Paul Valone on our favorite false flag operation: The American Hunters and Shooters Association. It is composed of neither hunters nor shooters. And isn’t even an association.

Go submit a question.

All this survivalist talk lately. Most folks seem to be nonplussed by it, except grocery clerks.

Good point: The thing about being a survivalist kook and stockpiling gold, guns, and food is that there’s no downside. Even if you’re wrong, you’ve still got gold, guns, and food

Heh.

NSSF: An Introduction to Handgun Shooting

The six most useless guns.

If the former chief spook in England accuses the Government of exploiting people’s fear of terrorism to restrict civil rights, you may want to look into that.

Toolmonger:

Golden Nozzle car wash customer John A. O’Leary was riding through the car wash when he noticed something was terribly wrong. Yards away, fighting for her life inside the car wash was 19-year-old employee Stephanie Carpluk. The lone attendant had taken a short-cut through the car rails and her scarf had become ensnared in one of the wash’s rotating mechanical brushes. The machinery had pulled the scarf tightly around her neck and was quickly strangling her. Unable to free herself, Carpluk passed out. Within seconds, O’Leary sprung from his car and pulled out a pocket knife that he was carrying and cut her free.

A 14 year-old girl was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Her crime: texting.

Too many school monkeys’ responses are to call the police over what amounts to disciplinary problems. Sign of the times.

In the Congo: So Akoyo called a town meeting and told everyone to bring whatever weapons they had: pre-World War II rifles, homemade shotguns, lances, swords, machetes, hunting knives, bows with sheaths of poisoned arrows.

Obama First Month: Fail

Building an AR-15: Part 1 and Part 2. Lots of pics.

Guns Magazine: Now free to read online.

I may have missed it but I don’t recall seeing them warning their customers that maybe they shouldn’t put a forward grip on a pistol.

The Commercial Appeal has updated its database of handgun carry permit holders.

The house passes a bill snubbing federal gun controls:

Montana lawmakers fired another shot in battles for states’ rights as they supported letting some Montana gun owners and dealers skip reporting their transactions to the federal government.

Under House Bill 246, firearms made in Montana and used in Montana would be exempt from federal regulation. The same would be true for firearm accessories and ammunition made and sold in the state.

Dow drops 200 points in first 30 minutes. Must be that hope and change in the air.

I would have changed Yes, We Can to Unicorns. But it will do:

From Gun Porn

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CBS News:

The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks, even as it is internally reviewing whether the measure meets environmental muster.

In a response Friday to a lawsuit by gun-control and environmental groups, the Justice Department sought to block a preliminary injunction of the controversial rule. The regulation, which took effect Jan. 9, allows visitors to bring concealed, loaded guns into national parks and wildlife refuges; for more than two decades they were allowed in such areas only if they were unloaded or stored and dismantled.

And:

In its reply, the Justice Department wrote that the new rule “does not alter the environmental status quo, and will not have any significant impacts on public health and safety.”

You’ll recall during the Republican Primaries, a reporter asked the candidates if they owned guns and, if so, what kind. Fred Thompson answered with: I own a couple but I’m not gonna tell you what they are or where they are. A good answer because it tells pro-gunners that you understand the issue and it prevents dumb things like this from happening to you:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has moved the two rifles that she kept under the bed to protect her upstate New York home, her spokesman said Monday.

“Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons,” Gillibrand’s spokesman Matt Canter said.

She relocated the guns over the weekend while upstate to endorse Democrat Scott Murphy in the March 31 election to replace her in the 20th District, he said.

David seems to think people are apologists for Gillibrand. I’m a realist. I, and other people, can’t get too upset that she’s not holding up her three finger salute. It is a gain over Hillary.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Or, in this case, better.

From the TBI, it looks like of 28,606 total January transactions, 1,293 were denied. Of those, 722 were appealed. Of those appeals, 592 were reversed.

So, of that sample, 81% were false positives, I suppose. Doesn’t really foster much faith in the system.

Largo:

Police this week removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state’s Baker Act — against the wishes of his outraged parents.

The boy spent the night alone at Morton Plant Hospital before he was seen by a child psychologist the next day and discharged.

His crime: a tantrum.

Via MKS, comes this:

Reyes grabbed the girl by the elbow and tried to leave with her, but the child’s grandmother caught up to them and pulled the girl away, he said. The man tried to run away but stopped when he was blocked by a crowd that quickly gathered around him.

And this:

“They did not have to put hands on him,” Stahlke said.

Pity, that.

Law Enforcement Amicus Brief

Law Professors/Constitutional Accountability Center

Seventh Circuit Legislators

Institute for Justice

Congress of Racial Equality Brief

ABC News:

“Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation,” the report notes as part of its key findings. “Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft, murder and weapons trafficking.”

So, 0.3125% of the population is responsible for 80% of crimes?

Sebastian looks at the suit they filed against the Park Service. I’m glad they’re wasting their limited resources so poorly.

According to the Paper of making up the Record, the NRA is extremist. I would say that if you went down all the gun issues, average folks would tend to agree more with NRA than with the editorial board of the NYT.

We can’t say that word.

The anti-gunners keep pusing a .50 caliber ban. The logical next step would be a .499 caliber ban.

Via Roberta, comes a book called No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society. Turns out, nannying them is probably not a good idea.

Like Cali before it, Kansas is not remitting tax returns.

Via The Leaf Chronicle:

The first is SB 1908, the “Second Amendment Protection Act” which prohibits the sale of micro-stamped ammunition or firearms within this state. The intent here is to prevent passage of the “Ammunition Accountability Act,” which requires said micro-stamping. The second, and more important of the two, is SB 1644 the “Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act” which essentially says that, under the Ninth and 10th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government does not have the authority to regulate commerce within the state of Tennessee. As such it does not have the authority to regulate the production of firearms within this state as long as those weapons are manufactured, sold, and retained within this state.

Could Tennessee be getting all Montana on us?

There’s also a bill that bans selling serialized ammo. Cool.