Say Uncle was the name of a CSI episode.

That in addition to being a gay porn movie, a movie not involving porn or gay, a ska band, a music production company, an album, and a line of clothing.

Sergeant discharged from Chair Force because she’s a lesbian:

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian.

The 28-year-old’s honorable discharge under the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, South Dakota, saw a marriage certificate from Iowa — one of the handful of U.S. states that recoganize same-sex marriage — in Newsome’s home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.

She played by the rules and was discharged anyway. Don’t ask, don’t tell should also include a mind your own business provision if folks are going to go snooping.

Public intoxication. Doesn’t seem like an effective way to get converts.

Web designer doesn’t have high speed internet access. So, obviously, we should all pony up and buy it for her. The feds have a plan.

A few notes on this video.

Do you notice how, generally, the pro-gun activists are smiling and friendly and having a good time. But the anti-gun folks are tense, angry, and yelling? Except for that one pro-gun guy that they zoom in on right when they say NRA.

They mention NRA but they never actually talk to anyone from NRA. I wonder if NRA was even contacted by CBS?

Heidi Yewman says she doesn’t know if the person with a gun is there to protect her or shoot everybody. Well, Heidi, as a general rule, neither. I mean, all those folks were there with guns and no one shot you.

The pretty boy reporter seems shocked that it’s getting simply easier to carry a handgun. Of course, he’s from LA.

Paul Helmke says gun owners are forcing guns into every nook and cranny of society, which is false. He also goes on to illustrate the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s real concern (and one that they lose ground on every day) that guns are being normalized. Well, they are normal, sparky. 100M households are estimated to have one.

I’ve said that for years, to the ridicule and scorn of folks who claimed I didn’t know what I was talking about. I would tell them that a promise to pay, even if backed by the US government, is not actually, you know, a real fund. I am right. And now, it gets interesting:

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

It’s time to start cashing them in.

For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year.
Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes — nearly $29 billion more.

There is no money. Just paper saying the .gov has an obligation to pay. The whole trust fund thing is a lie.

ESR says it’s the fiscal event horizon. Soon, bonds could lose a lot of value.

So long, evil black rifle

The Army will allow soldiers to paint their guns so that they blend in with the terrain.

Passed and awaiting the governor’s signature:

Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature is the only hurdle remaining for a holiday memorializing the late Utah firearms inventor John M. Browning.

The Utah House voted 64-0 Wednesday to commemorate the Utah-born inventor on Jan. 24, 2011, the opening day of next year’s legislative session. It will come 100 years after Browning invented the 1911 .45 automatic pistol, which became the official sidearm for the U.S. military.

Chicago area gun stores preparing for increased sales pending the McDonald case. Don’t know that I’d plan on it that much. I’m sure Daley and the machine will throw many more obstacles in the way.

A map.

They have a youtube channel.

And open government:

The government’s use of legal exemptions to keep records secret rose during President Barack Obama’s first year in office, despite promises of increased openness, an Associated Press review found.

The review of annual Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that overall, the use of nearly every one of the open-records law’s nine exemptions to withhold information rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.

At public meetings. AK has some of the most lax gun laws in the nation. No permit required to carry, for instance. Wonder what the practical point of OC there would be.

Same as other guns: A BB gun — you don’t even want to be aiming at anything you don’t want to destroy

Army ditching bayonet training to focus on fist fights.

Remember the guy who took his AK-47 pistol with tip painted orange to look like a toy gun and went gallivanting through the woods and was shocked when the other folks in the park weren’t fans. And then was held by the po-po who determined that, well, he had a permit? Yeah, that guy. His carry permit has been revoked by the TN Department of Safety because he posed a material risk to the public.

Kinda weird because that particular disqualifier isn’t actually listed as a, err, disqualifier.

Update: More from Linoge, who notes that the guy’s sheriff had issues with the required sign off on paperwork for a NFA weapon.

It’s really kinda like this guy wants to screw it up for everyone.

