PSH and stupid all in one: The NRA is a money laundering operation for arms dealers
Complete with references to sexual insecurity. After all, gun owners are just compensating for the size of their penises.
And there’s that whole bit about how liberals should forget catering to gun owners. Yup. Because that would work out so well [...]

Barack Obama signs bill allowing firearms to be checked in baggage on AMTRAK trains. Just like on airplanes. PSH ensues. Also, amusing:
The bill text was correct when the House approved the legislation last week and the Senate followed suit Sunday. But somewhere in between, the language that referred to putting the guns in [...]

Woot points to a good deal on a gun. My first thought was who would want one of those? But the item became the most popular item on the site. PSH ensues in comments. And the Washington Post does a surprisingly non-hysterical bit about it.

Sort of confirmed:
The MR556 will be produced at Heckler & Koch’s new manufacturing facility at Newington, New Hampshire from American and German made components. To conform to German export regulations, certain design changes made in the MR556 prevents the rifle’s upper receiver from being used on other AR-style firearms.
Sticking with the non-mil-spec design for export [...]

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

I am amazed at the amount of PSH coming from the press and the boneheads at the Southern Policy Law Center about the Oath Keepers being right-wing, neo-Nazi, racist, radical extremists and terrorists. They’re not. They have simply stated they will not violate their oath to the constitution by following orders that go against [...]

Interesting:
The New Hampshire Department of Safety has ordered law enforcement agencies to stop running background checks before returning confiscated firearms to their owners, saying it’s a misuse of the system.

In PA:
a Pennsylvania gun owner named Tony Jackson may have been the first person ever fired for looking at Web sites featuring gun parts.
Jackson worked at a Lotus Notes administrator at Planco, a subsidiary of Hartford, Conn.-based insurance company The Hartford. He’s a firearms instructor and self-described Second Amendment advocate who, while at work in [...]

Some bonehead politico in MA who supported a measure to hike the state’s taxes on booze was seen across the border in NH buying booze to avoid the taxes he voted to raise. Taxes, you see, are for the little people.

In Ireland:
IFA inundated with complaints about new gun laws
UNDER new legislation, all gun owners are required to invest a huge amount of time, satisfying complex and confusing red tape requirements, according to IFA countryside chairman David Wilkinson. He called on the justice minister to rethink the newly introduced licensing system for firearms.
Where Great Britain [...]

Who can pack heat in Tennessee? The PSH from the press says thugs can. They seem shocked that someone not prohibited from getting a permit got one.
Also, the hand-wringing is strong when it turns out that there maybe issues with 14 people out of over 339,000 issued. Seems the courts aren’t doing [...]

Tam on pants-wetting press:
The guy was just standing there minding his own beeswax, which is, granted, a foreign concept to you, but trust me, that’s all he was doing.
Billy Beck on trying to get rid of him:
Here’s your answer, you ignorant cow: it’s for the same reason that we can’t get rid of [...]

I got sidetracked but I wanted to talk about the man open carrying at the Obama protest thing in New Hampshire from the point made in this post. Insty sums up the press reaction nicely:
EEK! A GUN!
And it’s having an effect. However, you couple the gun with the whole blood of tyrants sign [...]

SAF reports:
The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit on behalf of three residents of the District of Columbia and a New Hampshire resident, seeking to compel the city to issue carry permits to law-abiding citizens.

Seen at Marko’s:
Massachusetts has a mandatory seatbelt use law.
Massachusetts has a 67% seatbelt use rate.
New Hampshire has no mandatory seat belt law for adults.
New Hampshire has a 69% seatbelt use rate.

Damn, we don’t even rate as the Great Satan any more:
Britain has replaced America as Iran’s “Great Satan.”
That’s the upshot of the announcement Wednesday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is considering downgrading its diplomatic ties to Britain, the country’s former colonial ruler.
Only fair, I suppose, since I refer to hit as Not So Great [...]

