In the evening, though, a curious incident took place. The train stopped at a station and two police officers, with M16’s, got on the car, one at the front and one at the back.

I have to confess that I don’t consider DC part of America anymore. Like Cali, NY, NJ, and Britain, it’s a whole other country. Still, men armed with machine guns should not be patrolling our streets. We expect that in Zimbabwe. Not the US.

Howard Nemerov looks at what the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership means.

Not really worth much in the soft squishy sciences (which aren’t really sciences at all).

AC: Barack Obama wants America involved in the creation of the Democratic platform on which he runs — before he ignores it like every other candidate in American political history.

In AZ, after their governor pledged support for it. If Democrats keep this up, people are going to stop believing they found their pro-gun Jesus and are just saying things to get elected. Oh, wait.

A challenge to the onerous Lautenberg amendment.

DC has 41K registered handguns. 36K were registered before the ban. Who were the 5K that got to register their handguns after the ban?

A case of like you and me, only better?

And they don’t really know where those guns are.

Update: CounterTop emails that private security companies can register their weapons.

Mike has the skinny.

Wachel Wucas is looking at ways to monetize her blog. She even took a PETA ad. No big deal. The only ad I’ve ever turned down was from some Truthers. I bet it never occurred to her to accept $5,000 to quit smearing local politicos like Thaddeus Matthews.

Anyone who wishes for me not to smear them can send me $5,000 too. At least I’m upfront about it!

Sebastian has a look at some cases out there. Definitely worth reading and following links.

And if you ever wonder what we gunbloggers talk about when we’re not blogging, it’s which of these cases are good and which are bad. For instance, someone is going to challenge the machine gun ban. We just hope it’s not someone who’s retarded. Someone running headlong into court screaming SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED is going to lose and do damage to the cause, whereas someone who does it smart may still lose (and probably will – let’s face it the courts as of now will not unban machine guns) but can set the case up in a way that the result is still favorable.

The NRA at 56%.

Aim small, miss small.

More on the Bogus study.

And how not to do it.

Congress’ approval rating hits single digits for the first time since ever. And Bush’s approval rating is currently at 30%. Has he ever hit single digits? I mean, the congress keeps telling us how bad a job he’s doing but they should maybe look at their own house first.

Forty years ago the American society was told to tune in, turn on, and drop out. And that is just what they did. Somewhere during this long tuned in and turned on phase the America people became more than a little like lemmings. They believed what they read in the papers and what they saw on television. Especially if it was bad.

Those people had children and surprise; the children are second generation lemmings. Worst than first generation lemmings this new batch really believes if a story is bad they must believe it.

So how dire is the situation? People really believe a trace gas can cause Global Warming, Al Gore is the smartest man in the World, and Barrack Obama is the most qualified man out the over 300 million people in this entire country to be the next President of the United States.

They call this philosophy of the Chicken Little syndrome Liberalism. Need a few examples of this wayward tuned in turned on incoherent philosophy?

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You’ll recall the story of David Olofson (past coverage here). He was supposedly sent to jail for a malfunctioning firearm. Reviewing the report from an ATF field agent don’t seem to jibe with some of Olofson’s claims. The agent claims that the firearm selector switch moved through all three positions (including the naughty switch) and that the bolt had been filed (see note 13) . Note 17 says nothing about soft-primered ammo. One of the allegations made by Olofson was that the firearms tests were not videotaped. Based on these affidavits, I can see how a jury could convict. And if they hadn’t got him for that, they could have got him for dealing firearms without a license.

Also, Lagniappe is not such a fan of GOA.

There are no winners.

Via Sebastian.

Update: This document doesn’t jive with the ATF report mentioned above.

Update 2: In comments, Sailorcurt notes some pretty major discrepancies between what ATF says and what happened:

Supposedly, Olafson had modified his AR-15 to fire three round bursts, however, the affidavit later states that when the BATFE tested it, it fired full 20 round mags in full auto. Modified or not, something wasn’t working right in that rifle.

