Mentioned earlier but there was some question as to where the quote came from. David has confirmed that the quotes came from a Q&A session.

Legislators already saying they’ll fix it. I dunno. Doesn’t look like it would stand a court challenge to me. But I’m no lawyer.

And Rich notes the judge appears clueless.

The new PMR30 with pics here, here, and here.

People are asking me if the chancery court has jurisdiction over the whole state. I don’t know. Researching and asked a few of my legal correspondents and am awaiting an answer. Being a court of equity that settles disputes, this makes little sense.

Update: According to a former judge acquaintance, this ruling is not applicable anywhere but the county. Unless it is upheld by another court (which it won’t be), then it becomes case law.

Update 2: The TN Dept of safety advises that it is not the law anymore. Not sure if that’s an interpretation or some sort of ruling. So beware out there.

22 mag pistol. 30 round mags. If it was a 22LR, I’d totally get one.

WizardPC notes the ruling went the other way. I don’t see how this ruling will stand. Seems that they presumed the onus of knowing restaurant laws was on permit holders. Bonnyman’s ruling is pretty asinine. I mean, it’s easy to tell if a restaurant serves food five days a week. They usually 1) have food and 2) post their hours of operation. Looks pretty weak.

Update: more from the city paper.

New for 2010.

I received a copy of David Kopel’s new book Aiming for Liberty yesterday (you can pre-order at that link). It’s a look at civil rights in general and, specifically, second amendment rights. I’m but a few pages in and note that the book picks up on the bigotry against gun owners angle. Quote in reference to the DC voting amendment which had the pro-second amendment bill attached, causing DC to ask the bill be pulled:

In other words, the DC government is so prejudiced against gun owners that the government would sacrifice voting rights for DC citizens rather than permit those citizens to exercise Second Amendment rights.

Starts today. Suit is kinda stupid. But WizardPC will try to blog about it if he can.

The anti-gunners are parroting the lie that the Fort Hood shooter was on the terror watch list. And if we restricted those on the list (a list of millions that only shows name and has no appeal process) then the shooting would not have happened. Well, presuming he couldn’t get his hands on an illegal weapon. Anyway, it’s not true:

Three senior investigative officials, who insisted they not be identified by name because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing federal investigation, told reporters in Washington that Hasan was never nominated to be on a watch list. He was able to purchase weapons legally and had done nothing to justify even a preliminary investigation, they said.

He also had a security clearance:

In addition, Hasan had a security clearance at the “secret” level and received good performance reviews, they said. Nonetheless, they continued to examine his communications with the cleric in Yemen for several months as a precaution.

100 guns stolen from from Tchula police:

Some of those weapons allegedly ended up on the streets of Chicago.

No, those come from gun shows, remember? That’s what they tell us.

We don’t have a plan or anything. But we like talking about it.

WSJ:

Will Gun-Control Case Prompt a Constitutional Reawakening?

In the New York Times. Wait, what?

A conviction based on the Lautenberg bill has been vacated.

CTD looks at handgun safeties. Note that none are a substitute for the one between your ears.

91 year old man holds burglar at gun point. Bonus: while naked.

Shooting Wire says they’ll be making a 1911.

ITM’s Dual Barrel Machine Gun

Remington 511

OTS 38 revolver. A new one to me.

So says the Law Enforcement Alliance of America:

Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement.

Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who possess them.

So, he doesn’t want due process protections for people who want to own guns. Even though we give those protections to people who, say, fly planes into buildings.

Update: In comments, David he’s trying to corroborate the story with no luck. Could be bogus since the official transcript contains none of the quotes attributed to Holder.

Another update: Confirmed. See David.

On stopping power: try aiming.

Open carry in San Fran.

So anti-gunner Chuck Schumer is getting his catering to hunters on.

A reader emails me this sign on the door at The Rendezvous in Memphis:

From Misc

Note that it is actually one of the few TCA compliant signs that I have seen. But when you walk inside, you see:

From Misc

Ok, then. A place I won’t eat.

Lyle of UltiMAK has a post over at Joe’s place showing his new rail optic mount for Garands. Cool.

Be sure of your target and what’s behind it. Tragic.

A lot of shootings in NY lately. The NY Daily News has been calling it a gun plague. A gun plague? No way. Carrying guns there is illegal. It’s easier to call it a gun plague than, you know, a black teenager plague. Which we can’t talk about. Because we’d be racist. Also why we can’t talk about Sudden Jihdad Syndrome.

