Tam sets them straight: “Tribal tattoos”? Give me a break. “18-y.o. Skinny White Kids From The ‘Burbs” isn’t any tribe I’ve heard of.

Only this time, he didn’t quit.

Via SIH.

That didn’t take long. A new phrase has been added to the lexicon.

I’m with Phelps, except the cop hating part – a few bad apples and all that. It was ludicrous. And John Kerry will unjustifiably take some heat over this.

Looks like three more of you could fit in there.

A Walther/S&W pocket pistol.

Red’s gets audited again:

I ask everyone to contact the US Department of Justice; Office of the Inspector General and click on the button that states “REPORT WASTE, FRAUD OR ABUSE”. This is YOUR money that is being wasted and these are YOUR freedoms that are ultimately being destroyed by the ATF’s agenda of shutting down gun dealers.

assault-caliber handgun.

The Gun Shots note an FBI study:

“Of the 33 handguns used to assault the officers who participated in the current study, 32 (97 percent) were obtained illegally.”

“None of the rifles, shotguns or handguns connected with this study were obtained from gun shows or related activities.”

Wall of goodies. I handled a short barreled PS90 at Coal Creek once. Quite neat.

Insty:

I’m dealing with the problem a different way, by teaching my daughter to shoot.

Good. But it begs the question, as the father of a three year old and 17 month old, how early do you start? I’ve gotten Junior somewhat acquainted with guns but she’s way too young to head to the range.

Says Wayne:

You’ve gotta love the gun bloggers. A few days ago, when Gun Law News reported that Senator Barack Obama served on the board of directors for the anti-gun Joyce Foundation, I had to smile. Not because of Obama’s ties to one of the deep pockets that fund anti-gun groups across this country, but because it was a blog that broke this story, not the mainstream media.

He notes Obama is better on guns than Hillary, though.

And, a blog courtesy tip to Wayne, you should link to Gun Law News when you mention them.

With video.

Rudy can’t seem to win either side over:

So gun nuts don’t trust him, and meanwhile, gun-banners are wondering why he’s given up on their cause. (Hint: it’s a losing cause.)

Xrlq gets his logic on.

Some more goodies at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous:

Hi-point is donating a handgun

And, Mr. C. notes, David Hardy donated a few copies of In Search of The Second Amendment.

Excellent.

No, really. Which was odd because he was behind me at the grocery store. I said Hey, doc. And he just said Mylanta.

I just thought this was a neat idea from Aunt B. So here are ten random songs in order (with youtube links) from my MP3 player (I have an LG not an iPod because I don’t buy Apple anything).

1 ‘Til Tuesday Voices Carry

2 Guano Apes Open Your Eyes

3 Korn Word Up

4 Hed PE Suffa

5 Terence Trent D’Arby Wishing Well

6 Sepultura Roots Bloody Roots

7 All That Remains This Calling

8 Deftones Engine #9 (no relation to the blogger here)

9 Talking Heads And She Was

10 Anthrax & Public Enemy Bring The Noise

He has a page on the issues.

RNS notes DC’s screw up:

he’s taking advantage of DC’s attorneys’ foulup to get the district court to immediately allow DC residents to possess long guns.

Zoiks. Via Bruce.

Headline: Residents know their rights, but are a bit hazy on the details

First sentence: The U.S. Constitution grants many freedoms, including freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and protection from unlawful search and seizure.

The Constitution doesn’t grant freedoms. It assumes they exist and limits the .gov’s ability to impact them. It doesn’t say you have a right to X; rather it says Congress shall make no law. So, the press is a bit hazy on the details. Still, it’s not amusing that people don’t seem to know rights that are enumerated.

In other news, we have a SWAT Team?

Aunt B.:

Most feminists agree on the basic principle that feminism is about recognizing and forcing others to recognize women as fully human, equal participants in society. How we go about that, what “fully human” means or what “equal participant” might entail are all up for grabs.

