Or 50. Literally. Because whenever I’m on Alcoa Highway, there’s always a turtle race involving two cars doing about 40.

Well, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has to:

To bolster their claims, Brady’s report contains an appendix of stories where alleged CCW licensees broke the law. Of the two cases researched so far, both of these incidents have proven to be self-defense, while Brady insinuates both cases were murder.

Their claims about CCW holders again go *poof*.

So, Bostonians are getting terrorized by turkeys. In Tennessee, we’d be happy that Thanksgiving came early. In Boston, people run away.

It always amuses me that anti-gunners think we pro-gun activists are paid shills. Particularly, since anti-gun activists often are paid shills. Anyway, they have to believe that. No matter the evidence. See?

If gun makers acted like anti-gunners said they did.

Gander Mountain is marketing more pink guns to get women into the shooting sports.

Update: Pink Taurus.

Seen Les Jones’ joint. Unsurprisingly, a Glock won. But there were far more Glocks in the competition than 1911s.

More allegations of a barrage death threats from gunnies. Ya know, without actually showing said barrage.

Politico wants to own a gun in NY:

A City Council member who represents parts of Staten Island, Vincent Ignizio, says he is hoping to obtain a gun permit from the city — a process that can take up to six months.

And getting said permit is pricey and there’s no guarantee you’ll be approved. And these are reasonable gun laws.

Now, upon getting a permit there, you must register all weapons and get insurance.

Update: Jay says that’s required for a license to own. Ack.

Update: The bill in question is in fact a proposed law. And has been proposed yearly for a while. Bitter says it’s not even out of committee.

No clue. But Chris says it’s a .38-45 Clerke. And Chris knows these things.

It’s like a death match of pro-gun v. anti-gun.

Update: Link seems to be having issues.

Rustmeister joins the Triangle of Death.

Seriously. I was perusing their site and can’t find a join button. I see a big donate button. But I can’t seem to join. Mind you, I can join the NRA pretty quickly from their site. Even a quick Google for join brady campaign turns up no info on how to join.

They don’t disclose membership numbers, that I know of. Since they’re likely quite small. I wonder if it’s because people can’t join?

So, the kid gets off: A University of Florida student who was shocked with a Taser after persistently questioning Sen. John Kerry will avoid criminal charges by apologizing and complying with terms of a voluntary 18-month probation, authorities said Tuesday.

that’s one big shotgun.

Thanks to Kit, now whenever someone calls me up or passes me in the hallway and asks me What’s up? or What’s going on? or Whatcha doing?, I respond with Perpetuating my radical views.

You’ll recall that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed in 2005 was to shield gun makers from frivolous lawsuits. Any way, for the second time that I know of, a court says it doesn’t meant what it says. Note: that is a Brady presser so it’s probably wrong about a lot of things.

than lie-in.

Student suspended for having shotgun shells in her car.

Seen at The Gun Nut:

So now the UN wants to disarm civilians? Where was the UN when the massacres in Rwanda occurred? What did the UN do to protect the victims of ethnic massacres in Bosnia? Disarming civilians under the guise of international human rights law will only lead to more such genocides by ensuring that civilians can never defend themselves! It would be funny if it weren’t so perverse.

I will say this for Thompson: well played. Here’s why. Without saying the stuff that scares white people, he addresses the reasons for the second amendment that often do scare white people. He does so by addressing self-defense as a natural right and genocide. But he did so without all that stuff gun nuts tend to talk about (sovereignty, shooting the bastards, etc.) that scares the white people. It’s well-played because it reaches out to gun nuts and to regular folks who understand that self-defense is good.

Lyle got his NRA trainer’s certification.

Why are anti-gun activists so violent?

Update: Related:

And more on Petey here. And, for the record, I do not think Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership was serious when he threatened to shoot me. It was a joke and a bad one. And, no, I’m not calling the FBI. I mean, seriously, if there were like a list of 100 bloggers it’d be stupid to threaten to shoot, I’d be on the list somewhere.

BTW, you Brady folks googling the incident up should talk to your IT folks. In my referral logs, it says your visiting from The Brandy Campaign.

A rifle review over at The Gun Blogs.

Minigun. Via USC.

As a Ron Paul supporter. Well, that is the first step.

