Robert Mugabe:

We shed a lot of blood for this country. We are not going to give up our country for a mere X on a ballot. How can a ball point pen fight with a gun?

In the AP:

The guns case — including Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns — is widely expected to be a victory for supporters of gun rights. Top officials of a national gun control organization said this week that they expect the handgun ban to be struck down, but they are hopeful other gun regulations will survive.

How many are saved by firearms each year?

Getting positive press in New Jersey? Wow. Photo gallery here.

Five police shootings in five days? Unpossible!

Jesse Jackson decided to fight gun violence by trying to shut down a gun maker who is not responsible for gun violence:

Vowing to intensify his campaign against gun violence, Rev. Jesse Jackson held a protest rally Saturday at a Lake Barrington semiautomatic rifle manufacturer.

Leading 80 supporters to the remote industrial park that houses D.S. Arms, Jackson said assault weapons were turning Chicago into a war zone.

Call me crazy, but I just don’t think thugs in Chicago are using $5,000 rifles to commit crimes. And hats off to DS Arms for standing up to them.

Smart money says Heller opinion will be released Monday, June 23. Got plans?

AC interviews Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam regarding future political aspirations, namely governor.

This is the part where, as promised, I remind everyone that Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a member of Mayors Against Guns. Mayors Against Guns is an anti-gun group headed by NYC’s Michael Bloomberg. It is funded, in part, by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation. Barack Obama was on the board of directors for Joyce for eight years, doling out money to fake grassroots gun groups.

Past coverage of this group here, here, here, here, here, and here.

While Paul Helmke has pre-conceded Heller, the VPC predicts it will go their way 9-0.

I missed VPC blog.

IZH Drozd MP-661K Blackbird by IZH-Baikal

Piedmont machine gun shoot.

An illustrated guide to guns he wants to ban.

The local newspaper interviews Randy Neal of knoxviews.com fame.

George Bush hates white people.

Update: Yet years from now, there will be no Iowans still in FEMA camps.

Via insty.

which wouldn’t really be a finale

Holy crap. Did not expect that.

Breda scores another.

Tam questions the deification of Tim Russert in the press.

Obviously, she doesn’t recall that time when Russert manned a Sea-Doo armed only with the jawbone of an ass and single-handedly invaded Normandy. Then he and Barack Right Said Fred Obama’s uncle liberated all those Jews. I remember it like it was yesterday.

In a post on what to watch for in Heller, Kevin says:

There’s something wrong with a system that essentially demands that you break a law before you can challenge its Constitutionality.

Indeed.

At the LA Times:

NRA’s political clout is waning

With 2nd Amendment rights expanded and Democrats reluctant to tackle the issue, gun control isn’t the GOP weapon it used to be. The rifle group, in essence, is a victim of its own success.

Eight years after a national debate over gun control helped keep Democrat Al Gore out of the White House, the National Rifle Assn. and its Republican allies are launching a new campaign to defeat Barack Obama.

But this time, the issue that GOP strategists once relied on to provide crucial votes in close elections has lost much of its political punch.

Hmm. I seem to recall some historically anti-gun candidates sucking up to them recently (9iu11iani). And who is vying for the anti-gun endorsement? No one.

The NRA may have become a victim of its own success.

And they list those successes. Seems their clout is still in tact, if you ask me.

BTW, I find it amusing that the LAT felt it had to spin NRA’s success as a negative.

A superdelegate Member of Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee (whose vote counts 10,000 times more than yours) says that Barack I don’t need all of you to believe me, just twelve Obama may have ties to terrorists. I shit you not:

Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of Davis’ district, said he understands why Davis is not endorsing Obama and is “skeptical” of the Illinois senator himself.

“Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Update: Our local Cybernaut chimes in.

Update 2: Sean says not a superdelegate.

David Hardy:

Brady Campaign goes on to cite what they could push for, and could hope to pass constitutional muster: universal (i.e., private sale) background checks, AW bans, “curbing large volume sales,” i.e., one gun a month.

Leaving aside whether those would pass muster … how does the Brady Campaign hope to survive on them? I’d wager that a LOT of its contributors give only because they believe those are stepping stones to things more significant, a “good start” rather than an end. If they faced a reality in which everything would stop with background checks, an AW ban, and one gun a month — that they’d never get beyond that — they might well bail out.

