Creating a panic. Well, among the press and politicos mostly.

Pew has this poll on your news IQ. I, along with 2% of those taking the test, got all answers correct. Though, I confess, I made an educated guess on the obesity question. This, and I don’t watch TV news or read any newspapers regularly. I get my news from blogs and other internet sources.

The score distribution is pretty sad, kinda like Leno’s jay-walking.

How to decontaminate after getting hit with OC/Pepper spray. Mostly seems to involve sucking it up and waiting.

So reports Mike.

I’m not sure it’s the first. They’ve done something similar in the past.

Yes, obvious joke is obvious.

This may explain gun nuts’ obsession with the zombie apocalypse.

Ten year old girl shoots USPSA match

Rand Paul leans into TSA administrator Pistole.

Ruger again creates something that I sort of want even though it’s not that useful.

Turn a shotshell into a slug

The Sig50

No, really.

From the scourge of fake cosmetics.

More from Texas Gov. Perry:

The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration, lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas – and sold in that state – avoid the authority of the federal government or the repeal of the 2007 energy independence act that starts phasing out some incandescent light bulbs next year.

LOL

Interesting guns the police have taken off the street in Nassau county.

7 year olds reprimanded for playing army game.

Talk about an unfortunate name: Operation Ruby Ridge

This can’t be serious?

Wisconsin looks to become 49th state with a concealed carry provision, governor expected to sign. Tam notes the narrative:

And so, year by year and state by state, the CCW reform movement spread across this fair land. And each and every time, the local media would chant the same old litany, almost as if they were reading from a common script: “There’ll be blood in the streets! Shootouts over parking spaces!” And it kept not happening.

Libertarianism (well, more precisely fiscal conservatism and social liberalism) always polls well. But it never manages to make it’s way into political reality. Because while people, like Republicans when they’re not in power and Democrats when they’re not in power, talk a good game about freedom and fiscal policy, until it’s time to actually vote for some real change.

Perry adds anti-groping bill to special session

A presser from the TBI.

Good use for a rifle sling.

Graphic images coming soon to cigarette packs.

In Brooklyn, 33 shot this weekend.

Grassley comes out swinging.

Malice or incompetence? At this point, I’m going with both. They incompetently managed their malicious intent.

Here’s Andrew Traver giving a reporter a gun to shoot. And then intentionally conflating machine guns with weapons that look like assault rifles. Because we need a gun control propagandist heading up ATF.

Brownells to start selling ammo.

iTunes gun disassembly app rated 12+ for Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence.

Videos from the silencer shoot.

Finnish Mosin.

Despite his signature being affixed to the bottom of a questionnaire supporting gay marriage, his handlers say it wasn’t him. Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah:

Obama was being misleading when he denied that his handwriting had been on a document endorsing a state ban on the sale and possession of handguns in Illinois.

The Rare Nanny State Veto.

Yeah, I linked this earlier over ATF head resigning. But this is also notable:

Terry was killed last year north of the Mexican border in Arizona after confronting bandits believed to be preying on illegal immigrants. Two weapons found near the scene of the killing were traced to Fast and Furious.

“I was flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe it at first,” Terry’s mother, Josephine, said when she learned the ATF may have let some of the guns used in the attack slip through its fingers. Terry’s relatives said they want all those involved in his killing and who helped put the weapons in their hands to be prosecuted.

“We ask that if a government official made a wrong decision, that they admit their error and take responsibility for his or her actions,” Robert Heyer, Terry’s cousin and family spokesman, said in a hearing last week by the House panel.