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Google is anti-gun. Received a message from Google Adsense:

While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as thegunblogs.com.

As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with content related to certain weapons and weapon accessories, such as firearms, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles.

As a result, we have disabled ad serving to the site.

Your AdSense account remains active. However, we strongly suggest that you take the time to review our program policies to ensure that all of your remaining pages are in compliance.

Please note that we may disable your account if further violations are found in the future.

Sincerely,

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I reply with:

To my knowledge, my site is in compliance as your policy states:

“Sales or promotion of weapons or ammunition (e.g., firearms, fighting knives, stun guns)”

There are no sales occuring at thegunblogs that I am aware of.

They reply (after a week):

Hello,

Thanks for your email. We feel that, because the content of your site is largely focused on firearms, the site is not a good fit for the AdSense program. We appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,

Scott
The Google AdSense Team

I reply:

You should specify that in your policy then. I and other reasonable people are unable to determine how you ‘feel.’

I note, however, you’ve had no issue selling gun related items on my site via your ads*.

Don’t be evil.

* Note: for evidence, look to your left.

Adam Kleinheider of Volunteer Voters gave a little link love on an idea I first presented on KnoxViews.

Maybe this can help some gunnys in protecting 2nd Amendment Rights?

From today’s NiT post that Adam linked on VV.:

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This would probably induce PSH in me.

A video of Ron Paul stating we should end the drug war. Now, I don’t think Ron Paul has a chance in Hell of winning the election. But I am glad that someone is talking about this issue. I’m also surprised since this is an issue that is usually verboten at political debates because it’s complex and, essentially, goes against everything the .gov is telling your kids in high school. In debates, you can never ask a question like:

So, the drug war costs billions and billions and billions of dollars. Many innocent, peaceable citizens have been needlessly killed by a police force that has been essentially militarized. People are not secure in their homes because of no knock warrants and search warrants issued based on the frequently false testimony of criminals. Property is taken and lives are destroyed over a few minuscule amounts of drugs. Is it worth that price to confiscate an infinitesimally small fraction of a percent of the drug supply in this country?

Maybe we should get as many people as possible to ask that question on the next youtube debate thingy.

End the drug war and release the prisoners.

Oh, and Paul’s opponents will now say that Ron Paul is soft on crime.

See through frogs. You know, so you don’t have to dissect them. Sometimes, scientists kinda scare me.

9-11 survivor story probably a hoax.

Via 2–4.

So, the other night at a little bit after dark (say a bit past 8:00), The Second was in his bed sawing toothpicks, the Mrs. was at the gym, and me and Junior were downstairs watching Little Bear for 1,483rd time that day when Politically Incorrect Dog starts raising utter Hell. Now Politically Incorrect Dog makes very distinct sounds. He has a low groan which translates as I want that thing. Please give it to me. He has a high pitched groan which translates as I’m serious, I want that thing. Why haven’t you given it to me yet and it follows the aforementioned groan. He has a mid-ranged woof that indicates hey, there’s someone here who I happen to like. He has a half-hearted bark which translates as Someone’s at the door. You may want to check it out but otherwise I’m mostly unconcerned. And he has his OMG. Do something now or I’m gonna kill it bark. That bark, I’d only heard once before and I heard it again the other night.

I thought someone was in my house. I told Junior to stay put. Retrieved El Nino* from the safe (whole process took about five seconds). And went upstairs. Politically Incorrect Dog continued his hell-raising, ear-splitting barking. He was staring at the door. I set El Nino down by the banister and looked out the door. Two Jehovah’s Witnesses. At night. Repeatedly knocking and ringing the doorbell where there is a sleeping child. While an obviously angry dog kept barking at them. I guess they’re persistent. I looked at them through the door, shook my head, and walked away. You might get more converts if you weren’t such pricks.

The Second, thankfully, is a sound sleeper and slept through it. Of course, he slept through the alarm one night when I accidentally set it off.

To add to the story, the Mrs. was pulling into the subdivision and noticed the Jehovah’s Witnesses at our door. She did another lap to avoid them. She had the same reaction as I did. Seriously, it was night time you twits.

* Why El Nino? Because at close range, I can put 10 in an eyeball.

Remember this:

Firearms: $2.4 billion
Optics: $203 million
Decoys and game calls: $187 million
Hunting apparel: $459 million
Ammo: $696 million

An Uncleism has made it into a media piece. Dave Workman used the phrase: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership.