Another bit from the aforementioned WaPo bit on guns in Mexico:

But law enforcement officers on both sides of the border have never seen anything like the flood of guns now surging into Mexico. The increase has been stoked by the cartel war and by the ease of buying high-powered weapons since the U.S. assault weapons ban was not renewed in 2004, William Newell, a special agent in charge of the ATF’s Phoenix office, said in an interview.

So, now the ATF is misrepresenting the ban?

In an update to the chicks with machine guns post, Aunt B. (our token feminist) says I’ve oppressed her and she didn’t notice:

I think it depends. If the gun-rights movement is filled with lots of images and stories of ordinary women enjoying shooting and owning guns and going to the range for our own reasons and videos of sexy women shooting guns are just a small subset of the images of women shooting guns, then, no, I don’t think it turns women off to guns. If anything, we see that men who are gun-nuts do the same things that other men do–one of which is enjoying looking at women in bikinis.

Well, I’ve the feminist OK now! Any way, I do both. And mostly the former tales of ordinary women. She is, however, glad we even addressed how women might feel.

So, it seems in Mexico, authorities are saying that the guns used in high profile crimes there originate in the US:

U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico

Assassins blasted Ricardo Rosas Alvarado, a member of an elite state police force, with a blizzard of bullets pumped out of AK-47 assault rifles.

Alvarado crumpled at the wheel of his sedan, yet another victim of the weapons known here as “goat’s horns” because of their curved ammunition clips, and which can fire at a rate of 600 rounds per minute. The killing, Mexican authorities said, was a panorama of blood, shattered glass and torn metal that brutally showcased the firepower of Mexico’s drug cartels. But that was just the warm-up.

Two hours later, a small army of cartel hit men descended on a federal police office and bunkhouse in this crowded city at one of the world’s busiest border crossings. None of the officers, who had recently been sent here to crush the drug gangs terrorizing the city, were killed in the hail of more than 1,200 bullets, authorities said. But police veterans understood the message delivered to the newcomers: “Welcome to Tijuana. Our guns are bigger than your guns.”

The high-powered guns used in both incidents on the evening of Sept. 24 undoubtedly came from the United States, say police here, who estimate that 100 percent of drug-related killings are committed with smuggled U.S. weapons.

The guns pass into Mexico through the “ant trail,” the nickname for the steady stream of people who each slip two or three weapons across the border every day. The “ants” — along with larger smuggling operations — are feeding a rapidly expanding arms race between Mexican drug cartels.

The U.S. weapons — as many as 2,000 enter Mexico each day, according to a Mexican government study — are crucial tools in an astoundingly barbaric war between rival cartels that has cost 4,000 lives in the past 18 months and sent law enforcement agencies in Washington and Mexico City into crisis mode.

Such machine guns are illegal here in the states as they have been banned since 1986. I’m not sure whether to question the claim or the accuracy of the story.

Update: Jeff: Actually, it’s the drug cartels in Mexico that are behind the killings but guns are easier to blame. Well, I thought that was clear.

Update 2: Uh oh:

Three high-ranking Mexican police officers were arrested over the weekend after for after they reportedly bought weapons at a gun show in Phoenix in violation of a law barring non-citizens from purchasing firearms, a federal official said Wednesday.

The three include the director of the Baja California state police and a commander of the federal police in Baja California, said Tom Mangan, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.

Went yesterday and bought myself a birthday present (I’m 36 today). I walked by a counter and saw a pretty snazzy Ruger 10/22. I thought wow, that looks cool. Then I realized that it had a Tapco stock on it, which can be hit or miss. Then I handled the weapon and it felt quite nice in my hand. It was a nice, tight fit with the 10/22 action and barrel and it offered a rail. Plus, I just like things that look AR-15ish. So, I bought one of these stocks for Mr. Plinky. I got it in Dark Earth color. It even has a single point sling mount so I get to make another Uncle Brand^tm Single Point Sling.

Now, I need an optic. I feel bad putting a $400 dollar optic on a less than $150 weapon. Any suggestions for a decent and cheap red dot sight?

The reauthorization of the assault weapons ban has 59 co-sponsors.