According to the affidavit, Olafson was selling guns on E-bay…E-Bay doesn’t allow gun sales.

Via some random clickity that started with this post from R. Neal, I discovered that my subdivision now is part of Google’s street views. Creepy. However, they still show a cow pasture where my house is on their satellite view.

Here: Marsha Blackburn has a perfect pro-gun voting record in Congress and is a great friend to Tennessee gun owners and hunters. She is a true pro-Second Amendment Member of Congress and NRA-PVF is proud to endorse Representative Blackburn in the August 7th primary and in the November 4th general election.

At FoxNews, a piece on DC skirting Heller begins with:

The Supreme Court’s repeal of the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., may be a boon for a segment of the firearms industry whose last major windfall might have been in the heyday of the Dirty Harry movies: those who make and sell revolvers.

We’ll not even comment on the lame ass Dirty Harry reference. We will comment on the boon bit. Recently, the firearms industry has experienced three major upticks in sales:

1) September 11;
2) The expiration of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons and its ban on regular capacity magazines;
3) Hurricane Katrina

So, stop that crap. Anyway, the meat of the article is that DC is looking to say revolvers are OK but semi-automatics are illegal. That’s going to get them into trouble, I think. If, as the supreme court asserts, the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon then the semi-automatic is the quintessential handgun.

To all the Para contest winners. They are:

Sayuncle
Caleb
Robb Allen
John D
JR
Kevin
Tam
Joe Huffman
Armed Citizen

Rumors are that number 10 is David Hardy.

Also, Curt lives an hour away!

Via the gun blogs, comes Pretty Pistolera.

Here, she shoots a 50.

Day 7 of guns at work in Florida. And there’s mayhem everywhere.

ParaUSA’s website went live (as predicted) with the info last night. Check them out here.

Our past sneak peak was here.

Speaking of Para, looks like they’re moving out of Canuckistan and into Charlotte, NC.

FEMA buys 478 pallets of baby food. Leaves them in a warehouse until they rot. Now, they’re taking bids to destroy them. Taxpayers paid to buy it, store it and now dispose it.

478 pallets could probably have been put to good use somewhere, other than a warehouse.

Seen at Billy Beck’s:

“Der Spiegel wrote that the IMF had ‘informed’ Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of plans that would have been unheard of in the past: a general examination of the US financial system. The IMF’s board of directors has ruled that a so-called Financial Sector Assessment Program is to be carried out in the US.

This, Der Spiegel wrote, ‘is nothing less than an X-ray of the entire US financial system’, adding that ‘no Fed chief in US history has been forced to submit to the kind of humiliation that Ben Bernanke is facing’

Few things: Fed Reserve isn’t looking too credible to the international community. Of course, being American, we could give a crap less about the international community. If we cared what the international community thought, we’d be metric. However, these foreigners own a lot of our debt. property, businesses, etc. So, this one won’t just slide by.

And this is fantastic: Der Spiegel reports that the IMF is threatening to seriously study the accounts of America, something President George Bush is determined to prevent at least while he is in the White House, informing the IMF that it can begin its investigation but cannot complete it until he leaves office.

And they blame the media: Part of the problem is the US media, which has for so long pretended that all is or soon will be well, a bottom is near, a recovery awaits in the second half of the financial year that will sweep away all problems, sown over decades, in a new expansion, a cycle that is ordained to come. The latest fantasy is that with the quarter’s end, new profit figures will invigorate the bull, which will seed fertility.

Our media isn’t that good at economics. I mean, those retards think taxing windfall profits of oil companies is a good idea.

Read the whole thing here.

What is it with people who live in gun-control “utopias”?

People have often asked about the nice looking Garand err Rack that makes up the Gun Bogger Logo. Well, here’s where it came from.

Speaking of internet radio:

Modern media. They’ll let anyone do it.

No wonder the LA Times is laying off people.

Squeaky and Ahab will be interviewing Michael Bane.

The interview will be aired here.