Presidential candidates ignore Bloomberg’s gun survey.

So, /20~ p@\/1 keeps beating 9iu11ani. I guess there’s hope for the future since more people are willing to vote for a libertarian than an authoritarian nanny.

Update: Even more hope for the future, Hillary gets 60% v. nobody.

Joe, who is not surprised, notes Bush didn’t stay paid off.

Sebastian criticizes the NRA: I felt the NRA statement on the DOJ Brief was weak.

It was weak. But it was something. In the past, I doubt they’d have said much. And they definitely would not have done so that quickly.

How do you do this:

The weapon was loaded with three magazines, each containing 16 rounds.

Mine only holds one.

Such accuracy in reporting!

At least Brittney and I agree on guns and that Dennis Kucinich’s wife is hot.

In Cleveland, TN:

A prosecutor says in a report to Cleveland city officials that at least two Cleveland police officers lied under oath and Police Chief Wes Snyder illegally ordered arrests but they won’t be charged.

Tenth District Attorney General Steven Bebb said Monday that instead of prosecuting the offenses, he will seek “a spirit of cooperation” with the Cleveland Police Department.

[…]

City Manager Janice Casteel said no one in the police department will be fired or punished as a result of the report.

No charges, no firing, no mention of disciplining? Instead, we have touchy feely hippie sayings like a spirit of cooperation. If I lied under oath, what do you think would happen?

But you gotta try:

Check out the below video of the NSSF & Tom Gresham (Host of Gun Talk Radio & Personal Defense TV) working to educate the Media about the AR-15 platform.

In Peru, they’re destroying 30K guns:

Abiding by international peace and disarmament policies, the Peruvian General Directorate for the Control of Security Services, Guns, Ammunitions and Explosives [that’s a frightening name, isn’t it – ed] for Civil Use (DICSCAMEC) is to incinerate 35,240 firearms within the next several months.

Since DICSCAMEC depends on Peru’s Ministry of the Interior, it is waiting for the Ministry to define the date on which the firearms will be destroyed, said the general director of DICSCAMEC, Ricardo Ganiku.

He explained that the firearms to be incinerated consisted of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and carbines.

According to the general director of DICSCAMEC, the firearms were confiscated from criminals, people that had obtained them illegally and from people that did not have a license or had an expired one.

International disarmament policies that are overseen by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.

Tam: Hell, if Shiflett had shaved and combed his hair, he could have won Iowa.

Given the laws in Mass, you’d assume everyone there was anti-gun. But not The Guy From Boston. Language warning, but you should have known that since he’s from Boston.

Suppressed Marlin Camp rifle.

A Fal receiver. In other news, a hunk of metal is so dangerous it requires a locked case and a trigger lock, even though it has no trigger. Ah, good ol’ reasonable MD gun laws.

PGP got his carry permit in MD.

Sweet idea. Lets you build and price an AR-15. When done, it will be quite neat.

PSH from from a college paper.

So, I grew a beard for the first time in about a year and a half. After a couple days’ growth, the Mrs. looks at me and says you look good with the beard. Cool, she likes it. Then a day or so later she complained a bit about how the beard didn’t feel good during a smooch. So, I trimmed it up. She said that didn’t help. So, bummer, she doesn’t like it.

So, I shaved it off.

I come into the living room and she asks why I shaved it. I said because I thought she didn’t like it. She informs me that she likes the look of it but not how it feels. I ask So, would you rather I look good or feel good? She says look good. Who knew?

Growing the beard again.

Like you and be only better:

Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness has revoked concealed weapon permits of a gubernatorial appointee and a state parole official while also vowing to overhaul permit record keeping, both in the wake of a Bee investigation.

And, of course, the issues with it:

The Bee reported that at least 30 of the 550 people issued local carry permits from 1996 to 2007 had records of criminal convictions – and at least seven had failed to disclose them in their concealed weapon applications. Most of those permits were granted by McGinness’ predecessor, former Sheriff Lou Blanas.

