Videos from the ParaUSA Gun Blogger Event are here.

Including Kung-Fu Grip.

In his defense, I don’t read a lot of gun mags.

David Petzal yesterday:

I pass this bit of news along for what it’s worth, being unable to vouch for the accuracy of the source (or lack thereof). You are free to draw your own conclusions.

this bit of news being Obama’s lawyers were threatening the licenses of any TeeVee stations that ran NRA ads claiming the ads were lies. And by lies, they meant politically inconvenient for Obama.

This annoyed Bitter, who said:

I noted that if Petzal read any gun or political blogs in the course of the last week that he would have seen a much better job of covering these threats by the Obama campaign with original source material.

Sebastian and I both posted it around the time the NRA release went up. It was linked on Instapundit that night, along with many pro-gun blogs. The next day, it was everywhere, including SayUncle, the biggest gun blogger. Even if you believe Technorati (which is completely unreliable for blog tracking nowadays, tragically), about 200 blogs either linked to our posts, my version of the letter, or NRA’s press releases. That doesn’t include people who only linked to Instapundit or linked to specific files from NRA’s releases.

This story was everywhere. So how is it that a blogger missed it?

That is an issue with the gun magazines in general. They’re not really a place one would go for breaking news. As Robb Allen said once:

You know what I like about Freedom First?

I can get a great recap of what I read on the blogs last month.

And that’s true. The magazines can recap what has happened. The blogs, in real time, cover the issues with near instant updates. We’re about as current as can be. Some folks are pointing that out (see bottom of page four). Now, I noted at the top that I don’t read a lot of gun mags. And it’s true. I read two because one comes with an NRA membership and the other was a gift. From the political scene, these magazines are a decent recap of what has happened. But I already know that stuff. What I read the gun magazines for are the pics and reviews of various products. I like to read that stuff. And until manufacturers start sending bloggers product to to review (and some have started and I think more will follow suit), I’ll continue reading magazines just for that. Different venues. But if dead tree writers are going to act like bloggers, then they should probably read them if they want to stay up to date. Being a week late on a major gun story is kinda weak.

More thoughts on the Gun Blogging Community here.

Interesting:

The Legislature passed a law (which takes effect today) removing liability from companies offering commercial space flights.

Ingenious!

Or, rather, they’re losing.

Joe notes that Josh Horowitz of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, which has never been educational, now will also not be a fund. Seems that they are out of money err lacking support err going to practice telecommuting err are cutting back on office space and paying jobs.

Political Write: I have been anti-gun all my life. When my sons were little, I wouldn’t allow them to ever own a toy gun. But events in the past few years have radically changed my views.

Larry:

But when the government gets involved, it mandates stupidity, punishes the smart, and then takes their money to give to crack whores.

Glockity

Videos from summer camp coming soon. Will be here.

Heh.

Are you?

I guess Biden thinks that corporations actually pay taxes without raising prices? Or, you know, you could sprinkle pixie dust on it.

Moderator asked a dumb question. Both candidates evaded. Palin was called out for evading and not Biden.

Palin rightfully points out that the .gov is often the problem. Unfortunately, it’s her party that’s been running it for the last few years.

Update: just me or does Biden always get the last word?

Update 2: Asked what Biden would do if he became president, he rattled of a list of things that was fairly long. Say, if this VP gig doesn’t work out, maybe you should run for Senator so you can write laws to do those things . . . oh . . . nevermind.

I am remiss in mentioning that Bob Krumm has returned home and is blogging again. He asks an important question:

Is the bailout bill just passed in the Senate yesterday unconstitutional?

Article I, Section 7

Ahab looks at the guns he needs to compete.

What say you? I’m looking at getting into competition and, basically, want one gun to do as much as possible. Looks like the .40 caliber Glocks/1911s function well in that role.

