Dave Kopel and Robert Levy have a look.

Campfield hangs on.

Overbey defeats Finney. You’ll recall that in his time in the house Overbey crossed party lines to vote for Jimmy Naifeh as speaker of the house. Jimmy Naifeh, you’ll recall, is our lying speaker of the house who keeps abusing his power to kill pro-gun bills.

And it looks like the dirty pool paid off: Duggan beats Meares.

Cook County Democratic State’s Attorney Candidate: No One Should Own a Gun

Illinois governor wants to set up speed cameras on interstates so he can fund some tacticool ninjas to go door-to-door in Chicago to confiscate guns. Unpossible since guns are banned in Chicago.

Murder rate in Chicago three times higher than the nation and 6 times higher than the rest of the state.

Regarding the NRA’s alleged mole, I’ll tell congress on you:

Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, is the first in Congress to give it a try. On Thursday, he sent a letter to John Sigler, the president of the NRA

Letter at link.

Remember, I’m a mole too.

Various reports of misinformation at voting locations and alleged violence against folks in Blount County. Shameful.

This election should be an embarrassment for residents of Blount County.

Jay looks at the Mayors Against Guns survey.

A while back, I pondered the iPhone. As cool as it was and as much fun as I had playing with them, I just can’t bring myself to switch to AT&T. And, honestly, I was apprehensive about Apple products because, err, they’re made by Apple.

I opted for the Crackberry Curve.

Update: Another case against the iPhone.

Junior is into gymnastics, which she calls mynastics. It’s fun for her and she enjoys it. Yesterday, she was helping the Mrs. put up the laundry and her job was to put the towels up. She decided, while she was there, to practice her mynastics on the towel rack in the downstairs bathroom. Said towel rack is designed to hold a couple of towels and not 36 pounds of mynastics grade enthusiasm. So, the towel rack came off the wall. Later, when the kids were in the tub, I noticed the broken towel rack (I hadn’t yet been told it was broken). I asked what happened and Junior said she didn’t do it. The Mrs. then told me what happened. We had the talk about lying.

So, I decide to fix it. While fixing it, I look at Junior and tell her we don’t hang on things. And she asks me why. I say because if you do that, then you break my stuff and I don’t like that. How would you like it if I broke your stuff? Rest of the conversation goes like this:

Junior: Don’t break my stuff!

Me: But what if I did? Would you like that?

Junior: If you broke my stuff, I’d tell on you.

Me: Who would you tell?

Junior: Your dad.

Me: Do you know who my dad is?

Junior: Yes.

Me: Who is it?

Junior: Poppa

She did know.

Looks like the West Virginia Citizens Defense League is trying to get Charleston to change it’s restrictive handgun laws. Seems the city’s laws were grandfathered during pre-emption.

Update: Media coverage here.

Looks like some military operators are testing:

“This rifle is awesome,” said one Special Forces operator who, like the rest of the Green Berets in this interview, declined to be named for security reasons. “It’s spot on.”

Video and pics at the link.

Forwarded to me from my dad:

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Can’t find a link on their site though, other than mention in a newsletter.

GovMath: is there anything it can’t do?

More truthiness from the anti-gun side.

A reunion. Pretty cool video.

In Canada, Jennifer Helen Shenouda is shitting herself because a crow was wounded. Shot by an air rifle. Apparently in Canada, airguns are also cause to crap your pants. Said crow was transported to a non-profit rehabilitation centre for wild birds in Hudson. Transport occurred without struggle. Well, that’s good! I mean I was worried about the crow for a minute. Until I remembered it was a fucking crow.

Oh, and someone wants the air gun manufacturers there to, and I am not making this up, reimburse the non-profit rehabilitation centre for wild birds in Hudson for costs associated with rehabilitating the birds (which are mostly geese and I hate geese). No, really.

Only it doesn’t.

A pro-gun group starting in DC called Capital Gun Owners is headed up by Amy McVey, who you’ll recall is the first person to license and register a firearm in the district after Heller.

Once again, Bloomberg asks the presidential candidates to fill out a questionnaire on guns. Once again, candidates not expected to notice.

Kevin is on to me. See, he notes by the fact that I receive emails (that mostly ask for money) from The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership, I must be mole.

TN Rep. Stacey Campfield has the official grill of SayUncle.

And if we can have a grill, why not an official soap.

Using adminimize for wordpress. Highly recommended, thus far. It puts categories where they should be.

Remember, it’s gun nuts who are paranoid.

ETA: How are you going to be able to afford that expensive sweep of your office since you keep going on about how broke you are in those emails I get?

The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports:

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has launched a public awareness campaign to inform Washington, D.C., residents—particularly those now considering purchasing a handgun—about the many educational resources it makes available to firearms owners. The campaign follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision (Washington, D.C., et. al. vs. Heller) reaffirming the Second Amendment as an individual right and ruling the district’s ban on handguns unconstitutional.

The campaign includes full-page advertisements appearing today in the district’s major newspapers—The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Hill—along with shooting seminars in the metro area, available free of charge, to D.C. residents.

Update: NSSF running ads in the Washington Post!

ETA: Boy, did I screw that one up. I copied the wrong link and text. Yeehaw!

First, I don’t think papers should endorse candidates. That said:

The KNS has endorsed challenger Doug Overbey. I personally have stated I’ll be voting for his opponent, incumbent Raymond Finney because Overbey while in the house crossed party lines to vote for Jimmy Naifeh as speaker of the house. Jimmy Naifeh, you’ll recall, is our lying speaker of the house who keeps abusing his power to kill pro-gun bills. Likely it’s this reason that Finney has the endorsement of the NRA.

As to the KNS endorsement, they say:

Both men sponsored a number of bills that became law during the two-year session: Finney 25 and Overbey 38. In fact, Overbey’s total was more than any other House Republican and ran the gamut from revising medical malpractice laws to funding hospital trauma centers. Chairing a House subcommittee that dealt with health care issues put him in a good position to shepherd those measures, but it is important to note the bills passed with a Democratic majority.

So, number of laws is good? And one wonders why government at all levels is out of control. It’s because, by golly, there ought ta be a law! Sorry, not impressed. Less is more. On Overbey’s sell out of his party, the KNS opines:

And, beyond the rhetoric and spending, Overbey’s effectiveness in working both sides of the aisle and his energetic approach to issues give him the edge in this race and our endorsement.

Stuff you cannot make up: With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces

Remember that mayor whose dog was killed when the police put on their ninja clothes and kicked in his door because someone mailed him some weed? Well, turns out that:

1) Police concluded that maybe that really wasn’t his weed (duh – who mails 30 pounds of illegal drugs and doesn’t plan on getting caught).

2) And the police, it seems, did not obtain a no-knock warrant. This would seem odd since they did not knock, stormed his house, and shot his dogs.

Now, maybe these ridiculous raids will get some attention. Good thing that bad things happen to important people or no one would ever notice.

That Morristown, TN actually has a SWAT Team.

Ad based business models on the internets are doomed to fail.

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Sean Braisted on McCain’s ad: Why would the McCain campaign be doubling down on childish mockery and contempt?

Well, because Barack You Put Da Lime In Da Coconut Obama caters to a particular demographic that seems to appreciate childish mockery. Or so I’m told.

HopeChange, Bitches!