The Brady Campaign and Ex-ATF officials oppose ATF Reform and Firearms Modernization Act. Of course they do. All .gov agencies and anti-gunners hate accountability.

Breda has a brief review of the exofficio women’s line.

I really like mine.

Redstate is butthurt because the R in NRA doesn’t stand for Republican. Yawn.

The fine Democrat tradition of paying people to do your activism for you.

Republicans to pick up 8 in senate and 45 in the house. Via Ben.

if. Heh. I don’t qualify. But I do plan on taking a carbine course. I figure since I learned more in three days at a handgun course than I learned in years of shooting that I might learn something from one.

Clears the house in PA.

Cool. Via John.

Haiku is quite odd
Use words just because they fit
Snuffleupagus

Update: Justin in comments:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

Heh.

Bill tells you about them.

In Colorado.

Idiot

Pocket Rockets

My pocket rocket. Yesterday was SayUncle’s carry guns day over at Oleg’s.

.22 conversion of HK G3/PTR91

We gunnies like good belts. Here’s one reason why.

Columbia police chief not certified to carry a gun.

It’s over there.

From Stuff

A pic from Tom.

Started as a gag
Now, I cannot help myself
Haiku really sucks

Colonel Robert Charette Jr.:

We’ve not had a lot of success with tactical wind

And political beliefs that are pro-gun indicate certain behavior?

Study says gun permits tied to income, political beliefs. I am shocked..

Via Robb, who says it’s unpossible.

I don’t care if you give it a name like “big boy rules”, I am not taking a training class where bullets are zipping by me.

It’s often shocking to my more urban friends who live in larger cities that we crackers have to actually pay for fire protection and emergency services. We pay an annual fee of a few hundred bucks (i think) to the rescue squad. In exchange for that fee, they agree to come put my house out if it catches fire. Or to give me an ambulance ride if I need one. Some people in The City (My The City) opt to not pay that fee. So, when the fire truck comes and puts their house out, they later get a bill in the mail that I am told is tens of thousands of dollars. Being a gambling man, that’s a no brainer. You pay the fee merely because the loss is something that matters to you. Just like insurance, which is legal gambling.

Now, an interesting situation occurred in a TN town with a similar structure. The fire department showed up and didn’t put the house out because the man did not pay the $75 fee. His neighbor did and they put the fire out in the neighbor’s yard. I find that a bit strange. See, in our town, they’ll put the house out but will send you a sizeable bill for it. The fire department in this case is actually one from another city, since the county doesn’t actually have a fire department (also not uncommon here). And the homeowner offered to pay whatever it took but they didn’t put the fire out. I do find it odd that the fire department would not simply contract with the guy to put the fire out and then bill him later. I mean, that’s a guaranteed customer right there. But, being government employees, I guess that’s not something that occurs to the City of Fulton Fire Department.

When I was a kid, there was a barn fire up the street. Where we lived was not covered by fire protection and, IIRC, there was a lot of fighting between the city and county about whose responsibility our stretch of road was. While they argued about it, the all volunteer fire department of New Market, Tennessee drove further than the county or city fire department would have had to and came to put the fire out.

More discussion at the VC.

A self-aiming sniper rifle?

Via Breda, who wonders what the fun in that is.

State gun activist in the NYT. It’s actually a bit funny to me that the best quote they get for the anti-gun side is full of hysteria and falsity:

It opens the door to trouble. It’s giving you the right to be Wyatt Earp.

Yeah, it’s right there in the law. Subsection 13.a. mentions the right to be Wyatt Earp shall not be infringed.

Here’s the website. Haslam gets a B-?

Asked what essential apps to get for an iPad:

Make sure to install Flash when you first get it otherwise about 80% of the websites you visit will have something you can’t view.

You can install Flash from your PC pretty easily, just hook up your USB cord to the iPad and transfer the files over.

I laughed.

Also, the 10 inch tablet from Archos that runs Android is due out later this month.

TD tells you like it is.

In other news, I need to stop reading about food early in the morning.

Yeah, you heard me.

headphones made from 9mm casings (not bullets like the geek blog says).

Sign seen at the place we went horseback riding:

From Misc

It’s October. I love the ammo pic.