This is an excellent read from The American Prospect on just how we got into the financial mess we’re in today. It’s from an explicitly liberal magazine, but it’s very well argued, I think, and goes into a lot of detail. The kicker? It was published over a year ago.
I clear the ParaUSA gun blog 45 and hand it to The Mrs. And the following conversation takes place:
Me: Can you pull the trigger on this?
The Mrs: (points in safe direction and pulls trigger) Yes I can. Why?
Me: Just making sure. You couldn’t pull the trigger on my Sigs. That’s why I now have Glocks.
The Mrs: What?
Me: Well, we went to the range and you couldn’t pull the double action trigger on my Sigs so I sold them and replaced them with Glocks.
The Mrs: That’s so sweet.
It’s the little things.
Via Radley, we learn that MADD has outed restaurants that give money to the American Beverage Institute. These are the places that will be getting my money.
MADD has gone from a good cause to, basically, being prohibitionists.
Update: Since it was asked, link is mildly NSFW. Definite boob bottoms there. In other news, why is cleavage (tops) OK for news and TeeVee but the bottoms of the boobs are questionable? Hmm.
We’ve noted how Barack 55378008 Obama is running hard and fast from his anti-gun past quite a few times. If you’re the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership, that’s gotta sting. I mean, here’s a candidate who has supported every gun control pipe dream you could offer and once the spotlight is on him he drops you faster than a drug dealer can ditch evidence.
His anti-gun past results in the Democrat Leadership Council folks cranking up the false flag group, the American Hunters and Shooters Association.
And now, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has a page on the 2008 Presidential Candidates
Record and Statements on the Gun Issue. I’m sure it’s a matter of time before the Obama Truth Squad, Digital Cybernauts, and lawyers demand that they take it down as being untrue. And by untrue they mean politically inconvenient.
Mr. C. reports that ParaUSA is donating a Para PXT LDA Limited Single Stack Pistol in 9MM to the event.
Man, I wish I could make it this year.
McCain 08: Because he’s not a socialist.
People say to me Hey, Uncle, it’s been a good hour or so since congress failed to save us and, well, I kinda thought we’d all be dead by now. And I’m not. So, what’s up with that?
Well, the problem is a bit overstated. You see, a while back someone decided that home ownership was good. So, people came up with ways to ensure more people could own homes. With more buyers, property values went up. Or, more likely, prices were inflated so that these ways to ensure more people could own homes would be profitable. Now, the trouble is that these inflated housing prices have come down. This sucks if you’re the owner of some property or the mortgage holder on the property and you borrowed or loaned money when the price was high. Now, you’re not screwed yet, if you can still make payments. But if you can’t, then these folks that loaned you money now have financial instruments valued at less than the assets they have a secured interest in. I mean, the loans still have value and are, most likely, still profitable. But there’s some risk.
Then they say to me Well, that doesn’t sound that bad. I mean, it’s not great but it doesn’t sound like the Apocalypse is coming. After all, whenever you lend money there’s a risk that’s why people charge money to loan money. What was the point of the bail out nonsense, then?
Well, for political posturing, of course.
And they say No, I mean what would the bail out have done?
Oh. Well, it would have given money to people who made bad business decisions. It would transfer assets held to the .gov. And we’d start over and be in the same mess. Imagine you’ve been stabbed in the neck. The bill would have been akin to cleaning up the blood instead of actually stopping the bleeding. More here.
Update: Wall Street does not agree.
Tonight on your six o’clock news, ZOMFG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!1111one!1.
As you were.
“Smart quotes are stupid”.
‘Test’.
One paper notes Barack Obama is not quite as forthright regarding his stance on guns.
It’s a terrible shame really, the P22 was a wonderful promise. A promise made by Walther of a miniaturized P99, cute as a button, and chambered for .22 Long Rifle. The only problem is the implementation.
I dunno. I really like mine. It did have some problems but those were easily fixed. It’s a good, inexpensive plinker.
