Baby’s first gun: Pink.

Rich writes a letter regarding the CA’s lame defense for publishing the names of handgun carry permit holders:

Second, your defense failed to note that you removed addresses and birth dates only after you were deluged in complaints.

And then there’s this:

News events like the Feb. 6 shooting at Trinity Commons shopping center led many people to wonder, logically and instantly, who else might be packing a gun. At the point of that shooting, the online list of who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon became a matter of deep public interest. That’s why, during the past week, thousands of people looked at the list that had been sitting mostly unnoticed on the Web site for two months.

Actually, you’re wrong. What happened was some cracker drew some attention to it after a reader informed said cracker of it. But whatever floats your boat.

Or why you don’t let someone who’s unfamiliar with firing a machine gun do so without some guidance.

Remember the drill team member that was suspended for having her non-gun in her car. The one she practiced drill with? Well, she’s back in school now.

FAL Range Report.

Pink P22s.

A peep sight for the AK.

Hunting rabbits with the Taurus Judge.

NYPD learns lessons from the Mumbai attacks. In the pics, they’re all carrying Mini-14s. An odd choice, I would think. The NY Daily news calls those assault rifles. Actually, at one of the gun blogger lunches, we were talking about the Mumbai attacks. We all noted that the terrorists were killing everyone, except reporters who were left alone so they could photograph and report the carnage. After all, why destroy you propaganda arm. It was pondered that perhaps the police get guns that look like cameras and dress like reporters.

Good for her:

“It’s a false debate,” she said. “It’s political rhetoric that’s sucking you in to believe that hunters owning a gun or an American citizen who wants to protect his home owning a gun somehow increases gun violence.”

Asked if she owned a gun, she said, “We own two.”

I think she just called the ant-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) liars.

More pics of that Nighthawk here.

Felons are, generally, prohibited from possessing arms. Obviously, the next logical extension of that plan is to prohibit possession of arms by those who commit certain misdemeanors.

With bonus hypocrisy.

You’ll recall that a crappy paper in Memphis decided to publish a database of those who have licenses to carry handguns. And lumped us in there with criminals.

Turns out, they don’t like turnabout. When someone went to the article and linked to a list of names and addresses of editorial staff, the Commercial Appeal deleted the comments. Nice.

Chris Cox wrote them a letter:

Your decision to publicize the personal information of Right-to-Carry permit holders in Tennessee is unjustifiable, disgraceful, and dangerous.

In Quincy, police chief gets some heat for his comments on concealed carry. Now, he looks to be coming around a bit. Unfortunately, he justifies his stance as being the same as Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, which looks to be one of the many anti-gun shill groups affiliated with the Joyce Foundation.

Ok then: County administrator Melvin Booth is being investigated for selling guns to fellow employees while on county property. If the allegations are true, his actions could be in direct violation of the county’s ethics policy.

Doesn’t he know that’s illegal?

Sebastian and Bitter issue their endorsements for NRA Board of Directors. Note also that one of their endorsements, Joe DeBergalis, has commented at this blog. That’s pretty cool.

Also, bitter gives a non-endorsement.

SOF alleges corruption from ATF agents deployed to Iraq. In other news, ATF agents were deployed to Iraq?

The thought made me laugh.

looks like the stimulus bill will create some.

I’ve said before that I don’t think she’s flip-flopped on the issue and that the appearance that she has is probably just spin from the Paper of making up the Record. Some agree and some don’t. Anyway, triggerfinger alerts us that Gillibrand’s arm being twisted by anti-gun forces. And Sebastian questions the context of another interview. Will be interesting to watch all this unfold.

Another post Obama AR-15 is born. Seems to be a trend.

Nighthawk Custom.

Fixed it for them.

Les said: This would be a good weekend for the FDIC to shut down banks

Then later, four shut down.

Fannie and Freddie had little to do with it. The CRA, even less.

[I originally had the full post mirrored to this site, but rather than monopolize Uncle’s front page, I figured I’d just redirect you to Lean Left.]

A move by Engel to further regulate importing firearm parts.

Quincy News:

Several local sportsmen and business owners want to know why Quincy Mayor John Spring is a member of a group that wants local law enforcement access to information on gun traces collected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Commercial Appeal:

Tennessee legislators have filed a rash of new bills to allow guns in state and local parks, restaurants serving alcohol and even schools and also limiting public access to lists of gun-carry permit holders.

I wonder why they’d consider that last one? Oh, yeah. And:

As of Thursday afternoon, 18 bills were filed to loosen restrictions on where guns may be taken, four were filed to make the information confidential and two others were filed to exempt from criminal prosecution people who shoot others in the protection of their property.

Wonder what the other bills are?

Via R. Neal, we learn of a site called Gun Free Kids which seeks to prohibit lawful concealed carry on campus. As these groups usually do, they frame the debate in terms of the evil gun lobby wanting to arm kids and that is patently false. The implication is that it’s the NRA (they say gun lobby and we know who that means) when the group advocating this is Students for Concealed Carry. NRA is pretty much mum on the issue these days.

The other false claim is that people seek to arm kids. Students for Concealed Carry is pushing for legislation to allow adults with concealed carry permits, who happen to be students, to carry on campus. They are not arming kids. But a little hysteria goes a long way.

Not a hot button issue for me. After all, like the various guns in cars bills, the issue is one of property rights. If a school chooses to prohibit carry on their property, well, it’s their property and they can do what they want.

Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer and Violence Policy Center shill Josh Sugarmann bleats about how people are buying weapons that look like assault weapons since Barack Obama’s election. He notes the lack of ads for “traditional” hunting rifles, which he traditionally calls sniper rifles but somehow forgot this time. He also notes that this spike will lead to a slump. Probably. We’ll see. Note the obfuscation between NRA and gun dealers.

And, lastly, he says all those people buying are just people who already own guns buying more. And we know that is false. He also glosses over the other, larger growing segment of the gun industry: handguns.

Judging from the concerted efforts of anti-gun groups in a span of a couple of days to flood the zone with their talking points, looks like their push will be changing the park carry rule. Going to be their first volley in Obama era gun control efforts.