This week, at Coal Creek Armory for you local yokels.

NY spent a bunch of money and time and effort on a database of ballistic fingerprints. Seven years later, the number of prosecutions from the database: zero.

They should have just asked Maryland.

Thirteen year-old Tori can shoot:

David has a report. Interesting bit on Obama and guns:

John Lott spoke, with an interesting point. He’d held a fellowship at Univ. of Chicago School of Law, when Obama was a prof. or sorta-prof. there, and they talked a few times. The first time Obama said “oh, you’re the gun guy.” When he said that he was, Obama said “I don’t believe people should be allowed to own guns.” Lott said maybe they should talk about it. Obama just smirked and left without a word. Lott noted that he is happy to debate the topic fairly; he’s often had Cass Sunstein, who is very anti-2A, to his house for dinner and they debate gun control amicably. But not Obama.

Obama has since changed the tune but the lyrics are the same.

ST15 – 22 caliber Rifle SBR.

Big machine guns v. little airplanes

The Cali-legal, pink AR. Pics of this thing keep popping up.

Phoenix:

A man is dead after trying to break into a woman’s home and she opened fire on him.

According to police the woman had a restraining order against the man although their exact relationship is unclear.

Has there ever been a dumber Presidential team than these two?

Also, noted shotgun expert Jon Stewart informs us there are no Beretta shotguns, which was quite the surprise.

Governor Blunt:

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

‘What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

Ouch.

Gun laws invalid:

Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania’s law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons.

Commonwealth Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Legislature filed by two members of Philadelphia’s City Council, Darrell L. Clarke and Donna Reed Miller.

The court cited language in several gun ordinances the council passed last year that the measures cannot take effect unless the Legislature were to let municipalities enact stricter laws. That has not happened.

FFL found not guilty in straw purchase case.

National Review‘s Kathleen Parker on The Palin Problem:

Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain?s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood ? a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.

Palin didn?t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.

It was fun while it lasted.

Palin?s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.

No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I?ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I?ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there?s not much content there. Here?s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: ?Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we?re talking about today. And that?s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.?

When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama?s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: ?I?m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who?s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who?s actually done it??

If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

If Palin were a man, we?d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she?s a woman ? and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket ? we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can?t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP?s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.

I thought it was the Left that was supposed to suffer from “PDS.”

Just picked up my Gun Blog 45.

And Todd Jarrett said some of us screwed up and left our lasers on and the batteries would be dead. I would be one of those.

The Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign.

For the earworm.

Robb addresses The Moral Calculus of Gun Rights.

You know what we haven’t argued about in a while? Fixing the AR-15. So, the US Army is asking the industry for ideas to improve it.

Like past efforts at exactly this effort and efforts to develop the Joint Combat Pistol, it will go no where. Except that some gun makers will probably make some really cool new stuff for us. Except HK.

FYI, smart quotes aren’t.

They keep getting turned into question marks.

And I wanna hold you in parenthesis.

Xrlq addresses the Obama Campaign’s threats on the first amendment:

Apparently, it?s not enough for Barack the Bully to have the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times Jake Tapper, Annenberg Political (humorously known as ?Factcheck.org?) and every other mainstream media outlet in its pocket. No, that?s not good enough; you got to stop the paid ads, too.

In Pennsylvania, Lebanon County PA Sheriff Michael DeLeo revoked Meleanie Hain’s concealed carry permit because she was open carrying while watching a soccer game.

Forget those gun cameras, how about machine gun cameras.

That punk pulled a GLOCK 7 on me. You know what that is? It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month.

The Army Times:

The 3rd Infantry Division?s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they?re training for the same mission ? with a twist ? at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

The FOPA stipulates it is a defense to state gun charges for those traveling interstate with their firearms so long as possession is legal in state they start in and the state the end up in. And the weapon is unloaded, etc. NYC has long ignored that law and prosecuted people anyway. Well, a court rules that the law applies there too:

New York criminal defense law firm Tilem & Campbell announced today that all charges were dismissed against a client charged with possessing a loaded firearm in Bronx County, New York.

Good.

Via David, who has more.

Rock River Arms Entry Tactical.

Over at Outdoor Life, even.

Senate Democrats block the DC gun bill:

Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , D-Ill., objected, calling the bill an attempt ?take away the authority? of the city to write its own gun laws.

Hutchinson said it is ?the prerogative of Congress? to make laws affecting the District.

Gun-rights advocates say the District government is not abiding by a Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that voided the city?s handgun ban in June. The D.C. City Council promulgated temporary laws in July, and another set of temporary laws Sept. 16. City officials are working on permanent ones.

Durbin said he was acting on behalf of 11 Democratic senators who signed a letter expressing concern ?about proceeding to this bill without hearing from local and federal law enforcement officials and other interested parties.?

The senators who signed the letter include Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California, who had vowed to filibuster the measure after the House passed it 266-152 on Sept. 17.

I guess Hillsy’s attempt to woo gun owners was short-lived.

And remind your Democrat senator on election day.

A list of Barack’s middle names as seen in various places.

HK G11 that fired caseless ammo. Not that it mattered. They wouldn’t sell you one. Because you suck and we hate you.