Stanley Crouch:

The recent shootings in New York have led to one new thought: the sale of illegal firearms should be prosecuted as involuntary manslaughter, as conspiracy to commit murder and so on whenever a weapon used in a shooting can be traced to its seller.

This seems something that the National Rifle Association could get behind since its spokesmen are so quick to explain most murders are committed by criminals with illegal, unlicensed firearms. Instead of going berserk and responding as though any form of gun control is but one more step toward disarming the citizenry, the NRA should clarify its position on illegally purchased firearms.

But here’s the deal. Mr. Crouch probably thinks the dealers the city is suing are illegal gun dealers. They are not. The city paid people to break the law to unlawfully purchase those guns.

Heh.

Could be worse, the ammo could be loaded in the mag backward.

A jury awards $6.2M

M1 Carbines.

Jed has the latest.

NRA has a fact sheet up.

Maybe.

The wife has hit it off with some lady from daycare. And we went to their place for dinner the other night. Talking to the hubby, he told me he was going to the gun show the next day. I told him I’d like to go with. He said Oh, you know guns? I said A little bit. So, we talked a bit. He said he had never been into guns but, in 1994 just prior to the assault weapons ban going into effect, he bought a Glock 17 and a few regular capacity mags because he thought they’d be banned. He still has it. He’s only shot it a handful of times and wasn’t really a gun guy. He just knew he had to have something that politicians were wanting to ban him having.

He was going to the gun show because of the election. He wants to buy more of those things politicians were wanting to ban him having and if Barack Yabba-Dabba-Doo Obama was elected, a ban would be more likely, he said. So, it seems the endorsement by the American Hunters and Shooters Association isn’t really resonating here in the Heartland.

We went to the show where he bought more Glock mags. And I’ve very probably convinced him that he should build an AR-15.

One at a time!

So, The NYT calling Knoxville the couch has got the locals up in arms. Michael Silence is trying to figure out where it came from and sent an email.

Name the country:

Hand Picked Judges who coach the prosecutors? Check

Said judge making the ruling in lieu of a jury? Check

Claiming there is no appeal? Check

Nope, not Zimbabwe. New York City.

Update: David Hardy has more including the fact Weinstein has never heard of the 7th amendment.

Michael Bane, in a must read, notes shooters have caught up with hunters.

Nice:

Sadly, only this is quite clear about the Second Amendment: Whoever drafted it shoulda been shot

Duh:

About three-quarters (73.0%) of civilian justifiable homicide occurred in RTC states, while non-RTC saw about one-quarter (27.0%).

Now that’s funny. You can get the shirt.

In the LA Times?

Not a bad piece, really. Though you do get the sense the reporter is watching the miscreants from outside the aquarium.

Mr. C’s club banned his shooting style since he kept winning with it. Jackasses.

Radley Balko on gun laws in DC:

It’s interesting that crime-fighting ideas requiring the citizenry to give up some of its freedoms are “innovative,” while proposals that would give some freedom back are “dangerous.”

Meanwhile, from David Kopel:

Police in the District are killed at a rate about six times higher than the national rate, a statistic that hardly suggests that the District’s ban on law-abiding citizens protecting their homes has helped protect the police.

No, Ketchup.

How dare you call Barack Garth Brooks Obama anti-gun just because he’s, you know, anti-gun!

But he does have the endorsement of a fake pro-gun group that was set up for the sole purpose of endorsing him or any other person with a D after their name.

Sportsmen for Obama!

Seven were killed during a stabbing spree with, obviously, an semi-automatic knife spray fired from the . . . err. Wait a minute, they said knife.

We must ban knives. And trucks. For the children.

Via tam, who used my shtick.

Gun porn: Don’t panic

Jacob takes on the paper of making up the record.

Doesn’t look like a good idea to me.

But seriously how long did it take to flim that?

How a man gets a name: He earned the name from his constant telling of 3 years 9 months and 22 days without a pass in the Pacific theater during WWII.

And:

On June 6, 1944, One Eyed Charlie (though he had two eyes at the time) stormed ashore at Omaha Beach, not with a gun but with a medic bag.

Tavor!

The Department of State classifies some rifle scopes as controlled items. This means you cannot export an Aimpoint out of country without jumping through hoops.

Via subguns.

a catastrophic failure in the victim-selection process

Barack Walking Tall Obama was given a fine quality walking stick while in Tennessee. Upon receiving said stick, this exchange occurred:

“It’s beautiful,” Obama told Edwards. “And, if members of Congress don’t pass my health care bill, I’m ready,” Obama said wielding the stick as supporters laughed and cheered.

“I’ll whup ’em,” he joked. “They better not mess with me. I’ll have that stick.”

First of all, Sparky, I’m no political science expert nor was I ever a constitutional law professor but I seem to recall that you’re a senator. And, again not an expert, but can’t senators do something along the lines of writing bills, proposing legislation, and voting on it? I mean, if I had this plan that’s going to save us all and it was part of my campaign, I might start working on it now. You know, to show folks I was serious.

And while we’re at it, threats of violence for not bending to your will? Not qualities I look for in the leader of the free world. It’s ironic, of course, since you are one of the most anti-gun politicians in existence and were even the head of the Joyce Foundation (who funds all the anti-gun astroturf groups) that you would seek to deal with disagreement through violence.

Yeah, I know he was kidding about whuping people. But I don’t know that he’s aware he can introduce legislation. You know, since no one can name a time he did.

Update: For our visitors from instapundit:

Why are anti-gun activists so violent? is a recurring theme here at SayUncle.

The NYT: KNOXVILLE is often called “the couch” by the people who live there.

Err, I’ve been in and around Knoxville since 1983. I’ve never once heard it called the couch.

And I know you have one Knoxville ex-pat at work there. Couldn’t you ask him? Other than that, cool piece.

BTW, the reporter has a cool last name.

Via Insty.

Update: BTW, other people having never heard of the couch, MKS and KAG.

Glad others hadn’t heard of it too else I would have questioned my K-Town hipster cred.