I concur:

Cooper Firearms, the company, has done everything in their power to remedy this situation, and I’m going to come out and say they ought to be welcomed back into the community.

Barack Obama:

Exxon-Mobil announced that it had made the greatest profits of any corporation in the history of the world: $14 billion in one quarter. That’s all your money.

Funny thing is, uh, it’s not your money. See, you exchanged your money for goods and services.

Report and audio here.

Via email, seems Obama’s Truth Squads are being untruthful:

It has come to our (NRA’s) attention that with Halloween upon us, the Barack Obama campaign and its allies are up to dirty political tricks.

NRA members in key presidential battleground states have informed us they have received deliberately misleading phone calls from someone professing to represent the NRA, asking voters to support Barack Obama. This is an absolute and intentional lie.

NRA has long been on record as opposing Barack Obama, as Barack Obama has long been on record as opposing the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Update: presser here.

Florida:

With a slender margin separating Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, battalions of lawyers are converging on Florida to handle any disputes at the polls and run to court if necessary.

The TN Democrat Party had to change an ad because it was a lie.

ACK has the correspondence detailing the lie.

This time, from a feminist. That’s adorable. What’s with all these crazy idiots saying that if Obama loses, there’s going to be race wars and civil wars and violence in the streets?

I mentioned my Birthday Loot here. But the other present left was that Politically Incorrect Dog was locked in the house all day. With diarrhea. Been cleaning carpets for two days.

80 pound bulldogs make a lot of poo when they have the trots. I’m guessing the kennel fed him something not on the approved list while we were vacationing. He’s also been very gassy since we’ve been back. And we know all about bulldog farts.

In this post about Bryan Miller stating gun owners have guns to substitute for their erections (particularly tasteless since it was in reference to the tragic death of a child), I asked: What about my wife’s gun?

To which phlegmfatale replied:

I dunno about your wife, but I totally get girl-wood.

Heh.

A Tam Twofer:

Tam on the war: Okay, enough wiretapping; we’ve got the data we’re going to get. Lets get these guys off the board before the hippies take over.

Tam on HopeChange^tm: The other side wants to do things like sell me bad health insurance at gunpoint.

USA Today reports that Dan Cooper has resigned. Blames blogs. Sebastian gets a mention in the piece.

Our old pal Bob Ricker says we gun bloggers are wackos. And calls it McCarthyism.

Last night when the comments there totaled about 200, I noticed how stupid your average USA Today commenter was. I mean, they were like Bob Ricker stupid with references to McCarthyism and trampling first amendment rights. I guess they don’t realize that we bloggers were advocating using our first amendment rights to voice our concerns to the company. They also don’t seem to realize that McCarthyism does not include refusing to patronize a business for its political views. If Dan Cooper was being investigated by the .gov for his political views, the comparison might be valid. Seems like voicing our concerns to the company and voting with our dollars worked.

Anyway, glad Dan Cooper did the right thing and left the company. I just wish he’d instead have learned of Barack Obama’s record on guns and recanted.

In NYC, Party City was fined $500,000 for selling toy guns.

A Boston Globe editorial:

Incredibly, there is no minimum age to fire a gun in Massachusetts. All that is required for someone under 18 is parental consent and the presence of a licensed instructor. That is a massive loophole that has to be closed, especially when parents show such poor judgment about their children’s well-being. In this case, many more children could have been accidentally cut down.

You mean, like everywhere else? And there’s the misuse of loophole once again. Loophole seems to mean we think it should be illegal but it isn’t. Also, I’m sure some minors hunt in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts and this would end that. It would also end teaching proper gun safety and handling to children, effectively making it impossible to bring new shooters into the fold.

Also, it is apparently already illegal for those under 21 to fire machine guns in Massachusetts. So, let’s make it illegaler. I wonder if that restriction applies to those in military service?

But it’s all reasonable.

or basic math is racist and sexist!

In Chesapeake, the top scorers on a test to become a police officer included no blacks or women. Obviously, the test must be flawed.

From me, at The Gun Blogs:

This site (The Gun Blogs) seems to be irrevocably broken. I can’t fix it. I’ve tried. And, honestly, activity here isn’t that high. So, I’ll let it fade quietly into the night. Authors should save their content if they wish to keep it. Once the domain expires, it will be gone.

So, if you have stuff there, you may want to keep a copy. It’s sad but I can’t fix and activity has dropped off. And it marks the last time (here’s the first) that I attempt to start a group gun blog.