I think forcing is a bad choice of a word. And is also a bad choice in policy. I think the better plan is to convince rather than force. Forcing tends to put people off.

Uh oh:

Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a “strange odor,” local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

GOA reports on S. 456 which they say would allow prosecution for minor gun infractions under RICO. Here’s the bill.

Update: Sebastian says ehh, not so much.

At ProgressiveU: Ten things to know about Concealed Carry Permitholders (#2)

Update: Jon in comments reports that here’s #1 and #3.

That’s funny.

I feel your pain.

Seems some folks think that if you’re on a government watch list, you shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun. By that logic, if you’re on a terrorist watch list, you should be in jail. I mean, since we’re bypassing due process of law, let’s do it right, right?

So, I noticed a trend. Whenever I left the room for any reason and the kids were left alone, The Second would start crying. Without fail. Every time. It was obvious that Junior was doing something to make him cry, like take a toy or just generally be mean. So, I explained to Junior that if I left the room again and The Second started crying that she’d be the one in trouble. Hasn’t happened since.

I guess maybe it could be unfair as, you know, I can’t prove in a court of law she was up to something. And I suppose he could start crying for other reasons but so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Alan Korwin notes some new gun laws around the nation.

The US: Shame on all you drug producing countries for selling us all those drugs!

If they’d stop making them, we’d surely stop buying them.

Seems his record isn’t that stellar.

PGP notes a letter to the editor:

On page 75 there is this statement: “The panel knows of no case in which a shooter in campus homicides has been shot or scared off by a student or faculty member with a weapon.” But Appendix L states of the Pearl, Miss., school shooting: “the assistant principal retrieves a .45 pistol from the glove compartment of his truck and subdues Woodham.”

Appendix L also discusses the Appalachian School of Law shooting in Grundy that, though not stated in the report, was ended when two students armed themselves and confronted the shooter.

This fact was widely reported in the mainstream news media. Could this exhaustive review and report have actually overlooked the fact that they were unaware of an incident that was reported in their own findings?

Noted Poker Authority Ed Miller notes that the IRS has issued a bulletin stating that effective March 2008, tournament directors are to withhold taxes from tournament winnings. The impacts on poker tournaments (notably satellites) would be substantial. But, then, that is the point. To make it hard to play poker.

Here:

Translation: We tweaked the numbers to make them say whatever we wanted them to.

Rich has been covering it and apparently was to be on the radio this morning. The one day I don’t listen and someone I know is on.

I have a terrible sense of direction. I couldn’t find my own ass with two hands and an ass map. But LawDog comes to the rescue telling me how figure out where to go without the use of a compass. And a way to do so at night.

Heh.

Kopel on Significant Developments in DC Case on Handgun and Self-Defense Bans notes:

It appears that DC has decided that its long-gun self-defense ban is constitutionally indefensible. The most logical inference is that DC (despite statements by the Mayor at press conferences) has concluded that it cannot convince the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment is not an individual right. DC is retreating to position that the individual Second Amendment right is not violated by a handgun ban, as long as individuals can possess other guns.

Excellent. The list of authors reads like a who’s who of shooty goodness.

An unsigned idiotorial* in Daytona:

The number of concealed weapons permits issued annually in Florida more than doubled over the past five years. Do you feel safer?

If you’re one of the 73,179 people who got a permit last year and now have a gun tucked away, maybe. For the rest of the population, probably not.

Gun proponents make much of the fact that Florida’s gun-related crime is on the increase. They don’t make the obvious leap — the spike could well be tied to the sheer numbers of weapons flowing into the state. They also fail to acknowledge that Florida’s violent crime rates fluctuated widely in the 20 years since the state Legislature liberalized concealed-weapon laws, requiring the state to grant permits to most people who asked. (Florida’s law, known as “shall-issue,” became a national model; by 2004, most states had the same law.)