A write up on Lauer Custom Weaponry in the NY Daily News:
Ever since the city banned brightly colored guns in 2006, saying cops and kids might mistake them for toys, Lauer has relished his role as the pistol-packing provocateur of one of America’s biggest gun opponents.
He marketed a line of bright colors called the “Bloomberg Collection,” sold hundreds of graffiti-style patterns for five-borough themed machine guns, and just introduced a bright-red shade called “Furious Mike.”
NY spent a bunch of money and time and effort on a database of ballistic fingerprints. Seven years later, the number of prosecutions from the database: zero.
They should have just asked Maryland.
Thirteen year-old Tori can shoot:
David has a report. Interesting bit on Obama and guns:
John Lott spoke, with an interesting point. He’d held a fellowship at Univ. of Chicago School of Law, when Obama was a prof. or sorta-prof. there, and they talked a few times. The first time Obama said “oh, you’re the gun guy.” When he said that he was, Obama said “I don’t believe people should be allowed to own guns.” Lott said maybe they should talk about it. Obama just smirked and left without a word. Lott noted that he is happy to debate the topic fairly; he’s often had Cass Sunstein, who is very anti-2A, to his house for dinner and they debate gun control amicably. But not Obama.
Obama has since changed the tune but the lyrics are the same.
A man is dead after trying to break into a woman’s home and she opened fire on him.
According to police the woman had a restraining order against the man although their exact relationship is unclear.
Has there ever been a dumber Presidential team than these two?
Also, noted shotgun expert Jon Stewart informs us there are no Beretta shotguns, which was quite the surprise.
St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
‘What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
Ouch.
Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania’s law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons.
Commonwealth Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Legislature filed by two members of Philadelphia’s City Council, Darrell L. Clarke and Donna Reed Miller.
The court cited language in several gun ordinances the council passed last year that the measures cannot take effect unless the Legislature were to let municipalities enact stricter laws. That has not happened.
National Review’s Kathleen Parker on The Palin Problem:
Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain?s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood ? a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.
Palin didn?t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.
It was fun while it lasted.
Palin?s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I?ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I?ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.
Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there?s not much content there. Here?s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: ?Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we?re talking about today. And that?s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.?
When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama?s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: ?I?m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who?s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who?s actually done it??
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we?d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she?s a woman ? and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket ? we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.
What to do?
McCain can?t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP?s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Do it for your country.
I thought it was the Left that was supposed to suffer from “PDS.”
Just picked up my Gun Blog 45.
And Todd Jarrett said some of us screwed up and left our lasers on and the batteries would be dead. I would be one of those.
You know what we haven’t argued about in a while? Fixing the AR-15. So, the US Army is asking the industry for ideas to improve it.
Like past efforts at exactly this effort and efforts to develop the Joint Combat Pistol, it will go no where. Except that some gun makers will probably make some really cool new stuff for us. Except HK.
FYI, smart quotes aren’t.
They keep getting turned into question marks.
And I wanna hold you in parenthesis.
Xrlq addresses the Obama Campaign’s threats on the first amendment:
Apparently, it?s not enough for Barack the Bully to have the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times Jake Tapper, Annenberg Political (humorously known as ?Factcheck.org?) and every other mainstream media outlet in its pocket. No, that?s not good enough; you got to stop the paid ads, too.
In Pennsylvania, Lebanon County PA Sheriff Michael DeLeo revoked Meleanie Hain’s concealed carry permit because she was open carrying while watching a soccer game.
That punk pulled a GLOCK 7 on me. You know what that is? It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month.
The 3rd Infantry Division?s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they?re training for the same mission ? with a twist ? at home.
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
The FOPA stipulates it is a defense to state gun charges for those traveling interstate with their firearms so long as possession is legal in state they start in and the state the end up in. And the weapon is unloaded, etc. NYC has long ignored that law and prosecuted people anyway. Well, a court rules that the law applies there too:
New York criminal defense law firm Tilem & Campbell announced today that all charges were dismissed against a client charged with possessing a loaded firearm in Bronx County, New York.
Good.
Via David, who has more.
