Meanwhile, no one is writing stories and showering accolades on troops who do not happen to be princes.

You see, they are the righteous pro-hunting, pro-conservation, pro-gun group! The NRA betrays hunters at every turn. At least, that’s what they tell us. Behold Ray Schoenke’s screed at The Daily Kos. It’s so disjointed I can’t really fathom the point other than tooting the AHSA’s horn. Which is amazing, since they have no significant accomplishments nor significant membership that I know of. Only a screed with zero actual evidence about why they’re good and NRA is bad. So, let’s look at the American Hunters and Shooters Association record on guns:

The NSSF has a fact sheet on them here:

Reported in an article by Bill Schneideri that the operating budget for AHSA is $500,000. Where did this money come from? With only a handful of members (paying $25 dues) – who is bankrolling their operation?

When you follow the money, they read like a who’s who of gun grabbers. They are a front for the anti-gun Democratic Leadership Council so that anti-gun politicos can say they belong to a group that sounds pro-gun.

Members (five of them that they disclose) of the AHSA are anti-gun lobbyists.

They’re basically a shill group set up so that anti-gun candidates can try to woo the hunting crowd. Note that their only endorsement victory (McCaskill) did not sign on to support Heller.

AHSA wrote a non-opposition opposition to Heller for it’s wording.

The president allegedley helped a reporter break the law by engaging in straw purchases.

They pay people to stand outside NRA meetings to protest. Can’t get any volunteers with all your members?

They support they anti-gun Mayors Against Guns.

Field and Stream (you know, real hunters and real shooters) don’t seem to be a fan.

They keep peddling the Zumbo myth.

They call gun owners extremists and whackos. That’s correct. The Executive Director of a supposedly pro-gun group is calling those who buy weapons for self-defense (i.e., the largest growing demographic of gun owners) whackos. So, who exactly are the shooters in American Hunters and Shooters?

They say any woman who buys a gun is a sign of law-breaking.

The VPC Blog says:

It takes a great person to turn on their previous employers, to form a small organization funded by shadowy sources and harangue the NRA for many years without any popular support.

It takes a man of principle to receive instructions from those same shadowy sources and carefully position oneself as a sensible, alternative voice to the NRA for no political gain whatsoever

It takes a true patriot to stand up and say that Americans do not have the right to own firearms save for a purpose determined by the government.

But remember, I’m just a shill for the NRA who is bad and not really pro-gun.

Update: Since someone’s already left a comment, I should point out that the VPC Blog is a parody.

CNN reports special forces will be getting the FN SCAR!

The NRA reminds us to vote.

Seems Paul Helmke is tooting the Brady Campaign’s horn over how the law that bears their name passed 14 years ago. He says:

On anniversaries like this, it is important to remember what the Brady Law has accomplished, how effective the law has been at helping reduce gun crime, and how bitterly the NRA fought to kill it – including their effort to have the Brady Law struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The NRA fought it due to the waiting period. And won. And parts of the law were struck down as unconstitutional. What has it accomplished? Well, Paul tells us:

Since 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the “Brady Law”) has stopped an estimated 1.4 million criminals and other “prohibited purchasers” from buying guns from Federally licensed gun dealers.

1.4M? Sounds impressive. It’s 1.9% of all transactions. But how many were arrested? You know, for breaking the law because they were illegally purchasing guns? 1,400 were. And only 9,575 were even investigated. And only 135 were charged. 46% of rejections were due to felony convictions. 161K rejections were appealed and 57K of appeals were successful. (all data from the DOJ).

The Violence Policy Center (an anti-gun shill group) said of the law: In fact, there is little evidence that the Brady Law has had or is likely to have any significant effect in reducing the major causes of gun violence in America.

Paul then attempts to give credit to the law for the 1990s decline in gun crime. He doesn’t mention that also corresponded with the rise in states passing concealed carry laws. And advocates banning the private transfer of firearms. You know, the gun show loophole.

