Started as a gag
Now, I cannot help myself
Haiku really sucks

Colonel Robert Charette Jr.:

We’ve not had a lot of success with tactical wind

And political beliefs that are pro-gun indicate certain behavior?

Study says gun permits tied to income, political beliefs. I am shocked..

Via Robb, who says it’s unpossible.

I don’t care if you give it a name like “big boy rules”, I am not taking a training class where bullets are zipping by me.

It’s often shocking to my more urban friends who live in larger cities that we crackers have to actually pay for fire protection and emergency services. We pay an annual fee of a few hundred bucks (i think) to the rescue squad. In exchange for that fee, they agree to come put my house out if it catches fire. Or to give me an ambulance ride if I need one. Some people in The City (My The City) opt to not pay that fee. So, when the fire truck comes and puts their house out, they later get a bill in the mail that I am told is tens of thousands of dollars. Being a gambling man, that’s a no brainer. You pay the fee merely because the loss is something that matters to you. Just like insurance, which is legal gambling.

Now, an interesting situation occurred in a TN town with a similar structure. The fire department showed up and didn’t put the house out because the man did not pay the $75 fee. His neighbor did and they put the fire out in the neighbor’s yard. I find that a bit strange. See, in our town, they’ll put the house out but will send you a sizeable bill for it. The fire department in this case is actually one from another city, since the county doesn’t actually have a fire department (also not uncommon here). And the homeowner offered to pay whatever it took but they didn’t put the fire out. I do find it odd that the fire department would not simply contract with the guy to put the fire out and then bill him later. I mean, that’s a guaranteed customer right there. But, being government employees, I guess that’s not something that occurs to the City of Fulton Fire Department.

When I was a kid, there was a barn fire up the street. Where we lived was not covered by fire protection and, IIRC, there was a lot of fighting between the city and county about whose responsibility our stretch of road was. While they argued about it, the all volunteer fire department of New Market, Tennessee drove further than the county or city fire department would have had to and came to put the fire out.

More discussion at the VC.

A self-aiming sniper rifle?

Via Breda, who wonders what the fun in that is.

State gun activist in the NYT. It’s actually a bit funny to me that the best quote they get for the anti-gun side is full of hysteria and falsity:

It opens the door to trouble. It’s giving you the right to be Wyatt Earp.

Yeah, it’s right there in the law. Subsection 13.a. mentions the right to be Wyatt Earp shall not be infringed.

Here’s the website. Haslam gets a B-?

Asked what essential apps to get for an iPad:

Make sure to install Flash when you first get it otherwise about 80% of the websites you visit will have something you can’t view.

You can install Flash from your PC pretty easily, just hook up your USB cord to the iPad and transfer the files over.

I laughed.

Also, the 10 inch tablet from Archos that runs Android is due out later this month.

TD tells you like it is.

In other news, I need to stop reading about food early in the morning.

Yeah, you heard me.

headphones made from 9mm casings (not bullets like the geek blog says).

Sign seen at the place we went horseback riding:

From Misc

It’s October. I love the ammo pic.

Senator Tester doesn’t like the Korean Garand situation:

Senator Jon Tester is introducing legislation to allow American-made guns that were given or sold to a foreign government to be re-imported and sold in the U.S.

Tester’s Collectible Firearms Protection Act comes days after he pushed the U.S. State Department to reconsider a decision denying the proposed sale of surplus M1 Carbines and Garand rifles from South Korea to qualified American buyers. Many collectors consider the firearms antiques.

Under Tester’s new bill, firearms that are lawfully possessed by a foreign government—and that are more than 50 years old and considered antiques or relics—may be re-imported to properly licensed groups and sold without written permission from the U.S. Departments of State or Defense.

Hey, I know that gun. And that one (note: that is actually a G30 not a 27).

300BLK Uppers

Vampire gun

A Smith and a Para

Helluva collection

Obama is just doing it more. Rather like most issues, actually.

These grenades they’re killing people with in Mexico.

Yobs out of control
England’s dumb gun control laws
Are kinda scoffed at

Also, it occurred to me that the fantasy vigilante movie theme always seems to occur in places where there’s a lot of gun laws. I mean, there’s never been a movie about the vigilante justice in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Then it occurred to me that there’s probably not been a movie set in Kennesaw, Georgia.

1,000 words.

In The City (My The City) the local .gov wanted to build a bridge for our green belt. But they couldn’t afford it. But then STIMULUS!!!! happened. So, now they’ve built the bridge. They put it near some recovery.gov signs. And it’s hideously ugly. Seriously, who picks red?

In Tennessee, there is a law that states the local chief law enforcement must, within 15 days, sign off on paperwork for NFA weapons. There was a case in 2007 where a sheriff refused to sign this paperwork.

This is happening again. Everyone’s favorite local gun guy Leonard Embody (who took a jaunt through a park with an AK pistol, sued the state for taking his carry license, and had a Belle Meade law overturned) filled out all the paperwork and jumped through all the appropriate hoops to purchase a suppressor. But Williamson County Sheriff Jeff Long refused to give the forms law enforcement sign off. Embody is suing. He emailed me some court documents. And has posted them here. Leonard emails that the sheriff is trying to have the chancellor declare the law unconstitutional and the Attorney general is most likely in agreement due to his recent opinion on the subject. See page 19. Looks like the AG is stating that the certification is false.

Some discussion at this subguns thread, with concern that this could lead to bad case law.

This will be an interesting case to watch.

You know, despite my problems with Embody’s methodology, he’s quite effective.

The ridiculous notion that allowing concealed carry in a restaurant creates an unsafe workplace was shot down by the DOL. I found this bit odd:

“This should not be con sid ered a prece dent,” Hentschel said. “Each guns-in-bars com plaint will be ana lyzed separately.”

I guess they want to keep hearing complaints?

The state needs revenue and wants to charge $500 for a license to carry. But the bill seems to be shall issue.

From PDB. There’s always the next big cartridge that’s going to replace the 5.56. But it doesn’t happen. And won’t until either a significant number of law enforcement agencies or the military switch.

Joe and Sebastian on why the Mexican gun canard. And:

You’d think if this were such a huge problem, you’d be able to find at least one stash of firearms being smuggled, let alone being able to find a single gun.

You would think that. Instead, we can find evidence of raids on police armories.

Pics and video of a full auto 50

Holster or man-purse?

Holster bling for the ladies.

230 grain 45ACP from a Glock 30.

In California.