A look at tactical decor.

Bear spray now legal in the Smokies. My brand of bear spray won’t be legal until February.

I’ve used Doublestar and their sister company J&T Distributing AR-15 parts for years. Here’s a look at their 1911.

Steyr Scope

Chicks and guns: the sub-gun edition

The Colt 22 AR. If I didn’t love my ruger 10/22 so much, I might get one of those.

Tam on the FEMA camper.

Jefferson guilty.

Republicans. Because the shooter was clean cut, had a reasonable net worth, and white. Or something. Nevermind that his blog said he hated right wing fundamentalists and all that. Cheap political points are to be scored.

This advertisement made me laugh.

A poll at the local rag: Do you favor banning guns in Maryville city parks?

As I’ve said before, I’m actually glad various localities have opted out of the park carry business. One, you know who your allies are and, two, this law will probably be revised and preempted next session.

Saddam’s pimped-out arsenal.

Junior starts kindergarten this week. We (and by we I mean mostly the Mrs.) have been doing the prep stuff. Last night was open house where we got to go meet the people who will be shaping Junior’s life. Frankly, they were not the most organized bunch and I really question some of the things they did. For instance, yesterday was open house. And this morning was document day, in which I had to haul over various documents showing proof of immunizations and such and pay some fees. Why they can’t combine open house with document day and save me 45 minutes of time, I do not know.

Also, one of the documents was a computer usage agreement. In this agreement, Junior agrees not to look at porn and bomb making instructions on Al Gore’s Internets. And she has to sign it as though it’s a contract. For a five year old. I guess we gotta introduce them to legal contracts at some point.

Next issue I had was the ridiculousness of paying for stuff. We had to pay a supply fee, buy a tote bag, and get a prepaid meal card. Now, one would think that the school would be set up to handle common transactions in a convenient manner. You’d be wrong. I have to write one check to the school. One check to the cafeteria. And one check to the PTA. I guess they don’t have an accountant or bookkeeper to sort that out. I wrote three checks today, which is more checks than I’ve written in the last five years.

Speaking of the supply fee, that really annoyed me. In addition to paying a $40 supply fee, we also had to go buy supplies like markers, pencils, hand sanitizer, and tissues. So, we buy supplies. Pay a supply fee. And, of course, I’ve paid property taxes in The City (My The City) for a while that I thought were there to partially fund the schools. But then, it gets better. You see, those supplies we bought? Yeah, they’re community supplies. They’re not Junior’s supplies. They’re for everyone. I figure it’s a good way to teach Junior about taxes. Or communism.

The tote bag seems like a scam to me. Sure, it’s only $5 but it looks like it cost $1.25 for Chinese kids to sew it together. All the kids have the same bag. Between that and the community supplies, I’m not getting a big individualist groove from the school. I think that will be a problem for Junior, who tends to take after me. Also, we were sternly warned that the bag is for school supplies only. Sorry, Sparky, I paid for it. It’s mine. I’ll use it for whatever I choose.

It also makes me wonder. I’m guessing that not all parents can readily afford these expenditures. And it might be a particularly undue burden on some of them. I guess that’s why we all pick up the tab on supplies. But what about the fees and such?

Complaints aside, her teacher and assistant seemed to be nice folks. And the school’s renovations were nice. And they have a lot of interesting items and activities in store. This is going to be fun. But I’ll still complain about it.

The Daily Times:

Maryville City Council unanimously ‘opts out’ of handguns in parks, public places

Typical nonsense about people losing their shit at little league games and other unfounded nonsense. And a new one:

Councilman Tommy Hunt said he does not want a situation where the police don’t know who the good guy is or who the bad guy is. He mentioned a case in New York where a young policeman off duty and not in uniform was chasing a thief and, because he was carrying a gun, was shot to death by other police officers.

Brilliant!

The Mrs. is not a fan of my language choices, a lot of times. But good news, dropping a few f-bombs is healthy:

Well, it turns out a potty mouth does more than earn your conversations an R rating: it actually relieves pain, according to a new study by Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University in the UK. But that’s not all: you’d never know it from what your mom told you, but there are many positive, beneficial aspects of swearing, including harmless venting and social bonding (not to mention reams of adult comedy). Bad language does a lot of good.

Fuck yeah!

Phelps on racist:

You are killing the word “racist”. Just like you killed “fascist.”

Mentioned the kerfuffle about Outdoor Wire and the blogosphere. Curt gives props to how Jim resolved the incident.

Tam seems, err, unimpressed.

I’d be curious to see the holster too.

Chicks and guns: I fell in love with a Ruger

Kids and guns: First Daisy rifles. They come in pink?

Check out Ranger Up’s second amendment T-Shirt.

A gun catalog from 1914.

Make your own paintball turret gun!

Tactical Gun Fan reviews the Colt Mustang err Sig P238.

Behold, the Boltsniper Specialized Carbine Assault Rifle – Nerf gun:

From Gun Porn

Anvil Arms has AA15 Lower Receiver (Stripped) $100.00. Buy 5 or more for $85 each!

Seen at Pete’s:

California: a penal colony with a nice coastline

I know, they’re actually talking about prisons but it sorta fits the rest of the state too.

In Knoxville, people seem to forget that trying to burst into someone’s home is a good way to have your insides introduced to the light of day.

Gun sales and concealed carry up. I kinda thought there was a lull in gun sales lately.

Nut job in PA opens fire at a health club. On the local talk radio this morning, they were reading excerpts from this guy’s blog where he had been planning this for over a year. He was angry over not having a girlfriend since the 1980s.

You usually don’t have to say that. Because we can tell. After all, under no AWB were Rugi Mini 14, Mossburg ATA 100 .270 caliber rifle, Llama Commanche III .357 revolver, Ruger Mini 30, and Saiga (though the non expert calls it a SAGA) classified as weapons that look like assault weapons. The Century rifles probably weren’t either since they tend to ship with fixed stocks and muzzle brakes.

Feds look to regulate texting while driving and caffeinated alcoholic drinks.

Caleb gets his El Presidente on.

Zogby/O’Leary Poll:

An overwhelming majority of Americans (83 percent) support concealed-carry laws, while only 11 percent oppose them. A majority of Independent voters (86 percent), Democrats (80 percent), young voters age 18-29 (83 percent), Hispanic voters (80 percent), and those who voted for President Obama (80 percent) support the right to carry a firearm.

Emphasis added because I’m glad younger people are getting it.