Senate Democrats block the DC gun bill:
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , D-Ill., objected, calling the bill an attempt ?take away the authority? of the city to write its own gun laws.
Hutchinson said it is ?the prerogative of Congress? to make laws affecting the District.
Gun-rights advocates say the District government is not abiding by a Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that voided the city?s handgun ban in June. The D.C. City Council promulgated temporary laws in July, and another set of temporary laws Sept. 16. City officials are working on permanent ones.
Durbin said he was acting on behalf of 11 Democratic senators who signed a letter expressing concern ?about proceeding to this bill without hearing from local and federal law enforcement officials and other interested parties.?
The senators who signed the letter include Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California, who had vowed to filibuster the measure after the House passed it 266-152 on Sept. 17.
I guess Hillsy’s attempt to woo gun owners was short-lived.
And remind your Democrat senator on election day.
HK G11 that fired caseless ammo. Not that it mattered. They wouldn’t sell you one. Because you suck and we hate you.
Obama’s lawyers sent letters to TV stations telling them to stop running NRA ads or we’ll shut you down. Kinda funny that the ads aren’t even running in one of the places they’re threatening. Dissent must be silenced.
Sebastian says: This is Chicago politics at its finest folks. If you can?t win fair, win dirty.
Over at subguns, we learn that International Traffic in Arms Regulations fees are going up:
The US State Department issued final rule making in today’s Federal Register. The new registration fee will be $2,250 per year. The fee increases if one conducts export activity.
The prior 2-year registration is no longer permitted; the only option available is for a one-year registration.
In a major victory for those of us arguing that the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (NFRTR) is insufficient for criminal proceedings, Dr. Fritz Scheuren, ?the? statistician in the United States (possibly the world), today informed the 10th District Court that the NFRTR is insufficient for criminal proceedings. While no decision has been rendered in the case of US v. Larry Douglas Friesen, this is a MAJOR defeat for the BATFE, who, over the years, has argued that although the NFRTR is flawed, it still can be used in criminal proceedings. To understand just how flawed the NFRTR is, see my article on the NFRTR violating Due Process.
If the US loses this case, there is some speculation on whether the BATFE will seek to appeal the decision because an appellate ruling that the NFRTR is insufficient would have disastrous consequences for the BATFE and the NFRTR. It is this author?s opinion that the BATFE would likely not appeal so to protect the integrity of the NFRTR in other court proceedings. Nevertheless, in any future cases, a competent attorney will be adding Dr. Scheuren as an expert to invalidate the NFRTR.
ATF’s own agents have noted that the NFRTR is corrupt. Past coverage of the ATF and the NFRTR here, here, and here.
Update: David has more.
Mr. C. notes that ParaUSA is donating a gun to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. Cool.
Shaping up to be quite the event. I’m still bummed I can’t make it.
PGP has an interesting observation:
But when you get down to it, the real question is where?s the pro-RKBA side?s motivation to lie in the first place? I can?t imagine a candidate in recent memory for any national office more philosophically opposed to our point of view than Obama. There?s no reason for us to have to fib, since the facts of the case pretty plainly make it clear a pro-RKBA voter can?t pull a lever for Obama, period.
Greg wonders if CBS stole borrowed heavily from a Brady Campaign graphic.
Meanwhile, CBS is the latest media outlet to cover for Obama’s record on gun rights. CBS notes Obama’s endorsement by the American Hunters And Shooters Association but doesn’t bother to do three seconds of Googling to determine that they are a false flag operation founded by anti-gunners and the Democrat Leadership Council.
And this is pretty rich:
According to Democratic political consultant Dave ?Mudcat? Saunders, a former John Edwards advisor who is known for pushing Democrats to take rural voters? concerns more seriously, it is McCain, not Obama, whom gun owners should fear. Saunders argues that while Obama has essentially vowed to leave the gun owners alone, McCain has stood by his position on gun shows.
Now, McCain is not perfect on guns but he’s better than the last three presidents on the issue. And Obama’s plan calls for gun bans, which is not leaving us alone.
