Xrlq is officially a yankee instead of a damn yankee. Next, he’ll be drinking sweet tea every meal.

Michael Bane is concerned about some military training in weapons confiscations in Iowa. I wouldn’t quite spell it out all doom and gloomy like Michael, since that’s what the guard does in Iraq and Afghanistan and they’re probably training for that. But it is a bit disconcerting.

Because, yes, I’m out of crap to say:

Update: Second tune from MP3 player, some local guys (and, frankly, it’s probably hard to work a word like Coprophagia into a song):

Boy, do my tastes vary.

Not content trampling privacy, they are now crapping their pants over some TN gun bills:

Editorial: Logic lacking in gun bills
A fast track to a bad policy: Making it easier to bring firearms to places where families gather defies common sense.

I looked for the logic and have yet to see it. Seems mostly hysteria. After all, using logic, you would know that there are already lawful firearms in places where families gather.

Via AC.

On a personal note: I’d like to graciously thank the Commercial Appeal. Their disregard for privacy will contribute to these firearms bills being fast tracked. So, thank you.

Jeff Woods, when not busy poo-pooing privacy, notes a couple of crimes by handgun carry permit holders. General lame implications that we’ve come to expect from media sorts. Note no discussion of the actual crime rate of carry permit holders, which is actually lower than the rate for police. But we can’t let numbers get in the way of our feelings.

And what happens when you don’t have it:

The video.

Wow.

A bill to ending the prohibition on carry where alcohol is served:

A Tennessee House panel recommends allowing people with handgun permits to carry their weapons into restaurants where alcohol is served until 11 p.m.

The proposal would maintain a ban on people carrying handguns from drinking alcohol. It would also continue to ban on handguns at establishments that have age limits for entry.

Because, of course, 11:00 gives you one hour before the stroke of midnight. And you know what happens to a gun at midnight, right?

Saudi Cleric says alcohol in bio-fuels is a sin. Of course it is.

OK, then: The initial question was posed by Peter Valdez of Salinas, who wanted to know why gun locks couldn’t be enforced in the city – forcing gang members to lock their guns in order to transport them.

That’s racist.

Florida can’t keep up with carry permits.

Experts Warn of ‘Terminator’-Style Military-Robot Rebellion. Between that, zombies, face-eating monkeys, global warming and other mythological bogeymen, I wonder what kinda ammo I should stock up on?

SW99

870 for home defense

AR-15 Build, part 4

When your wife walks in and says You know that one chore around the house I never do? And then you’re not smart enough to realize that the question may either 1) be rhetorical or 2) if you keep your mouth shut, she’ll answer for you. So, you try to guess. A few times.

Jimmy B is back.

Made me laugh:

From Stuff

Lead is the reason, they say, that guns shouldn’t be in parks. To which Les Jones says:

Park rangers carry guns, so what kind of bullets do they use and do they contain lead? I think I know the answer and I think you, do, too.

We have open primaries in Tennessee. Probably because the state has a lot of independents. There’s a push to close the primaries. AC says: Don’t close open primaries.

Mihail Kalasnikov is admitting he was “helped” by the German inventor and arms maker Hugo Schmeisser to create the AK-47 assault rifle.

I would guess he was also “helped” by Simonov too.

Or is it ignorance? CNN would have you believe you can walk right into a local gun shop or gun show and buy a bazooka. To ship to Mexico, of course.

This Mexican gun canard is now officially dogma. For a reason.

I’m sure by now, you’ve all heard of the face-eating monkey attack. I kept waiting and waiting for PETA to issue some stupid statement but it never came. There are reports that PETArds are calling the owner of the chimp and gibbon her a hard time.

Finally, Time Magazine did a report on why the chimp attacked. Turns out, it’s because it’s a fucking chimp. Gee, domesticated wild animals some times lose it, who knew?

Update: People don’t like the puns? It is a matter of gibbon take.

In Tennessee’s SB1644 Firearms Freedom Act, that says firearms made in state are not subject to federal gun controls, comes this bit:

(1) “Firearms accessories” means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including but not limited to telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers, and lights for target illumination;

Nice. Notable is the bill would not remove NFA rules for machine guns, short barreled rifles & shotguns, destructive devices, and any other weapons. The sound suppressor thing alone will result in a fed v. state showdown.

This is a perfect time for pro-gunnies to start noting the benefits of sound suppressors, including saving your hearing and not annoying your neighbors.

Local arfcommer on TN carry permits:

I’ve read about people having some similar experiences, so I thought I’d share this.

If you are waiting on your permit, call this number 866-849-3548 (toll-free) and ask about the status of your permit.

If your background check is approved, they’ll issue the permit today.

