David has a statement from them. Important bit:

The Government has yet to share with the company details of the investigation or the cause precipitating the search warrant. Cavalry is cooperating with the federal investigation. To date no accusations of wrongdoing have been filed against Cavalry or any of its employees regarding alleged illegal activity.

Remember, you’re just crazy to think you need a gun in park. In other news, 41 magnums stop grizzlies. Good to know.

Video of FN SCAR.

Serbu shorty.

Video of, and I am not making this up, concealed carry flamethrower. Yeah, it’s totally useless but, still, pretty cool.

The TSA has mixed up Air Marshals with people on the terror watch list.

Ok, who’s slacking? Only 90 guns per 100 people? Someone is not doing their part.

Xrlq makes a good point on the issue in comments:

I don’t know about Florida, but in NC, at least, it’s not a mere trespass to carry where a sign prohibits it; it’s a criminal offense. If this were really about the sanctity of property rights, why isn’t it treated like any other trespass?

The NSSF reports:

Today, a Manhattan-based federal appeals court ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against firearms manufacturers by the City of New York that sought to hold the manufacturers responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms.

Judge Robert J. Miner, writing for the U.S. Court of Appeals, held the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, enacted in 2005, is constitutional and that Brooklyn, NY, federal court judge Jack B. Weinstein misinterpreted the law by not dismissing the case.

Good. Judge Weinstein was originally chosen because he’s an anti-gun judge. And I think it’s the same case started by 9iu11ani. Say, speaking of Rudy, he doing much these days?

Update: David links the opinion.

Tam joked yesterday about the race as electing a priest-king what with all the healing the sick and other promises being made. I thought it was a good gag and some quality snark. But people really think we are electing a lord and savior.

URL that is.

WBIR has a new series of forums. One deals with guns and gun rights.

Lautenberg wants to increase the length of time that the feds keep gun records from 24 hours to six months. Ten years, if you’re on the terror watch list (which is the same list that Ted Kennedy was on). Says armed and safe:

The name of this charming bit of tyranny? Preserving Records of Terrorist and Criminal Transactions (PROTeCT) Act of 2008. So . . . we’re keeping records of all gun sales through licensed dealers, and calling all such sales “Terrorist and Criminal Transactions,” eh? Does anyone have any doubts about what the senator thinks of gun owners?

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is all for it.

WBIR notes that Corker supports the changes and says this of Lamar Alexander:

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander says he sees no need to change the current rule.

Rich notes HR 2610, the Skill Game Protection Act, which would classify poker as a game of skill and exempt it from Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Currently, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act doesn’t even define the illegal gambling it regulates so it could come up as someone’s defense that poker is not gambling and is a game of skill. But that’s gonna be a tough sell. Sure, a skilled player will, on average, make money. But there is an ever present element of luck. If there wasn’t, then there would be no fish.

Overall, the game involves skill but luck is the difference between someone winning a big tournament and not. Don’t believe me? Then let’s play a fun game. It’s a tournament and, lucky you, you will be dealt pocket aces every time. Great! Sign me up! But pocket aces against a random hand still only wins about 85 percent of the time. If you play ten hands in a row, you will lose 1.5 of those hands on average. To win, you’ve probably got to not lose some of that 15 percent of the time. And that involves some luck.

More realistically, though, is that you’ll often be getting all your chips in when you’re about a 70 percent favorite and your hand will have to hold up more often than odds dictate to win a big tournament.

For the record, I think poker is a game of skill but whether or not a court of law would buy it is questionable. So, defining it in the law wouldn’t hurt.

Update and bump: Seems that typing percent signs in wordpress breaks my comment function. Hence, the bump.

Joe Huffman hosts his annual Boomershoot in which participants shoot long range at explosive targets. I need to go one of these years.

This year, they blew up a toilet for Dave Barry. Pics and video here.

A few bloggers attended and have reports.

Matthew has posts here and here.

Phil has posts with lots of pics here and here (lots of gun porn at that last link).

More pics and an injury report from Ry Jones.

Assuming Heller goes our way, at some point that argument will have to be made as to what arms the second amendment protects. Sebastian looks at the issue.

Soon, the long tradition of passing the beer may come to an end. Seems the senate wants to make it illegal for automobile passengers to drink while being driven around. Notable in the bill is that there is an exception for rich people driving around in their limousines.

Phil Bredesen: Pony up for the state!

Barack Ernest P. Worrell Obama gets one right noting that a temporary gas tax break won’t amount to much. So, I’m all for eliminating the tax permanently.

And why they’re crap.

Turns out, you can’t mail a brick.

I concur. I don’t see how it prevents anything.

A demographic that is 2.96% of the population accounts for 49.6% of victims. Also, they have a higher rate of being the shooter. And more here.

But we can’t talk about this like grown-ups lest we offend the delicate sensibilities of someone. Clearly, guns must be to blame instead.

Anti-gunners often think that we gun owners view guns as having these magical powers that make us indestructible. Like the guy mentioned here who also threw in a wild west reference. It’s a load of crap. Gun owners stress training and practice as well.

This whole accusing us of worshiping totems thing, in which one ascribes magical powers to inanimate objects, is kinda funny since they keep telling us that guns cause crime all by themselves.

When your EBR costs about as much as a Hyundai. And that post is useless without pics.

Bitter is not happy.

Not an issue I get really worked up about either way. After all, my car is my property and if your lot is open to the public . . .

The Department of Interior has proposed new rules for carrying in parks:

This move will restore the rights of law-abiding gun owners who wish to transport and carry firearms for lawful purposes on most DOI lands, and will make federal law consistent with the state law in which these lands are located. Fifty-one U.S. Senators sent a bipartisan letter to the Department of Interior (late last year) supporting the move to make state firearms laws applicable to National Park lands and refuges.

You’re scaring the white people.

Translation: Get me a Democrat that appeals to dumb, bitter, cousin-humping gun owners!

Most folks think we’re electing a priest-king.

Update: Or Priestess-Queen, lest I be thought sexist

Some guy in a meeting breaking bad news:

This is gonna go over like a fart in church.

I don’t think suicide prevention involves killing someone before they kill themselves. No, really.

Update: Yes, I know he had a gun but still . . .