Mr. C. reminds us it is two months away! If you’re going, make reservations. If you’re not going, you should try to go. It’s a good time.

Scott Bach:

Ignoring Known Gun Traffickers, Corzine Targets Gun Rights Instead

Of course. Gun control is what you do instead of something. After all, in NJ, aren’t the traffickers moving guns in to and not out of?

Guns in restaurants gets traction in AZ. So, they’ll be inundated with lies hysteria about blood in the streets from their local media.

extended to South Africa:

Police are intimidating South African gun owners and defrauding citizens of their lawful property, black firearm owners said on Thursday.

Chairperson of the Black Gun Owners Association of South Africa (BGOASA), Abios Khoele, said the police had “legalised” theft and fraud.

[…]

Khoele said members had been subjected to discriminatory and arbitrary rejections of applications, unacceptable delays and a lack of service delivery by the police in relation to the act.

He said the Ministry of Police had still not entered into discussions with BGOASA on its grievances.

Brehd: One brave man steps forward and remembers Michael Jackson as the freak he was

Pic here. Made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb.

Yemenis apparently have more guns per capita than Americans.

Clayton Cramer:

Attorney Alan Gura is dragging the District of Columbia into the United States — and my, what a lot of work it is!

Indeed.

Indefinite detention of terror suspects.

Tom Humphrey names the Tennessee Firearms Association’s John Harris Lobbyist of the Year. Well, Naifeh losing the gavel did open the floodgates.

Larry:

Apparently H und K is now suing every manufacturer of Airsoft guns for copyright infringement

Gatling potato gun. A whole lot of video so just go to 4:15.

S&W 625

Steyr guts

Guns from the Sanders Center at Texas A&M. Some interesting pieces there.

Jay looks at the virtues of different calibers.

But I wish I had a gun room.

Some language in the park carry law in Tennessee allows municipalities to ban carry in their parks. Since some cities are in a rush to enact such a ban, I imagine preemption will be on the table next session. Meanwhile, the rep:

When election time rolled around everyone could be for the second amendment because their was nothing to vote for or against. Now, it will be a local decision and the local officials will have to go on record as some of them go into an election cycle. Will those people who said they supported the constitution still stay as strong as they once said they were or will some tunes change?

Copy of a letter I received from state Rep. Joshua Evans:

I encourage you to take the next step in standing up for our Second Amendment rights by opening the legislative complex to carry permit holders. As you know, Legislative Plaza and the War memorial Building are currently posted to prohibit law-abiding carry permit holders from carrying firearms into the buildings when coming
to visit their own elected representatives or to attend legislative sessions. Therefore, any law-abiding permit holder visiting the legislature must leave their gun in the parking lot. We must not be hypocritical in telling our permit holders we trust their judgment all across the state, but not in our workplace. I feel confident lifting this
ban would not affect the safety of visitors or ourselves while at the legislature.

I neglected to mention that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Heller decision. But others remembered. SM:

y’all ought to join me in burning some powder this weekend. After all, the first anniversary is suppose to be the paper one. Let’s punch some holes in some targets!

And Reason has a round up.

Now, I know Jeff Cooper was kinda the man when it came to guns and tactics and such. But I never got the concept of the scout rifle. It does every thing OK but nothing great. Seems you would be better served with, say, an AK. Dropping the caliber to 5.56 just screams that you would be better served by an AR-15. But Tam seems to think they’re cool.

Les Jones has a look at the new Brownells page.

Well, you can probably find it at the Second Amendment News Roundup.

Michael Jackson has died. Everyone in Iran says that sucks.

The second amendment for dummies.

Strip searching for Advil ruled to violate fourth amendment rights. Thomas dissented, which is inexcusable.

Via Greg, it looks like Nevada is dropping reciprocity after their audit of the handgun carry process of other states.

Nevada is weird. First few times I went, there was no reciprocity with TN. Last couple of times, there was.

The National Shooting Sports Federation to sponsor the event. Cool.

Also, Mark Knapp, Firearms Lawyer & Blogger, will be there.

A new Showtime series:

Showtime presents a new original reality series about guns, and the people who buy them.

With trailer. Wonder if it will continue the trend of cable TeeVee helping with pro-gun attitudes?

Enfield that takes AK mags.

Winchester 1400

Ruger SASS Vaquero.

No kidding:

The interviews indicated that gun-control laws would have had little effect on the study subjects’ criminal behavior. Most got their guns through a variety of ways, including borrowing, stealing and taking them by force, the professor said.

The book is underwritten by the U.S. Justice Department’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program.

Help pick carry sights.

Gun rationing passes. In NJ, of course.