op-ed in the New York Post that goes through these points and explains why even these amazing numbers are an underestimate. I will make one other startling point: the FBI’s 2022 “final” crime data somehow missed [a] 1,699 increase in murders in 2022.

When Federal Agencies are repeatedly politicized they become slaves to the narrative. In this case, it’s the FBI, but we also saw the new job numbers revised downward by over one million just a short time ago by another Federal Agency. Between the BATFE’s war on law-abiding citizens, the COVID mess, and now FEMA showing us how utterly corrupt and incompetent it is in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, how can we ever trust our Federal Government on anything ever again? 

We cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerous quacks in power. Please get out and help pro-freedom candidates across Iowa and America today! Register and vote!

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

by | Oct 1, 2024

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

The 2024 IFC-PAC State Legislative Endorsements are the focus for this week’s blog. With the election in just over 30 days, and early voting in Iowa starting October 16th, we will skip the news this week. I’m sorry that as a bi-partisan organization, unlike in years past, we do not have a single Democrat Party member or candidate that has earned our support. 

2024 Iowa House and Senate Endorsements*

*To also see NRA Ratings, click on this link to the IFC-PAC website.

NAME CHAMBER DISTRICT INCUMBENT PARTY IFC-PAC ENDORSEMENT
Tim Kraayenbrink Senate 4 Yes R Yes
Jason Schultz Senate 6 Yes R Yes
Mark Costello Senate 8 Yes R Yes
Dan Dawson Senate 10 Yes R Yes
Amy Sinclair Senate 12 Yes R Yes
Mark Hanson Senate 14 No R Yes
Mike Pike Senate 20 No R Yes
Brad Zaun Senate 22 Yes R Yes
Jesse Green Senate 24 Yes R Yes
Kara Warme Senate 26 No R Yes
Dennis Guth Senate 28 Yes R Yes
Doug Campbell Senate 30 No R Yes
Mike Klimesh Senate 32 Yes R Yes
Dan Zumbach Senate 34 Yes R Yes
Dave Sires Senate 38 No R Yes
Charlie McClintock Senate 42 Yes R Yes
Adrian Dickey Senate 44 Yes R Yes
Dawn Driscoll Senate 46 Yes R Yes
Mark Lofgren Senate 48 Yes R Yes
Jeff Reichman Senate 50 Yes R Yes
Robert Henderson House 2 Yes R Yes
Thomas Jeneary House 3 Yes R Yes
Skyler Wheeler House 4 Yes R Yes
Zachary Dieken House 5 Yes R Yes
Megan Jones House 6 Yes R Yes
Ann Meyer House 8 Yes R Yes
Henry Stone House 9 Yes R Yes
John Wills House 10 Yes R Yes
Craig Williams House 11 No R Yes
Steven Holt House 12 Yes R Yes
Jacob Bossman House 14 Yes R Yes
Matt Windschitl House 15 Yes R Yes
David Sieck House 16 Yes R Yes
Devon Wood House 17 Yes R Yes
Thomas Moore House 18 Yes R Yes
Brent Siegrist House 19 Yes R Yes
Brooke Boden House 21 Yes R Yes
Samantha Fett House 22 No R Yes
Ray Sorensen House 23 Yes R Yes
Sam Wengryn House 24 No R Yes
Hans Wilz House 25 Yes R Yes
Austin Harris House 26 Yes R Yes
Oliver Bardwell House 27 No R Yes
David Young House 28 Yes R Yes
Barb McCulla House 37 Yes R Yes
John Dunwell House 38 Yes R Yes
Bill Gustoff House 40 Yes R Yes
Ryan Weldon House 41 No R Yes
Eddie Andrews House 43 Yes R Yes
Dan Gehlback House 46 Yes R Yes
Carter Nordman House 47 Yes R Yes
Brett Barker House 51 No R Yes
Dean Fisher House 53 Yes R Yes
Joshua Meggers House 54 Yes R Yes
Shannon Latham House 55 Yes R Yes
Mark Thompson House 56 Yes R Yes
Pat Grassley House 57 Yes R Yes
Charley Thomson House 58 Yes R Yes
Jane Bloomingdale House 60 Yes R Yes
Michael Bergan House 63 Yes R Yes
Jason Gearhart House 64 No R Yes
Shannon Lundgren House 65 Yes R Yes
Steven Bradley House 66 Yes R Yes
Craig Johnson House 67 Yes R Yes
Chad Ingels House 68 Yes R Yes
Tom Determann House 69 Yes R Yes
Jennifer Smith House 72 No R Yes
Derek Wulf House 76 Yes R Yes
Bobby Kaufmann House 82 Yes R Yes
Cindy Golding House 83 Yes R Yes
Thomas Gerhold House 84 Yes R Yes
Jeff Shipley House 87 Yes R Yes
Helena Hayes House 88 Yes R Yes
Heather Hora House 92 Yes R Yes
Taylor Collins House 95 Yes R Yes
Mark Cisneros House 96 Yes R Yes
Martin Graber House 100 Yes R Yes