Laurel says of me:

It’s definitely my favorite roundup of guns and politics news.

In other news, why have I not been reading a blog called Politics, Guns and Beer?

So reports Steve

Wow.

Update: A fake?

More reports of the trend.

In The City (My The City), a local man had $34,750 worth of guns stolen:

A Maryville gun collector came home Wednesday to find someone had burglarized his residence and stolen about 100 guns which were valued at $34,750.

William Ellis Spurgeon, 4760 Sevierville Road, had been away from home since Sunday. When he returned at 11:08 a.m. Wednesday he noticed a sliding glass door located on the side of the house standing open, according to the police report.

After closer inspection, he noticed pry marks around the lock area of the door.

He immediately went to check on his gun collection, which was located in a closet in the basement of the house, which is located beside Spurgeon Greenhouses. He found about 100 guns missing, along with several boxes of ammunition.

A list of items the burglars made off with:

Guns stolen included Colt .45-caliber WWII commemoratives, Colt Detective Series, Cobra Action Scout .22-caliber, Colt Gold Spike, four .22-caliber derringers, Smith and Wesson .44-caliber Magnums with 6- and 8-inch barrels, six Smith and Wesson .351-caliber Magnums, two nickel-plated .44-caliber Magnum pistols with 6-inch barrels, Smith and Wesson .357-caliber Magnum Texas Ranger, bone handled pistols, Rouger .44-caliber Magnum Red Hawk Super, two .44-caliber nickel-plated black powder guns, a Winchester 30-30 John Wayne Rifle and a 30-30 President Roosevelt Rifle.

Chris Cox in Obama and Guns:

In speech after speech, Barack Obama has claimed he would “uphold the Second Amendment.” Mr. Obama, of course, is a polished speaker who says “words matter.” But records matter more. And while Mr. Obama is short on experience on most issues, he’s long on anti-gun votes and even longer on rhetoric. Now’s a good time to review both.

Meanwhile, Dave Kopel has a state by state break down in Gunning for Victory.

NRA v. the Brady Campaign.

The latest comes from Kahr.

D’oh!

Roger is back to blogging.

Ahab wants to chat with Dan Cooper on the air.

In Tennessee:

Gun stores are doing big business these days despite the sluggish economy.

Sales may be slow for some retailers but there are two reasons why the registers have been ringing at gun stores.

“I have personally never seen it like it has been this year,” said Larry Baity at Gun City USA in Nashville.

He has sold a record number of guns recently… and he knows why.

When the economy goes south, it kind of goes hand in glove, crime increases.

I was talking to a local gun dealer a bit back. He said sales were through the roof.

apparently there was some sort of ballgame last night?

Quiet night at home with the family, with a few of my favorite things: sushi, bourbon, apple pie. I got some coffee mugs with the kids’ pics on them.

Also, I got a Leatherman Skeletool. I had an old Gerber Multi-Tool that a friend got me. I’ve had that thing for 18 years as of yesterday. I got to the beach and needed pliers only to discover that the Gerber tool would no longer open. Looks like a bolt/rivet in the pliers themselves came loose and, as such, the pliers won’t come out the top. That pretty much renders it useless. Still, it was a good tool and I recommend it.

But the Skeletool is a bit better, I think. First, it is much lighter due to all the holes drilled in it. Second, it’s smaller too. Due to that, I can carry it in my pocket, unlike the Gerber which I kept in my truck console. Also, the Skeletool’s knife blade can be opened with one hand, unlike the Gerber. And there are a variety of bits available for the Skeletool and they are easier to change than trying to change bits on a Gerber, which involves taking it apart.

A couple of cons on the Skeletool though: there is no serrated saw blade, like the Gerber had. There is also no file. I never used the latter but the former came in handy quite a bit.

For those interested, I now have a Twitter account. You can follow it here. It just lists my blog posts there (using twitterfeed). I just figured for those of you with Twitter accounts, it would be easier for you to follow.

Thanks to Jack for the tip on Twitterfeed.

Mentioned here:

The Outdoor Wire has confirmed from confidential sources that the “transition team” for the Democratic candidate has already begun looking into the current approval system for firearms transactions.

Jim Shepherd has more on the subject:

Now, after further investigation, it may be that the presumption of some diabolically-forward looking plot to suborn the e-records was, well, presumptive. We’ve been assured that the visits to federal agencies are, in fact, part of the current administration’s efforts to assure a peaceful and orderly transition of power – to whichever party wins the election next Tuesday.

