The Uncle household contains 14 trash cans.

I don’t know why but last night I decided to count them.

Update: I mentioned it to the wife. I was wrong. We have 16.

Update: Up to 17 now if you count the one under the shredder.

TSA’s policy made the other biased Washington paper.

Last weekend, my buddy in Baghdad called. We were chatting away. He tells me that he’s going the next day to set off some ordnance. I ask him about it. He says he’s going to destroy some ammo. I say what kind. He says it was all kinds of military rounds, including 9mm, 5.56, 7.62, etc. About 200,000 rounds of it. It’s dangerous, just sitting around. I did some quick math and, at what I recently paid for 200 rounds of 5.56 (about $0.40 per round, btw), realized they were blowing up $80K worth of ammo. That’s just stupid. Mail that stuff home. Civilians want that surplus ammo.

Glenn Reynolds mentioned the Aptera. About three weeks ago, I saw on Pellissippi Parkway a three wheeled futuristic looking car. It was bright red. I thought it was odd and I was curious. I went home and some combination of googling three-wheeled vehicles lead me to believe it was an Aptera. The vehicle I saw sat two in the front. Anyway, turns out Aptera only has prototypes in Cali and all Aptera’s are white. So, obviously, what I saw was not an Aptera. Anyone know of a similar looking vehicle? Or, better yet, any of you seen a similar car around Knoxville/Blount County?

Larry (of Because you suck and we hate you fame) is addressing the HK Fanboys: here and here. Good stuff.

HK Fan Boy Fact: Most HK Fan Boys have never fired an HK.

Gun Control in NY: Brought to you by Irish gangsters driven crazy by syphilis!

Women must never touch guns!

I’m with Guav, take her off the sex offender registry and give her a medal.

The country formerly known as Great Britain.

Background here, here, and here.

Here’s pics.

The Airline Pilots Security Alliance has issues a statement (confirming what I said all along) that TSA policy is to blame:

Airline pilots and federal flight deck officers (FFDO) say ill-conceived TSA weapons handling rules were to blame for the accidental discharge of a pilot’s firearm in the cockpit of a US Airways jet last weekend.

Federal officers familiar with the investigation say they repeatedly warned TSA officials that an unprecedented TSA requirement that pilots take off and lock up their guns before leaving the cockpit is manifestly unsafe and would result in accidents.

“The pilot was trying to lock his gun and remove the holster in an airplane going 300 miles per hour in preparation for landing and the padlock depressed the trigger,” said a federal flight deck officer who declined to be identified. “TSA knew this could happen but didn’t get rid of the requirement.” . . . .

TSA policy requires unnecessary handling of the weapon which will of course increase the likelihood of an accidental or negligent discharge. Can the TSA get anything right? Brent questions TSA’s motives.

Via John Lott.

Update: Michael Bane has more.

A gaggle of 357 wheel guns.

And holy crap:

Look out, she may have a bomb on those nips:

A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Pliers? Ouch.

Mike Faulk is running for state senate, fourth district. I met him at one of the blogger bashes. He’s a nice guy.

Xenu sold separately.

A four part series on training at Front Sight: one, two, three, four.

A discussion of the language of the second amendment.