Round one apparently went to the NRA.

The Kind of Men Who Carry Pocketknives

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit

For later reading.

Dont Buy A Smith & Wesson M&P .40 Without Reading This Review!

Though I am tempted in the event there’s another run on ammo.

FAL Paratrooper 50.63

Newsweek:

Leaving a Rolls-Royce unlocked is a risky business, as Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside has learned the hard way.

According to 640 AM radio host Andy Slater, on July 5 Whiteside bought an M16 assault rifle, along with a rifle bag and a silencer, for approximately $50,000 from Johnsons Firearms in Miami.

After purchasing the rifle, the 29-year-old drove to the University of Miami for a workout and only discovered the rifle was missing when he returned home the next day. He immediately alerted the police and told detectives he had only been at the gun store before moving to the Watsco Center for practice and eventually returning to his residence in Miami Beach.

An actual crime involving an NFA weapon?

I interrupt a blogging break for this breaking news.

It appears that the Department of Justice is about to ban bump stocks. I say about to because the Final Action is slated for the imaginary date of 12/00/2018. The new rule:

This rule is intended to clarify that the statutory definition of machinegun includes certain devices (i.e., bump-stock-type devices) that, when affixed to a firearm, allow that firearm to fire automatically with a single function of the trigger, such that they are subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act (NFA) and the Gun Control Act (GCA). The rule will amend 27 CFR 447.11, 478.11, and 479.11 to clarify that bump-stock-type devices are machineguns as defined by the NFA and GCA because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger. Specifically, these devices convert an otherwise semiautomatic firearm into a machinegun by functioning as a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that harnesses the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm in a manner that allows the trigger to reset and continue firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter.

This is nonsense because the assertion that allow that firearm to fire automatically with a single function of the trigger is demonstrably false. This should require a law passed by congress, which this rule unironically acknowledges. And then there’s the analysis of the rule’s economic impact being significant:

The rule will be “economically significant,” that is, the rule will have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million, or adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of the economy, the environment, public health or safety or State, local or tribal governments or communities. ATF estimates the total cost of this rule at $320.9 million over 10 years. The total 7% discount cost is estimated at $234.1 million, and the discounted costs would be $39.6 million and $39.2 million annualized at 3% and 7% respectively. The estimate includes costs to the public for loss of property ($102,470,977); costs of forgone future production and sales ($213,031,753); and costs for disposal ($5,448,330). Unquantified costs include lost employment, notification to bump-stock-type device owners of the need to destroy the bump-stock-type devices, and loss of future usage by the owners of bump-stock-type devices. ATF did not calculate any cost savings for this final rule. It is anticipated that the rule will cost $129,222,483 million in the first year (the year with the highest costs). This cost includes the first-year cost to destroy or modify all existing bump-stock-type devices, including unsellable inventory and opportunity cost of time.

They are willing to destroy a lot of economic value and make a lot of people criminals with an arbitrary and unlawful ruling. So, all you folks who bought bump stocks, what are you going to do when this thing passes?

In Chicago, a good guy with a gun stopped a shooting. When the police arrived, they shot the good guy.

Heh

Walther clone

Stan Lee, comic book legend and founder of Marvel, has died. Truly a legend with what he created.

* Excelsior

I’ve accepted it as inevitable that I will end up with a SIG Sauer P320-M17. Or just a Sig P320 in general. Because the military is going to start using them. Similar to the AR, this should mean a lot of after market support. And I like the notion of having a gun that the military issues for parts and ammo availability.

And Sig has just released an airgun version of it.

Oddly, I never felt this way about the Beretta 92.

Democrats renew push for gun control, assault weapons ban

A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any recordings made by an Echo device that was in a house where a double murder occurred:

The ruling was handed down by Strafford County Superior Court Presiding Justice Steven M. Houran on Friday.