Unhealthy:
I can’t do it. I can’t talk about guns or weapons without feeling sick and sad, even fearful.
A fabrication:
Using gun as defense seldom works to defend
Via Robb.

The AP:
The federal government has proposed over $255,000 in fines against a New Hampshire firearms manufacturing center alleging 60 safety and health violations between November and May.
Officials say inspections at Sturm Ruger & Co. in Newport identified many mechanical, respirator protection, electrical, lead, and fire hazards.
That’ll teach them to get in the EBR [...]

Like Jim Jones, he’ll take you out with a punch
Jeff Woods brings the dumb:
The upshot: Guns will remain banned in city parks and playgrounds. Our children can climb on the monkey bars in peace!
Err, yeah. Because obviously handgun carry permit holders are wanting to head to the park to shoot at kids. Anyway, [...]

Mk-99 AK/PPsH hybrid rifle

Drink up. It’s easier than thinking.
Jeff Woods looks at politicos blaming that dastardly media for misrepresenting the guns in restaurants bill. And wonders where, oh where, they would have gotten the idea that maybe the press had an agenda. I mean, with all those loaded poll questions, calling it the ‘guns in bars’ bill, [...]

New Hampshire set to become sixth state to butt out of contracts between two people whose genitalia aren’t different.

I often wonder how a news paper can publish something so wrong and stupid.

In Texas:
SB1164, a bill relating to the carrying of concealed handguns on the campuses of institutions of higher education, has passed the Texas Senate. The final vote was 19-12 for this bill.
Update: PSH:
Today the Texas state senate passed dangerous legislation that would force the carrying of hidden and concealed guns at public universities and [...]

Knoxnews:
Parks officials in Knoxville and Knox County oppose a bill before a state Senate committee today that would allow city and county governments to decide whether to allow people with carry permits to take guns in local parks.
Well, they can still decide to ban them in their parks. Bonus PSH:
You take a ballfield situation that [...]

It starts. The press is pretty much working overtime to crank out the PSH. Everywhere you look, it’s all guns violence all the time. The press has taken to reporting multiple murders to mass shootings. So let’s round some up:
A good review of the 20/20 hit piece here. All you need to know:
Some [...]

A look at the hysteria in media. What media bias against guns?

iPhone gun app causing Brits to poop themselves.

In their never ending quest to increase page views err justify publishing a list of handgun carry permit holders, the Commercial Appeal breaks out the PSH. Dozens of permit holders (out of 220K) have violent histories. Linoge has more. To me, this indicates an issue with the TN Department of Safety’s competence and not an [...]

A school in San Diego is ending its participation in competition shooting as part of JROTC. We can’t go teaching kids real gun safety, now can we?

A look at the history of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons.

A drill team member was suspended from school for having a replica rifle in her car. You know, those replica rifles that drill teams march with. Yeah, those.
Meanwhile, college laundry room shut down, dorm swept, and bomb-sniffing dogs called because a loose 45 round was found. The original article contains this bit of reporting:
According to [...]

Wow:
A Beaver Dam Middle School teacher is on administrative leave after school officials discovered a photo of her with a gun on Facebook.
Schools superintendent Donald Childs says a concerned staff member brought the photo to the district’s attention.

A bill in New Hampshire.

They’re on The History Channel all the time.
Major PSH from a group that is, and I am not making this up, protesting that ROTC offers arms training. Two things leap out at me here. One is that they really think military training is equal to criminal activity. And two that they don’t seem to think [...]

Image of a man walking the street with a gun and some other object, presumed to be liquor in South Dakota. PSH ensues in England. I can’t tell if it’s a liquor bottle or not but it doesn’t look like one. A quick map search reveals a nearby gun shop.
South Dakota ranks 46th [...]

People freak out over the ballistics application for the iPhone.

You would expect a retired general to know guns. You’d be wrong. He does, however, know his PSH:
Mexican law enforcement authorities and soldiers face heavily armed drug gangs with high-powered military automatic weapons. Perhaps 90% of these weapons are smuggled across the US border. They are frequently purchased from licensed US gun dealers in [...]