A statistician testified that ATF’s National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (NFRTR) should only be used to pursue leads. As such, a jury became deadlocked on some charges:

The one big factor was the BATFE shot itself in the foot on this one because ERB registered a LOT of gun, all marked differently and all in different fonts…etc. There is no one or two ways that ERB marked and registered its guns. The BATFE went out and photographed about 20 guns (the legality of the BATFE using the NFRTR for this purpose is left for another article and the courts), all of which showed these different markings. The US Prosecutor was not happy about having to turn them over in discovery.

The BATFE has a LOT more to lose by retrying this case then letting it slip by. Moreover, just because the criminal case ended in an acquittal/mistrial, does not mean they cannot bring a forfeiture action to keep the gun.

Heh:

This is the greatest uncovering of an espionage conspiracy since Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs. It is unbelievable she got through the Ceasefire’s impenetrable security of “asking for full names” and “volunteering for events”.

Back later. Meanwhile, enjoy some hold music:

Training with lasers, holsters and dry firing.

Journal of the American Medical Association on Heller.

Sharing sugar daddies.

AC has more on the local election theft and it’s fall out.

We knew that already:

“The absence of gun show regulations does not increase the number of gun-related deaths as proponents of these regulations suggest,” said Jacob, director of its Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP).

Beth gets a shotgun.

Phelps in comments on the 1911:

I’m not sure you can even fire one with a stock trigger, since I’ve never actually seen one used.

Heh.

See if this works:

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ACK:

Host Senator Jim Kyle has just announced that Democratic Leadership Council Chair Harold Ford will join his “Nashville Conversation” patterned on the DLC’s “National Conversation”, the latest of which was held in Nashville.

If any of you go, you can ask them about the DLC’s funding, financing and setting up the anti-gun American Hunters And Shooters Association. I mean, why create a fake pro-gun group when you could just be, you know, pro-gun?

More on their involvement in AHSA here.

There really is a blog for everything.

Michael Bane on Shooter Retention:

Getting Beyond Catch & Release

The last few posts have got me thinkng about recruitment and retention strategies within the shooting sports, and issue that is guaranteed to come up in the first meeting of the NSSF 20/20 Shooting Sports Task Force in mid-October.

Speaking strictly for sport shooting, we typically put the huge majority of our efforts on recruitment ? how do we get new shooters? Most of the sports have junior programs in place (in some case for a long time), and we define that as “recruitment.”

That’s good, but not nearly good enough. I think the strength of the NSSF report is dividing potential shooters into a number of distinct markets that all require different strategies to reach. I’ll deal with that in a later post.

It’s an interesting issue. I will address one thing that I’ve noticed. The shooting sports, in addition to being expensive, are complex. I’ve contemplated and been researching getting into practical shooting. I’ve pondered IPDA v. IPSC (btw, here’s a good page on the differences between the two). And that’s complex in that, while one is pitched as a sport or game, the other is pitched as turning you into a tacticool ninja. Then, you get into the various divisions in each format and that gets confusing. It’s looking like if I ever attend an event, I’ll just take all my handguns and ask which one I can shoot. Because I still haven’t figured it out.

We seem to make things too hard for newbies. I think that, perhaps, a good two-gun match done with rimfires (handgun/rifle) would be perfect for getting and keeping people in the game. It’s cheap and not complex.

News services publishing press releases from the American Hunters and Shooters Association? Looks like it.

New York cannot have a gun-demic* with all that gun control.

* By the way, that may be the dumbest phrase I’ve heard all week.

People wonder if Sarah Palin’s spark has withered. Apparently, she’s made a few gaffes that are getting quite a bit of attention. I mean, she hasn’t made as many as Barack Personal Jesus Obama but that’s only because she hasn’t been running as long. And, you know, the press won’t cover his. And she hasn’t made as glaring of gaffes as Joe Biden.

So now, people are pondering whether the VP moderator stands to gain from moderating the debate? Beats me but it doesn’t lend a lot of objectivity to it.

Personally, I don’t know that the alleged gaffes have made much of a difference. It’s not like her gaffes have made Obama/Biden more appealing.

Ok, I don’t really have much to say. I just wanted to use that pun.