I noted the language criticizing ATF in the apprporations bill. I got an email from Glen Caroline at NRA noting:

Based on our discussion at the GBR, I thought this would be of interest to you; an area detailing where NRA’s efforts, and the efforts of the bloggers, have produced some movement in the area of BATFE reform. Please cross post this to your lists so all are aware of our efforts on this front.

Thank you,
Glen
Glen Caroline, Director
NRA-ILA Grassroots Division
www.NRAILA.org

____

Based on concerns raised by NRA, the House Appropriations Committee report on the Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations bill (H.R. 3093) includes the following language:

“The committee has heard reports that [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] has pursued license revocations and denials against firearms dealers based on violations that consist largely of recordkeeping errors of various types that are unlikely to impede tracing investigations or prosecution of individuals who use firearms in crime. The Committee encourages ATF to consider lesser gradation of sanctions for recordkeeping errors.”

This is a continuation of NRA’s longstanding efforts to reform the BATFE, and to ensure that any penalties administered by BATFE against FFLs appropriately fit the transgression and that BATFE does not abuse its authority. Last spring, NRA-ILA secured passage in the U.S. House of H.R. 5092, a bill that included many reforms to the process by which BATFE punishes violations of federal law and regulations (more information on bill here). These reforms would have provided a fairer process for FFLs accused of violations. Passage of the bill followed on the heels of House hearings (also prompted by NRA’s efforts) on BATFE abuses with respect to FFL enforcement and gun show operations. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to consider the bill before adjourning for the year.

Others in the pro-gun grassroots community have reported on this issue, including Ryan Horsley of Red’s Trading Post, and numerous other bloggers. Working together, it is our hope that we can continue our mutual efforts to reform BATFE once and for all to reduce and eliminate unjust harassment of legitimate gun dealers.

Seems my throw away post linking to a video scantily clad women firing machine guns generated a bit of a stink. Well, I didn’t take it seriously either but some folks took issue with it. In comments, Rob said:

Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with women in bikinis. There’s even something hot about chicks and guns. But these types of videos are exactly what the Bradys look for when stereotyping us gunnies.

The lack of safety here is appalling. No eye protection. No hearing protection. Spraying from side to side and from the hip.

No thanks.

And Joe finds it annoying and notes women might find it offensive. Well, I thought it was funny. And that was really it. I didn’t much thought into it.

James thinks they just need more range instruction and volunteered to help.

#41. Via Ninth Stage.

Breda took a new shooter to the range.

But seriously?

Greg has a little competition for you gun bloggers:

A Competition for Gunbloggers: Taking Newbies to the Range

In the spirit of AC’s offer, I’m sponsoring an informal competition to see how many people we can (safely) introduce to guns. My main concern is education. I’m not trying to turn card-carrying members of the Brady Campaign into NRA advocates (although, I wouldn’t complain.) We have to take it upon ourselves to teach people, one at a time if need be, that guns are not what movies, politicians, and anti-rights lobbyists portray them to be.

Details here.

Luring gun makers. Say, Knoxville was trying that a bit back. I never heard more after their pitch, though.

Via Rustmeister.

Seems Rudy thinks the blind should be able to own guns. Well, not really. He says that people have a right to arms. And some people are blind. But the blind seem to be doing OK.

Reader Shane emails:

I took the NRA handgun course today, had a lot of fun too! Last time I fired a handgun was in 1993 (a 1911 back when I was in the Navy). After I left school at Madison, WI and moved to the Seattle area, I decided to get a handgun for personal and home defense, as well as to carry when I go mountain hiking and backpacking. So today I fired a 1911, a Sig Sauer 226, a .38 revolver, and a Glock 19, did pretty good too (nice tight groupings for the most part). I did the best with the 1911 and the Sig, both fit my hand real well and I did not have any trouble keeping my aim. I eventually wound up purchasing a S&W M&P .45. It also fit my hand real well and the range gun was a nice shooter. I know a .45 is considered by some to be a bit much, but I want something that can take hollow point (to minimize wall penetration should I miss) and drop a bear if I find myself facing one someday in the wilderness.

I have to wait a week before I can pick it up, but that is OK as my wife wants to gun safe to arrive first (I got a gunvault, www.gunvault.com). I’ll also be stopping by the Sheriff this week to put in my application for my Concealed Carry Permit.

