Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery.

New civilian SCAR comes in at $2,700.

Ineligible?

Not that a little thing like the constitution would get in the way anyway.

Jim L. Cunningham thinks so. He closes with: The NRA must think I’m stupid! Well, based on your article, I sure do.

Brantley Hargrove says Saxby Chambliss groped his granddaughter.

Aunt B. addresses the sheer dickheadedness involved.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he’ll work for $1 per year if the company has to take any government loan money.

There’s a Glock Shooting Sports Foundation shoot in Knoxville at the Volunteer Rifle & Pistol Club on Rifle Range Road (map here). Starts Saturday and runs through Sunday. I’ll probably be shooting in the sub-compact or amateur division since I am 1) a paper shooter and 2) my only Glock is a Glock 30.

When I stopped by Coal Creek Armory yesterday and congratulated their Employee of the Month, I bought one of these for the match because it occurred to me I did not have a magazine carrier for the Glock 30. I’m also thinking I should get one of these Galco belt holsters too. I have their Ultimate Second Amendment holster, which is great for concealment but probably not the best for competition. The belt holster seems like it could quite adequately perform double duty. What say you?

Update: And I showed my new mag carrier to the Mrs. She said it was very pretty. I have to admit, the saddle leather is quite nice.

A suppressed Lee Enfield in 45ACP.

Ridefast looks at some weapons-grade PSH from the press because Barry Bonds is the spokesman for Christensen Arms.

Blue Trail Range needs your help since the local press is aiding in trying to shut it down. You can help here.

Bitter hangs it up. Again.

Jay (who could use some help) notes how the press continues to treat the great gun buy of 2008 as hysteria. Since the press pretty much earns its living by peddling hysteria, you’d think they wouldn’t be constantly trying to downplay this.

The tough blame their equipment.

Suddenly, Jesse Jackson Jr. believes in the constitution.

A common trend seems to be wondering why all these mayors against guns keep getting arrested?

Zombies!

AEK-919 K subgun. It’s not in English but you’re just into pics, anyway.

M1 Carbine.

Chicks and guns: Bersa Thunder.

And a range report.

The WaPo:

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department’s role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.

But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

I wonder if the Bush loyalists are still going to be OK with that come January?

A guided bullet in the works?

One lucky penguin.

Stopped by my local Merchant of Death (Coal Creek Armory) to see if they had any deals on any death dealing gizmos and to grab a mag pouch. They had this up on their wall (sorry for the poor quality, it was taken with the Blackberry):

From Political

And Coal Creek had a few AR 57 uppers in stock and only two AR-15s on the wall.

At Tricities.com:

“It’s not a Democrat vs. Republican issue,” Hamm said. “It’s a rural vs. urban issue. And the urban people don’t do a good enough job of saying ‘Look, we need some help, people are dying here.’ And the rural people don’t do a good enough job of saying, ‘Look, I live in the country where the closest police department is 40 miles away. If someone breaks in my house, I need to be able to protect my family.’ ”

And:

“What could really change the gun issue in America is that the Supreme Court made it clear that there is no secret conspiracy to take away guns,” Hamm said. “I think it’s great progress. Now we can talk about gun control that works.”

Well, once you find some, let us know. So far, your average isn’t that great.

He’s big into cars:

Market capitalization of General Motors: $3.2 billion.

Market capitalization of Mattel, Inc.: $4.9 billion.

Like you and me, only better.

Sporting rifles and regular capacity magazine sales are up.

Meanwhile, MdwayUSA has dirt cheap AR magazines.

JR gives a shout out to Model 1 Sales for not jacking up prices.

Over at DownRangeTV is a round up of Outdoor Channel contests.

In Cali: In an often-tense post-9/11 environment, the Indian American executive director of the Orange County Republican Party was investigated for possible terrorist activity by the Orange, Calif., police department Nov. 18, following a tip-off by a local resident who overheard him speaking on his cell phone about assault rifles.

Once again, Delaware police are violating the law:

The Delaware State Police have been conducting secret background checks of some gun owners since 2001, a process known as “superchecks” that may violate federal law.

The checks have resulted in confiscation of weapons, some for legitimate reasons, but have subjected many citizens to a search of mental health records that in most cases police would be unable to access.

You’ll recall also that the Delaware state police got in some hot water a bit back for being bigoted against a woman gun owner by denying her purchase because she was old and a woman. And that they were illegally maintaining a list of gun owners.

Mike Ditka: NFL Should Prohibit All Players From Owning Guns.

Robb gets his Para back and to the range.

Squeaky goes to the range.