Look into your county and city officials’ records and stances on 2A issues and vote accordingly. They are the party’s farm teams. We encourage you to bank your vote early this year so that the candidates can concentrate their efforts on those who have not yet voted.

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition

NO MADAM VICE-PRESIDENT, YOU CAN’T JUST DO THAT

NO MADAM VICE-PRESIDENT, YOU CAN’T JUST DO THAT

by | Sep 24, 2024

NO MADAM VICE-PRESIDENT, YOU CAN’T JUST DO THAT

No Madam Vice-President, you can’t just do that — together with other musings from this week. Here we go folks! Hold onto your hats. Remember Joe Biden’s dumb-ass statement years ago that ‘Jill should just point the shotgun out the back door and fire a shot off if she feels threatened’? Well, that statement has just been topped by Heel’s-up-Harris!

The Babylon Bee ran a parody piece this week entitled “Oprah Releases Moving 1-Hour Special On Dangers Of Alcohol Abuse”. The Bee parody highlighted Heel’s-Up’s actual (botched) one-hour interview with The Oprah. During that interview, the sitting Vice-President stated, “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,”. Without getting into the finer details about self-defense use of force, Castle Doctrine, or Stand Your Ground laws here, most adults understand that there are limits to the use of deadly force in our society. You would think a former prosecutor would. 

…BUT WE SHOULD NEVER LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH

It’s pretty clear that the VP just made the argument that she, like most Americans, has guns for self-defense. The old German word Zeitgeist comes to mind. Its meaning is the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. When both Harris and her totalitarian governor running mate are, or claim to be, gun owners, it becomes much harder to argue that the rest of us minions should not be. Kudos to Mark W. Smith at The Four Boxes Diner for this Zeitgeist reference. 

AMERICAN HISTORY AND ILLINOIS 2023 GUN BANS

AmmoLand.com senior editor F. Reihl wrote a great piece this week about recent history. He wondered aloud how things may have come out differently if Blacks in both East St. Louis and Tulsa had been armed during the race riots of 1917 and 1921. To quote Reihl’s opening paragraph:

The federal trial challenging Illinois’ gun and magazine ban took a poignant turn as U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn reflected on the tragic history of racial violence, questioning how events like the 1917 East St. Louis race riots and the 1921 Tulsa massacre might have unfolded differently if Black victims had access to the types of firearms now banned under the state’s Protect Illinois Communities Act.

I’d encourage you to read the entire article referenced above. It is about the litigation surrounding the 2023 law in Illinois that:

  • bans over 170 specific firearms
  • bans magazines for rifles holding over ten rounds
  • bans handguns that hold more than fifteen rounds

Based on current case law (Heller & Bruen), the Illinois law is clearly unconstitutional. Never forget that gun control in America has its racist roots in the post-Civil War Jim Crow South and the Democratic Party (whose military arm was the KKK). But then, world history is rife with examples of racism being the motivation for a monopoly on power by every despotic government. 

You have heard me say before that we cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerousGovernor Walz - An Opportunist on 2A quacks in power. Now Governor “Tampon Tim” Waltz of Minnesota, agrees with me: He said at a rally the other day; “We can’t afford four more years of this!”

 

 

As Donald J Trump said as he stood up after he was shot: “Fight, Fight, Fight”.

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition

KAMALA HARRIS LIES DURING THE DEBATE 

KAMALA HARRIS LIES DURING THE DEBATE 

by | Sep 17, 2024

Kamala HARRIS LIES DURING THE DEBATE 

Kamala Harris lies during the debate – and it reached new lows. Like many Americans, I watched the Presidential Debate last week. I’m not going to get into the whole event here. But, I do want to touch on two major lies that should disqualify anyone for life in public office, let alone the Office of the President of the United States.

Lie #1: Crime Has Fallen under the Biden/Harris Administration

This claim is a clear case of gaslighting. I have previously covered how the FBI has under-reported crime, during the last 3.5 years of the Biden Administration. Dr. John Lott published a piece last week debunking that lie. From Dr. Lott: 

“It’s no accident that violent crime is near a record 50-year low,” President Biden claimed. 

