Nice:

Swita, “shaking like a leaf,” said he sat down to call 911 to report the shooting. The call taker asked if the man who’d been shot was breathing. Swita said he told her he didn’t care.

Seen at Gunner’s:

Shelley called police and grabbed a shotgun from a closet.

Paul, 52, pinned the man on the floor and Shelly aimed the shotgun at him, she said.

Paul let the man up slowly and said to him, “We’ve called the police. We’ve got a gun. Just go.”

The man stared at them for a moment; the shotgun still aimed at him.

The man then rushed at Paul again, the couple said. Shelly aimed the shotgun and pulled the trigger, but the safety was still on and the gun never fired. Eventually, Paul would need the help of a neighbor to subdue the man again.

Says Gunner:

I want to say this straight out. No matter how good you are at accuracy and target acquisition you can still fumble. The time you do not want to fumble is when your life and your families life’s are on the line.

This is why my nightstand gun is either the SigArms P229 or the Glock 30. No safeties, no gizmos. Pull the trigger and they go bang every time.

If true, this is absolutely unbelievable:

Muslim husbands who beat their wives must be treated differently from other domestic violence cases, as a matter of cultural sensitivity: “In incidents such as domestic violence,” says the handbook, “police need to have an understanding of the traditions, ways of life and habits of Muslims.”

Wife-beating is wife-beating in my book and none of it should be tolerated. Ever.

Actually, it’s a PHaSR, which stands for Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response:

A laser technology being developed by Air Force Research Laboratory [AFRL] employees at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. will be the first man-portable, non-lethal deterrent weapon intended for protecting troops and controlling hostile crowds.

The weapon, developed by the laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, employs a two-wavelength laser system and is the first of its kind as a hand-held, single-operator system for troop and perimeter defense. The laser light used in the weapon temporarily impairs aggressors by illuminating or “dazzling” individuals, removing their ability to see the laser source.

You know, if there were ever a valid reason for a sporting purpose argument against something, I’d say this one fits the bill. Can’t hunt or target shoot with it. But then, I’ve never bought that whole sporting purpose crap anyway.

The AZ Daily Sun:

Yuma police investigating gun crimes will soon be able to track the gun more efficiently thanks to a federal weapons database.

Yuma police expect to be using eTrace, a database established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, within the next few weeks.

The Senate has overridden the Governor’s veto of a bill that would standardize firearm transportation in the state. Now, to the house.

As a follow up to this post by (Engine Engine) #9 stating that WATE incorrectly announced Steve Hall had withdrawn from the city council race, Mr. Hall was on the radio this morning. He won by 88 votes. He was absolutely furious over the whole issue and lambasted WATE as totally irresponsible. He said he asked who leaked the misinformation and WATE merely told him that it was a reliable source.

Update: The only coverage I have found so far:

“I just can’t believe that a major media outlet in this town would go on the air with that type of wrong information without at least calling to verify on election day,” candidate Steve Hall said

Nothing yet on the WATE website. My understanding is they did an on-air correction.

No, not that one. But Tom is taking a CCW class:

The instructor also surprised me a bit (pleasantly) in claiming that the most dangerous people out there are the ones who think they know how to properly handle a gun, but don’t. And he seemed to include most legal gun owners in this category. He also complained that the eight hours of training required by the state of Tennessee for a CCW permit is nowhere near enough time to cover what’s necessary.

Read it all. And any constructive advice you’d want to give would probably be helpful.

I don’t think Bam Bam wore blue underwear.

Local radio host Lloyd Daugherty reported today on the early morning radio program “The Voice” on AM 1180 that WATE television news reported on air early this morning that City Council Third District councilman and candidate Steve Hall had withdrawn from the City Council race.

Councilman Hall said on the Lloyd Daugherty radio program that he has not withdrawn from the race and has contacted WATE for an explanation. No word on that explanation at this time. WATE has apologized to councilman Hall. The identity of the phone caller to WATE is unknown at this time.

It is unknown if WATE will address the mistake on the 12:00 noon television broadcast.

There have been no comments at this time from Ellen Adcock.

Steve Hall is still a candidate for City Council.

Given the ATF’s tendency to label things machine guns that aren’t really machine guns, Congress looked into the issue, reports JPFO. Here’s the actual report.

Heads did not roll and I doubt anyone expected them to. But this does represent a first step in reigning in the ATF’s tendency to lack consistency in interpreting the law. Rep. Phil Gingrey has proposed the Fairness in Firearms Testing Act, which requires all firearm testing to be recorded on video and prohibits editing said video.

JPFO advises:

1) READ the CRS report.

2) SHARE IT. Circulate the link to it on email lists. Post the link on your blog. Let the world know. Think of two dozen — or a hundred — friends who need to see the report and share it with them.

3) ASK QUESTIONS. “How can I get more gun-rights groups involved in this?” “When is Congress going to curb the ATF?” “What can I do about it?” “What should ALL gun owners do about it?” “What can defense lawyers do with this report?” “Do I know any lawyers or abused gun owners who should get a copy of this?”

4) BUILD FORCES to demand that this report be acted upon and not ignored.

Via Subguns.

Now that I think about it, this release represents more lies from the Bradies:

How could it have gone in any other direction, from a White House that just gave blanket immunity to the gun industry, which refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns, that broke a campaign promise and put Uzis and AK-47s back on America’s city streets, and insisted that records of gun purchases be destroyed before the sun sets on them twice?

