Piedmont machine gun shoot.

An illustrated guide to guns he wants to ban.

The local newspaper interviews Randy Neal of knoxviews.com fame.

George Bush hates white people.

Update: Yet years from now, there will be no Iowans still in FEMA camps.

Via insty.

which wouldn’t really be a finale

Holy crap. Did not expect that.

Breda scores another.

Tam questions the deification of Tim Russert in the press.

Obviously, she doesn’t recall that time when Russert manned a Sea-Doo armed only with the jawbone of an ass and single-handedly invaded Normandy. Then he and Barack Right Said Fred Obama’s uncle liberated all those Jews. I remember it like it was yesterday.

In a post on what to watch for in Heller, Kevin says:

There’s something wrong with a system that essentially demands that you break a law before you can challenge its Constitutionality.

Indeed.

At the LA Times:

NRA’s political clout is waning

With 2nd Amendment rights expanded and Democrats reluctant to tackle the issue, gun control isn’t the GOP weapon it used to be. The rifle group, in essence, is a victim of its own success.

Eight years after a national debate over gun control helped keep Democrat Al Gore out of the White House, the National Rifle Assn. and its Republican allies are launching a new campaign to defeat Barack Obama.

But this time, the issue that GOP strategists once relied on to provide crucial votes in close elections has lost much of its political punch.

Hmm. I seem to recall some historically anti-gun candidates sucking up to them recently (9iu11iani). And who is vying for the anti-gun endorsement? No one.

The NRA may have become a victim of its own success.

And they list those successes. Seems their clout is still in tact, if you ask me.

BTW, I find it amusing that the LAT felt it had to spin NRA’s success as a negative.

A superdelegate Member of Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee (whose vote counts 10,000 times more than yours) says that Barack I don’t need all of you to believe me, just twelve Obama may have ties to terrorists. I shit you not:

Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of Davis’ district, said he understands why Davis is not endorsing Obama and is “skeptical” of the Illinois senator himself.

“Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Update: Our local Cybernaut chimes in.

Update 2: Sean says not a superdelegate.

David Hardy:

Brady Campaign goes on to cite what they could push for, and could hope to pass constitutional muster: universal (i.e., private sale) background checks, AW bans, “curbing large volume sales,” i.e., one gun a month.

Leaving aside whether those would pass muster … how does the Brady Campaign hope to survive on them? I’d wager that a LOT of its contributors give only because they believe those are stepping stones to things more significant, a “good start” rather than an end. If they faced a reality in which everything would stop with background checks, an AW ban, and one gun a month — that they’d never get beyond that — they might well bail out.

Sebastian:

If I were Peter Hamm or Paul Helmke, I’d be thinking there surely has to be other places in the D.C. establishment where they can put their skills and talents to more effective and creative use.

Since the anti-gunners are all on the payroll, I suppose the Brady Bunch will have to start getting funds from the Joyce Foundation.

Update: More thoughts here.

And great minds think alike.

So, that’s what they mean by collective right.

My LG is on it’s last legs. I’m eligible for a new phone with my provider (Verizon). Should I just go ahead and get me and the Mrs. iPhones?

Note: I swore I’d never have an iPhone but Chris changed my mind from Hell No to Hmmm, maybe.

How’s AT&T service in East TN?

Update: In a bit of irony, it seems AT&T’s webpage only supports Internet Exploder. Yes, AT&T sole provider of Apple’s iPhone will only let you use a Microsoft product to check service.

Breda told her mom about her blog.

Kinda interesting to me. See, I never really told anyone I knew in the real world about my website. I didn’t even tell my wife until after a year or so (and that’s only because she saw the domain hosting charge on the credit card). And, it wasn’t until about 2005 (when the blog was three) that I happened to mention it to a couple of friends. Then, one of those friends told another friend. He told my brother in law. And then, this year, my wife told my other brother in law. She even opined that she just thought everybody knew. And this year, my dad found out. He found out because I logged in at his house, did a quick post and didn’t clear history. He’s been reading ever since. In fact, he told me he went back one night and read the entire Notes to Junior Category. Other than that, I don’t really tell folks.

