Professor calls police on student who gave presentation advocating concealed carry.

Some ideas are dangerous and should be illegal or punished.

Geez, getting bills signed into law through the legislative process. Stupid pragmatists.

Not me. I’m stocking up on dried goods, gold, and ammo! And writing fiction.

Or 2,377.

Annual physical. Doc’s office littered with various gun magazines. I love this town.

The NYT dutifully parrots the Mexican gun canard. It’s dogma.

Also, our old friend ATF Special Agent Thomas G. Mangan is showing up again. It’s like there is this concerted effort at disinformation. Mangan stuff here and here.

First time we’ve heard from the American Hunters and Shooters Association for a while. Seems Ray (who may or may not be a member) is telling the big O that an assault weapons ban is bad policy. And:

This type of legislation will only disillusion the millions of law-abiding gun owners who voted for Barack Obama, believing that he did indeed support their right to own firearms.

So, have the antis given up on the AWB pipe dream?

Do you have any? Joe wants to know.

John Lott: A New Assault Weapons Ban Will Not Reduce Crime In This Country

Brady Campaign: Assault weapons like machine guns only not. Geez, imagine if they saw what Todd Jarrett can do with a pistol.

NSSF: Semi-Automatic Rifle Ban
Would Reduce Jobs, Not Crime

Kevin: “assault weapons” bans restrict guns on how they look and where they come from, not what they actually do.

Bruce: Dishonesty is part of the plan.

Idaho now looking at snubbing federal gun laws:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, that members of the United States Congress cease and desist attempting to enact federal legislation impinging on the individual right of every American to keep and bear arms in any manner.

Transparency!

Gonna cut the deficit by half. After you quadruple it.

From not raising taxes to spreading the wealth around.

Folding subgun.

Group pic

Paintball Turret System.

Moe Lane:

Mistake #1: picking an Attorney General and administration spokesman who doesn’t even know current firearms law.

That’s not a mistake. It’s an intentional misrepresentation designed to garner support.

Getting word the bill overriding DC’s gun control laws passed 62-36. Of note, Gillibrand voted against.

Update: NRA fast with the presser.

Update 2: Looks like he has the same source:

I am also hearing that Holder’s comments were instrumental in helping bring this issue back up, and picking up the votes it needed. So thanks Eric! We really appreciate the help getting this amendment tacked on to a must-pass bill for the Democrats!

Seems Holder’s statement has made it that much harder to claim that no one is out to ban guns.

The Hill:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tossed cold water on the prospect of reinstating the assault weapons ban, highlighting Democrats’ reluctance to take on gun issues.

Attorney General Eric Holder raised the prospect Wednesday that the administration would push to bring back the ban. But Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated on Thursday that he never talked to her. The Speaker gave a flat “no” when asked if she had talked to administration officials about the ban.

“On that score, I think we need to enforce the laws we have right now,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. “I think it’s clear the Bush administration didn’t do that.”

Outside of the dig at the recent Republican president, that phrase is the stock line of those who don’t want to pass new gun control laws, such as the National Rifle Association.

Good:

U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, a board member of the National Rifle Association, announced Wednesday he will serve as co-chairman of a new task force on gun rights.

“I am afraid we could witness a significant tilt to the left on gun issues in the current climate in Washington and that has me greatly concerned,” the Oklahoma Democrat said.

“I believe members of the Second Amendment Task Force will serve a critical role in preventing overreaching by those who would seek to enact anti-gun policies.”

Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia will be the group’s Republican co-chairman.

Boren said the task force will be charged with monitoring legislation regarding the Second Amendment during the 111th Congress.

Meanwhile, Sebastian is counting up Democrat votes for an AWB. He doubts it could pass the senate. Feingold is a pretty safe no:

(I) voted against the extension of the assault weapons ban because the 10-year trial period showed the law to be arbitrary and only symbolic.

Michael Bane on the proposed AWB:

I’m going to say this again…if you ever plan on owning a semiautomatic rifle buy it now~

And, you know, prices around here just started coming back down.

Seriously, gun permits. And now salaries of UT employees. I wonder if there will be a law to stop this, too.

Via Glenn, the talking points about weapons that look like assault weapons are being circulated. I like to call the weapons politically incorrect self-loading firearms.