Personally, I don’t mind the background checks so long as they’re instant. But why aren’t more attempted illegal purchases investigated? You know, like that time someone straw-purchased a high-powered sniper rifle?

Thirdpower notes it’s their last accomplishment of any significance. Let’s keep it that way.

Hat tip jadejold.

Question: Well, which is it?

Well, the answer is depends who he’s talking to.

Remember the jailer who tossed the guy in the wheelchair in the floor? Well, allegations are it has happened before.

David Codrea has the latest. And no need to read the 39 page ar15.com thread. It is summed up here.

Sig 226

Cutting down a tree with a mini-gun.

A few videos from MagPul. I simply must have one of the fold up carbines.

Ya know, they are a dumb idea. But the phrase Stop or I’ll Toot had me laughing.

There’s a couple of those in my neighborhood. I may have to try that.

This time, Georgia has taken a prisoner of war.

Good catch.

Glenn experiences the Democrats Southern Outreach Program.

I’m reminded of this post from SayUncle past.

That’s how many new shooters Greg has logged at his Competition for Gunbloggers: Taking Newbies to the Range

The TN GOP has removed Obama’s middle name (which is Hussein and we’d never have known that without the TN GOP) and the picture reportedly provided by a Hillary staffer of Obama in a turban from their press release. Well I, for one, can sleep better now.

It’s 1993 all over again.

New shooter with pics!

Solve global warming, that is. I hear there are snowflakes in Hell.

Michael Bane has a video review of the new Ruger LCP.

Zombie Targets.

Both Sebastian and David note that the Solicitor General and DC get 15 more minutes of time to argue over the good guys. Not sure there’s much that can be read into that, though.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is having a tough time:

Two investigations against pro-gun rights groups that were initiated by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.

The FEC said that in both cases, one against the National Rifle Association and the other against the Gun Owners of America, it could find no evidence that either group had made illegal in-kind contributions to federal candidates.

Of course, the Brady’s suffer from projection (common among anti-gunners):

In 2003, the Brady Campaign’s PAC was fined $26,000 by the Federal Election Commission for failing to properly disclose $200,000 it spent on mailings in 2000 opposing two Republican House candidates, Reps. Ernest Fletcher (R-Ky.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)

The press is noticing the NRA’s outreach to bloggers.

In comments, KAG says: I believe smart PR firms/media relations specialists should be developing comprehensive blogging strategies. In fact, if I ran a PR firm, I’d have a blogging expert on staff

one says to the other: I have an idea.

The other one says: What’s that?

The first one says: Let’s have a drill where someone takes a classroom hostage.

The other one says: That’s cool

The first one says: Only, let’s not tell everyone that it’s a drill.

Roberta:

Freedom dies one worried Mother at a time, for the most high-sounding of ideals.

See, that’s why Obama references vague notions of change and hope and free puppies in speeches. Because when he opens his mouth about specifics, it’s clear he’s clueless:

GOP presidential candidate John McCain mocked Democrat Barack Obama today for saying he’d take action as president “if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq.”

McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas “I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It’s called ‘al-Qaida in Iraq.’”

That’s how you beat him. And you don’t have to show pictures of him wearing a burqa.

In the state that the Brady Campaign ranked as number one in gun control, there was a mass shooting. Recently, Brady ranked number 9 Illinois had one too.

To Thirdpower on his new addition. No doubt, a future gunblobber.

That’s a quote from a guy in the video about the ATF raid on Cavalry Arms. The guy owns a business nearby. Is it bad that my first thought is that the something probably consists of not crossing Ts or dotting an I or writing N instead of No on a form?

ColtCCO:

As with Red’s, they can come by any time, and check whatever they want – time will tell if there’s any merit to the raid on Cavalry Arms. This one may be related to a past investor(no longer associated) in the company that was nabbed for fraud, Warren Mee of Ameetec, who didn’t have the best rep to begin with. Again, may be unrelated, as the news people can’t seem to figure out if the warrant is for paperwork violations(Fox), or for fraud and money laundering(ABC). May be a fishing expedition or budget justification. Maybe if they fuck up enough small manufacturers and businesses, in the name of the public safety, people will get discouraged about going into the firearm business.