It had to be a Supreme Court pick that favors legal machine guns.

In 1996, Judge Samuel Alito was the sole judge who dissented from his Third Circuit Court of Appeals colleagues when they upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns.

Well, AK-47s and Uzis are machine guns. So, Jimmay, which misrepresentation are you trying to perpetuate:

That the assault weapons ban affects machine guns?

That machine guns are assault weapons?

Both? And I mean machine guns in the legal sense and assault weapons in the until-very-recently legal sense. And the last sentence:

“If Judge Alito had his way, the federal machine gun ban would have been struck down as unconstitutional, and the private possession of these weapons would have become legal.”

I thought you guys just said that AK-47s and Uzis (which are machine guns) are legal?

WATE:

The Knoxville Police Department no longer will allow retiring officers to keep their service handguns and is considering confiscating guns from past retirees. The city’s new police chief has reversed an existing policy.

Chief Sterling P. Owen, IV says the law and finance departments of city government say the police department doesn’t have the authority to give away city property.

Owen says the department simply revised a previous form the clarify the property belongs to the city. He says the initial intent wasn’t to give away the guns, but to offer the weapons for personal protection if the retiring officers wanted them.

About 125 officers are immediately affected.

I wonder if they plan on offering them for sale to the officers? Confiscation seems a bit harsh.

Update: The KNS:

A policy instituted this year by Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV requires retired officers to sign a document acknowledging the gun given to them under the previous chief actually belongs to the city.

“We had been informed by the law department and the finance department that the police department does not have the authority to give away city property,” said Owen, who became chief in 2004.

To accommodate that decision, Owen ordered all retired officers to sign a form this year agreeing that the uniforms, police badge, police identification card and weapon they were given upon retirement belonged to the city.

“Should I no longer require the equipment for my personal use, it shall be returned to the Knoxville Police Department,” states the one-page form.

The officers were informed of the new policy this year when they attended annual firearms re-training required by law. Owen said about 125 retired officers were affected by the policy.

Bill Hobbs tells the tale of Chris Clem, whose personal life was targeted after he posted comments on a blog. Says Chris:

Apparently, a student or faculty member of Georgetown University (in Washington D.C.) took it upon himself to click onto my name and determine that my email address was [email address snipped because I hate Spam Bots – Ed]. He then tracked down my employer. My employer is the law firm of “Samples, Jennings, Ray and Clem.” We do not have a web page. This person then started emailing the senior partner. He never contacted me or tried to debate me. He went after my job.

Careful out there. Chris’ comments were not hateful nor derogatory. In that case, I can understand maybe targeting someone but, still, it’s a cowardly thing to do. Bob Krumm points out that this kind of thing happens on the other side as well.

Politics can get so ugly.

Well, sort of:

In two weeks, the KNS launches Knoxville.Yourhub.com. You will be able to post items, photos and articles unfettered. It will be sort of a blog-light endeavor. Launch date is Nov. 14. If you encounter problems posting, e-mail at yourhub@knews.com.

Sort of related to my discussion of Collapse, the Geek notes:

As I was showering this morning, I stood gobsmacked, when I realized that I could not name a single work of science fiction written in the last 20 or 30 years that stipulated a free, vibrant, healthy America that you and I would recognize and be interested in living in.

Not one.

David Hardy rounds up gunny and anti-gunny reactions to Alito. I have to confess that while I found his dissent in the machine gun case refreshing, it does not necessarily denote his views on the second amendment. He may be pro-gun but he may also have been sniping at the definite lack of a commerce clause. Most troubling to me is his ruling on Doe v. Groody, which had the effect of justifying searches of people not named in the warrant.

TNR’s The Plank (as in maybe they should walk off of one) on Alito:

What should be far more troubling to Senate Democrats, however, is Alito’s 1996 dissent from a decision upholding the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns. Applying the logic of the Constitution in Exile for all it’s worth, Alito insisted that the private possession of machine guns was not an economic activity, and there was no empirical evidence that private gun possession increased violent crime in a way that substantially affected commerce–therefore, Congress has no right to regulate it. Alito’s colleagues criticized him for requiring “Congress or the Executive to play Show and Tell with the federal courts at the peril of invalidation of a Congressional statute.” His lack of deference to Congress is unsettling.

On the bright side, it may be the first time that anti-gun ninnies acknowledge that a machinegun is actually different than an assault weapon.

Via Mike, who notes:

There are two kinds of people in the world, my friends… those who think that a Justice’s “lack of deference to Congress” is “unsettling” and those who think that it’s a primary requirement for the job. All the right people are pissed off tonight!

Meanwhile, I am happy to report that JoinTogether has apparently has stopped peddling anti-gun hysteria and closed their gun violence site (it’s just an archive now). The Million Moms are down to like, what, 24 members now? And Michael Barnes of the Brady Camp has supposedly quit, even though his name shows up on the Machine Gun Sammy press release. Good times, people, good times.

The pit bull law in Canada has left officials pondering how to pay for enforcement:

An Ontario law that targets dangerous dogs could take a $100,000 bite out of London taxpayers.

The new law, which takes effect in February, has municipalities across the province scrambling to estimate its potential cost to local property tax owners.

I tend to doubt, as has happened before, that it’s worth the cost.

The Carnival of Liberty is up.