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TSA spokesmonkey: No one likes their Fourth Amendment violated going through a security line. But the truth of the matter is we are going to have to do it. Admitting it’s a violation and not caring. They’re going to have to for your own good.

Remember how we were promised that the powers that be would not save any images of people who went through the scanner? Well, someone saved 35,000 images, perhaps illegally.

My shocked face: The companies that make the airport nudie-scanners have high-priced lobbying teams that include former congressmen, top Capitol Hill staff, and former TSA brass, as I reported in my column yesterday.

Minneapolis airport considering private screeners instead of TSA?

A real security suggestion

Transportation secretary says cell phones are too dangerous and that devices will be installed in cars to disable them. Did I fall asleep and wake up as an extra in the movie Demolition Man?

Mystery Machinegun

1911s for noobs

Colt rail gun

A nerf gun and spraypaint

Robar custom Glock

Gay Cynic on TSA, Privacy, Freedom, & the 4th Amendment. If you like that post, you can read it at Jay’s too. Collaborative blogging could be the new thing.

A protest idea that is hardcore. I think I’ll pass.

Opt out:

Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening

Did you know that the nation’s airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints? The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners after a two-year period. Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice.

Mica, one of the authors of the original TSA bill, has recently written to the heads of more than 150 airports nationwide suggesting they opt out of TSA screening. “When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees,” Mica writes. “As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.”

Look, Sparky, you mean well. But becoming a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy is what government programs do.

Obama picked someone from Chicago:

Nearly two years into his term, President Obama on Monday finally chose a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Mr. Obama will submit the name of Andrew Taver, the special agent in charge of the bureau’s Chicago field division, to the Senate for consideration, the White House said.

Speculation there will be a confirmation fight. I hope so. We don’t need a guy from Chicago running an agency that deals with guns. We need Cletus and Bubba who like to blow stuff up.

TSA opens investigation on guy who refused to be molested:

The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan.

Retaliation. They swabbed my bag for being a smart ass.

Phelps: TSA decides to go full mafioso on the guy who, uh, did what they told him to do.

ETA: Video here.

When Obama fails, it’s because Americans are ungovernable?

I dunno. I seem to recall a bit back a health care bill and some stimulus being passed that the president wanted. And most folks said they didn’t think that was a good idea. And then the president’s cronies called those folks racist.

I think I see the problem. We clearly don’t know what’s good for us. So, it’s our fault.

Do I have that right?

Is that they’re not magic.

David looks at some rulings from ATF on pistol grip shotguns. Seems there is a case that a pistol grip shotgun is a destructive device. They can also be Any Other Weapons. Or shotguns. Regardless, this can create all kinds of problems. It’s like it’s confusing on purpose.

In NJ, being a responsible gun owner will land you in prison.

Robb Allen looks 45 ACP Ammo

There’s a new indoor flea market in The City (My The City). I scored one of these Cold Steel folders for $5.

Also, I thought it was a ‘flea’ market:

From Stuff

People say to me Hey, Uncle, what’s up with all the TSA hate? This is supposed to be a gun blog. And I say Well, I’m kinda pissed about it. And here’s some reasons why.

Oh that funny TSA, using My First Cavity Search as a computer desktop wallpaper. HAHA that’s so funny.

Is your hairstyle government approved?

I can’t imagine it’s true but if Muslim women are given different options going through the security checkpoints, someone needs to sue.

A round up from Michael.

I’ve noticed quite a bit of outrage on blogs and in the press. Yet I’ve not seen one congresscritter step up and say Hey, we need to reel these bozos at the TSA in.

Caleb Giddings Joins The Cheaper Than Dirt! Team

Robb Allen has a target grouping app.

A recurring theme for the GOP is to drop all the gay cootie hating. So says the tea party: Tea party groups push GOP to quit culture wars, focus on deficit

And at Politico, advice to avoid social issues headed up by gay conservatives.

Radley: It Is Not Illegal To Record Cops in New Haven. But You Might Still Get Arrested, Charged, and Convicted for Doing So.

In comments, Standard Mischief:

I expect rules to go in place shortly that will forbid the use of cameras and recording devices near screening areas, for the children of course.

I would not bet against.

Castle doctrine has passed.

Don’t post your felonies on the internet. That can be and has been challenged successfully but I doubt I’d try.

“sniper” rifle

More 458

How to Make Bacon Bourbon and Other Flavorful Spirits

Seen on facebook:

From Stuff

First they came for the gimps

Abolish the TSA: Like the war on (some) drugs, the negative externalities arising from the TSA are costing us dearly for no benefit.

Personally, I’ll be driving whenever it’s practical.

Rooted my phone this past weekend to get rid of a lot of the bloatware installed on it. And to make it a wireless hotspot. What other cool things can you do with a rooted Droid?

Foothills Mall is pretty close to Casa de Uncle. They have some trampolines and a little kids’ play area so I take the kids there regularly enough. I always go in the Belk entrance. Saturday, had to go there for something else and I went in the front door and saw this sign:

From Drop Box

Never seen such a sign on the other entrances I take.

Trouble is that, per TCA 39-17-1359, all entrances are to be posted.

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer

NRA ILA: DOJ Inspector General Proposes Multiple Sales Reports On Long Guns

From Oleg:

Can guns be banned so effectively that they cannot be re-created by motivated people?

Brian Micklethwait of Samizdata has an answer for a question commonly asked here.

KCMO Police Shoot Out Own Windows Firing At Backfiring Van

Pretty cool.