Looks like I may have lost a few posts and a few comments. Sorry about that.

WizardPC notes the ruling went the other way. I don’t see how this ruling will stand. Seems that they presumed the onus of knowing restaurant laws was on permit holders. Bonnyman’s ruling is pretty asinine. I mean, it’s easy to tell if a restaurant serves food five days a week. They usually 1) have food and 2) post their hours of operation. Looks pretty weak.

Update: more from the city paper.

New for 2010.

I’ve linked to Daily Gun Pictures a few times, like this post. Then it was pointed out to me that the blog was just stealing content from other sites. Attribution is a good thing.

I received a copy of David Kopel’s new book Aiming for Liberty yesterday (you can pre-order at that link). It’s a look at civil rights in general and, specifically, second amendment rights. I’m but a few pages in and note that the book picks up on the bigotry against gun owners angle. Quote in reference to the DC voting amendment which had the pro-second amendment bill attached, causing DC to ask the bill be pulled:

In other words, the DC government is so prejudiced against gun owners that the government would sacrifice voting rights for DC citizens rather than permit those citizens to exercise Second Amendment rights.

Starts today. Suit is kinda stupid. But WizardPC will try to blog about it if he can.

The anti-gunners are parroting the lie that the Fort Hood shooter was on the terror watch list. And if we restricted those on the list (a list of millions that only shows name and has no appeal process) then the shooting would not have happened. Well, presuming he couldn’t get his hands on an illegal weapon. Anyway, it’s not true:

Three senior investigative officials, who insisted they not be identified by name because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing federal investigation, told reporters in Washington that Hasan was never nominated to be on a watch list. He was able to purchase weapons legally and had done nothing to justify even a preliminary investigation, they said.

He also had a security clearance:

In addition, Hasan had a security clearance at the “secret” level and received good performance reviews, they said. Nonetheless, they continued to examine his communications with the cleric in Yemen for several months as a precaution.

100 guns stolen from from Tchula police:

Some of those weapons allegedly ended up on the streets of Chicago.

No, those come from gun shows, remember? That’s what they tell us.

We don’t have a plan or anything. But we like talking about it.

WSJ:

Will Gun-Control Case Prompt a Constitutional Reawakening?

In the New York Times. Wait, what?

No, it’s from the Greek Psyche meaning To Make; and ology meaning stuff up.

And archaeology is from the Greek Archae meaning to dig; and ology meaning stuff up.

A conviction based on the Lautenberg bill has been vacated.

CTD looks at handgun safeties. Note that none are a substitute for the one between your ears.

91 year old man holds burglar at gun point. Bonus: while naked.

Shooting Wire says they’ll be making a 1911.

ITM’s Dual Barrel Machine Gun

Remington 511

OTS 38 revolver. A new one to me.

So says the Law Enforcement Alliance of America:

Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement.

Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who possess them.

So, he doesn’t want due process protections for people who want to own guns. Even though we give those protections to people who, say, fly planes into buildings.

Audit the fed makes it out of committee.

No data loss. If you’re seeing this, you’re here. If not, no point talking to you.

And thanks to Hosting Matters for their efficient response.

Looks like the drive on the server could tank. So, touch and go here. May lose some data.

On stopping power: try aiming.

No-tax Botox ends, Nancy Pelosi hardest hit

If you’re in California.

Open carry in San Fran.

So anti-gunner Chuck Schumer is getting his catering to hunters on.

A reader emails me this sign on the door at The Rendezvous in Memphis:

From Misc

Note that it is actually one of the few TCA compliant signs that I have seen. But when you walk inside, you see:

From Misc

Ok, then. A place I won’t eat.

I was always amazed that TSA would take my nail clippers or pocket knife. Then, when I’d get on the plane, the flight attendant would hand me a can of beer or soda or juice. A can I could empty then tear open to make a bladed weapon. And I have also, when flying, made certain to keep in my carry on bag a bar of soap and a pair of socks. You know, just in case some one gets a case of crazy or Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Put soap in sock, hit, repeat. Sure, it’s not whiz-bang tacticool but one smack upside the noggin and it’s coloring books for Christmas.

Apparently the geniuses at the American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology figured out that there are weapons all over planes. Like Marko said: Your weapon is that squishy grey mass between your ears—everything else is just a tool.