I downloaded the Gun Nuts Radio show about IDPA yesterday and listened to it on the way home. You can get it here. Worth a listen if you’re looking at practical shooting, I think. It clarifies a lot of the divisions and rules. I’m almost to the point where I no longer require my Certified Practical Shooting Accountant.

Also, Breda posted a handy list of links related to IDPA.

Looks like letting a child handle a machine gun may be a crime in Massachusetts.

Over at Kevin’s place.

Tam: I can hardly wait for the Messiah to be sworn in so unicorns will start farting rainbows on the front lawn of my gold house and I can run them over with my rocket car on the way to my governmentally-guaranteed middle class job.

Xrlq, that is. Seems to be a trend.

Tactical Wire, noting that Para USA will be moving to Charlotte so they can be in the USA, mentions a new pistol:

One of the first pistols to be assembled in Para’s Charlotte location will be the new “GI Expert” 1911 pistol. The Para “GI Expert” is an entry level 1911 pistol that will allow new marksmen to own a pistol that will give them what they need to become an Expert shot with the big bore .45.

Australia to make internet censorship compulsory?

Via NUGUN, it looks like the Ruger LCP has been recalled:

Ruger has recently received a small number of reports from the field indicating that LCP pistols can discharge when dropped onto a hard surface with a round in the chamber.

As Bane notes, the Ruger LCP has probably the biggest launch of any pistol ever. So, if you have one, get it fixed.

I still dig my Kel-Tec.

Zumboed in half the time:

The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper.

Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms.

The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc.

David Hardy notes his contributions were perhaps illegal, which is not surprising based on the Obama Camp’s donation system.

Update: David has posted a follow up and notes his contributions were not illegal.

The maker of The Back Up (a bedside shotgun rack) issued a presser stating that maybe one of these would have saved Jennifer Hudson’s family from tragic death.

I’m as pro-gun as they get but that is pretty tasteless.

The reason that 8 year-old was firing the machine gun was because guns are a stand-in for erections.

What about my wife’s gun?

On I-240 just South of downtown Memphis, there’s a Fantastic Sam’s billboard with a picture of a moderately attractive 30-something woman, with the text “From Soccer Mom to Soccer Hottie.”

That strikes me as a missed opportunity, or a lack of balls. The obvious payoff should be “From Soccer Mom to Soccer MILF.”

That is all.

There were four high school cheerleaders killed in an auto accident. Fred Phelps and his merry band of drooling lunatics plan on protesting the funerals.

If you’re in Chicago, you have less than one week to prepare for the semi-annual biennial event in which the dead walk the earth to vote. Be prepared.

So, after the constant fellating of Obama by the press, a few outlets decide to shame the media. With a week to go. First up:

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

And from the same bit:

Middle America, even when they didn’t agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the little man. So much for speaking truth to power.

And: Why McCain is getting hosed in the press:

The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s researchers found that John McCain, over the six weeks since the Republican convention, got four times as many negative stories as positive ones. The study found six out of 10 McCain stories were negative.

What’s more, Obama had more than twice as many positive stories (36 percent) as McCain — and just half the percentage of negative (29 percent).

You call that balanced?

Well, they have an election to win.

Neat pic.

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.

Delaware State Police stopped a person from buying a gun because she was old and a woman. Funny because the Executive Director of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, Bob Ricker, has said that every young female who purchases guns legally should raise a red flag as being a criminal subject to federal prosecution and 10 years in prison. No young women. No older women. It’s like anti-gunners have trouble with women or something. That line of thinking got the ATF in trouble a few years ago.

Up next, no blacks or gays. Oddly, the local press calls this a glitch.

Also, funny story, it turns out the state police also had been keeping lists of gun buyers for years; state law requires them to destroy these records after 60 days. Oops.

Yesterday was Brittney’s birthday.

Today is mine. I’m 37.

Classic Colt #1: Model 1902 Military

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is looking into it:

But wildlife watching in Tennessee – which doesn’t require a license – is on the rise. TWRA is pitching an idea to tax non-hunters through small fees for trailer license plates, new fees to visit managed lands or by taxing products like bird seed.

ACORN not just stealing elections anymore:

NSSF mentioned last night that ACORN is asking to get involved in an appeal of a Jersey City case that twice previously threw out one-gun-a-month laws. But their brief doesn’t answer questions gun owners want to know like why the hell ACORN wants to get involved.

