Second amendment incorporation for nanchaku? No, really.

The Blue Dogs stand up:

Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester have a message for the Obama administration: they will oppose any gun restrictions the new administration may be considering.

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the two Democrats said the Justice Department should enforce existing laws rather than propose additional laws they said could infringe on Second Amendment rights.

More like this please.

GLN needs your help.

An interesting list of items regulated by International Traffic In Arms Regulations. It includes optics and sights.

For missing logbook.

If you have an assload of money sitting around, check out this upcoming auction. Wow.

Someone else noticed.

Box o’ Truth’s TMan has passed on.

Link:

Hillsdale College to Host 2nd Amendment Lecture

Washington, D.C. – Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. is hosting its monthly “First Principles on First Fridays,” lecture this Friday, March 6, 2009 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at the NRA Headquarters at 11250 Waples Mill Road in Fairfax, Virginia.

NRA: An overwhelming bi-partisan majority of Oklahoma lawmakers have decided to prohibit private employers from asking job applicants if they own a gun. Senate Bill 793, introduced by state Senator Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, passed in the state senate on a vote of 43-1 this week.

Does that really come up?

Cook County’s new plan to confiscate firearms: A proposal requiring Illinois gun owners to report a lost or stolen gun to police within 72 hours or face the possible loss of their right to own a gun was approved by an Illinois House committee Wednesday.

Kel-tec SU-22CA: another tacticool 22.

Nice shooting. & fast

It’s illegal to carry a gun in DC.

And Tam: Any bets on this rifle turning up down there? Clearly we need to close the Squad Car Loophole.

And you can’t carry guns into the sheriff’s department.

US banks were forced by the .gov to take the bailout money. Of course, they need you dependent upon them.

Cheerful banking news, including: FDIC’s Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year

Lamar Alexander votes against bill that strips earmarks and for vote-buying.

The solution is what is working so well in California.

I love this hope and change.

The Tennessean:

The simple fact that some lawmakers think it’s fine for people to legally carry guns into restaurants that serve alcohol shows the lack of thinking behind a list of gun bills making their way through the legislature.

The only lack of thinking I see is the press and editorial boards who keep telling us that Ruby Tuesday’s, state parks, city parks, and other places are these magical places where we should forbid the carrying of weapons. And:

A provision that says people with permits may carry guns into restaurants where booze is available, as long as they’re not drinking, invites deadly situations.

All of Tennessee’s neighbor states, except North Carolina, allow handgun carry in places that serve alcohol (source). And they don’t experience any sort of substantive increase in deadly situations.

And:

In recent years, Tennessee has adopted gun-carry laws under the belief that this will make people safe and prevent crime. As those laws have been adopted, people are discovering it’s inconvenient when they’re carrying weapons and want to enter places like parks and restaurants.

As someone who has had a weapon stolen from a car parked in front of a restaurant that served alcohol, I would think that the current rules invite more problems.

Update: More from Occupied Nashville.

Some have pull:

Democrats may be running the House, but the National Rifle Association (NRA) can still stop a bill in its tracks.

House Democratic leaders on Tuesday pulled legislation from the floor that seemingly had nothing to do with guns because the NRA disliked it.

But the police and media seem to be saying otherwise:

Police say they’ve seized 80 firearms in a raid on a Staten Island house and they’ve made one arrest. Officers executed a search warrant around noon Tuesday and discovered the weapons — mostly handguns, rifles and stun guns.

[…]

Investigators say it appears Granato had been buying the guns over the Internet.

And: On Tuesday 03/03/09, at approximately 12:00, members of the NYPD’s Firearms Suppression Division executed a search warrant

At least the name is honest.

Charged with criminal possession of a weapon. In NY, who knows what that means.

The Jackson Sun on The Commercial Appeal publishing a database of handgun carry permit holders:

This bill is a direct response to the blatantly irresponsible use of handgun permit information by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. That newspaper put a searchable database online which initially contained the name of every handgun permit holder in Tennessee, including their addresses and their year of birth. That was a wrongful use of this information. It unnecessarily exposed thousands of Tennesseans to the danger of identity theft. But this bill is equally irresponsible.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press parrots Brady Campaign talking points and calls it news.

The Violence Policy Center’s research that is:

“Big Boomers” – Handguns with rifle power capable of penetrating body armor—are growing threat to lives of law enforcement officers, according to new VPC study.

Drug traffickers are already using these “vest-busters” to kill police in Mexico

New rule in gun hysteria: always mention Mexico. Remember, they’re talking about what are typically single shot, break open, pistols. Like Kevin’s.

Divemedic: In short, more cops were killed by (take your pick) cars, bombs, water, tornados, lightning, pine trees, other cops, or yellow jackets, than were killed by “Assault Weapons.” But then, none of those causes fit the press’ leftist, antigun agenda, do they?

The LA Fertility Institute is offering designer babies:

A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring.

Via Chuck, who says Gay people, Your days are numbered.

What say you?

Growth sector:

One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States.

Scary:

Thousands of Mexican soldiers pour into the country’s most violent city in crackdown on drug gangs

The paper uses the term loophole to describe the law:

For the next three years, as many as 15 D.C. residents will enjoy a right denied their neighbors – the right to own recently banned semiautomatic weapons.

A discrepancy between D.C. laws approved last year enabled the residents to register semiautomatic firearms now listed as illegal in the nation’s capital. D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said roughly 15 weapons registered in the city “sit in this zone of uncertainty.”

The city’s statutes now state residents must register their guns every three years.

Some enterprising lawyer has three years to build one hell of a gun rights case.

Guy makes guns with interchangeable parts. Out of paper:

In DC, they only want the rights that benefit the state. Not rights that benefit the people.

NSSF on weapons that look like assault weapons.

Les Jones:

I’m fascinated by the mentality that says that drug cartels that traffic in contraband won’t be able to get guns once they’re made illegal.

Over at SIH is an interview with NRA Board Member Scott Bach, who is running for reelection.