Jacob tells us that Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership says of incorporation:

It’s not that worrisome

This statement and the talking points the Brady Bunch is peddling post-Heller are telling. You see, post-Heller, they claimed all of us crazy gun nuts can relax now because gun bans are off the table. And they yammer on about reasonable restrictions, like storage laws, rationing guns, microstamping, and on and on. None of those are reasonable. And when I heard Helmke on the local talk radio this past weekend, that was exactly his message. No mention of backing the wrong horse, how they scrubbed mention of the collective rights mythology from their literature, and no mention of some of their more nonsensical and totally unreasonable reasonable restrictions.

My personal view is that everyone should adopt a couple.

Kidding aside, in Tennessee, there is a push to allow gays to adopt. And Martin Kennedy says the dumbest things about it:

There is no need for gay adoption, no compelling argument.

Well, if you say so, I have to believe it, I guess. After all, you’re a Kennedy! Actually, there are plenty of compelling arguments. One is that it is better for kids to be in a loving home than in state custody. Even if that home has gay cooties. And there’s also a compelling argument if, say, a parent is killed and willed their children to a gay relative.

Via Aunt B. who says that even though it may make Mr. Kennedy feel bad to be called a bigot, that he is one.

Nate is trying to track down a rifle he had when he was younger:

Many decades ago, I received as a gift from my Dad, a 22LR Stevens Favorite rifle. It was the only gun my Dad ever gave me and I was mighty proud of it. I was probably 12 when I received this neat little rifle. Dad had searched out and found an entire rifle with an already shortened stock, just the right size for me at the time while searching for a replacement stock that he could shorten for a Stevens he already owned. Sadly and stupidly, in about 1976, I sold the rifle to an unknown buyer through my first wife’s uncle. It might have been as big a mistake as I’ve ever made. I sold it in north eastern Ohio.

Anyway, I want the rifle back.

If you think you can help, please do.

A look at Bloomberg’s gun control wish list.

David Codrea reports that the Supreme Court has denied cert in the case.

Sam Paredes, of Gun Owners of California:

We think it was a devastating mistake, ammunition buyers are going to be treated like registered sex offenders now.

Via Fodder

Over at The Firearm Blog.

NRA Blog looks at Women on Target here and here.

It also affects any magazine, clip, speed loader, autoloader

And I want to gamble with Dennis Overbye

A couple of physicists have theorized (and I am not making this up) that the universe really doesn’t want us smashing up protons in a collider. Seems that they think the universe finds this act abhorrent to nature and so God or time-travelers are trying to stop us from doing that. Because it could kill us all. Such an action could create the Higgs boson, which using my own highly technical physics terms may be either a big ass thing (which it might not be since it’s apparently going to be small) or one of those mathematical concepts that can kill us all. And we know how much I hate those. Anyway, either God or time travelers may be thwarting our attempts at this and I think it’s amusing when physicists talk about God and time travelers.

And the author of the article, Dennis Overbye, writes:

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs.

Sure, it’s crazy, and CERN should not and is not about to mortgage its investment to a coin toss.

He calls odds of 99,999,999:1 a coin flip? I want to gamble with this guy.

81 year old man shoots home invader.

A Glock at 352 yds

A look at 380+p. Wonder if that’s OK to fire in a Kel Tec?

Wow. Rarely does a comment cause me to do a face palm.

An interesting read. Essentially, when a person decides to draw and fire a weapon, they are committed to that action. As such, in the time it takes to do so, a potential assailant has time to turn around.

The one that started it all

Mentioned yesterday the manager who used his gun to stop a robbery. He’s been fired. If you’re in Georgia, don’t bank at First National Bank.

That’s racist!

Seems white people are leaving urban areas and setting up their own Whitopias.

Gun Nuts Media lists their top five rifles. And a show discussing the list.

Trailer for the movie Where The Wild Things Are. The Mrs. is excited and wants to take the kids to see it. I wonder, though, how exactly the movie is going to work. The book is fairly short and how will they make a feature length movie out of it?

The Firearm Blog: The truth behind the recent M4 controversy. He notes:

In fact, it is not even possible that an M4 barrel can heat up to the point of being white hot. M4 barrels are made from Alloy Steel 4150. The melting point of this steel is 1426 degrees Celsius. For steel to go white, it needs to be over 1400 degrees Celsius.

Seems it wasn’t the M4s overheating but the SAW. Which tends to happen.

Mike in comments at Breda’s Open Carry post:

Gotta admit, it’s a lot more fun being on the “how much freedom are we going to demand” drama train, than on the “how much freedom can we salvage” one.

I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.

Word.

After yesterday’s bleg, I read some various advice given on rust removal, including this excellent post by Carteach. I decided to start off simple at first. I disassembled the rifle using the instructions found here. I wanted to get all the metal separated from the wood. I removed the near 140 year old sling from the wood as well. I started simply with just oil and a cloth (and no abrasives like steel wool). After about an hour’s worth of work, it’s starting to look quite nice:

Top of the barrel:

From 1873 Trapdoor Springfield

The underside of the barrel that was touching the stock:

From 1873 Trapdoor Springfield

Under the barrel band:

From 1873 Trapdoor Springfield

Starting to look pretty good. I figure a few more hours on the barrel and then I’ll look at cleaning the wood with the instructions provided here for wood care.

AL.com:

When 81-year-old Carl Craig walked into Madison Guns & Ammo on Tuesday, he didn’t know that the gun he was carrying was an illegal weapon.

Craig had a Stevens .410 gauge pistol, made sometime in the late 1920s or early ’30s.

“The reason it is illegal is that it’s a handgun that fires a shotgun shell,” said David Hyche, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resident agent in Huntsville and Birmingham.

ATF worked with the guy to let him keep his gun. And that required the gun being disassembled. This has happened a few times recently and hats off for that.

However, doesn’t keeping it disassembled open the owner up to issues like constructive possession?

Lynyrd Skynyrd flip flops on guns?

If all transfers have to go through an FFL, that pretty much ensures some business and probably a cost increase.

Tam has Knob Creek photos.

Kimber Tactical Custom Range Report

Firing 45GAP in your 45ACP revolver? I would think that the 45GAP may be a bit high pressure for that.

We must close the I40 loophole.

Hardy: How many commas does the Second Amendment have?