North Dakota experienced only two murders in 2008. Both were stabbings. Not a single firearm murder in the state. Meanwhile, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has ranked North Dakota 44 out of 50 in gun control.
Update: Similar trend in gun-friendly New Hampshire:
Two murders non-justifiable homicides (10% of all homicides) [...]

I was going to post a reply to this article but realized it would be a waste of time. But if you want to see some real PSH, flat out lying, and play a game of count teh st00pid then give it a read.

Robb addresses some PSH.

Aside from, say, the coming zombie apocalypse or just to scare the crap out of a gun-fearing wussy, I don’t really know what the point of a chainsaw mounted to a rifle would be. With videos.
Update: It is apparently inspired by a video game. Ok, then.

Ridefast looks at some weapons-grade PSH from the press because Barry Bonds is the spokesman for Christensen Arms.

I watched some of the video of the debate between he and the PA mom who carried to a soccer game here. Bryan Miller’s constant PSH comes out even more so in real life. His assertion that carrying a weapon automatically intimidates everyone is absurd on its face. He became belligerent rather quickly. [...]

Guns scare journalists.

Some neo-Nazi bone err skin heads decided to try to kill Obama. Ok, more likely, the neo-Nazi shit err skin heads got on Al Gore’s internets and entertained delusions of not being retarded and planned to kill black people and, ultimately, targeting Obama. The ATF was probably perusing stormfront or some other hotbed of racist [...]

There’s some good news from Connecticut.

In the 4-3 opinion, the court wrote “the state has failed to provide sufficient justification for excluding same sex couples from the institution of marriage.”

Massachusetts, California and now Connecticut have ended marriage discrimination. Vermont, New Jersey and New Hampshire have civil unions. Oregon has domestic partnerships. [...]

New PSH-inducing term: kill guns.

A write up on Lauer Custom Weaponry in the NY Daily News:
Ever since the city banned brightly colored guns in 2006, saying cops and kids might mistake them for toys, Lauer has relished his role as the pistol-packing provocateur of one of America’s biggest gun opponents.
He marketed a line of bright colors called the “Bloomberg [...]

This video uses almost every anti-gun cliche ever.

Anti-gun billboards spread misinformation.
Update: Jeff has more and a pic.

That didn’t work the first time, so let’s make it illegaler.

Wow! A piece on Heller at the HuffPo that features no PSH?

My spanglish sucks and that’s google says.
Another piece (and recurring theme) in the press is that evil America is sending it’s evil guns across the Mexican border. Here’s one such bit:
At least 80 percent of all of the weapons used by drug traffickers in Mexico to kill one another as well as police and soldiers [...]

FRED GRIMM:
What’s a few dead cops to the gun lobby?
Nice bit of hateful rhetoric there, sparky. He is apparently not aware that the two things that kill more cops are 1) their own weapon and 2) auto accidents.
The shock was in the weight of the thing. Less than six pounds.
It was a cop’s weapon, [...]

Actually, most crime guns in California are traced to, uh, California. I guess it depends on your definition of majority.
Speaking of trace data, all that info we were told would be banned by the evil gun lobby is available here. Via Joe.
Car full of weapons!

A TeeVee station is crapping it’s pants over tannerite. They used some of Joe Huffman’s boomershoot footage without permission. Ry wrote them a letter.
Any of you lawyer types who want to send Joe some info about this please do.
Update: Joe sent them a letter.

Need a CPSHA?

Bruce looks at the PSH over nail guns that I mentioned yesterday.

ATF actually goes after real gun crime!
More like that please. Of course, the article is filled with the usual PSH over assault weapons and cop killer handguns, which are illegal in the US. And this is unpossible:
“I just learned from Mexican authorities that more law enforcement officers were killed in Mexico last year than all [...]

Misleading? You don’t say.
Evan Nappen takes on the Violence Policy Center’s claim that Pro-Gun States Lead the Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates:
The VPC dares not look at the bottom seven states instead of the arbitrary five. That is because, lo and behold, New Hampshire ranks seventh from the bottom in per capita gun [...]