So what good are all these guns? In recent years, the state has logged between 1,800 and 1,900 handgun deaths per year. In 2004, the last year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control, only 11 of those deaths were due to “legal intervention,” and most of those shootings were by police officers in the line of duty.

Handgun death rates tell another tale: Florida’s rate in 2004 was 10.6 gun deaths per 100,000 population — drastically higher than any of the 10 states that still have tough concealed-handgun laws, with the exception of Maryland, whose rate was 12 deaths.

And how many are committed by someone with a concealed carry permit? I mean, since that’s what you’re implying here.

They end with: At some point, however, Floridians (and their elected representatives) should face reality. The state’s gun-friendly culture hasn’t made it any safer; in fact, most evidence points in the other direction.

No, it doesn’t. Because you’re correlating an increase in a group of lawful citizens not involved in shootings with an increase in shootings.

* btw, brand new made up word.

The ASP pistol is an odd bird.

Or you know.

In light of comments here regarding NRA and gun rights and who is doing more and selling out and what not, listen up:

There are all kinds of us gun nuts. And we don’t all agree on everything. I don’t agree with Pro Gun Progressive on many issues because I’m not generally a liberal. I don’t agree with Clayton Cramer on most things involving homosexuality. I don’t agree with Kim du Toit on the virtues of the 1911. I don’t agree with a lot of gun blogs right-wing cheer leading. But I do agree with them about the gun issue.

I am much more gun nut than a lot of folks. You could say that I’m more GOA than NRA when it comes down to the issues. But here’s the deal: the NRA is the 800lb gorilla when it comes to guns. And they are effective. Sure, I (and you) have had issues with them. And I’ve criticized the hell out of them. A lot. But they still have my support. Just like the aforementioned bloggers who I may not generally agree with. So, let’s not start poo-pooing the NRA because they’re getting into the new media game. Yes, we can raise legitimate concerns about them and criticize them at length. But if there is a rift in the pro-gun community, it hurts us all. You can cheer lead the GOA or JPFO all you like. But they’re not very effective at, err, much. Even though I’m more inclined to agree with GOA.

Yes, the NRA compromises by having their attorney seemingly argue that he wants registration. But that is incidental to the big picture which is that a case is going to the Supreme Court. A winnable case, even. And it’s going to take small steps for the long term victory. Small victories add up, such as the recent adoption of CCW laws in the vast majority of states.

Remember, if you drive a truck in ten miles, it’s still ten miles to get out.

Like Sebastian said a bit back:

To me the NRA is like an annoying little brother; he sure does annoy you sometimes, and you wish he wouldn’t go off and get himself into trouble that you felt compelled to get him out of. But when the chips are down, family is family, and you do what you have to do.

Update: And don’t take this post to mean that I (or you) should constantly be affirming NRA with perpetual rah rah rah go team fight eagerness. Rather, remain critical when warranted but try not to be openly hostile. We’re winning and we should keep it that way.

That’s what Joe says. He has a message for her.

And I like this quote from Clayton Cramer:

Still, her announcement that she was going to stop allowing comments doesn’t particularly upset or surprise me–this is a common response of gun control advocates, who soon discover that we knuckle-dragging Neanderthals don’t just outnumber them, but we’re smarter than they are–way smarter.

I call bullshit:

A Collier County man is having second thoughts about selling his AK-47 online because of the buyers the rifle has attracted this week. He says most of the people that responded to his Craigslist.org posting are convicted felons.

And how do you know that? The guy claims to do background checks. Really? How do you without access to NICS? Or are you really spending $19.99 a pop to have some agency do them? You know, for a $1,000 gun (which, by the way, way too much for an AK).

And MSNBC bought this story?

Step one: pick issue.

Step two: repeat Brady Campaign & Violence Policy Center talking points.

Well, at least that’s what Matt Sedensky did. We have all sorts of misleading scary phrases like spray of bullets, high-powered assault weapon and weapons of choice for gangs. All of that, of course, is misleading. Additionally, Matt pulls some real boners like:

And when the guns, once found solely in the hands of soldiers, are aimed at officers on patrol, there’s little authorities can do to escape.