Ryan: When did the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives begin to start regulating fraud and money laundering?

Nicki: From what I’m reading on the Interwebz, it may have been the handiwork of a disgruntled former employee

Handguns should be allowed on college campuses

Invariably, all deaths are caused either by John Browning or by Glocks.

There’s even a chart to prove it.

Hat tip Jadegold.

20mm rifle. The little poodle shooter beside it is a 50 cal.

Did you know that not only can 50 caliber rifles Crack the engine of a plane and, absolutely positively, kill everyone on board easily, they are also a threat to Superman and other superheroes. Did I mention the Violence Policy Center has a blog?

Apparently, people actually give a poop that Tennessee Republicans called Obama by his full name, which happens to include his middle name, which is Hussein which sounds a lot like some former dictator who spent his final minutes realizing how much gravity can suck. You know, in case you didn’t know that. I mean, it took the awesome power of the TN GOP to bring that to everyone’s attention.

Don’t tell the Tennessee Republicans but his last name is only one letter off from another unpleasant moniker. That’s right Bama. And nothing sucks more than Bama. And I think, using his first name, he used to be Space Ghost’s arch-nemesis turned co-host.

Update: Oh and that’s not to say that the implication of the whole piece isn’t ridiculous. But that everyone is focusing only on the name thing is a bit, well, silly. After all, there’s so much there. A gestalt of stupid!

Stay classy, KTK.

This time, it’s New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (of gun confiscation infamy) threatening people. He also doesn’t like bloggers because they say mean things.

Local yokels should check out Coal Creek Armory’s ammo deals.

Kirk notes it is done in Maryland. It seems the lobbying effort to push for this nonsense is failing at every turn.

Short barreled shotty with hammers.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne Testifies Before U.S. House Natural Resources Committee and Responds to Questions from Congress Regarding Permitting Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry/Possess Firearms for Self-Defense in National Parks

See video testimony at the bottom of the page.

All I got to say is come and take it.

Update: Heh.

There’s been a lot of chatter on the internets about Cerberus Capital Management buying up firearms manufacturers. Cerberus various investments generate about $60B (with a b) in revenue according to their website. And they own Chrysler. That’s just to give you an idea of how big they are. They’ve recently acquired DPMS, Bushmaster, and Remington. I guess they have a thing for black rifles (who doesn’t? -ed). This, of course, led a lot of the paranoid gunny types to ponder why they were doing this, including speculation that they had nefarious intent. Guns are a good investment. S&W posted record profits repeatedly for years (that recently changed but it’s not a major loss). And my people in the gun biz are telling me that guns are selling like mad now (elections, mass shootings, something in the water, etc.). Also, an unprecedented level of protection against frivolous lawsuits has been afforded to gun makers via the Protection of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act. Guns are good business.

So, who are these guys? Well, take off your tinfoil beanies. One of the managing directors for Cerberus is George K. Kollitides and he is running for Board of Directors for the National Rifle Association. Here’s one bio:

Nominated by the NRA Nominating Committee, Kollitides has spent his adult life supporting the Second Amendment. A Benefactor member, he became an NRA Life member as a young man. He serves on the Boards of Remington and Bushmaster. He is an avid shooter and hunter, and is a Life member of TSRA, CRPA, NYSRPA, ATA, Boone and Crockett (Associate), Houston Safari Club, NMLRA and Quail Unlimited.

Kollitides is a member of Remington Collectors, SAFE, NWTF, and the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance. As a Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management, he oversees the firm’s interests in the firearms industry. He has managed numerous financial transactions and is a noted financial forum speaker. Kollitides has shot since childhood and enjoys hunting with family and friends.

His wife and children are NRA Life members. As a staunch defender of Second Amendment freedoms, he is honored to be nominated for the NRA Board.