Cool. And he’s right: The anti-gun lobby misleads us with false data on officer deaths.

What is it with gun nuts and Politically Incorrect Dogs?

Seen at Robb’s:

In the case of the Virginia Tech rampage, a state-appointed commission of inquiry has come to the astonishing conclusion that better locks are needed on classroom doors and that troubled students should be more closely monitored. The Newark tragedy, since the killers have been identified and several turn out to be illegal immigrants, has produced renewed demands for harsher immigration regulations. Practically no one has raised any questions about this nation’s gun laws or, more accurately, this nation’s lack of gun control legislation.

Were you paying attention? I mean some folks were more interested in raising money but there definitely were calls for that. But, to show you how far gone the anti-gun lobby is, the only headway they made was an attempt to improve a bad law. And that improvement (HR 2640) is even supported by the NRA.

Remember that DillonAero SUV mounted mini-gun? Well, a local security contractor bought one. You know, for protecting nukes.

It’s true, folks, but some black powder guns aren’t even considered firearms and are, therefore, not regulated. The press seems to think this is PSH worthy.

Of course, this is the same press who heard 50 caliber and ran a picture of a Barrett.

Exciting news about a couple of attendees. You are coming, aren’t you?

And those attendees are, of course, coming to plunk down a ton of cash in my lap. Just ask Laura Washington.

We’re not all the same and don’t always agree. Who knew?

The Firearm Blog. Nifty stuff like:

Lego guns

M16 / M4/ AR-15 Manuals

Izhevsk promotional videos

Crickett. And let’s not forget the bARbie-15 and the pink Glock.

Co-blogger and troublemaker Number9 has the reigns over at Nashville Was Talking. Let the hippie annoying begin.

In Atlanta. My buddy’s wife is now stateside.

So, the kid who is kind of a douchebag and goaded the cop into being a bigger douchebag has been treated to having his place staked out by other cops who are now even bigger douchebags than the two aforementioned douchebags.

Update: Clarification in comments:

Some clarifications are in order:
1. the cop that the guy video taped worked for a completely different department than the st. louis city PD
2. apparently, the officers stalking the video taper are part of the st. louis city PD
3. the st. louis county PD (again, completely different agency) is doing the investigation of the original video taped cop

I concur. Free AC! An AC at rest can not be stopped.

Update: Silence concurs: With all due respect, this is the kind of gobbledygook I expect from a politician

More respect from newscoma:

Ironically, Nashville is talking about Kinsey’s quote. They just aren’t doing it over at that blog, they are doing it over at MCB. I have posted at both places in the spirit of disclosure over the past couple of years.

I wonder what some of the blogs on the eastside of the state have to say about this.

And, you two, what’s with this respect business? Respect is earned. Not given. If they want respect, let AC do what AC does best.

Robert Levy has a good preview of the case.

Unreal:

Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars.

Critics say the new “cigarette surveillance program” amounts to the use of “police state” tactics and wrongfully interferes with interstate commerce. But state Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr says his department is simply doing its job, enforcing a valid state law while protecting Tennessee retailers who properly pay state taxes.

Yes, for denying the state a few dollars, you’ll be a felon.

Every year, about this time, some local yokels get arrested for setting bait for bears. The twist this year is that those involved are Tennessee Wildlife Resource Officers, who are breaking the laws they are supposed to enforce. Nice.

People have asked me why I give a flying poop about Rudy Giuliani and his newfound love of gun rights that nobody is buying. And why I care that he spoke at the NRA event. It’s simple: It proves that he realizes he needs us gunnies if he wants to win.

The NRA represents a pretty substantial voting block. And it has political clout. And, as pointed out before, no candidates are begging the Brady Bunch/VPC for support? Rudy, McCain and Romney (neither of which have stellar gun records – and that’s an understatement) are sucking up to gun owners. They have to. They need the votes. The question is whether we’ll buy what they’re selling. So far, I’m guessing not.

Jonathan Martin notes:

President Bush’s ability to motivate Republicans was the most significant force among five conservative-leaning people or groups tested for their influence among GOP voters in a new poll. The survey showed that 55 percent of Republicans would be “more likely” to back a candidate if he had the endorsement of the president. Only 12 percent said “less likely,” but 31 percent did say that the preference of the incumbent president would have “no affect”

The data showing the impact of endorsements or opposition was provided to Politico.com by Fabrizio & McLaughlin, the GOP firm that conducted the poll. They surveyed 1,000 Republican voters between September 21-23.