The instructor for my NRA course also teaches an advanced course in pistol shooting (shooting offhand, kneeling, prone, from cover, etc) and home defense (how to deter a home invader by making your home unattractive, and how to stop an intruder should they choose to come in). Gonna have to ask him when he plans on offering that again.

Anyway, maybe I’m not part of the “Triangle of Death”, but certainly one of the People of the Gun.

Excellent.

Background here and here. Seems she’s getting tons of hate mail. Her email address disappeared from here last night so it’s not you guys. I suspect it’s from the NRA news alert. Some of the hate mail, which she insists on forwarding to me, is appalling. She says she’s received death threats though none of the ones she sent to me were threats but were vile nonetheless. Anyway, I think she gets it.

At the Atlantic, the grotesque image has disappeared and been replaced with an homage to the first amendment. Seems they think we’re advocating congress making it a law that you can’t say stupid shit. As opposed to what we did which was, you know, exercise our first amendment rights to say you said some stupid shit. Equating 4M NRA members with a murderer would upset them? Who knew?

And they state that the image was not from Stahl:

Furthermore, the image was not chosen and created by Stahl but rather the editorial team. Our publication is not USA-based and we reserve the right to print what we want (our laws protect Freedom of Speech as well) whether or not we fully agree with what has been published.

And there’s a screed on guns and hunting that’s not even worth reading because it devolves into hysteria about gulags and kleptocracy. And don’t bother commenting there. I’m told they’re deleting them.

Is they’re living in the 90s:

After all, polls in the early 90s consistently showed that crime was an important issue and 60% support for tighter gun control laws. Yet Dems are essentially done trying to push gun control laws because of the perceived efficacy of the NRA in both 1994 and 2000. This is because while lots of people will march to the polls to vote against their Congressman for voting to take away their guns and give them to the U.N., the voters who favor these laws won’t use it as a reason to vote for anyone.

Or because, being smart politicians, they look at new polls.

heh.

In an update to Poster Child For The NRA, it seems Jayne Lyn Stahl was in no way responsible for that disgusting image. She stated to me that:

I had nothing to do with the photo/logo, nor wouold I ever do anything that gross and reprehensible.

and I asked her to clarify:

Yep; I had nothing to do with that nor would I ever have anything to do with something as repugnant and disgusting as that. I totally agree with you and your readers that using the NRA logo in a way like that (or the logo of any organization) would be vile and repulsive. Thanks for asking. I respect your right to your opinion, and I respect the NRA as I do any law-abiding organization

I think the Atlantic Free Press is the culprit here.

I believe her.

Update: And you can stop bugging her now. She’s not responsible for the image and, I think, realizes her title of Poster Child For The NRA may have been over the top. And that’s a good thing.

Go Team Uncle!

Wow. A truly horrid abuse of the law.

From NRA’s Freedom’s Voice by Glen A. Caroline, Director of NRA-ILA Grassroots Division

Those who know even a little something about NRA would read this headline and immediately conjure up images of a renowned competitive shooter, an accomplished sportswoman, someone who bravely and legally used a gun for self-defense, or maybe a patriot who stands up for freedom when it is attacked.

Well, if you’re Jayne Lyn Stahl, your image is that of a murderer.

In an October 9 Atlantic Free Press article by that title, Stahl equates the off-duty deputy sheriff in Wisconsin who shot and killed six innocent people in cold blood with the typical NRA Member. Specifically, Ms. Stahl writes, “While one often thinks of Charleton (sic) Heston when thinking about the NRA, in this age of the cowboy, any gun-toting madman will do just as well.” Need more? Stahl also opined, “This officer who fired his gun, and took the lives of six isn’t the only poster child for the NRA; each of his victims is, too.”

“Misguided” is the most benign adjective I can use to describe her assessment. More appropriate descriptions include “ignorant,” “insulting,” “outrageous.”

Imagine equating an organization of nearly 4,000,000 members, that dedicates itself to preserving the rights of law-abiding citizens to choose to legally own guns, while also calling for the strict enforcement and punishment of those who break the law, with a cold-blooded killer. Stahl’s offensive comparison shrieks of ignorance, disregarding NRA’s actions and deeds.