Holder is already lying and saying the ban applies to machine guns and grenades.

And, of course, the misrepresentation comes right out of the anti-gun Violence Policy Center playbook: Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

Anyway, here’s a bit I wrote in 2004 on what exactly was covered by the ban.

SIH:

At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.

Ah, the Mexican gun canard rears its head once again. I told you it was dogma and for this specific reason. You know what else would keep guns out of Mexico? Anyone?

A fence.

Update: Lying to win: Of course, the very next thing he says is that the cartels in Mexico have been using “automatic weapons and grenades”, which is a direct quote.

Tam: I think the reaction to this is going to depend largely on how they try to go about it. Nobody took to the streets in ‘89 or ‘94, after all. But the ‘94 ban was carefully crafted to keep people from taking to the streets, and it still cost half of Congress their jobs.

Yeah, it was kinda snuck in there but, then, enemies of freedom can’t exactly be forthright, now can they?

I like him. Saw him speak once and said I’d vote for him. But to those who think he’s the olive-skinned hope of conservatives, you can probably forget it. Advancing creationism in school, his supposed participation in an exorcism, and 100% pro-life aren’t going to play too well nationally. You see, everything that the media lied to you and told you Sarah Palin was, Jindal actually is. I don’t think he has a bright future on the national stage.

More monkey puns than you can fling poo at.

ATI AT-14 .410 AR-15 shotgun

TN’s new House Speaker Kent Williams came out early with some pro-gun sentiment. Said he wanted to move some pro-gun bills. Now, he’s opposed to the guns in parks bill:

I think local parks are a lot different from state parks. I have attended a lot of events with my four boys who are grown now and a few with my grandkids. I’ve seen too many fits of anger at these local parks. I’ve seen parents fighting parents. Parents fighting coaches. Coaches fighting coaches. Coaches fighting umpires and umpires fighting umpires. I’ve seen just about all. I feel where there’s a situation where there’s a danger we don’t need someone carrying a gun in that area. I think it would only escalate the problem. I believe in protecting our second amendment rights. There’s a lot of controversy over exactly what the second amendments rights are.

First of all, remind me never to visit a park in Carter County, if that’s how folks behave in parks. I’ve been to plenty of parks with my kids and never seen a fight. Or maybe he just goes to bad parks. Anyway, people with carry permits carry in many places, such as malls and so forth, and I don’t think they’re going to turn into lunatics just because they’re at a park.

Cape Cod Online:

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a requirement that guns be locked or disassembled when stored has convinced a Barnstable District Court judge to dismiss a firearms charge against a Massachusetts state trooper.

State police Lt. Richard Bolduc was charged last summer with illegally storing a large-capacity firearm in the presence of a minor. Bolduc’s 12-year-old son took his father’s police-issued handgun from a bureau in their Sandwich home, pointed it at a 5-year-old neighbor, and pulled the trigger, according to court records.

In NY, Police selling illegal machine guns.

Reports (with pics) from an arfcommer who states an ATF agent who stayed at the hotel he works at left his gun under the pillow. Ooops. I would have replied with either I Always Think Forfeiture or I’ll give it back when CavArms gets their stuff back.

Jack McElroy on the Commercial Appeal publishing carry permit holders’ names, notes some perceived good that has come from the information:

In recent years, reporters have used the database to reveal that permits were being issued to ineligible people with restraining orders and criminal backgrounds.

Yes, we here at SayUncle noted that an error rate of a whopping 0.084% existed. And:

The Tennessean in Nashville and the Daily Times in Maryville also have put the database online, but then have removed it in the face of complaints.

Never knew my local paper did that. Anyone confirm?

Why understanding math is important.

Defense Review: MagPul Industries Flip-Up Polymer BUIS (Back-Up Iron Sight) System

Uhm, if they’re polymer, wouldn’t they be BUPS? And that is more fun to say.

David looks at the issue

Eugene Volokh:

Nothing in the First Amendment stops states from keeping these sorts of records private. That, for instance, is the norm with regard to income tax records, to psychiatric and medical records kept by government-run hospitals, and a good deal of other data. And the government may criminalize government officials’ leaking of the records, as the federal government has done for income tax records.

