The Holster Site will be on Gun Nuts Radio tonight. Cool. Check out his holster work. Via Tam.

Residents are upset about the gun ban mentioned earlier.

There’s some buzz about the ad below from Audi:

Now, some folks are rather upset about that ad for fear of a police state or because it displays environmentalists as fascists and a whole other host of reasons that I’m not going to talk about. I’m going to talk about why the ad ensures I will not buy that car. The ad shows people violating what I presume are green laws and those people being arrested, harassed, and having the police state come down on them. The compliant people suffer no such fate. That is, the sheep are left alone. The ad says that, by virtue of buying this car, you will be a compliant citizen. In essence, you’ll be a better sheep. Fuck that.

The commercial should have ended with a guy in a big ass Ford Earthfucker^tm that gets 5 miles per gallon with seats made from baby seals blowing past the roadblock billowing smoke. And, for effect, the driver flips them off. I’d buy that car. Not this little compliant pansy car. You appeal to Americans in an ad by showing rebellion and general orneriness. Not passiveness, compliance, or sheepishness.

So says Michael Bane. Joe seems pleased.

Can party hacks be journalists?

Heh

On The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

The Brady Bunch are starting to see the writing on the wall and they have grown desperate. The evidence over the last 10 years have proven their every argument wrong. Gun control hasn’t worked. Gun rights have. States that have the least restrictions tend to also have the least amount of crime. England banned handguns in 1997. In 4 years, their gun crime doubled and their overall violent crime went up 118%. The prophesy, of murder in the streets, given when conceal carry started to be debated in the first states to take it up… never happened.

And more half-truths over the Starbuck’s issue. If you can’t win that fight with the latte sipping crowd, it just makes you look silly to cry over it.

Whose fault it always is.

A cop hops on facebook and encourages others to shoot open carry protesters.

Brittney was err Nashville is Talking is no more. Again.

Update: Brittney talks.

Jack Lail has more.

Joe notes the origin of the gun control and bigotry meme. And, of course, Clayton Cramer’s Racist Roots of Gun Control is a good read.

Also timely is David Kopel’s post on How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters:

I was beaten and arrested many times and hospitalized twice. This happened to many, many people in the movement. No one knows what kind of massive racist retaliation would have been directed against grassroots black people had the black community not had a healthy measure of firearms within it.

And, also related, Gun Control as a Cultural Issue.

coal-powered cars

The Call of Duty Effect, they quote someone you may know.

Win A New Burris FastFire II Red Dot Sight from M1A Rifles.

Year of the Gun 2!

So the left and the press (but I repeat myself) went bonkers because Palin had written some notes on her hand during a speech and those notes consisted of topics of discussion. Seems they didn’t notice the guy they’re always defending actually reads his speeches from a teleprompter. Anyway, Palin had a bit of fun with the non-controversy: Heh.

they don’t like the blogs.

Model 1858 Remington .45. Made of Legos.

Steampunk Blunderbuss that shoots rubber balls.

Need a laser sight? Tape a laser pointer to your gun. Probably work for a round or two.

Obviously, made in America: Beretta revolving shotgun. Even has a tactical rail.

Seecamp 25

News Photos for Gun Nuts

AR15.com Lower receiver

Video of Julie G’s 627 getting fitted with a titanium cylinder.

Taurus Raging Judge in 454 Casull.

NC Candidate is having a machine gun social. Someone get this guy to King.

A P238.

Via guav, the hysterics is hysterical.

WXII:

Authorities lifted a curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.

Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday 9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes.
Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief.

Other restrictions include a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person’s own premises.

ETA: Good question from comments: Does NC have a Katrina anti-confiscation law?

Update: Looks like NC law is just the opposite:

5. Areas of Emergency and Riot
It is also a misdemeanor under North Carolina law for a person to transport or possess, off his or her own premises, a dangerous weapon in an area during a declared state of emergency, or in the vicinity of a riot. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7 A concealed handgun permit does not allow a permittee to carry a weapon in these areas. N.C. Gen.

Stat. § 14-415.11(c)

Regarding the post below about bigotry and The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, it occurred to me that one of the problems for them is that they don’t know who they’re having an argument with. Says their blogger who may or may not be Petey, Paul, Dennis or some unpaid intern:

In fact, the notion of “bigotry” is perhaps the pillar upon which the National Rifle Association itself has built its whole bogus empire.  That is: “Aren’t you mad at those coastal elites who look down their noses at you and your ‘way of life’?  You should be mad as hell.  GET MAD AS HELL AT THOSE ELITES!  Donate to us today.”

That’s basically the NRA’s pitch in a nutshell.

You’ll notice their first link goes to Ammoland, who appear to have taken some liberties with this article that appears at NRA-ILA’s page that I linked up earlier.