Of the other entities tested — the NRA, Chamber of Commerce, James Dobson and Pat Robertson — the gun-rights organization rated the next most powerful among Republican voters. Forty-four percent of those polled said they would be more inclined to back a candidate who had the support of the NRA. Fifteen percent would be less so and 38 percent indicated it would have no impact. Notably for Rudy Giuliani, 40 percent of those surveyed said they would be “less likely” to vote for a candidate who was opposed by the NRA.

I’m rather amazed that Bush placed so high since he’s pretty much destroyed all of his conservative street cred. So, there’s why they’re sucking up and pontificating and suddenly all about gun rights.

Because gun owners vote. And NRA members vote.

And James Dobson? For real?

Again:

Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Via JB.

Hunting deer with a bird? Not for the squeamish.

The AP notes:

U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan fielded some tough questions about gun laws while winning praise Wednesday at a Senate confirmation hearing to become director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Sullivan, a former Republican state legislator and district attorney in Massachusetts, was nominated by President Bush for the job in March. He has been acting director of the agency for more than a year.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, lauded Sullivan’s “distinguished career in public service.”

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., introduced Sullivan at the hearing, praising both his professional abilities and his character.

“It is a job that he’s proven more than qualified and capable of performing,” Kerry said.

Sullivan also faced some grilling from Kennedy and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., about whether the ATF would be willing to release more gun tracing data, a move the senators said could help state and local law agencies fight gun crime.

Sullivan said there has been confusion about what data ATF could share, but he said he hopes ATF will provide more data.

Zoiks. Look who he’s getting praise from. Ryan says:

The ATF has been on an agenda to shut down firearms dealers and manufacturers. Sullivan has continued to carry out this Back Door attack on our Second Amendment. As Gun Owners we should be deeply concerned when the ATF Director is being praised by John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, the bows to release more information to Chuck Schumer.

Well, they have to.

The bill is bogged down due to funding issues. Well, that was the problem with the original Brady Bill. Seems they wanted background checks to check for people who have been adjudicated mentally defective. But, you know, no one offered to pay for it.

More Joyce Foundation Astroturf. And remember, I’m the one who’s supposedly getting cash plunked down in my lap from the evil gun lobby. Or is it gun manufacturers? I keep forgetting who I shill for.

Also, looking at tax returns.

Ridefast asks of me: How does he find this stuff?

Well, simple. I read quite a few blogs, news sites, and news alerts. And a whole lot of stuff is emailed to me. That particular item was emailed to me by a reader, who noted those people were insane. And if that reader has a blog, I’d be happy to have sent credit her way. But I don’t know that she does.

In other news, SayUncle now has three women readers!

Now, there are shirts.

So, the press was all like a man had a 50 caliber on campus. They put up the stock photo of a Barrett 50. Turns out the guy had 50 caliber muzzle loader. I didn’t get a screen cap. Did you?

We have a domain name to go along with a logo.

A video news story.

I don’t know about that. I doubt I’d draw down on a couple of ninjas. I mean, they can like deflect bullets and disappear in a cloud of smoke and stuff.

Update: So, is plural of ninja ninjas or ninjae? I mean, we settled the plural of dildo a bit back.

Update: They’re like sheep: plural of ninja is ninja. Thanks to thibby in comments.

Well, not really:

A Milwaukee County judge found the concealed-weapon prosecution of a pizza driver who shot two would-be robbers in seven months unconstitutional Monday.

The ruling by Circuit Judge Daniel A. Noonan means Andres Vegas won’t face criminal charges in the non-fatal shootings. Prosecutors had filed a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon after the second shooting, in January, and said Vegas had been warned after a July 2006 shooting not to carry a concealed gun while driving for his job.

However, Noonan agreed with defense attorneys’ contention that Vegas needed the gun to protect himself in his chosen work, citing state Supreme Court decisions that found justified exceptions to the state’s concealed-carry ban.

Les notes: Before anyone jumps to any conclusions, I don’t think this means you’re free to CCW without a license anywhere.

Well, Wisconsin doesn’t issue carry permits. The laws have made it to the governor twice and been vetoed. It will pass some day.

David notes: The court applies the new state constitutional amendment on arms, the Wisconsin caselaw construing it, which essentially requires for concealed carry that the individual’s need to carry outweigh the state’s interest in enforcing CCW bans, and that the situation be such that open carry wasn’t a feasible way to exercise the right to arms.

