Its Like When Your Dog Senses An Earthquake Coming.

Heh.

With samples.

Up 82% in Wisconsin.

Remington 700.

16 year old gets NRA membership for birthday.

Some speculation here and at some forums about this ad showing the new Fourth Generation Glocks. Well, I made some calls. And, according to my sooper seekrit sources, turns out that it is real. Debuts at the Shot Show this year.The cross-hatched serrations may or may not make the final cut. I’d like for them to put some serrations toward the front of the slide myself, as it makes press checking the weapon easier.

Also, just in time for the election, rumors are that Glock will begin manufacturing in the US. This is good on a few fronts. One reason is that the onerous import restrictions on sporting arms as applicable to handguns won’t apply. So, you may be able to get a Glock 28. Dunno why you would, since it’s the same size as the 26. But you probably want one because you can’t have one. Another advantage is that if the Obama administration starts tossing out anti-gun executive orders further limiting importation of weapons (like George Bush 1 did), they have a domestic facility for production.

In other Glock news, there is a Glock Shooting Sports Foundation in Knoxville on December 6. I’d love to go but Junior has a gymnastics meet that day.

Petey Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is all for it:

If you have an illegal gun in a community that bans them and use it in self defense and all you have to do is to pay a fine — I would pay the fine and believe what I did was correct

As Kurt said:

So breaking the kind of gun law that your organization has fought so hard to preserve is “correct”?

Camp Perry Limited Edition M1A.

I watched some of the video of the debate between he and the PA mom who carried to a soccer game here. Bryan Miller’s constant PSH comes out even more so in real life. His assertion that carrying a weapon automatically intimidates everyone is absurd on its face. He became belligerent rather quickly. Meanwhile, the soccer mom maintained her composure; laughed when appropriate; and was sociable.

Even better was when that idiot New Jersey cop said, and I am not making this up, that it’s dangerous to carry a gun because if you have one and the SWAT team shows up, they might shoot you. So, instead of relying on the police to do their job and actually ascertain the situation correctly, I should just remain unarmed until then? Idiot.

Thirdpower has more, including a list of falsehoods Miller stated.

Greg was amused at Bryan Miller becoming frustrated. Easy to get frustrated when you position is based on lies and hysteria.

Economic stimulus in South Carolina: Beginning the day after Thanksgiving, South Carolina residents will have a 48-hour period when they can purchase guns, shotguns, and rifles tax-free.

In Memphis, reports of sales increases and use of scary buzzwords like assault rifles and armor piercing ammo.

In Boulder, Colorado there is a spike in handgun carry permits.

Gun sales on internet auction site gunbroker.com are way up.

Bloomberg looking to get you to cut down on salt.

Firearm Blog has more on the left side charging handle of for the AK, with pics and video.

In Pigeon Forge with th family to take advantage of the fact that no one is supposed to be shopping this year. Everyone else had the same idea. It’s packed.

Slate’s Jack Shafer on gun sales:

If all 8.6 million background checks in 2008 were for first-time buyers, one could make the potentially chilling case that growing numbers of citizens are bearing arms. But that’s not very likely based on established survey data. Ownership of most of the nation’s estimated 200 million guns is concentrated in relatively few hands—according to a recent article in the journal Injury Prevention, 48 percent of gun owners reported owning more than four firearms. A similar data point collected by the National Institute of Justice (PDF, Page 2) states that of “gun owners in 1994, 10 million individuals owned 105 million guns, while the remaining 87 million guns were dispersed among 34 million other owners.”

This year’s uptick in buyers must reflect some new gun owners, but if past surveys are a good guide, surely most of these buyers are repeat buyers. This means that the well-armed are probably getting better-armed—a point none of the recent news stories makes.

I do not, however, think firearms scare almost everybody. They do, however, seem to spook the press.

Other posts on Gun Sales here.

Seems to me that both parties are demagoguing the holy shit out of GM’s woes and what, if anything, to do about them. Speaking for myself, I’m open to being convinced in any direction. On the one hand, I’m not in love with the idea of bailing out a company that has made mistake after mistake after mistake and whose business model is almost certainly unsustainable; on the other hand, I’m not eager to screw a bunch of workers and pensioners out of their retirements or do away with the country’s 8th largest employer, either. So what to do?

Blindly partisan crap from either side need not apply. I’m looking for even-handed, well-reasoned arguments about what to do, not demagoguery. Anyone aware of some good essays?

