Al Gore would be proud.
Crimson Trace will be marketing a green laser sight. At the ParaUSA shoot, the Crimson Trace guys told us that green was harder to pull off and that battery life was an issue with them gut they were working on them. I guess they worked on them.
NBA player pulled over with a lot of guns:
West was pulled over after making an unsafe lane change while driving northbound on a three-wheel motorcycle, police said. Investigators say West, 26, had a loaded 9mm Beretta pistol tucked in his pocket, a loaded .357 magnum Ruger revolver strapped to his leg, an 8.5 inch knife and a pistol-grip shotgun in a guitar case slung over his back. West was carrying 112 shotgun shells, police said.
I’m glad a non-republican and non-democrat candidate is reportedly doing well in an election in NY of all places. I guess maybe politicos could realize that the people just aren’t happy that all races boil down to one guy who sucks and one guy who sucks more.
Of course, with two Democrats in the race (though one was called a Republican), that makes this even more hopey changey. The supposed Republican dropped out and endorsed the Democrat. I guess even more than party over country is two-party system over anything. Since the two parties have spent considerable time rigging the game.
I don’t know why twitter is not updating.
A bit back, someone shot a Smith & Wesson .460 revolver. They made the mistake of putting their left index finger between the cylinder and the back of the barrel. The pressurized gas escaping the cylinder nearly amputated the shooter’s finger. So, he sued figuring that S&W should have warned people of the proper way to hold a revolver. Trouble is, S&W did have that in the manual. He lost.
Of course, this suit did go forward. Which is odd. After all, the anti-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) told us that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act wouldn’t even let someone sue those darn gun makers.
So, 8 years of moderate practice with a pistol and I’m twice as fast using a carbine I’ve never shot before.
Anybody wonder why I sometimes recommend pistol caliber carbines for home defense? They’re far easier to get on target and make hits with than a regular pistol.
In the second quarter of 2009, $1.14B in sales of firearms and ammo:
Pistols and revolvers: $33,552,785.73 / .10 = $33,552,857.30 = $335.5 million for handguns
Long guns: $42,373,696.86 / .11 = $385,215,426.00 = $385.2 million for long guns
Ammunition: $46,157,400.88 / .11 = $419,612,735.27 = $419.6 million for ammunition
In an update to this, Newscoma notes the irony since the press rarely links bloggers even though bloggers have been the source. True. I’ve seen stuff bloggers first wrote about appear in the press sans attribution plenty. But no one cried about it.
And Michael says:
Don’t you just love MSM growing pains?
Couple things about this: 1) States don’t have rights, they have powers. 2) Invoking the language of states rights is not always because they’re racist.
Ok, three things. Our state politicos like to talk about this stuff a lot lately but I haven’t seen any of them refuse stimulus money or refuse all that free federal money for roads.
Seen at Rusty’s:
a Vermont state legislator recently introduced a bill requiring all unarmed Vermont citizens to pay $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.
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Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a weapon would be required to register their name, address, Social Security number, and driver’s license number with the state. Those of military age, with the exception of police and members of the armed forces, would be required to pay the $500 fine.
At first, I thought this can’t be serious until I read the VT constitution:
That every member of society hath a right to be protected in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and therefore is bound to contribute the member’s proportion towards the expense of that protection, and yield personal service, when necessary, or an equivalent thereto, but no part of any person’s property can be justly taken, or applied to public uses, without the person’s own consent, or that of the Representative Body, nor can any person who is conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, be justly compelled thereto, if such person will pay such equivalent; nor are the people bound by any law but such as they have in like manner assented to, for their common good: and previous to any law being made to raise a tax, the purpose for which it is to be raised ought to appear evident to the Legislature to be of more service to community than the money would be if not collected.
Update: Seems it’s an old item from years ago. Still, pretty funny.
This is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. Cali is increasing withholdings by 10%. But it’s OK because it’s not a tax increase. See, they’re just borrowing money from you. And will pay it back. Oh and you don’t have a choice in the matter. After all, who would willingly loan money to an organization in the financial shape California is in?
The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership’s Dennis Henigan:
I am not arguing here that higher rates of gun ownership cause higher rates of crime, violent crime, or homicide.
Doesn’t that run counter to everything your sham of an organization has been telling us for years? I mean, that’s like the organizations whole point.
In response to school violence in Germany, they’ve set up a text and phone system to alert people.
How to tell if your local police range accepts federal funds: They open it up to the public once per year and let you sight in your shotguns. The sheriff in The City (My The City) does that too. See, if you accept federal funds for your range, the range must be open to the public. So, instead of following the spirit of the law and opening the ranges up, they follow the letter of the law and open it up only once per year.
In Alabama, there’s a gun shop next to a sex shop. I find it amusing that one has to state a reason to buy a dildo.
1 – I’ve decided to upgrade the memory. What chip does the EeePC clamshell take?
2- Microsoft is pimping Windows 7 for netbooks. Anyone try this?
Internet is serious business.
Via ACK, comes some whining about linking and crediting and whatnot. Yes, a blog is complaining that someone dared to draw traffic to it.
BTW, sparky, shouldn’t your post there link to the offending piece? I know these hyperlink thingies are hard for the press sometimes but that seems a bit, err, inconsistent.
Update: Grantham tackles both the hyperlink and the though questions:
How long the breadcrumb trail has to be before you are ripping off other people’s content is a very good question. Kleinheider did the right thing, but the editor of the Nashville City Paper online probably didn’t.
Links and such are an interesting thing. For instance, this morning I was doing some blogiating* and realized I had over 34 tabs open in the browser. So, by the time I had commented on something, I’d forgotten where I read it. As such, I likely didn’t credit one of the members of the breadcrumb trail. And that happens all the time.
* I think I just invented a new word.
A bit back, there was a bill to restrict access to the list of handgun carry permit holders. It failed by one vote and the press told us that it failed precisely because our politicos wanted to use it for solicitation and marketing. And I reported where some idiots had sent me some unsolicited junk mail and noted I was a permit holder. Apparently, lots of folks are snooping through the list:
Supporters of blocking public access to the names and addresses of Tennesseans with handgun carry permits appear to have a hard time keeping their hands off the records.
An Associated Press records search has found copies of the state’s database of more than 257,000 handgun permit holders were recently requested by the National Rifle Association, the state Republican Party and a direct mail contractor that has done extensive work for the GOP’s legislative caucus.
Yup. Folks who advocated keeping the list private are snooping through it.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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