Comparing a group whose 62,000-plus certified instructors train 1,000,000 Americans annually in firearms safety and responsibility, to someone who would undertake such a heinous act? I’d call that insulting. If not, perhaps I don’t understand the meaning of the word.

An organization that counts among its staff, national officers, and members current and retired law enforcement professionals, representative of a murderer? That’s not just
outrageous, it’s damn outrageous!

We haven’t even discussed perhaps the most disturbing part of Stahl’s slanderous piece. Along with her viciously misguided words was a photo of the shooter, along with the NRA logo (used without permission), and the following caption: “Proudly enabling sick nuts to carry out violent revenge for fantasies for 136 years.”

NRA reserves its support for the Second Amendment to lawful and responsible citizens. It appears when it comes to the First Amendment, Ms. Stahl and the Atlantic Free Press fail to qualify in this latter category.

It is troubling to say the least when a professional writer, with either absolutely no factual information about NRA or who we are, is able to pen a piece equating our four million members with a murderer.

Ms. Stahl, shame on you for your outrageous, insulting display of ignorance.

To contact the Atlantic Free Press : Click here

Update: See update here. you can stop bugging her now. She’s not responsible for the image and, I think, realizes her title of Poster Child For The NRA may have been over the top. And that’s a good thing.

Go Team Uncle!

Such sticklers for paperwork. Seems they lost 500 records, and can’t account for some machine guns. More here.

First, Peter Hamm of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership tells kids who want to carry guns to drop out of school. Now, he’s threatening to shoot me in comments at Sebastian’s. And we gun owners are the violent ones.

Tipping point. We getting close to the point of no return. We’re all going to die.

The UN has just released a “major report”. The fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997. It contains dire warnings. It seems there are too many people on Planet Earth. We are actually killing the Planet.

Now before you consider the source and scoff, know this, 388 experts and scientists describe this as “the final wake-up call to the international community.”

“Life would be easier if we didn’t have the kind of population growth rates that we have at the moment,” Steiner said. “But to force people to stop having children would be a simplistic answer. The more realistic, ethical and practical issue is to accelerate human well-being and make more rational use of the resources we have on this planet.”

What does that mean? It means that the 388 scientists theorize that you eat too much, require too much land, too much energy, and too many resources. So stop having children, eating meat, and driving your fat ass around in that SUV, you damn Planet killer.

All kidding aside, is there a purpose to this continual fear mongering from the United Nations? An endgame so to speak.

Could it be a World Wide tax administered by the United Nations?

Obviously, Glenn hasn’t been to Kroger. They’ve had Christmas stuff out since about Labor Day.

Well, after the first couple of times, you get used to the label.

Update: Oh dear:

“H.R.1955, ‘Sec. 899B. Findings.

The Congress finds the following:

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”

Recall my fight with Google Ad Sense (note: even though I pointed them to my other sites, they haven’t pulled the ads yet, which I find odd). Any way, here’s another. Seems if you don’t like Barack Hussein Obama ads, they’ll drop you. Meanwhile, moveon ads are always peachy.

Google Ad Sense posts from the past:

No guns but go ahead and advertise hookers.

More email.

Google will advertise gun stuff at their site.

And at mine (look left).

How dare someone put two lawful and licensed businesses next to each other? And I will teach my kids about gun control and how it is a failure.

VZ58

Joe Biden doesn’t like babies:

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, praised U.S. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware for today introducing comprehensive anti-crime legislation including a federal assault weapons ban and an end to the loophole allowing gun sales at gun shows without a Brady background check.

Seems DC is a bit spooked and is asking the SCOTUS for only a limited ruling:

The District of Columbia government on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to address only a single issue, if it agrees to hear the city’s appeal seeking to reinstate its flat ban on private possession of handguns.  In a reply brief, found here, city officials contended that the only issue the Court need decide is the meaning of the Second Amendment as it applies directly to the city’s specific ban on pistols.  This would involve an inquiry aimed at what the Amendment’s words mean, “construed in light of their history, purpose, and place in this Nation’s tradition.”

Seems they’re a bit scared because their other gun laws being challenged (i.e., a shotgun/rifle must be disassembled thereby rendering it useless if you need it) would easily be defeated.