Err, semi-auto rifles have been in the hands of civilians since there have been semi-auto rifles.

Federal officials don’t compile statistics on the number of crimes involving assault weapons like the AK-47, and municipalities’ numbers across the country are patchwork.

Err, yeah they do. And it’s a very small number.

The guns are readily available on streets, Baixauli said, or can be ordered by mail for under $200.

Mail ordering guns is illegal, unless you go through a federal firearms dealer. And if you can find a $200 AK, I’ll take all you got.

The AP: Getting out the Brady Campaign’s propaganda so Brady doesn’t have to.

More here and here.

Blake went and snapped some pics from the event.

Game day. Lots of beverages to be consumed.

Sarcastic Update: go vols.

Sarcastic Update 2: From my brother-in-law: Well, we’ll get to see how UT does next year. When Fulmer’s gone.

Drug War Rant has a commercial about it.

At stop the drug war.

Well, he can do it now with some dignity or wait until he’s forced out for being a felon.

Update: Lost his spot Joint Legislative Committee. No doubt, Nazis were responsible.

Update 2: That was fast.

Seems the Nintendo Wii has a controller that is shaped like a gun. Pants Shitting Hysteria ensues.

Pump action 22.

Making our case for us:

The 30-year-old law in question makes it illegal to posses a handgun inside the city but allows citizens to own shotguns or rifles. Most of the shootings in the city are committed with handguns.

So, the shootings with handguns happen even though possession is illegal? That’s unpossible.

AC wonders whether law enforcement priorities should include shutting down weed farmers. Like Chuck says, end the drug war and release the prisoners. It’s not that I think legalizing drugs would be a great wonderful thing but the instances of the cops shooting 90 year-old grandmothers or raiding the wrong houses would probably drop significantly.

Seen at David’s:

CALL Gov’s Sac number (916-445-2841)

Press 1 – for English
Press 2 – for Voice your opinion on Assembly Bills
Press 1 – for Micro Stamping Bill (AB1471)
Press 2 to OPPOSE the gun control bill.

Via RuffRidr, who says:

You don’t have to speak to anyone. This takes 20 seconds. That’s it! I repeat, you do not need to speak to anyone

In other news, there’s now an automated system to support or oppose legislation?

Sebastian notes his meeting with NRA folks:

I was also quite pleased that the NRA is realizing that they need to have a better presence in the new media, and want to work more closely with bloggers.

We look forward to it.

Well, sorta:

The city’s embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.

Sylvester Johnson says black men, in particular, have a duty to protect more vulnerable residents. He wants each volunteer to pledge to work three hours a day for at least 90 days.

Unfortunately:

The men who join Johnson’s program will not carry weapons or make arrests but will instead emphasize conflict resolution, similar to the Guardian Angels’ ground rules.

No word on whether or not targets will be painted on them.

AC scores a major scoop on Rob Briley (Briley background here):

Looking at Rob Briley’s police report you will find an interesting name at the bottom. Under the spot reserved for “nearest relative” is the name Mary Littlon and a telephone number.

The number matches the cell phone number of a registered lobbyist for the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, one Mary Littleton.

Turns out, having a lobbyist as your personal lawyer doesn’t violate ethics laws. Governor Bredesen has called on Briley to resign.

Seems like Bredesen is finally getting it:

Gov. Bredesen says it may be time to shut down the state’s tax on illegal drugs because of a recent appeals court opinion the so-called “crack tax” is unconstitutional.

It is a stupid law.

If that were the case here, I’d be in prison.

You can’t make this stuff up:

Cornerstone Elementary School will review its zero-tolerance policy toward guns on campus this fall after fifth-graders were told to remove weapons from the hands of toy soldiers that festooned their graduation caps.

