Tennessee Firearms Association:

Albert McCall & Congressman Marsha Blackburn would like to invite all red blooded Americans to a night of good ole fun in God’s Country.

Activities include:

Target shooting BBQ Supper

Hay Ride Karaoke

Horseshoes Face Painting

“Shoot for Life”

So all you fellers grab your gal and bring your youngins if you got ’em!

Where: C.S. Hawkins Park Times: 5:30-8:30
Auburntown, TN BBQ @ 7
When: September 22nd Cost: $5 to Shoot
No Charge for meal

For more information call-615-257-1473

*ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO MARCH OF DIMES

Via David, who notes something important to keep in mind:

I typically don’t do local announcements, but this one illustrates a concept more gun owners would do well to adopt–doing something that benefits people in your community under the banner of a regional gun club.

Mike tells his anti-gun dad that he owns guns. Plan B should include taking dad to the range.

That explains it!

House passes bill to ease DC’s gun laws:

The pro-gun majority in the House moved Wednesday to compel the nation’s capital to broaden the rights of its residents to buy and own firearms, including semiautomatic weapons.

Critics, led by the District of Columbia’s sole delegate to Congress, decried the action. They said the vote tramples on the District’s rights to govern itself and could endanger both residents and political dignitaries who so often travel across the city.

But the National Rifle Association-backed bill passed easily, 266-152, with supporters saying they were determined to give D.C. residents the same Second Amendment right of self-defense that has been available to other Americans.

Interestingly, this was a Democrat led bill. No doubt, Obama is bad for their blue dog credentials so they have to do something.

update: NRA presser here.

Couple more technical issues to work out.

.99 caliber Rutgers.

Roy Batty isn’t what he used to be.

That’s a bit of hyperbole. I’m using gun-ban-speak. But this was amusing:

The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping.

Thirty-five of the missing handguns, rifles, Tasers and other weapons were stolen, as were 50 laptops, the internal audit found. Two of the stolen weapons were used in crimes.

The audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine found “inadequate” oversight of weapons and laptops resulted in “significant rates of losses” at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“It is especially troubling that that ATF’s rate of loss for weapons was nearly double that of the FBI and DEA, and that ATF did not even know whether most of its lost, stolen, or missing laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information,” he added.

Actually, it’s disturbing that they lose any. Some numbers:

It found that ATF lost three times more weapons each month than it had in a similar 2002 audit by the Treasury Department, which used to oversee the agency. It also lost 50 times as many laptops as reported in the earlier audit.

Of the 76 weapons, 35 were reported stolen, 19 lost and 12 missing from inventories, investigators found. Of the 418 missing laptops, 50 were stolen, 8 lost and 274 could not be found during inventory. Another 86 laptops were unaccounted for because ATF had either destroyed or lost documents showing where they were, the audit concluded.

Two weapons reported stolen were used to commit crimes. In one instance, a gun was stolen from an ATF car parked outside the agent’s home and later used to shoot through the window of another residence, the audit found. In the other, a stolen ATF gun was taken from a burglary suspect.

Additionally, ATF employees did not report 13 of the 76 lost weapons, or 365 of the 418 missing laptops, to internal affairs as required. ATF officials also did not report much of the lost equipment to the Justice Department.

ATF continues its record of stellar performance!!

Via an alert reader, who notes: Sullivan’s solution – revise reporting standards for lost weapons – instead of ya know, revising standards for not losing them in the first place

Update: Meanwhile, the delicious irony of noting that ATF has shut down dealers who have made clerical errors with a smaller margin of error than ATF.

With pics.

After lying and telling everyone that H.R. 6691 (bill in congress to regulate DC’s gun laws for them) would allow people to carry loaded assault weapons on city streets. Teenagers and children would be allowed to carry assault and sniper rifles, as the bill repeals all age restrictions on the possession of long guns, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership breaks out some pure, enrichment grade deception:

New NRA Gun Bill Shows Gun Lobby Deception

Funny, the NRA hasn’t lied about what the bill does but Brady has.

Just hours after a Brady Center report highlighted the NRA’s repeated and false denials that its bill to gut DC’s gun laws would allow assault rifles on the streets of Washington, the gun lobby has revised the bill to prevent the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets.

The bill never allowed the carrying of assault weapons on DC’s streets. They really are desperate.

If you’re from a certain geographical region, you’re a racist.

Who’s the bigot again?

Anyone who is surprised by this has obviously never dealt with the Internal Revenue Service:

The IRS has acknowledged that Jamey and Lora Costner of Newport are victims of identity theft and Congress has called on them to testify. Nevertheless, this young couple are being harassed yet again by the IRS for back taxes on income they never earned at a place they never worked (Koch Foods). This time, the feds have already taken $467 from Lora Costner’s $401K fund to pay the debt they don’t owe.

The monkeys push the buttons. It doesn’t matter if you have a valid concern, legitimate reason or other issue. IRS collects. The monkey just pushes the buttons.

Sebastian:

The Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate for Governor of Delaware, who’s a dyed in the wool gun hater, has a blog that allows comments.  Be polite.  Be concise, but let?s put some pressure on.  Let him know gun owners are watching.

DC council has approved new gun laws to comply with Heller. It’s quite obviously an attempt at preventing congress from stepping in. Congress needs to intervene on this one.

David E. Young emails that he will be attending the event.

Remember that crazy idiot named Fatimah Ali who said that if Obama lost there would be race wars? Well, her dumb ass is back. This time, though, her particular brand of stupid racism meets the other brand of stupid racism as she quotes some material by the white power crowd, who, unsurprisingly, seem down with the violence she predicted.