Even better than blaming guns. Blame chicken. Maybe it’s a chicken plague?

In comments, Guav:

Lots of unpossibles here in just the last two months:

Bronx Girl, 15, Shot In Head By Stray Bullet
Teen Pulls BB Gun On Cops, Gets Shot In The Face
Drive-By Shooting On Lorimer Street In Brooklyn
Bronx Student Shot Outside High School
Brooklyn Teen Fatally Shot Outside Brownsville High School
Stray Bullet Kills 92-Year-Old Bronx Woman In Her Home, Teen Arrested
Teen Shot Dead In Flatbush Coffee Shop
13-Year-Old Queens Boy Fatally Shot in After-School Fight
Bronx Mom Killed In Afternoon Gang Shootout
Brooklyn Drive-By Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 1 Wounded

Maybe instead of banning guns, Bloomberg should just ban Brooklyn and the Bronx. Or teenagers.

Date night at Range USA!

I think I’d prefer zombie night.

Is today.

Quadruple barrel

Classic 22s

Chiappa Rhino

BAR bullpup

Why shooters shoot.

Breda on the Zen of the rifle.

That dumb lawsuit about restaurant carry is back in court tomorrow.

Alt Weekly steals an image from Oleg Volk. Oleg is not amused.

* misspelling intentional.

The American Rifleman has an article on it. I note that this article is in the same issue in which Ugo Gussalli Beretta wrote a letter to the magazine expressing his displeasure that his gun was not included in the top guns list.

EY.com:

Insight Technology’s Ken Solinsky named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Winner in the Distribution and Manufacturing category

Insight Technology makes some quality lights, illumination and aiming devices.

Video here.

I find it interesting that a company related to the gun industry is getting an award from a Big Four (there’s four now, right?) accounting firm. Mainstreaming, indeed.

Good deals on Crimson Trace Laser Grips at Amazon of all places.

Via The Duck.

Caleb did a show about it. And a link to the FBI’s Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness. Round up of the topic from posts past can be found here.

But I think this is the best visual on the topic.

Turns out guns work just fine:

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

Criminals shouldn’t use guns when robbing people. If they do, they run the risk of a convenience store clerk taking the gun from them and using it against them.

Josh was probably sitting around feeling bad getting those checks from Joyce and not producing much. And Kristen wasn’t busy. Cant imagine she ever is. So, they Googled themselves up another study. This one is called CCW Killers and it looks to paint those with carry permits in a bad light. Like most of their supposed studies, it’s a bit lacking. First, it’s based on Google searches. A few of the folks they list haven’t actually been convicted. And in a few instances, the crimes occur in a home, where a carry permit doesn’t matter. Even with all the stretches, if you stretch a bit more it’s a whopping 0.4% I did my math a bit differently. Because you would need data for the whole period covered, not just the current year. And that would be about two years and eight months. Two year data would be about 19,500 and you could swag the eight month stub to about 6,500. So, 85/26K is 0.32692308%.

Yup. Folks with carry permits are involved in an underwhelming amount of gun deaths.

Sebastian has more and notes the lying.

Update: More math from Joe:

So, the average CCW holder is (5.4/100,000)/(1/142,000) or 7.668 times less likely to murder someone than your average private citizen. And that’s not correcting for the exaggerations pointed out by Sebastian and the conservative numbers used by Waldron (it’s actually 34/5,000,000+ or 1/147,059+). So the real number is probably on the order of 10 times less likely.

The Mo. Supreme Court says it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.

Update: More from SIH:

A man drunk at home is charged with having a firearms while intoxicated. It seems to me that the public has an interest in a person not carrying a firearm in public while intoxicated, but the state’s power to reach into the home ought to be considerably diminished. Should someone be charged because they are intoxicated at home, but have a loaded pistol in the bed stand upstairs, or have a rifle in the closet?

M1A Scout Squad rifle vs. the M1A Match rifle

More at M1A rifles.

Dave Kopel has a look.

Treating guns like health insurance

Surveys indicate that gun ownership is not spread evenly across U.S. households. In fact, chances are that a substantial proportion of U.S. gun owners have more than one weapon, so it’s quite possible that fewer than 200 million Americans own those 260 million guns. That means there may be more than 100 million citizens left unprotected against their gun-owning fellow citizens.

Surely everyone can agree that this is an outrage. Moreover, it is an outrage that Congress can easily fix, without months of committee meetings, town halls or tea parties. All that is required is a bipartisan, pro-constitutional bill to extend the Second Amendment’s protection of gun ownership to all Americans, whether they like it or not.

