Guns + Reactive Targets = Woohoo.

When Metallica is not busy sucking, they’re busy pissing off their fans. Ya know, the two they have left after being such douchebags. Via Aunt B.

George Carlin has died. That guy was seriously funny.

Good: Montesano Mayor Ron Schillinger says he vetoed a gun ban in city parks after receiving numerous protest messages, many of them from National Rifle Association members across the nation.

Miss Tennessee has a handgun carry permit!

So, folks predict tomorrow is the big day. And we’re all pretty much predicting a major civil rights victory for the good guys. I mean, I’d say tonight, you could stick a piece of coal up Paul Helmke’s rear and by the end of tomorrow it would be diamond. But . . .

Roberta is asking what plan B is if it doesn’t go our way? I’d predict a shit storm of epic proportions if that happened. But we’d have all drink a nice big glass of ‘cool our shit’ juice and come up with a plan.

Update: All the marbles!

The Mrs. is out of town. Just me and the kids. Can you tell?

In addition to the giant mess of toys everywhere, it’s one o’clock and we’re still in our jammies.

Ya know, if hard core metal bands (since we’re talking about metal) decided our foreign policy, the world might be a better place.

Even a nothing threat, deserves a response you won’t soon forget

Kids today. It’s like they’re neocons or something!

Here’s the vid.

Update: probably explains why dude don’t host Empty Vee’s Headbanger’s Ball no more?

Update 2: speaking of metal

CMP Auctioning some rifles!

Did not know they did that.

Dual wielding AK-47s open zipper cool!

John McCain reads blogs?

Three years after Kelo and what happened: Nothing.

South Carolina passes sweeping reciprocity law.

Even the idiots at Gun Guys have gotten the memo that they’re going to lose. Man, the anti-gunners get their marching orders out across all their astroturf outlets pretty quickly. It’s like they’re all working together. Or, you know, there’s just not many of them.

Going after ammo in Cali. Only 50 rounds a month? I shot six times that on Tuesday.

Judge rules no guns sign violates state law and is pretty fucking stupid. Ok, he didn’t actually rule the sign was pretty fucking stupid but, seriously, he should have.

In what may be a first for Barack Peep And The Big Wide World Obama, he has embraced the free market:

Barack Obama chose winning over his word.

The Democrat once made a conditional agreement to accept taxpayer money from the public financing system, and accompanying spending limits, if his Republican opponent did, too.

No more.

The chance to financially swamp John McCain — and maneuver for an enormous general election advantage — proved too great an allure.

Obama, a record-shattering fundraiser, reversed course Thursday and decided to forgo some $85 million so he could raise unlimited amounts of money and spend as much as he wants.

I take it as good news. I mean, here I thought Barack Who Farted? Obama was kind of a socialist because he’d never seen a place where government funding or meddling or control was bad. Now, he’s opted for the free market route. Well, regulated market. But, you know, it’s better. Maybe there is hope(change).

In Baltimore:

Investigators with the Maryland state prosecutor’s office, who have been probing Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s financial dealings during her tenure as City Council president, searched her home yesterday for more than seven hours.

She’s a member of Mayors Against Guns and hosted one of their events.

Seen at David’s:

Sullivan added that most licensed gun dealers are law-abiding and that, to be fair, ATF needs to apply the rules more uniformly across the country.

Well, you guys do in fact uniformly ignore the courts. And you uniformly prefer to go after clerical errors instead of real gun crime. Consistently bad is still consistent.

Heh:

In the film [V for Vendetta], the anarchist revolutionary V incites the population of Britain to don his mask and rise up against the government, because nothing captures the spirit of anarchy better than a mob of people in identical uniforms unquestioningly obeying one man.

Aunt B. is with me. She offers a guideline:

Say a Preacher is throwing a record burning or CD smashing. If, when he holds up an album by that group, you and your friends would have laughed and laughed and laughed that anyone could have thought that music was Satanic, it’s probably hard rock.

I dunno. Perhaps she should check out Demon Hunter, a Christian metalcore band. Here’s a tune. Kinda the opposite of Satanic but probably would cause convulsions in your average preacher.

Update: The outrage seems to be universal.

Looks like they may be easing their onerous restrictions since gun rights proponents are forming their own party. Sebastian has more.

or Here’s how easy it is to inadvertently break federal gun laws and not even know it

For Christmas this year, my wife got me a subscription to Guns Magazine. It’s a good mag and there’s even a column in each issue by David Codrea. In short, I enjoy the magazine so I’m not trying to be unnecessarily harsh on these guys.