Wayne reports that The Nation of Islam is suing the NRA for, err, not sure exactly:

But the Nation of Islam is threatening to sue the NRA because we supported and lobbied for statewide firearms preemption in Pennsylvania.

According to Michael Coard, with the Nation of Islam’s “Millions More Movement,” the group is threatening to sue the NRA because members believe the preemption laws have led to more “guns on the street.”

Wow. So, you can sue people because the may have contributed to legislation you don’t like? Wow, I need to start a list.

How to make them from paracord.

Also, magpulls from inner-tubes (not to be confused with Al Gore’s Internets).

Magpuls from zipties.

Barry:

Have you ever seen a more scarily useless group of people running for president?

Thirdpower addresses why it’s bullshit.

Once in a while I read KnoxBlab. It has some good local information and some off the wall stuff like the latest YouTubes that are interesting. You can also find the latest Top five Songs of any category.

One of the local socialist anarchists wrote about 9/11, “On this the anniversary of an unfortunately successful criminal attack on our nation, I refuse invitations of a moment of silence. That is indeed the problem. Too many of us have been too silent for too long. To honor those who had all taken from them, who were killed in most ironic fashion as are all victims of “Holy Wars”, I pledge not a moment of silence but instead, a lifetime noisy, raucous, unwavering support for the Constitution that the criminals and their cowardly cohorts in our own government are attempting to fully obviate.”

I replied, “Criminal attack? Are you Bill Clinton? That was an act of War.”

So this brings the question, America was attacked on 9/11, was this an act of War?

See what happens when there’s actual reasoned discourse and not Reasoned Discourse^tm?

Man shoots self in the head with a Hummer mounted Gatling gun.

Update: folks at subguns.com say police list it as a shooting death. So, I doubt the guy shot himself.

Speaking of, Junior is doing show & tell at school. This week, she was to take something that started with the letter A. The Mrs. inquires about what would be a good thing to take. I reply with AR-15?

Woohoo, an event has been added: Show and Tell by Brownell’s. Last year, I won the range bag and must say it is very nice.

I recommend a suppressed Ruger 10/22. I hate geese.

Les Jones has a S&W Smith & Wesson 625 Jerry Miculek special.

Red’s has some 500 & 460s.

Insty links to 25 things a man should know how to do. Phelps is a man. And he also offers his far more, err, useful list:

Stop arterial bleeding

[...]

Read a children’s book aloud with funny voices

Useful skills to have. I think I’d add:

Clean a carcass

Purify water

Tie a knot (including one for a fishhook)

Know the lyrics to at least ten kids’ songs

Break up a dog fight

So, who’s in charge of hiring these guys:

… the local police chief denies charges that he sexually harassed a teen-aged driver on the job as a patrol cop seven years ago.

And it turns out that the cop in the video is himself a great story of American redemption: he was able to convince a judge to expunge his criminal record of theft and assault convictions. You know; so he could “protect and serve”.

Wow.

A good read on machine guns and NFA items in estates.

Heh: Beer truck overturns; nobody loots

There is no liberal bias in the media. Okay, maybe that is not reasoned discourse.

Maybe we should consult a different source.

The liberal media watchdog group has released a study saying syndicated columnists are dominated by conservatives.

From Editor & Publisher: His group found that 60 percent of the daily newspapers print more conservative syndicated columnists each week than liberals. Twenty percent of the papers are dominated by liberals and 20 percent are balanced. Media Matters had no information on local columnists.

The study also did not look at news decisions and placement, editorials, editorial cartoons, guest columnists, space used for liberal/conservative issues or letters to the editor. It also failed to survey the leanings of newsroom employees.

Nice try, Media Matters, but your study is like judging a vehicle by its tires.

It seems safe to say that liberals are mad as hell and they are not going to take it anymore. Do you think they hate Thomas Sowell because he is black?

This guy is either a decent actor or has no life.