 

In fact, the opposite is true: between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022. Even if you take the starting period for Biden as 2019 because the numbers may have been artificially depressed during COVID, violent crime rose by 12%. Using 2019 as the end-point for Trump would imply a 6.6% increase over 2016, about half the increase under Biden. The problem is people don’t understand the difference between the number of crimes reported to police and the total number of crimes. However, as we have pointed out, there are problems with the FBI’s measure of reported crimes (see here, here, and here).

 

There are two measures of crime. The FBI’s NIBRS counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly. The Bureau of Justice Statistics uses its National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to ask about 240,000 people each year whether they have been victims of crime, to measure reported and unreported crime. Since 2020, these two measures have been highly negatively correlated. The FBI has been finding fewer instances of crime, but people are simultaneously answering in greater numbers that they have been victims.”

As a Reserve Police Officer here in Iowa, I’m well familiar with the FBI’s NIBRS crime reporting system. I can also tell you that not all jurisdictions use it, or even uniformly report crime. Guess what? The greatest number of places that do not report, are Democrat-controlled cities and states like New York and Chicago among many others. When it’s this easy to point out the lies of the left, how can you ever trust the liberals? 

Lie #2: There Are No American Troops Currently Stationed in Combat Zones Around The World

Heels-Up Harris stated during the debates:

“As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”

Well, someone should tell the DOD payroll department to start withholding income taxes from the thousands of US Military people in combat zones around the world.

But the best fact check of all came from this small group of troops watching the debate last Tuesday night and this video says it all:

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1834921553982607522

We cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerous quacks in power. Please get out and help pro-freedom candidates across Iowa and America today! 

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors

BATNA — AND ARE ILLEGALS PART OF THE PEOPLE?

BATNA — AND ARE ILLEGALS PART OF THE PEOPLE?

by | Sep 10, 2024

BATNA AND ARE ILLEGALS PART OF THE PEOPLE?

BATNA — and are illegals part of the people as defined by the US Constitution? Let’s touch on these two issues in this week’s 2A blog.

BATNA

In negotiation theory, the best alternative to a negotiated agreement or BATNA (no deal option) refers to the most advantageous alternative course of action a party can take if negotiations fail and an agreement cannot be reached.

Mr. Tom H. Hastings, is the director of PeaceVoice, and the coordinator of conflict resolution BA/BS degree programs and certificates at Portland State University. He recently wrote a ridiculous article in the Lockport Journal:

“…So, back to gun control vs. gun rights. My choice of BATNA would be, ‘Look, gun rights people, we want to negotiate common sense regulations with you. However, literally every time we pass such measures at the local or state level, you work to overcome the will of the people by challenging those commonsense measures in court, with your lawsuits, and it’s all based on the Second Amendment.

 

No other country has anything like the Second Amendment and other countries that have dealt with this issue have passed commonsense restrictions, such as the assault weapon ban in Australia virtually immediately after a mass shooting there.

 

So we have a best alternative to a negotiated agreement. Our BATNA is that we are going to stop all other gun control work and focus all our resources on a campaign to repeal the Second Amendment. We have a template for that; the amendment outlawing alcoholic beverages was passed and a decade later that Amendment was repealed. We are either going to get your commitment to allow our democratically produced local and state laws honored or we will end our negotiations and begin a massive campaign to overturn the Second Amendment’…”

As written in the 1990’s book “Getting To Yes”, BATNA is the “best alternative to a negotiated agreement”. Well, when dealing with the dangerous quacks like Mr. Hastings on the anti-gun left, it’s readily apparent that they have not thought through where they are going with their demand to repeal the Second Amendment and disarm the American people. Even if somehow the Second Amendment was repealed, it does not remove your right to defend your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. 

Dangerous Quacks are just like Hamas in Gaza: you can’t negotiate with people who want you dead. To soyboy Mr. Hasting’s I say; “Come and Take Them”. 

ARE ILLEGALS PART OF THE PEOPLE? 

The simple answer is NO! Mark W. Smith over at the Four Boxes Diner gives a great explanation of a case out of the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals clearly explaining this issue and referenced not just the Heller and Bruen cases, but also the Verdugo case. A burglar does not become a part of your family by simply breaking into your home and sitting on the living room couch. It’s the same with illegals presently in our country. You can watch Mr. Smith’s explanation in this short YouTube video here.

We as 2A advocates need to fight like hell this election season to ensure “Heels-Up” Harris and valor-stealing Walz do not get elected to the White House come November.

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition