Barack Pinocchio Obama asked his supporters to lie for him:
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’
The issue is that he doesn’t. Never has. Did he fight for the gun rights of the law-abiding in Illinois? Nope. Did he sign on to the Congressional Heller brief affirming a right to arms? Nope. What did he do? Supported all manner of gun control.
Ohioans for Concealed Carry scored a victory:
In a 4-3 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court has rejected the City of Clyde’s appeal in OFCC v. Clyde and ruled that Clyde’s ban on concealed carry in their parks is unconstitutional!
Reports were that Google-owned youtube was going to ban gun videos. That’s not entirely true:
The UK version of YouTube is going to remove videos of people using guns and knives to intimidate or frighten others? They are following a strong ?suggestion? from British leaders who believe their citizens must be protected from the internet. Wow?suddenly those facts aren?t nearly as sensational as the headline.
It is Google and they do shit themselves at the thought of guns. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did do such a ban at some point. But it’s not happened yet.
The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership has finally admitted what we knew all along: they really do want to go after law abiding gun owners. That’s rather odd since they’ve been telling folks for years that’s not the case. But now, it’s a category on their blog, right next to dancing in the blood of dead children.
Good:
A federal judge decided Tuesday that Jim?s Gun Jobbery of Fayetteville and the Jim?s store in Wilmington can keep their licenses to sell firearms.
Jim?s Gun Jobbery in Fayetteville and Jim?s Pawn & Gun in Wilmington sometimes violated regulations requiring dealers to closely track their inventory, U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard said in his ruling. But he decided the violations were unintentional and made up only a tiny percentage of the stores? sales since Jim Faircloth went into business in 1977.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been trying since 2005 to revoke the licenses of Jim?s, said to be the largest gun dealer in North Carolina. The ATF said the stores repeatedly lost track of guns in their inventory over an eight-year period and had not resolved the problem despite repeated warnings.
Good for the judge. This has been a pattern with ATF for a bit, shutting down dealers for clerical errors that comprised a minuscule percentage of transactions. Meanwhile, ATF can’t keep track of it’s own guns.
Interesting concept here:
The Palm Pistol is an ergonomically innovative single shot double action only defensive firearm chambered in 9mm that may be fired using either hand without regard to orientation of the stock. Suited for home defense, concealed carry or as a backup gun. It is also ideal for seniors, disabled or others who may have limited strength or manual dexterity. Using the thumb instead of the index finger for firing, it significantly reduces muzzle drift, one of the principle causes of inaccurate targeting. Point and shoot couldn?t be easier.
I seem to recall reading that palm pistols were pretty common at one point many decades ago.
Via David.
Defense Review has a piece on the rifle with lots of pics:
PTTR’s Manifold Injector System (MIS) (TM), which is located in the bolt carrier. Upon firing, gas flows through the tube inside the op-rod, and is expelled through the MIS. Para claims that this makes the PTTR “the cleanest running autoloading rifle in the world.” This is a rather bold claim, considering the plethora of gas piston/op-rod-driven tactical AR carbine systems a.k.a. tactical AR-15 carbine systems on the market.
I, for one, miss seeing Terrance & Phillip up at the top, there.
In no small part because it renders obsolete my SayAunt graphic, which I seem to have lost anyway…
“If it was anybody else, we would have arrested him that night,” Caldwell said. “Because of who he was, we wanted to make sure we had everything right.”
Wow.
Alan Gura, lead guy in the Heller case on his fees:
And if we are such lousy lawyers, how did we manage to beat the city’s militia of lawyers, including three of the biggest of the “megafirms” in town?
That’s almost as good as his closer:
If the city doesn’t want to pay civil rights lawyers’ fees, it should obey the Constitution. Freedom isn’t free.
Yowza!
Michael Silence asks Any reason to keep a phone line at home?
Ya know, I still have one. Initially, it was for two reasons. We have a fax machine and a fancy alarm system. Now, the fax machine can be replaced with a wide variety of software or online services. The one we can’t seem to find an online replacement for is the alarm system. It communicates with our service, police, and fire all through the land line. Were it not for that, I would not have a home phone. That’s $70 month could be spent on ammo!
Obama and McCain talk guns and conservation.
Obama seems to be taking the Rudy Giuliani approach to guns. That is, he was all for gun control but has since changed his mind. And, like Rudy, he’s using the right terms. The question becomes whether it’s out of expediency and a desire to get votes or if it’s genuine. If he had signed on to the congressional Heller brief, it may have lent him some credibility that he really did find his pro-gun Jesus. He also displays his ignorance about firearms while stating his support for a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons. He’s either 1) confused that they do mean machine guns or 2) shilling all the propaganda he learned while on the board of directors at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation.
McCain unequivocally says he does not support a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons nor does he support a ban on regular capacity magazines.
Update: More from Bitter.
Mr. C. announces some free training at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous:
I just got an e-Mail from Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder and head guy from Front sight Firearms Training Institute, and he had two pieces of good news for me. First, he will be donating a $2,000 dollar four day training course to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous for inclusion in our Project Valour-IT fund raising efforts. That will go on the list along with a new Hi-Point 9mm. pistol, a Dillon range bag (I think) and possibly some other stuff too!
Tennessee Firearms Association:
Albert McCall & Congressman Marsha Blackburn would like to invite all red blooded Americans to a night of good ole fun in God’s Country.
Activities include:
Target shooting BBQ Supper
Hay Ride Karaoke
Horseshoes Face Painting
“Shoot for Life”
So all you fellers grab your gal and bring your youngins if you got ’em!
Where: C.S. Hawkins Park Times: 5:30-8:30
Auburntown, TN BBQ @ 7
When: September 22nd Cost: $5 to Shoot
No Charge for mealFor more information call-615-257-1473
*ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO MARCH OF DIMES
Via David, who notes something important to keep in mind:
I typically don’t do local announcements, but this one illustrates a concept more gun owners would do well to adopt–doing something that benefits people in your community under the banner of a regional gun club.
Mike tells his anti-gun dad that he owns guns. Plan B should include taking dad to the range.
House passes bill to ease DC’s gun laws:
The pro-gun majority in the House moved Wednesday to compel the nation’s capital to broaden the rights of its residents to buy and own firearms, including semiautomatic weapons.
Critics, led by the District of Columbia’s sole delegate to Congress, decried the action. They said the vote tramples on the District’s rights to govern itself and could endanger both residents and political dignitaries who so often travel across the city.
But the National Rifle Association-backed bill passed easily, 266-152, with supporters saying they were determined to give D.C. residents the same Second Amendment right of self-defense that has been available to other Americans.
Interestingly, this was a Democrat led bill. No doubt, Obama is bad for their blue dog credentials so they have to do something.
update: NRA presser here.
Couple more technical issues to work out.
That’s a bit of hyperbole. I’m using gun-ban-speak. But this was amusing:
The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping.
Thirty-five of the missing handguns, rifles, Tasers and other weapons were stolen, as were 50 laptops, the internal audit found. Two of the stolen weapons were used in crimes.
The audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine found “inadequate” oversight of weapons and laptops resulted in “significant rates of losses” at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“It is especially troubling that that ATF’s rate of loss for weapons was nearly double that of the FBI and DEA, and that ATF did not even know whether most of its lost, stolen, or missing laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information,” he added.
Actually, it’s disturbing that they lose any. Some numbers:
It found that ATF lost three times more weapons each month than it had in a similar 2002 audit by the Treasury Department, which used to oversee the agency. It also lost 50 times as many laptops as reported in the earlier audit.
Of the 76 weapons, 35 were reported stolen, 19 lost and 12 missing from inventories, investigators found. Of the 418 missing laptops, 50 were stolen, 8 lost and 274 could not be found during inventory. Another 86 laptops were unaccounted for because ATF had either destroyed or lost documents showing where they were, the audit concluded.
Two weapons reported stolen were used to commit crimes. In one instance, a gun was stolen from an ATF car parked outside the agent’s home and later used to shoot through the window of another residence, the audit found. In the other, a stolen ATF gun was taken from a burglary suspect.
Additionally, ATF employees did not report 13 of the 76 lost weapons, or 365 of the 418 missing laptops, to internal affairs as required. ATF officials also did not report much of the lost equipment to the Justice Department.
ATF continues its record of stellar performance!!
Via an alert reader, who notes: Sullivan’s solution – revise reporting standards for lost weapons – instead of ya know, revising standards for not losing them in the first place
Update: Meanwhile, the delicious irony of noting that ATF has shut down dealers who have made clerical errors with a smaller margin of error than ATF.
After lying and telling everyone that H.R. 6691 (bill in congress to regulate DC’s gun laws for them) would allow people to carry loaded assault weapons on city streets. Teenagers and children would be allowed to carry assault and sniper rifles, as the bill repeals all age restrictions on the possession of long guns, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership breaks out some pure, enrichment grade deception:
New NRA Gun Bill Shows Gun Lobby Deception
Funny, the NRA hasn’t lied about what the bill does but Brady has.
Just hours after a Brady Center report highlighted the NRA’s repeated and false denials that its bill to gut DC’s gun laws would allow assault rifles on the streets of Washington, the gun lobby has revised the bill to prevent the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets.
The bill never allowed the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets. They really are desperate.
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