But once the data is placed in the public record and then copied by private parties — which is what happened in Tennessee, prompting this proposal — the First Amendment protects people’s right to redistribute it.

Times have changed. LA has really changed.

First, Al Gore gave us the internet. Cheney turned them into the internets. Ted Stevens gave us the intertubes. Now, Biden: Do you know the website number? I thought this was supposed to be the technology administration?

Leather, 1911 and a Sig.

Cali-legal magazines.

Brady Camp fears losing Illinois to concealed carry laws.

Gillibrand writes letter to ask for repeal of Tiahrt amendment. I gave her the benefit of doubt. Now, not so much.

The Maryville Police would like a word with you.

AR-15s as varmint control.

Mentioned earlier but Brian Doherty notes it wasn’t presented as a gun rights case. Joe wonders if a similar case could be treated as one though.

Those TN gun bills, that is. This is usually the part where Naifeh would have killed them.

Via AC.

Update: In the news, looks like all the pro-gun bills advanced.

A hearty thank you to Christian Do These Labels Look Suspicious? Trejbal. Seems the bill to limit access to handgun carry permit data in VA is heading to the governor for a signature. Passed unanimously in both houses.

From Political

Was it something he said?

Via Insty, comes this:

“When President Obama submits his budget blueprint this week, reports indicate the proposal may include language designed specifically to repeal the Tiahrt Amendment,” says Snyder, named the senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News.

May include? Pretty strong qualifier. But, still, keep an eye out.

Dilbert sums up how politics works.

You’ll remember Max Brantley published a list of Arkansas handgun carry permit holders in some alt-weekly. And, by golly, if there wasn’t some uproar and then a bill proposed to make this illegal.

One would think that these reporter types might actually stop and think before doing something like this. I mean, all they’d have to do is hope on the internet and search for terms like publish handgun permits. Then they’d learn what happened in these instances and probably knock it off. But, then, that requires research and reporters don’t seem keen on that.

Anyway, the reason they do it is to generate buzz and pageviews.

* yes, it’s wrong on purpose since I have the grammar Nazis who tell me when I screw up.

If a bill making it’s way through the capitol passes, it would be a crime to publish handgun carry permit records. In their attempt to crap on the second amendment, the Commercial Appeal has, ironically, crapped on the first amendment. Again, thank you. Without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Pat yourselves on the back. You’ve done good work.

Michael Silence says: This is the unfortunate and predictable byproduct of a Memphis newspaper going for some page views. I mean, why not post the databases of sex offenders or home burglary rates for neighborhoods. The answer is simple: Those wouldn’t inflame a large number of law-abiding citizens.

Seen at Tam’s: Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for covering up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed.

Is botched a synonym for shooting her, letting her bleed to death while they found drugs to plant in her home and then forced an informant to corroborate their story?

Ten years?

Pro-gun bill sponsors at the capitol have carry permits.

First, it was illustrated.

Now, the video.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.

Yes, in light of the dramatic increase in face-eating monkey attacks from zero to one (a near infinite increase), congress must do something. I guess a ban on feeding chimps Xanax and giving them booze is too much. It beats gibbon up.

Clayton Cramer in the Idaho Statesman:

Remember back in February 2008 when President Obama came to Boise and spoke at a big rally? He made a big point of saying, “I won’t take away your guns,” because those nasty, dishonest Republicans were saying that Obama was going to do that.

It sure didn’t take long for Obama to reveal his intentions. The afternoon of the inauguration, the White House Web site’s Urban Policy page admitted that he is indeed going to try and do exactly that. “Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

Kinda like how he’s not a big government guy but is?

An unconstitutional bill.

That event where guard troops were going to practice confiscating arms has been canceled. Bad publicity.

First, they came for the sex offenders.

I agree. Made some the other night.

Wilson Polymer 1911

meet

Metal framed Glock.

Disabled? Yes. Defenseless? Never.

Billings Gazette looks at Montana’s new gun bill that will say the feds can’t regulate guns in their state:

“The primary purpose is to set up a legal challenge but also to say we have a lot of really good people in Montana who do the right thing,” said Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

You’ll recall that SF Mayor Newsom banned bottled water at the city .gov. Now, he’s been caught with a case in his vehicle. Hypocrisy.

