S&W Nightguard

Tactical revolver shotgun

Gun ring

Frankenmosin

$8K for a sig

The family and some friends went to The Outback Steakhouse a bit back. Junior and her friend both had to go to the bathroom. And then my son did too. So I head to the restroom area with the kids and, of course, the girls beat me there. I arrive to find them staring at the two bathrooms. See, at Outback, the restrooms are not labeled men and women as the girls are accustomed to reading. They are labeled Blokes and Sheilas and the girls had no idea what that meant. I point them in the right direction and Junior’s friend looks at me and says Is that Spanish?

Heh.

I’ve been enjoying the show The Walking Dead. It’s decent for TV and it gets points for having zombies. JT looks at whatever zombie archetype the ‘geeks’ in this show are. Based on what I’ve seen, the perfect zombie gun in the show would be a suppressed Ruger 10/22. They go down with a head shot and they are attracted by gun shots. So suppressors would be quite handy. Remember that next time you fill out a form 1 for a suppressor.

Poor people shouldn’t own guns.

Marko on the lies in the press.

So I’m catching up on my blog reading when I notice that just about everyone is mad at the TSA. Which was quite a coincidence because I was pissed off at them too. After all, they swabbed me for being a smart ass.

Seems TSA wants you to consent to either going through a scanner that will show your junk to someone who you hope, depending on preference, is or is not a pervert; or fondle your junk. Seems they haven’t quite gotten the procedure worked out but are definitely discouraging folks from opting out of having their nekkid bodies looked. And some are fighting it.

So, I’m sitting here pondering exactly how such a stupid policy gets enacted in the land of the free. I don’t remember a law being passed or any thing like that. I figure it’s just some dumb bureaucratic decision that no one put thought into.

Trying to figure out a way to combat this stupid policy that is nothing but a show and a pain in the ass, I thought maybe we could just get everyone to quit flying. But that’s not going to work. People have things to do. And then I thought if everyone opted out of the scan and, then, when the TSA agent tried to fondle them, they punched the TSA agent in the nose that might help. Both those plans rely on lots of people participating. You see, if I stopped flying, no one would notice. If everyone did, then that sends a strong message. Also, if I started punching TSA agents in the nose, I’d go to jail. But if everyone did it, well, we might still go to jail but the message would be sent.

Then it hit me. I’m sitting here planning to stop traveling and contemplating advocating violence against bureaucrats. The terrorists have won.

Correction: From Tango, in comments:

I want to correct you. The terrorists have beaten our bureaucrats. They haven’t beaten us.

Indeed. We are the ones stopping terrorists on planes. Not the TSA.

Really? I hear they’re tasty.

This story is all kinds of goofed up. But this part jumped out at me:

Ralph Troutman: “They threatened to take me to jail. Long story short, I didn’t go to jail they gave me an incident report, but they took my weapons and said they needed them for ballistic testing.”

Ralph was told the tests would take three months to make sure the guns were never used in a crime, and then if he wanted the guns back, he would have to go to court to get them.

So police contend that they can take your gun and just ‘check’ and make sure it wasn’t used in a crime? That’s dubious from both a constitutional perspective and a scientific one. I don’t know that such a test could work.

SAF’s 2011 Gun Rights Conference will be in Chicago. Last one was in San Fran. While I respect and appreciate what they’re doing there and I think it takes some balls, I avoid oppressive regimes. And I definitely avoid spending money in them.

OC events in five states

Carry permit holder shoots other carry permit holder.

In comments, Rustmeister nails it:

One of the drawbacks of carry becoming more mainstream is it will become a more representative cross section of society.

I hope not. After all, CCW holders tend to be more law-abiding than even the police.

Awesome pic.

The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t killed us, you may have noticed.

Change!

Pink Kahr

Pink LCP

Bill Clinton fought to disarm Americans. Be has no problem with his people carrying guns:

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has granted the gun ban application of former United States President William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton.

A crossbreed holster modification.

Another member of mayors against guns on trial. This one for domestic abuse.

Gun people think differently. More importantly, it seems non-gun people don’t think at all.

Don’t ya think?

Details here.

Retention v. speed? I don’t open carry often so I err on the side of speed. When I do open carry, I always have a back up gun.

Alan Gura has been busy. He’s called out the NY AG’s office on the permitting case. And an update in the challenge to NC’s state of emergency laws.

Trijicon equipped Glock

Barrett MRAD

The alleged problems with Glocks

Have an everything bagel and lose your child.

From Oleg.

Alan:

If you need a grief counselor because you lost an election then perhaps politics isn’t your thing. Maybe you can coach those soccer games where everyone wins?

Which leads to this from Tam:

Seriously, is there any wine as sweet as the tears of a hippie?

It sucked. But I am all better now.

A debate I’ve had with some folks before centers on how folks of a libertarian bent lack moral conviction or are too tolerant of evil. Turns out, we’re quite moral and we have science to prove it. More from Ron Bailey. I think that what frustrates the average conservative or liberal about us crazy libertarians is that we have a:

stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle and correspondingly weaker endorsement of other moral principles

they conclude:

Libertarians may fear that the moral concerns typically endorsed by liberals or conservatives are claims that can be used to trample upon individual rights—libertarians’ sacred value. Clearly, libertarians are not amoral. Rather, standard morality scales do a poor job of measuring their one central and overriding moral commitment.

And we’re apparently autistic. Or have Asperger’s, which we knew already.

Sure, it’s written in pyschobabble, which we also have no tolerance for, but it’s entertaining.

Used by the allies.