In the current issue, they review the KEL-TEC PLR-16. The following picture is on page 57.

On page 58, is a similar pic with a note that says something like equipped with a surefire flashlight and forward grip, it makes a fine home defense weapon. Trouble is that ATF holds that attaching a vertical forward grip to a pistol makes the pistol an Any Other Weapon (AOW). The manufacture of an AOW (which you would do simply by putting a foreward grip on a pistol) requires payment for a $200 tax stamp and an extensive background check. It’s basically the same process as buying a machine gun or suppressor. This, per sentencing guidelines, is a pretty serious violation that could result in 10 years in jail and a $250K fine. Now, this ruling has been successfully challenged in court in South Carolina. The court ruled that: Even after being modified with grips, the pistols are still “pistols” as defined above and not “any other weapon” as defined by 26 U.S.C. section 5845(e). But that doesn’t matter because ATF as an institution has acted as though that ruling never happened and still holds that such a grip makes a pistol an AOW.

This incident shows how easy it is to run afoul of gun laws, particularly when related to AOWs, short barreled rifles and pistols. Chris has a fine write up on the classifications here.

I’m sure the author of the piece thought absolutely nothing of it. After all, the flashlight fits on the picatinny rail. Just takes tightening a bolt. It’s easy to do and no one would think that putting a light on their handgun was a big deal. But it is. I hope Guns Magazine lets its readers know that when it comes to gun laws, the enthusiast acts at his peril.

I can see it now where the ATF rules that pistols can no longer come with rails as that makes them readily convertible to AOWs.

Careful out there.

Update: In comments, Mr. Taffin notes that the weapon was fired stock. The grip was only put on during photo ops.

Update 2: People keep pointing out that registering an AOW is only $5. That is true. But making one yourself (i.e., putting a grip on it) requires a $200 tax stamp.

It’s good that the abuse of asset forfeiture is starting to make the mainstream press. Drug War Rant notes a four part series on NPR that deals with the issue.

PGP:

Couldn’t it be that some of us actually care about the affected people and think we’d all be better if certain groups could thrive instead of wither?

No. It must be because we’re racist. It has to be or someone might be forced to deal with reality.

Still not enforced in Philly.

Given that Heller is pending, the next two cities with the most onerous of gun controls will be challenged on their gun laws. Additionally, I’d expect some other lower courts to again be challenged. First up, is NYC. A challenge to the Sullivan Act, the best gun control a corrupt syphilitic with paranoid delusions could create.

Then, Chicago:

But what’s not often reported by the decidedly pro-gun-control media is that since Chicago’s anti-handgun law went into effect in 1982, only two classes of people have had ready access to firearms:

The criminals. And the politicians.

Also passed its gun controls for those nice and corrupt reasons.

* thanks to Wachel Wucas, that’s one of my new favorite terms.

Heh.

In NYC, an armed guy hid out in a school. That is odd because carrying a gun in NYC is illegal (unless you’re rich and famous) and a school is a gun-free zone.

The 25 best heavy metal bands presented by someone who obviously doesn’t listen to metal.

Most of the bands on there are hard rock.

Suppressed M4

I thought guns caused teh suicide. That’s what they tell me, anyway.

Madrocketscientist in comments at a post here:

I never knew that “Economically depressed, politically disenfranchised social subgroup” began with an N?

AC linked to my post about big boy pants. Didn’t take long for the accusations of me being RACIST!!! in comments:

This applies more to class than race, although this is a back-door attempt to scream the N-word.

And that, ladies and gentlemen (whichever one chooses to wear the pants), is why we can’t talk seriously about this issue. Thanks Mr. The C-Word for making my point.

Coincidentally, following the unspeakable class that accounts for half of murders while making up 3% of the population, is another class that follows in terms of gun violence. Poor rural white guys. So, is that my back-door attempt to scream Cracker err the C-word?

Update: Now, I’m using codewords.

Maybe it’s because I now have a gun safe cabinet, but suddenly people want to give me guns. A friend has offered to gift me a 20-gauge with a shortened stock (it was his boyhood gun, so the stock was cut down and then rebuilt with rubber padding). He also wants to permaloan me his 12-gauge.

I’ve never done person-to-person transfers of guns, and I’m wondering what kind of commonsense precautions I need to take so I don’t run afoul of the law. In NY, long guns aren’t restricted much (at least outside of NYC), so I’m not too worried. But let’s say I’m paranoid. What steps would I take?