It’s easy, if you try.

Houston decided not to let people know where the gun shows where and that was overturned.

It was put out, assumed to be real, then revealed to be from a satire site. So, this is interesting. Via Kevin.

The urge to act on gun control

Market Daily News:

. . . the Department of Homeland Security has awarded a company a contract worth over $45,000 dollars to provide the DHS with 200,000 more rounds of bullets.

This new purchase adds to the staggering figure of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition already secured by the DHS over the last 9 months alone.

A list

Tastes like chicken

Lots of people sign up to shoot pythons in the everglades.

With this cheat sheet.

The Journal News released the names of gun owners, and that is endangering the lives of prison guards:

Law enforcement officials from a New York region where a local paper published a map identifying gun owners say prisoners are using the information to intimidate guards.

Also, it makes criminals’ lives easier.

Colt Commander

A girl clan shoots

I wonder why? Also:

“The public owns the data,” he said. “On the other hand I’m not so sure we should go publish everybody’s tax return…or everybody’s psychiatric records if they have dealings with a public hospital. Do we really want that?”

Well, some of the proposed changes to NICS entail gathering mental health records. Just sayin’

I caught about ten minutes of Neal Boortz driving this morning. He was on the radio quite obviously handling a firearm and talking about it. Seemed he unloaded a semi-auto, ejected a round, reloaded it and chambered it a couple of times. What you’ve done here, Neal, is increased the chance of putting holes in something that doesn’t need holes from exactly zero percent to some number greater than zero. Do the handling at the range or in a safe place. The studio, probably not a great idea.

Jonathan Richardson has a list. It’s now time to get on the phone, email, fax, carrier pigeon or whatever and contact your federal representatives and tell them not to support gun control.

Stephen Carter:

Support for stricter U.S. gun laws hasn’t jumped as fast or as far in recent weeks as many liberals had hoped and expected. If you’re wondering why, maybe the reason is the shakiness of the public’s trust in government itself.
After the horrific murders three weeks ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, gun-control advocates confidently predicted that a wave of revulsion would sweep the nation. We would, in the popular argot, “hit the reset button,” beginning a fresh debate on new terms.

It hasn’t happened that way.

We’ll see. I don’t have much faith in Republicans to not cave.

In CT, a group is offering a buyback for violent video games. So they can burn them.

WTF is wrong with people?

A lawsuit has been filed against the Journal News for publishing maps and addresses of gun owners in NY.

From Caleb.

I’ll go with the old stand-bys:

A slightly different Springfield XD
A high end AR from, uhm, everyone
Something novel but mostly useless from Taurus that will have some sort of name related to the legal system

What are yours?

Over at PAgunblog, a look. I think the only thing that has a reasonable chance of passing is the arbitrary magazine limitation. Because 10 is a magic number. I mean, if I’m pointing my AR-15 at you with a 10 round magazine in it, you’re obviously 1/3rd less threatened! Or something.

When someone asks me why I “need” something, like an AR-15, I respond with a polite “because fuck you”. But others try to be more accommodating:

The left keeps asking why anyone needs an “assault” rifle. Here’s one reason — in 2010, a Texas teen used a rifle similar to the one used in Newtown to defend his younger sister and himself from home invaders.

They’ve always had a no scary gun things policy with scary being defined, basically, as “illegal in California”. So, this isn’t exactly news:

Parts and accessories for known assault weapons are not permitted to be listed on ebay. PMAG items and accessories for PMAG are made specifically for assault classified weapons should not be listed.

Since “assault weapon” is an arbitrary and no longer valid legal construct, what exactly is convered? I wonder what “assault classified weapons” are?

The Nashville Scene is getting the bedwetters ready by saying Tennessee’s current legislative climate, it’s go, go, go for guns. No offering of any specifics but enough to get the wheels spinning. With Harwell at the helm, we’ll see.

Gun boom: That’s over six guns per cop in the last two months.

Dana Safety Supply Stops Selling Semi Auto Rifles to Civilians So Sheriff Pulls His Business

Denny’s manager tells a police officer to either remove her gun or leave the restaurant. The police officer was not in uniform and, I suppose, open carrying since a customer complained.

Seems more murders are committed with blunt objects than rifles.

Texas DOT will no longer use their message signs to let people know where gun shows are.

22 rifles

What if my 30rd magazine is really a 10-rounder? I’m betting those SOCOM mags would become real popular if there was a ban.

The gun ban goes down, like a young Linda Lovelace, only with more choking.

Introduced by Carolyn “shoulder thing that goes up” McCarthy:

As lawmakers return to Capitol Hill today to kick off the start of the 113th Congress, Democrats are already priming for a renewed battle over gun control, announcing the introduction of a bill banning high-capacity ammunition magazines before the first House session had been gaveled in.

The High Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, which is being introduced by Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and is co-sponsored by Diana DeGette, D-Colo., would ban the sale or transfer of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. That standard was the federal mandate between 1994 and 2004 under the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

Ten is a magical number for some reason. Why not one?

In the NY Senate. Expands the definition, no grandfathering, blah blah we’ve all heard before.