I forget. Do we celebrate 10/10 by punching hippies or commies?

CNBC Investigates. Looks like your typical journalism hit piece teaser to me.

Apparently, some thing in wordpress thinks I am spam. I’ve left a few comments at other blogs and none of them show. And they’re all wordpress blogs. Oh well.

Sarah:

And thus the conservative/libertarian ideology. When you recognize that everyone has a tendency to evil, you resist the notion of concentrated coercive power for any group. When you think only the other guy is evil, it becomes your mandate to have all of the coercive power for your group only.

President exaggerating a terrorist threat for political gain.

During the assault weapons ban, I was much more inclined to clean and maintain my AR mags. If one malfunctioned, I would try to determine the problem. And would even bend the feedlips some with a pair of pliers and that usually worked. Or any other various fixes, like replacing follower and springs. But that was back when they were expensive and not necessarily reliable when you found one, since they were all used and probably beat up. Now that you can get good magazines for $10 each, I’m more inclined to toss a finicky magazine in the bottom of the ammo vault and forget about it.

Magazines are disposable again.

Leonard Embody has dropped his appeal so that his lawsuit can go forward.

The ABA supports microstamping law. Why wouldn’t they? Bad law increases opportunity for legal fees.

Sean:

Statistically, 25 of the 81 “gun deaths” per day, just over 30%, are white men over 40. Nearly 1/3rd of all people who die due to gunfire are white men over 40 who commit suicide.

Couple years back, I cancelled a credit card I had with Citi for 17 years over their anti-gun policies. Now, they’re at it again:

A letter, dated September 30, 2010, was received October 4. It confirmed that the “account was opened in error . . .” going on to say, “Our policy restricts us from lending to businesses in your industry.” Oddly, a disclaimer appears at the base of the letter, saying that federal law prohibits discrimination in lending “on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age; because all or part of the applicant’s income derives from any public assistance program . . .” The letter was from Home Depot Credit Services, Citibank (South Dakota), N.A., Creditor.

Warne Scope Mounts makes scope mounts and associated hardware. They don’t make firearms, ammunition, magazines, barrels, bolts, sling swivels, springs or anything else. Founded in 1991, Warne employs approximately 50 people who are involved in manufacture and shipping of the several hundred thousand mount sets that are sold per year. A considerable part of their business is OEM for many of the top industry rifle and scope companies.

Mr. C. that is.

Man finds tracking device on his car. Removes it, takes pics of it and shows it to his facebook friends. FBI shows up wanting their toy back. All without a warrant.

Personally, I would have had more fun with the gizmo.

WSJ:

Mr. Barone says the historical parallel might no longer be 1994, when the GOP gained 54 House seats, but instead 1894, when Republicans gained more than 100 House seats in the middle of the economic downturn that engulfed Democratic President Grover Cleveland.

And classy:

A Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize the economy, President Obama warned Wednesday.

American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress

Heh.

No sugary drinks for those on food stamps.

1911s

More 1911s

And we hate you

308 AR

Some Paras

One of these:

From Gun Porn

Tactilite T2 Magazine Fed .50 Cal.

A zombie movie from the perspective of the zombies.

At NRA’s National Firearms Museum.

Heckler & Koch UMP 45 made from paper. And you can download the pattern.

Make shot glasses from ice.

Got Junior out of the shower and then put The Second in the tub. I was sitting around when my wife walks in and says: You need to talk to your son. He has a question about his balls.

I sat there for a moment pondering what exactly a four year old could ask about his junk. And I settled on things like: What are they for? Why are they fun to play with? Why does it hurt when I get hit in them?

You know, typical ball stuff. Because, frankly, I had no idea what he was about to ask.

I walk in to the bathroom and he’s in the tub checking himself out. And I say Your mom said you had a question about your dudes? Then, he does something that if I did would cause me to lose the ability to walk for a few minutes. With a firm grip, he asks me Why they have “cracks” in them? I tell him that those are veins and blood vessels. I show him that he has the same on his arms. And explain blood flow as best I can to a four year old. He seems satisfied with that answer.

Then he asks why they feel like grapes.

I have no idea.

With kids, you mentally prepare for something, and it never goes the way you prepare for.

Nice.

Round up of gun giveaways.

That’s pretty much the only reason I need to take a class.

There’s a bit of debate on training classes and their relative effectiveness going on in the gun blogs:

Words can kill
Not all training is good training
Some good discussion here but, for the record, “need” has nothing to do with it.

Seems to me that everyone is right. A training class is not the end all be all of preparedness. Nor does anyone have any sort of moral obligation to take one. And not taking a training class is not justification for taking rights away. Ever. But you will probably learn something new. And you will get practice. And you likely will practice something that you don’t really do in your ordinary range sessions. And you will have fun. And, at the end of the day, you’re playing a game. And those are good things. But you’re not going to transform into an uber-cool, suburban operator with a tactical mini-van.

Take the class, if you feel like it. Have fun. You might learn something.

And, for the record, under no circumstance will I ever take a class that has me standing in front of the line of fire. That increases my chances of getting shot from roughly zero to something greater than zero. An instructor teaching a class, even the best instructor in the world, is always limited by his dumbest student. No thanks. “Big boys” make “big boy” decisions like that.

Once more, rumors of an iPhone for Verizon. The time for that, guys, was three years ago. That is why Android phones have been outselling iPhones.

I would have happily bought an iPhone. Years ago.

Three law enforcement agencies and a helicopter search to locate a stolen droid phone. And the thief gets away. I just spend the extra $3 a month for the insurance.

If only there was another way to locate smart phones?

TickerGuy says that banks are unlawfully paying people to break into your home prior to foreclosure. The question is could they lawfully be met with deadly force?

Over at SIH.