More of the same name people. Really, it’s almost sad how far they’ve fallen. But at least their current rhetoric matches their true intent.

FedEx driver who joked about delivering a bomb at a military base charged with a felony.

The Rail Master Laser, a universal and less expensive laser for weapons.

A day by day account, keep scrolling.

After yesterday’s flashlight blogging, some recommended the 4Sevens Preon 2. Looks to have the same features but about half the price.

Talking about getting a gun in DC.

Heh.

The Violence Policy Center on blacks and guns

Yeah, pretty much.

Insult to injury.

Cops taser and beat man who broke no law. Judge awards damages for pain and suffering of $1.

The governor notes our legislature spends too much time worrying about gay cooties.

In VA, panel moves to remove one gun a month restriction.

Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel…for Criticizing the Police

In FL, a bill to allow soldiers, regardless of age, to get carry permits. But anti-gunners want to disarm soldiers.

Next, they may let 19 year old combat veterans buy beer.

Number crunching

Awesome

Sporterized M1903-A3

Trio

Bersa BP9

Magpul Lower

Ithaca makes an AR.

From SHOT: VLTOR

CMP garand

TSA said Rand Paul was “irate” in TSA dust up. But then video came out.

In NY, former prosecutor charged after firing gun, holding prankster at gun point.

Guess whose giving money to Obama? Wall Street.

Geez, didn’t realize how many people used my blogroll.

Update: First round down. More later. That kinda cuts into actual, you know, blogging.

Head to Brownells SHOT Show Featured Products page and you can use offer code “DMT” to get $20 off orders of $200 or more.

In Knoxville, police officers will not be charged in road rage incident. Seems you can drive a like a moron and flip people off and when they flip you off, you just pull them over and draw a gun on them.

WizardPC has a bleg for an every day carry light.

Shooting Illustrated has a review of the Brite Strike EPLI (Executive Precision Lighting Instrument). I’m interested in this one for a few reasons:

It’s small.

They out put of 160 lumens on high is pretty darn good.

And, most importantly, it takes AAA batteries and not the CR123 or other oddball and harder to find batteries. That is, it takes batteries I have laying around the house.

Anyone try one?

The anti-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) are a bit upset that Obama didn’t bring up gun control in the State of the Union. Well, it’s not politically advantageous to side with losers and those who are on the wrong side of history.

Some interesting goings on in that little world. Some background: a post on who should be credentialed and lamenting the going of print magazines. Some more stuff has popped up that I found interesting. The trouble with blogs:

Bloggers are really good at ‘negative’ advertising and exercising that kind of power, but they have yet to master the ‘positive’ advertising in a meaningful way with the result being the industry doesn’t want to alienate bloggers in any way, shape or form, but a good number of the manufacturers and print journalism (because they are frequently, if not constantly, being approached by ‘bloggers’ wanting to become print writers) really, really wish they would just go away.

This is indeed true. Ask Zumbo or HS Precision. The online community can stir up an epic shit storm in about 2 hours that results in firings, boycotts, and everything else. But there’s not a lot of positive or atta boys that come from blogs that get much attention. Sure, I do the occasional review or good job to some company doing right but that doesn’t generate as much buzz as finger wagging.

And, more recently, allegations that American Rifleman says they don’t do negative reviews. And allegations that NSSF, at Glock’s demand, rescinded the press credentials for a reporter who wrote a less than flattering book about the company. Blogs can bring the negative.

But how can the positive have a similar effect? Or can it? Do people just prefer the muckraking and not focus on the good things reported? Will sensationalism continue to rule the day?

Interesting time for gun media all around.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, after a spate of rapes in the community, encouraged women to get a handgun carry permit and fight back. Good for him. However, Councilman Michael Brown (D-ranged) wants him to stop doing that because:

I would say to continue to advocate for the instrumentalities of violence is contrary to a large group of people in this community,” Brown said during Monday’s meeting. “The fact that you see me standing up here, I represent that segment of this community, the community that often times you will find yourself dealing with in a negative manner.

Unless you’re saying you represent rapists, I’m kind of at a loss here. That or you’re a moron. Guns are not “instrumentalities of violence”, they are tools for stopping violence.

Anti-gun activist Josh Sugarmann: Disarm military personnel.

Some times the antis step so far out of the mainstream it’s funny.

Last month, we learned that Brittingham was out at Advanced Armament Corp, this after his lovely wife had been reportedly let go. Now, it’s reported that Freedom Group has fired the Operations Manager and will move production to New York.

Also of note, their blog hasn’t been updated in a couple of weeks.

Fat Chef, a reality show dealing with morbidly obese food experts.