Seems NRA has no history of endorsing primary candidates (ed note: the NRA’s very first endorsement for president was Reagan). And some folks want that changed:

What I would do in NRAs case would be a targeted mailing in certain states stating Fred Thompson and Bill Richardson are the prefered candidates in each party’s primary. No need to make up separate mailers, just list both guys on a single postcard to keep costs down. I wouldn’t give anyone an endorsement until after the primary.

Sebastian says:

I would consider only half of that. I think it could be smart for NRA to become involved in the Democratic primary, because Bill Richardson has been a real friend to gun owners in the past, and all the other serious contenders are absolutely no friends of ours. If you can give Bill enough of a boost to where he’s a serious threat to the other two candidates, you force Hillary and Obama to spend more money defeating their primary opponents. It also will hold the Republican candidates feet to the fire, with the prospects a pro-gun democrat winning the endorsement in the general election. It wouldn’t make much sense, in my opinion, to get involved if Richardson is a lost cause.

There’s also the additional benefit of helping candidates who are pro-gun getting there to begin with as opposed to, as in recent years, pick the least worse of two options.

Right to arms in DC’s constitution? Who knew? No on in DC, apparently.

Seems the court has denied the motion to end the stay that’s enforcing DC’s storage laws for long guns. More here. And the order is here.

The SAF notes:

A federal district court in Georgia has denied a request by attorneys for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to transfer a lawsuit filed against the mayor and others by Adventure Outdoors, a Georgia retailer, to a federal court in New York State.

[...]

In a move that surprised the defendants, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia denied their attempts to have the case either moved, or dismissed. The lawsuit against Bloomberg and his co-defendants involves allegations of libel, slander and tortuous interference with business relations.

Well, and breaking gun laws.

Sebastian:

There’s virtually no argument they use that they haven’t used before. It’s like playing Whack-a-Mole. The mole keeps popping up, and you keep whacking it. The game itself is nearly pointless, but if you stop whacking, you lose.

Kevin wonders why folks like Laura Washington want gun laws aimed at us white men from suburban and rural areas when overwhelmingly the victims and perpetrators of murder are, err, not white men from suburban and rural areas.

In other news, Uncleisms?

Seems cops want breaks on traffic tickets. Now, honestly, who hasn’t had a ticket fixed. Reminds me of a story (and this is all relayed to me secondhand from a guy who worked there in college). In my hometown, there was this pizza joint. They also delivered. Like most restaurants in the small town the police got their meals free. The restaurant folks liked the police presence so it was beneficial to both. Of course, the unwritten rule was also that if they give the police free meals then the police would tend to look the other way if one of their delivery drivers were speeding. Well, one day a driver got a ticket. A few police came in and were surprised to be charged for their meal. The ticket went away. Go figure.

Seems some self-professed denizen of liberal, hippy land got her panties in a tight little bunch over some kid playing with a toy gun:

Or maybe you all go together to a child psychologist and learn that carrying a gun around, in a crowd of people in the heart of Palo Alto, California is NOT appropriate, at any age. And just maybe, you might take this a little more seriously. Cause Parents of this kid, I was not the only one staring at (and judging) you and your kid. I am just the only one blogging about it.

So, who needs the psychologist? The kid, who is likely playing with a toy that millions of other kids also have. Or the woman who overreacts seeing the child?

Heh.

I’m not entirely convinced he has seen that light but perusing the transcripts of his NRA speech, I’ll say this about him: He does get the Parker case right. Of course, I’ve said that before.

Seriously? Do they have a taste?

Two bloggers have agreed to slug it out. Pro-gun Kevin v. Anti-gun jhupp.

Update: I love this from comments at jhupp’s:

I don’t have any optimism about the possibility of real debate with the gun advocates, but I admire you for trying.

So, what kind of spices do you put on words when you’re about to eat them? I smell Reasoned Discourse^tm coming.

More: Linoge in comments:

He seems to be the only one worthy of the effort among the crowd. The other two have devolved to the point past ad hominem attacks and now they are just snickering amongst themselves at the stupid little pro-gun peons. Of course, they are probably banking on our stupidity for us to not notice that they did not even attempt to address… well… any of the points brought up.

Par for the course and why they’re a waste of time.

Ahab to Laura Washington:

The problem is that the entire anti-gun argument is based on emotion, and it doesn’t stand up. It took nothing more than three or four dedicated posters on the Brady blog to get them to disable comments, because they were tired of the blog being used to disseminate progun information. That’s not an “army”, it’s four guys with some free time.

