A quick shoutout to Bob Ricker of the American Hunters and Shooters Association.

I see you reading. Going on about 15 minutes now. Anything good?

Hillsy, in an effort to give herself some CIC street cred since people are finally starting to actually say that being married to the actual Commander in Chief isn’t exactly experience in the event the phone rings at 3 in the morning, made a itty-bitty, teeny-weeny mistake and misremembered being in Cambodia in 1968. Err, no. That’s not it. Oh, that she was taking sniper fire. That’s it.

And the story kinda came undone by Sinbad of all people. Yeah, that Sinbad. The one who took issue with having a white guy (who was actually mixed race) play Barack Jong-il Obama on SNL. As oppose to the Sinbad that rode a Roc and beat up a Cyclops once. I’ll let you decide which Sinbad is cooler.

Anyway, she now says she misspoke and that she says so much stuff that it’s hard to keep up. And her Story’s Still Changing: But so what, Right Wing Haters? It’s just getting better, more truthful, and more filled with pulse-pounding action-adventure and executive experience with each retelling.

There will be tears. Oh yes, there will be tears.

In an update to this, seems it may be accidental. And by accidental, I mean caused by policy:

The insane procedures required by the TSA demands that our pilots to lock and then un-lock their .40 side arms was and is a solid recipe for disaster. Did the TSA deliberately create this bizarre and unconventional Rube Goldberg firearm retention system hoping for this result? The sordid history of the FAA and TSA’s total resistance to the concept of arming pilots to protect Americans is in itself a scandal.

Putting a gun into a holster and then threading a padlock through the trigger and trigger-guard is required every time the pilots enter or leave the cockpit. This kind of silliness has never been forced on any law enforcement or security officers anywhere in the world until now. Before this holster padlock procedure pilots with guns were forced to carry them around in a cumbersome 22 pound vault. The vault caused problems in the confined space of most cockpits.

FFDO pilots need to carry their side arms in conventional concealed holsters and there is no reason for the unnecessary handling of their firearms in the cockpits.

Trigger locks? No kidding? And Flight Deck Officers carry HKs. So, how do I collect?

WBIR is looking for bloggers!

An added bonus to gun ownership is that it may keep the Europeans out:

“Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border.”

Via Michael Silence, we learn of Knoxville’s Gentlemen’s Top Cuts. Seems someone thought that it would be a good idea to have a salon with scantily clad women cut men’s hair (duh!). They have a lot of pics there and they have a blog with pics and video.

Hell, I might start going. And it’s not for the scantily clad women. See, read their services. They offer something I’ve not seen done in years: the pre-haircut and post-haircut shampoo! And, you know, the neck massage. But, seriously, I get a cut and get hair all over and am itchy all day because at some point recently, stylists stopped doing the shampoo thing. That is why they’ll succeed. Well, that and the scantily-clad women.

I’d never though of it that way before but a good way to look at things: Confusing Action and Achievement.

Buried quietly at the bottom of this article on warrantless searches, I saw this:

In the second case, the court will consider Randy Edward Hayes’ argument that the government was wrong to charge him with violating a federal law barring people convicted in domestic violence cases from possessing firearms.

In 1994, Hayes pleaded guilty in Marion County, W.Va., to the minor crime of battery following an incident in which his wife was the victim.

In 2004, police responded to a domestic violence call from Hayes’s home and found a Winchester rifle. They later discovered that he had possessed at least four other rifles following his 1994 guilty plea.

Hayes was indicted on federal charges of possessing firearms following conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence, a reference to the 1994 case.

Last year, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., agreed with Hayes’s argument that the language of the West Virginia law on battery in the 1994 case needed to contain specific wording about a domestic relationship between the offender and the victim.

In the Justice Department brief asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, the solicitor general said nine other appeals courts have rejected the interpretation adopted by the appeals court in Richmond.

So, after Heller, there’s an opportunity to decide the scope of reasonable restrictions on domestic violence? I thought I was on to something but realized others beat me to it.

My thoughts? If Hayes can’t be trusted with a gun, then he can’t be trusted with a car, some gas, a golf club, or a pointy stick.

I saw via GLN that there are two new anti-gun blogs: Mondays With Mike and Bullet Counter Points, both affiliated with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (they originally formed to ban handguns). When I saw them, I thought to myself: Self, Reasoned Discourse^tm is about to break out.

Well, it already has.

A look at stopping power.

A look at penetration.

And a while back my dad (who I recently found is reading this site – say hi if you want) told me that his group was testing bullet proof windows on cars. Guess what could penetrate those? (hint: it’s something readily available to a police force)

Update: Answer in comments. So, if you want to guess, you have been warned.

Good thing it wasn’t a 50 caliber or it would have killed everyone on the plane!

Apparently, a pilot had a negligent discharge on a plane (the press uses words like accidental and the gun went off, both phrases that have roughly a 99.1%* chance of being utter bullshit). PGP has more. I think initial reports were that this was an Air Marshal’s weapon. Now, most places say it was the pilot.

* note: when making up statistics, I’ve found adding one decimal place makes them more believable. Adding 2 decimal points just makes you look all preachy up your own ass. But, seriously, it’s very uncommon for a weapon to just go off. To just go off requires mechanical failure that simply isn’t seen often enough in modern handguns. Well, unless the discharged involved someone in a uniform and then it happens all the time! Amazing. Hmmm, I wonder if one could, since we’re making up stats, run an R² on discharges near uniforms. It’s official: the note is now longer than the post. That was fun. Made you look. But seriously, accident my ass.

Update: R. Neal: how much you want to bet it was a Glock? Well, we’ve all heard of Glock Leg. I guess this could be Glock Plane. But Glock Leg is 100% caused by failure to keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch.

Update 2: In commments, Tam says:

If it was an FDO it was an HK, not a Glock.

You don’t get to tote whatever you want on the flight deck. You get to carry an HK with the LEM trigger. (In other words, a light double action with no manual safety.)

Once again, ColtCCO has his last and final rifle. Only this time, he means it. Just like last time. And the time before that. Well, until something else shiny comes along.

So, guy breaks the law. It must be a loophole or skirting or something. It can’t just be that he broke the law, illegally while committing a crime. I mean, that’s just too easy:

They also seized a laptop believed to have been used by Bowens to make the illicit purchases dating to March, when he obtained a federal firearms license. Bowens’ license, however, entitled him only to buy collectible firearms and historic relics, which are usually not capable of firing bullets. Apparently he found a way to skirt those rules and purchase deadly weapons, turning them into profit.

By skirt they mean, of course, ignore. And by found a way, they mean did it anyway.

The two handguns he purchased this week for a total of $260 could easily fetch twice that much on the black market, said ATF Special Agent Joseph Green.

And by black market, they mean in New York.

Update: Oops. Link added.

Short version.

Long version.

* Inspired by Roger who has a transcript of Kmiec’s non-endorsement endorsement. Henceforth and forever, I will add some tin pot dictator’s middle name to his until Obama has lost or I run out of tin pot dictators.

Feds stifling open government in VA?

This past Friday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the Virginia Department of State Police in an effort to uncover whether the federal government has been interfering in the state’s open government legislation. EPIC suspects that the feds are trying to use the state police to pressure the Virginia legislature into passing a bill that will put limits on the state’s open government laws and will encourage citizens to inform on one another by protecting anonymous tipsters from defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuits.

writing the second clause. Could have just stopped stopped at state. Then it would make absolute sense.