Lying then or lying now? Who cares:

Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.

They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize(d) his position.”

But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago non-profit group that issued it. And it found that Obama – the day after sitting for the interview – filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes adding to one answer

Update: More and some stuff on Clinton:

Who’d ever have dreamed that someday the two leading Democratic presidential candidates would be claiming they supported the Second Amendment individual right? (Both have fallen back to “but we can regulate it”).

I’ve been involved in this issue for decades, and so have a long term view. It’s been steadily downhill for the other side.

Read it all.

Alan Korwin and David Hardy both opine.

Looks like victory is at hand.

Relax everybody, miniature black holes will not kill us all.

David Hardy’s film, In Search of the Second Amendment,will be shown at the Back Lot Film Festival.

NRA tells you how.

Busy. Late start. Blah, blah. Some stuff:

DEA loses 90 weapons.

Kriss.

Guns in slow motion.

Assault Weapons hysteria continues to spread. You should enter that story into a google news search and note how many places it comes up.

You were supposed to turn out the lights damn it.

How can we save the planet if you can’t remember the simplest things?

Does this look like solidarity?

The Uncle household contains 14 trash cans.

I don’t know why but last night I decided to count them.

Update: I mentioned it to the wife. I was wrong. We have 16.

Update: Up to 17 now if you count the one under the shredder.

TSA’s policy made the other biased Washington paper.

Last weekend, my buddy in Baghdad called. We were chatting away. He tells me that he’s going the next day to set off some ordnance. I ask him about it. He says he’s going to destroy some ammo. I say what kind. He says it was all kinds of military rounds, including 9mm, 5.56, 7.62, etc. About 200,000 rounds of it. It’s dangerous, just sitting around. I did some quick math and, at what I recently paid for 200 rounds of 5.56 (about $0.40 per round, btw), realized they were blowing up $80K worth of ammo. That’s just stupid. Mail that stuff home. Civilians want that surplus ammo.

Glenn Reynolds mentioned the Aptera. About three weeks ago, I saw on Pellissippi Parkway a three wheeled futuristic looking car. It was bright red. I thought it was odd and I was curious. I went home and some combination of googling three-wheeled vehicles lead me to believe it was an Aptera. The vehicle I saw sat two in the front. Anyway, turns out Aptera only has prototypes in Cali and all Aptera’s are white. So, obviously, what I saw was not an Aptera. Anyone know of a similar looking vehicle? Or, better yet, any of you seen a similar car around Knoxville/Blount County?

Larry (of Because you suck and we hate you fame) is addressing the HK Fanboys: here and here. Good stuff.

HK Fan Boy Fact: Most HK Fan Boys have never fired an HK.

Gun Control in NY: Brought to you by Irish gangsters driven crazy by syphilis!

Women must never touch guns!

I’m with Guav, take her off the sex offender registry and give her a medal.

The country formerly known as Great Britain.

Background here, here, and here.

Here’s pics.

The Airline Pilots Security Alliance has issues a statement (confirming what I said all along) that TSA policy is to blame:

Airline pilots and federal flight deck officers (FFDO) say ill-conceived TSA weapons handling rules were to blame for the accidental discharge of a pilot’s firearm in the cockpit of a US Airways jet last weekend.

Federal officers familiar with the investigation say they repeatedly warned TSA officials that an unprecedented TSA requirement that pilots take off and lock up their guns before leaving the cockpit is manifestly unsafe and would result in accidents.

“The pilot was trying to lock his gun and remove the holster in an airplane going 300 miles per hour in preparation for landing and the padlock depressed the trigger,” said a federal flight deck officer who declined to be identified. “TSA knew this could happen but didn’t get rid of the requirement.” . . . .

TSA policy requires unnecessary handling of the weapon which will of course increase the likelihood of an accidental or negligent discharge. Can the TSA get anything right? Brent questions TSA’s motives.

Via John Lott.

