Spoon.

Commerce clause.

Separation of powers.

In comments, NK asks:

BTW: How come this site doesn’t have any trolls?

I get the occasional troll. I generally ignore them, though. Well, unless they’re particularly retarded. I must not be blogging right.

It’s back:

A Utah congressman has reintroduced a bill allowing some veterans to register firearms that they collected as war souvenirs.

Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, has reintroduced the Veterans’ Heritage Firearms Act, a bill that would allow weapons brought into the U.S. by service members from 1934 to Oct. 1, 1968, to be registered and legally kept by the service member or immediate family members.

It would not apply to weapons brought back by service members since 1968, something generally prohibited by U.S. military policy.

I’m wasteful. It’s true. If a household product gets to the point where it’s a pain in the ass for me to get any more of it out of the container, I’m done with it. For example, if the toothpaste tube requires more than a gentle squeeze to get some toothpaste out, it’s not worth the time and I open a new one.

Not my wife. She will fight the household products in an epic battle to extract as much product as possible. To me, that’s just not worth it. I got better things to do than fight a bottle of lotion. Not her. She’ll take the cap off, turn it upside down and beat the bottle like it owes her money.

When I last saw her, she had a razor blade and was cutting the toothpaste open.

David Codrea notes some criticism of Jim Zumbo by Field and Stream’s David Petzal:

What Jim said was ill-considered. He’s entitled to his beliefs, but when a writer of his stature comes out against black guns, it sure as hell does not help our cause.

But, in 1994:

“Gun owners — all gun owners — pay a heavy price for having to defend the availability of these weapons,” writes Petzal. “The American public — and the gun-owning public; especially the gun-owning public — would be better off without the hardcore military arms, which puts the average sportsman in a real dilemma”

I’m guessing that since then, Mr. Petzal has changed his mind and that is one reason for his entry. A lot can change in 13 years. Also, the comments are interesting in that there is a little Fudd v. Gun Nut battle brewing. But listen up, gun nuts:

Don’t get your fucking panties in a bunch and get all boycott happy with Mr. Petzal. We need to educate and convince. Not go on witch hunts that hurt our cause. Or persimmon is right, we are hypersensitive bedwetters.

Stand down, men.

The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership says that the Brady Myspace page is authored by an imposter. Here’s the page.

Update: Interesting stuff in comments:

You scooped me, although I was going at this from another angle. If you head over there now, however, you’ll find this embedded in the page (go to page, hit Ctrl-U)

Which means, that both the MySpace page is pulling content from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s main page, and the Brady Bunch is letting them (note the xshare/myspace/ subdirectory)

If you look carefully, you will also note that every mention of Zumbo has been taken off the page, and there are backdated posts added to the blog.

I can only assume that the MySpace Brady page was a fake, but now it is somehow associated with them.

Also, if anyone has a cached copy of the page, let me know.

I don’t really care much about NY and yogurt. But Uzi is a cool first name.

That’s the law in Kennesaw, GA that states that every head of household must own a firearm and have the appropriate ammunition. It turns 25 this year.

I’m as gun nut as gun nut can be but mandating gun ownership seems a bit over the line.

Update: In comments, from Standard Mischief:

Jones said the ACLU challenged the law in a federal court just after it was passed. In response, the city added a clause adding conscientious objectors to the list of those exempt.

Giuliani should stick to his guns … control. Not gonna happen. He’s already backpedaling with his talk about the second amendment. I’d expect Giuliani to get more gun friendly. He’s gotta get some red state love going on and that’s just hard to do with adultery hanging over you.

Late Wednesday on the Upfront Page, the blog of News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy, is a response by Mr. McElroy to a post I put on KnoxViews and Say Uncle on Tuesday questioning whether the E.W. Scripps ethics code had been violated by Mr. McElroy’s lawsuit against Knox County Commission for a perceived Sunshine Law violation. I questioned the News Sentinel “preference to defend the County Mayor and attack his opposition”. The other issue that was disturbing was the fact that the News Sentinel sued each Knox County Commissioner personally as well as suing them as Commissioners. I felt and still feel that crosses the line. It seems to be a form of intimidation. Because of that I felt the question of an ethics violation should be considered.

Mr. McElroy has given his reasons for the lawsuit and in other news the County Law Director John Owings told the public during the County Commission Intergovernmental and Finance meetings on Tuesday that the News Sentinel has agreed to drop the individual lawsuits. I am glad to know that and it was the right thing to do but the question still exists why was this done is the first place.

Blogger “Old Hickory” has a lengthy post on the Upfront Page which is worth the time to read. Old Hickory explains, “the News-Sentinel is widely perceived as falling in line with the Ragsdale faction and chooses not to engage, analyze, investigate, and report on the sordid details of those political power plays gone badly awry, giving observers and writers the impression that the News-Sentinel is an additional projectile in Ragsdale’s pop gun aimed at bringing about a commission that is more receptive to his closed universe of local government and continuing the build a platform to hopefully garner attention, publicity, and consideration as a gubernatorial candidate for 2010.”

