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