Les Jones: Natural point of aim – aiming with your feet instead of your hands

An interesting read on some suspicious activity on a political futures exchange.

Spot the assault weapon.

Heh:

However, Blue Island Police Chief Douglas Hoglund shut down the event just 30 minutes after it began. Hoglund said the building didn’t have a business license and no one authorized by a law enforcement agency was there to take possession of the traded-in guns.

Joe got his. Robb reportedly got his last night.

I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be last.

So, is he calling blacks and Jews animals?

Oleg needs help:

In December 2002, I founded The High Road forum dedicated to the advancement of responsible gun ownership. Recently, it was discovered that in 2006, the volunteer forum systems administrator, Derek Zeanah of Statesboro, Georgia, changed domain registration to himself. After he was confronted, Derek locked out all other staff from accessing the Web server administration and would not share even backup copies of its content. After failed attempts to peacefully resolve the dispute, it has become necessary for me to initiate a lawsuit against Derek Zeanah for the return of thehighroad.org domain name and the forum database.

Man farts on officer. Charged with battery.

National Firearms Day.

A knife that can be used in a gun fight.

Gun cameras?

So Bush says uncle on executive compensation.

Ya know, there’s a reason people take these jobs: the money.

Over at Yahoo news, there’s a bit entitled: Why Buyers Aren’t Buying. You know, to address why people aren’t buying houses when prices are so low.

I had to do a double take.

I mean, would you loan these people money?

I got a 94. But I misread a question. Still, a passing grade.

http://www.barackobamatest.com

Obama shill says his support for gun rights is well-documented. No word on the location of these documents.

Internet Attention Span.

Heh.

Kevin:

The problem is that largely unregulated financial institutions used sometimes shady deals to sell people mortgage products that they probably could not afford.

That’s a joke, right? I agree with the latter but to say that financial institutions are largely unregulated is like saying Pamela Anderson is largely unaltered.

Kirk had one. He’s also looking at a flashlight mount for his handgun.

In a pinch, the Rogers/Surefire method works just fine.

A case for bringing back the pillory. Or tarring and feathering.

Seen at David’s:

Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag…

Earlier in the day, he was speaking with a local news station when an unidentified teacher walked up to him, ripped off the microphone clipped to his shirt and told him he was not allowed to talk to the media.

Politifact fact checks NRA. And by fact check, they say nyuh uh, ’cause Obama said so . . . later. I mean, nevermind the fact he signed his name to it that one time.

Looks like The Duck got a couple!

In Illinois: After months of waiting in good faith for the repeal of a gun ban that never happened, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against Winnetka, IL in U.S. District Court.

NSSF is trying to address the AR-15’s image problem. Since Zumbo, I think it’s come around quite a bit. And it is the most popular sporting rifle platform around. From WV Outdoor News:

“It’s cosmetically challenged,” said noted gun writer Tom Gresham. “It’s kind of like one of those ‘replicars’, where you have a Volkswagen chassis that looks like a Ferrari. The AR-15 looks like an M-16, a fully automatic military rifle, but it is not. It’s semi-automatic and fires one shot each time you pull the trigger.”

It’s scary and black too! And some politicos (two of which are on the Democrat presidential ticket) want to ban these politically incorrect self-loading firearms based on cosmetics. Ahab has more, and notes:

I do have to agree that the AR platform of rifles kind of has an image problem outside of the sport shooting community; and I applaud the efforts of NSSF to take educational action to correct and manage that image problem.

Perhaps that’s where the image problem lies. But whenever I take a new shooter to the range, I always take an AR. And the new shooters always like it the best.

Apparently, not many. I discussed it yesterday but here’s a round up of what others have to say:

Joe on their bias:

There’s another possible explanation behind FactCheck’s positions. Just last year, FactCheck’s primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for “efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry.” Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005.

Also, didn’t Obama actually, you know, head up Annenberg?

NRA issues a presser:

FactCheck supposedly exists to look beyond a politician?s claims. Ironically, in its analysis of NRA materials on Barack Obama, these so-called ?FactCheckers? use the election year campaign rhetoric of a presidential candidate and a verbal claim by one of the most zealous gun control supporters in Congress to refute facts compiled by NRA?s research of vote records and review of legislative language.

Xrlqy Wrlqy:

That has got to be the most disingenuous use of the word ?however? I?ve seen in any screed not written by Glenn Greenwald or Andrew Sullivan.

David Kopel:

The September 22, 2008, FactCheck on the NRA criticism of Obama is marred by the omission of crucial facts, one-sided and misleading presentations of issues, and thinly-concealed political advocacy.

Basically, FactCheck’s response seems to be Nuh uh, because Obama said so.

David got his gun blog 45.

Broomhandle Mauser.

On the granddaughter!

Trying to tell people how we can’t turn air into money. Back later.

I agree with Slacktivist on this, and I expect that many readers, from across the political spectrum will also agree:

I’ll gladly concede that Paulson knows more about the world’s rapidly collapsing finance system than I do. That doesn’t matter. Paulson’s request violates an inviolable principle, namely, to repeat, that if a public official demands $700 billion by week’s end, no strings attached, with no democratic or judicial review of that official’s unfettered discretion to spend that $700 billion as he chooses, then you say, “No.”

“No” is the only possible answer a free person can give to that request.

If you don’t answer “No,” then you have to answer “Yes, Your Majesty, screw that whole experiment-with-democracy thing, we think you’ll make a fine sovereign and king and please take our money as tribute from your loyal, unquestioning subjects.” I prefer the former answer, and not just because it’s shorter.

…snip…

Fortunately, crowning King Henry and doing nothing at all aren’t our only options. The events of the past week seem to prove that the American financial sector is in a full-blown panic. The Bush administration is now insisting that we fight panic with panic. That won’t work.

It may, in fact, be the case that something huge and unprecedented and Very, Very Expensive will be required to save the republic. But if we can’t manage to do that democratically — with accountability, oversight and the full participation of the people’s representatives — then the thing we are saving will no longer be a republic.

Bob Owens has a lengthy post on Fact Check.

More from National Review.

The WaPo falls for the same line.

Funny how all these joints with fact check in the title don’t actually, you know, check facts.

Past coverage here.

In Georgia:

My Washington colleague Julia Malone sends word that the National Rifle Association has just endorsed the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. John Barrow, the Savannah Democrat.

Read this as a significant blow to Barrow?s Republican challenger, John Stone.

More Dems like this please.