Sebastian:

If I were Peter Hamm or Paul Helmke, I’d be thinking there surely has to be other places in the D.C. establishment where they can put their skills and talents to more effective and creative use.

Since the anti-gunners are all on the payroll, I suppose the Brady Bunch will have to start getting funds from the Joyce Foundation.

Update: More thoughts here.

And great minds think alike.

So, that’s what they mean by collective right.

My LG is on it’s last legs. I’m eligible for a new phone with my provider (Verizon). Should I just go ahead and get me and the Mrs. iPhones?

Note: I swore I’d never have an iPhone but Chris changed my mind from Hell No to Hmmm, maybe.

How’s AT&T service in East TN?

Update: In a bit of irony, it seems AT&T’s webpage only supports Internet Exploder. Yes, AT&T sole provider of Apple’s iPhone will only let you use a Microsoft product to check service.

Breda told her mom about her blog.

Kinda interesting to me. See, I never really told anyone I knew in the real world about my website. I didn’t even tell my wife until after a year or so (and that’s only because she saw the domain hosting charge on the credit card). And, it wasn’t until about 2005 (when the blog was three) that I happened to mention it to a couple of friends. Then, one of those friends told another friend. He told my brother in law. And then, this year, my wife told my other brother in law. She even opined that she just thought everybody knew. And this year, my dad found out. He found out because I logged in at his house, did a quick post and didn’t clear history. He’s been reading ever since. In fact, he told me he went back one night and read the entire Notes to Junior Category. Other than that, I don’t really tell folks.

And in this post, some folks asked if I let the guy I mentioned know about the blog. I did not.

There’s a reason I don’t tell people. That reason is that if they read regularly, I’d eventually piss them off. It’s true. I have, for example, mentioned a few disagreements with folks on this blog. Now, imagine they hop on the internets and see me making fun of their position? And now that I know who knows, I can’t make fun of them anymore. It’s inhibiting.

I’ve mentioned the new Brady Blog before. They seem to spend the majority of their posts dancing in the blood of someone’s dead or injured child (note: links use tinyurl.com since the brady bunch is trying to increase it’s google-fu):

New Mexico Boy Accidentally Shoots, Kills Self

Father, Hunting In The Dark With Gun During Bow Season, Shoots And Kills Son

8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed After Finding Unlocked Gun At Home

North Carolina Teen Accidentally Shot In The Chest With AK-47

4-Year Old Girl Takes Gun Of Grandmother – Concealed Carry Permit-Holder – Shoots Self

Report: “3-Year-Old Survives Shooting Self In Stomach”

Nice guys!

Dammit, you’re too smart:

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

This one really left me speechless.

What a whiner. No one was outraged. We were just curious. Funny how whenever the little people correct a reporter, it’s because they’re outraged or some such. It’s never genuine concern or anything like that.

And she still has not definitively answered the question. Another trait I’ve noticed in media sorts.

Behold, your .gov at work!

Joe details his involvement with the group. And how to get good press.

It passed committee. But wouldn’t it be easier to list guns that the bill did not ban?

So, looks like Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is going to go for the bans are OK if they don’t affect the right of self-defense in the home. Naturally, from their view, nothing affect the right of self-defense in the home.

These weapons are super dangerous! Of course, before yesterday, they thought handguns were super dangerous weapons. When you start losing, you can move some goalposts pretty quick.

Well, that certainly would end my current plan of voting for McCain’s vice president.

You’re soaking in it.

Where Great Britain used to be, they’re looking to ban hats because they make it harder to identify you on CCTV cameras.

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

“We’ve lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means,” campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. “Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it’s an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically.”

Well, looky there, people don’t buy your mythology!

Update: Oh yeah:

Gun Control Group Braces for Court Loss

The nation’s leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully expects to lose.

Well, I hope so.

One thing I learned as a result of this Kozinski business is that it is apparently pretty popular to paint naked women as cows and take pictures of them. Who knew?

Rule 34 is very (and oddly) real.

My sooper seekrit sources let me know that there’s likely some sort of announcement at the supreme court today at 10. Glue eyes here.

Note: don’t necessarily get your hopes (or fears) up. It’s just speculation.

Update: the 10 announcement was not Heller.

Wow:

It’s about time we get real about gun control in our cities. If we can have sobriety checkpoints and now motorcycle checkpoints, why don’t we have cops creating gun checkpoints? Have them create checkpoints in the city where the gun violence is running rampant.

