In New Zealand, kids as young as four are getting gun licenses as part of being educated and learning gun safety:

Four-year-old preschooler Lucy Coup has already earned her own gun licence.

Like the other children at her Auckland kindergarten, and in childcare centres around New Zealand, the youngster hangs the laminated licence from a string around her neck when she plays with her toy gun – but she must shoot at the target.

“We don’t shoot people, because it might hurt them,” Lucy says firmly.

Instead of banning gun play, many early education centres are adopting a policy that sees children earn a “gun licence” once they brush up on the dangers.

The company you keep, Mayor Bloomberg.

NSSF is making a push to educate legislators on the money involved in guns.

Like I said, that claim is overstated. Glock is here to stay. But the follow up to yesterday’s piece is here. Glock does one thing and they do it well. And, so far, that’s all they seem to want to do. And if you want that one thing (a moderately priced, reliable handgun that requires little maintenance and still goes bang every time) then it’s still a great choice.

I will note that Richard is quite correct on one key thing: Glock has missed a lot of opportunities and these seem to come from failing to take the US market seriously. In the 1990s, a single stack 9mm Glock would have been fantastic. My understanding is that to get the engineers to make the single stack 45 was hard enough.

In Hawaii:

The attorney general’s office said Monday it processed 12,801 applications in 2010, up 1.5 percent from the previous record high of 12,606 reached the year before.

Hawaii permit applications have nearly doubled since 2000, while the number of registered firearms has surged more than 130 percent.

Hawaii has some pretty strict gun laws too.

Radley: Armed, Accused Drug Dealer Politely Arrested and Taken Into Custody

In the anti-gun movement.

8 once-amazing sci-fi devices now inferior to real-life gadgets

Now look, Huckleberry, you will not force me at gun point to listen to some guy give a sermon.

A look, at Shooting Illustrated.

Scary chart.

City employees exempt from red light cameras.

A prediction of the outcome.

LMT LM308MWS

Galco King Tuck

Crystal guns

Suppressed FNP45.

Modular ambidextrous upper from CMMG.

Rock Island 9mm 1911

Medical Marijuana Users Fight For Gun Rights. Interesting story from NPR no less:

Willis is not only packing a concealed handgun permit in her wallet, she also has a medical marijuana card. That combination has led the local sheriff to try to take her gun permit away.

Also, your form 4473 asks you to affirm you’re not an illegal user of drugs. Via SIH.

And in Ohio, a judge rules that those charged with misdemeanor drug offenses do not lose their right to arms.

Or, you know, drives them off: Oregon cops hope classical music deters loiterers

And it gets a review at GizMag.

Watch it. Buy it. Build it. I like this new line from Brownells. It satisfies my urge to tinker.

Of Jerry Miculek : Practical Rifle.

I’m a fan myself.

Howard Nemerov: UN Ignores Its Own Data to Promote Gun Ban

Glock Beavertail Prototype Overview for the Gen4.

Discussion over at GunsForSale. Hardly, I think. You still hear often about their record sales. Glocks are here to stay. Well, the Generation 3s are. Not so sure about the Gen4 yet.

Positive press coverage of the AK?

Little suppressor

Ammo as art. More here.

A visual of the problem with the budget.

Dear Harry,

I’ve already looked into the matter for you and decided that it’s freedom of expression.

There, I saved you some time, pomp, money, and maybe you from looking like a jackass.

-Me.

PS Really, Koran burning caused that? Nothing to do with dropping bombs on another Muslim country?

Brannon Denning and Glenn Reynolds have a paper on possible outcomes.

His subpoena to ATF asking about them allowing guns into Mexico.

Speaking of ATF, Michelle Malkin says it’s a terrible idea to put an anti-gun politician from Chicago in charge of the agency. Well, yeah.

Masslive:

Two police officers, training on patrol rifles at the Smith & Wesson shooting range in Springfield, suffered injuries Wednesday morning when one of the firearms exploded.

“For one reason or another the weapon had a failure, we really haven’t determined the cause yet,” said Sgt. Patrick Manley. “A round exploded in the chamber and caused the weapon to blow to pieces…It just blew up.”

When this happens, my first thought is hey, reloads. But I doubt the police roll their own. S&W says it’s not a problem with the gun which may mean ammo was the culprit.

And when the police have them, the go from being assault weapons to patrol rifles.