And, obviously, Bushmaster and Remington are giving him the nod and have bios on him as well.

If you’re going, get over there and register. You’ll get to cover all speakers at no charge and you get access to the media room. It’s worth it just to poke fun of reporters. They’ll be reporting on the event and I’ll probably be reporting on them. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone.

Also, check out the NRA’s Annual Meeting page for a schedule of events.

And Ahab notes that the Maker’s Mark distillery is nearby. Road trip.

Update: In comments, Sebastian reminds me that people take me way too seriously:

We have to be respectful of the other media in the media room. That’s not to say we can’t blog about them, but I would encourage attendees to remember that NRA is opening themselves up to some level of risk by allowing us to use the media room. We have to be good ambassadors for both blogs and should do our best not to do something that would damage NRA’s relationship with media (not all media is hostile, and even the ones that are, careful not to give them more ammunition)

But, seriously, one of NRA’s sessions is entitled: NRA and the Media: It’s Not the Critic Who Counts

I know the answer to this one!

At the Seattle Post Intelligencer (which is a stupid name for a newspaper . . . I mean really what does that even mean?), Gail Collins laments that nobody is talking about gun control on the presidential campaign trail:

During this presidential campaign the nation has experienced an extraordinary number of grisly shooting incidents, including four mass murders on college campuses, two at suburban shopping malls and the slaughter of city officials at a Missouri town meeting.

Yet the subject of gun control never comes up. If people ask, politicians who have not been outdoors in months start tossing out hunter-talk in a manner that suggests that they’re driving around in a pickup with a deer carcass in the back.

Clinton used to be very vocal about gun control when she was running for Senate in New York, but now there’s nothing about it on her Web site. Barack Obama has a 64-page “Blueprint for Change” manual that you can download if you feel burdened by an excess of both leisure and paper. It does not mention gun control once.

And she notes the various flips of the Republicans, concluding with:

There was a time in this country when we seemed within reach of a sane gun policy that would have included licensing, laws against multiple gun purchases and bans on weapons that were of no use for sports or personal protection, like say, assault rifles. There was vast public support for these ideas, but they were extremely unpopular among critical pockets of voters in swing states. Many people believe Al Gore lost West Virginia — and the 2000 election — because of National Rifle Association attack ads.

So, you think policies that have been shown to have zero impact on crime are sane? Not a single one of your pipe dreams would have stopped a single mass shooting. And, FYI, there was never vast public support for these ideas. One need look only at the 1996 1994 elections for evidence of that.

And Al Gore lost his own state due to gun control and his support for it.

Over at Reason, Jacob Sullum notes the irrelevancy of the various Brady Campaign’s pipe dreams.

Terry Frank alleges some shenanigans at her local voting place. She has pictures she says proves it.

David notes a searchable spreadsheet of briefs. It was prepared by Matt Carmel of Constitution Arms.

Hillary Clinton on Free Federally Funded Health Care for Everyone^tm:

I actually think that it’s unconstitutional, what the insurance companies are doing

Wow. Just. Wow.

Over at the Mad Rocket Scientist comes …And I Carry Concealed:

As a person who carries concealed, I have accepted an enormous responsibility to myself, my family, and to my community at large. I bear the responsibility to be aware, at all times, of my surroundings and of myself. I bear the responsibility of being trained and confident in the use of my firearm, and to take any and all measures to maintain control of myself, and my firearm, whether it is riding in the holster, or I have drawn it to confront a threat.

Read it all.

Sportsmen for Obama look at his record as an Illinois Senator. He’s never seen gun control he didn’t like.

Update: Ry continues making maps of places where gun shops couldn’t operate under Obama’s gun control plan (hint: most of the country).

Bigot Mark S. Fuller of Gloucester Massachusetts.