Give the cops metal detectors and make people stop and get checked for guns. They are illegal and they are a lot worse than drunken drivers, and motorcyclists without the correct credentials. Let’s get real here and start doing something about all these guns on our streets.

An old misattributed quote: They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Blount County Sheriff’s Office Detective James Wilson won the friendly little shooting competition:

The Blount County Sheriff’s Office will have bragging rights for the next year after taking home the police shootout trophy on Tuesday.

After a challenge was sent out to all local officers, 22 men and women came out to show off their shooting skills on Monday at Gunny’s Indoor Shooting Range, 2208 E. Broadway Ave., Maryville. They were each scored on marksmanship, shooting while moving and speed shooting.

Blount County Sheriff’s Office Detective James Wilson was named “top shooter” and won first place in the competition with his overall score in all three categories. Wilson also took first place in speed shooting.

I wish I could have made it. BTW, the competition was held at Gunny’s.

May soon be a thing of the past:

Just got some charming mail in today. I quote” Beginning July 1, 2008 California Penal Code prohibits all FFL’s from shipping firearms to an FFL in California, unless prior to delivery, the FFL delivering obtains a verification approval number from the CA DOJ.”

Oh and by the way, you have to get a permit from CA before they will even deal with you.

People say to me Hey, Uncle, what’s your problem with Barack My Balogna Has A First Name It’s Obama?

Well, I’m gonna tell you. And it ain’t pretty. I could go on about how the man has no significant legislative accomplishments; or that he’s an anti-gun big government liberal; or that I’m not voting for him because I don’t want socialized health care; or that his foreign policy ideas sound bad. Or whatever. But that’s all minor and, frankly, par for the course for recent Democrat also-rans.

Or the transparent doofusness involved in the horse shit he’s peddling. I mean, here’s an article chosen at random from a news search. Barack Ron Paul Obama blasts McCain for doing too little to help Americans avoid crippling debts. Really, sparky? And your bill introduced in the Senate to address this issue is where? Oh, the dog ate it? I see. Now, generally, I like do-nothing politicians. They’re less dangerous. But I have a feeling maybe he’s saving it up.

But, no, none of that is why I take issue with the guy. I mean, hypocrisy, lies and rhetoric are what all politicians are made of. But that’s not what scares me about this guy. What does scare me? His worshipers. Seriously, these people scare the ever-living piss out of me. Have you heard some of these people? I mean, it has gone beyond Saturday Night Live parodies. I mean Ron Paul supporters got nothing on this guy. Here’s some scariness:

Are those anything like digital brownshirts:

A crack team of cybernauts will form a rapid response internet “war room” to track and respond aggressively to online rumours that Barack Obama is unpatriotic and a Muslim.”

Holy shit.

Deification:

Is Obama an enlightened being?

Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain’t no ordinary politician.

Double holy shit.

Bruce sums up a Wizbang post (read the comments) about convincing him to vote for Obama.

Holy shit again.

The man blew his nose and got applause.

This one leaves me speechless:

If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change it must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves.

How do you say ‘holy shit’ when speechless?

And more on the messiah:

How does a cult figure, in the eyes of some something akin to a messiah, make the transition to a political frontrunner – president even – where disappointment will soon crush what seemed to be a journey to a promised land?

Holy shit. Or rather:

These people scare me. Kinda like how some of the Ron Paul folks scared me.

Roberta on Leviathan: And it’s why I bother to blog.

Tommy Gun Diva.

ATF has criticized the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership for lying about trace data:

But ATF and gun proponents found flaws in the Brady Center’s calculations.

ATF supervisor Todd Reichert in Washington noted that the agency’s data included some gun sales that were originally made as much as 10 years ago, which is much longer than the two-year “time to crime” ATF considers an indicator of a possible illegal gun sale.

Reichert also said not all law enforcement agencies report recovered crime guns for tracing. And, he said, spikes in the numbers come after ATF help police agencies clear backlogs as those departments begin reporting recovered crime guns to the federal agency.

Though this is a refreshing change, it doesn’t quite make up for the fact that their special agents (ahem Tom Mangan like to get TeeVee time parroting Brady Campaign fabrications.

You’ll recall ATF’s Always Think Forfeiture brouhaha. Well, thanks to their boneheaded ass-hattery, comes a bill by Congressman Bill Sali:

Sali said he will pursue legislation to prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from restarting the marketing program.