So apparently the good people at the capital are kinda sitting on their thumbs, and if you don’t call about the permit, they don’t get in any hurry.

Good to know.

19 Facts You Need to Know About Guns. I stopped reading after the first one, which is wrong.

AC on congressmonkies twittering: Experience The Slow Decline Of Western Democracy In 140 Characters Or Less

AR-15 build. Part 3.

David has some questions too.

Tasty, tasty Glock. And other chocolate weapons.

What media says vs. what it means.

You should add carload.

R&R Racing Custom Saiga Mag-Fed (12+1 Rounds) Semi-Auto Tactical/Combat Shotgun

True.

In OK:

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in support of allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots. This decision upholds NRA-backed legislation passed in 2004.

In Orchard Park, a man walked right through an order of protection and beheaded his wife. Said man, being olive-skinned, may have committed an honor killing. This is particularly bad in light of his day job: Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

KAG ponders the differentiation between domestic violence and honor killings. Personally, don’t care if there’s a difference. A murderous psychopath is a murderous psychopath.

Update: And If a Mormon had done this, it would be all over the news. Or a Baptist.

A look at firearm importation rules and sporting purposes.

Seems hit or miss today. Not sure why. Linked by instapundit but that doesn’t usually cause problems. So, I’m stumped.

Meanwhile, if you can access the site, here’s some 1911 Porn.

And you know what’s made of copper and lead? I mean, other than childrens’ toys from China:

Commodities plunged to their lowest level since June 2002, led by energy and industrial metals, on mounting signs that the global recession is deepening and demand for raw materials will decline further.

The Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 prices dropped for the sixth straight session, the longest slump since December. The gauge touched 203.25, the lowest since June 21, 2002, and has slipped 11 percent this year. Crude oil fell as much as 8.2 percent today, and copper declined the most in three months.

Perhaps there will be a resultant drop in ammo prices?

A Knoxville school board member has had his handgun carry permit revoked because he decided to threaten his wife with a handgun. And, given he faces domestic violence charges, if he is convicted, he will become a prohibited person unable to lawfully own a gun.

My Crystal Ball on Gun Control — by Evan F. Nappen, Esq.

Commenter, reader, and smart-ass Kaveman is blogging at Thirdpower’s place. Cool

22 for home defense?

Paul Valone on our favorite false flag operation: The American Hunters and Shooters Association. It is composed of neither hunters nor shooters. And isn’t even an association.

Go submit a question.

All this survivalist talk lately. Most folks seem to be nonplussed by it, except grocery clerks.

Good point: The thing about being a survivalist kook and stockpiling gold, guns, and food is that there’s no downside. Even if you’re wrong, you’ve still got gold, guns, and food

Heh.

NSSF: An Introduction to Handgun Shooting

The six most useless guns.

If the former chief spook in England accuses the Government of exploiting people’s fear of terrorism to restrict civil rights, you may want to look into that.

Toolmonger:

Golden Nozzle car wash customer John A. O’Leary was riding through the car wash when he noticed something was terribly wrong. Yards away, fighting for her life inside the car wash was 19-year-old employee Stephanie Carpluk. The lone attendant had taken a short-cut through the car rails and her scarf had become ensnared in one of the wash’s rotating mechanical brushes. The machinery had pulled the scarf tightly around her neck and was quickly strangling her. Unable to free herself, Carpluk passed out. Within seconds, O’Leary sprung from his car and pulled out a pocket knife that he was carrying and cut her free.

A 14 year-old girl was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Her crime: texting.

Too many school monkeys’ responses are to call the police over what amounts to disciplinary problems. Sign of the times.

In the Congo: So Akoyo called a town meeting and told everyone to bring whatever weapons they had: pre-World War II rifles, homemade shotguns, lances, swords, machetes, hunting knives, bows with sheaths of poisoned arrows.

Obama First Month: Fail

Building an AR-15: Part 1 and Part 2. Lots of pics.

Guns Magazine: Now free to read online.

I may have missed it but I don’t recall seeing them warning their customers that maybe they shouldn’t put a forward grip on a pistol.

The Commercial Appeal has updated its database of handgun carry permit holders.

The house passes a bill snubbing federal gun controls:

Montana lawmakers fired another shot in battles for states’ rights as they supported letting some Montana gun owners and dealers skip reporting their transactions to the federal government.

Under House Bill 246, firearms made in Montana and used in Montana would be exempt from federal regulation. The same would be true for firearm accessories and ammunition made and sold in the state.

Dow drops 200 points in first 30 minutes. Must be that hope and change in the air.

I would have changed Yes, We Can to Unicorns. But it will do:

From Gun Porn

Received via email.

CBS News:

The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks, even as it is internally reviewing whether the measure meets environmental muster.