Update 2: M4shooter notes in comments that the revocation of handgun carry permits comes under a different statute, 39-17-1352:

(a) The department shall suspend or revoke a handgun permit upon a showing by its records or other sufficient evidence that the permit holder:

(1) Is prohibited from purchasing a handgun under applicable state or federal law;

(2) Has not accurately disclosed any material information required by § 39-17-1351;

(3) Poses a material likelihood of risk of harm to the public;

(4) Has been arrested for a felony involving the use or attempted use of force, violence or a deadly weapon or a felony drug offense;

(5) Has been convicted of a felony;

(6) Has violated any other provision of §§ 39-17-1351 — 39-17-1360;

(7) Has at any time committed an act or omission or engaged in a pattern of conduct that would render the permit holder ineligible to apply for or obtain a permit under the eligibility requirements of § 39-17-1351;

(8) Has been convicted of domestic assault as defined in § 39-13-111, or any other misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and is still subject to the disabilities of such a conviction;

(9) Is subject to a current order of protection that fully complies with 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8); or

Disarming minorities:

It’s fairly common for gun control activists to stereotype firearm owners as ‘knuckle-dragging rednecks’ and that our feelings would change if we saw ‘black folk’ walking around open carrying firearms. They even have Bogus research supporting them. Why is it then that most ‘gun control’ bills seem focused on disarming minorities?

In AL:

Demario Terrell Davis’ 2004 arrest on a misdemeanor marijuana charge popped up on a federally required background check when he sought to buy a military-style rifle the following winter.

Criminal history records did not reveal the outcome of that arrest, however. Government checkers had three business days to find the answer, according to the law, or the sale could go through regardless.

The government lost that race against the clock, and Davis had himself a new .223-caliber Stag 15. He later went to prison for having the weapon.

So, the guy goes to buy a gun and gets put on hold. The police can’t figure out the outcome and the sale goes through. ATF later arrests him as a prohibited person.

If we’re going to have background checks, they should work right instead of being the silly show that they are. And a failure of police follow-through ought not land one in prison.

The restaurant carry bill is advancing quickly. I was wondering if the governor would, for the second time, break his promise and veto the bill. It looks as though the legislature is presuming he will.

In Chicago, if Pfleger or Daley assemble two people touting gun control, the Chicago Tribune makes a mess in its pants from all the glee. But thousands of pro-gun folks descend on the capital and it gets nary a mention:

There were recently three Town Hall meetings held with pro-gun agendas, in McHenry County, DuPage County and the south side of Chicago. Not a single sentence appeared in the tribune. Yesterday there was an estimated 7,000 gold shirted citizens in Springfield for IGOLD; the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. They marched almost a mile through downtown Springfield and crowded into the Capital Building to lobby their elected representatives. Even though the Tribune had reporters and photographers in Springfield for Mr. Quinn’s budget address not one word of coverage made it into the Tribune.

More here. And here’s some video from the event.

A Mexican military helicopter hovers over a Texas neighborhood.

An online shot log.

If you run a firearms training academy, going on record as opposing firearm carry without a permit seems like a bad idea.

The latest shrieking hysterics about Tennessee gun laws are because the guns used in a couple of shootings were once in the evidence locker at a Memphis police station. Oh no. Seems police sell evidence they’ve confiscated once they no longer need it to raise money, since police stations are usually cash-strapped. Again, oh no. Just like they do with cars, boats, and other items that they may confiscate and have no use for. May as well turn them into money. Oddly, no AP Exclusives when one of the cars that used to be in the impound lot is driven by a drunk driver and takes out a family. Cars, unlike guns, aren’t magical totems.

Over at Knoxviews.com, they’re even blaming a law that wasn’t in effect when the shootings occurred and they call for banning private transfers at gun shows.

LeanLeft is temporarily out of commission due to technical issues. Tom explains.

Florida working to repeal obsolete laws.

Hope and change: Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest

A dozen handy things to take to the range.

I think I see the problem:

We’re Democrats. We won’t even buy him a toy gun.

Mac converted to take Glock magazines.