These guys continue their record of stellar performance!

Yesterday, Tom decided to poke some fun here linking to a rather not funny video on voting Republican. Some responses here and here.

Support for CCW. In Illinois.

David Hardy has thoughts on US guns going to Mexico. $20 goes a long way in Mexico.

Also, there’s currently a bill in the house (HR 6028) addressing the subject by (gasp!) throwing money at it:

H.R. 6028 would authorize assistance for Mexico and Central American countries to control drug trafficking and organized crime and direct the Department of Justice to expand its efforts to prevent trafficking of firearms across the U.S.-Mexico border. It would authorize the appropriation of $1.6 billion over the 2008-2010 period for those purposes.

Hey, you know what you could do with $1.6B? Secure part of the border.

Just like everyone with access to Al Gore’s Internets, Judge Kozinski had some dirty pics and jokes on his computer.

Google Street Views Knoxville.

Kinda weird but I plug in my office address and there’s my truck.

Hey, you know what’s fun? Shooting people randomly with a paintball gun. Well, until, fearing for their life, someone shoots back. You know, with a real gun. Fortunately for the youths, Darwin did not get his say as the guy who returned fire was hit in the eye and missed.

Tennessee Firearms Association is looking for folks to help increase their web presence.

I just linked to you, so I helped with your presence some!

Sure, I could post this at my regular blog, but it’s nowhere near as much fun as if I post it here:

I’m voting Republican!

I’ll take mine with a side of chicken nuggets.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday Queen of the Petards
Happy birthday to you

RNS needs you!

We had fun with this a bit back. But a new reason: Zombies.

Leads to confiscation.

A conundrum!

Seems Ronnie Barrett (who I met at NRA Con) set a precedent. A bit back, when LAPD used one of his rifles as a prop to advocate banning his rifles, he sent them a letter stating he would not sell nor service rifles to police departments in Cali.

STI did almost the same thing by just cutting off sales to Cali.

Now, there’s money to be made in police contracts. Heck, I think 60% of PDs carry a GLOCK of some kind. Buckeye Firearms is none too happy with gun makers selling products to PDs in oppressive regimes and announces Project Correct Kimber:

Having just devoted a substantial chunk of pro bono legal work fighting governments committed to destroying your gun rights, I was horrified to read the March 2008 editions of several of my favorite gun magazines. Prominently featured in each edition was a feature story about a large manufacturer of 1911-type guns, breathlessly detailing the “gee whiz” details of their newest model dedicated to a California police agency. Each of the stories went into the history of the department the gun was designed for, yet one critical piece of background information was omitted from the tide of “fanboy” coverage.

These guns were all designed for a local government committed to stripping civilians of the right to own this same gun.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I love this particular manufacturer, and I personally carry their product almost daily. I have unreservedly recommended their product to students when asked. Honestly, given a choice, I PREFER their product. But there is no avoiding this conclusion: This manufacturer is designing firearms for police agencies in California at a time when California is committed to abolishing civilian ownership of these same firearms. If any of the gun writers who covered the unveiling of this product chose to question the wisdom of this sell-out, I have not yet found it.

There’s a letter writing campaign too.

I remember cringing when one of the gun mags I get said Kimber was selling a special 45 to LAPD’s SIS unit.

Now, I own and carry a GLOCK. And GLOCKs are issued to police in oppressive regimes like NYPD and Chicago PD.

What say you? Should I accept that gun manufacturers should want to make a buck? Or not?

We’re doomed because stupid people make decisions on matters of the economy. And your average Joe thinks it’s a good idea

For instance, a bit back Maxine Waters wanted to get all commie with oil companies. Of course, she couldn’t quite say socialize. But there it was. In her heart of hearts. A threat for the .gov to take over. Which, as covered already today, is a surefire way for failure.

Now, both John Sir, Do I have your permission to be critical of you, sir McCain and Barack Marlboro Man Obama want to tax windfall profits on oil companies. Wow! That will get gas prices down in a hurry! I mean, those corporations will just pay it and not at all pass the associated costs along to consumers or anything like that. In fact, why not just get them to write me a check?

Also, let’s look at FedMath. American Hunters and Shooters Association endorsed (and only win) Claire McCaskill on big oil tax breaks:

What nerve does it take for us to give oil companies $17 billion in taxpayer money with those kinds of profits?

