Archive for September, 2009

September 24, 2009

Gun sales

Yesterday’s Yahoo front page had this article on the great ammo drought. Seems to me ammo is getting easier to find these days.

Also, a look at gun sales after Obama’s election.

Mayors Against Guns

Yup:

A substantial number of member of the coalition have been indicted in recent months, on felony charges. Here in the US, conviction of felony means the immediate loss of both the right to vote and the right to own a gun for the rest of one’s life. This is an organization that espouses doing away with “illegal guns”, yet a surprising number of their members have made choices in their lives that have set themselves on the path to being disenfranchised from ever owning a gun.

September 23, 2009

Nothing new

Jeff Woods bring us July’s news, today.

Idiots with guns

Major case of teh st00pid breaks out at about 7:45:

Idiots.

Update: Video yanked.

Parks, Knoxville, and the Gov. Race

Knoxville banned the law-abiding from going armed in their parks. And that ban will stand. Now, only criminals will be armed there. No surprise there. But this is a bit interesting:

Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, who’s seeking the Republican nomination for governor, didn’t vote but gave the vote his support, saying the intersection of greenways and gun-free zones such as schools would make repealing the ban impractical.

“I think the best course of action would be to keep the ordinance we have,” he said.

This could be an issue for Haslam later.

When everyone becomes a libertarian

Katherine Mangu-Ward:

I’m the average American: Take 30 percent of my paycheck and I’ll shrug. Nationalize the car companies and I’ll change the channel to cartoons. Add 10 cents to the cost of my Cherry Coke and, so help me God, I will start a revolution.

It doesn’t make a lick of sense, but that’s the way people are. Tea parties notwithstanding, trans fat regulations, smoking rules, parental advisory stickers, and light bulb bans have long been some of the best recruitment tools libertarians have.

Tennessee Gun Bills In The Works

First, let’s get this one out of the way. the Commercial Squeal:

Four months after the adjournment of a state legislative session dominated by gun bills

Ah, hyperbole. There were, what, four or five gun bills out of how many bills? Anyway, this isn’t a post about that, it’s a post about this:

Lawmakers heard testimony on a bill to allow people with handgun-carry permits to keep their guns in their locked vehicles on their workplace’s parking lots regardless of their employer’s policy on the issue. Current law allows employers to ban weapons from all their property, including parking lots.

The Rep asks whose rights are superior?

On one hand, a property owner can decide what otherwise lawful activities they allow on their property, which is also why I oppose smoking bans and such. On the other hand, my car is my property and their parking lot is available to the public.

Not a bill I’m particularly excited about.

An event

Roger Abramson on drugs.

Worth the paper they’re written on

You know what will protect women? Restraining orders that are easier to get. Because that’s the problem. They were hard to get before.

Free Speech

Under threat when you disagree with the establishment.

Cool iPhone Application

Scope leveling.

They’re not anti-gun, honest

A chart comparing Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Brady Campaign.

Guns and insurance

Assault and battery is not an accident. A case for CCW insurance.

Why All Non-Liberals Are Stupid Racists

Same reason all gun owners are violent rednecks with something to prove? Well, that’s my theory. Here’s Dadvocates.

22LR mania

Michael Bane on 10/22s, AR-15s, and hybrids of the two.

They still rock

Living Colour!

Quote of the Day

David Hardy at 30,000 feet:

Bill Clinton is no longer NRA’s greatest recruiter. Obama has taken his title, and pushed membership back over four million again. It took the Brady Act, the AW ban, Lautenberg, and lots of lesser statutes, not to mention Waco, for Clinton to win the status, and Obama’s won it without lifting a legislative finger.

Chicks and guns

New shooter report!

WECSOG

Og makes his own holster. Cool.

Gun Porn

Snubbie show down

Pics from AAC’s silencer shoot here and here.

NPSC’s prize table. Also, NRABlog has been doing a fantastic job covering shooting events!

Smart

Burglar leaves his Facebook page on victim’s computer

More Caliber Wars

Is 9mm really less effective than .45 ACP?

Nordyke Tomorrow

Says Derek: I’m going to witness history. Where are you going to be?

He also has details on where to meet.

GBR

Now, a slideshow.

September 22, 2009

Obama Is Not Our Nation’s Black Comedian

Long ago, I saw this black comedian’s stand up routine. I forgot who it was. But one of the funnier bits of his show was when he talked about how it was unusual being a black guy in a large group of white people. And if he was out with a large group of white people when another black guy did or said something stupid, all the white people would look at him as if to say what are you going to do about that? Well, let’s stop doing that to Barack Obama. Asking him about Kanye West or calling the country Obama’s America after a bunch of black kids beat up a white kid as if he can do something about it is just stupid. He’s not just president of black people, you know.

More Polls

US is a pro-gun nation.

Labor

Someone clipped the wife’s car in a parking lot and took off her passenger side mirror. That’s her story, and she’s sticking to it.

Anyway, she called up Honda and said she needed a new mirror. They were happy to do so for $300. Instead, we ordered one for $30, paid $15 to ship it and I put it on myself in about 30 minutes. You really can Google up directions for almost anything.

The Day the SWAT Team Came Crashing Through My Door

A good read:

What confounds me is the unmitigated refusal of county leaders to challenge law enforcement and to demand better — as if civil rights are somehow rendered secondary by the war on drugs.

Well, today, they are. That should be changed.

Those crazies are out to get us

Paranoia about paranoiacs.

What media bias?

Bitter is tracking Mayors Against Gun press coverage.

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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