Now, with twice the propaganda and ten times the Reasoned Discourse^tm!

Breda goes to the range.

The Akins folks have filed a second lawsuit in their case.

The Boston Globe has a piece on may issue concealed carry being onerous. No, really:

Gun owners are complaining that local police chiefs have too much leeway in considering applications for the state’s concealed weapons license, creating a frustrating patchwork of gun regulations that vary from town to town.

In a letter to the state attorney general’s office, gun owners say that police chiefs throw up roadblocks that are unnecessary, and possibly illegal, for gun owners to obtain a Class A license that allows the holder to carry a concealed handgun or own rifles with a large capacity for ammunition.

Wow! The otherwise anti-gun Globe printed that?

You’ll recall Steve Bailey, who allegedly made an illegal straw purchase and then wrote about it, writes for the globe. Complicit in that allegedly unlawful transaction was John Rosenthal of American Hunters and Shooters Association.

BTW, I wonder if ATF’s investigation into Mr. Bailey has concluded? I haven’t heard from the guy in while.

Gothamist:

An off-duty police killed one of two men who attacked the desk clerk of a luxury building in Chinatown late last night. Detective Martin Carrano, 36, was also stabbed in the neck and back; his injuries, as were the desk clerk’s, were non-life-threatening.

Good thing someone was armed. In NYC, only the police and the rich and famous are lawfully armed.

From guav, who emails: Of course, if NYC allowed CCW and he had been a “regular” citizen who was armed, he never could have stopped the attack—he probably would have started firing wildly in all directions, killing the attack victim and several innocent bystanders in the process before being disarmed by the attackers and shot with his own weapon.

Someone breaking the law to get guns in New Jersey:

FedEx employee accused in NJ gun-selling scheme

Police in Jersey City arrest two men in an alleged gun-selling scheme.

Authorities say 28-year-old Patrick Dolan of Keyport stole 11 guns while working for FedEx. FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz confirmed that Dolan works for the company and says FedEx is cooperating fully with authorities.

Police say Dolan and 32-year-old John Sozomenou of Aberdeen were selling the guns at a housing project for prices ranging from $300 to $500.

That’s kinda odd since I thought all the guns in the north east came from the evil gun show loophole or because those nefarious gun makers were just flooding the streets up there with them.

A new gun blog called the Arsenal. A sample bit is buying a 22 pistol. Cool.

Lots of teh st00pid today:

Failure to stop or hooking? What’s the difference.

Canadian airport security freaks out over gun shaped necklace charm.

Insensitive? Maybe. Inaccurate, nope. Tragic, yes.

Huh?

The Brits called parliament today. They want their guns back. From reader Magus.

Ok, who mixed the explosives?

It helps to let go of the flashbang!

Brave talk from a guy sitting behind a keyboard.

In what has to be the dumbest thing resulting from the right wing blogosphere, Rachel Ray (who is kinda hot) was dumped as a spokeswoman for Dunkin’ Donuts because she may have had an explosive strapped to her chest. Oh, no. That’s not correct. Turns out, she was just wearing a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh. And apparently it looked radical Islam enough to rile people up who have no idea what a keffiyeh even is.

Thanks for proving that conservatives can be as stupid as the kos kids.

Just the other day I was lamenting the cussing (of which I found out later Dave Kopel does not approve). And holy fucking shit, if it’s not Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month!

Seen at Radley’s:

The only problem with living in a libertarian utopia is that you’d have to live with a bunch of libertarians.

A defense weapon.

I’m sure she spray fired it from the hip!

Doug Pennington of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

Brady does not advocate banning guns

Unless they’re assault weapons, 50 calibers, FiveseveNs, Saturday Night Specials, handguns in DC, guns that don’t have non-existent smart technology, sniper rifles, regular capacity weapons, guns that don’t microstamp ejected casings, colored guns, guns you want to carry, etc. I mean, it’s a long list. But other than all that, they don’t advocate banning guns.

Tom King on microstamping.

Well, everything is bigger in Tennessee.

Win a Sig250.

I have to confess that I don’t much see the point in a modular gun when you can just buy another gun. But still, it’s a Sig!

David Hardy has the story.

After a good bit of time in the press dedicated to mainstreaming survivalism, now it’s for crazy rednecks again.

Commando Arms Mark 45

Wild Bunch Match Guns.

Ryan Jerz:

Mass shooting? I’d say this qualifies as a slight misrepresentation of the facts. By the accounts that have been published locally, the guy did not enter that bar hoping to wipe out a ton of people.

He was shot while reloading. That seems to imply that he wasn’t done yet. I’m glad the guy who shot him didn’t wait to verify that he was done.

And I do maintain a list of these incidents and someone always says something like well, you don’t know if this one case or that one case would have been a mass shooting. Of course I don’t. But I’m glad we don’t have to find out if they would have been.

The AK-15!

Wall of Beretta’s:

Sometimes, st00pid does hurt.

Another mass shooting stopped by a carry permit holder:

In the small town of Winnemucca Nevada a man bent on performing a mass shooting at a bar was stopped by an armed CCW permit holder who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The alleged mass murderer had already killed two victims & had injured two others with gunshot wounds, but while he was reloading he was shot & killed by an armed CCW permit holder who was also at the bar.

Mass murderers stopped by armed citizens seems to be a theme.

In Tennessee, House Speaker Naifeh keeps killing the bill that allows handgun carry permit holders to carry where alcohol is served.

Remember the guy that appeared to be pointing a gun at a kid in Chicago that was caught on Google street view? Poof, gone.

Don’t tell Tom Eblen, but: NRA endorses Governor Schweitzer.

And his political party affiliation would be . . . ?