In Illinois, a bill to require gun owners get $1M in insurance.

Heh: And in another scene, Echo (Dushku) is asked if she knows how to use a gun. “I have three brothers, and none of them Democrats,” she says as she racked the slide, finger carefully indexed along the frame.

I know I’ve linked to video Boston Dynamics’ quadrupedal BigDog robot before but it keeps showing up. And that thing still gives me the willies.

Sebastian:

Given the recent dominance of gun bloggers on the Examiner.com sites, it would probalby the last place I’d want to take an anti-gun stance.

And what a post it is:

Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs — he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using.

My BS detector is tingling:

A retired St. Paul police officer was wounded Saturday when a pistol belonging to an off-duty Minneapolis police officer accidentally discharged at a gun show.

Both men were working security at the Minneapolis Gun Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center when the accident happened about 1:15 p.m., said Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia.

The semi-automatic pistol went off when the holster got caught on a chair that the Minneapolis officer was either leaning back on or getting off of, Garcia said.

I know papers are struggling and all but every time you turn around, some idiotic paper is publishing lists of handgun carry permit holders. This time, it’s The Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley. And the reason papers do this is to generate a buzz and traffic since such a list really has no redeeming value to anyone other than criminals. And the alt-weekly biz is in the shitter.

Belt Fed 12 Gauge Upper Receiver for AR-15s:

Continuing their trend of getting no traction on the internets, it looks like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership went out and got their Facebook on. With the usual results:

The Brady’s also have a page on Facebook that has a forum for people who “join the group”. The majority of the posts and threads are by pro-gun advocates w/ nary a Brady supporter to be heard.

So if ‘gun control’ is so popular, where are the supporters?

Friendless on the tubes. In the past, there was no better source for pro-gun information than the Brady Blog itself. Facebook not far behind.

And no love for the false flags either.

Gun Blog .45 wins by five seconds.

Tracy takes her new one to the range.

SCOTUS blog looks at a few prominent post-Heller second amendment cases: On a pace that very likely will put them in the Supreme Court at its next Term, three significant test cases on the scope of the Second Amendment — the “gun rights” Amendment — are moving along in the lower courts.

Perhaps the dumbest product idea I’ve ever seen.

The ninth and final part, with links to the first 8 parts.

Ballistic vest designer requires employees to be shot while wearing the products. I guess he stands by his products.

Five years for a 22 revolver.

ATF gets $10,000,000 from the stimulus bill to keep guns out of Mexico.

Or not so much:

The Majority of Tennessee State Lawmakers Refuse to Release Public Records

Seventy-Two of the 132 members of the General Assembly fail to comply with open records requests

NASHVILLE – More than half of the members of the Tennessee General Assembly failed to comply with a recent open records request, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

Only bad guys smoke.

Last night, I went to bed and it was about 60 degree outside. This morning, I wake up to see this:

From Home Life

Xrlq is officially a yankee instead of a damn yankee. Next, he’ll be drinking sweet tea every meal.

Michael Bane is concerned about some military training in weapons confiscations in Iowa. I wouldn’t quite spell it out all doom and gloomy like Michael, since that’s what the guard does in Iraq and Afghanistan and they’re probably training for that. But it is a bit disconcerting.

Because, yes, I’m out of crap to say:

Update: Second tune from MP3 player, some local guys (and, frankly, it’s probably hard to work a word like Coprophagia into a song):

Boy, do my tastes vary.

Not content trampling privacy, they are now crapping their pants over some TN gun bills:

Editorial: Logic lacking in gun bills
A fast track to a bad policy: Making it easier to bring firearms to places where families gather defies common sense.

I looked for the logic and have yet to see it. Seems mostly hysteria. After all, using logic, you would know that there are already lawful firearms in places where families gather.

Via AC.

On a personal note: I’d like to graciously thank the Commercial Appeal. Their disregard for privacy will contribute to these firearms bills being fast tracked. So, thank you.

Jeff Woods, when not busy poo-pooing privacy, notes a couple of crimes by handgun carry permit holders. General lame implications that we’ve come to expect from media sorts. Note no discussion of the actual crime rate of carry permit holders, which is actually lower than the rate for police. But we can’t let numbers get in the way of our feelings.

And what happens when you don’t have it:

The video.

Wow.

A bill to ending the prohibition on carry where alcohol is served:

A Tennessee House panel recommends allowing people with handgun permits to carry their weapons into restaurants where alcohol is served until 11 p.m.

The proposal would maintain a ban on people carrying handguns from drinking alcohol. It would also continue to ban on handguns at establishments that have age limits for entry.

Because, of course, 11:00 gives you one hour before the stroke of midnight. And you know what happens to a gun at midnight, right?

Saudi Cleric says alcohol in bio-fuels is a sin. Of course it is.

OK, then: The initial question was posed by Peter Valdez of Salinas, who wanted to know why gun locks couldn’t be enforced in the city – forcing gang members to lock their guns in order to transport them.

That’s racist.