Good to see San Mateo County police so hard at work:

Police in San Mateo County, California apparently first spent months investigating the small-stakes poker game. From this firsthand account, it looks like a couple of the officers were playing regularly for several weeks before sending in the SWAT team, guns drawn, last week.

It’s a $20 – $50 game. Sebastian asks:

Can someone explain to me why this is a crime?

Depends. In some places, it’s a crime because you’re avoiding taxes and registration. In other places, it’s because you’re too stupid and untrustworthy to decide how to waste your money.

Just over 10,000 permits issues in Kansas. In a week ETA: I apparently can’t read. It says through the first week.

Sweet.

The press seems to be shitting its pants over a discarded 22 short round.

Via Ahab, here comes the civilian version of the KRISS. Nifty.

John Lott has a piece on the issue.

Not smart:

It may have started as a goofy stunt, but tonight a 30 year old Red Wing area man is in hot water with authorities, after detonating a powerful bomb in back of his home yesterday afternoon. “When you can take a steel box, a dump truck box, turn it into scrap metal and send it 1/4 mile away… that’s a bomb,” reasoned Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers, whose detectives are investigating the case.

I doubt it’s illegal but it’s not smart.

Heh.

Xrlqy Wrlqy:

Rather than worry about that relatively minor detail, worry about the big picture: will the Supreme Court affirm the individual right to bear arms at all?

Wow:

A Baltimore County gun dealer charged with illegally providing weapons to a man who died in a firefight with police last year received today a five-year suspended prison sentence and one year of probation.

Sanford M. Abrams entered an Alford plea in Baltimore County Circuit Court, in which he did not admit guilt but conceded that the state has enough evidence to convict him. The judge then entered a guilty plea for unlawfully selling a restricted firearm.

The plea marked the latest, and potentially the most serious, chapter in the long legal saga of Abrams, the former National Rifle Association national board member stripped of his license by federal agents nearly two years ago for failing to keep track of hundreds of weapons in his shop’s inventory.

Past coverage here.

Never too cute to kick some ass.

AR-15. Only, it’s a paintball guns. Looks pretty slick.

Of course, for the price, you can build your own real AR-15.

Clayton Cramer needs help:

So do your part: help me find every review these fifteen historians wrote of Arming America!

Remember Christian Trejbal? You know, the guy that published a list of handgun carry permit holders in VA at the Roanoke Times? Then, he shit his pants because he thought some mailing labels were a bomb, obviously terrified we gun nuts were out to kill him. And whose actions resulted in the VA AG cutting off access to the data? Yeah, that guy.

Well, some more good has come out of his dumb ass stunt:

Any and all information about Virginia residents who hold concealed handgun permits would be off-limits to the public under a bill sponsored by a local legislator.

Del. Beverley Sherwood, R-Winchester, is the chief patron of House Bill 843, which would close both electronic and hard copies of the records.

The new restrictions on the information are necessary because some people who have a good reason to get a permit also have a good reason to hide their personal information, Sherwood said.

And the article notes that as well:

Two other newspapers took similar actions in the following months — The Tennessean in Nashville, Tenn., and the Sandusky Register in Ohio. Elected officials in the Volunteer and Buckeye states are either considering or have enacted new restrictions on the information.

Had The Roanoke Times not put the database online, there would be no move to close off the information, Sherwood said. Sherwood is the chairwoman of the House committee that will hold initial hearings on the bill.

Because you’re on the wrong side:

In arguing that the Second Amendment case now before the Supreme Court shouldn’t have any bearing on state gun control laws, Attorney General Cuomo is finding himself largely alone among state attorneys general.

Mr. Cuomo filed a brief, signed onto by only four other states and Puerto Rico, to the federal high court last week in District of Columbia v. Heller, which will be heard in March. In the case, the Supreme Court will review whether Washington, D.C., residents have a right under the Second Amendment to keep handguns at home for self-protection. The District of Columbia has what amounts to a blanket ban on handguns.

Of note: Mr. Cuomo’s brief is, in effect, an effort to limit any damage to the relatively strict handgun regulations in New York and some other states that might result from a Supreme Court decision favoring private gun ownership.

Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah.