Mr. C. has the skinny on booking rooms for the third annual Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

It is exhilarating to be in a newsroom when it is banging away on a good story.

In other news, how long do you think it will be before Spitzer has sex again? I mean, his wife probably won’t. Hookers are probably out of the question. And any woman who has heard about it knows he’s had unprotected sex with a prostitute.

Colt Lawman

Chris Cox of NRA has a look and a discussion of HR4900.

Study says the cause accidents.

Meanwhile, red light cameras are good at tattling on themselves, particularly when people monkey with the timing. Glitch in the computer programming? Tell me another one.

In the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s gun control ranking stunt. So, how does it fair? Well, the New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense has a look.

DefRev has some stuff on Osprey’s drop in piston conversion for AR-15s.

Caught the show just now. Not much details in the Olofson case other than an introductory to it. I guess Savage will be on tomorrow. Also, Dobbs called the Bush administration out over the Heller case. Go Dobbs.

It was a very pro-gun piece.

So says David Codrea. Took a while, as I reported here on 1/18 that I was hearing rumors the Olofson case would make the show. The Olofson case involves a malfunctioning weapon being classified as an MG.

I’ll TiVo it.

A new event:

Bloggers are invited to come out and join the NRA-ILA Public Affairs staff for a kick-off meet and greet on Thursday evening, May 15.

Also, a lot of you apparently have expressed interest but have not registered (you know who you are). Well get over there and register. The bash is open to readers too, who can register here.

Sebastian on Elliot Spitzer’s hooker and people calling her ugly:

I’d hit it like the fist of a wrathful god.

Ah, euphemisms for doin’ it. And, ladies, if you wonder what men are doing when they’re quiet on the couch and appear to be in deep thought, it’s thinking of those. Others include:

BTW, she has a myspace page. And her latest blog entry is, well, ironic. And she’s a singer.

Update: New winner from comments: hit it like a retard on a drumset.

So, Geraldine Ferraro thought that, being one of the righteous good guys, she could opine with immunity regarding Obama’s success and skin color. Boy, was she wrong. It’s OK, hon, if you weren’t one of the righteous good guys and had an R after your name, you’d have been canned already instead of them at least giving you some time to get your shit out of the office fridge.

Anyway, I’m amused that the Democrats are now turning their bread and butter tactics on each other. I mean, Obama’s race and Hillary’s vagina seem to be tearing that party apart. Well, not the party but their respective races (there I go again) to the presidency.

I guess the only encouraging thing about this is that one of them has to lose.

That’s a term we hear used a lot from police with respect to policy. It’s a nice way of saying pressuring under color of authority. And DC is once again about to go over the line with its gun laws:

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced several new initiatives today aimed at combating gun crimes, including one encouraging residents to submit to voluntary searches of their homes in exchange for amnesty if the residents have illegal guns or drugs.

The “safe homes initiative” is aimed at residents, such as parents or guardians who know or suspect their children have guns in their home, who want to cooperate with police, Lanier said.

The correct answer is always no.

No, Rusty, he’s not doing that for a carry permit. He’s doing all of that for an ownership permit. In Jersey.

Gun Law News has some updates on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act.

A woman was arrested for being a good mother.

I hear the Boston PD needs one.

Like you and me only better:

The ex-police chief of Rose City was sentenced Tuesday to 71 months in prison for illegal possession of machine guns and silencers.

So far, so good:

They are to report to prison when space is available.

Huh?

VPC’s guide to handguards err barrel shrouds.

So says Novak:

In preparation for oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration’s stance. Even more remarkably, Cheney is faithfully reflecting the views of President Bush.

The government position filed with the Supreme Court by U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement stunned gun advocates by opposing the breadth of an appellate court’s affirmation of individual ownership rights. The Justice Department, not the vice president, is out of order. But if Bush agrees with Cheney, why did the president not simply order Clement to revise his brief? The answers: disorganization and weakness in the eighth year of his presidency.

I don’t buy it. Even if I did, how pathetic is his presidency that he can’t (won’t) reign in his own employees? More:

The president and his senior staff were stunned to learn, on the day it was issued, that Clement’s petition called on the high court to return the case to the appeals court. The solicitor general argued that Silberman’s opinion supporting individual gun rights was so broad that it would endanger federal gun control laws such as the bar on owning machine guns. The president could have ordered a revised brief by Clement.

But facing congressional Democratic pressure to keep his hands off the Justice Department, Bush did not act.

He was shocked! And did nothing. And his actions have gun rights at stake because the Solicitor General always gets to argue.

Fuck that guy.

Philly wants to sue the state over gun laws. Guess, to answer Sebastian’s question, they will try to enforce that crap.

Update: Cities have rights?

Seriously, MTV made this?

Via Gunner.

That thing the anti-gunners always accuse us gun activists of getting paid for? Well, the NRA is advertising that job in the WaPo. I guess you get more than wheelbarrows of cash then?

Via Jay.

I was unaware but blogger, gun rights activist, and one of the first people to do in depth posting on Heller (back when it was Parker) is back. Triggerfinger is back to blogging.

And no one told me.

Elliot Spitzer says: Thank God the press found the hooker.

Update: Because I can’t do a Spitzer thing without a pun: Ho no!

I react this way around hippies as well:

against guns?

The Comedian’s Client #9 shirts poking fun at Spitzer that I mentioned yesterday made the news.

Reuters: Gun Owners “Not Just Urban Criminals and Drug Dealers”

Good to know.

Jay has more.

Tam gets her snark on:

Frankly, I can’t see an “urban criminal” getting excited about finding the right bayonet to go with his Brazilian M1908/34 Mauser or a “drug dealer” painstakingly finding the proper Mark Twain book to serve as a prop in a photo of her newly-acquired 19th Century revolver (unless by “drug dealer” they meant “pharmacist”).

Ahab brings the fisking.

I though Heller might have the most briefs filed ever. It has not but it is in the top 10, per this law.com article.

The NRA rightfully took some heat over the Heller case back when it was Parker v. DC. The NRA didn’t really want the case to proceed because it could be for all the marbles. But NRA is trying to make amends in the case:

The three lawyers then tried to identify which organizations and attorneys would be best suited to address those issues in amicus briefs.

“We tried to get folks together at a meeting and encouraged them as to what topics each should tackle,” he said. “We met with some success in that regard.”

Levy said his side was helped “immeasurably” by the National Rifle Association, which not only filed its own amicus brief but led the effort to get an amicus brief on behalf of 250 members of Congress that also was signed by Vice President Richard Cheney.

“That was an effort we could not have mounted,” he conceded. “They have enormous resources we don’t have.”

The 47 amicus briefs, he also conceded, are “too many,” but probably the result of a blanket permission for the filing of amicus briefs.

“We didn’t want set up ourselves as obstacles to reasonable discourse,” he said. “The disadvantage is we get briefs making points we would not make.”

Good for NRA.