Anti-gunner goes to the range: She’s still anti-gun, but she went for a lesson on the handgun range. She said she didn’t enjoy it. Yet she was laughing, proud of her target, and had a shit-eating grin.

IDF M16.

S&W 66-1.

It is apparently surprising that half of gun deaths are suicide. If you’re not paying attention. Or work for the press.

Or someone may have been killed.

Insty notes: One interesting question is what the ACLU is going to do with Heller.

Well, we already know that they chose politics over civil rights:

In Heller, the Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment as a source of individual rights. Washington D.C.’s gun control law, which bans the private possession of handguns and was widely considered the most restrictive such law in the country, became a victim of that reinterpretation.

The Court was careful to note that the right to bear arms is not absolute and can be subject to reasonable regulation. Yet, by concluding that D.C.’s gun control law was unreasonable and thus invalid, the Court placed a constitutional limit on gun control legislation that had not existed prior to its decision in Heller. It is too early to know how much of a constitutional straitjacket the new rule will create.

Remember, they keep telling us we’re nuts to think the .gov might seize weapons.

If we’re crazy, why does the city of San Francisco have New and Aggressive Gun Seizure Benchmarks?

Part of their anti-gun tactics. They actually use that phrase. The honesty is refreshing compared to the usual We’re not anti-gun but . . . we’re used to hearing.

Update: Good thing the good guys are taking the fight there.

With bonus gay joke in comments!

A little conflict between a state rep. with a CCW permit and the airport.

In other news, notice how many folks are getting their activism on after Heller?

So, we’ve had quite the victory with Heller. As noted before: The Heller decision is not the call of victory, but a call to battle.

Within minutes of Heller, a suit was filed in Illinois. Other suits have been filed/announced. In other words, it’s go-time. Go-time requires money. Several gun rights organizations are active in these lawsuits and could use the money:

The NRA Institute for Legislative Action is the group at NRA filing lawsuits. Click here to donate.

The Illinois State Rifle Association filed suit within 15 minutes of Heller. Click here to donate

The Second Amendment Foundation is also active in various lawsuits. Click here to donate.

So, give these folks a buck or two.

Update: Note that I listed several options. This is a trollphylactic for anyone who wants to show up and say No way I’m giving to X because they pissed me off that one time when they did that one thing.

Update: And Cali too!

More from the convention. I forgot I had more. 10/22s:

Click to ginormisize.

Way back when, anti-gunners realized that they couldn’t repeal the second amendment. So, they decided to change what it meant. They formulated the end result from there and then worked back to achieve. Trouble is that the collective rights mythology was so twisted that if everyone bought it then its unintended consequences would have been quit amusing.

Heller pretty much ended this Creation Science. Says Scott Bach:

That such a question was even the subject of controversy, or that there were dissenting Justices, is a sad testimony to the state of our nation. It is also a testimony to one of the worst hoaxes and frauds ever perpetrated by gun ban extremists: the phony claim that the phrase “right of the people” really means “right of only those people in state militia service” when firearms are involved.

There is no basis for such an assertion. Yet for years, those unable to legislate the Second Amendment away have shamelessly pursued a scheme to interpret it out of existence by convoluting its words and rewriting its history. They have actually argued, with a straight face, that one provision of the Bill of Rights doesn’t really apply to all Americans – just to some Americans.

In fact, the collective rights mythology is even going down the memory hole at The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s website.

Christian Science Monitor gets its shilling on.

See, if my synapses fired like anti-gunners, I’d think there were loopholes in Heller.

Gun Law News looks at some quotes.

Kellerman’s numbers change more often than Barack ooh eee ooo aaa aaa ting tang walla walla bing bang Obama’s position on whatever is in the news this week.

That’s just those self-defense whackos talking.

We talked yesterday about how people will call you crazy for thinking someone from the .gov would come take your guns. Up next is American Hunters and Shooters Association endorsed (and only winner, just ask them, they’re very proud) Claire McCaskill:

“When’s the last time a Democrat knocked on anybody’s door to take away their guns?” Ms. McCaskill said. “It’s hogwash, and you have to start speaking up about it.”

Obviously, McCaskill needs to revisit New Orleans where Mayor Nagin (a Democrat) ordered taking away guns. Or that time in California when their DOJ went door-to-door confiscating weapons (again, Democrats). And, again in Cali, when Democrat controlled governments confiscated weapons? Yup, sure is hogwash!

I mean this distrust of Democrats by gun owners is unnerving. I mean, if only someone could go set up a group with a pro-gun sounding name like, say, American Hunters and Shooters Association that endorsed Democrats only. No matter what kinda gun banners they are. That would solve the problem.

Some alt weekly I’ve never heard of says of me:

SayUncle was outraged by the ACLU’s insufficient enthusiasm for the decision, and suggested that commenters “play spot the hysteria,” though a few apparently thought “spot” meant “create” (“The American Communist Litigation Unit,” “Is this any different than the rest of the Marxists,” etc).