Heh:
However, Blue Island Police Chief Douglas Hoglund shut down the event just 30 minutes after it began. Hoglund said the building didn’t have a business license and no one authorized by a law enforcement agency was there to take possession of the traded-in guns.
Joe got his. Robb reportedly got his last night.
I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be last.
In December 2002, I founded The High Road forum dedicated to the advancement of responsible gun ownership. Recently, it was discovered that in 2006, the volunteer forum systems administrator, Derek Zeanah of Statesboro, Georgia, changed domain registration to himself. After he was confronted, Derek locked out all other staff from accessing the Web server administration and would not share even backup copies of its content. After failed attempts to peacefully resolve the dispute, it has become necessary for me to initiate a lawsuit against Derek Zeanah for the return of thehighroad.org domain name and the forum database.
So Bush says uncle on executive compensation.
Ya know, there’s a reason people take these jobs: the money.
Over at Yahoo news, there’s a bit entitled: Why Buyers Aren’t Buying. You know, to address why people aren’t buying houses when prices are so low.
I had to do a double take.
I mean, would you loan these people money?
I got a 94. But I misread a question. Still, a passing grade.
Obama shill says his support for gun rights is well-documented. No word on the location of these documents.
The problem is that largely unregulated financial institutions used sometimes shady deals to sell people mortgage products that they probably could not afford.
That’s a joke, right? I agree with the latter but to say that financial institutions are largely unregulated is like saying Pamela Anderson is largely unaltered.
Kirk had one. He’s also looking at a flashlight mount for his handgun.
In a pinch, the Rogers/Surefire method works just fine.
A case for bringing back the pillory. Or tarring and feathering.
Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag…
Earlier in the day, he was speaking with a local news station when an unidentified teacher walked up to him, ripped off the microphone clipped to his shirt and told him he was not allowed to talk to the media.
Politifact fact checks NRA. And by fact check, they say nyuh uh, ’cause Obama said so . . . later. I mean, nevermind the fact he signed his name to it that one time.
In Illinois: After months of waiting in good faith for the repeal of a gun ban that never happened, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against Winnetka, IL in U.S. District Court.
NSSF is trying to address the AR-15’s image problem. Since Zumbo, I think it’s come around quite a bit. And it is the most popular sporting rifle platform around. From WV Outdoor News:
“It’s cosmetically challenged,” said noted gun writer Tom Gresham. “It’s kind of like one of those ‘replicars’, where you have a Volkswagen chassis that looks like a Ferrari. The AR-15 looks like an M-16, a fully automatic military rifle, but it is not. It’s semi-automatic and fires one shot each time you pull the trigger.”
It’s scary and black too! And some politicos (two of which are on the Democrat presidential ticket) want to ban these politically incorrect self-loading firearms based on cosmetics. Ahab has more, and notes:
I do have to agree that the AR platform of rifles kind of has an image problem outside of the sport shooting community; and I applaud the efforts of NSSF to take educational action to correct and manage that image problem.
Perhaps that’s where the image problem lies. But whenever I take a new shooter to the range, I always take an AR. And the new shooters always like it the best.
Apparently, not many. I discussed it yesterday but here’s a round up of what others have to say:
There’s another possible explanation behind FactCheck’s positions. Just last year, FactCheck’s primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for “efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry.” Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005.
Also, didn’t Obama actually, you know, head up Annenberg?
FactCheck supposedly exists to look beyond a politician?s claims. Ironically, in its analysis of NRA materials on Barack Obama, these so-called ?FactCheckers? use the election year campaign rhetoric of a presidential candidate and a verbal claim by one of the most zealous gun control supporters in Congress to refute facts compiled by NRA?s research of vote records and review of legislative language.
That has got to be the most disingenuous use of the word ?however? I?ve seen in any screed not written by Glenn Greenwald or Andrew Sullivan.
The September 22, 2008, FactCheck on the NRA criticism of Obama is marred by the omission of crucial facts, one-sided and misleading presentations of issues, and thinly-concealed political advocacy.
