Rangemaster’s Tom Givens at the luckygunner shoot gun school: Jesus Ain’t Gonna Load Your Gun!

Fish gun!

Joyce Foundation gives grants to journalists to write bogus anti-gun articles.

Avoid Chicago as a vacation destination. I’ve even twice not gone there for business.

Looks like the police also took a TV news crew’s cameras.

. . . when?

Chicago Police Chief distancing himself from gun control, Daley:

“My goal is to bring the gun debate back to the center,” McCarthy told aldermen. “I think that we have abolitionists on one side and I think that we have NRA and those kind of folks on the other side, and frankly it’s too polarizing a debate, and 95 percent of the country is somewhere in between.”

And carry permits are up. In Sacramento, California!

Anti-gunners losing at social media and fund raising.

Sure, they took a bunch of bailout money then lied about paying it back. And acted ungrateful about it all. Now, their CEO says gas taxes should be upped $1/gallon to promote their Chevy Volts.

Meanwhile, Obama lies about the bailed out companies repaying their debt.

Man charged with disorderly conduct for paying disputed medical bill in pennies:

the arresting officer contended that West’s protest served “no legitimate purpose.”

Oh, well, that makes it OK. I mean if some one says it serves no purpose then you lose your right to protest and engage in commerce.

Some guns used to shoot down helicopter were ‘walked’ guns.

Just like they’ve always done.

Despite the VPC perpetuating the myth that gun ownership is down, NSSF reports the 12th Straight Month-Over-Month Increase for NSSF-adjusted NICS Figures.

Compared to Tam, I’m a piker. I keep .380, 6.8SPC, 22LR, 5.56, 9mm and 45acp.

Anti-aircraft guns

Oh, rainbows. I like those.

Capone’s 38

DIY cannon

PPSH

A non event was non-scheduled for June 5 wherein a bunch of folks would just go about their usual business only while open carrying a gun. And some folks did just that. For Breda, it was a minor event, being asked to cover that heater at Wal-Mart.

As for me, I was told to not carry. At a gun range. On the drive home, I had to swing by the local grocery store for some hamburger buns. And nothing happened.

Apparently, he doesn’t factor in that he is a prohibited person.

And it is odd that he spouts exactly the talking points of some gun ban groups. He must get his news from CNN.

He has a piece in the Courier Journal.

A round up of gun related contests.

Pics and a report.

Hearings into ATF smuggling guns into Mexico come June 13.

Australian gun laws don’t work. So, clearly, they need more of them.

In pictures.

And from Joe: See that smile? That is why we win.

A device to attach two PMAG’s so you can get 60 rounds. Of course, for the price, you can buy almost 4 PMAGS.

Governor Haslam signs a bill that institutes a tracking system of Sudafed sales. A sudafed registry.

THOR PDW

Glock²

Tactical Nerf. I have lots of Nerf guns and they do have rails.

Some idiot:

Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

Try it.

A band of 15-20 teens roaming Northwestern robbing and beating people. And why would you need a gun on campus?

Reader Scott emails:

A couple of days ago I posted a comment to your blog post about the Living Social coupon for CCW permit training. My dad, a 61-year old guy who moved to Tennessee with my Mom just a few years ago from Illinois, called me today to let me know that he passed the class with excellent scores. He got 100% on the written portion and 88 points out of 100 on the firing line. Now, it’s important to mention that the *only* formal experience he’s ever had with a sidearm was about 50 rounds that he put downrange just last weekend. I think he may have plinked around a bit while camping in N. Wisconsin with my uncle nearly 40 years ago but beyond that he’s had no exposure to guns.

So my first point: it’s ridiculously easy to get qualified to secure a CCW. One full Saturday in a classroom with a trainer well-versed in the legalities and practicalities of CC’ing was really all it took. That’s a minimal expenditure of effort as far as I’m concerned.

Now he’s debating whether to actually secure a permit. He really has little interest in CC’ing and has said that his only interest in guns would be to have a shotgun for home defense. But I got the distinct impression from him today that he’s more than chuffed with himself over his performance today and his instructor today seems to have been a genuinely engaging and informative mentor. I think it won’t take much to get him to “pull the trigger” and drop the $150 for the permit, even if he never purchases a sidearm.

Thus my second point: a partial victory is as good as a complete victory when it comes to normalizing gun ownership/rights. I’m certain some of your readers would scoff at the notion that my Dad is still just a willing victim-in-waiting, and there may be some merit in that. But here’s a guy who was, just a few short years ago, at the very opposite end of the spectrum in re: to gun rights (and don’t get me started on my Mom’s attitude toward guns, yet *she* was the one who purchased the Living Social coupon for him!), and today he’s qualified to head down the local PD and submit paperwork to carry concealed. More importantly, he sounded like a 6-year old who’d just learned to ride his bike without training wheels while I was on the phone with him this evening. Encouragement breeds acceptance breeds excitement breeds enthusiasm.

One at a time!

Mentioned I went and shot in the Glock Sport Shooting Foundation match this weekend. And let me tell you, I sucked. Chris from Glock told me I had too much going on in my head. It’s a trend I’ve noticed with me. After I do training with someone else and learn new stuff, I try to use it. And I focus more on that than on sight alignment and trigger squeeze. It was definitely mental. As the day wore on, I got worse.

For instance, on the Glock the Plates stage there were four strings. My first string I did in about 8 seconds, next two were in the nines. So, getting worse. Then, on the fourth string, I couldn’t knock over the last three plates. In 14.5 seconds I left 3 plates standing.

I need to shoot more.