Under such legislation — let’s call it the Gun Insurance Act of 2009 — every American would be required to buy some kind of gun. Those who cannot afford even the simplest weapon — say, those whose 2009 annual income is less than twice the federal poverty level — could be issued $500 vouchers that would be valid only at gun shops or gun shows, and would have to be used before the 2010 Census.

You non-gun-owning people aren’t doing your part so the Feds should make you.

Nice. If I’m ever in the neighborhood, I’ll stop by.

In comments, Lyle points out that the new AKs seen here looks familiar:

Says Lyle:

Immitation is a sincere form of flattery I suppose. Thanks, Izhmash. That forward rail of yours was my first UltiMAK prototype, so you’re starting to catch up to this Yankee after 60+ years, when I came up with it about a week after touching my first AK. ‘Course we improved mine since the first version, by incoprporating the rail into the gas tube itself, hard-mounting it, and divorcing it from the rear sight block and gas block. Now it seems everyone is an UltiMAK wannabe. Wonder what my lawyers will say…

update: I am reminded of KDT’s report on the ultimak. And here’s my own experience with it as well. It’s a damn fine product.

THOR ZM408. You can buy those here.

Tacticool AKs

Auto Revolver

FN to release S model next year. That’s the 308 version.

And the FN SCAR will also come in black next year.

The president of the Chicago school board could not have committed suicide with a gun because guns are illegal there.

So, if I read this correctly, they’re comparing checking firearms on trains (just like we do on airplanes) with the Madrid bombings? And the truth about that is buried at the bottom.

For their birthday, they got you a brief in the case. You can see it here. Wasn’t that nice of them?

To the National Rifle Association. Formed on this day in 1871. You don’t look a day over 137.

FN Herstal:

The FN Black Box:

detects/discriminates/counts shots
measures burst rates and burst lengths
records firing sequences
detects stoppages due to failures to cycle

The armorer can therefore anticipate necessary maintenance actions and consult all previous maintenance operations when and as required.

Interesting. The same concept is often applied to industrial machines.

Don’t tell Junior but her birthday present is in the works:

From Gun Porn

Sebastian does the math on the Glock single hand rack trick that was mentioned a while back. I know my G30 will not do it.

Alan Gura posts the brief and a presser.

1909 Colt

Beretta 93R

AR pistol

870 before and after

What kinda pistol is that?

Federal Air Marshalls to get Sig 250s.

I thought those mortars and machine guns were coming from US gun shows?

Now, they’re not even found in the law.

That was the subject line of an email I got from rabbit with a link to this story. Who says blogging is formulaic?

Joe Huffman has a post on his thoughts on the subject as well as a lot of links to past discussions. Says Joe:

I don’t have a lot of information on the study but the basic result was that people see openly carried guns as “deadly force” and threatening/fear-causing which makes it different than gays holding hands, interracial couples, or woman’s bare ankles being visible. Sure, some people are fearful of gay cooties, Jews controlling the world, and their daughter dating a black guy. But it’s pretty easy to point out the silliness of those types of fears. Openly carried guns are different. If they didn’t have at least some real fear inducing properties they wouldn’t be useful for self-defense and as a deterrent against attack. Apparently that fear inducing quality persists to some degree in most people even after repeated exposure with non-threatening people carrying the gun. It may not be rational but people are not rational. Expecting or insisting people be rational is irrational.

There’s a lot more.

It also reminds me of a story. A friend of mine is in real estate. She was showing property to someone when a guy comes by walking his dog. He has a holstered gun on his hip. The family looking at the property immediately became uninterested in the property. Oddly, their interest in the property was renewed a few days later when they found out that the neighbor was a police officer who’d just gotten home. So, perception matters with respect to open carrying.

11 year old kills bear in Idaho in defense of home and sisters.

Odd contraption. From a blog that’s new to me called Daily Gun Pictures.

Range report and pics.

Holder is backing off from his gun control initiatives:

Attorney General Eric Holder is retreating on his commitment to pursue a controversial gun-control measure.

Holder’s statements, recently delivered to senators in writing, clearly indicate the Obama administration is in no rush to reinstate the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

[…]

Regarding the administration’s next step, Holder stated, “The department is currently reviewing existing gun laws to determine how best to combat gun violence and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others prohibited from possessing them.”

I doubt you’ll see any push for gun control by the democrats in power because they want to stay in power.

Traction Control says go vote. I wonder why military and guns are in the same category?