I thought, according to the Violence Policy Center and other hacks, that the shooting sports were on the decline. Again, actual data from the FBI doesn’t support that claim:

Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows 942,556 checks were reported in January, a 5.3 percent increase from the 894,608 reported in January 2007. Adjusted state figures show background checks up by 3.4 percent year-over-year.

In other news, I was unaware that you could get NSSF news alerts via RSS feeds.

In response to noting I need an editor, I received an email from Edward It (get it? Ed It?) who advertises PROFESSIONAL EDITING. GHOST WRITING. ASS KICKING. I thought it was funny.

In England, they’re actually having a discussion about who can lawfully break into your house.

On it’s way to the governor’s desk is a bill to rollback restrictions on restaurant carry.

Let’s count:

Cho’s purchases met Virginia law at the time, but a judge’s recent ruling on his competency should have sounded an alarm with federal officials, had they been notified as part of the background check.

Incorrect. Cho broke the law. There simply wasn’t a mechanism for reporting his adjudication as a mental defective.

Some observers have credited an emergency-alert system developed at NIU after Virginia Tech, which sent out e-mails and messages on Web sites to notify students a possible gunman was on campus, with preventing more deaths.

Also, incorrect. The system kicked in 20 minutes after shots were fired. By the time the system went into effect, the shooter was dead.

Despite the outcry last April after the worst mass killing in U.S. history, Virginia legislators are still wrestling with gun reform legislation.

By still wrestling with they mean not passing any.

President Bush signed a new federal law in January to expand the federal database for screening gun applicants, but the law contains a gaping loophole that allows weapons to be bought at gun shows without background checks.

Incorrect. The alleged gaping loophole was not addressed in the NICS improvement act. And, of course, they also lie about the gun show loophole as sales at gun shows are subject to the same federal laws as sales not at gun shows.

It is disturbing that after repeated incidents of campus carnage dating back to Columbine in 1999 and earlier, organizations continue to block effective gun-control legislation.

Can you name any effective gun control legislation? The CDC cannot. In fact, they’ve concluded that gun control laws have no effect on crime.

Even worse, some have proposed allowing more guns on campuses, under the Wild West rationale that if every student and teacher is armed, they can defend themselves against a lone, irrational shooter.

Ah, the myth of the wild west.

Bills such as one before the Alabama legislature would allow guns on state college campuses if the students are properly licensed — as was Kazmierczak.

Flat out lie. No such license to carry exists in Illinois, it is one of two states without a handgun carry law. The idiots may have confused Illinois FOID cards with handgun carry permits.

Just the opposite course should be pursued. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence advocates closing the gun-show loophole; limiting bulk purchases of handguns, which would cut down on illegal gun trade; and an outright ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Kazmierczak and Cho each used the latter in their killing spree.

Taking dictation about failed policies from the anti-gun lobby? So, how did Illinois score in the Brady Campaign’s gun control ranking? Why, Illinois made the top 10, coming in at number 9. And did the NIU shooter use an assault weapon?

Such weaponry was illegal except for military and police use until Congress let the assault weapons ban expire in 2004.

Another lie. The ban on weapons that look like assault weapons merely banned cosmetic features that semi-automatic weapons could have. Plenty were still available.

They have a comment section. Leave yours.

Via Rustmeister, who gives them the what for.

Update: And in comments, Justin notes they can’t count.

Megan McArdle:

When the government controls your paycheck, your housing, and your ration card, it doesn’t need to put you in jail; you are in jail.

Via Joe.

Some paper in WV:

But this week, lawmakers began to ponder the other side of the question — the public’s right to know. Many now seem to understand that society is better served when the public is aware of who among us may be carrying concealed guns and, perhaps, that some are not doing so legally.

What about my right to know your social security number, or that you had an abortion, or your salary?

Funny how they will throw right to privacy out the window when it comes to guns, eh?

No, not guns (we’re winning that), those other things.

I mean, us small government, individualist, small l libertarian, whatever buzzword you want to use, sorts. It’s true. You see, I want less .gov influence in, well, everything. Your average American is the exact opposite. They want Free Federal Money^tm for pork projects in their district, they want free health care, they want social security, they actually think the $600 rebate they’re getting in a couple months is a good thing, they want the .gov to write a big check and bail out their mortgage company, they want a puppy, they want to suckle at the .gov tit. It’s true. Deal with it. We’re the minority and that is that. Put on your big boy pants and deal with it.

That said, there seems to be a bit of a conundrum over that.

Tam has given up:

I think the big difference between our points of view is that you haven’t given up the fight, while I have. I just don’t see even a tiny plurality of human beings that give a crap about freedom. They want to be led. They want free stuff. They want to tell other people what to do. They’d rather watch American Idol than read a book. And they outnumber me by a thousand to one. And I’ve come to the dawning realization over the past years that I’m the abnormal one.

And McArdle notes:

The reason that those of us on the fringe–libertarians, Greens, socialist workers, or what have you–do not have more representation in government is not because there is some structural problem with the American political system, like a lack of IRV or minority party candidates. The reason we don’t have more representation is that most people just don’t agree with us.

Indeed.

KDT wants to fight it. I find his recent support for McCain at odds with that unless he just thinks it gets him four years to buy ammo.

Gullible Sebastian thinks that the key is numbers in the teens of percentages have libertarian tendencies. Well, they’ve always been there and don’t seem to have much sway because you can’t tap that resource without giving up something. He concludes with this cheery bit:

Liberty is a never ending battle. We will never win. Like the game Whack-a-Mole, it’s frustrating, and sometimes it seems like you’re doing all you can to just hold the line. But giving up is a sure way to lose at Whack-a-Mole, so to libertarians, I offer this: “Keep whacking!”

The issue then becomes that, at some point, with life getting in the way people don’t have time to whack any more. Or the energy. We’re losing. As Donald Sensing said:

I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go.

And that is the future unless Americans get off their collective ass and do something about it. But they won’t, American Idol is on. You see, a government that can do all of that stuff mentioned way up in the first paragraph is too big. And it will bring more of the nanny state. There are thousands of surveillance cameras and police armed with machine guns that look more like soldiers than Officer Friendly in our big cities. Governments are banning or trying to ban transfat, smoking, restaurants from serving fat people, and anything that is not made out of soft foam rubber. For your safety, of course. Police are routinely raiding the wrong houses, or raiding based on scant evidence (like your power usage for a particular month) and killing innocent people over drugs. Police routinely are caught beating the crap out of someone, and there are never adequate consequences for that. We lost Kelo. Your property is only yours until the .gov says they want it. They can tap your phones, read your email, and have all your financial information. And no one is doing anything about it except a few guys discussing it on the internet.

In my wallet, I have a business card. It has a gold emblem on it and across the top it says:

Department of Justice
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives

It came from an ATF agent. On the back, is written a phone number with the word Cell to indicate it’s the agents cell number. I keep that card in my wallet as a reminder that the federal government will knock on your door over shit you said on the internet.

Update: AC says buck-up little minority camper.

Well, all things Maryville.

The Mrs. has now had it happen on at least three separate occasions. She’s looking up something in the city (my the city) and the number one result is Les Jones. She thinks it’s funny. Small internet.

Speaking of gun blogger get togethers.

The NRA has announced its annual meeting:

With an estimated 60,000 attendees and more than 400 exhibits, this year’s Annual Meetings and Exhibits promises to be among the best in NRA’s 137-year history. Leading firearm manufacturers will display the firearm industry’s latest products. Various hunting and shooting accessories, and an extensive private collection displayed by NRA-affiliated gun collector clubs, will fill acres of convention space.

There will also be a get together of the gun bloggers: The Second Amendment Blog Bash.

And there’s some concert there by some guy I’ve never heard of (the Mrs. has and she likes him but she says his brother – who I’ve also never heard of – is currently popular as well – in other news, not all Tennesseans are into country).

An article on women getting handgun carry permits.

We knew McCain was having a bit of a time with his own incumbent protection act. Now, the DNC is alleging he’s breaking his own law. They’re even filing with the FEC.

And in other news, it seems the Hillary camp is pandering to racists. Well, that’s what they’d be screaming in the press if a Republican leaked the photo.

Bitter wonders if our favorite fake pro-gun group is even trying anymore. I wondered if they even tried in the past.

Throwing things: More than 100 irate Las Vegas newcomers crowded into a meeting room at the Aliante Public Library on the evening of Feb. 13, jeering, heckling and throwing things at elected officials and Clark County staff invited to explain plans – 24 years in the works – to build a 900-acre shooting park in the empty desert north of town.

Too cute.

Survivalist Blog notes a book on, you guessed it, survival. He wants some opinions.

Mr. C. has the dates set and some info up regarding the third annual Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

It’s a good time and I encourage all gun bloggers or gun blog readers to attend.

Over at Free Constitution, they’re saying Montana has threatened secession.

Romanian AKs.

Desert Tactical Arms Stealth Recon Scout Bullpup Anti-Materiel / Sniper Rifle

Eugene wants to know about smart guns. Well, no police departments carry them. And NJ (which passed a law mandating smart guns when viable) excepted police. Wonder why that is?

Well, we are the president.

Congrats.

Some historical examples.

I guess they call it a nightmare weapon because threats from it are imagined?

In Cali, they’d just as soon not have it:

Under proposals endorsed by the state Judicial Council, judges and police would enforce a provision contained in every domestic violence restraining order that prohibits the target of the order from possessing firearms or ammunition. Judges issue the restraining orders to require the abusers to stay away from their victims.

No proof needed just an accusation.

You’ll recall that gun control lackey Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, taking time out from threatening to shoot people and telling kids to drop out of school, said that Students For Concealed Carry On Campus was funded by the gun lobby. Well, Students For Concealed Carry On Campus says prove it:

In response to the allegations made by the Brady Campaign, SCCC’s response is simple—“Prove it.” In the name of full disclosure, SCCC is willing to make all of its financial records available to the media if the Brady Campaign will do the same. Explained Lewis, “After building SCCC on a foundation of our own sweat equity and financial sacrifices, our members are incensed that the Brady Campaign is accusing us of being well paid pawns.”

Though the Brady Campaign likes to attribute all efforts to maintain and/or restore gun rights in America to an all-powerful gun industry that uses coercion and manipulation to subvert the true wishes of the American people, the real American gun industry has an annual revenue of only about $2 billion, leaving it inadequately funded for the job of manipulating the American government or the American people. At the true heart of the fight for gun rights in America are everyday people, like the members and organizers of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus—people who believe they have the inalienable right to defend themselves and who trust their fellow citizens enough to guarantee them that same right.

Over at The Gun Shots, they have some numbers on the economic impact that hunters and shooters have. It’s a pricey hobby and we spend a lot.

Radley notes that Cornell estimates that the average middle school, high school, or college can expect an on-campus homicide about once every 12,000 years.

I love it: Retiring Officer Tickets 14 Cop Cars On Last Day

So, Ceasefire PA updated it’s list of board members. Guess who’s not there? Well, here’s a hint.

Not good policy to be associated with a bigot? Who knew?

A pro-gun article in a newspaper?

Custom Glock.

Colt Commander.

Remington 1911.

Sunday Smith.

Of assault weapons. That’s what they claim the police assisted destruction of evidence err gun buyback program collected in Oakland. They were lying, of course. Anyway, the police assisted destruction of evidence err gun buyback had some other issues:

The “One Less Gun” buy-back program attracted so many eager sellers that the money quickly ran out. But instead of closing up shop, the police handed out IOUs good for a future buy back. The Oakland police are now stuck with a bill for $170,000.

Heh. And, of course, there’s this:

In an authoritative study, the National Academy of Sciences reported that “the theory underlying gun buy-back programs is badly flawed and the empirical evidence demonstrates the ineffectiveness of these programs.