The News Sentinel has written Editorials suggesting that the Knox County Fee offices be audited and that Knox County Commission undertake Ethics reform. At this time maybe the best thing for the News Sentinel to do is to lead by example and review the Ethics of its Editorial Board and it’s closeness to County Mayor Mike Ragsdale.

YouTube Channel 9 coverage of the County Commission meeting on the McElroy lawsuit:

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII

Foxnews:

Chimpanzees are capable of making spears to hunt other primates and have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat, scientists announced today.

By my estimation, we have about 10,000 years before they invade.

He has another apology on the Nuge’s board:

They say hindsight is golden. Looking back, I can’t believe I said the words “ban” and “terrorist” in the context that I did. I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote that. I can explain this as sheer ignorance and an irresponsible use of words. What I’ve learned over the last few days has enlightened and amazed me. As a guy who hunts 200 days a year, does seminars on hunting, wrote for six hunting magazines, had a hunting TV show, and wrote 20 books on hunting, how could I have been so ignorant and out of touch with reality in the world of hunting and shooting?

Via Sam.

Thanks to F-Stop, seems the local blab is running with Jumbo. But this ain’t a post about that, it’s a post about this seen at that link:

Peace Activist Has To Admit Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Is Pretty Cool

Heh.

What? You don’t think Slayer fans can be pro-war? Regardless, Slayer kicks butt.

Update: Oh yeah, metal repels hippies. I forgot. Thanks to Sebastian for the reminder.

Ice that burns. Cool.

Stealing from Les Jones, today’s word is trousering. It came to me in a spam mail and I thought it was a cool word. It’s one of those words that sounds dirty but isn’t:

any fabric used to make trousers

Other word that sound dirty but aren’t:

Morass
Assize
Cock-paddle
Analgesic
Assuage
Cock-master
Cumin
Titmouse
Penal
Back-hoe
Kumquat
Exacerbate
Assonance
Paradiddle

Looks like Wal-Mart is cutting back on the number of stores that sell firearms. Wal-Mart has always been a good place to get various rifles, shotguns and ammo at a decent price. Well, if you want hunting stuff. Despite the fact that hunting is on the decline, gun sales have shown a marked increase recently. More people are buying guns for other activities. Maybe Wal-Mart should start selling handguns and evil black rifles? Of course, the PR issues after would get Wal-Mart out of the gun business completely.

Forever to be known as an internet verb. Kevin has the transcript of and some commentary on a Zumbo interview after the recent storm surrounding him calling my weapon of choice a terrorist rifle.

Update: link fixed. stupid copy and paste.

You wouldn’t know it from the headlines, though.

Terry Frank says Saddam had 1 million pounds of uranium.

To Counter. It’s a boy.

People are packing where it’s legal to do so!

Added a column. Thoughts?

Eh, who we kiddin’? I don’t care what you think.

Nah, I’m foolin’ with ya. Let me know if you have any issues with it.

YouTube Channel Nine is up. The major fireworks are in Part V. Lumpy Lambert takes it to Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale and Mayor Ragsdale brings it back. People will remember the “4 year old in Candy land” and “I’ve never called you out…until now” remarks for many years to come.

This is coverage of the Knox County Commission meeting held on Tuesday to consider Mayor Ragsdale’s request for a special election. The primary players are former Tennessee State Senator Bud Gilbert, Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale, and the members of the Knox County Commission.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII

Looking for a new wordpress theme. They all suck. I’d like to keep this one only I want to add a column on the left. And I’d like to kill all the dead space on the left and right. Anybody know how to do that?

Done.

DSA is now importing semi-auto versions (i.e., civilian legal) of the B&T TP9. Sweet.

Michael Bane, noting that the Zumbo incident was a tipping point for gun rights, asks where we’re headed with respect to gun rights. I tend to think the recent sunset of the assault weapons ban and Katrina are why evil black rifles have gained in popularity.

The recent decision by the DC Court of Appeals says on page 19:

Germany filed habeas corpus petitions. Although the German prisoners alleged they were civilian agents of the German government, a military commission convicted them of war crimes arising from military activity against the United States in China after Germany’s surrender. They claimed their convictions and imprisonment violated various constitutional provisions and the Geneva Conventions. The Supreme Court rejected the proposition “that the Fifth Amendment confers rights upon all persons, whatever their nationality, wherever they are located and whatever their offenses,” 339 U.S. at 783. The Court continued: “If the Fifth Amendment confers its rights on all the world . . . [it] would mean that during military occupation irreconcilable enemy elements, guerrilla fighters, and ‘werewolves’ could require the American Judiciary to assure them freedoms of speech, press, and assembly as in the First Amendment, right to bear arms as in the Second, security against ‘unreasonable’ searches and seizures as in the Fourth, as well as rights to jury trial as in the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.” Id. at 784. (Shortly before Germany’s surrender, the Nazis began training covert forces called “werewolves” to conduct terrorist activities during the Allied occupation.

A while back, the FAA took the collective rights interpretation of the second amendment with respect to space flight. Well, the FAA has reconsidered and now supports the individual rights model (i.e., the correct model).

Open letter to Glock

Happiness is a warm gun.