Once more, it’s misleading.

The other biased Washington paper reports:

Mexico has long tried to get the United States to curtail the number of guns – many purchased legally – that wind up south of the border, where gun laws are much stricter. The State Department says firearms obtained in the United States account for more than 90 percent of Mexico’s drug-related killings.

Interestingly, this picture accompanies the article. Are the grenades and the LAW Rocket coming from the US? Probably not. They’re illegal here. Also, I find it curious that all rifles are displayed with their selector switch down.

A few dated articles from Second Amendment Democrats but relevant today:

Don’t Think of an Assault Weapon! Terms of the Debate on Semi-Automatics

Top 10 Myths about Semi-Automatic Firearms and the 1994 Ban

More Democrats like this please.

Registration is underway.

I expect the press to repeat the lies about guns in Mexico. But not Michael Yon.

A look at chicks and guns and misogyny.

We’ve heard parroted in the media over an over that the shooter in Oakland who killed some police officers used an assault weapon. It has never been named and, usually to the press, any gun is an AK47. It has been reported also that it was fully automatic (i.e., a machine gun). So, what was it? Well, Bill Quick sought to find out. The answer he received from the police (of all people) was surprising to me.

Me neither. But they talked the talk when they were out of power. Any way, remember Bush’s record deficits? Ain’t seen nothing yet.

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership advocates that the US should adopt some Mexican gun laws:

Sebastian reminds Paul that this would amount to a sweeping gun ban.

For Christmas, I bought my wife a few house cleanings from professional cleaning services. I wasn’t sure how the gift would go over but I was pleased to learn she liked the gift. Anyway, I learned last week from the cleaning lady that WD 40 works well for cleaning stainless steel. That was the cleanest our stainless kitchen has ever looked.

However, I did not know you could repair and inflate a tire with WD-40:

Reports Brent: By the end of 2008, NRA headquarters was swamped with membership applications.

Diver accidentally killed by dynamite fishermen.

Bill to remove restriction on concealed carry in parks advances.

Tennessee’s legislature is looking at a bill that would prohibit employers from banning firearms in an employee’s car in the employer’s parking lot. Not sure how I come down on this one.

In Florida, there was a push for such a law a bit back that I mildly supported. The reason I mildly supported it was because in FL, it was a special crime to carry on an employee lot when they said not to instead of just trespassing. The bill in Tennessee simply says that an employer may not ban possession by employees of weapons in their cars on the employers parking lot. It’s a sticky issue since the parking lot is the employer’s property and the vehicle is the employee’s property.

Via Chas Sisk says that some employers aren’t happy about it:

Employers are objecting to a bill that would let gun owners take firearms into workplace parking lots. (Wrong. They can do that already but employers can forbid that practice. – ed)

Sen. Dewayne Bunch has introduced legislation, SB 1724, that would let holders of handgun carry permits take their weapon into company parking lots and leave them in their locked vehicles. (Wrong again – ed.)

But speaking at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday morning, representatives for Bridgestone, the Tennessee Hospitality Association and the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the bill would hurt companies’ ability to write rules to protect their workers.

What about the workers’ ability to protect themselves?

Pretty much: It didn’t work. They realize it’s not working. So they want to do it again.

30 Caliber terror!

Where the Wild Things Are movie trailer:

Via Guav.

checking out the Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker plug in (via Les) with this: Ultimate Survival Kit.

I thought it was an arsenal.

Over at arfcom, they’re noting foxnews did a bit on a cache of weapons smuggled into Mexico from the US. Video supposedly shows three over/under shotguns. No doubt, they are machine gun over/under shotguns.

Not found a link yet. Have you?

Daniel White:

Pop quiz, which of the following is an assault weapon:

[…]

If you answered “D)all of the above” congratulations, you qualify for a California Senate seat! You’d also be wrong.

I realize that the likelihood of me encountering a Komodo Dragon in the wild is about the same as my chances of encountering a leprechaun or global warming, but Tam asks:

What gun for lizard?

I’d say the same gun you use for face-eating monkeys.

ATF and other federal agents are going to the border:

Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday

Good. Meanwhile, other groups join in the chorus and blame US gun laws. And the Brady Campaign blames a specific gun dealer, who was actually found not guilty due to lack of any evidence.

Now I see why the Violence Policy Center has a Federal Firearms License. So they can spin how easy it is to buy guns:

Tom Diaz, an analyst at the Violence Policy Center, a gun control group, said cartels use military-style weapons such as the Armalite AR-50, a .50-caliber sniper rifle.

He brought one to a recent congressional hearing — with the help of two police officers — and said he found the weapon on the Internet, bought it for $3,200 from a Maryland “kitchen table” dealer and had it registered in the District of Columbia, all in about six hours.

See, now they can say look how easy it is to get this gun. Well, it is if you hold a federal firearms license. After all, 50 caliber rifles are unlawful to possess in the District of Columbia unless you are a dealer or police agency.

And insty notes the Mexican gun canard continues to be treated as gospel in the press.

Tom alerts us to the Mexican ambassador to the US claiming that 90% of the guns in Mexico originate in the US. I would say that any gun in Mexico that is not an AK variant probably originated in the US because it was likely made here. But where do the rocket launchers and grenades originate? From the news, you’d think US gun shows but that is patently false. But I would guess that some of those originate in the US because they are made here.

Aunt B.:

It is my belief, and I could be wrong–like I said yesterday, the more I learn, the less I realize I know–, that for many Tennessee Democrats, they are Democrats because they are. Not because they believe in any mutual goals or subscribe to a broad, similar philosophy, but just because. So, I’m not sure what being a Democrat in Tennessee means.

I’m not sure anyone does.

All it means is that they’re not those other guys.

Hunting is safer than bowling. And apparently every other sport too.

Some major pants-shitting in Chicago over something that makes sense:

State Representative Annazette Collins found herself in the hot seat after she suggested that kids be educated about guns. She says downstate, children are educated about weapons at a young age….why not in more urban areas.

“Down state they teach you that guns are meant for hunting, for protection..here in the urban cities, all they see are guns on tv..and they gun down people.” said Collins.

When I was in high school, you took hunters safety as part of Phys Ed or ROTC.

Update: Richard Daley will need to change his Depends.

Fish stew recipe.

Mongolian beef from a blog that has a great name.

Blueberry dump cake because even survivalists like dessert.

Did you know that you can now be convicted of drunk driving without actually driving.

STG 44

SIG PE 57

There is actually tax law for parents of kidnapped children.

Guns aren’t allowed in places that serve alcohol.

Tactical solutions 22 caliber upper for the AR-15.

New shooter.