As an accountant, none of those jokes are funny.

New congress has 400 bills on day one. We need 401.

They’re probably all as dumb as this one.

ATF agent charged with murder.

Micro and Desert Eagle.

A recurring theme.

In Knoxville: Area gun sales increasing, cops on board with carry permits

Firearms manufacturing up, specifically handguns and rifles.

NSSF says:

Despite a weak economy, gun sales are continuing to increase amid concerns that incoming lawmakers will institute a new gun ban on law-abiding Americans. Data derived from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) show a 24 percent increase in firearm purchaser background checks for the month of December 2008 (1,523,426 checks) over December 2007 (1,230,525 checks). This increase follows a 42 percent rise in NICS checks for the preceding month, the highest number of checks in NICS history.

As Alan says: And it will make Sarah Brady cry.

Obama created a new position, that will likely result in the creation of an office, need to be staffed, etc. But I note the irony:

Obama made the pledge but provided few details as he named Nancy Killefer as his administration’s chief performance officer, creating a new White House position aimed at eliminating government waste and improving efficiency.

I know where you can start.

Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, a member of Mayors Against Illegal guns (see links here), addresses his membership at about the 9:30 mark, here. He just signed it and thinks they have six points everyone should agree with. I can’t find those points.

Obviously, he’s gearing up for his gubernatorial run.

Some bits:

[Bloomberg] has his own desire and thoughts about gun control that aren’t mine at all.

And:

I am not an advocate of gun control.

Good. The group you belong to is, though. You should reconsider and withdraw from the group. Many other mayors have.

Anarchy in the Ukulele.

More ukulele boogaloo here.

The ten manliest firearms. I own four. Down from five. Because I don’t like AKs.

FN starts shipping SCAR 16s to dealers. I wonder when they’re gonna start shipping the heavy, 308 version?

Jennifer Aniston holds a burglar at gunpoint until police arrive:

Aniston reportedly held the suspect, 33-year-old Tadd Bruce, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until she decided what to do.

“She made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of the drawers and cabi-nets onto the floor,” Burke said.

When Burke and the police arrived, Bruce complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.

Nice.

Also, 18 Weapons for Women – Girlie Guns and Other Forms of Feminine Self-Protection

Update: Some say the story is not legit. Seems to be a prank.

Obama is looking to tap Sanjay Gupta to be surgeon general. Gupta also cut his chops as a CNN medical correspondent. Gupta is a righteous drug warrior. And has penned an anti-gun piece in Economic Times of India:

However, wouldn’t it help ease the problem if the factories of death are outlawed and gun production comes to a halt? Without doubt, a rich shareholder or maybe two will protest or lobby. But at the least, profits and violence will not have legitimate co-relation! Shouldn’t this issue hold pole position every time guns are used to commit acts of crime?

Change you can believe in.

Update: In comments, Dan points out it is likely the wrong Sanjay Gupta.

Keep them doggies, Roland.

So, the latest spectacle our Senate is embarrassing us with is the refusal to seat the junior senator from Illinois, Roland Burris. Like it or not, Blago is still governor of Illinois and has the authority to select a replacement for outgoing senator PEBO. This, while embarrassing, isn’t racism. It’s petty politics.

Boomershoot pics, number 2.

Ammunition encoding comparable to tax on printing press ink.

The Diary of a Mad IT Manager has returned, with fail and boobs. Mostly boobs.

One for 1911 grips.

For Middle-Class Pakistanis, a Gun Is a Must-Have Accessory. Well, I’d call it a tool and not an accessory.

A reader asks for pitbull rescues near Knoxville. Anyone know?

Received via email from BCM:

Just a heads up all … Annette Freeman (a friend and #don’t go movement colleague) and I are doing an every Tuesday night Blog Talk Radio show from 6-7PM CST. Our first show is this evening! John Harris, the head of the TN Firearms Association will be our guest and he’ll be talking about the TN GOP majority and its impact on 2nd Amendment issues and legislation here in TN. We’d love to have you listen of course … it’s even cooler if you sign up/in to the Chat room. You can do all of that by going to the #Don’t Go Movement’s BTR page and signing up and in. You can call in as well to
(646) 595-2816
and use up some valuable cell minutes to speak to us/John personally. As always, the show will be archived and available for later podcast download!