Magus in comments alerts us to this:

Young man taunted by policeman wants officer fired

Well, I want him in jail. Continuing:

A young St. Louis man who videotaped a police officer’s angry taunts during a traffic stop, and later posting the footage on the Internet where thousands of viewers have watched it, said Tuesday he wants the officer fired.

Brett Darrow, 20, met with St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon and also filed a formal complaint against the officer, Sgt. James Kuehnlein.

During the meeting Darrow asked to see the videotape from Kuehnlein’s police car. But according to Uhrig, that footage, inexplicably, is nowhere to be found.

Imagine that.

Update: D’oh. Greg alerted me yesterday and I somehow missed it.

You just knew this would happen. The United States had the “Mother of All Bombs”, the MOAB. But now the Russians have developed the FOAB, the “Father of All Bombs.”

Once again we have a mineshaft gap.

This is one seriously big bomb. Kills everything within three miles and causes deafness within four miles.

Server needed rebooting.

In an update to Briley’s arrest, Here’s a video of it. Not pretty.

Us bloggers talking bad about him. No wonder he introduced a law that would have required bloggers to remove statements that were alleged to be defamatory a bit back.

Update: Well, I’m not a fan of the guy but I do share his taste in whiskey.

The Hot Momma Revolution, indeed:

Miscreant. That’s the new word I learned this weekend. I learned it from the instructor who taught the defensive handgun course Hubs and I took, among many other things.

Some of those other things are food blister, traffic finger and Dunlap’s disease.

From the pic, it looks like two women were signed up. Excellent. And, well, you just gotta accessorize that Glock.

Rustmeister has a look at the ATF data for Tennessee and notes something surprising. Seems our most dangerous city has the fewest gun traces. Odd.

with a Remington.

What with my trying to export our gun culture and all that.

Where is the middle ground on gun issues? I’m not sure but I do know that it is not where anti-gun groups, politicians, and editorial boards tell me it is.

I suppose they’ll sue sword manufacturers next?

Ain’t that the truth: If you post something without comment, people will assume you approve.

Fear the internet activism.

Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.

You mean we should eat the corn instead of putting it in the gas tank? Who knew?

Congrats to Brittney on her new gig.

I guess I’m obligated to do one. So here goes. No disaster porn here. But I do like reader blackfork’s suggestion that I set up a fake security checkpoint in my front yard and confiscate tiny bottles of liquids and toenail clippers from my neighbors. You know, in a show of solidarity for security theater.

A look at 9-11 posts past. I suppose I’m still too damn cynical.

As you were.

There’s this stuff that looks to be water coming from the sky. I dunno what it is.

Via GLN, he was on the Board for the Joyce Foundation. You know, those folks who pay for this rubbish.

• Great show, not-so-great venue. Standing room only, which wouldn’t have been so bad except it was packed, and you had a lot of pushy people who were constantly going back-and-forth.
• When you’ve been taking muscle relaxers, Maker’s Mark is not your friend. Even if you stop taking them fully six hours before you start the Maker’s Mark.
• Maker’s Mark + residual muscle relaxers = portions of night blacked out.
• Deciding to do an impromptu photo shoot with random hot chicks whom you found in the hotel lobby will not go over well with your wife, particularly not when she’s standing right there. Even if you remember absolutely none of it. Especially when she can pull out the camera and show you the pictures to prove it. (Odds are, she will then make you delete the photos.)
• You know you’re drunk when: you can barely even hold yourself up over the bathtub to get sick. (Somebody kept moving the damn thing!)
• Creative use of iPod #37: Blocking out the sound of your husband getting violently ill in the bathroom of your hotel room.
• Girsch’s Law of Hungover Travel: If you’re hung over on a day when you have to fly, you will get a turbulent flight
• An airplane lavatory is not a pleasant place to get ill. Rumor has it.
• It’s good to be back home, and no longer hung over!

Pretty good sign for us pro-gun folks that the Senate voted 81-10 to prevent any funding to foreign organizations that infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of lawful American citizens. That would be the United Nations, in case you wanted to know.