“Accordingly, the State’s motion to search in lieu of a search warrant is granted,” the ruling by Houran states. “The court directs Amazon.com to produce forthwith to the court any recordings made by an Echo smart speaker with Alexa voice command capability, FCC ID number ZWJ-0823, from the period of January 27, 2017 to January 29, 2017, as well as any information identifying cellular devices that were paired to that smart speaker during that time period.”

The Amazon Echo device was seized by police from the home, according to court documents.

It’s unclear whether there is any audio evidence on the device, but the court found probable cause that the speaker could have recorded “evidence of crimes committed against Ms. Sullivan, including the attack and possible removal of the body from the kitchen.”

An Amazon spokesperson told The Associated Press it would not release the recordings “without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us.”

Emphasis added. So, is Amazon saying the devices do record conversations?

In what is increasingly becoming a thing, a celebrity is calling for more gun control while admitting to breaking the existing gun laws. This time, Aston Kutcher twittered:

This isnt an either/or its a both!Support mental health initiatives & support Gun Reform Now!! My friend gave me a gun as a gift in the parking lot of the borderline on my birthday. Ive never shot it. I dont think I ever will.❤️to the families of the lost. Change is coming

— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) November 9, 2018

If that is true, then he broke California law.

Teach your kids well, and it may pay off:

The man claimed the girls brothers were in a serious accident and told the girl she had to come with him, police said. The girl asked the stranger for a code word but the man didnt know the answer and fled the scene.

More Random Interesting Things

Full auto Glock SBR

The big post election gripe by the losers in the senate is that Dems won the popular vote in senate races. These people are idiots who need to take a civics class.

Even Joy Behar said that Republicans won the senate because of gerrymandering. The states are not divided into districts in senate races. She has what I would consider to be a fairly hard job to get. One that, you would think, would require some smarts. Apparently not.

Went pretty much how everyone thought it would go. I’m looking forward to the gridlock. Good thing Republicans used those two years to pander to us gun owners by giving us what we asked for. Oh, wait. It’s unlikely in the lame duck session. The good thing about gridlock is that congress won’t pass much. The bad news is that what they do pass will suck.

Speaking of sucking, Jeff Sessions was fired err resigned. And he sucked.

California’s ‘Reasonable Regulation’ of Guns Did Not Stop the Thousand Oaks Shooting

Funny thing is, I was trying to google up the Brady Campaign’s score card, which listed California as A rated for years. It appears they don’t do that anymore. However, Gabby Giffords’ astroturf organization The Giffords Law Center does. And it gives Cali the solid A.

10mm v. .357

Right here

Tacticool

.429 DE New Cartridge for Desert

It’s election time and, as they tell us wrongly every year, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVAAAAAARRR!!!!!

In Tennessee, there’s been a pretty nasty senate race and I am glad that I won’t have to listen to those awful God-damned commercials anymore. The governor’s race was much more civil.

I don’t know that I’d even venture a guess on the outcome tonight, other than the Rs will pick up a senate seat or two. Any predictions?

To get a gun rights case to the Supreme Court:

The U.S. Supreme Court for a second straight year refused on Monday to hear a challenge to Californias limits on carrying handguns in public, dealing another setback to gun rights proponents.

The courts action underscored its continued reluctance to step into a national debate over gun control roiled by a series of mass shootings including the one at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people on Oct. 27. It has not taken up a major gun case since 2010.

The justices, declining to hear an appeal by two gun owners, on Monday left in place a November 2017 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Californias restrictions.

If it won’t be heard, then it will not be correctly ruled on.

Mass Live:

Restrictive firearms rules in Boston and Brookline are constitutional and do not infringe on the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said in a decision.

The implementation of the Massachusetts firearms licensing statute in Boston and neighboring Brookline “passes muster under the Second Amendment,” the court said in upholding a lower court’s ruling.

And absolutely true.

Philly Jews are arming themselves

Vicious enforcement of arbitrary laws.

From Black Aces Tactical:

Another shotgun built with the purpose of getting out of stupid NFA laws.