Notice that? See, she thinks that by taxing them less, she and congress, through their good graces, are giving them something. Instead of taking less. That’s like saying if you offer me some beer and I drink one instead of two that I gave you a beer.

Good thing McCain’s fellow Republicans are slightly less retarded than he is and killed the bill.

11 year-old girl shooting tactical response drills.

Via Rustmeister, who shows and old favorite of the same girl field stripping and function checking an AR-15 in under a minute.

Today, some anti-gun person will read this post and wet themselves. I love it.

If you’re in Knoxville, CCA is offering 3 Day Combat Focus Shooting & Advanced Pistol Handling Class.

Speaking of training, you did go vote in the ParaUSA gunblogger contest where you could win some training too, right?

Nope, none there.

Seems that for once the Senate may do the right thing and privatize it’s restaurant. Seems that under government control, it’s bleeding money like, well, congress.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, our federal government lost money operating a brothel. I shit you not.

Castle Doctrine signed into law by Governor Ted Strickland.

Via AC, TN has two cities in the top 10 violent crime list. I’ll give you two guesses.

In other news, nationwide violent and property crimes are down. Must be due to all those recent gun control victories. Oh, wait. They haven’t had any victories.

My spanglish sucks and that’s google says.

Another piece (and recurring theme) in the press is that evil America is sending it’s evil guns across the Mexican border. Here’s one such bit:

At least 80 percent of all of the weapons used by drug traffickers in Mexico to kill one another as well as police and soldiers come from the U.S., Mexican officials say. They’ve repeatedly asked the U.S. government for more help in stopping the flow of weapons from Texas and other border states into Mexico.

Hey, you know what stop that? Give up? Bueller? A secure border.

Meanwhile, Josh Horwitz brings the bilingual PSH. Lamenting Mexico’s gun violence problem (which is unpossible with their strict gun controls), he notes:

Their guns of choice are extremely lethal: assault rifles (fully legal in the U.S. since the expiration of the federal ban in 2004), .50 caliber sniper rifles (capable of puncturing armor from long distances) and high-velocity handguns like the FN Herstal-57 (known south of the border as the “mata policia” or “cop killer”).

Assault rifles have been heavily regulated since 1934 and new transfer to civilains was banned in 1986. You know what else is capable of puncturing armor from long distances? Your dad’s 30-06. And no one calls the FN FiveseveN a cop killer except the anti-gun lobby.

But, seriously, a secure border would keep our guns out of Mexico.

Hear Squeaky on Cam’s show.

I’m reminded by Jay that gun owners are a happy lot.

I know, I mentioned it ages back.

Shot point blank with a 308 to prove it won’t knock you down. Relax, he’s got a vest.

Careful Bond girls:

I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman – although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. An open handed slap is justified – if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it.

Via David.

At online poker.

I dunno how to tell you this but . . .

Making fun of McCain: A-OK!

Making fun of Obama: Not so much.

Today, for the first time, I rejected a blog ad. It was one of those 9-11 truther sites with a Kucinich fetish. Thought I’d share.

Or why it’s cool to be a gun blogger!

ParaUSA is having a contest! All the bloggers who attended the Second Amendment Blog Bash are eligible to win a weekend training session at Blackwater with Todd Jarrett (who can be seen in action here).

The contest is a popularity contest with the ten gun bloggers who get the most votes the winner. And if you vote, your name is entered into the contest as well and one blog reader will get to go with us! And the event will be filmed for Michael Bane’s show!

So, go here and vote for your favorite gun blogger.

And, for the record, yes I want to see Todd Jarrett blow up a car by shooting at it.

Go vote.

And thanks to ParaUSA and Michael Bane for putting this together.

Sebastian has a bit on Reasoned Discourse^tm:

I think the reason for the vitriol is that we have unwittingly hit on a nerve. The LA Times article presented gun owners in a human light. For those who have their identities wrapped up in who they are not, which is ignorant, paranoid, rednecks compensating for some kind of inadequacy and reacting to an irrational fear of crime stoked by the right wing establishment, it’s horribly destabilizing to a smug sense of self to read that those types of people might actually have things in common with you. They may even have a serious point of view!

Indeed. One of the things that seriously messes with an anti-gunners worldview is discovering who we are. For instance, per the annual blogads survey, most readers of this site are educated, make well above average money, and are professionals. That goes against the antis impression that we are knuckle-dragging rednecks who entertain militia fantasies.