Meanwhile, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership bleats about how everyone is wrong but them. Recall, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership tried to talk DC out of pressing the appeal likely because they knew they’d lose.

Err, moderately safe for work and lots of unsafe gun handling. But, you know, who can’t watch chicks in bikinis firing belt fed machine guns?

So, if I understand this correctly, here’s the reasoning: Police want to raid alleged drug dealer. Police get no knock warrant. Police conduct raid late at night so that they can catch them off guard. The plan worked and they were off guard. So, being off guard, person at the house opens fire. Now, the police say that she should have known they were police.

It makes no sense to me.

A reader at Jay’s wants to defend himself. Jay offers advice. Offer your own, if you like.

House passed a bill that: will ensure there will be no federal infringement of Second Amendment rights on certain public lands. As to details, the bill:

stipulates that all designated lands within these areas would be exclusively governed by state and local laws regarding hunting, fishing, and the possession or use of a weapon, trap, or net.

Another article, this one from ESPN, that makes the comparison that gun owners are somehow equivalent to addicts.

Good news – Americans are finding out the truth about gun control! But where? It’s not getting mentioned in the press?

I’m speechless.

Saiga shotty.

End the War On Guns. I don’t think it’s related to War on Guns.

Peter Hamm, of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school

Seen at insty’s: From here, it looks as if the Republicans have become wrong and corrupt, the Democrats are stupid and corrupt, and the Libertarians have gone plain crazy.

Robbing a gun shop: not smart.

Yeah, I’m only recently getting cussing under control around the younguns.

Err, OK, we’re number 91 still. But it’s nice to be noticed.

Over at Knoxviews, metulj notes that Red State is giving Ron Paul supporters the Knoxviews treatment. Seems Red State doesn’t like Ron Paul.

Ok, brief interlude because, as is typical, even when metulj is interesting, he’s still usually substantially off the mark. Such as:

While a blog host can allow or disallow any speech they want on their site, the quashing of Ron Paul supporters at Red State is probably the perfect representation of how the Right eats its own.

and:

What makes this different from Democratic problems with iconoclastic leftists like Nader is that this is coming within the GOP, not from without.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

He’s big with the Shoot Cans Crowd too

Ron Paul isn’t really burning up the gun blog crowd in a big way. He is, however, appealing to the GOA sorts. The NRA ranked Ron Paul a B and his Democrat opponent an A, even though I know of no politico more pro-gun than Paul.

a former poster* is now actively promoting the GOP iconoclast . . . *who took his ball and left when our estimable host reminded him that this blog is the host’s private property.

Not so on both counts. I am not actively promoting Paul. Paul’s campaign bought an ad here. My posting at Knoxviews was forbidden and I stopped commenting there.

Any way, on Ron Paul: I like the guy. I think the significance of Ron Paul is that he’s saying things that need to be said and that often are not said in politics. He’s the only presidential candidate ever I’ve heard address the harm caused by the drug war, for example. And that’s a good thing.

But his foreign policy scares people. And his talk about the drug war probably scares the Hell out of Susie Soccer Mom who finds Paul’s message conflicts with the things she learned in DARE and SADD in the late 80s. And, you know, a lot of people still think we’re on the gold standard (my dad, for instance, and I argued about this recently) and don’t like being told otherwise. And abolishing the federal reserve, IRS, ATF, DEA, DOE, etc., and other things he wants or implies he’d get rid of scares white people too.

But, generally, Ron Paul’s not so scary. His supporters are. And they’ll be here soon to comment on this post. Mark it. Look here, for instance. 40 comments on me noting an ad? As bitter noted: I’m just saying that because it’s funny how traffic spikes when I mention Ron Paul. Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! (Is that like saying Beetlejuice three times?)

Like I said, I like Paul and I’ll probably waste my vote for him in the primary.

I don’t think his supporters are liberals pretending to be Republicans (speaking of, why are Republicans pretending to be conservative?). I think some of his supporters (particularly, the vocal ones) are of the space cadet variety, though. You know, the black helicopter types, Zionist conspiracy types, only Ron Paul can save us types, new world order types, and *gasp* the truthers. These folks are active on the internet and are getting their messages out. And that’s the problem with Ron Paul: the baggage.

He’s the Republican’s Kucinich.

