At a soccer game (a hint it’s not America), security subdues a man and start pummeling him. The crowd decides that’s not good and intervenes.

USDA says what I’ve known all along: stop cooking saw-dust textured pork chops.

And wiggly bacon is good too.

Good.

Regulating cat ownership to save birds.

Robb has a review.

What if you had a fourth amendment rally and the press didn’t notice?

This is actually pretty cool.

An AR style shotgun

Jay on stuff from the NRA floor

A Mossberg shotty named after the DEA?

Granddad’s gun.

Oleg is an awesome cook. He made me and the family dinner tonight.

NRA emails in response to their opposition to Rand Paul’s bill:

Dear Senator,

Thank you for asking about the National Rifle Association’s position on a motion to table amendment # 363 to the PATRIOT Act.

The NRA takes a back seat to no one when it comes to protecting gun owners’ rights against government abuse. Over the past three decades, we’ve fought successfully to block unnecessary and intrusive compilation of firearms-related records by several federal agencies, and will continue to protect the privacy of our members and all American gun owners.

While well-intentioned, the language of this amendment as currently drafted raises potential problems for gun owners, in that it encourages the government to use provisions in current law that allow access to firearms records without reasonable cause, warrant, or judicial oversight of any kind.

Based on these concerns and the fact that the NRA does not ordinarily take positions on procedural votes, we have no position on a motion to table amendment # 363.

Sincerely,

Chris W. Cox

I’ve yet to see either the amendment or the alleged original letter.

Reports that NRA opposed Rand Paul’s gun bill, with a 3 page letter. The bill would have clarified that the PATRIOT act does not allow authorities to access certain firearms records. I’m not sure what those record would be since they’re not allowed to keep a registry and must destroy form 4473s.

Because when you do mess with them, they fold like a lawn chair:

A bill prohibiting intrusive pat downs at airports appears to be dead in the Texas Senate after a threat from the federal government.

a 9mm MP-40 semi-auto machine gun

The Mrs. is looking at getting a new ride. And, after a disagreement on brands*, we’ve settled on a couple of options. And they have cooled seats. I’ve had heated seats for a while. But, man, those cooled seats are amazing. Who doesn’t like a little air up their skirt?

* She wanted a GM and I refuse to buy from them since they took the king’s shilling. Good thing other folks make better cars.

Last night, I met up to do some shooting with Laughingdog, who was in town on business. And MJM showed up to test out some CrimsonTrace Lasergrips. And ran into Tam by happy accident.

After, LD and I went to grab a bite. And we sat at the bar because the restaurant was crowded. LD was open carrying a full size 1911. And an amazing thing happened: Nothing. A couple folks noticed but nothing happened. No cops called, no freaking out. At a bar.

Me, I prefer to cover my weapons. Different strokes.

And remember when I said my M&P was shooting low and to the right? Well, since LD can actually shoot, I learned it was operator error. I was anticipating, which is not a problem I usually have. Odd that I was doing that with a wimpy europellet and not with my manly 45.

Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you think:

Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far broader legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that the government keeps to itself — entirely in secret. Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a “dragnet” for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.

So, we have secret interpretations of laws and selective enforcement of laws. This is getting creepy.

Over their proposed law that says unreasonable searches and seizures are actually illegal, like the Constitution says. Proposals like this, the various firearms freedom acts, weird currency laws proposed in states, and states saying no to Obamacare are interesting. First time in a while I recall the states taking on the feds.

For the first time in a decade, Colt hires a lobbyist. Though this is probably an indication that the DOD is seriously considering the M4s successor.

St. Petersburg didn’t get the memo.

And why not?

EPA regs could shutdown power plants. Because we need more unemployed and higher energy prices due to bureaucratic fiat.

Another here.

Despite the nattering at Red State, Harry Reid is mostly good on gun rights. It’s all the other stuff that sucks. More here.

NRA reports on Buckeye Firearms Association’s lawsuit:

Today, the Cuyahoga County Court struck down the City of Cleveland’s scheme of restrictive gun laws still on the books despite Ohio law, which clearly prohibits such municipal gun ordinances. The Court ruled in favor of gun owners in the National Rifle Association-supported case of Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland.

Les: S&W Model 10 and 64 Revolvers $200-300

A look at cussing on facebook. The f-bomb is the most common.

At the LA Times, passing a law banning OC will lead to loosening standards for carry. The good thing about Cali’s gun laws is their so egregious that challenging them is probably easier.

Spendy to shoot:

2MM Pinfire Xythos Revolver? Pic

Henry 22 Lever Gun

To the bunkers: Here in America we have “zombie homeowners.” Millions of them.

Who would sell a house to a zombie?