Seen at Guav’s, an open letter to Republicans from an ex-Republican:
You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America.
I doubt that bit of bolded word play is intentional. But if it is, bravo. If, as I suspect, it is not, then obviously you’ve not paid a great deal of attention to Bush’s deregulation.
The dangers of such a database illustrated by the News Sentinel’s Jack McElroy:
“Oldhickory,” one of the commenters on our gun-permit story today, ran the names of News Sentinel employees against the database posted on the Memphis Commercial Appeal Web site. When a name matched, he identified the employee as a “likely permit holder.” Going alphabetically, he only got through “C” but was able to identify seven “likely holders” at the newspaper.
Turns out, of the ones that Jack went and asked, none were actually permit holders.
The Commercial Appeal makes the Colbert Report.
Metulj calls out the News Sentinel:
I don’t know how much he knows about guns and I am not going to presume, but to call the Brady Campaign advocates against gun violence is akin to calling an egg candler an abortionist. They are an anti-gun group (and a not particularly effective one either).
In TN, there’s a push to end taking prints as part of the gun buying process. Legislators say, basically, that the police don’t use the prints. Honestly, after you are printed the first time, I can see no need to be printed again. How many copies of my prints are needed?
Of course, I think the initial fingerprinting is unnecessary since it is, apparently, not used at all.
Jim Scoutten, host of ShootingUSA, on Joe Huffman’s Boomershoot:
I’ve always thought there are some events that shouldn’t get National TV coverage.
When we’d like the public to think of competitive shooting to be like other mainstream sports.
From a post here. That last part isn’t even a sentence. Seems to imply that the Knob Creek machine gun should not be covered. I guess he thinks these events scare the white people. I don’t think so. Such events, namely Knob Creek, are popular now because of coverage. Knobb creek had a record attendance after R. Lee Ermey covered the event on The History Channel’s Mail Call.
Granted, Jim’s job is to portray the shooting sports in a manner that doesn’t freak people out. But that is easily done since, as History Channel shows us, people like to blow stuff up.
Via Kevin, who notes his disappointment.
I am remiss in mentioning that Mr. C. has started planning for the event. And it looks as though the venue has changed.
Last night, I get home and the house is a nice warm 78 degrees. Time to turn on the AC.
And, this week, I cracked the first beer. I don’t drink beer all winter long because they just don’t sound good. But when the weather is warm, beer is good.
When does NRA go from being an all powerful lobbying group to being not worth a mention? Why, when they win, of course.
Attorney Alan Gura, representing the plaintiffs in this case, noted that District bureaucrats “told Tracy Ambeau Hanson her gun was the wrong color.” Americans are not limited to a government list of approved books, or approved religions, he said. A handgun protected by the Second Amendment doesn’t need to appear on any government-approved list either.
“The Springfield XD-45 is approved for sale in Washington,” Gura noted, “so long as it is black, green, or brown, but her bi-tone version is supposedly ‘unsafe’.”
Added SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “The Supreme Court’s decision is crystal clear: Handguns that are used by people for self-defense and other lawful purposes cannot be banned, whether the city likes it or not. The city needs to accept the Second Amendment reality and stop this nonsense.”
Hanson, one of the individual plaintiffs in the case, wondered, “Do we really need a gun-fashion police? I just want to be able to exercise my Second Amendment rights without interference from the District government.”
Campus police alert students of a possible gunman on campus. 80 minutes after the first reports. Good thing it wasn’t a real shooting.
So, if I understand the exchange correctly, the paper of making up the record asked Obama if he was a socialist. And Obama responded with Bush is.
Ok, then.
The supreme court let stand a lower ruling telling Michael Bloomberg that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act means exactly what it says. The NRA brings the presser:
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied consideration of New York City and Washington, D.C. lawsuits, New York v. Beretta and Lawson v. Beretta, respectively, that tried to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for the acts of criminals. The Court ‘s order leaves standing a pair of decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and District of Columbia Court of Appeals, both of which found that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), enacted in 2005, prevents these types of lawsuits against lawful firearms manufacturers and dealers.
In a suit filed in Cali alleges that their ‘safe gun’ roster is unconstitutional. Some guns, apparently, become unsafe if you change their color. And a Para became unsafe because they didn’t pay an annual fee.
Gun control in action.
= IDPA practice:
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Update 2: Ok, seems to work now.
When I purchased a firearms suppressor, I had to get fingerprinted, get approval from the local sheriff, fill out various government forms, get passport photos made, pay a $200 tax, wait three months, and then I could get my $300 suppressor.
But if you’re in New Zealand, you can walk to the local gun shop and buy one for about $25USD.
In NV: Sen. Reid tossed a big wrench in the machine when he said last week he would oppose any renewal of the poorly named and poorly designed Assault Weapon Ban. This should not surprise Nevada gun owners who have followed Reid’s record supporting our Second Amendment rights. Reid consistently voted no on that gun ban, no in 1994, no in 2004, and now no again following Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement that renewing the ban was a promise of the Obama campaign.
An interesting idea:
At the designated time, say Saturday at 6:30 PM local time, we will fire one round, safely aimed into the ground or other suitable backstop – definitely NOT into the air or in an otherwise unsafe manner.
Then, continuing on the first Saturday of each month: Repeat the process.
As this gathers momentum, there will come a Saturday when one million or more gunshots will be heard around the world. And all it will require is a step into your own backyard to ‘vote for freedom’.
So, in MD, there was a Stop The Violence Concert. 16 arrested as it erupted in, you guessed it, violence.
Thirteen-year-old Lane Dunkley just wanted to go hunting with his grandfather.
What he got was a lecture on politics.[…]
But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.
Reddy, a transplanted Californian — and former Marine — raised his hand.
According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Antichrist” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach “liberals” and would cancel the course if Reddy didn’t leave.
Les Jones on whether or not health care is a right*:
If the Constitutional right to life implies a right to free health care then the right to the pursuit of happiness implies free hookers, booze, and cable TV.
Well, load the cost up on to the Debt Star.
* No, it’s not.
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