UPDATE: The consensus here, unsurprisingly, has been to let GM fail. Kevin at Lean Left argues in favor of a GM bailout. Check it out.

Guns scare journalists.

Or is it time to buy now? Stocks and markets have dropped, so if you have retirement account, should you buy now or wait? Just curious.

Meanwhile, here’s a tale of how incompetence saved me an assload of money. My employer uses a processing company to handle all things payroll, to include retirement. These folks are completely incompetent. They will, without fail, screw up anything they are asked to do. They’ll either over do it or not do it at all or form a committee to do it that will then forget why they formed the committee anyway and that will result in them doing something else completely unrelated to the current task. Anyhoo, a bit back I rolled over an account and specified which fund I wanted the roll over to go into. After the market hit the shitter, I was scared to look. One day, I finally manned up and looked at the damage to discover that I had not only not lost any money but had actually received a fairly health rate of return. I checked the particular fund’s webpage and noted that it had lost a ton of money. I was confused as to how that happened. Turns out, they put my rollover in the wrong fund even though I specified. They’d put it in a municipal bond fund. So, I made some modest gains. Their incompetence saved me a chunk of change.

We must ban marshmallow guns.

Jay:

The greatest compliment I can imagine – and I get it frequently – is when one of my kids comes up, completely unbidden, and tells me that they love me. I eat that up for breakfast. It makes everything worthwhile, and I hope they do it until the day I die. No matter how fast they grow, or how big they get, I’ll never stop worrying about them, and I’ll never stop loving them with every fiber of my being.

I will, however, stop doing their laundry before they hit high school…

You apparently can polish a turd. The actually made a couple of high-gloss and highly unsanitary spheres from poo.

Can’t find video, though. Probably be here soon.

Marko notes that since he no longer has a TeeVee, he’s suffering a near-complete pop culture disconnect. Tam is in the same boat.

I have recently became disconnected from pop culture for a very different reason. I got TiVo. See, now I only watch what I want, when I want to watch it, and without commercials. I’m not exposed to what’s hot. Generally, I have no idea what movies are out (this week is the exception in that I know Madagascar 2 is out because the kids at Junior’s school are into that). I generally have no idea who any of the people are that are mentioned in the Yahoo! entertainment blurb that pops up on the home page. I have no idea who the people on the cover of any magazine at the supermarket are. Marko suffered a disconnect from getting disconnected. I suffered the disconnect by upgrading technology.

I don’t miss it. Most TeeVee sucks. I watch very few shows. A list would include Mythbusters, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, The Daily Show (occasionally), My Name Is Earl, Mail Call, Southpark and The Simpsons. That’s really it, except the occasional sporting/poker event. Southpark and The Simpsons are probably coming off the list because lately they suck. Now, I also manage to watch a whole lot of Blues Clues, Spongebob, Dora, Diego, Back at the Barnyard, and Fairly Odd Parents as a function of having kids. But they’re not exactly piping pop culture into the house. Of course, I’ve mentioned before Junior’s utter shock at the discovery of commercials.

Another interesting trend is that, once again because of technology, I can’t name a Top 40 song. No idea. But, then, I’ve never been a big Top 40 guy either. I download my music and pick only what I want to listen to.

I guess you can disconnect or plug in more heavily and become disconnected from pop culture.

Pocket Hamerless.

A look at an old multi-tool. Pretty cool.

I’ll stick with my Skeletool. It’s a multi-tool I actually carry instead of leaving in the truck.

I guess they’re expecting us dumb, cousin-humping rednecks who are buying assault weapons for the coming race war to be busy on the biggest shopping day of the year:

On Friday, November 28, the hours of operation for the FBI’s National Instant Check System will be extended to begin at 6:00am EST and run through to 1:00am EST on Saturday, November 29.

Six months until the Second Amendment Blog Bash at the NRA Convention in Phoenix. They’ve announced a contest.

You are going, aren’t you?

Picture and ad here. Steve thinks it could be fake.

Joe is stopping his blog to run for Mayor of Chattanooga.

Jay shows some carry pieces.

What a douchebag.

A few pixels spent on the lengthy job application in Obama’s administration. NRA points out that the application also asks about firearm ownership:

One of their first official acts is to make a list of gun owners among their own employees.

Update: Sebastian points out they don’t seem to have a grasp on gun laws.