PSH makes the news:
the many cultural and political forces pushing us to behave like a nation of hysterics.
As a nation, we will collectively shit our pants at the drop of hat. Often, for no real reason. Kinda like how we collectively lose our shit whenever a pretty white girl is abducted.
Related: Never [...]

The Christian Science Monitor (who is usually full of anti-gun PSH) proposes that the gun industry take a cue from the SCUBA industry and create its own licensing and registration system. No thanks. The firearm industry does plenty to promote safety and protect the rights of gun owners.

As far as I’m concerned, the most annoying thing on Al Gore’s Internets since pop-up ads is Snap. And, increasingly, for some reason that I cannot fathom, it’s use is on the rise. I hate it. It’s clutter. I accidentally mouse over some bit of text and now I can’t read a 1.5×1.5 area of [...]

Gun bloggers at the 2A Blog Bash will get to hang with reps from FNH USA, makers fine PSH-inducing products like the FiveseveN and the PS90.
And, hopefully at this shindig we’ll be witnessing the release of the civilian version of the FN SCAR?

ZOMG! Kids are learning to shoot. Note how they use odd terms like use a rifle, as though it’s a drug.

K2 Porcupine light with video. PSH ensues over flashlight.
More pics here.

In regard to a prominent lefty’s bigotry toward gun owners, PGP says in comments:
bigoted lefties, making more libertarians every day since 1972.
Heh.

Your bigotry is showing.
A prominent lefty blog talking about the gun rights crowd, in one short post, manages to use:
Wild west
Saying we want to arm everyone
Postal workers
Gun owners are dangerous
All that’s missing is saying we have small peckers. And, remember, it’s right wingers who are the bigots.
And this is why they lose elections, even when, [...]

Rusty has a round up

I thought I was the only certified PSH to English translator.

So, guy breaks the law. It must be a loophole or skirting or something. It can’t just be that he broke the law, illegally while committing a crime. I mean, that’s just too easy:
They also seized a laptop believed to have been used by Bowens to make the illicit purchases dating to March, when [...]

The pants shitting hysteria continues over painted guns.

Stephanie Mencimer has a stupid bit at Mother Jones (but I repeat myself) on how the second amendment existed to, and I am not making this up, keep the slaves down:
Last week at an American Constitution Society briefing on the Heller case, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president John Payton explained the ugly history behind the [...]

A plethora of PSH for nothing. Andrew Dobrow shits his pants over the new MagPul folding gun. What he doesn’t know is that transfer of new machine guns is illegal so he’s shitting his pants for naught.

Let’s count:
Cho’s purchases met Virginia law at the time, but a judge’s recent ruling on his competency should have sounded an alarm with federal officials, had they been notified as part of the background check.
Incorrect. Cho broke the law. There simply wasn’t a mechanism for reporting his adjudication as a mental defective.
Some observers have credited [...]

A university goes under lockdown* when a student is seen carrying his ROTC parade rifle.
* We really do treat schools like prisons.

Much like inventing assault weapons, the anti-gunners continue to invent new issues. The latest seems to be guns that are not black, which is funny since the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons mostly affected the black guns. And the media parrot the line. CNN discovers guns and paint; PSH ensues.

Anti-gun New Hampshire State Representative Nickolas Levasseur has a Myspace page in which he advocates killing Republicans.
By the way, the whole Why are anti-gun activists so violent? meme is almost a daily feature!

Our old pal Jayne Lyn Stahl (remember her?) is back! She doesn’t seem to have learned her lesson and is once again blaming the gun lobby.

Over at Science Daily, comes the PSH:
In “Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre” (Paradigm, 2008), UCLA professor of education and cultural critic Douglas Kellner argues that school shootings and other acts of mass violence embody a crisis of out-of-control gun culture and [...]