After receiving threats, the mayor of Juarez moved his family to El Paso. Odd. I mean, if all the problems in Mexico can be blamed on American guns, why would you move closer to our guns?

Animation of how an AK-107 works.

Four bills that could be voted on today. Contact information there so get on the horn.

Also, on the supposed guns in bars bill, Rusty says: This does not apply to bars, restaurants, and clubs where one must be a certain age to enter.

Cabela’s financials show sales up 17%.

Ruger firearm sales up $30M.

Hope and change.

The Commercial Appeal published a list of handgun carry permit holders. Now, the TN Legislature is stepping in:

Tennessee lawmakers are ready again to try to muzzle state records that list who has a permit to carry a concealed handgun, and this time they are considering making it a crime to publish information about gun ownership.

Thank You, Commercial Appeal! Good job, guys. Appreciate you and your help.

David has the results. Second amendment not mentioned. Held:

A domestic relationship, although it must be established beyond a reasonable doubt in a §922(g)(9) firearms possession prosecution, need not be a defining element of the predicate offense.

On the guns in parks bills, Metro Nashville parks director needs to drink a nice big cup of calm his ass down:

These are places for fun, not guns. You mention this and my blood boils. That would put our children in harm’s way. That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. All you have to do is turn on the news and you hear about people being killed by guns. And yet they want to give people more access to guns. Many of our parks are adjacent to schools. Do we want to have people walking around with guns next to a school playground where there are children playing?

Well, if that’s all it takes to get your blood boiling, I can see why you don’t want people armed. You think they’re like you and prone to fits of rage. And conflating that this gives people more access to guns? I think he needs a tissue.

And, of course, the bill only applies to lawful handgun carry permit holders and not everyone. And we know that carry permit holders are more law-abiding than even police officers. You’ll note that, like most things written by Jeff Woods regarding guns, it isn’t made exactly clear that we’re talking about handgun carry permit holders only. After all, gotta get some hysteria going for all those cool alt-weekly readers.

Oh, and that picture of the guy carrying that Lahti 20mm you’re using on the top there? It’s not in the public domain and you’re violating his copyright. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from that guy soon.

In response to Mike Mallowe making this stupid comment:

Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs — he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using.

Phelps responds with:

C’mon guys, give him a break. He didn’t even write the article.

His computer did.

Heh.

Via email, I’m alerted to some blogger who’s totally losing his/her shit because the folks on the right now sound like the folks on the left sounded four and eight years ago. Seems some freepers are getting their ammo box, civil war, blah blah, talk on. Suddenly, Free Republic has become Democratic Underground from a few years ago with talks of uprising, planning for the worst, and stocking up on sweet, sweet ammo. Irony level is pretty rich because said blogger complaining about it has that whole V for Vendetta theme going on but is calling the secret service over harsh words seen on Al Gore’s Internets. Too funny. Also, the blogger says these people are talking assassination, which they’re not.

Any way, I don’t mind so much. The Bush years turned a lot of lefties into gun nuts. In fact, the picture that Mr. Fifth Of November Poser used was prominent on a lot of lefty, pro-gun sites. Looks like the Obama years will get a lot of righties back into the gun rights movement.

And to round out teh st00pid: That gun looks illegal, too.

Really? How can you tell?

A look at the history of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons.

Do you beleve Minnesotans where actually outraged over the vandalism?

No, I don’t. Not for a minute.

Dave Kopel to Senator Gillibrand: Stick to your guns.

Despite their claims that they’re not anti-gun, they keep reminding us that they are anti-gun. This time, they want feedback. Ok, here’s some: gun owners don’t like their names published in the paper.

Five ways you think you’re saving the earth but you’re really not.

Unsurprisingly, the only one benefiting from carbon credits is Al Gore and his earth-fucking boat, earth-fucking house, and earth-fucking trips in private jets to tell us how we have to stop fucking the earth. Kinda funny that the market for those is crashing.

Surprisingly, recycling is not that helpful.

Good rant by Santelli. I’ve made this same point to the hopey changeys too:

You know, they’re pretty much of the notion that you can’t buy your way into prosperity, and if the multiplier that all of these Washington economists are selling us is over 1 that we never have to worry about the economy again. The government should spend a trillion dollars an hour because we’ll get 1.5 trillion back.