Come join in! Especially if 2nd Amendment issues are your thing (even a little bit).

Also:

Tonight’s Gun Nuts Radio should be an excellent show.  We’ll be discussing the topic of Open Carry, which has been near to my heart in the past and remains so to this day.  Joining us on tonight’s show will be Meleanie Hain, the PA soccer mom who has become a public advocate for open carry after her carry permit was illegally revoked by the sheriff.

Seventy-year-old woman holds home intruder at gunpoint:

“I thought that this could turn out badly because I heard of other people being murdered in their house, but I decided, I wasn’t going to go down without a fight. I owe that to my children,” she explains. “Guns aren’t all bad, only in the hands of the criminal and guns can be a good defense.”

NRA says SF housing authority to reach settlement and drop its ban on gun possession.

Saw a billboard for Blountopia this morning on the way in. It was hard to read so good thing they used regular font on the bottom. Checked it out, not much there. They have a blog, not much there either.

Good:

Beginning Wednesday, Michigan will no longer require a post-purchase safety inspection of handguns purchased. Currently, every time a handgun is purchased in Michigan, whether it is a commercial sale or a private sale between two individuals, the purchaser must take the pistol to their local police department and present it for “safety inspection.” During these inspections, actual checks for safety really never took place. What was accomplished was that the make, model, caliber and serial number of the gun was registered to the purchaser. The Legislature has recognized the hypocrisy of this process and will now trust its citizens to send them the correct information regarding the handgun to be registered.

Second amendment expert says not to worry:

With Obama’s record on gun control — which includes endorsing an Illinois handgun ban, co-sponsoring a bill to limit purchases to one gun per month and supporting a ban on semi-automatic weapons — gun owners in big cities and small towns throughout the country are concerned that their Second Amendment rights may come under attack in an Obama administration and are buying up guns and ammunition in record numbers.

An expert on U.S. colonial law at Washington University in St. Louis who consulted on the recent Second Amendment case argued before the Supreme Court says that the right of the people to keep and bear arms most likely will not be an issue that Obama will address as president early in his term — if at all.

“My sense is that Obama does not want to interfere with an issue that will, for the time being, be left up to the states,” says David T. Konig, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the Legal Studies Program, both in Arts & Sciences, and professor of law. “The issue will turn to controls, such as sales at gun shows or other limited restrictions on purchases.”

I’ll hope he’s right but plan for the alternative.

Update: Turns out, this guy was on the losing side in the Heller case. So much for being an expert.

So, you get mad that someone stepped on your foot. You get a shotgun and shoot them. Perfectly reasonable for a four year-old. In other news, a four year-old has access to a gun cabinet.

SIH is two.

I don’t watch many movies. For a while, there were a couple of reasons for this. One is that, with kids, it’s not easy to find a couple hours to watch one. And the other more important reason is that movies these days suck. Bad.

Now, there’s a third reason. I used to watch the occasional movie on pay per view. However, Dishnetwork now offers its pay per view movies as limited. Now, I have a DVR. So, I record my pay per views to it. What limited means is that I have 24 hours from the time I start the movie to finish the movie or it disappears. Now, at my house, with kids running amok and other such distractions, I never watch a movie in one sitting. It took me, for example, three days to watch the last pay per view I ordered (300, if you must know; and that works out to 100 per day). We discovered this ordering a pay per view for the kids a bit back. I don’t understand the logic here. I mean, why 24 hours? It makes no sense.

So, no problem, we say. We’ll just record it and put on a DVD thereby outsmarting their plan. But now the movies are also protected against being recorded. Now that protection, I can understand but the 24 hour thing is retarded.

So, Dishnetwork has ensured that I and my family will never, ever pay for their pay per view movies again.

Laws are for little people:

Smith — as a commissioner — had successfully pushed for a citywide bike registration program to help police track stolen bikes. But when he contacted police to report his own stolen bike, he had to admit it was not registered.

Boomershoot pics. A series.