Palin brings them up.

TriggerFinger on ABA bias:

they are emphasizing the Chicago cases, since those are likely to lead the way on incorporation. The article has a mild bias, beginning with quotes from the lawyer who expects to defend Chicago’s gun ban, and including a few paragraphs down the claim that guns kill children and prevent the Olympics and probably blend puppies too

Remington wanted to get 308 type performance out of an AR Platform. So, they came up with the .30 Rem. AR. A round up:

Pics and specs at GunPundit.

Over at The Gun Shots:

30 Remington AR, the Newest AR Cartridge For Big Game

Some tech specs.

Ballistics.

And more technical info.

With pics.

I’d say Maryville.

Watch the metal parts flex:

Tracy shooting a buzzgun at Knob Creek.

Funny ha-ha: Attempting to avert financial disaster, George Bush adds PayPal button to WhiteHouse.gov Web site

Funny but not ha-ha: Economic Stabilization = 1,000 new bureaucrats

Funny ha-ha and also funny but not ha-ah: It’d be nice if at least one of the major party candidates for president–or the current president–thought at least as much of capitalism as the president of France.

From Bill Aikins, court documents related to the Akins case are available here.

This past weekend, The City (My The City) hosted the Foothills Fall Festival. We took the kids on Saturday and watched some live music featuring a bunch of country singers I’d never heard of and Billy Ray Cyrus, who I have heard of but only ever heard one song – and you know which one it is. It’s not that these weren’t big names it’s just that I don’t listen to country. It was a good time. Our kids’ first concert.

Then on Sunday, we left the kids with the in-laws and me and the Mrs. went at watched a bunch of country singers I’d never heard of and Kenny Rogers. At 70, that man is one Hell of an entertainer. And it helped that I’d actually heard some of his songs before.

And the food was awesome. Funnel cakes and big greasy burgers. Oh, and one place had ribbon fries that were to die for.

It was a good time.

The Brady Campaign says Jim and Sarah have endorsed Barack Obama. I’m sure you are shocked.

Update: Robb says: If Obama supports gun rights Then why is the worst gun control group offering their endorsement to him?

Folks are saying there was a pretty serious injury at the machine gun shoot this year. Seems a stunt went wrong.There’s a video on youtube (not for the squeamish – you were warned). I think I’d just stick with shooting the machine guns if I was there.

ABA Journal looks at gun legislation post-Heller.

Using data from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s alleged “study”, one concludes Brady Campaign admits that Assault weapons are rarely used in violent crime:

Also notable, they don’t mention any numbers from when the “ban” was in effect with which to draw comparisons.

Commie guns.

Colt Sub-Compact Weapon with Folding-Stock Tactical 5.56 SBR. That stock looks interesting.

I didn’t make it this year and that was a bummer. But others did. Here’s what they wrote about:

Video of full auto goodness. And tons of pics.

Even more pics.

Show and tell and GBR is always a blast.

Range pics.

Apparently, the range was cold. Ridefast and Kevin have reports.

“May Issue” also means “May Revoke”

The newest Brady report on weapons that look like assault weapons is full of the same stuff they’ve been peddling for 20 years. Except this time, they quote Jim Zumbo on page 17. No mention, obviously, that Zumbo has recanted.

GIRLZ GONE WILD

David has the details

Slate has a good rundown of why Fannie and Freddie are symptoms of the current financial meltdown, not the cause.

To borrow from publius’ summation: essentially, “it’s not risky to lend to minority families, it’s risky to lend to rich white people.”

Taste the snark:

I await the Krauthammer column in which he points out the specific provision of the Community Reinvestment Act that forced Bear Stearns to run with an absurd leverage ratio of 33 to 1, which instructed Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers to blow up hundreds of millions of their clients’ money, and that required its septuagenarian CEO to play bridge while his company ran into trouble. Perhaps Neil Cavuto knows which CRA clause required Lehman Bros. to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars in short-term debt in the capital markets and then buy tens of billions of dollars of commercial real estate at the top of the market. I can’t find it. Did AIG plunge into the credit-default-swaps business with abandon because Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now members picketed its offices? Please. How about the hundreds of billions of dollars of leveraged loans—loans banks committed to private-equity firms that wanted to conduct leveraged buyouts of retailers, restaurant companies, and industrial firms? Many of those are going bad now, too. Is that Bill Clinton’s fault?

Crossed everywhere.

Never done it. Well, I take that back. I did it in the early 1990s at a friend’s shop. Any good articles on getting into it?

With ammo prices and reading Robb’s talk of savings, it might be worth it. What sort of savings can you expect?

Update and bump lest it get lost in our weekend lefty flame war: What’s a good start on reloading equipment (i.e., must haves).

An interesting point of view in the letters section of the NY Times.

You quote John McCain, “How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?” He was referring to Barack Obama’s acquaintance with the former Weatherman Bill Ayers, but the same question might be put to his own supporters.

A Vietnamese friend once described to me the scene of carnage he witnessed as a child after a United States bombing in Hanoi. He and his family fled through a landscape strewn with the body parts of innocents.

An argument could be made that the pilot who flew 23 bombing sorties over Vietnam and the former radical were both doing what they believed right — one in support of a war and the other in protest of it — and that both were wrong.

Not sure how I feel about that sentiment, but it’s worth noting, not to bash McCain or defend Ayers but merely as reminder that the result of war is inevitably inhuman destruction. There are no clean hands. War might sometimes be necessary, but when weighing the costs and justifications of waging war, we should stop lying to ourselves that this time it will be different, that this time our innate goodness as Americans and the justness of our cause will somehow prevent atrocities. Too much evil has been done in the name of doing good.

There’s some good news from Connecticut.

In the 4-3 opinion, the court wrote “the state has failed to provide sufficient justification for excluding same sex couples from the institution of marriage.”

Massachusetts, California and now Connecticut have ended marriage discrimination. Vermont, New Jersey and New Hampshire have civil unions. Oregon has domestic partnerships. New York recognizes out-of-state marriages (and will soon start performing them in-state).

All these places where marriage discrimination is declining and yet the world hasn’t ended! How’s your relationship holding up under the strain? I’m wondering when reality will intrude on the delusions of the bigots. I won’t hold my breath.

Over at my other blog, I did a write-up of why I don’t expect the Ayers attacks to gain much traction, if anyone’s interested.

Video

Heh.

The letter:

The Department has determined that your identified risk does not meet the good cause threshold as required under the new CCW policy based upon the information you provided. As a result of this determination, the Department’s present intention is to revoke your CCW license

I do not think it means what you think it means:

The mainstream National Rifle Association has endorsed the mainstream, all-American candidate, John McCain, for the Presidency of the United States

The NRA and McCain are more mainstream on guns than Barack Obama. Otherwise, the DLC would not have had to create a fake pro-gun group to make him seem closer to mainstream.

I’m guessing with all the allegations of voter fraud that keep popping up everywhere (and more today), that being a lawyer is going to be a lucrative job the week of November 4. Since elections these days are increasingly tight, the various fraud accusations could come into play.

It also doesn’t help that the Obama campaign gave $800,000 to the group accused of committing most of the fraud.