Criminals dressed as cops have been known to raid houses. Now, fake cops pull a person over and rob them.

Seems Sarah Brady is a bit spooked by Sarah Palin:

Dear Chuck,

Sarah Palin makes me nervous. The NRA gave her its highest rating during her run for Governor. In a candidate questionnaire for Governor, she equated gun control as being as much of a threat to families as drugs and gangs!

With the Republican nomination of lifetime NRA member Sarah Palin for Vice President, the NRA has just what it’s looking for to keep its White House office open.

Looks like their fears are compounded by the fact that Sarah Palin may drive more women into the shooting sports: Is Sarah Palin’s Gun Hobby Catching on with Rhode Island Women?

Well, I hope so.

Every day, I wake up. Every day, categories disappear.

Braisted: Well, Al Gore, meet John McCain, inventor of telecommunications and the blackberry.

The difference being that no one claimed McCain invented the blackberry. Gore did claim he ‘took the initiative in creating the Internet’. Which is only debunked if you somehow think inventing it and taking the initiative to create it are substantially different. Or you don’t know what the fuck debunked means.

David E. Young, in comments:

The problem for controllers is that they cannot see the forest for all the trees (the militia for all the armed citizens).

Indeed.

A shooting in Chicago.

Looks like H.R. 6691 could be discussed today.

So, as mentioned before, the American Hunters And Shooters Association has endorsed Obama (no surprise since that is what it was set up to do). So, AHSA shill Ray Schoenke takes to the radio to tell everyone why hunters and shooters (who those crazy AHSA directors like to call whackos and extremists) should not fear Obama. So, why does he talk about taxes and not guns:

“It’s important to me that our next President protects our Second Amendment rights to own guns and defend ourselves,” says Schoenke. “Barack Obama and John McCain will both make sure we can keep our guns. But what about keeping our jobs? Barack’s got a real plan that invests in creating jobs here at home and cuts taxes a thousand bucks for working families. John McCain? I saw a lot of cheap shots in my day, but McCain’s false attacks on Obama are just a fake to hide the ball. His plan sells out American workers. McCain will keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas. And he’ll look the other way while China breaks our trade deals. It’s the same old Bush playbook. Look, when the coach loses eight years in a row, you don’t bring him back for a ninth season! We just can’t afford more of the same.”

And here I thought they’d have a rousing discussion on their favorite shotgun loads.

Ouch.

Being one of the few rich and special people to get carry permits in NYC has it’s privileges.

Update: Great minds and all that.

Update 2: And $0.50 is a felon. He can’t even lawfully handle those guns.

So, Barack Grrrl power! Obama likes to yammer on about equal pay. Too bad he pays his female staffers less. McCain actually pays women more.

Maybe it’s merit?

Or does McCain just hate men?

Helicopters, Humvees, flash-bangs, breaking out windows during a police raid for the crime of . . . . bouncing checks.

I shit you not. Granted, he bounced a large number of them and engaged in fraud. But that’s not a tactical-Tommy crime. No ninja gear required.

Trap shooting.

In the local paper, a local says, well, I’m not sure what her point is as it’s not spelled out very clearly. There are about six paragraphs of peace, love, and dope. And the rest seems to just be spewing random anti-gun tidbits that are poorly understood. So, I’ll try to address the points I think she’s trying to make. But the title is Sandra Rini says we should rethink term “Militia” , so we’ll go with that.Says Sandra, after quoting the second amendment:

This outdated provision from a Congress that never envisioned the modern military we have today is more fiercely protected than any other amendment in the Bill of Rights. America has more guns in the hands of private citizens than any other nation; an estimated 300 million. And the National Rifle Association boasts that we add 4.5 million annually.

I know. Those darn outdated provisions. We don’t really need a third amendment either, since it never comes up. And those dumb founders never envisioned that there would be advances is technology. That was just crazy talk back then. So, we should limit your right to speak only to pen, paper and a printing press since they didn’t imagine that Al Gore would give us the Internets. And all the amendments seem to be under attack these days (except maybe the third, which we’re not using so it should be repealed too).

And there is, of course, Sandra’s inability to read. After all, it’s pretty clear from the amendment that the the right to bear arms is not tied to militia service. You can get a grammar lesson here. And the fact that the supreme Court recently ruled exactly that. She goes on:

If another country invades the U.S. or our own government turns on its citizens (the things a Militia was intended to guard against), those 300 million guns may as well squirt water for all the impact they’ll have against such an attack.

The militia was intended to do that. And to quell rebellions. And to, if necessary, be a police force. Regarding guns not impacting an invading force, has she heard of a country called Iraq?

Six paragraphs of peace, love and dope omitted because you got better things to do.

And:

America’s first Congress ensured the future of the militia in the Bill of Rights with the Second Amendment.

Two centuries later, our well-regulated militia is called the National Guard, and the states provide the arms.

Sandra should maybe try doing a bit of research. She’d then realize that the militia is comprised of:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

No need to rethink militia since it’s pretty clearly defined in USC. But we can’t have facts getting in the way of all that peace and love. And:

The security of the states is debatable; the safety of its citizens a fading memory.

Why is it you seem to think citizen safety negatively correlates to my right to keep and bear arms? Particularly, when there’s no such indication supported by, well, anything credible.

Sadly, we’re in the midst of a gun epidemic that kills 30,000 Americans every year.

Her number is, of course, misleading. More than half are suicides.

And the Second Amendment lives on.

And as long as I breathe, it will.

Seen at Rachel’s:

ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.