ATI AT-14 .410 AR-15 shotgun

TN’s new House Speaker Kent Williams came out early with some pro-gun sentiment. Said he wanted to move some pro-gun bills. Now, he’s opposed to the guns in parks bill:

I think local parks are a lot different from state parks. I have attended a lot of events with my four boys who are grown now and a few with my grandkids. I’ve seen too many fits of anger at these local parks. I’ve seen parents fighting parents. Parents fighting coaches. Coaches fighting coaches. Coaches fighting umpires and umpires fighting umpires. I’ve seen just about all. I feel where there’s a situation where there’s a danger we don’t need someone carrying a gun in that area. I think it would only escalate the problem. I believe in protecting our second amendment rights. There’s a lot of controversy over exactly what the second amendments rights are.

First of all, remind me never to visit a park in Carter County, if that’s how folks behave in parks. I’ve been to plenty of parks with my kids and never seen a fight. Or maybe he just goes to bad parks. Anyway, people with carry permits carry in many places, such as malls and so forth, and I don’t think they’re going to turn into lunatics just because they’re at a park.

Cape Cod Online:

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a requirement that guns be locked or disassembled when stored has convinced a Barnstable District Court judge to dismiss a firearms charge against a Massachusetts state trooper.

State police Lt. Richard Bolduc was charged last summer with illegally storing a large-capacity firearm in the presence of a minor. Bolduc’s 12-year-old son took his father’s police-issued handgun from a bureau in their Sandwich home, pointed it at a 5-year-old neighbor, and pulled the trigger, according to court records.

In NY, Police selling illegal machine guns.

Reports (with pics) from an arfcommer who states an ATF agent who stayed at the hotel he works at left his gun under the pillow. Ooops. I would have replied with either I Always Think Forfeiture or I’ll give it back when CavArms gets their stuff back.

Jack McElroy on the Commercial Appeal publishing carry permit holders’ names, notes some perceived good that has come from the information:

In recent years, reporters have used the database to reveal that permits were being issued to ineligible people with restraining orders and criminal backgrounds.

Yes, we here at SayUncle noted that an error rate of a whopping 0.084% existed. And:

The Tennessean in Nashville and the Daily Times in Maryville also have put the database online, but then have removed it in the face of complaints.

Never knew my local paper did that. Anyone confirm?

Why understanding math is important.

Defense Review: MagPul Industries Flip-Up Polymer BUIS (Back-Up Iron Sight) System

Uhm, if they’re polymer, wouldn’t they be BUPS? And that is more fun to say.

David looks at the issue

Eugene Volokh:

Nothing in the First Amendment stops states from keeping these sorts of records private. That, for instance, is the norm with regard to income tax records, to psychiatric and medical records kept by government-run hospitals, and a good deal of other data. And the government may criminalize government officials’ leaking of the records, as the federal government has done for income tax records.

But once the data is placed in the public record and then copied by private parties — which is what happened in Tennessee, prompting this proposal — the First Amendment protects people’s right to redistribute it.

Times have changed. LA has really changed.

First, Al Gore gave us the internet. Cheney turned them into the internets. Ted Stevens gave us the intertubes. Now, Biden: Do you know the website number? I thought this was supposed to be the technology administration?

Leather, 1911 and a Sig.

Cali-legal magazines.

Brady Camp fears losing Illinois to concealed carry laws.

Gillibrand writes letter to ask for repeal of Tiahrt amendment. I gave her the benefit of doubt. Now, not so much.

The Maryville Police would like a word with you.

AR-15s as varmint control.

Mentioned earlier but Brian Doherty notes it wasn’t presented as a gun rights case. Joe wonders if a similar case could be treated as one though.

Those TN gun bills, that is. This is usually the part where Naifeh would have killed them.

Via AC.

Update: In the news, looks like all the pro-gun bills advanced.

A hearty thank you to Christian Do These Labels Look Suspicious? Trejbal. Seems the bill to limit access to handgun carry permit data in VA is heading to the governor for a signature. Passed unanimously in both houses.

From Political

Was it something he said?

Via Insty, comes this:

“When President Obama submits his budget blueprint this week, reports indicate the proposal may include language designed specifically to repeal the Tiahrt Amendment,” says Snyder, named the senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News.

May include? Pretty strong qualifier. But, still, keep an eye out.

Dilbert sums up how politics works.

You’ll remember Max Brantley published a list of Arkansas handgun carry permit holders in some alt-weekly. And, by golly, if there wasn’t some uproar and then a bill proposed to make this illegal.

One would think that these reporter types might actually stop and think before doing something like this. I mean, all they’d have to do is hope on the internet and search for terms like publish handgun permits. Then they’d learn what happened in these instances and probably knock it off. But, then, that requires research and reporters don’t seem keen on that.

Anyway, the reason they do it is to generate buzz and pageviews.

* yes, it’s wrong on purpose since I have the grammar Nazis who tell me when I screw up.

If a bill making it’s way through the capitol passes, it would be a crime to publish handgun carry permit records. In their attempt to crap on the second amendment, the Commercial Appeal has, ironically, crapped on the first amendment. Again, thank you. Without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Pat yourselves on the back. You’ve done good work.

Michael Silence says: This is the unfortunate and predictable byproduct of a Memphis newspaper going for some page views. I mean, why not post the databases of sex offenders or home burglary rates for neighborhoods. The answer is simple: Those wouldn’t inflame a large number of law-abiding citizens.

Seen at Tam’s: Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for covering up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed.

Is botched a synonym for shooting her, letting her bleed to death while they found drugs to plant in her home and then forced an informant to corroborate their story?

Ten years?

Pro-gun bill sponsors at the capitol have carry permits.

First, it was illustrated.

Now, the video.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.

Yes, in light of the dramatic increase in face-eating monkey attacks from zero to one (a near infinite increase), congress must do something. I guess a ban on feeding chimps Xanax and giving them booze is too much. It beats gibbon up.

Clayton Cramer in the Idaho Statesman:

Remember back in February 2008 when President Obama came to Boise and spoke at a big rally? He made a big point of saying, “I won’t take away your guns,” because those nasty, dishonest Republicans were saying that Obama was going to do that.

It sure didn’t take long for Obama to reveal his intentions. The afternoon of the inauguration, the White House Web site’s Urban Policy page admitted that he is indeed going to try and do exactly that. “Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

Kinda like how he’s not a big government guy but is?

An unconstitutional bill.