Seen at The Gun Blogs: The AK 47 was illegal for any civilian to own until 2004 when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired.

Never happen, though: In each new Congress since 1995, Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican, has introduced the proposed Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359). The bill, yet to be enacted into law, reads: “Each Act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act. The failure to comply with this section shall give rise to a point of order in either House of Congress. The availability of this point of order does not affect any other available relief.”

You should really be reading Larry Correia. Funny stuff:

Plus, come on. $7,000 per kid? Give me a classroom with 30 kids, and I got $210,000 for the year, I could drive them to school on a rocket bus, do science with actual Plutonium, and bring in Orson Scott Card to teach creative writing every Friday.

So, that’s how many people are on the terrorist watchlist. I think it indicates an issue with the .gov’s tracking. Because if there really are 755,000 terrorists here, we’re in trouble.

And, don’t forget, that’d be 755,000 prohibited from buying guns without due process of law if the anti-gunners had their way.

In the 2008 appropriations bill:

The Committee has heard reports that ATF has pursued violation revocations and denials against firearms dealers based on violations that consist largely of record keeping errors of various types that are unlikely to impede tracing investigations or prosecution of individuals who use firearms in crime. The Committee encourages ATF to consider lesser gradation of sanctions for record keeping errors.

Past ATF problems:

Unethical and illegal actions from field managers.

Lying in court and getting slapped for it.

Bullying bloggers

Lying (or time-traveling) to make a case that one of their auditees is harassing them.

A circuit court smacks them down for their ruling on model rockets;

An agent testified under oath that the NFRTR (the NFA weapons database) was corrupt;

Having budget issues due to mismanagement;

Being investigated for breaking he law at Virginia gun shows.

And they’ve had funds cut for some of their rather, err, dubious programs.

The ATF Director has resigned over excessive and lavish spending.

The now former head of the ATF ordered staff to do his nephew’s homework.

And employees are coming forward with allegations of mismanagement.

And getting smacked down for disregarding the law.

Yeah, mine does that too.

In Virginia, if you want to be introduced to the shooting sports, here’s a deal for you.

Looks like SCOTUS shall have a look on November 9. And David Hardy has a link to DC’s reply on cert.

Seems to work in SC.

PSH Alert from Thomas Mannard the director of Illinois Council Against Handgun Ownership:

However, I am concerned that it is legal, as Mr. Sonka correctly asserts, to own 600 guns and keep them in your house, without any recourse afforded to neighbors who might object.

Clearly, no reasonable concerned citizen should argue about the right to hoard 600 guns when weighed against the issue of public safety posed by such firepower sitting in the middle of residential community. Not only are such a large number of firearms a burglar’s dream; they pose multiple potential scenarios under which harm could come to local residents.

Whether or not Mr. Sonka is found guilty of the charges, we should be asking ourselves whether there should be a legal right to possess more than 600 firearms in a residential neighborhood, regardless of whether they are for sale or part of a personal collection.

So, should my neighbors be allowed to inspect my weapons? Err, I’m concerned and reasonable and don’t have an issue with it. And he seems to think these weapons have the magical ability to unleash havoc all by their inanimate selves.

Anyway, seems to me he lost his license, had inventory, transferred inventory to self, sold inventory to recoup losses. He’s charged, no doubt, under the very loose definition of ‘unlicensed dealer’ which basically means ATF thinks you’re dealing and you have no license. Could be some other state law at play though, though I’ve been unable to find one though this bit says he is charged with gun running, a first class felony.

I sent this costume as a suggestion for the Mrs. She told me I’d look very hot in that.

Site went down for a bit. Seems to be working fine now.

Need proof that incumbency protection err campaign finance reform is a joke:

If his campaign plays out the way he’s indicated that it will, Comedy Central and Colbert’s sponsor, Doritos, could be violating federal laws that bar corporations from backing political campaigns, election law experts say.

Sebastian on Ben Waxman:

I’ve come to expect garbage from the Philadelphia Inquirer who’s never looked at replacing the wood furniture on a domestically assembled firearm made from some foreign parts, and having to figure out whether doing so will up the foreign part count to a sufficient quantity as to run afoul of Title 18 Section 922 Subsection (r) of the United States Code, causing your domestically assembled firearm to suddenly morph into an evil imported assault weapon.

