Lee Williams

Chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation's Investigative Journalism Project. Recovering newspaperman, tactical shooter, Army vet, ex-LEO, 1*, Rum snob.

[SAF @2AFDN]

@davekopel If the Second Amendment means anything at all, it must mean that the most popular rifle in the country may not be banned.

It's hard to imagine a more blatant and serious infringement than that.

[Hannah Hill @hannahhill_sc]

Just saying.

[Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier]

AG James Uthmeier Joins CFO Blaise Ingoglia, and FDLE Commissioner Larry Keefe in Orlando to Announce the Arrest of Kissimmee Mayor Following Public Corruption Investigation https://t.co/vrgbGcQuxh

[Lee Williams @HT_GunWriter]

One thing even the Dems have to admit about Florida's great Attorney General James Uthmeier, he's never boring.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Democrat-aligned Kissimmee FL Mayor Jackie Espinosa has just been ARRESTED on Grand THEFT and Organized Scheme to DEFRAUD, AG James Uthmeier announces

WOW. FLORIDA FAFO ☀️

She was booked into the Osceola County Jail this morning. She was already under fire for allegedly steering $50,000 in COVID relief grants to businesses run by her own family, through a program she helped create

"This morning, we arrested Kissimmee mayor Jackie Espinosa and are charging her with Grand Theft and Organized Scheme to Defraud."

A special prosecutor found "clear probable cause" to pursue her impeachment on three ethics allegations

Florida doesn't play! FRAUDSTERS ARE BEING PROSECUTED FULLY.

[Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier]

This morning, we arrested Kissimmee mayor Jackie Espinosa and are charging her with Grand Theft and Organized Scheme to Defraud.

We will be holding a press conference at 2pm at our Orlando office with CFO Ingoglia and FDLE Commissioner Keefe to provide more information.

[Blaise Ingoglia @GovGoneWild]

This morning my team, along with @fdlepio, arrested the Mayor of Kissimmee for abusing her office for personal gain.

I am proud of the outstanding work that my auditing team and Criminal Investigations Division did to uncover the alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars and to ensure that Jackie Espinosa’s corruption did not go without recourse.

See you at 2pm with more info with @AGJamesUthmeier

[Tom Gresham @Guntalk]

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS!

[Lee Williams @HT_GunWriter]

SAF, NRA file amicus brief challenging lifetime firearms ban for nonviolent felons.

“History disarmed the dangerous, not the peaceable,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros. “A nonviolent felony is not a lifetime forfeiture of the right to keep and bear arms.”

https://t.co/wnN8gpfpH4 @2AFDN

[Cloud @Cloud1a7]

Funny how a couple of guns change everything.

[Spycraft101 @spycraft101]

19-year-old Jeffrey Carney’s espionage cost the US an estimated $15,000,000,000 in the mid-1980s.

In early 1983 Carney was stationed in West Berlin with the US Air Force’s 6912th Electronic Security Group as a German linguist, translating captured audio transmissions for the NSA. He was also a deeply lonely, secretly gay, and had joined the Air Force to get away from a poor family situation.

After a night of drinking in April 1983, he crossed the line between West and East Berlin and requested to defect to East Germany. He naively believed he would be welcomed with open arms and given a place to live.

After extensive questioning by Stasi agents, he was convinced to return home immediately. Their leverage was a threat to surreptitiously report to his commanding officer that he had attempted to defect. For the next year, he secretly photographed more than 100 Top Secret documents and turned them over to his Stasi handler, sometimes leaving them at a dead drop location inside an ammunition box in the forest near Eiskiller.

The intelligence he provided was so sensitive that even spymaster Markus Wolf himself was said to be amazed by what Carney provided. When he was transferred back to the US the following year, he continued meeting with Stasi agents on trips to Mexico and Brazil.

On a trip to Mexico City in 1985, he went to the East German embassy and again requested to defect. This time he made it, after flying first to Cuba, then Prague, and finally to East Germany. What he found was hardly the paradise he had hoped for. He was provided a one-room apartment which had been bugged by the Stasi. There he lived and worked until the Berlin Wall fell. One day in 1991 after reunification, he was captured on the street in broad daylight by Air Force OSI agents and extradited to the US for trial.

After twelve years imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Carney was released. He attempted to emigrate to back to Germany, but his application was denied. The country he had betrayed America for no longer existed.

#afosi #usairforce #eastberlin #westberlin #defector

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Buy more ammo. Buy more guns.

[SAF @2AFDN]

Perhaps no claim has been as frequently repeated by the gun control side in recent years than "guns are the leading cause of death for kids."

Our new Fact Sheet examines this claim in detail using the CDC's provisional data for 2025, which is the most recent available.

The takeaway: while gun-related causes temporarily passed traffic-related causes during the crime surge years, you can only claim guns were the leading cause of death among minors if you:

1. Ignore that accidents as a combined category have always been a far greater cause of death for that age cohort; and

2. simultaneously combine all gun-related deaths regardless of intent (suicides, homicides, and accidents).

[Gun Owners Foundation @GunFoundation]

Virginia law prohibits carrying firearms in certain state-owned buildings, like highway rest stops and ABC stores.

GOF and @GunOwners are challenging these restrictions in court. Virginians shouldn’t have to surrender their rights to enter a government building.

[Lee Williams @HT_GunWriter]

@HarmeetKDhillon @60Minutes Did you ask for a copy of the unedited version of the tape? That would be worth watching.

[Free Speech Matters @AA2ANJ]

@HT_GunWriter The French sent us the Statue of Liberty, Trump should have sent some Rooftop Koreans to Paris.

[Cape Gun Works @capegunworks]

Victimless crimes for Constitutional arms-bearing activity... actually, it was the keeping part. Just like Dexter Taylor. NY, MA, California, and other states incarcerate people for exercising a constitutional right! What would our Founding Fathers say? How is putting Demetrio in Jail making our communities safer? This is why we led the citizens' repeal of Chapter 135 and the NO ON 9 Campaign. Enough is enough! #noonnine #freedemetrio

[dcodrea @dcodrea]

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[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

Stay stocked!

Stay trained!

Stay caffeinated!

[Richard Lowe @RPL29]

Europe on fire proves the value of our Second Amendment , by @HT_GunWriter https://t.co/Wg8UrqUIlF