So, Mary Winkler shot her hubby in the back and killed him. Yet, she gets a light sentence and can visit her kids. She’ll be on Oprah. Dr. Helen brings the snark: Kill Your Husband–Get a House and Car. Seems her community has given her a cheap house and a car.

Wow.

Again, wow.

Update: Really, wow. I mean, it’s almost enough to make me lose faith in people.

Laura Washington thinks that, since we’re winning, anti-gunners should get active on the internet since begging isn’t working. She says:

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

They’ve tried. And they can’t stand the heat (google up reasoned discoursetm or search my archives). Laura, they try. And we keep knocking them down. You see, anti-gunners simply don’t have the base pro-gunners do. There are millions of us. And the million mom march, at last count, had about 24 people. And the anti-gunners simply cannot keep up when there is a forum for which we can refute their claims.

See, the Brady Campaign couldn’t stand the heat when people can refute their misleading claims. So, they just parrot. No comments, limited updates and yawn. And, of course, there was no better source for pro-gun information than the Brady Blog itself.

Bryan Miller went poof too. After four posts, no updates in over a month. And his condescending tone in comments there and his refusal to address rebuttals in a rational manner only reinforced the notion that he was in over his head.

Gonzo is a joke with no readers.

Robyn Ringler tried too. But she soon was frantically deleting comments that didn’t support her view and eventually shut them off because, like the others, she can’t hang.

See, when your entire viewpoint relies upon misleading people or, well, flat-out lying, you simply cannot have an audience point that out. Laura continues:

The People of the Gun are beating their drums on websites from Keepandbeararms.com in Washington State, to alphecca.com in Vermont. Every time a plea for gun restrictions surfaces on the Internet, the gun stalwarts furiously post hundreds of missives in homage to the Second Amendment.

Through organizing, the Internet, and plunking down plenty of cold hard cash, the gun lobby has proven it is ready for primetime. Meanwhile, its opponents are languishing in the wee-hours of late-night local cable.

And who plunked down cash? These are just websites set up by people and not a lobby. No one paid them. You’re just lying. Your side can’t say the same thing because the Joyce Foundation has bought and paid for the anti-gun side’s blogs to the tune of $60K$650K. Strangely, no one has to pay me or Jeff at Alphecca. Why, Laura, do you suppose that is? More:

After last spring’s massacre at Virginia Tech, ABC News polled adults nationwide and asked: “Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws in this country?” Sixty-one percent favored them, 36 percent were opposed and 3 percent were “unsure.”

But what about those polls last month? More:

That majority is represented by well-meaning citizen groups, like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and graying civil rights stalwarts like the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH. Their tactic is to organize anti-gun marches and rallies to push for stricter gun laws and penalties. But here’s a news flash: No one is listening.

Because gun control is what you do instead of something.

The majority’s collective voice is being ignored. The anti-gun movement must mount a strong response.

Now, I see the problem. You think you’re the majority. Well, sparky, you’re not. Period.

Gun control activists: start playing the other side’s game by embracing technology. Progressives: harness the Internet and aim it at Democratic and independent voters.

They’ve tried. And failed. Read above.

The NRA has built a juggernaut of a website that networks gun advocates from hither to yon. A modest investment and some digital ingenuity could pave the way for digital networks in black churches, sororities and other civic groups in black urban America to fight back.

I dunno about juggernaut. I mean, they’ve linked me before and I didn’t quite notice a huge uptick in traffic.

Fact is, we’re winning because the facts and reason are on our side. And we outnumber you. Whenever these folks get active on the internet, I’ll be there to send readers their way to address their misrepresentations. And if I don’t, someone else will. And we’re not bought and paid for by anybody. I know it’s convenient to think we are or to think there’s some conspiracy but there is not. We are many. We are passionate. We are right. We are active. And we are smarter.

We’ll be here to shut the next one down too. And I won’t be getting a fat check from the Evil Gun Lobby.

Update: Ayup: I wonder why gun control advocates presume that the pro-gun blogosphere is a big conspiracy bankrolled by the NRA, instead of what it really is, a true grassroots effort by smart people who are passionate about liberty.

Even more: You’re doing it wrong.