Indeed. The danger here is that Waxman is distorting the reality and this creates a problem for gun owners in that perhaps some hunter/shooter thinks this stuff is reasonable, when it’s random and arbitrary. And, regarding one gun a month laws, why not one gun per year? Or lifetime?

So, one of the conversations that occurred at GBR2 was about the Parker/Heller case. There is some fear that the case may not go our way. My opinion, expressed to the NRA reps, was that it will either go our way (which is good) or it will not, in which case giddy up. Talk about getting gun owners active again. That said, let’s assume that the case does go our way and the supreme court asserts an individual right to arms, what then?

Well, I think I’ll fill out an ATF Form 1 APPLICATION TO MAKE AND REGISTER A FIREARM to make a machine gun. I will, of course, not have any parts that warrant constructive possession. Said application will, of course, be denied. Then, I sue. Sounds like a plan except that the form 1 states: UNDER PENALTIES OF PERJURY, I DECLARE that I have examined this application, including accompanying documents, and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true, accurate and complete and the making and possession of the firearm described above would not constitute a violation of Chapter 44, Title 18, U.S.C., Chapter 53, Title 26, U.S.C., or any provisions of State or local law.

Well, I don’t want to perjure myself. Thoughts?

So, a reporter gets arrested for being strapped at a school:

A television reporter investigating a story on school violence was arrested after carrying a loaded gun onto school property, authorities said.

Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network, was taken into custody Tuesday at Miami Central High School after ignoring several warnings not to walk on school property, Miami-Dade schools police said.

“Kindly go across the street now,” an officer is shown telling Weinsier during the videotaped encounter.

“I’m not,” Weinsier replied. The officer then handcuffed him.

Weinsier, 40, was charged with possession of a firearm on school grounds, trespassing on school property with a weapon and resisting officers without violence.

The photographer working with Weinsier, Frank Debesa, said afterward: “Jeff did have a gun on him.”

Via Blount Truth.

I thought it was a joke but apparently in NY, they really are going undercover to look at the musket loophole.

But that’s unpossible:

The number of people killed or injured by firearms in Scotland has risen by a quarter in the past year, prompting fresh calls for Holyrood to be given more powers over gun control.

Figures published yesterday by the Scottish Government revealed that 247 firearms incidents resulted in death or injury in 2006-07, compared to 197 the year before.

One-third of casualties were children and more than half of the incidents involved airguns, which ministers want to make harder to obtain.

Airguns? Really?

Another pink shotty.

Alan Korwin addresses something I’ve talked about before. The presidential debates aren’t debates but auditions:

“The promoters call them ‘debates,’ so we do too, so that’s accurate,” one newsman was overheard saying.

Boy, pimping your AR may become even more fun:

A leading member of a NATO Research and Technology study team has laid out future possibilities for the standardisation of small arms, including the use of electrified power rails for accessories and sensors.

My wife’s into scrapbooking. So she might appreciate Scrap Your Husband.

And look they have AR-15 graphics.

How to win.

Sailorcourt continues his series.

Ben Waxman on NRA distorts reality on guns:

Sigle claims to speak for all gun owners, but he is grossly exaggerating the impact of gun control on law-abiding citizens.

Well, here’s a little secret for ya: Gun control laws only affect the law-abiding. More:

Here’s a little secret the NRA doesn’t want you to know: Most gun owners are almost never inconvenienced by gun laws. That’s because most people who buy guns do not do it on a whim.

Err, I’ve done it. Quite a few times. Can’t pass up a good deal.

A waiting period or one gun a month is only a problem for people who want a gun immediately.

Now, why on earth would someone want a gun immediately? Oh, yeah.

At Joe’s. I have an accent? Reminds me of a conversation about how I like my steak (rare, by the way) with Sebastian that went something like this:

Me: Yeah, just wipe it’s nose and send it out here

Sebastian: You southerners.

Me: What? How we talk or what we eat?

Sebastian: Both

that Ron Paul’s campaign is advertising here.

Ok, we’re number ninety-one in The Most Important Blogs for Efficient Readers. I don’t know what it means, exactly but I did notice that in the data set, only one other blog in the top 100 links to me. I wonder who that is?