A pretty cool one from Brownells.

And being in New York. What’s amusing to me is the reaction of the TSA:

This incident highlights the importance of what TSA and its dedicated security officers do each and every day in protecting the flying public, TSA Upstate New York Federal Security Director Bart Johnson said I am grateful to the support that the Albany County Sheriffs Office provides to TSA on a daily basis.

That’s some funny stuff right there. You’d think he stopped Johnny Jihad from committing a terrorist atrocity from reading that. Instead, they just had some guy arrested because he forgot he had a gun in his bag.

Looks like they will finally comply with court orders.

So I don’t think it’s big news: Gun control groups promise to be in Atlanta for NRA Meeting

The South African Gun Owners Association warns that gun owners who have not renewed their licenses on time will be raided:

SAGA has been advised that SAPS in the Western Cape will be conducting an operation aimed at gunowners who have failed, for whatever reason, to timeously renew their licence’s in respect of specific guns. It appears that SAPS teams will be conducting raids on targeted individuals mostly at their residences with a view to confiscating guns and ammunition. SAGA cannot at this stage speculate as to what SAPS intends to achieve by this action, nor what other steps may be taken by SAPS at the time of such visit.

Gun controllers suck at math.

The Russians have a robot that is going to go into space. And they’ve taught it to shoot guns. What could possibly go wrong?

Speaking of the Russians, they have a pretty neat looking Arctic base.

The lost Armalites.

1911 after 2,000 round test

M&P Shield and suppressor.

I don’t really disagree with Sebastian’s take on anything here.

And leaving aside the political aspect, I just think how much I’ve changed my mind on carry guns and choices over the last several years.

San Diego Union Tribune:

A letter from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to law enforcement agencies across Southern California warning about an emerging problem of officers engaging in unlicensed firearms sales came just weeks after a Pasadena police officers home was searched and guns seized.

The March 31 letter from Eric Harden, the ATFs Los Angeles Field Division special agent in charge, said the agency has discovered officers buying and then reselling handguns without a federal firearms license. That violates federal gun laws.

The ATF letter, first reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune, came after a Feb. 16 search of the home of a high-ranking Pasadena police officer. News reports at the time said several large gun cases were removed from the officers Sierra Madre home and loaded into ATF vehicles.

There’s a market for off roster guns (those are guns not OK to buy because the state says so) and the police appear to be filling that market. I don’t think the ATF guy is right about violating federal gun laws. You can re-sell a gun. I suppose he did enough volume that it was a business. Also, it’s California and their laws are wonky.

Ben from Bison Armory on firearms accuracy emails this.

As he says, a quick and easy way to talk about rifle accuracy that is statistically accurate and meaningful in everyday parlance.

Well, when folks depend on the state so much, they don’t need to think.

The first sitting President to speak since 1983. He’s doing that instead of the White House Correspondent’s dinner.

He talked a good game on guns while running but, I agree, we need to see more action. But he has done a few things that didn’t get much notice.

28 people shot in less than 18 hours in Chicago

That community needs some organizing.

The police basically didn’t do anything for three hours while 13 people died.

Careful when you leave America: Christie commutes sentence of Marine convicted on gun charge

And stun guns could soon be legalized there.

The Gazette:

Downey argued that legislators, in passing in 2010 a law on gun permits, didnt allow the Iowa Department of Public Safety to ask questions beyond the basic ones on identity.

But the state argued the legislation established just the floor of basic questions that had to be asked on the form, allowing authorities to seek more information.

The justices, after dissecting the less-than-clear language of the law, sided with Downey that it allows the Public Safety Department to only ask the basics.

I mean, the legislature didn’t pass a law instructing them to ask a bunch of questions to get a gun permit.

.600 Nitro revolver

Erle Stanley Gardners Colt Single Action Army

To you and yours. And now, I have 12 pounds of meat to tend to.

An arrest has been made for the murder of border agent Brian Terry. He was murdered by a gun that the Obama administration let “walk” into Mexico for some reason.

And options for self defense there. Hardly any, really. That is one difference between a citizen and a subject.

A teen was playing with a gun live on instagram. And wound up killing himself.

Surprisingly, not 9mm.

Why the Second Amendment protects the AR-15:

Thus, we arrive at the 4th Circuit decision that even though AR-15 rifles are commonplace, they may be banned because they are like M-16s and useful in military service. As the dissenting judges noted, this curious logic would have made it possible to ban the muskets and rifles used by citizen militia during the Revolutionary War. But why stop there? Handguns are standard-issue military weapons. Shotguns and bolt-action rifles have been employed by the U.S. military. At one time or place, virtually every weapon has been used by the military, including knives and tomahawks. The irresistible conclusion is that the Second Amendment protects nothing.

The Second Amendment has never been recondite, it is only the judges who have been obtuse. An intelligible interpretation of the Second Amendment emerges the instant one reconciles the prefatory and operative clauses. In other words, the militia described in the prefatory clause is a militia composed of a people with a right to keep and bear arms. What type of arms? In 1939, the Supreme Court spoke explicitly to this. At the time the Second Amendment was adopted, men summoned to militia duty were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time. The Amendment not only protects weapons that might be useful in a military context, arguably it only protects those weapons useful in military service. Thus, the 4th Circuit Court was exactly and completely wrong.

FN is protesting the selection of the Sig P320 by Immigration and Customs. The protests are here and here.

The CAV-X “supercavitating” bullet:

A new breed of bullets could be used for underwater firefights.

The CAV-X supercavitating bullets, made by DSG Technology, are designed to deliver lethality at much farther distances underwater.

For special operations teams, such as the Navy SEALs and combat divers who operate around water, this sort of ammunition could be handy

A Shotgun With AR Parts Compatibility

SCCY, maker of inexpensive handguns, is moving to my town and bringing 350 jobs with it:

A gun manufacturer is investing $22.5 million to build a brand new facility in Blount County that will create more than 350 new jobs.

Governor Bill Haslam announced the move Wednesday afternoon. The company, SSCY (sic) Insudstries (sicer), will be operating its primary manufacturing facility and corporate offices in the county.

No triple sic for you.

A “third arm” for the Army’s M4s:

This seems like a solution in search of a problem.

If you touch a pistol brace to your shoulder are you in trouble?

Probably not. But it is ATF so I’d probably not video myself doing it. It was interesting to me that at the Nashville NRA Sig booth, all of the brace equipped guns were legally SBRs. I suppose just in case.