Basically, FactCheck’s response seems to be Nuh uh, because Obama said so.
Trying to tell people how we can’t turn air into money. Back later.
I agree with Slacktivist on this, and I expect that many readers, from across the political spectrum will also agree:
I’ll gladly concede that Paulson knows more about the world’s rapidly collapsing finance system than I do. That doesn’t matter. Paulson’s request violates an inviolable principle, namely, to repeat, that if a public official demands $700 billion by week’s end, no strings attached, with no democratic or judicial review of that official’s unfettered discretion to spend that $700 billion as he chooses, then you say, “No.”
“No” is the only possible answer a free person can give to that request.
If you don’t answer “No,” then you have to answer “Yes, Your Majesty, screw that whole experiment-with-democracy thing, we think you’ll make a fine sovereign and king and please take our money as tribute from your loyal, unquestioning subjects.” I prefer the former answer, and not just because it’s shorter.
…snip…
Fortunately, crowning King Henry and doing nothing at all aren’t our only options. The events of the past week seem to prove that the American financial sector is in a full-blown panic. The Bush administration is now insisting that we fight panic with panic. That won’t work.
It may, in fact, be the case that something huge and unprecedented and Very, Very Expensive will be required to save the republic. But if we can’t manage to do that democratically — with accountability, oversight and the full participation of the people’s representatives — then the thing we are saving will no longer be a republic.
Bob Owens has a lengthy post on Fact Check.
The WaPo falls for the same line.
Funny how all these joints with fact check in the title don’t actually, you know, check facts.
Past coverage here.
My Washington colleague Julia Malone sends word that the National Rifle Association has just endorsed the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. John Barrow, the Savannah Democrat.
Read this as a significant blow to Barrow?s Republican challenger, John Stone.
More Dems like this please.
Seems FactCheck is feeling the hope and change. Or rather, they’re not fans of NRA’s ads that highlight Barack Obama’s record on guns. You would think that, since fact check is part of the name, that they would actually, you know, like check facts and stuff. But you’d be wrong. Tom (who still thinks I’m on a two year vacation) alerted me to it but I was out of pocket last night. For starters:
A National Rifle Association advertising campaign distorts Obama’s position on gun control beyond recognition.
Based on his past actions, his position is not beyond recognition. Fact Check seems to think his policy papers trump his past actions.
The NRA is circulating printed material and running TV ads making unsubstantiated claims that Obama plans to ban use of firearms for home defense, ban possession and manufacture of handguns, close 90 percent of gun shops and ban hunting ammunition.
Actually, the claims seem to be pretty well substantiated. However, NRA did spin a few of the claims.
Continuing with some bullet points, they state NRA’s claim that Obama would Ban use of Firearms for Home Self-Defense. FactCheck gets it wrong. Obama opposed a bill that would have made it an affirmative defense to registration requirements if an arm was used in self-defense. That is to say that if you use your gun in lawful self-defense, you generally will not be found guilty of technical violations. Sounds to me like opposition to it is pretty much opposing lawful self-defense but it is not banning firearms use for self defense.
Next supposed fact check: Ban Rifle Ammunition Commonly Used for Hunting and Sport Shooting. Fact check calls it false. Fact Check is wrong. Armor piercing handgun ammo is already banned. Any popular hunting cartridge can penetrate body armor. Fact Check says it’s false because the bill targeted ammo designed or marketed as having armor piercing capability and Kennedy says it wasn’t meant for hunting ammo. Technically, all powerful rifle rounds by design have armor piercing capability, depending on the level of armor.
Next supposed fact check: Ban the Manufacture, Sale and Possession of Handguns. Well, let’s see. I wonder where anyone could have gotten the idea he wanted to ban possession and manufacture of handguns? Oh yeah, from FactCheck. Twice, even. I knew I’d seen it before.
Next supposed fact check: Mandate a Government-Issued License to Purchase a Firearm. Even Fact Check says ok, ya got me on this one. But calls it misleading.
Next: Pass Federal Laws Eliminating Your Right-to-Carry. Ok, we got him on that one too.