Headline at NRA page: Maybe Brady Campaign Should Switch To Decaf

Headline and sub-head at Ammoland: Maybe the Social Bigots of the Brady Campaign Should Switch To Decaf
Social bigotry against gun owners is just as insidious as bigotry against any other group. – AmmoLand.com

The Brady Camp then tries to say that that’s the NRA’s pitch, which it’s not, by linking to an ammoland post. The original bigot assertion was by bloggers doing grassroots activism. Not NRA. Grassroots activism (like membership) being something the Brady Camp does not have. So, of course they presume that all other grassroots activism is tied to an organization or astroturf. It’s how they do it.

The Brady Campaign thinks it’s fighting the NRA when it’s really reduced to fighting a bunch of guys in their pajamas.

Update: To be clear, I’m saying that Brady is using ammoland to tie NRA to the blogger meme.

That’s been a meme on gun blogs for a while. Because gun rights are civil rights and those who oppose civil rights have historically been viewed as bigots. I’ve said before that my only issue with the meme was one of marketing. I don’t think the meme is effective with your average white people.

That said, yes, anti-gun people have an odd sort of bigotry and that’s been playing out on the blogosphere. And Joe shows us quite a few examples of such bigotry. And Sebastian weighs in on the bigotry meme too.

And this is funny. The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership steps up to say “Nyuh uh, we’re not bigots“. Their rebuttal is a bit silly. Because the notion of bigotry that we’re pushing is the civil rights angle and the general condescension in which an anti-gunner views anyone who is a pro-gun activist to be a red-necked, knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal. As sebastian notes:

It’s one thing to argue in favor of your position. It’s quite another to strongly imply that you’re better and more enlightened than those who oppose your position.

Is IDPA realistic? Is IPSC? I have my issues with both which I will briefly discuss:

IPSC: too much gamer for me. The man with best toys wins.

IDPA: too many silly rules about gun size, caliber, weight and wardrobe. As a matter of policy, I do not wear shoot-me first vests. And I’m sure my carry rig in general wouldn’t allow me to play in their reindeer games.

That said, both are still great. Practice is practice.

The ice cream truck worker registration act?

Roll Call:

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has quietly been preparing a series of gun rights amendments that he intends to offer to must-pass Senate bills this year, hoping to force Democrats to take tough votes and draw clear distinctions between the two parties heading into the midterms.

Via SIH, who has more.

Looks like German Sports Guns got around the HK lawsuit by making some changes to their MP5 clone.

NRA instructors can get a deal from FN.

Man buries Glock. Pulls it out ground, washes it with water, and fires it:

More join in on the meme: Desert Defender shows his carry stuff. As does One Troll.

Coming soon

The government has your baby’s DNA.

Early American 32s. And more here.

NRA ILA:

The Brady Campaign’s resorting to this kind of silliness is understandable. It was once the most influential anti-gun group in town, able to claim some of the “credit” for the temporary imposition of the federal handgun waiting period between 1994 and 1998 and the federal “assault weapon” ban between 1994 and 2004.

But in recent years it has experienced the longest losing streak in gun control history. The waiting period has expired in favor of the instant check system. The 1994 gun ban has expired. The number of Right-to-Carry states has continued to rise. The list goes on, at the federal, state and local level. And the group’s core arguments about the Second Amendment were rejected entirely by the Supreme Court in the Heller case. President Obama even signed bills into law which included provisions allowing the carrying of firearms in national parks according to state law, and protecting the sale of surplus military ammunition components to the private sector.

Prototype 45ACP carbine by Atchisson

Bull Pup Garand

It’s no shark but it does have a frikkin laser beam!

TN town pulls red light cameras because they’re not making money. But they told me the cameras were not for revenue but for safety.

Leads to, err, I dunno:

Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government

Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

The WaPo has a bit on the recent dust up.

100 OC protestors in California go to different restaurant. Notice anything odd about the article?

Update: Host restaurant was The Buckhorn Grill, per this article. Thanks to mik in comments.

In Vermont: Gun show is a hit despite recession

In Georgia: Gun show attracts thousands

Long live the Tea Party. I’m lukewarm on the tea party folks. After all, they could have been protesting Bush’s big government too.

NRA’s video of Harold Ford’s pro-gun speech disappears from the intertubes. Wonder what that’s all about? Video was here and is now “private”.

From Frank James

After Toyota’s recent brake snafu, comes one from Ford. If I were of the conspiratorial mindset, I’d note how it’s odd how we hear this for non-bailout, non-government owned companies.

That, or since this is for the hybrid Fusion and the other was the Prius, that maybe hybrid engines cause brake problems.

Policeman cites a shoplifter, who says he’s having hard times and has to steal food and school supplies for his kids. Policeman gets his address and takes the guy some food.

