Breaking news across the gun bloggosphere is that Cavalry Arms has been raided and its inventory seized. According to The War on Guns the warrant stated “Firearm law violations. Seize everything.” What kind of warrant is that? The 4th amendment is pretty damn clear –

… and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

“Seize Everything” certainly doesn’t look like they were particularly describing the things to be seized.

I fear that we are in for some dark times to come.

Joe Huffman has an update, apparently the ATF agent in charge is no stranger to the gun community.

The War on Guns is running a guest editorial today. It makes some very good points and comparisons which I hadn’t thought about before.

The crucial question in the colonists’ minds, wrote John Dickerson in 1768, was ‘not, what evil HAS ACTUALLY ATTENDED particular measures — but what evil, in the nature of things, IS LIKELY TO ATTEND them.’ Because ‘nations, in general, are not apt to THINK until they FEEL, . . .therefore nations in general have lost their liberty.’ But not the Americans, as the Abbe Raynal observed. They were “an ‘enlightened people’ who knew their rights and the limits of power and who, unlike any people before them, aimed to think before they felt.”

He is making the comparison with the American Revolution and the lack of action by the German people when Hitler came to power. The Germans felt the impact of real, physical tyranny. The Founding Fathers anticipated the arrival of it and took action before it could irreversibly take hold.

At what point are we now? I am not sure, but we may be closer to the tipping point than any of us expect.

Ever had the feeling someone was watching you? Maybe you just tossed a wad of gum into the gutter or crushed out a cigarette. Well now you won’t have to wonder if you’ve been seen. Authorities have installed talking cameras in a park in England. Their goal is to ‘curb anti-socail behavior’.

All I can say is that George Orwell’s view of the future continues to come true. A bit slower than 1984, but still on target.

I’ve just finished adding a RSS feed to GunBloggers.com, the feed is for the top 10 linked stories from the member sites. You can subscribe to it here.

GunBloggers uses the web.py framework, so it was simply a matter of creating a new class just for the top stories, and a new template to wrap the data in the RSS feed XML format.