Izhmash has a new weapon that modernizes the AK-74M / AK-100 series by adding rails for optics and other accessories, as well as a few other minor improvements. Pics at the link.

FN is giving cash back on gun purchases.

Manteca club’s women-only gun class teaches empowerment, overcoming fear

More women are arming themselves

Chuck Schumer (D – his own gravitational field) is not a fan of it:

Senator Charles Schumer held a press conference on Sunday to call on the Department of Justice to require immediate notification of the Joint Terrorism Task Force when a suspect of a terrorist inquiry attempts to purchase a gun.

Currently, the FBI Counterterrorism Division is notified of background checks when a gun purchaser is listed on the Terrorist Screening Database, but the watch list is not inclusive enough. Senator Schumer says there are many more people who should be on that list who presently are not.

Press discovers handguns have them.

Good riddance to long gun registry

Gearing up for a suit: Man carries gun into community center to protest ban

BRIGID: Then a few days ago someone kicked in my back door. In broad daylight

I have a gun. No, you don’t.

Some more info on it. A new recoil spring is not one of the rumors I’d heard.

Over 7,000 guns confiscated this year in Chicago. Where guns are banned.

CTD:

Just received news that the Ulyanovsk plant ammunition plant located 835 km south of Moscow in Russia suffered a catastrophic explosion. Ulyanovsk are the makers of the popular Bear Ammunition.

They’ve stated: licensed manufacturers who perform a manufacturing process on the firearms for, or on behalf of, another licensed manufacturer not to place their serial numbers and other required identification markings on the firearms, provided such firearms have already been marked as required and that all of the other requirements

Ruling here.

No guns at event that requires guns.

In the Chicago Gun Case, Alan reports the Brady Campaign is filing a brief in support of neither party. Strange. Wonder what that’s all about.

I’ve seen the claim that the Fort Hood shooter is permitted to carry a privately purchased gun on base a few places, most recently here. That claim is completely false.

Discussed at Kevin’s.

Armed or not.

A girl and her sniper rifle

Baking day!

Sebastian gives you the skinny on how all that works. Because some people stupidly think that were it not for Tiahrt, the Fort Hood shooting could have been stopped.

If you’re looking for BLAME!!! try the federal agencies that were supposed to be fixed by the PATRIOT Act.

Walther has patented a mechanism that prevents a gun from being disassembled if there’s a chambered round. Back in the day, having watched a few too many movies, I practiced taking a Beretta 92 apart with one hand. That is, gripping the slide and hitting the switch, which would loosen the slide. Got pretty good at it. Could do it if one was pointed at me too. Totally useless skill but that’s what you get from watching Remo Williams. I guess it’d help out bad guys fighting Remo.

Mother of three kills intruder.

By that non-rationale, I shouldn’t have to hear nonsense spouted by The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership.

Mad Man’s Top 5 Inexpensive Gunny Gift Ideas

Marlin 39A

New Zimmerman Arms Rezolution Tactical .22

1911s and carry rigs

Writer tried to get a toy gun in NYC.

Mentioned earlier that there was another officer involved in the shooting that took down the killer.

Seems Munley got credit because someone’s racist. Some don’t like to credit black folks.

How sexist.

Via AC.

DC Circuit Court says the Heller decision is retroactive.

Seen at SIH on the one gun a month bill:

“As it stands now, retailers would be prohibited from purchasing guns from their suppliers,” said Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi, who leads the task force. “I think that was an oversight when the legislation was passed.”

The law exempts sales between licensed gun dealers, but not purchases from distributors or manufacturers, which are classified differently under New Jersey law.

And NJ politicos are now saying they weren’t aware of that. Even though they were told that. Didn’t read the bill or lying because they saw what happened to Corzine?

Paralyzed man in NJ, who liked to hunt, was denied his firearms ID and approval from the local chief of police. He sued and the court said to give him the card. Also, there’s this:

Under New Jersey law, a police chief may not give a firearms ID card to anyone with a physical defect or disease that makes it unsafe for the person to handle guns. The chief may also deny an application if approving it “would not be in the interest of public health, safety or welfare.”

Isn’t that rather arbitrary and discriminatory?

Since that’s the latest anti-gun and media (but I repeat myself) whipping boy, some stuff on the FN FiveseveN:

The FiveseveN fact or fiction. Shows some ballistics comparisons and tells us what we already knew: it’s a bit more powerful than a .22 magnum.

A look at the weapon from GunBlast.

Some videos about the gun.

A couple of other reviews on the weapon here and here.

Seems their prices have gone up.