Still more: Bigoted much: On us being almost exclusively of white men from suburban and rural areas:

I think Bitter, Tam, Denise, ZendoDeb, and Squeaky would be interested to know that the “gun army” was made up exclusively of males. Pro-Gun Progressive, a resident of the Pigtown section of Baltimore, MD, might be surprised to find out that we’re exclusively suburban and rural. Kenn Blanchard might be surprised to learn we’re exclusively white. Jeff Soyer, who Washington’s article mentioned, is, in fact, a rural white male from Vermont, but he’s also a gay rural white male; not your stereotypical Bubba.

At least she’s right about our rapid response.

Send some thoughts and prayers Cam’s way.

The 2006 crime numbers are out. And they come with a warning:

These rough rankings provide no insight into the numerous variables that mold crime in a particular town, city, county, state, or region. Consequently, they lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting communities and their residents.

I’m sure the VPC will do a Google study with it.

Speaking of the VPC, they paid Joe a visit.

Bane has one.

Tom King is right. Our target audience is soccer moms. Not pants-shitting idiots who threaten violence against people who don’t agree with them. The latter group is a lost cause as evidenced by the sheer vitriol and the inability to form cohesive arguments.

Arrest made in Johnia Berry case.

In other news, blogs scooped the local paper. Les, by the way, has been covering the case for a while and help set up a johniaberry.org.

Tam: Don’t get me started on what the Feds can do to you for misreading a ruler by 1/8″

Michael Silence notes that the KPD’s apology to Colt CCO was the biggest story at KnoxNews.com.

Seems there are two places where individual IQs drop by at least 50% and the collective IQ drops by much more: Parking lots and grocery stores. Yes, I went Krogering.

Giuliani has stated his recent support for gun rights was due to 9-11. I, and others, have stated they don’t believe his change of heart is real or sincere. What if we’re wrong? What if he really had a legitimate change of heart? It could happen. And it’s a double-edged sword. Sure, we could buy it and he may be full of it and that could damage us. Or, he could be sincere and we’re not buying it. We have to be open to the concept that folks do change their mind and welcome them. Assuming we believe them. Just sayin’.

Rudy does support the Tiahrt amendment.

The headline reads: Police Chiefs Call For Assault Weapons Ban. The headline should read: Anti-Gun Group Calls For Assault Weapons Ban.

And from a Florida Idiotorial:

More assault weapons are being used in crimes in South Florida, and police are being outgunned by the bad guys.

How many? One or one thousand? Since these weapons that look like assault weapons have historically been used in a fraction of a percent of crimes.

And with each shooting, there is one unmistakable truth — the average person has absolutely no need for an assault rifle.

What’s need got to do with it? The average person doesn’t need a newspaper.

All follows is more PSH and misleading info about politically incorrect self-loading rifles.

Because we all need a turret mounted mini-gun on our cars.

More stuff for the Rondy. Speaking of, I need to send Mr. C. a check.

Sailorcourt reviews Tales Of The Gun for A&E.

Remember folks, it’s us crazy-assed gun nuts who are all violent and stuff:

It would be pretty difficult to do the kind of damage that was done on Monday at Virginia Tech with a single-engine Cessna. That’s even if I filled the tanks and flew it into a building — say, the one where 60,000 NRA members are gathering in St. Louis for their annual meetings.

Don’t tempt me.

I guess it’s OK since he didn’t advocate shooting them. I suppose if I were violent and did not trust myself, I might be anti-gun too.

Kopel has a look.

He starts to get the second amendment wrong and is saved by the bell.

What media bias? Oh, that media bias.

metulj: Giuliani says something that corresponds to whatever the group he is talking to wants to hear.

Ayup. Me and metulj don’t agree on much other than bourbon and that Giuliani would be awful. On guns, he says:

I say a Kalashnikov (with proper training) for every man, woman and child no matter their race, creed, ethnicity or class. Let’s see how that shakes out.

Nah, no commie guns please. I’m more an AR kinda guy.

And I’m with Tam. On issues that matter to me, there simply is no difference between a Giuliani and a Hillary or an Obama.

Here. Because this thread is worthless without pics.

Officer.com:

A police sergeant whose berating of a driver was captured on videotape has been fired.

Aldermen in the town of St. George, a St. Louis suburb, voted 5-0 in a closed meeting Monday to fire Sgt. James Kuehnlein. Notice of the firing was posted Wednesday at City Hall.

Kuehnlein’s attorney, Travis L. Noble, said the officer received a letter Thursday detailing the reasons for his firing. Noble said he would review the letter with Kuehnlein before deciding on a course of action.