Via Tam.

Ya know, if lugging a weapon through the woods, I advise putting a piece of tape over the barrel. It’s cheaper than re-barreling:

Note how he immediately ditches the gun and tries to get the next guy on target. That’s dedication. I’d still be freaking out over my rifle.

Wow. These pictures are amazing.

Gee, breaking into a house you do not own is breaking and entering? Who knew?

Now, we know where it went.

ABC News and the anti-gunners (but I repeat myself) are soiling their pretty little panties over youth guns:

“To specifically market a gun designed for a kid is outrageous,” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control group. “To have a gun specially designed for junior, we’re talking about a lethal weapon here, you’re not talking about a toy anymore.”

Well, they have to be taught gun safety somehow and it may as well be with an appropriately sized weapon. That’s why I have an AR15 with one of those evil telescoping stocks so I can adjust it to my kids’ small stature.

Provided by ATF.

Survivalism continues to go mainstream as Beck and others actually look at various SHTF scenarios.

This stuff really is rich. A round up:

Transparency.

Human rights take a beating under President Obama.

Party like it’s 1997. The DOW and S&P are.

Even more transparency: The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.

I question the timing: Gitmo standards deemed humane

In Illinois, a bill to require gun owners get $1M in insurance.

Heh: And in another scene, Echo (Dushku) is asked if she knows how to use a gun. “I have three brothers, and none of them Democrats,” she says as she racked the slide, finger carefully indexed along the frame.

I know I’ve linked to video Boston Dynamics’ quadrupedal BigDog robot before but it keeps showing up. And that thing still gives me the willies.

Sebastian:

Given the recent dominance of gun bloggers on the Examiner.com sites, it would probalby the last place I’d want to take an anti-gun stance.

And what a post it is:

Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs — he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using.

My BS detector is tingling:

A retired St. Paul police officer was wounded Saturday when a pistol belonging to an off-duty Minneapolis police officer accidentally discharged at a gun show.

Both men were working security at the Minneapolis Gun Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center when the accident happened about 1:15 p.m., said Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia.

The semi-automatic pistol went off when the holster got caught on a chair that the Minneapolis officer was either leaning back on or getting off of, Garcia said.

I know papers are struggling and all but every time you turn around, some idiotic paper is publishing lists of handgun carry permit holders. This time, it’s The Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley. And the reason papers do this is to generate a buzz and traffic since such a list really has no redeeming value to anyone other than criminals. And the alt-weekly biz is in the shitter.

Belt Fed 12 Gauge Upper Receiver for AR-15s:

Continuing their trend of getting no traction on the internets, it looks like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership went out and got their Facebook on. With the usual results:

The Brady’s also have a page on Facebook that has a forum for people who “join the group”. The majority of the posts and threads are by pro-gun advocates w/ nary a Brady supporter to be heard.

So if ‘gun control’ is so popular, where are the supporters?

Friendless on the tubes. In the past, there was no better source for pro-gun information than the Brady Blog itself. Facebook not far behind.

And no love for the false flags either.

Gun Blog .45 wins by five seconds.

Tracy takes her new one to the range.

SCOTUS blog looks at a few prominent post-Heller second amendment cases: On a pace that very likely will put them in the Supreme Court at its next Term, three significant test cases on the scope of the Second Amendment — the “gun rights” Amendment — are moving along in the lower courts.

Perhaps the dumbest product idea I’ve ever seen.

The ninth and final part, with links to the first 8 parts.

Ballistic vest designer requires employees to be shot while wearing the products. I guess he stands by his products.

Five years for a 22 revolver.

ATF gets $10,000,000 from the stimulus bill to keep guns out of Mexico.

Or not so much:

The Majority of Tennessee State Lawmakers Refuse to Release Public Records

Seventy-Two of the 132 members of the General Assembly fail to comply with open records requests

NASHVILLE – More than half of the members of the Tennessee General Assembly failed to comply with a recent open records request, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

Only bad guys smoke.

Last night, I went to bed and it was about 60 degree outside. This morning, I wake up to see this:

From Home Life