Update: Michael Bane has more.

A gaggle of 357 wheel guns.

And holy crap:

Look out, she may have a bomb on those nips:

A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Pliers? Ouch.

Mike Faulk is running for state senate, fourth district. I met him at one of the blogger bashes. He’s a nice guy.

Xenu sold separately.

A four part series on training at Front Sight: one, two, three, four.

A discussion of the language of the second amendment.

You didn’t think I was going to go a day without poking fun of he who shall not be middle-named, did you?

Barack Wayne Obama seems to be weathering the polls despite the whole crazy reverend thing. Such an incident would have spelled the end of Barack Butros Butros Obama’s presidential bid if there was an R after his name.

Someone you know!

Richard A. Benton:

There is one thing gun lovers won’t understand. It is very simple. The word that sums it up is: Technology.

Really? Have you seen some of the gun stuff today? Like red dot sights, guns that shoot around corners, etc. Seems we understand it fine.

And:

You can go on and on ad nauseam about mental health, drugs, depression, revenge, etc. But when push comes to shove, if there were no guns on this planet (and I mean all guns ) military, civilian — all) how would they respond to their dilemma?

Like they did before guns brought us civilization: pure brute force.

Only 70%?

Bummer. I thought one of the anti-gunners may have grown a set.

About six months ago, the press was All AK-47 All The Time!!!!! Now, it has returned.

Some variation of the same article can be seen here, here, here and here. And I’m sure there are more. Some snippets:

But it was unremarkable in that one of the guns brandished was an AK-47-type rifle — a powerful, rapid-fire weapon that has long been used in Third World conflicts but is increasingly being used in American street fights.

The rifle fires the 7.62×39 cartridge, which is an intermediate power round. The version seen in the use is not a rapid-fire weapon, it is a semi-automatic weapon that fires as fast as any semi-auto hunting rifle. And the ones used in third world conflicts are machine guns. Looks like the press is taking dictation from the Violence Policy Center again.

Figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, obtained by The Associated Press through public records requests, show a marked increase in the number of AK-type weapons traced and entered into the agency’s computer database because they had been seized or connected to a crime.

Ah, the press qualifier of figures show. Then show me the figures! After all, the instances of these weapons being used in crimes has always been inconsequential (less than 1% if you include all semi-automatic weapons classified as assault weapons under the now defunct assault weapons ban). And, as the ATF says, a trace does not indicate a gun crime.

The number of such tracings rose even while the federal assault weapons ban was in effect and has continued to climb since its expiration.

Unpossible!! The ban was supposed to stop all that!

Since 1993, the year before the ban took affect, ATF has recorded a more than sevenfold increase in 7.62x39mm guns — which includes the original Russian-made AK-47 and a variety of copycats from around the world. The number of AK-type guns rose from 1,140 in 1993 to 8,547 last year.

Unpossible!! There had to have been a decrease during the ban. Bans always work. And no, the original Russian-made AK-47 is illegal in this country because it is a machine gun. And the semi-auto versions are illegal too as they are unlawful to import due to the sporting purposes clauses. There’s gratuitous mention of the Omaha mall shooting and it being an AK-47. That’s odd since the AP (who also is pushing this piece) said the mall shooter used an SKS, which is not an AK variant.

After telling us the ban didn’t work they go on to tell us the ban worked. I don’t get that, myself. And they quote a study from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership. And note that the alleged study from Brady contradicts everything this article just said about trace data. So, I’m confused.

This is just a hit piece on politically incorrect self-loading firearms. With Heller at the SCOTUS, expect more. The anti-gunners have a lot to lose and know that. The antis are trying to win in public opinion and their cohorts in the press are quite happy to take dictation and repeat lies and misleading statements as fact.

Sebastian calls it a hit piece and also thinks that it is not accidental.

Update: Same reporter wrote something similar in September 07. Via David.

People wonder what Gura was doing. Well, he has a bit on Heller here.