Expensive and useless, what government does best. And I love this:

In fact, the first two people in line at one of the three buy-back locations were gun dealers with 60 firearms packed in the trunk of their cars.

Our favorite gun-toting liberal is on the TeeVee.

Xrlqy on the gunny divide:

My response has generally been to advocate that those who favor a more ideological NRA should join both organizations, thereby lending support both to those whose views most closely matched theirs and to the group which, like it or not, is far more likely to get anything done.

Ayup. Hang together and all that. Fat lot of good your ideological purity will do you when you’re ineffective. And fat lot of good your effectiveness will do if you’re not advocating the right things.

heh.

David Kopel notes what a bill pused Obama would mean a gun store couldn’t operate within five miles of a school or park. Some folks decided to make some maps. Here’s one by bitter. And another. And another at Outrageous Malfunction.

Hell, yeah.

The foul by TN at the end was beautiful. We’re watching and said that was smart being sarcastic. And, well, it was. That’s why Pearl will get a raise.

Point. Counterpoint. Remember, you’re on the same side.

They can’t even come up with their own anti-gun ideas, they get them from Brady.

Rustmeister got a new one.

Over at Countertop’s, he’s got pics.

Joe Huffman:

To respect all opinions is to have no respect for the truth.

Keep everything off the bangswitch.

NRA-ILA:

At the request of the Bush Administration and 51 members of the United States Senate led by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prohibition of firearms on agency land will be revised in the following weeks. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is leading the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms in National Parks and wildlife refuges.

“Law-abiding citizens should not be prohibited from protecting themselves and their families while enjoying America’s National Parks and wildlife refuges,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “Under this proposal, federal parks and wildlife refuges will mirror the state firearm laws for state parks. This is an important step in the right direction.”

These new regulations, when finalized, will provide uniformity across our nation’s federal lands and put an end to the patchwork of regulations that governed different lands managed by different federal agencies. In the past, only Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service lands allowed the carrying of firearms, while National Park lands did not.

The current regulations on possession, carry or transportation of loaded or uncased firearms in national parks were proposed in 1982 and finalized in 1983. Similar restrictions apply in national wildlife refuges. The NRA believes it is time to amend those regulations to reflect the changed legal situation with respect to state laws on carrying firearms.

The move for regulatory change by the Administration will restore the rights of law-abiding gun owners who wish to transport and carry firearms for lawful purposes in most National Park lands and will make the laws consistent with state law where these lands are located. Fifty-one U.S. Senators from both parties sent a letter to the Department of Interior late last year supporting the move to render state firearms laws applicable to National Park lands.

We’re winning.

For the children.

H&R Sportsman.

10/22 suppressed SBR

And Hillary. But only this one time. Probably.

It was amazing. I’ve had two conversations recently in the real world that left me dumbfounded and uncomfortable. One was a guy that I know at a social setting. An educated man who is successful. And he said to me roughly I’m not voting for the nigger and I’m not voting for a woman. My response was that I’d vote for a black person and a woman, if it were Condoleezza Rice. We had a laugh at that and I moseyed away to find other conversation because that was awkward. As much as we like to pretend racism is a thing of the past, it’s not.

The other was in a more professional setting where someone (an educated and successful person) told me they couldn’t support Obama because they thought he was a closeted Muslim. Sweet Jebus! First, I find that claim laughable and second, so what?

I mean, if they both had said they won’t vote for a socialist, we’d have been cool. But, come on, the color of skin, who has a penis, and whose invisible man in the sky is better are the primary reasons?

Update: And for the record, one was a Democrat and one was a Republican.

Tam:

It seems some wogs got out of hand and torched buildings on our sovereign soil the other day. Once upon a time this would have been considered casus belli and occasioned parking a dreadnought in the nearest harbor, shelling some buildings, and offloading some marines with Maxim guns to sort the natives out. Instead we’ll wring our hands and ask why they don’t like us.