Ya know, when some state bureaucrat jerks me around due to circumstances beyond my control, I’m generally shit out of luck. But if I were a politico, I’d just have the laws changed when they inconvenience me. Case 1:

After the board denied her request, Ford, who was elected to the state Senate two years ago, vowed to change the law.

Case 2:

A Pennsylvania State Senator retaliates against the Game Commission after his kid has a run in with a game officer.

Case 3: The Chicago Alderman Loophole.

Details of another wrong house raid by police. Once again, police too willing to believe bad tips then not confirm them.

Hats off to the ACLU of Nevada for not clinging to the collective rights mythology its parent organization is peddling:

The Nevada ACLU respects the individual’s right to bear arms subject to constitutionally permissible regulations. The ACLU of Nevada will defend this right as it defends other constitutional rights.

Since the supreme court affirmed Heller!

Update: BTW, that bit is based on an already debunked study.

And heh: Yeah, because prior to Heller, criminals were too busy thinking “Sorry guys, it’s a collective right. We’ll have to wait until it’s individual before we go commit armed robberies.”

Apparently, because it’s still a county-by-county thing, getting a handgun carry permit when you move is a pain. Technically, Alabama is still ‘may-issue’ but in practice it is ‘shall-issue’, generally.

Tick Tock: Department of Interior is stalling in hopes that an Obama administration won’t force them to change their rules on National Park Carry. The deadline for comment has been extended to August 8th, so be sure to get your comments in!

Are you kidding: Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would like very much to reimpose the old, so-called, “Fairness Doctrine” that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting, is scheming to impose rules barring any member of Congress from posting opinions on any internet site without first obtaining prior approval from the Democratic leadership of Congress. No blogs, twitter, online forums – nothing.

TNGOP says:

SPEAKER NAIFEH LIED ABOUT HAVING GUN PERMIT

Public records show that Tennessee House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh lied in order to give himself political cover for his attack gun rights legislation during the last legislative session.

On April 11, nine days after he used parliamentary tricks to kill two pieces of legislation designed to enhance Tennesseans’ gun rights and the privacy of gun permit records, Naifeh claimed he was a friend of gun owners, and stated he was one of more than 190,000 Tennesseans who had a “concealed-weapons permit.” But public records show that Naifeh did not even apply for a handgun carry permit until three weeks later.

Actually, what really happened was:

After the maneuver, Naifeh displayed to a reporter a certificate showing he has completed the gun safety course necessary to obtain a handgun carry permit for himself. Naifeh said he has a 9 millimeter Smith and Wesson semi-automatic pistol that he plans to carry after obtaining a permit.

I ain’t a fan of Naifeh and would actually like to see that douchebag out of office for repeatedly using shenanigans to kill pro-gun bills. But completing the course is not getting a permit. Just part of the process. And it usually takes 90 days to get one. So, assuming he applied shortly after that, he still may not have received it yet. However, he did say after he had received the permit.

But, then, TN GOP knows we gun owners don’t like Naifeh. Too bad TN GOP is not credible since seven of their guys voted Naifeh as speaker. Not one dime from me, guys.

Update: Somehow I missed that Naifeh in fact did state shortly after this a few weeks ago I became one of the over 190,000 to earn a concealed weapons permit. Oops. Sorry about that. They are correct.

Update 2: AC has more.

Update 3: And that does explain why they requested the records.

Update 4: And since Naifeh seems intent on keeping your records public, here’s his application.

Video of Pretty Pistolera shooting some steel plates. As for advice: sight alignment and trigger squeeze.

Update: Dad calls (what you can’t use comments?) and says:

With my trip to train with Todd Jarrett and some ParaUSA goodies, I was planning my travel. This is the first time I can recall where it will actually be cheaper to fly than to drive.

Global Warming is now a mental illness.

Really.

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of “climate change delusion” – and they haven’t even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.

Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say this delusion was a “previously unreported phenomenon”.

“A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events.”

Summing it up: If the ACLU supported an individual 2A right then they would lose their funding from the Joyce Foundation and other anti-2A organizations.

BTW, the ACLU blog thread is up to 839 comments.

Ya know, no amount of uber-tacticool ninjafication can ever substitute for the simplicity of the four rules of gun saftey.

Mike is back.

Somehow, he’s linking to my posts days before I write them.

We know that ATF holds a pistol with a forward vertical grip is classified as an any other weapon and it is subject to the NFA process. And we know that at least two courts have told ATF that does not pass the smell test yet ATF still holds that position. But ATF often disregards congress so what are a couple of courts?

Anyway, the question arises then, what about a bipod or a bipod with a grip? After all, Ruger’s new Charger comes with a bipod.

You could send them a letter asking. But it wouldn’t do any good because they’d later change their mind and come arrest you.

Some judges act like it’s not there.

We must ban cheese-graters. For the children^tm!

In the evening, though, a curious incident took place. The train stopped at a station and two police officers, with M16’s, got on the car, one at the front and one at the back.

I have to confess that I don’t consider DC part of America anymore. Like Cali, NY, NJ, and Britain, it’s a whole other country. Still, men armed with machine guns should not be patrolling our streets. We expect that in Zimbabwe. Not the US.

Howard Nemerov looks at what the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership means.

Not really worth much in the soft squishy sciences (which aren’t really sciences at all).

AC: Barack Obama wants America involved in the creation of the Democratic platform on which he runs — before he ignores it like every other candidate in American political history.

In AZ, after their governor pledged support for it. If Democrats keep this up, people are going to stop believing they found their pro-gun Jesus and are just saying things to get elected. Oh, wait.

A challenge to the onerous Lautenberg amendment.

DC has 41K registered handguns. 36K were registered before the ban. Who were the 5K that got to register their handguns after the ban?

A case of like you and me, only better?

And they don’t really know where those guns are.

Update: CounterTop emails that private security companies can register their weapons.

Mike has the skinny.

Wachel Wucas is looking at ways to monetize her blog. She even took a PETA ad. No big deal. The only ad I’ve ever turned down was from some Truthers. I bet it never occurred to her to accept $5,000 to quit smearing local politicos like Thaddeus Matthews.

Anyone who wishes for me not to smear them can send me $5,000 too. At least I’m upfront about it!

Sebastian has a look at some cases out there. Definitely worth reading and following links.

And if you ever wonder what we gunbloggers talk about when we’re not blogging, it’s which of these cases are good and which are bad. For instance, someone is going to challenge the machine gun ban. We just hope it’s not someone who’s retarded. Someone running headlong into court screaming SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED is going to lose and do damage to the cause, whereas someone who does it smart may still lose (and probably will – let’s face it the courts as of now will not unban machine guns) but can set the case up in a way that the result is still favorable.

The NRA at 56%.

Aim small, miss small.

More on the Bogus study.