A mixed victory for right to arms.

Taurus to come out with a 380 revolver? I never ‘got’ The Judge. I don’t ‘get’ this either. Must mean it will sell well.

Interesting idea. Could nearly double capacity.

Liberals not so good at basic economics.

I dig it.

Not so much

Someone got a new camera

NJ legal AR-15

Wooden AR

WASR 10

No, really:

Call it the Obama effect. The murder rate dropped 7.4 percent nationwide last year, and the administration can enjoy some of the credit – but not for the reason you might think. Mr. Obama’s election sparked a surge in gun sales, and, consequently, crime rates have plummeted.

In November 2008, a total of 450,000 more people purchased firearms than had bought them in November 2007. This is a more than 10-fold increase, compared with the change in sales from November 2007 over November 2006, which was only about 35,000. The average year-to-year increase in monthly sales in the past decade averaged just 21,000.

This video is confusing. You see, guns, we’re told, go from the US to Mexico. And Mexicans come from Mexico to the US. So, I’m not sure which way these guys are headed.

Busier than a three-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen lake. So, light blogging. And what blogging is done will be linky.

If you’re so inclined, One of our pro-gun lefties, Guav, could win an iPad. So, go vote for him.

Guaranteed.

An account by Mike Williams, Deepwater Horizon‘s chief electronics technician, who survived the explosion and fire, and was one of the last people to make it off the rig alive. He describes how the last life raft full of survivors almost didn’t escape the burning oil slick under the doomed rig because no one had a knife to cut the sea painter with due to Transocean’s no-knife policy.

Who’s in charge: It’s rather symbolic of what’s wrong with Washington that a commission ostensibly created to promote deficit reduction is seeking a bigger budget

People say to me Hey, Uncle, what did you think of this Top Shot business? And I say to them People, it was alright.

First, I despise reality TeeVee. But I like guns. I hoped the fact that I liked guns coupled with me knowing one of the contestants would overcome the suck that is reality TeeVee. And it did. It was entertaining. Needs more shooting and less drama, ego, and people saying dumb shit. More importantly, it’s a show on mainstream TeeVee that’s portrays guns in a positive light. That’s alright by me. Hell, NPR did a piece on it. Sure, they whined about the lack of emotion but, being they’re NPR folks, they expect other people to get all emotional and cry and shit when they spill their Snapple or Starbuck’s is out of Sugar in the Raw.

Caleb, who was on the show, shares some thoughts. Chris liked it. It’s shooty but dumbed down. PDB live blogged it. Heh.

But this ain’t a post about that, it’s a post about this (spoiler stop reading if you don’t want to know): What the fuck happened to Mike Seeklander?

I’ve never met the guy and have no dog in the fight. My first experience with him was watching the show and, except for coming across as a dick at the start (selective editing, I’m sure), he seemed OK. I’ve read about his background and accomplishments in shooting. He’s also got ties to Knoxville. And trains people. In other words, the guy can shoot. I cannot see how someone with that pedigree can miss an 8 inch target at 100 yards 30 times. I won’t say it’s impossible but it ranks up there with lightning striking or hitting the power ball on the highly unlikely scale. I’m not alone in puzzlement and Chris wonders about it too. And, hell, here’s a video of him making those shots in much higher wind:

There had to be some sort of mechanical problem. The gun was off, the target wasn’t set right (though I never saw a hole appear in it), the spotter wasn’t relaying accurate info, someone gave him decaf, I dunno. Because that guy could miss a few times but not thirty times. And, to the haters, I defer to Tam:

I can shoot 1/4 MOA with my keyboard all day long!

Anyway, Mike has his thoughts on what happened:

Everything was going good, and then I just got my ass kicked off the show!

Gun carry permits up a bunch in Maine.

The difference between patrol rifles and assault rifles. Both terms (not guns) are sort of recent inventions. One is designed to evoke fear and one safety. How about just rifles?

ND. Oh, yeah, it’s a tank.

Looks cool.

I’m surrounded

M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle

MAB PA15

Nice: Was Barack Obama In the 1993 Music Video For ‘Whoomp (There It Is)’?

Protest babe.

Cybersquatter scores:

Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department’s website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city’s nose.

Surefire flashlight survives washer and dryer.

Paul’s got some coverage from the event:

Buckland Takes Inaugural Retro Revolver World Title

Thibodaux’s Annette and Elliot Aysen Bring Home IRC Titles

Bagakis 3-Peats With IRC Limited Victory

Julie Golob Claims Second IRC Open Revolver Title…Again

Miculek: 18 International Revolver Championship Titles And Counting

Good:

The city’s top cop, Ray Kelly, is inviting all City Council members to shoot guns at the NYPD’s firing range — as the state Assembly considers legislation to require police officers to shoot gun-wielding suspects in the limbs, rather than aim to kill.

“I would recommend everyone goes. It’s a very eye-opening experience, especially for anyone who thinks police officers should shoot guns out of people’s hands,” Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens) told the Council Public Safety Committee during a budget hearing yesterday.

This happens because people who don’t know about guns make policy on guns.

A round up of internet gun contests.

A poor man’s pocket holster. Not a fan of having a gun with an exposed trigger, really.

Heck, this one is probably better:

From Gun Porn

About to land on a glacier, check out the view:

From Travel

I note they did not ask us to discontinue use of any electronics prior to decent. Our runway:

From Travel

Poor moose:

From Travel

No word on how many people died. BTW, moose are gigantic.

At first, I was like:

From Travel

And then, I LOL’d:

From Travel

The major difference between a polar bear and black/brown bears is that polar bears actually consider people to be food. Or so I am told.

Lessons learned. I’m rather amazed that the guy’s spree lasted for over three hours.