This popular column (they tell me it’s popular in the article anyway, though it has thus far yielded zero hits) rounds up right wing blogs.

Now, I’ve read my post and, well, quite frankly can’t find the outrage. I mean, after all, I expected the ACLU to be shills. It’s what they do. In the past, the ACLU has largely been indifferent on the second amendment. This bit shows them as, well, openly hostile. And, of course, they get the facts wrong when they note things like:

the Court has described the Second Amendment as designed to protect the ability of the states to preserve their own sovereignty against a new and potentially overreaching national government.

A lie. Name one case.

the Court has historically construed the Second Amendment as a collective right

Ditto.

the Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment as a source of individual rights

Err, no.

It is too early to know how much of a constitutional straitjacket the new rule will create.

And some hysteria to boot.

If you’re going to criticize me, do so. If you’re going to criticize me then quote some of my commenters, that’s just stupid. And I still haven’t found my alleged outrage.

Palm Beach post:

Last week, the Supreme Court gave the National Rifle Association a split decision

Might wanna check your list of plaintiffs there, sparky.

By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that firearm ownership is an individual right, even though the Second Amendment links that right to service in a militia.

May wanna check the rules of English there, sparky.

I didn’t see a need to read more.

In DC, after Heller, residents are trying to get guns:

Gun shops in suburban Maryland and Virginia felt an immediate impact from the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that the District’s handgun ban is unconstitutional. City leaders said it would take about three weeks to iron out the details: Which kinds of guns will be legal, and how will the registration process work?

Someone will have to do something about that whole handgun sales to out of state people law, though.

Tennessee is getting a shiny new blogger.

Caught fibbing.

Your last day to vote in Para USA’s gun blogger contest. You’re voting to send your favorite gun blogger there and for a chance to win a spot yourself.

And if you vote for Joe, you may get to see Todd Jarrett blow up a car by shooting at it.

After Heller, comes this.

Highlights received via email:

Official Washington DC firearm registration pamphlet issued
Interesting highlights:

1. Only shotguns*/**, rifles**, and revolvers can be registered.
*Shotguns with a barrel length less than 20″ aren’t legal.
**Any semi-automatic firearm that can fire or could be made/restored to fire more than 12 rounds without being manually reloaded is illegal.

2. NFA and semi-automatic handguns are illegal.

3. You must be 21 or older to register ANY firearm.

4. Anyone found guilty of any prostitution-related offense is disqualified from registering a firearm. (Never heard of this restriction in any other state before..!)

5. Cost is $13 per firearm plus a $35 fingerprinting fee and it can take up to 14 days to get the registration through.

More:

Pass a test?

I’m one to talk but they could have sprung the $$ for a proof reader.

I think that semi-auto handgun thing is going to get DC into more trouble. If It is enough to note, as we have observed, that the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon, then the fact a semi-auto handgun is the most popular, well, you know.

And:

Must not suffer from a physical defect which would make it unsafe for you to possess and use a firearm safely and responsibly.

Wow.

More: Safe storage (i.e., useless storage) has gone from required to strongly encouraged.

$48 in fees.

But of course: Hours of operation at inconvenient times for working folks.

14 days is a long time to wait, if someone is trying to kill you.

Glenn:

What’s most striking about Heller is that absolutely everybody — majority and dissents — says the Second Amendment protects an individual right.

But:

It’s true that the dissenters’ view of that right is somewhere between “minimalist” (to be charitable) and “incoherent” (to be accurate).

Mike has an interesting observation:

Now we are in the Post-Heller United States (feels kind of nice to say that) the “reasonable gun control folk” are offering compromises. Funny thing is, their compromises now are pretty much the same as their compromises then

Update: See.

Bersa.

Kopel can’t find the right that Stevens says exists.

GOP Plans to keep guns in spotlight this election.

But let’s remind them that a few gun banners had Rs after their names (ahem, Helmke & Blooberg).

From the Netherlands of all places:

Gun Control Lost; What Happened

It’s really quite simple: gun control legislation did not reduce violence. Secondly, people started actually reading the text of the second amendment of the United States Constitution. Thirdly, ‘laws allowing concealed weapons proliferated – with no ill effects.’

Via Bane.

Heller: on track to be the most widely read Supreme Court opinions by the general public of all-time.

I’ve been critical of in the past – after all, when they go from reporting news to making it, it can’t be good

It happened. I thought it’d go the other way. See, I thought those idiots at NBC’s To Catch A Predator would one day find themselves in a room with a nutjob who was armed. And carnage would ensue. Instead, they filmed a show and the would be predator decided to introduce his brains to the light of day.

His family sued. NBC settled.

That’s a lot of AKs