Congrats to Tam on her one millionth visit!

Had some pipes burst last night. A few things:

When you turn off the water from the water heater, turn on the sink so it drains. This will save you some cussing at the water heater for not working right. The cussing doesn’t convince the water heater to do anything, btw.

Cold showers suck.

If you don’t shave, everyone at the office notices.

Cold showers really suck.

And to save your self some time and aggravation in the future, do not allow your wife to store a treadmill, two heavy boxes of paperwork, an old trash can full of unused sporting equipment, a steam cleaner, a vacuum, and boxes of old children’s clothes in front of the water heater. You may need to get to it quickly one day.

I’m serious, cold showers suck.

Update: Cause of leak, sheet rock screw pierced a pipe.

The George Orwell Daycare Center.

Ya know, state background checks generally mimic the NICS so I don’t see much to this story. It’s all in the state reporting the data to a system and not who reads the data that comes out out.

A state with it’s own system, I suppose, might be more inclined to keep the data up to date.

If you read one thing today, it should be this.

Via idiot.

But I thought the evil gun lobby banned trace data access?

A Morristown Trap Club set a national record: Their 5-man team combined for a total score of 496 out of a possible 500 targets. Their near-perfect performance earned them a place atop the National Trap Shooting record books as the highest single team performance in history.

Be on the look out for a missing case of M-16s.

No Aunt B., that dog isn’t mine but it is something he’d do.

To Dr. Fudge.

WASR and 1911.

FRED GRIMM:

What’s a few dead cops to the gun lobby?

Nice bit of hateful rhetoric there, sparky. He is apparently not aware that the two things that kill more cops are 1) their own weapon and 2) auto accidents.

The shock was in the weight of the thing. Less than six pounds.

It was a cop’s weapon, a semiautomatic assault rifle of dull anodized black steel, stripped down to an unadorned functionality.

How light it felt in my hands. Like a toy gun.

I thought how easy it would be for some kid, some 110-pound wild-dog street punk, to heft an AR-6520 and wield it to hellish effect.

No wonder Fort Lauderdale is spending $82,000 for guns designed to kill enemy soldiers. Police know that since the expiration of the federal assault weapon ban, young criminals have ginned up the arms race.

The AR-6520 is Colt’s law enforcement carbine. It is, usually, a machine gun. So, where is Mr. Grimm going to go? Why to claiming that it is an assault weapon of course:

Gun peddlers visit gun stores and shows where they make legal purchases of semiautomatic military assault guns powerful enough to penetrate walls, doors, cars — powerful enough to render a police officer’s bulletproof vest obsolete.

Told ya. And my Glock 30 can penetrate all those but the vest. And any rifle caliber can penetrate a vest since vests are rated for handgun fire. But what are a few facts when there’s some pants shitting to be done!

They flip them. Sell them out of car trunks at twice the price to gangbangers, drug dealers and armed robbers who want to upgrade to cop killers. Sell them to felons. Sell them to kids. Sell them to certifiably crazy people as long as crazy people can ante up a cold three grand.

Wow. This guy must have watched a Lethal Weapon marathon on TNT!

More of the same PSH is concluded with:

Congress demonstrated in 2004 how much value was placed on the mythical right of private citizens to own semiautomatic military assault rifles.

Actually, congress demonstrated how much value it placed on the will of the people. They remembered how much the original AWB cost them politically.

How much? More than a few dead cops.

And how many as a percentage? Still substantially less than 1%, as has always been the case. More are killed with handguns. Ban those too? Or do you realize that is politically not going to happen, ever?

For the second time that I can recall this year, ATF has gone after real gun crime and not people who forget to dot i’s and cross t’s or forget some paperwork thing.

Here’s the first one.

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show referred to Obama as Barack Hussein Napoleon Pol Pot Obama. Hey, that’s my joke and I stole it from Roger Abramson.

Even when they lose, they win!

Meanwhile, standing in the place where you live.

Open carry arrest in Milwaukee.

Update: Not helping?

