Some idiot named Eric Heyl says that NRA’s efforts at getting women involved in shooting are misguided because women should be in the kitchen making me a sammich. No, really. He also says the industry isn’t going to be successful in drawing them and actually uses the phrase tap that.

Some of the girly gun bloggers take him to task for being a sexist asshat. This must be a shock to him since you girls shouldn’t be blogging about guns. But I digress.

Other than being misogynistic moron, he also happens to be wrong and misleading in his premise. Saying that NRA’s push to involve women is failing because only 20% show at the convention is a stupid measure. And anyone with access to google could have figured out pretty quickly that women are the fastest growing gun owning demographic.

* Yeah, that’s right. I used the word chicks when talking about sexism.

Boom

Randi Rogers wins USPSA limited.

Tori Nonaka won seven of 12 stages on her way to winning the Ladies Production division title

Jessie Abbate Defends USPSA Area 6 Open Title

NRA Blog has some pics from one of the challenges on the show Top Shot. In that first pic there, that does not look safe. Look on the ground. There are people down there. They are not down range but that guy doing his Mission Impossible impression could easily cover them. No thanks.

David Olofson has been released from prison.

I think John and Bob may have made up.

The rifle umbrella. What could possibly go wrong?

Issa threatens ATF head with contempt citation.

Shooting Illustrated has a look.

Yeah, pretty much.

Weerd in comments:

Prohibition just leads to a technology war.

Semi Auto Bren

Short shotty

I love this pic.

At about 1:05:

Wired:

The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.

After all, a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy unless they’re getting an abortion.

In other news, I’m going to start marketing a line of GPS device locators.

Looks pretty cool. Not sure how useful it is.

Three reasons to legalize pot now.

I have a pretty odd name. But 19 of the worst human names in history

On 308 and 380 ammo

Seen at Joe’s:

Vice says more than 350 lawsuits have been filed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v Heller in 2008 that the Second Amendment allows an individual to possess a gun in his or her home for self-defense.

Vice says none of the previous suits has been successful because courts don’t want guns going to dangerous people.

He’s never heard of Otis McDonald (and a few other cases). Lying or stupid?

In a follow up to this, reader Tony says maybe he’s evolving:

It is true that with far stricter gun laws, Cho Seung Hui might have had a harder time getting the weapons and ammunition needed to kill so relentlessly. Nonetheless, we should have no illusions about what laws can do. There are other ways to kill in large numbers, as Timothy McVeigh demonstrated. Determined killers will obtain guns no matter how strict the laws. And stricter controls could also keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens using them in self-defense. The psychotic mass murder is rare; the armed household burglary is not.

I guess that is progress from someone who once advocated a total ban on gun ownership and confiscation.

Taunting a police dog.

Man tried to rob store with game remote

Over at the American Rifleman.

Police using forensic cellphone analyzers to snoop in drivers’ cellphones during routine traffic stops.

Not that I’d have a need, but mine can be wiped pretty quick. And remotely, if need be. More from Joe.

A look at how a US attorney in Manhattan is turning misdemeanor crimes into felonies. Those involved in this online poker deal are looking at decades in prison. Puritanical busybodies.

Via John.

Heh: Financial columnists seem to be paying attention to gun companies these days, despite assurances from Josh Sugarmann the industry has been in decline.

The myth of the declining gun industry. Meanwhile, the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence is pushing a report saying that governments can get all those gun regs they want by refusing to buy police weapons from manufacturers who do not comply. Trouble is, the law enforcement market is pretty small.

In Massachusetts, police respond to a man with a gun at the mall. Turns out, he had an umbrella.

That’s the second time in about a month that people lost their minds over an umbrella. Sad.

Rail gun goes through steel plate at 7km.