Uhm, yes it is. Free people don’t like to be herded and treated like criminals.

If anyone sets one up, I pledge $100 to his legal defense.

By introducing a bill to rein in the TSA:

No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual’s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual’s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.

TSA got you down? Call in and vent tonight on BB&Guns.

The Most Powerful Serial Machine Gun

TSA screnner charged with raping 14 year old girl. Didn’t happen on the job, despite the press headline. And I’m not sure what a screnner is.

I’ve often said that some folks these days are on the wrong side of history. They will, in a few decades, be viewed like the anti-civil rights crowd of the 60s is viewed today. I’ve said this about anti-gunners, those who oppose gay marriage, and those who oppose gays in the military. It’s a function of demographics and how popular opinion is trending. I watched the Daily Show yesterday, and they said something similar.

At slate:

Europeans are starting to realize that their governments are too big. Will Americans catch on next?

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Tea Party?

Joe on the new ATF director:

Does it really matter who the head of the Bureau of Political Speech and Book Censorship is? Or how about the Bureau of Blacks, Jews, and Homosexuals? The answer is a very vigorous, “No!”

Could be a recess appointment.

I wonder how NRA not endorsing Reid will play into Reid being willing to stop this?

Portland Passes Meaningless Gun Resolution

Billy:

you could throw a smart cell-phone out the window of an airplane over Alaska, and they could probably find it, but a three hundred million dollar fighter jet full of Joint Integrated Technology Up-The-Ass can disappear.

It was a toss up between that and the title of his post.

A guy has his gun rights stripped for five years for using weapons while intoxicated. Court says:

We find the five-year firearm condition/sanction against appellant for a misdemeanor violation of R.C. 2923.15(A) [using a weapon while intoxicated] under these circumstances was unreasonable, overbroad, and an unwarranted implication of his Second Amendment rights.

Instead of out of frustration for their business model and lack of compatibility with, well, most things. Also, the gun safety is lacking.

From Liston.

The police are now carrying AR-15s during traffic stops. I’m all for police carrying rifles but at a traffic stop?

Via Mike, who emails:

But the story is *very* sloppy with its reporting. They call the rifles automatic, semi-automatic and “assault rifles”. Then they use video (uncredited and unexplained) of someone firing a fully automatic rifle! Really bad reporting!

India trains and arms school girls to fight militants.

Chavez’s hand in drug trafficking: It was a rogue act because, in 2008, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control named Rangel and two other Chavez loyalists as “Tier II Kingpins” for material support of drug trafficking.

A round up of their embarrassing behavior.

China’s airport security is more respectful of civil liberties than ours?

The first I’ve seen a member of congress come out against the TSA and it’s my congressman. It is Duncan so it’s, of course, filled with populist rage. Video here.

“A nationwide revolt is developing over the body scanners at the airports, and it should.

“Hundreds of thousands of frequent fliers who fly each week are upset about getting these frequent doses of radiation.

“Parents are upset about being forced to have their children radiated or being touched inappropriately by an unrelated adult.

Thank you, Jimmy.

The TSA forgot the First Rule of Security

Johnny Jihad’s AK gets all explody.

Customizing your 10/22.

Composite lowers and they come in pink

New holster.

Inside the vault at AAC

New Baikal 22LR

Until today, I had never heard of Four Loko. But apparently people want it banned because, uhm, people who drink alcohol have been known to do dumb things. That is one shocking revelation, right there.

Seems that caffeine and alcohol, per the FDA, should never be mixed. Ever. Are they going to ban bourbon and coke?

Related music link, because a cracka like me is going insane.

Emailed to me from NRA:

The National Rifle Association Strongly Opposes the Nomination of Andrew Traver to Head BATFE
Calls on President Obama to withdraw the nomination

Statement from Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA Institute for Legislative Action

The National Rifle Association of America strongly opposes President Obama’s nomination of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). Traver has been deeply aligned with gun control advocates and anti-gun activities. This makes him the wrong choice to lead an enforcement agency that has almost exclusive oversight and control over the firearms industry, its retailers and consumers. Further, an important nomination such as BATFE director should not be made as a “recess appointment,” in order to circumvent consent by the American people through their duly-elected U.S. Senators.

Traver served as an advisor to the International Association for Chiefs of Police’s (IACP) “Gun Violence Reduction Project,” a “partnership” with the Joyce Foundation. Both IACP and the Joyce Foundation are names synonymous with promoting a variety of gun control schemes at the federal and state levels. Most of the individuals involved in this project were prominent gun control activists and lobbyists.

The IACP report, generated with Traver’s help, called on Congress to ban thousands of commonly owned firearms by misrepresenting them as “assault weapons,” as well as calling for bans on .50 caliber rifles and widely used types of ammunition. The report also suggests that Congress should regulate gun shows out of existence and should repeal the privacy protections of the Tiahrt Amendment — all efforts strongly opposed by the NRA and its members.

Traver also participated in an extremely deceptive NBC Chicago report (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Assault-Weapons-Surge-in-City-69620227.html) in which he referred to “the growing frequency of gang members and drug dealers using heavy caliber military-type weapons” and described them as if they were machine guns: “Pull the trigger and you can mow people down.” Traver and his agents provided the reporter with a fully automatic AK-47, with which she was unable to hit the target. He then said that stray bullets are “one of the main problems with having stuff like this available to the gangs.”

As the Agent-in-Charge of Chicago’s BATFE office, Traver knows that fully automatic firearms are not available through normal retail channels–the opposite of what was implied in the report.

An agency involved in the regulation of a fundamental, individual right guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution should not be led by an individual with a demonstrated hostility to that freedom. For that reason, the NRA strongly opposes Andrew Traver to head the BATFE and urges President Obama to withdraw this ill-advised nomination.

Amarillo.com: “As the TSA agent was frisking plaintiff, the agent pulled the plaintiff’s blouse completely down, exposing plaintiffs’ breasts to everyone in the area,” the lawsuit said. “As would be expected, plaintiff was extremely embarrassed and humiliated.”

And: The suit also claims that other TSA employees continued to joke and laugh about the incident for an extended period of time.

Penn Gillette calls the cops on airport security.

Flame suit on

From the Robar custom piece linked earlier:

With the Glock platform pistol set to surpass the M1911 as the most prevalent pistol in circulation, it is only natural that an entire aftermarket and custom industry surrounds the design.

On no he di’nt

David:

Testimony in the case of US v ONE HISTORIC ARMS MACHINE GUN revealed there are untold numbers of unregistered machine guns currently owned by Americans that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives not only knows about, but actually created the conditions whereby this situation exists.

Or Who is Andrew Traver?

The Truth about guns is not a fan. And notes that the Obama movie coincided with a Brady Campaign press release. He also has ties to anti-gun people and is not a fan of you owning semi-automatic rifles.

A disaster waiting to happen? And getting props from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership.

A look at Traver’s career, by John who totally called it.

David Hardy notes that he is a field guy rather than HQ bureaucrat.

Glenn: Well, Chicago has been at the forefront of Second Amendment infringement. Heh.

Update: Jesse Jackson Jr., sponsor of gun control bills, is a fan.

Some issues with the service. They have responded, reports Richard.

Massachusetts most violent state in Northeast

Liston did