A look at how anti-gun and pro-gun groups compare on social media. Hint: one side has grassroots.

Kansas gun distributor charged in bribery, extortion with Glock employees

Companies aren’t really changing their policies after the open carry stuff. Like Starbucks. They mostly want to be left out of it.

Gun control advocates using the children as props.

Nancy is back to blogging. Good.

A bill in NJ that would allow police to take your guns if your friends think you’re crazy.

Heh: Everybody a Psychiatrist

From Barnacules Nerdgasm:

Doesn’t work too well.

Shorty AR

3.5″ 1964-vintage Smith & Wesson Model 27-2

Troy Defense Lamb Carbine

In West Virginia, CHL holders exempt from NICS checks. Yeah, every time I buy a gun, it costs me $10 for a TICS, a waste of time and money.

A striker fired pistol from H undh K.

As Glenn would say: Heh.

NRA’s Chris Cox says that admonishment of the open carriers was a mistake:

Chris Cox, the executive director of the group’s lobbying arm, said in an interview Tuesday on an NRA-hosted radio show that the statement was a mistake and that it was written by a staffer who was expressing his personal opinion.

“The truth is, an alert went out that referred to this type of behavior as ‘weird’ or somehow not normal, and that was a mistake. It shouldn’t have happened,” said Cox, who added that the group “unequivocally” supports open carry laws.

Now, I’m going to disagree and say that NRA should not condone these things.

You can see the interview here.

So, the OC Texas group is now strapping on their ARs and AKs and going to Target. This could be a case of Bloomberg’s group going through old archive photos from OCT. But this should stop.

Bloomberg thanks them.

Well, why not one a decade?

Call me skeptical. I was unaware of any handgun malfunction that would aim a gun at something the operator didn’t intend to shoot.

Robbers dressed as police officers target a woman who shoots them.

Leland Yee gets almost 300K votes

Mike Malloy challenges Joe the Plumber to a duel. Before that, he wanted to shoot an NRA board member.

Truth

IWI Tavor vs. Kel-tec RDB

Seems a couple of judges didn’t care for ATF creating criminals and struck them down for it. Well, they are appealing.

I’m surprised he narrowed it down to 5.

It’s back. Seems it did learn that, while it was out looking for all those supposed right wing terrorists, that other terrorists were actually committing terrorism.

The Tracking Point Precision Guided Firearm

Proposed gun ordinance would allow gun shops only in 0.05% of the city.

Heather Digby Parton is bringing the creation science because she doesn’t like the second amendment. And we’re the ones with the “fringe ideology”.

Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware

Wait, what?

Marketing: Modern Musket.

M1918 vs M1918A2

I mentioned a bit back the NRA telling open rifle carriers in Texas that maybe slinging your AK on your back and heading to the local restaurant wasn’t a good idea. And, then, the admonishment disappeared from the website. Well, NRA has said it again and they mean it. And by mean it, I mean it’s still there instead of in the memory hole:

Recently, demonstrators have been showing up in various public places, including coffee shops and fast food restaurants, openly toting a variety of tactical long guns. Unlicensed open carry of handguns is legal in about half the U.S. states, and it is relatively common and uncontroversial in some places.

Yet while unlicensed open carry of long guns is also typically legal in most places, it is a rare sight to see someone sidle up next to you in line for lunch with a 7.62 rifle slung across his chest, much less a whole gaggle of folks descending on the same public venue with similar arms.

Let’s not mince words, not only is it rare, it’s downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one’s cause, it can be downright scary. It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates.

Good for NRA for calling out these unhelpful asshats.

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