It turns out that ACORN has actually been involved with the case since that last appeal when they joined as intervenors for Jersey City in an effort to uphold the law to limit lawful sales.

And remember, Barack Obama has never, ever even heard of ACORN.

Ben has a list of banks who are getting your money.

Reason to own a handgun: To shoot your dog.

And you could make an A-List Movie using the folks in NYC who have permits to carry handguns. Like you and me, only better.

It was reported they supported Obama.

Fearing Zumbofication, the story has since changed to Oops, my bad. I only did once and have changed my mind.

Update: Not convinced.

Joe seems to think he just wants to be eaten last.

Round 2.

Gun show, machine gun shoot? What’s the difference?

Another run of shirts.

Junior recommends them.

Election pre-mortem.

Heh:

If the average “White Power” neo-Nazi type making the news is truly the best the white race has to offer, then we Caucasians are in some pretty deep shit.

Not applicable in Wyoming:

State officials say a recent court ruling has rendered meaningless a Wyoming law intended to allow people convicted of domestic violence to regain their federal firearms rights.

Ya know, I’m no fan of Obama. But this is still a pretty cool story: We’re within one lifetime (albeit a really long one) of slavery and a black man could be elected president next week.

New trend in AK-47 stocks?

Some neo-Nazi bone err skin heads decided to try to kill Obama. Ok, more likely, the neo-Nazi shit err skin heads got on Al Gore’s internets and entertained delusions of not being retarded and planned to kill black people and, ultimately, targeting Obama. The ATF was probably perusing stormfront or some other hotbed of racist douchebaggery, caught wind of it and moved in. I’m actually wondering just how credible a threat these two doofuses were? Yeah, they’re just kids but so were those two dipshits from the Columbine shooting. I’m not faulting the authorities for moving in and I do think they did the right thing. But I have to wonder if these two bozos were really a credible threat?

I early voted today. Usually when I early vote, I walk right in and right out. Today, there was a bit of a line. That could indicate higher turnout this election. Beats me.

Also, seems McCain/Palin finally got someone to put out some signs.

I’d tell you how I voted but you could probably guess.

Nothing too exciting to note except that, honestly, can we have paper ballots for those who want them? Folks over the age of 70 aren’t too good on these newfangled voting gizmos. And everyone else has to wait on them. Just sayin’.

Like mother, like daughter.

Jim Shepherd:

The Outdoor Wire has confirmed from confidential sources that the “transition team” for the Democratic candidate has already begun looking into the current approval system for firearms transactions. It seems the digital recordkeeping approval recently granted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) has piqued their curiosity. With a virtual Form 4473 in existence, we should be on the lookout for a new record-keeping initiative that will “simplify” the hassles of off-site digital record storage by allowing FFLs to, say, store the information on secure governmental servers. Of course, the government will never access the information.

If true, that’s frightening.

I thought we were bailing out failing banks?

She said wood.

The Lautenberg Amendment is going to the Supreme Court.

TriggerFinger has some analysis of the motion.

Video of news anchor reader being surprised to learn that Lamar Alexander actually has a Democrat opponent this year.

Heh!

An 8 year old was killed at a machine gun shoot. A few weeks back, someone was injured at the Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot by shrapnel. Now, I’m as down with machine guns as any gun nut should be but the folks that run these shoots apparently need to be a bit more mindful of safety.

A bit back, I took my seven year old nephews and six year old niece shooting for the first time. We shot cans in the backyard with a pellet gun. Not a micro-uzi. A small child can’t handle the muzzle rise on something like that. I also wouldn’t have taken a handgun or a semi-auto rifle for the same reason. Also, the first time I fired a machine gun, I was about 15 years old (thanks, dad!). I’d already fired many rounds through weapons that weren’t machine guns. And the first magazine I fired through that MP5 was loaded with blanks. I’ve since fired a few more. I still can’t, at 175 pounds and a proper grip, do a magazine dump with an MP5 and maintain muzzle control. To think a child could have has proven fatal. And that’s a tragedy. And, yes, it’s easy to Monday morning quarterback this incident.

Others:

When stuff like this happens, politicos are quick to draft dumb laws.

Exploiting tragedy.

Hard to imagine the pain his father must be suffering. But what was he thinking?

Our own worst enemies.

An eight-year old does not have the experience or trigger discipline to control a small subgun with a full magazine.

Tragedies and perspective.

