WYOMING: KelTec Gun Factory In Rock Springs Aims To Churn Out 1,000 Pistols Per Week.

Following a trend of firearms companies setting up shop in gun-friendly Wyoming, the KelTec factory in Rock Springs is up and running, with a goal of churning out 1,000 of the company’s new PR57 pistols every week.

The operation was years in the making. The Florida-based company announced plans for its KelTec West factory in Rock Springs in 2022.
Wyoming’s Second Amendment-friendly culture and politics played a big part in choosing Rock Springs when the company decided to expand its operating capacity, KelTec West plant operations manager Chris Williams told Cowboy State Daily.

“At the time (2022), Florida was teetering purple,” he said about the political climate there. “Wyoming is a solid red state, and it looks like it’s going to stay solid for decades to come.”

Other firearms companies that recently set up shop in Wyoming, such as Weatherby in Sheridan, have cited similar reasons for setting up shop in the Cowboy State.

Wyoming is happy to do the jobs Colorado is no longer allowed to do.

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DON’T PUBLICLY RIP THE BOSS WHEN YOU’RE LOSING THE COMPANY MONEY:

One of my rules of thumb for conspiracy theories is: Always look for the lesser conspiracy. People cover up embarrassments, in ways that look like coverups of crimes. They lie to conceal smaller lies. Here, we have more than an adequate basis to explain why CBS decided to sack Colbert. But why now? I don’t know the answer, but I do know that if you are losing your bosses tens of millions of dollars a year, that’s not a good time to publicly criticize them on the TV show they are subsidizing. If you are hunting for reasons beyond the bottom line for why he got fired, maybe look past his criticisms of Trump (which he’s been lobbing for a decade now) and look at his public criticisms of the people who were in charge of deciding whether to keep his show on the air. If Colbert’s show was wildly profitable, you might rightly suspect that it was politics to cancel him. If Colbert’s show was wildly profitable, the network would probably have looked the other way at him ripping the suits — just as CBS (and NBC before it) long tolerated David Letterman’s use of the Late Night and Late Show platforms to beat up on his own networks. But when you’re losing that much money, politics is an easier explanation for why he didn’t get fired much sooner. And when you’re costing the company a fortune, that’s the wrong time to also become a public-relations headache.

If anything, the more sensible conspiratorial explanation is one we’ve seen before from failing pro athletes deciding to get political when they were on the verge of getting cut: Colbert could read the writing on the wall that his show’s days were numbered, and decided to make a big public stink about the CBS settlement either in the hopes of making it radioactive to fire him, or at least with the intention of constructing a martyrdom narrative for his show’s failure. That’s not much of a conspiracy, given that it’s just the interior motivations of one man. But it makes at least as much sense as anything the critics of his firing are peddling.

And that’s where Colbert is today:

Note that Colbert had his armada of writers had the entire weekend to prepare him to come out swinging last night:

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Well, the egg/cholesterol worries stem from an LBJ political move designed to drive down egg prices amid growing inflation. “Shoe prices went up, so LBJ slapped export controls on hides to increase the supply of leather. Reports that color television sets would sell at high prices came across the wire. Johnson told me to ask RCA’s David Sarnoff [RCA was then a major TV manufacturer] to hold them down. Domestic lamb prices rose. LBJ directed [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara to buy cheaper lamb from New Zealand for the troops in Vietnam. … When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.”

MAMDANI SUPPORTERS, TAKE NOTE: Kansas City poured millions into a grocery store. It still may close.

Nearly a decade ago, Kansas City spent $17 million to buy and fix up the moribund Linwood Shopping Center on busy Prospect Avenue. KC Sun Fresh opened in 2018 with a salad bar, fresh shrimp on ice and flower bouquets. “We were thrilled,” Taylor recalled.

The store was first run by a private grocer; Pierson’s nonprofit took over in 2022. Sales were okay at first, but after the pandemic, crime rose and sales began to plummet. Police data show assaults, robberies and shoplifting in the immediate vicinity have been on an upward trend since 2020. Shoplifting cases have nearly tripled.

At a community meeting last year, Pierson played videos of security incidents so graphic he gave a warning in advance — a naked woman parading through the store throwing bags of chips to the ground, another person urinating in the vestibule and a couple fornicating on the lawn of the library in broad daylight.

Advocates like Taylor have accused the city of neglecting the property. Discussions about fixing a fence behind the store dragged on for months until it was repaired in early July, and the city just remedied the sewer stench that Taylor and others say has pervaded the store for weeks.

“Obviously, they don’t feel like this is their responsibility. … Or they don’t care,” she said.

Or maybe government is no good at running a business, particularly in a neighborhood where assaults, robberies and shoplifting are all on “an upward trend.”

If K.C. stuck to fighting crime, maybe they wouldn’t need shovel millions into a failing state-run grocery store.

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DISPATCHES FROM “THE BOOGIE DOWN LIBERATION FRONT:” AOC’s Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F–K AOC!’

Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx headquarters was vandalized by anti-Israel activists after she voted against cutting US funding for the Jewish state.

The office in Westchester Square in the East Bronx was splattered in red paint Sunday and adorned with a sign reading “AOC funds genocide in Gaza” days after congresswoman ditched her “Squad” colleagues and voted against a proposed amendment to slash millions in aid for Israel’s missile defense.

A photograph of Ocasio-Cortez’s face in the window was completely covered by the paint, photos show.

“F–K AOC,” a group known as the Boogie Down Liberation Front told reporter Ashoka Jegroo while taking responsibility for the vandalism.

“The Bronx is sick and tired of people like AOC and Ritchie Torres using us as a stepping stone for their own political careers,” the group said in a statement.

“The Bronx stands with the people of Palestine and we denounce the hypocrisy of AOC who voted to fund Israel’s ongoing genocide and starvation campaign in Gaza. F–K AOC!”

Did they shout, “the Bronx is MAGA Country!” afterwards? Searching for references to the “Boogie Down Liberation Front” in Google and Twitter/X brings up zero results other than vandalism of AOC’s Bronx office.

No word yet if this is leader of the new terrorist syndicate:

Police are on the lookout for the Boogie Down Liberation Front leader: pic.twitter.com/xAo5DO3hiQ

— Damian Penny (@DamianPenn28819) July 21, 2025

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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: LAPD’s Broken Concealed Carry Permitting Process is a System Designed to Fail.

Even as the majority of states embrace constitutional carry (29 so far), California continues to make it more difficult for its responsible residents to carry a firearm for lawful self-defense. Not only is the state’s concealed weapons permit law already more complicated and burdensome than those in other states, but some localities’ implementation of the law (or lack of implementation, to be more precise) has raised allegations of unconstitutional violations of California law and the Second Amendment.

The Los Angeles Police Department is allegedly advising applicants for CCW permits that a lack of resources means an expected processing time of around 18 to 22 months, even though California law mandates that permits be approved or denied within 120 days.

The LAPD, it is claimed, is even manipulating the statutory deadline “by putting applicants on a waiting list and not treating their application as ‘accepted’ until LAPD decides to receive it,” even though the 120-day period starts as soon as the application is submitted. Given that the term of a permit, once granted, is only two years, the outcome is a ridiculous situation where the process takes almost as long as the permit is good for.

CCW holders needing to renew are also kept waiting, and stand to lose their carry rights because renewal processing is liable to exceed the time in which a permit remains valid.

The situation isn’t much different in Colorado, where Democrats keep making it more expensive and more of a hassle to get a permit.

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