Bob looks at Kleck’s numbers and does a reasonableness test:

Dr. Gary Kleck’s survey determined that as many as 2,500,000 times a year someone uses a firearms to stop or prevent a crime….is that number outrageous as some people claim?

Affirmative Action:

Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under their counter-­terrorism powers – simply to ­provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government’s official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed.

Gotta stop whitey too, I guess.

Heh.

At the doctor’s office.

Supply and demand

Stossel has a blog.

Via Alan.

Alan Gura does it again:

Firearms regulations in Washington, D.C. are being amended today by emergency order in response to a federal lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation that challenged the arbitrary nature of previous regulations enforced in the District of Columbia.

But never give a monkey a knife.

The return of the militia scare.

You guys got a sneak peak a bit back. Well, the site is live now. Check it out.

Their tweet is funny: Our website no longer sucks!

AAC Blog reports on their upcoming silencer only shoot. Check out SilencerShoot.com. Sept 18 – 19.

Bloomberg reports easing restrictions on Cuba could been importation of their cigars.

Truth: Bang-bang beats tweet-tweet

The Rep shoots the 50 caliber.

Guns from the Castle of St. Angelo.

Walther’s new 380.

Mosin Nagant with red dot.

Humphrey reports the bill to close records of handgun permit holders failed to pass the senate.

A bit back, everyone noted the video of the photographer down range during a shoot and how dumb that seemed. Well, someone offers a defense of that:

Tactical response runs a 360* hot range. Period. Follow the four rules and you’re good. None of those rules were violated in the video. I challenge anyone to point one out that was.

Ya know, even at a 360 range, I still prefer standing in the opposite direction of where bullets are going.

Well, maybe. Reportedly, she’s made two contradictory statements.

“Clearly she spoke to the fact that settled law is just that, and the Heller case has been considered by the court, and she sees that as the law, and she will work off of what the court decided as other cases may come to the court’s attention,” Udall said.

DeMint also questioned Sotomayor about gun rights in a meeting earlier this week, and later criticized her for refusing to say the Second Amendment “protects a fundamental right that applies to all Americans.” He said Sotomayor’s statement on Heller “doesn’t tell us much” about her view of the issue given the position she took this year in Maloney.

The intern for a Democrat that apparently thought no one in is his address book had seen various internet memes got fired.

BTW, be careful with this internet thingy. It’s serious business. You can ruin people’s lives.

Update: Apparently, critical thinking is not the only thing Jeff Woods gets wrong. He was not fired:

Director of Legislative Administration Connie Ridley tells Post Politics that Graves was not fired or dismissed.

People were pointing out he was a Republican but they probably got that wrong too.

State employee sent racist email. Much hullabaloo about GOP being racist. Now, it’s the Democrat’s turn. Christian has some details on who it’s associated with.

Via ACK

TN restaurant owner is having a contest to come up with a sign that welcomes handgun carry permit holders.

Another review of their quality product.

Everyone is all ga-ga over how social media is enabling those in Iran to stand up for themselves. The pictures are amazing. People are throwing rocks at snipers. And the mullahs can’t stop the signal. The trouble for the citizens is that they will be crushed when the government decides it has had enough. That is happening now.

I wish them the best. But, more so, I wish they had rifles.

TX Governor shoots 1/2 moa groups with an AR from LaRue Tactical.

Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis looking to ban handgun carry permit holders from carrying in parks.

Clenched fist salute: ACK

Tom Humphrey says the bill is on hold. Meanwhile, NewsChannel 5 Investigates (and by investigates, they mean makes stuff up) says that the TFA has changed its mind on the bill, and refers to them as the gun industry. Trouble is, they’re lying.

Heh

In Cali:

Faced with the potential loss of 300 deputies due to budget cuts, the Sacramento County sheriff may consider issuing more concealed weapons permits.

Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness said at a public budget workshop in May that if the cuts happen, people would wait “long, long periods of time for the most basic public safety services, specifically uniformed officers in the field.”

In California, permits are entirely discretionary and usually tied to political connections.

The American Hunters and Shooters Association stops pretending and gets their hackery on.

Correcting handgun shooting problems

State ends high-powered weapons program after media ask exactly why it is that the police need grenade launchers?