Sen. Richard Shelby has put a blanket hold on some 70 Obama nominations. Not because he opposes them or anything. But because:

Shelby is holding Obama’s nominees hostage until a pair of lucrative programs that would send billions in taxpayer dollars to his home state get back on track. The two programs Shelby wants to move forward or else

Stuff like this and the previous administration and congress are why no one takes Republicans’ recent claims of small government, fiscal responsibility and accountability seriously.

From South Pole ice

Starbucks blows off the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

Starbucks has brushed aside a request from a gun control advocacy group to ban the display of guns in its retail locations, saying it will abide by laws that allow patrons to openly carry unloaded weapons.

I guess the pressure from tens of petition signers wasn’t that great.

Tam with the snark:

“Loophole” = “People Doing Legal $#!t I Don’t Like”.

Later on, I will exploit the Carbon Footprint Loophole to take my Mass Transit Loophole to the Starving The Poor People Loophole and get some Unhealthy Food Loophole for dinner.

I just noticed that Brownells is buying blog ads.

Open carry meeting at Michigan restaurant was going fine until the guy with AR-15 showed up:

Officials from Michigan Open Carry say the owner of Ponderosa greed to let them hold a meeting at the restaurant. But he says he didn’t expect the meeting to be held on a busy Saturday — and certainly didn’t expect the men to bring more than handguns.

“At first, we looked the other way on the handguns,” said owner Dennis Holleran. “And then some gentleman shows up with an assault rifle, and that was just too far over the top.”

The gunny blogs are doing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell debate. Most excitement can be seen at The Nerds’ place.

Update: Views from a socially conservative, politically liberal former Marine

My nephews wanted to shoot. So, I set up a backstop in the yard and broke out the suppressed Ruger 10/22. We’d shot for a while and, with that set up, all you’d hear was the bullet hitting the backstop. Then, suddenly, quite a few rounds started going supersonic and that was annoying. I was using CCI 22 (this kind). Is CCI ammo that inconsistent or is it indicative of some other problem?

Odd places to see a Hello Kitty, like this Hello Kitty chainsaw.

And whole section on guns.

Dustin tells about his experience.

Life Magazine has some pretty cool pics.

Looks like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is starting a petition to demand Starbucks not allow carrying firearms on their property. They should know the rules: Don’t take a knife to a coffee fight!

Anyway, Sebastian is right. They’re clamoring for some kind of relevance.

Gura tells Reason three positive gun rights developments since his Heller victory.

So, The National Enquirer is ineligible for the Pulitzer. Apparently, for their story about Edwards’ infidelity that no one else would cover.

Speaks of journalism that the tabloid was actually even being looked at for the prize.

He’s touring the state to pass a law to make carrying a gun while drunk illegal. Odd because, generally, carrying is illegal there anyway. My conspiratorial mind wonders if there’s some attempt to get laws on the books before the Chicago Gun Case?

Unexpectedly!

But there’s a trust fund: Social Security was a problem for the future. Now it’s a problem for the present.

In Australia, they want to ban adult publications that feature women with small breasts. Because, apparently, ogling small sweater puppies will turn you into a pedophile. I shit you not.

I guess any women who didn’t qualify but want a job in that biz would have to get a boob job. Yeah, that’s helpful.

So, Obama says corpse-man. Well, TOTUS told him too.

College sophomores have been shown An Inconvenient Truth three times.

More bloggers chime in on the meme:

Lefty with a Gun gets his Glock on.

Breda has knuts.

CTD blogger’s carry stuff

Boomershoot makes a motorcycle magazine.

A bacon fest in Knoxville!

Newly imported carbine.

Looks awfully familiar.

In West Virginia

People ask me if I still dig the TacPen I reviewed a bit back and I tell them I like it so much that I got another one. Only in blue:

From S&W Tac Pen

Willie Herenton says the 9th needs to have a black representative. You know, for adequate representation. Fairness demands it! Well, in that case, it’s not fair that we have a black president. I mean, a full 87% of us aren’t black. So, how can that black guy represent my interests?

See how stupid that sounds.

This is brilliant:

Tam on carry and safety:

When I juice up the gun administratively, I check the chamber. When I pick up a pistol that has been out of my control or observation, such as when I get dressed in the morning, I check the chamber. Now, does that mean that I think that gremlins have sneaked in and unloaded my heater overnight? No it means I check because I always check

Indeed. And she notes:

This is tied in to another thing I often read on the internet “You carry a gun to the (grocery store/restaurant/nice neighborhood/sewing circle/whatever)?” No, I don’t. As Kathy Jackson phrased it so well, I don’t carry a gun “to” anyplace; I just carry a gun.

I will say that Tam’s philosophy on carrying is also an adequate component of gun safety. Minimizing handling of the weapon lessens risk. If I put the gun on and leave it there, it will stay there quite safely until I take it off at night. But this is complicated by local carry laws. For instance, a place that serves alcohol or a school is a no-go for carry. And this increases the likelihood of a negligent discharge.