In a response Friday to a lawsuit by gun-control and environmental groups, the Justice Department sought to block a preliminary injunction of the controversial rule. The regulation, which took effect Jan. 9, allows visitors to bring concealed, loaded guns into national parks and wildlife refuges; for more than two decades they were allowed in such areas only if they were unloaded or stored and dismantled.

And:

In its reply, the Justice Department wrote that the new rule “does not alter the environmental status quo, and will not have any significant impacts on public health and safety.”

You’ll recall during the Republican Primaries, a reporter asked the candidates if they owned guns and, if so, what kind. Fred Thompson answered with: I own a couple but I’m not gonna tell you what they are or where they are. A good answer because it tells pro-gunners that you understand the issue and it prevents dumb things like this from happening to you:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has moved the two rifles that she kept under the bed to protect her upstate New York home, her spokesman said Monday.

“Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons,” Gillibrand’s spokesman Matt Canter said.

She relocated the guns over the weekend while upstate to endorse Democrat Scott Murphy in the March 31 election to replace her in the 20th District, he said.

David seems to think people are apologists for Gillibrand. I’m a realist. I, and other people, can’t get too upset that she’s not holding up her three finger salute. It is a gain over Hillary.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Or, in this case, better.

From the TBI, it looks like of 28,606 total January transactions, 1,293 were denied. Of those, 722 were appealed. Of those appeals, 592 were reversed.

So, of that sample, 81% were false positives, I suppose. Doesn’t really foster much faith in the system.

Largo:

Police this week removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state’s Baker Act — against the wishes of his outraged parents.

The boy spent the night alone at Morton Plant Hospital before he was seen by a child psychologist the next day and discharged.

His crime: a tantrum.

Via MKS, comes this:

Reyes grabbed the girl by the elbow and tried to leave with her, but the child’s grandmother caught up to them and pulled the girl away, he said. The man tried to run away but stopped when he was blocked by a crowd that quickly gathered around him.

And this:

“They did not have to put hands on him,” Stahlke said.

Pity, that.

Law Enforcement Amicus Brief

Law Professors/Constitutional Accountability Center

Seventh Circuit Legislators

Institute for Justice

Congress of Racial Equality Brief

ABC News:

“Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation,” the report notes as part of its key findings. “Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft, murder and weapons trafficking.”

So, 0.3125% of the population is responsible for 80% of crimes?

Sebastian looks at the suit they filed against the Park Service. I’m glad they’re wasting their limited resources so poorly.

According to the Paper of making up the Record, the NRA is extremist. I would say that if you went down all the gun issues, average folks would tend to agree more with NRA than with the editorial board of the NYT.

We can’t say that word.

The anti-gunners keep pusing a .50 caliber ban. The logical next step would be a .499 caliber ban.

Via Roberta, comes a book called No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society. Turns out, nannying them is probably not a good idea.

Like Cali before it, Kansas is not remitting tax returns.

Via The Leaf Chronicle:

The first is SB 1908, the “Second Amendment Protection Act” which prohibits the sale of micro-stamped ammunition or firearms within this state. The intent here is to prevent passage of the “Ammunition Accountability Act,” which requires said micro-stamping. The second, and more important of the two, is SB 1644 the “Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act” which essentially says that, under the Ninth and 10th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government does not have the authority to regulate commerce within the state of Tennessee. As such it does not have the authority to regulate the production of firearms within this state as long as those weapons are manufactured, sold, and retained within this state.

Could Tennessee be getting all Montana on us?

There’s also a bill that bans selling serialized ammo. Cool.

Baby’s first gun: Pink.

Rich writes a letter regarding the CA’s lame defense for publishing the names of handgun carry permit holders:

Second, your defense failed to note that you removed addresses and birth dates only after you were deluged in complaints.

And then there’s this:

News events like the Feb. 6 shooting at Trinity Commons shopping center led many people to wonder, logically and instantly, who else might be packing a gun. At the point of that shooting, the online list of who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon became a matter of deep public interest. That’s why, during the past week, thousands of people looked at the list that had been sitting mostly unnoticed on the Web site for two months.

Actually, you’re wrong. What happened was some cracker drew some attention to it after a reader informed said cracker of it. But whatever floats your boat.

Or why you don’t let someone who’s unfamiliar with firing a machine gun do so without some guidance.

Remember the drill team member that was suspended for having her non-gun in her car. The one she practiced drill with? Well, she’s back in school now.

FAL Range Report.

Pink P22s.

A peep sight for the AK.

Hunting rabbits with the Taurus Judge.