Seems there’s a push to say that we should make it illegal to alter the cosmetic features of guns because it makes them more dangerous. Sound familiar?
They want to ban black guns. And pink guns:
The sole purpose of these guns is to fool the observer, said Lt. Rob Koehler of GPD’s Tactical Impact Unit.
Or, you [...]

Mike emails this bit from the Commercial Appeal’s Wendi C. Thomas. It’s pretty ripe with your typical PSH but this stuck out:
For every 10 people in America, there are nine guns.
Well, one in ten people are slacking
Some of these guns are in the possession of police and the military, but the majority aren’t in the [...]

Of PSH.

Over at the Harvard Political Review (which seriously cannot afford its own domain name?), comes PSH alleging that gunnies engage in PSH:
The NRA boasts over four million members and is ranked, year after year, as the most powerful lobbying organization by Fortune. “The NRA exploits fear,” Anthony Bragga, a senior research associate in public policy [...]

PSH from from a college paper.

On a bill introduced in VA to allow lawful CCW holders to carry on campus, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership breaks out the hysteria:
But Gilbert’s bill is a bad idea and would cost lives, according to Brian J. Siebel, senior attorney with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
College students often drink heavily [...]

Bernd Debusmann writing at Reuters notes that gun culture in the US is fading. And by notes I mean re-prints Violence Policy Center propaganda. In fact, here’s a link to their study. And by study, I mean a reprint of data from other sources. But it beats their usual method of calling Google searches [...]

Apparently, you can take my predictions and throw out anything I say about Thompson, Hillary and Obama and they’re fairly accurate. You know, except for the biggest winners and biggest losers. A few things:
Romney didn’t win, which is good.
Rudy 9iu11ani lost pretty badly, which is also good.
McCain won, not so good.
Thompson, barring some sort [...]

Some mediocre political commentary. First, the Dems:
Obama: Represents change. Yet, no one can tell me what he’s going to change. I mean, looking at the issues, it seems to be the same old pie in the sky that folks with Ds after their names have been pushing for years. Minimal specifics.
Hillary: It’s probably tough being [...]

Lee Gaillard says the second amendment is obsolete. It beats relying on the collective rights mythology. Repealing it would be impossible.
Rustmeister has more.
So does Greg.

Speaking of Joe, he notes that an ATF agent gets it right. Good. Though I find it odd since they have a history of feeding the PSH.

WATE gets in on the PSH:
Knoxville police are coming across more high-capacity weapons.
Lt. Greg Hoskins says he finds one last week particularly disturbing.
“On December 23rd we stopped a car with four teens inside, one just 15 years old. They had a semi automatic assault rifle, they had several handguns and magazines for those handguns,” [...]

In England, there’s a lot of PSH because a shotgun license was granted to a nine-year-old. This is of note:
But in the wake of rising gun violence among youngsters the move has been branded “totally absurd”.
Unpossible! With all that gun control, gun violence cannot possibly be on the rise! And do these idiots really think [...]

This piece, complete with PSH, comes to us from the paper of record:
Barely touched on in the coverage of the two latest gun rampages is how the disturbed shooters could so easily obtain assault rifles — weapons designed for waging war.
Barely touched on because it’s untrue. An assault rifle is a select fire weapon that [...]

Despite the misinformation and PSH from the press, a cop keeps his cool.

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has a nonsensical screed on the youtube debate videos:
In last night’s Republican YouTube debate, a questioner submitted this video of himself shooting what looks like an AK-type semi-automatic assault rifle at a target in the desert. In less than two seconds, self-identified NRA Life [...]

Yes, this poll. It was a trick question. What I did was start out with option three and then, due to the PSH that followed, resorted to option one. And, to maintain my moral superiority, I pointed out that, despite her antics, I (the guy who was armed) managed to maintain his cool and that [...]

The Honolulu Star Bulletin thinks that the supreme court should uphold gun laws. Let’s look at why they think that and why they’re igorant:
Courts have ruled for more than a century that the Second Amendment allows reasonable restrictions on possession of firearms, but the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia has ruled [...]

School evacuated after finding a gun cleaning kit.