I have to pick the kids up from school. So, I have to be careful to park in the street and not on their property. I then have to remove my firearm and secure it in my vehicle. What I’ve done here is increased the chance of a negligent discharge from zero to more than zero. To comply with the law. The preference is to just not take it off but if I have to, I re-check the weapon when I put it back on. If I just leave it on, the chance of ND remains zero but the likelihood of going to jail increases.

Scientific American:

A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society finds that reacting to a movement, such as being drawn on in a gunfight, is faster than initiating the movement

Doesn’t blog for over a year and then all kinds of really cool gun pics!

Of dog owners?

53 Congressman Support Chicago Gun Ban. All Democrats.

Via NewsAlert

At schools in Memphis.

Reporter gets shot to prove that brand of clothing can stop a bullet.

Keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch.

Comparing love of the iPhone to Stockholm Syndrome. I dunno. I’d say any fan boy of any item is probably in a similar boat.

Another one of those medical studies that says guns in the home are dangerous and lead to high health care costs. These come out every couple of years, it seems. Yawn.

Remember those lobbyists who Obama said would not work in his administration? Him neither.

I got a kick out of some one saying my little girl’s pink AR-15 is not even really amusing. Because if there’s one thing someone who uses Japanimation to tell nerd-themed stories understands, it would be what’s amusing.

Larry Correia:

the new president of HK is aware of how they’re perceived, and are actively working on how to improve their image, through better customer service, attitude, and availability of cool stuff.

Well, here’s hoping. Speaking of HK, pics of the MP7. And pricing and pics of the HK556. And heh.

Kid gets into trouble at school for taking a Lego gun to class.

Dollar General recalls toy guns

It’s a flare launcher.

You know, to collect taxes. People are not amused. The firearm blog has a picture of the shotgun.

Unreal.

Including misandry.

Ahab and NK weight in on the meme.

It is here:

NRA’s solitary goal in McDonald is to ensure that our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms applies to every law-abiding American in every state. We are hopeful that the Court will share our view that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly intended to apply the Second Amendment to the states.

A worthy goal, no doubt. Some folks, however, have questioned the strategy here.

UK University of Kentucky grad student suing after he was fired for having a gun in his car.

edited for confusion.

Why, just yesterday it was the Bush government making everyone scared of terrorists. Meet the new boss.

Content is hard when you’re busy, uhmmkay.

Been busy. How busy? Well busier than either:

A one legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

A three-legged dog trying to take a piss on a frozen lake.

A man whose job it is to dig fly shit out of black pepper (only reference I could come up with that didn’t involve odd numbers of legs).

Anyway, my professional life has suddenly become a bit more, err, involved. And I find myself learning a whole big giant bunch about an industry in a short amount of time, while at the same time being forced to change a long-running company’s methods of operation. While I, as a matter of practice, know how to run a company efficiently, I do not know a damn thing about this particular industry. And while saying you should do x because it’s more efficient is the right call, adjusting that x to an unfamiliar industry is cumbersome.

So, the blogging has been lighter, taken less effort, and is done the night before. It’s actually 9:45pm yesterday that I am typing this. With a glass of Scotch in hand watching the cats fight like they always do after the kids and wife go to bed. And all those other posts for today were written even before that. Except the shake weight one. Which I wrote after but moved to the bottom hoping my wife won’t see it. And a joke she probably hasn’t gotten yet and will be mad about in the morning once she realizes what I meant. Oh, and that Miculek DVD that I haven’t watched yet, you’ve already seen my brief review.

Maybe my normal, real time, breaking news type blogging will kick in soon. Or maybe not. What do you care? It’s free.

And, while I appreciate your help, yeah, I know, I make typos and type faster than I think so the grammar may leave some to be desired. And I forgot a link or something. And I’m glad you take time out of your day to tell me. But, nothing personal, it’s not just you who tells me. It’s you and ten to thirty other people. So, for me, just deal with it. I mean if it’s an error that is just patently fucking out there and is a colossal fuck up, fine. Tell me. But minuscule bullshit no one cares about, stop. I’m busy.

I mentioned the upcoming release and linked the trailer earlier. Well, I watched the first DVD. So, for those who expressed doubt because all the gun shooting media you see is some super star showing you how bad ass he is, I’ll tell you it’s not like that. I watched the first DVD (available from Brownells later – believe it or not, gun blogging has a perk or two). I was impressed. Once you got passed the 10 minutes of legalese because lawyers have decided that guns can kill you, it’s quite good. Discusses equipment needed and safety.

Then, it gets into some good meat. Such as the parts of the AR-15 and what modifications Jerry makes and doesn’t make (the latter I found more interesting, frankly) to his competition AR-15s. And Jerry’s information on how and why he sights in his AR-15 alone is worth the price of admission. At least I thought so.