NYPD learns lessons from the Mumbai attacks. In the pics, they’re all carrying Mini-14s. An odd choice, I would think. The NY Daily news calls those assault rifles. Actually, at one of the gun blogger lunches, we were talking about the Mumbai attacks. We all noted that the terrorists were killing everyone, except reporters who were left alone so they could photograph and report the carnage. After all, why destroy you propaganda arm. It was pondered that perhaps the police get guns that look like cameras and dress like reporters.

Good for her:

“It’s a false debate,” she said. “It’s political rhetoric that’s sucking you in to believe that hunters owning a gun or an American citizen who wants to protect his home owning a gun somehow increases gun violence.”

Asked if she owned a gun, she said, “We own two.”

I think she just called the ant-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) liars.

More pics of that Nighthawk here.

Felons are, generally, prohibited from possessing arms. Obviously, the next logical extension of that plan is to prohibit possession of arms by those who commit certain misdemeanors.

With bonus hypocrisy.

You’ll recall that a crappy paper in Memphis decided to publish a database of those who have licenses to carry handguns. And lumped us in there with criminals.

Turns out, they don’t like turnabout. When someone went to the article and linked to a list of names and addresses of editorial staff, the Commercial Appeal deleted the comments. Nice.

Chris Cox wrote them a letter:

Your decision to publicize the personal information of Right-to-Carry permit holders in Tennessee is unjustifiable, disgraceful, and dangerous.

In Quincy, police chief gets some heat for his comments on concealed carry. Now, he looks to be coming around a bit. Unfortunately, he justifies his stance as being the same as Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, which looks to be one of the many anti-gun shill groups affiliated with the Joyce Foundation.

Ok then: County administrator Melvin Booth is being investigated for selling guns to fellow employees while on county property. If the allegations are true, his actions could be in direct violation of the county’s ethics policy.

Doesn’t he know that’s illegal?

Sebastian and Bitter issue their endorsements for NRA Board of Directors. Note also that one of their endorsements, Joe DeBergalis, has commented at this blog. That’s pretty cool.

Also, bitter gives a non-endorsement.

SOF alleges corruption from ATF agents deployed to Iraq. In other news, ATF agents were deployed to Iraq?

The thought made me laugh.

looks like the stimulus bill will create some.

I’ve said before that I don’t think she’s flip-flopped on the issue and that the appearance that she has is probably just spin from the Paper of making up the Record. Some agree and some don’t. Anyway, triggerfinger alerts us that Gillibrand’s arm being twisted by anti-gun forces. And Sebastian questions the context of another interview. Will be interesting to watch all this unfold.

Another post Obama AR-15 is born. Seems to be a trend.

Nighthawk Custom.

Fixed it for them.

Les said: This would be a good weekend for the FDIC to shut down banks

Then later, four shut down.

Fannie and Freddie had little to do with it. The CRA, even less.

[I originally had the full post mirrored to this site, but rather than monopolize Uncle's front page, I figured I'd just redirect you to Lean Left.]

A move by Engel to further regulate importing firearm parts.

Quincy News:

Several local sportsmen and business owners want to know why Quincy Mayor John Spring is a member of a group that wants local law enforcement access to information on gun traces collected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Commercial Appeal:

Tennessee legislators have filed a rash of new bills to allow guns in state and local parks, restaurants serving alcohol and even schools and also limiting public access to lists of gun-carry permit holders.

I wonder why they’d consider that last one? Oh, yeah. And:

As of Thursday afternoon, 18 bills were filed to loosen restrictions on where guns may be taken, four were filed to make the information confidential and two others were filed to exempt from criminal prosecution people who shoot others in the protection of their property.

Wonder what the other bills are?

Via R. Neal, we learn of a site called Gun Free Kids which seeks to prohibit lawful concealed carry on campus. As these groups usually do, they frame the debate in terms of the evil gun lobby wanting to arm kids and that is patently false. The implication is that it’s the NRA (they say gun lobby and we know who that means) when the group advocating this is Students for Concealed Carry. NRA is pretty much mum on the issue these days.

The other false claim is that people seek to arm kids. Students for Concealed Carry is pushing for legislation to allow adults with concealed carry permits, who happen to be students, to carry on campus. They are not arming kids. But a little hysteria goes a long way.

Not a hot button issue for me. After all, like the various guns in cars bills, the issue is one of property rights. If a school chooses to prohibit carry on their property, well, it’s their property and they can do what they want.

Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer and Violence Policy Center shill Josh Sugarmann bleats about how people are buying weapons that look like assault weapons since Barack Obama’s election. He notes the lack of ads for “traditional” hunting rifles, which he traditionally calls sniper rifles but somehow forgot this time. He also notes that this spike will lead to a slump. Probably. We’ll see. Note the obfuscation between NRA and gun dealers.

And, lastly, he says all those people buying are just people who already own guns buying more. And we know that is false. He also glosses over the other, larger growing segment of the gun industry: handguns.