Alan Gura is coming to town:

Hightower v. City of Boston is the first case brought in federal court that directly challenges a police chief’s arbitrary authority to deny someone a license to possess a handgun and the fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms.

Michael Bane gives it a go.

Mr. C. has opened up shop at Magnum Shooters Supply.

Or, rather, support for gun control is dying.

Anti-tobacco activists are some of the worst purveyors of misinformation and hysteria. They’re as bad as anti-gunners in terms of doom and gloom but, unlike anti-gunners, the underlying concept for them is correct. Tobacco abuse is actually bad for you. But they’re still idiots. Seems RJR is marketing snus to those who want to quit smoking. This has the nanny idiots’ panties all bunched up:

Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said that Reynolds should “stop its insidious marketing of tobacco products in ways that seek to discourage smokers from quitting and keep them hooked on nicotine.”

Smokeless tobacco has been shown to be substantially safer than cigarettes. And a study shows snus beat out the pharmaceutical alternatives for quitting smoking. Some governments would rather people die than try an alternative to cigarettes. And if we listened to idiots like Myers, more people would die.

Via MKS.

Probably.

Bucking that national trend of decreased violent crime, homicides up 15% in New Jersey. They should pass some gun laws or something.

LC9. 9mm version of the Kel-Tec P3AT err LCP, I guess. Looks to be substantially larger. Another small 9mm.

Update: Stats and specs here.

Update 2: Ouch.

All the cool kids are doing it. So, why not? I wrote stuff. You read it. But that’s not much of a review without stats. So, here’s some.

Pageviews 2.3M per Google analytics: 2.9M per sitemeter.
Unique visitors: 1,5M
Avg. Time on Page 00:02:44

10 Most Read pages:

SayUncle – 1.4M
So awesome – 23K
First amendment rights as probable cause – 17K
Same planet, different worlds – 10K
Loitering with a gun – 8k
Obviously, they need separate restrooms and drinking fountains – 8k
More Radar Detector Stuff – 7k
Fourth Generation Glock Picture – 7k
Aitken Stuff – 6k
Heather’s Mommy Has Two Glocks – 5k

Top 10 referrers (not searches):

Direct traffic (someone bookmarked or typed saysuncle.com into their browser)
Tam
Glenn
Sebastian
The Firearm Blog
Robb Allen
Breda
Joe Huffman
Gun Nuts
GunPundit

Also, interesting is rounding out spots close to the top ten was twitter and facebook. Could be something to this new media thing.

What I gather from it is that most of my readers are readers. Not referrals and such. Cool. We have regulars.

Here. Looks pretty bad ass.

Bling:

From Gun Porn

From Jeff Z at subguns.com.

There is a fine line between AOWs and Short Barreled Rifles/Shotguns. It’s also fairly arbitrary and inconsistently enforced by ATF. And, despite being told by courts in some jurisdictions that ATF’s AOW rules for vertical grips are no good, ATF will prosecute you anyway. Ian looks at constructive possession:

This has been allowed to stand so far because no-one was sure if the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to a handgun or not, until the Heller decision. Now, of course, we have the guaranteed right to possess a functional firearm (specifically a handgun) in the home for the purposes of self-defense.

Given that, I can’t see the restrictions on SBS, SBR, or AOW standing.

There is only one gun store in all of Mexico. It’s on a military base and the rules are pretty strict. And they have some of the toughest gun laws in the world. Which is why it’s such a wonderful, non-violent utopia.

European nations seizing private pensions.

Hah

Micro Tavor

A review from Jay.

This looks cool. Some specs here.

D.C. homicides fall 9% in 2010 to 131, lowest toll since ’63

This is a great story. Anti-gun person goes on about guns and is ignorant of the subject. Decides to get educated instead of putting fingers in ears and screaming I CAN’T HEAR YOU.

Man in wheelchair kills intruder.

Joe Huffman‘s Boomershoot will be on Michael Bane’s Shooting Gallery. Trailer here.

Jim Scoutten unavailable for a very deep sounding comment.

Heh: Glock’s first handgun model was the Glock 17, a 40 x 53 mm high-explosive select-fire pistol with a magazine capacity of 24 rounds (which was unusually large at the time.)

Not a fan. In other news, NR is talking gun rights when there’s not an election?

LRP with thermal vision.

Robb tries his hand at photographing guns. Though, yeah, he could use some naked ladies.

Thoughts on transporting your Evil Black Rifle.

Rivrdog on gun fights and stopping assailants.

Happy 1/1/11. Hope you survived. We did. Though Mrs. Uncle has resolved to never do that again.