Over at subguns, they’re talking about ATF confiscating some machine guns. Seems that some dishonest people take the serial number of a cheaper machine gun (like a MAC) that is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (NFRTR – the national database that contains a list of transferable MGs and other NFA weapons) and convert said cheap weapon to a more expensive weapon. In the case, someone took the transferable MAC (worth about $3K) and fudged paperwork so that it was a transferable Browning (worth $15K). Four years later (and after congress told ATF to get it’s NFRTR shit together), ATF realizes that the gun registered was in fact a MAC and not a BAR. ATF shows up to take the gun. A few things:

1 – there are some shady dealers of NFA weapons out there so be careful;

2 – the guy involved is out his money, his gun, and any parts he could sell to offset losses. He’s a out a good chunk of change;

3 – A machine gun transfer takes any where from six weeks to six months to be approved by ATF. If the monkeys at ATF are not actually looking at the paperwork (which in this case would say this item was BAR with serial number XXXXX) and comparing it to the NFRTR (which would say it’s a MAC with serial number XXXXX) then they are being beyond negligent in their job. I would think as part of the supposed background check (which is just a NICS check any way) that takes so long, they could at least verify that the weapon is transferable and that the paperwork corresponds to an entry to the NFRTR. But, then, this is the sort of incompetence we’ve come to expect from ATF and their record of stellar performance. Personally, I think someone should sue.

4 – There is now one less transferable machine gun out there, which is probably the goal.

In DC, police plan on blocking off neighborhoods and making them Safety Zones:

Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.

More from Ahab and Radley.

or, rather, writes a concession speech.

But later. Not today.

A letter to supporters saying she’ll concede.

Barack neener neener Obama would be stupid to nominate her as VP. And, no, it’s not because (as the right wingers are saying) that she’d kill him (because that’s just stupid), it’s because there’s no way he could run a White House with the Clintons in it. They come as a team and they are second fiddle to no one. All or nothing so nothing it must be.

Abramson gives Obama props for beating the Clinton Mafia.

Jay:

So It’s Come to This…

Barack “Cute & Fuzzy Bunnies” Obama vs. John McCain.

Sheesh. Talk about a shit sandwich.

No kidding.

Apparently, McCain has challenged Barack I gave at the office Obama to ten town hall debates. Good move since the more Obama opens his mouth, the more gaffes come out.

The good news: the next president for the first time in 20 years will not be a Clinton or a Bush!

Well, maybe. I mean, there could be lawsuits.

There can’t be gun running in Africa, the UN passed treaties and stuff outlawing that.

So, I married a gun nut.

Statement here:

We are pleased with the ruling, but we will continue fighting to protect Pennsylvania’s overall state preemption

Because there was no better source for pro-gun information than the Brady Blog itself, the Brady Blog shut down comments which were pro-gun by about 10:1.

Now, they have started going back and deleting all those comments that refuted their talking points. No worries, google is forever.

And they wonder why they can’t get traction on the internet?

Don’t just sit there, panic.

Vickers two point with QD swivels.

Hear how the mayor responds to: Mr. Mayor, when you took office, you swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of this Commonwealth. By restricting the rights of Philadelphians to own firearms for sport and protection, aren’t you violating that oath?

More here.

Stupid criminal.

In Japan:

Gunman kills himself after police refuse to return fire

In other news, I dunno how policing works in Japan but if a guy is waving a gun around, you shoot his ass. You do not evacuate people, shut down businesses and wait him out.

In SanFran:

After being assailed by the police officer whose satiric videos earned him and nearly two dozen others suspensions in 2005, San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong acknowledged that she has gone years without taking the target practice required for officers who carry guns.

First CCW issued in Wisconsin.

It’s to a police officer. So, toss a bit of like you and me, only better in there.

Remember that guy in Chicago that failed to register his guns? But he was a councilman so he just wrote a law saying he could do it later? Yeah, that guy. Well, guess what:

Ald. Richard Mell got a City Council committee to approve a change to a Chicago law on his behalf Wednesday, but argued it would benefit thousands of other city residents who, like him, simply failed to renew their gun licenses.

Well, it’s a good thing somebody important forgot to register. I mean, if this happened to a regular Joe . . .