This isn’t going to help Tennessee’s image any, and you can be sure the Brady Bunch will demagogue the holy shit out of it.

* – I should note that it’s very good news that the plot has been thwarted — the bad news is the inevitable spin that will come of it.

Says the AP. Doesn’t much break my heart but it looks like the Dems could move closer to a filibuster-proof senate. And that’s bad.

KAG:

The story also notes that some nutty, paranoid people people are stocking up on guns because they believe that if Obama wins, he will ban gun ownership.

Yeah, I mean what could possibly give them that idea?

Virginia Newspaper rejects NRA Obama ad. As to why:

The risk for a newspaper that runs the plastic bag ad, according to media ethicist Kelly McBride, is that it may give readers a reason to question its objectivity.

And not running shows all kinds of objectivity!

Via Michael.

Somebody better tell Barack Obama his communism is showing:

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society.

To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.

For a group that is supposedly checking facts, they don’t seem to be very good at it when there’s an election to win:

These guys are so ticked off by the fact that the NRA decided to push back instead of meekly accepting “Factchecks” personal biases that they’re not even really looking very hard and hoping people don’t ‘factcheck’ them in their zeal to post as much against the NRA as they can.

Also, do you want your fact-checking of NRA to come from someone who says of the NRA:

“They are lying. This is what they do. This is how they make their money. Do these people have no shame? They are just making this up. I just wish that they would tell the truth.” He said that their ads were “one of the worst examples of lying” that he had “ever seen.”

That’s real impartial and stuff.

Xrlq on bloggin: anytime a reader purports to attack you for not blogging about X, his real beef is that you are blogging about Y.

Yes. I’ve mentioned my peeve when someone says I failed to mention something before (here and here).

We gun nuts have known that the place where Great Britain used to be has been under-reporting violent crime. Now, they admit it.

This just in: All that voter fraud by ACORN that seems to consistently benefit the Obama/Biden camp is all due to whitey keepin’ you down.

A reporter asked hard questions and did not follow the script Biden is used to. As a result, the Obama/Biden camp has denied the station access for the rest of the campaign.

David discusses a NYC police gun discharge study. He also has a link to the study.

It is here.

The KNS asked a bit back if they should endorse. 75% said no they should not. They did it anyway.

They seem to have spent more pixels discussing endorsements than the actual, you know, endorsement.

A communist evokes property rights.

Justin notes that the form is changing:

They have checkboxes now for the “Yes/No” question section.

Good. Now they’ll stop shutting down dealers for making who just put a Y or N instead of spelling out Yes or No.

It also has a spot so that you can select bare receiver instead of just handgun or long gun.

Gun sales up. Some folks I talk to in the gun biz say this election is driving sales.

Dale got some his and her M1 Carbines.

Here

Cook County Democrat Candidate for States Attorney: ” No one Should Own a Gun” and “I Favor a Law Where No One Can Ever Buy a Gun”

Most counties in Illinois disagree.

Couple of carry guns.

Remington 870 Express Tactical.

Heh: R15 will be avalible with thumbhole stock. Remington hedging against elections?

We’re home safe and sound. Blogging to resume tomorrow.

[AKA All Linky, No Thinky: Tgirsch Edition, AKA "What I'm reading today."]

Since Uncle’s on the beach enjoying his vacation, I figured I’d give you folks some blog fodder to get you all worked up:

• I voted today. Spoiler alert! I voted Democrat. *gasp!*
• The Guardian (UK): All the screaming you’re hearing about “voter fraud” is a bunch of crap. (FactCheck mostly agrees,as does PolitiFact.com.)
• Speaking of FactCheck.org and things that will get your dander up, they’re going after the NRA again. Sic’ ‘em!
• Larison briefly discusses elitism.
• A dyed-in-the-wool liberal endorses Murtha’s opponent
• Want to kill time with a stupid game? Try Truth Invaders.
• Nate Silver writes about why McCain isn’t doing so well right about now.
• Pattycakes is being screwed by The Man.
• xkcd weighs in on Scrabble. (For those of you not familiar with xkcd, it’s always important to read the hover text…)
• Vinny accuses Sarah Palin of socialism.
• Wondermark: Overthrow your corporate overlords, as long as it’s not too expensive… (xkcd hover text rule also applies here).

Have fun, and have a good weekend.

Kevin is looking at getting one.

A look at things in the firearm industry

IDF machine guns.

Over at Mr. Completely’s place. Lots of gun porn.