As I wrote in a comment in this post the Knoxville Police Department needs more and better training for its police officers. We expect them to not only enforce the law but to understand the law.

Does this seem like KPD understands the law?

Gun owner receives apology from police chief

Chief’s letter, more training follow officer’s confusion, threat of arrest

Trevor Putnam knew the gun laws. The officer who stopped him didn’t.

“When I told him that I hadn’t done anything, he said he’d find a reason to put me in jail,” said Putnam, 24, who works with guns every day as vice president of Coal Creek Armory in West Knoxville.

“It’s not that I have a problem with police officers. I deal with police officers nationwide from Arizona to Maine every day. But I lost my confidence in a legal right that I knew I had.”

Knoxville police officers will get a refresher course on the state’s gun permit laws after an officer who didn’t know the law stopped, frisked and threatened to arrest Putnam for legally carrying a gun inside a Wal-Mart this summer.

This keeps happening. The question is why?

Ouch.

9/11 changed everything.

McCain gets some ribbing of him on gun issues:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain lobbed a thinly veiled attack at fellow rival Rudy Giuliani, describing the former mayor’s “devious” attempt with a lawsuit “to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers.”

Giuliani said he preferred to focus on the lion’s share of issues on which he and the National Rifle Association agree.

Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., and the former New York mayor are among several officials speaking Friday at a National Rifle Association conference.

In his prepared speech, McCain refers to a lawsuit by Giuliani and other mayors against the gun industry, to Giuliani’s shifting Second Amendment position and to Giuliani’s use of the term “extremists” in relation to the NRA.

“My friends, gun owners are not extremists; you are the core of modern America,” McCain said in the prepared remarks. “The Second Amendment is unique in the world and at the core of our constitutional freedoms. It guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. To argue anything else is to reject the clear meaning of our founding fathers.

“But the clear meaning of the Second Amendment has not stopped those who want to punish firearms owners – and those who make and sell firearms – for the actions of criminals,” McCain said.

He mentioned “a particularly devious effort to use lawsuits to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers.”

“A number of big-city mayors decided it was more important to blame the manufacturers of a legal product than it was to control crime in their own cities,” McCain said.

Meanwhile, McCain on guns.

Update: Talk is cheap.

Yikes. Why do people that are handcuffed try to kick out the window of the cop cruiser? That seems to really piss off the cops.

Am I wrong in thinking this policeman could use a Dale Carnegie course? Ditto for the drunk suspect.

So was this policeman a little trigger happy with the tazer? Or should police have the right to taze suspects multiple times if they do not comply with instructions?

Evil Black Rifle Disease.

Update: In other news, the guy that runs that journal was originally thought to be the VT shooter. You know, ’cause he’s Asian and likes guns.

Heh.

Pocket rifle pics here and here.

How ineffectual is the Democrat majority? So ineffectual that they can’t pass a gun bill they want even when the bill has the support of the NRA and the Republicans.

Via Ahab, who notes:

The biggest problem is that Leahy’s amendments to the bill are (in my opinion) a good thing, as they expand on the existing law that allows retired police officers to carry concealed all across the country. The amendments have the full support of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Point.

Counter point.

Update: Bitter says no pass for Giuliani:

I was talking to Cam Edwards last night, and we discussed the fact that Giuliani would be trying to win over NRA on the same day that the lawsuit he filed would be in court.

Marlin Golden 39-A lever action rifle

Colt CCO reports:

And then upon, reading it, discovered that they failed to address two of the four items made in my complaint, the immediate physical handling of myself by the officer, and his subsequent claim that he would find a reason for me to go to jail that night, even though the letter states that they have both the audio and visual recordings of the incident. So, I decided that since they had utterly failed to address these issues, it was a screened, partial, obscured resolution.

He also notes:

My girlfriend and I gave an interview to the Knox News Sentinel today, regarding the incomplete nature of the KPD’s response, and the reporter heading the story will be examining the file and the tapes for himself tomorrow(Friday).

I’ve been alerted that the WKRN General Manager Gwen Kinsey has a blog. I wonder if this means that AC will get his dudes back?

Ten things to know about Concealed Carry Permitholders (#4)

Ten things to know about Concealed Carry Permitholders (#5)

See what I mean about liberals and guns?

Via jon.

Heh.