Advanced Armament of sound suppressor fame have started a blog. There’s all kinds of gun porn!

KAG on gas: I just spent $72.

I can’t fill my truck up because all the pumps in my town stop at $75. I have a 22.5 gallon tank and the pumps shut off at about 18 gallons. Gas stations probably should up their limit.

So, some folks from PETA decided that they’d lay under saran wrap, like meat. Then they’d proclaim meat is murder. Unfortunately, they decided to do this in June. In Memphis.

Squeaky has pics.

A Spike Lee Joint: Shoot him with a .44 caliber Bulldog

Via David.

Charles:

The “armor-piercing” Winchester .30-30 was invented in 1895, Kevlar in 1965. The .30-30 was the most popular cartridge for deer for that 70 years. Like any cartridge that is humane for whitetail deer hunting, it pierces normal body armor which was only designed to stop common handguns.

Stanley Crouch:

The recent shootings in New York have led to one new thought: the sale of illegal firearms should be prosecuted as involuntary manslaughter, as conspiracy to commit murder and so on whenever a weapon used in a shooting can be traced to its seller.

This seems something that the National Rifle Association could get behind since its spokesmen are so quick to explain most murders are committed by criminals with illegal, unlicensed firearms. Instead of going berserk and responding as though any form of gun control is but one more step toward disarming the citizenry, the NRA should clarify its position on illegally purchased firearms.

But here’s the deal. Mr. Crouch probably thinks the dealers the city is suing are illegal gun dealers. They are not. The city paid people to break the law to unlawfully purchase those guns.

Heh.

Could be worse, the ammo could be loaded in the mag backward.

A jury awards $6.2M

M1 Carbines.

Jed has the latest.

NRA has a fact sheet up.

Maybe.

The wife has hit it off with some lady from daycare. And we went to their place for dinner the other night. Talking to the hubby, he told me he was going to the gun show the next day. I told him I’d like to go with. He said Oh, you know guns? I said A little bit. So, we talked a bit. He said he had never been into guns but, in 1994 just prior to the assault weapons ban going into effect, he bought a Glock 17 and a few regular capacity mags because he thought they’d be banned. He still has it. He’s only shot it a handful of times and wasn’t really a gun guy. He just knew he had to have something that politicians were wanting to ban him having.

He was going to the gun show because of the election. He wants to buy more of those things politicians were wanting to ban him having and if Barack Yabba-Dabba-Doo Obama was elected, a ban would be more likely, he said. So, it seems the endorsement by the American Hunters and Shooters Association isn’t really resonating here in the Heartland.

We went to the show where he bought more Glock mags. And I’ve very probably convinced him that he should build an AR-15.

One at a time!

So, The NYT calling Knoxville the couch has got the locals up in arms. Michael Silence is trying to figure out where it came from and sent an email.

Name the country:

Hand Picked Judges who coach the prosecutors? Check

Said judge making the ruling in lieu of a jury? Check

Claiming there is no appeal? Check

Nope, not Zimbabwe. New York City.

Update: David Hardy has more including the fact Weinstein has never heard of the 7th amendment.

Michael Bane, in a must read, notes shooters have caught up with hunters.

Nice:

Sadly, only this is quite clear about the Second Amendment: Whoever drafted it shoulda been shot

Duh:

About three-quarters (73.0%) of civilian justifiable homicide occurred in RTC states, while non-RTC saw about one-quarter (27.0%).

Now that’s funny. You can get the shirt.

In the LA Times?

Not a bad piece, really. Though you do get the sense the reporter is watching the miscreants from outside the aquarium.

Mr. C’s club banned his shooting style since he kept winning with it. Jackasses.

Radley Balko on gun laws in DC:

It’s interesting that crime-fighting ideas requiring the citizenry to give up some of its freedoms are “innovative,” while proposals that would give some freedom back are “dangerous.”

Meanwhile, from David Kopel:

Police in the District are killed at a rate about six times higher than the national rate, a statistic that hardly suggests that the District’s ban on law-abiding citizens protecting their homes has helped protect the police.

No, Ketchup.

How dare you call Barack Garth Brooks Obama anti-gun just because he’s, you know, anti-gun!

But he does have the endorsement of a fake pro-gun group that was set up for the sole purpose of endorsing him or any other person with a D after their name.

Sportsmen for Obama!