The next step past New Jersey’s demand for smart guns is “smart ammo“.

Well someone has come forward and patented it.

Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun using a tiny keypad matched one stored in the cartridge.

When they are sold, cartridges could be programmed with a password that matches the purchaser’s gun. An owner could set the gun to request the password when it is reloaded, or to perform a biometric check before firing. The gun could also automatically lock itself after a pre-set period of time has passed since the password was entered.

The system would undoubtedly cost more than a conventional gun, but many firearm enthusiasts would surely pay a premium for such added security.

We likely would pay a premium, because some danmed politician will force us to.

From the UN Gun Summit:

We believe that no armed group outside of the State should be allowed to bear weapons. We also believe that regulating civilian possession of Small Arms/Light Weapons will enhance our efforts to prevent its misuse. In our view, the issue of ammunition should also be addressed in the context of the Program of Action because in the absence of ammunition, small arms and light weapons pose no danger.

So you know what we’re up against.

Police tasered a 61 year-old, disabled vet at a protest.

Guy Montag went on a date set up via a conservative dating service. Turns out, it was a reporter who wrote an article on such a service. Go read and he has sooper seekrit links to the article to bypass registration.

Tam gave hers a paint job!

GLN has some info and links to coverage of the event.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics:

Large state and local law enforcement agencies with 59 percent of the nation’s sworn officers received 26,556 citizen complaints about the police use of force during 2002, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The rate was 6.6 complaints per 100 full-time sworn officers. Eighty-four percent were made against large municipal departments, BJS said.

About eight percent of the complaints were officially sustained, that is, there was sufficient evidence to justify disciplinary action against the officer or officers; 34 percent were not sustained; 25 percent were unfounded, meaning the complaint was not supported by facts or the alleged incident did not occur; 23 percent ended in exonerations because the police actions were lawful and proper and nine percent ended in other dispositions, such as complaint withdrawal, etc.

Seems bigger cities have more complaints.

At least not this session:

Legislation to make it easier to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun is dead for this legislative session, the bill’s chief sponsor said Friday.

Rep. Deborah Hudson, R-Fairthorne, said she wanted more time for the Attorney General’s Office, the Delaware Police Chiefs Council and the National Rifle Association to produce a compromise bill.

Glen McAdoo:

It has taken me about 30 years, and what’s happened lately, to come to the conclusion that it is not liberals, but conservatives that ultimately may become the real threat to the Second Amendment and the Constitution in general. That’s argumentative, I’ll admit.

I don’t disagree. Seems a great deal of gun control lately is passed into law by supposed conservatives. Mr. McAdoo also says:

I can remember a time, not so long ago, when I adamantly supported a ban on assault weapons. But given the fact that many rapid fire automatic weapons can be converted into, or considered assault weapons, such a ban is not effective and only inflames those who believe that gun laws are being adopted that only serve to restrict the rights of law abiding citizens, diminish Second Amendment protections, and do nothing to protect the public. So, I’ve changed my mind.

I like his sentiment and am glad to see a liberal oppose the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons. However, I have no idea what the bolded part is supposed to mean.

Marc Folco:

The global gun control talks get underway in New York City tomorrow when the United Nations opens a two-week conference where world leaders intend to curb the international arms trade through a binding arms trade treaty. On the surface, it appears to be a treaty among nations to reduce the illegal trafficking of small military arms and light weapons in order to curb civil strife in some countries by establishing general guidelines for the manufacture and import and export and possession of those firearms.

But to Americans, who are too smart to swallow this façade, it’s no doubt a worldwide assault on the private ownership of firearms by peaceful, law-abiding U.S. citizens by super ceding our national and state laws and our Constitution, and those of other nations. Recommendations being reviewed at the conference will reduce the availability of guns to civilians in all societies, including banning the advertisement and promotion of small arms to civilians.

Josh Sugarmann:

Before the ban, the publicly available tracing data was used by city officials and law enforcement agencies to determine the sources of illegally trafficked firearms and identify the top guns traced to crime. When the info ban was first put in place for fiscal year 2004, it even banned the release of the number of guns manufactured in America. This was quickly reversed–because the gun industry wanted the information. The bill now goes to the House floor and then on to the Senate.

The non-disclosure language prohibits ATF from releasing information related to crime gun traces performed by the agency except in connection with a bona fide criminal investigation.

Actually, the data was mostly used to launch the bogus anti-gun maker lawsuits.

Bloomberg on government efforts to influence what we eat and how much exercise we get:

some people may call that too intrusive

You think?