Next: Expand the Clinton Semi-Auto Weapons Ban to Include Millions More Firearms. Fact Check calls it partly true. And by partly, they mean absolutely.
Next: Appoint Judges to the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Judiciary Who Share His Views on the Second Amendment. Fact check calls it unsupported. I suppose they leave open room that he may possibly nominate some textualists or originalists to the courts?
Next: Increase Federal Taxes on Guns and Ammunition by 500 Percent. Fact Check calls it uncertain then points out that it probably happened. That doesn’t sound very fact-checky.
Next: Close Down 90 Percent of Gun Shops in America. They call it uncertain. Which, at fact check, seems to mean true. After all, he did write a bill that made operating a gun shop within five miles of a school illegal. Trouble is, there seems to be a school every five miles or so in most places.
Pro-Gun Progressive has also responded to fact checks lack of checking facts.
Now, a couple things. NRA was spinning a lot of this stuff as things Obama will do instead of things that he has done. But along came Fact Check and spun it back the other way. That’s not very fact-checky.
It’s like FactCheck is in the tank for Obama, or something.
Looks like fact check may have scored 2 on technicalities but not by much. And definitely by being misleading.
Update: Countertop provides more on the ammo ban noting that Kennedy specifically wants to ban 30-30, one of the most popular hunting rounds in the US:
Another rifle caliber, the 30.30 caliber, was responsible for penetrating three officers? armor and killing them in 1993, 1996, and 2002. This ammunition is also capable of puncturing light-armored vehicles, ballistic or armored glass, armored limousines, even a 600-pound safe with 600 pounds of safe armor plating.
A popular caliber in lever guns. So much for that one.
Update: Pattycakes fact checks FactCheck:
Once again, if you give primacy to what his recent campaign statements have been, then, by golly, he supports the Second Amendment! But if you look at his record ? his past statements ? then the NRA is right to be concerned.
Update: Still more from Sebastian:
I would encourage folks to contact FactCheck and tell them of some of their oversights here. Be factual. It very well may be, and probably is, that they don?t understand the gun issue that well, and NRA?s publications are meant more to rally gun owners than they are to educate the masses. That?s often going to be our job.
Red light cameras do not improve safety. No surprise. They’ve never been about safety and only about dollars.
Seems it’s not just the anti-gun folks who are guilty of it.
As a side note, per a user comment (Egregious Charles, maybe?), I tried to categorize this post under “Flaming Bag of Poo,” but I don’t have permission to add new categories. 
UPDATE: PolitiFact.com is even less kind to the NRA mailer — be sure to send some of your vitriol that way, too:
Here’s what LaPierre wrote about the vote: “When Obama turned thumbs down on the bill, he voted against the most basic element of the Second Amendment ? the right of defense of self and family ? the reason that millions of Americans own firearms.”
That’s a bit of a leap. In concrete terms, Obama’s thumbs-down was a vote against the state legislature tweaking a local gun ban. In any event, there’s no fair way to interpret it as evidence that Obama has a future plan to ban the use of firearms for home defense.
…snip…
Ignoring that sort of evidence, and instead extrapolating from one vote on a jurisdictional debate in Illinois a broad-ranging plan to ban guns for home defense, is not just misleading, it’s intentionally dishonest. That is, Pants on Fire wrong.
In response to the NRA’s offense, Obama shill Sean breaks out the straws (and strawmen) to grasp:
National Republican Association
Per an NRA lobbyist I once had dinner with, NRA endorses more Democrats in Tennessee than Republicans. Continuing:
In the ad, they claim that “he also supports a ban on the shotguns and rifles most of us use for hunting.” An interesting claim, and the reference used to back it up is the 2004 debate between Obama and Alan Keyes.
It also comes from a 2003 bill (S.B. 1195) which would have banned a lot of weapons, even weapons that were not semi-automatic. The rest of Obama’s gun votes tell the same story.
But keep telling us it’s OK. He’s not getting Biden’s guns and he doesn’t have the votes anyway. It’s working so well.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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