And in this post, some folks asked if I let the guy I mentioned know about the blog. I did not.

There’s a reason I don’t tell people. That reason is that if they read regularly, I’d eventually piss them off. It’s true. I have, for example, mentioned a few disagreements with folks on this blog. Now, imagine they hop on the internets and see me making fun of their position? And now that I know who knows, I can’t make fun of them anymore. It’s inhibiting.

I’ve mentioned the new Brady Blog before. They seem to spend the majority of their posts dancing in the blood of someone’s dead or injured child (note: links use tinyurl.com since the brady bunch is trying to increase it’s google-fu):

New Mexico Boy Accidentally Shoots, Kills Self

Father, Hunting In The Dark With Gun During Bow Season, Shoots And Kills Son

8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed After Finding Unlocked Gun At Home

North Carolina Teen Accidentally Shot In The Chest With AK-47

4-Year Old Girl Takes Gun Of Grandmother – Concealed Carry Permit-Holder – Shoots Self

Report: “3-Year-Old Survives Shooting Self In Stomach”

Nice guys!

Dammit, you’re too smart:

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

This one really left me speechless.

What a whiner. No one was outraged. We were just curious. Funny how whenever the little people correct a reporter, it’s because they’re outraged or some such. It’s never genuine concern or anything like that.

And she still has not definitively answered the question. Another trait I’ve noticed in media sorts.

Behold, your .gov at work!

Joe details his involvement with the group. And how to get good press.

It passed committee. But wouldn’t it be easier to list guns that the bill did not ban?

So, looks like Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is going to go for the bans are OK if they don’t affect the right of self-defense in the home. Naturally, from their view, nothing affect the right of self-defense in the home.

These weapons are super dangerous! Of course, before yesterday, they thought handguns were super dangerous weapons. When you start losing, you can move some goalposts pretty quick.

Well, that certainly would end my current plan of voting for McCain’s vice president.

You’re soaking in it.

Where Great Britain used to be, they’re looking to ban hats because they make it harder to identify you on CCTV cameras.

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

“We’ve lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means,” campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. “Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it’s an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically.”

Well, looky there, people don’t buy your mythology!

Update: Oh yeah:

Gun Control Group Braces for Court Loss

The nation’s leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully expects to lose.

Well, I hope so.

One thing I learned as a result of this Kozinski business is that it is apparently pretty popular to paint naked women as cows and take pictures of them. Who knew?

Rule 34 is very (and oddly) real.

My sooper seekrit sources let me know that there’s likely some sort of announcement at the supreme court today at 10. Glue eyes here.

Note: don’t necessarily get your hopes (or fears) up. It’s just speculation.

Update: the 10 announcement was not Heller.

Wow:

It’s about time we get real about gun control in our cities. If we can have sobriety checkpoints and now motorcycle checkpoints, why don’t we have cops creating gun checkpoints? Have them create checkpoints in the city where the gun violence is running rampant.

Give the cops metal detectors and make people stop and get checked for guns. They are illegal and they are a lot worse than drunken drivers, and motorcyclists without the correct credentials. Let’s get real here and start doing something about all these guns on our streets.

An old misattributed quote: They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Blount County Sheriff’s Office Detective James Wilson won the friendly little shooting competition:

The Blount County Sheriff’s Office will have bragging rights for the next year after taking home the police shootout trophy on Tuesday.

After a challenge was sent out to all local officers, 22 men and women came out to show off their shooting skills on Monday at Gunny’s Indoor Shooting Range, 2208 E. Broadway Ave., Maryville. They were each scored on marksmanship, shooting while moving and speed shooting.

Blount County Sheriff’s Office Detective James Wilson was named “top shooter” and won first place in the competition with his overall score in all three categories. Wilson also took first place in speed shooting.

I wish I could have made it. BTW, the competition was held at Gunny’s.

May soon be a thing of the past:

Just got some charming mail in today. I quote” Beginning July 1, 2008 California Penal Code prohibits all FFL’s from shipping firearms to an FFL in California, unless prior to delivery, the FFL delivering obtains a verification approval number from the CA DOJ.”

Oh and by the way, you have to get a permit from CA before they will even deal with you.