Update: As The Duck points out in comments, that doesn’t count the various office supplies that are in the bag.

Lyle of UltiMAK has a post over at Joe’s place showing his new rail optic mount for Garands. Cool.

Be sure of your target and what’s behind it. Tragic.

A lot of shootings in NY lately. The NY Daily News has been calling it a gun plague. A gun plague? No way. Carrying guns there is illegal. It’s easier to call it a gun plague than, you know, a black teenager plague. Which we can’t talk about. Because we’d be racist. Also why we can’t talk about Sudden Jihdad Syndrome.

Even better than blaming guns. Blame chicken. Maybe it’s a chicken plague?

In comments, Guav:

Lots of unpossibles here in just the last two months:

Bronx Girl, 15, Shot In Head By Stray Bullet
Teen Pulls BB Gun On Cops, Gets Shot In The Face
Drive-By Shooting On Lorimer Street In Brooklyn
Bronx Student Shot Outside High School
Brooklyn Teen Fatally Shot Outside Brownsville High School
Stray Bullet Kills 92-Year-Old Bronx Woman In Her Home, Teen Arrested
Teen Shot Dead In Flatbush Coffee Shop
13-Year-Old Queens Boy Fatally Shot in After-School Fight
Bronx Mom Killed In Afternoon Gang Shootout
Brooklyn Drive-By Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 1 Wounded

Maybe instead of banning guns, Bloomberg should just ban Brooklyn and the Bronx. Or teenagers.

Date night at Range USA!

I think I’d prefer zombie night.

Is today.

Quadruple barrel

Classic 22s

Chiappa Rhino

BAR bullpup

Why shooters shoot.

Breda on the Zen of the rifle.

No real point in having a trial if he’s going to be detained even if acquitted.

That dumb lawsuit about restaurant carry is back in court tomorrow.

TX gay marriage ban may have inadvertently banned all marriage. Now that’s funny.

Who the Hell is driving Biden’s motorcade? Three accidents in six days with one fatality. Get that guy off the road.

ETA: And I mean the drivers, not Biden.

Al Gore:

the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees

And this is the leader of a religion that wants me to have faith in their prophecies.

Alt Weekly steals an image from Oleg Volk. Oleg is not amused.

* misspelling intentional.

The American Rifleman has an article on it. I note that this article is in the same issue in which Ugo Gussalli Beretta wrote a letter to the magazine expressing his displeasure that his gun was not included in the top guns list.

EY.com:

Insight Technology’s Ken Solinsky named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Winner in the Distribution and Manufacturing category

Insight Technology makes some quality lights, illumination and aiming devices.

Video here.

I find it interesting that a company related to the gun industry is getting an award from a Big Four (there’s four now, right?) accounting firm. Mainstreaming, indeed.

Good deals on Crimson Trace Laser Grips at Amazon of all places.

Via The Duck.

Caleb did a show about it. And a link to the FBI’s Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness. Round up of the topic from posts past can be found here.

But I think this is the best visual on the topic.

Turns out guns work just fine:

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

Criminals shouldn’t use guns when robbing people. If they do, they run the risk of a convenience store clerk taking the gun from them and using it against them.

Josh was probably sitting around feeling bad getting those checks from Joyce and not producing much. And Kristen wasn’t busy. Cant imagine she ever is. So, they Googled themselves up another study. This one is called CCW Killers and it looks to paint those with carry permits in a bad light. Like most of their supposed studies, it’s a bit lacking. First, it’s based on Google searches. A few of the folks they list haven’t actually been convicted. And in a few instances, the crimes occur in a home, where a carry permit doesn’t matter. Even with all the stretches, if you stretch a bit more it’s a whopping 0.4% I did my math a bit differently. Because you would need data for the whole period covered, not just the current year. And that would be about two years and eight months. Two year data would be about 19,500 and you could swag the eight month stub to about 6,500. So, 85/26K is 0.32692308%.

Yup. Folks with carry permits are involved in an underwhelming amount of gun deaths.

Sebastian has more and notes the lying.

Update: More math from Joe:

So, the average CCW holder is (5.4/100,000)/(1/142,000) or 7.668 times less likely to murder someone than your average private citizen. And that’s not correcting for the exaggerations pointed out by Sebastian and the conservative numbers used by Waldron (it’s actually 34/5,000,000+ or 1/147,059+). So the real number is probably on the order of 10 times less likely.

The Mo. Supreme Court says it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.

Update: More from SIH:

A man drunk at home is charged with having a firearms while intoxicated. It seems to me that the public has an interest in a person not carrying a firearm in public while intoxicated, but the state’s power to reach into the home ought to be considerably diminished. Should someone be charged because they are intoxicated at home, but have a loaded pistol in the bed stand upstairs, or have a rifle in the closet?

M1A Scout Squad rifle vs. the M1A Match rifle

More at M1A rifles.

A County GOP group is ousting a member because he supports Ron Paul?

Dave Kopel has a look.

Jay has a look

The Silverdome cost taxpayers $55M. It just sold for $583K.

Treating guns like health insurance

Surveys indicate that gun ownership is not spread evenly across U.S. households. In fact, chances are that a substantial proportion of U.S. gun owners have more than one weapon, so it’s quite possible that fewer than 200 million Americans own those 260 million guns. That means there may be more than 100 million citizens left unprotected against their gun-owning fellow citizens.

Surely everyone can agree that this is an outrage. Moreover, it is an outrage that Congress can easily fix, without months of committee meetings, town halls or tea parties. All that is required is a bipartisan, pro-constitutional bill to extend the Second Amendment’s protection of gun ownership to all Americans, whether they like it or not.

Under such legislation — let’s call it the Gun Insurance Act of 2009 — every American would be required to buy some kind of gun. Those who cannot afford even the simplest weapon — say, those whose 2009 annual income is less than twice the federal poverty level — could be issued $500 vouchers that would be valid only at gun shops or gun shows, and would have to be used before the 2010 Census.

You non-gun-owning people aren’t doing your part so the Feds should make you.

Nice. If I’m ever in the neighborhood, I’ll stop by.

You’re walking down the street and you notice a couple of people following you. This goes on for a while. Finally, you decide to confront them by holding a knife at your side and asking them why they’re following you. Except their police doing training. So, you go to jail and are found guilty of threatening them with a deadly weapons.

In comments, Lyle points out that the new AKs seen here looks familiar:

Says Lyle:

Immitation is a sincere form of flattery I suppose. Thanks, Izhmash. That forward rail of yours was my first UltiMAK prototype, so you’re starting to catch up to this Yankee after 60+ years, when I came up with it about a week after touching my first AK. ‘Course we improved mine since the first version, by incoprporating the rail into the gas tube itself, hard-mounting it, and divorcing it from the rear sight block and gas block. Now it seems everyone is an UltiMAK wannabe. Wonder what my lawyers will say…

update: I am reminded of KDT’s report on the ultimak. And here’s my own experience with it as well. It’s a damn fine product.

THOR ZM408. You can buy those here.

Tacticool AKs

Auto Revolver

FN to release S model next year. That’s the 308 version.

And the FN SCAR will also come in black next year.

American Muslims To Fort Hood Shooter: ‘Thanks A Lot, Asshole’

Via Tom. In other news, The Onion seems funny again.

The president of the Chicago school board could not have committed suicide with a gun because guns are illegal there.

So, if I read this correctly, they’re comparing checking firearms on trains (just like we do on airplanes) with the Madrid bombings? And the truth about that is buried at the bottom.

For their birthday, they got you a brief in the case. You can see it here. Wasn’t that nice of them?

To the National Rifle Association. Formed on this day in 1871. You don’t look a day over 137.

FN Herstal:

The FN Black Box:

detects/discriminates/counts shots
measures burst rates and burst lengths
records firing sequences
detects stoppages due to failures to cycle

The armorer can therefore anticipate necessary maintenance actions and consult all previous maintenance operations when and as required.

Interesting. The same concept is often applied to industrial machines.

Don’t tell Junior but her birthday present is in the works:

From Gun Porn

Sebastian does the math on the Glock single hand rack trick that was mentioned a while back. I know my G30 will not do it.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Alan Gura posts the brief and a presser.

A primer on the 10mm

1909 Colt

Beretta 93R

AR pistol

870 before and after

Heh.

What kinda pistol is that?

Federal Air Marshalls to get Sig 250s.

I thought those mortars and machine guns were coming from US gun shows?

Now, they’re not even found in the law.

That was the subject line of an email I got from rabbit with a link to this story. Who says blogging is formulaic?

Still digging Droid. Now, it’s even cheaper at $150.

Also, via insty, comes the iPhone v. Droid smackdown.

I’ve never had an iPhone though I have played with a few. So, I can’t really say one is better than the other in terms of the interface. But Droid has a few key tangible things that I like better:

It can run multiple apps.
I can change the battery.
Comes w 16gb SD card.
And Verizon, unlike AT&T, doesn’t suck.

Past Droid posts here.

A little birdie told me existing users can now invite folks to sign up.

Joe Huffman has a post on his thoughts on the subject as well as a lot of links to past discussions. Says Joe:

I don’t have a lot of information on the study but the basic result was that people see openly carried guns as “deadly force” and threatening/fear-causing which makes it different than gays holding hands, interracial couples, or woman’s bare ankles being visible. Sure, some people are fearful of gay cooties, Jews controlling the world, and their daughter dating a black guy. But it’s pretty easy to point out the silliness of those types of fears. Openly carried guns are different. If they didn’t have at least some real fear inducing properties they wouldn’t be useful for self-defense and as a deterrent against attack. Apparently that fear inducing quality persists to some degree in most people even after repeated exposure with non-threatening people carrying the gun. It may not be rational but people are not rational. Expecting or insisting people be rational is irrational.

There’s a lot more.

It also reminds me of a story. A friend of mine is in real estate. She was showing property to someone when a guy comes by walking his dog. He has a holstered gun on his hip. The family looking at the property immediately became uninterested in the property. Oddly, their interest in the property was renewed a few days later when they found out that the neighbor was a police officer who’d just gotten home. So, perception matters with respect to open carrying.

11 year old kills bear in Idaho in defense of home and sisters.

Odd contraption. From a blog that’s new to me called Daily Gun Pictures.

Range report and pics.

Holder is backing off from his gun control initiatives:

Attorney General Eric Holder is retreating on his commitment to pursue a controversial gun-control measure.

Holder’s statements, recently delivered to senators in writing, clearly indicate the Obama administration is in no rush to reinstate the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

[…]

Regarding the administration’s next step, Holder stated, “The department is currently reviewing existing gun laws to determine how best to combat gun violence and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others prohibited from possessing them.”

I doubt you’ll see any push for gun control by the democrats in power because they want to stay in power.

Newsbusters:

NYT Columnists Who Blamed Conservatives for ‘Right-Wing’ Killings Ignoring Fort Hood Massacre

Traction Control says go vote. I wonder why military and guns are in the same category?

Izhmash has a new weapon that modernizes the AK-74M / AK-100 series by adding rails for optics and other accessories, as well as a few other minor improvements. Pics at the link.

The press likes to tell us she’s a dumb hick who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. So, I wonder why they spend so much time trying to demonize the woman. I mean, if she’s that dumb, why spend time digging up the dirt? Palin’s greatest attribute is her ability to drive the press and the left (but I repeat myself) insane. It amuses me.

FN is giving cash back on gun purchases.

Manteca club’s women-only gun class teaches empowerment, overcoming fear

More women are arming themselves

Chuck Schumer (D – his own gravitational field) is not a fan of it:

Senator Charles Schumer held a press conference on Sunday to call on the Department of Justice to require immediate notification of the Joint Terrorism Task Force when a suspect of a terrorist inquiry attempts to purchase a gun.

Currently, the FBI Counterterrorism Division is notified of background checks when a gun purchaser is listed on the Terrorist Screening Database, but the watch list is not inclusive enough. Senator Schumer says there are many more people who should be on that list who presently are not.

Press discovers handguns have them.

Good riddance to long gun registry

Gearing up for a suit: Man carries gun into community center to protest ban

At dentist.

BRIGID: Then a few days ago someone kicked in my back door. In broad daylight

I have a gun. No, you don’t.

Some more info on it. A new recoil spring is not one of the rumors I’d heard.

Over 7,000 guns confiscated this year in Chicago. Where guns are banned.