Look, I’ve quickly become disenchanted in my support for the War in Iraq. It doesn’t seem to be going very well and the reasons for the action (and the projected results) haven’t quite panned out. And, well, that’s an understatement.

But here’s the deal: A war doesn’t wait or stop or become all warm and fuzzy for vacation time. It’s still going on. This Webb amendment was simply shameless political pandering to begin with. It failed even though 56 senators are retarded and think that you can call a time-out in a military action.

Say, who’s the commander in chief again?

As you were.

I saw a long list of folks to speak at the NRA conference at Bitter’s. I was invited to go but, sadly, cannot make it what with scheduling and all (see, told you they reached out to us gun bloggers). Any way, AC notes that Harold Ford will be there. Harold Ford has a rather anti-gun voting record but, as is being mimicked by Giuliani, has recently found his pro-gun-Jesus. Anyway, John Rodgers stated that:

This appearance probably won’t help Ford and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party get back on good terms, not something he necessarily needs to do.

To which AC asks:

Does liberal necessarily mean anti-gun — especially in the South? Can you not be rather progressive and still supportive of most of the general aims of the NRA?

Not at all. There are quite a few pro gun liberals out there.

Honestly, I think the NRA and we gun bloggers could do a better job of reaching out to them.

And let’s not forget that some alleged conservatives are anti-gun.

Shorter Dan Ra^ther: I’m suing because they blamed me, of all people, for going with a story that I wanted to believe; that I reported; and that I again asserted was valid despite evidence to the contrary that turned out to be wrong because those damn Republicans had to be placated. Now, gimme some money.

David Hardy notes that they bought the International Assn of Chiefs of Police. Seriously, they let Joyce write their report. The International Assn of Chiefs of Police is pretty much a sham any way as most police join the Fraternal Order of Police. My dad, for instance, has been a member of FOP for several decades. He’s never heard of The International Assn of Chiefs of Police.

And Cam points out something very important:

This is just sad. On Wednesday, the International Association of Chiefs of Police held a big press conference on Capitol Hill to release a new report on “gun violence”. They had 39 specific recommendations, but you’ve heard them all before. Ban the .50 caliber rifle. Ban “assault weapons”. Institute one-gun-a-month laws. No transactions without it going through a federally licensed firearms dealer. It’s a Christmas wish-list for gun banners. Which is no surprise, given that this report was bought and paid for by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation.

I’m sure there’ll be plenty of news stories on this report, but I’d be shocked if any of them contained the following information.

In 2006, the Joyce Foundation doled out $375,000 to the IACP to convene the “Great Lakes States Summit on Gun Violence”. That conference was held in April of this year. This is in addition to the $174,788 the Joyce Foundation also paid to IACP to develop and plan the summit.

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But the media will not report this as “An anti-gun group today released a new report on gun control”. They will report this as “Today our nation’s law enforcement officers, together with some of the biggest names on Capitol Hill, called for more common sense gun laws to reduce violent crime.”

Alleged gun criminal and alleged journalist Steve Bailey is getting play again.

Gun songs.

You’ll recall a bit back that Colt CCO was bodyslammed by a police officer for lawfully carrying a concealed weapon. Well, there’s an update:

Their determination was that the officer in question violated the departmental regulations regarding “knowledge of laws and regulations and courtesy”. This occured due to the officer’s confusion about the law in his previous state of police employment, Ohio, (I’ve gotta try that sometime, “I’m sorry, your honor, I thought I was in Ohio.”) where open carry is prohibited.

The official action(s) taken are:

- A written reprimand for the officer, “which reprimand carries with it certain inter-departmental consequences beyond just a notation in their personnel file.”

- Remedial training in TN Handgun Carry Permit law, and in dealing with the public.

- All KPD officers will be undergoing refresher training on Tennessee Handgun Carry Permit law during the next in-service training session.

- An apology from the Chief of Police, Sterling Owen.

Good.

Update: Turns out the officer doesn’t seem know the laws of his former state as open carry is legal in Ohio. Thanks to gattsuru.

So, a while back some of you asked for Triangle Of Death shirts. I had a guy I know design some. He says you haven’t bought any. If you’re gonna ask, you should at least buy one. I mean, you’re not afraid of scaring white people are you? So, get thee hence:

Full disclosure: I make nothing from the sales. But go buy one anyway, to annoy Paul Helmke.

No Best Gun Blog category? I’m disappointed. Via Stan.

If you want an additional 1,000 or so visits to your site, use the phrase don’t taze me bro.