This week, it’s Hi-Point 9mm that are the weapon of choice among criminals. You mean criminals use inexpensive hanguns. Who knew.

Light blogging. back later.

A while back, I said it was an honor to be considered a member of The Triangle of Death. Folks agreed and asked for it to be put on a T-shirt. Well, ask and ye shall receive. The Comedian has created a Triangle Of Death line of clothing at Cafe Press. Click here to order.

Full disclosure: I make nothing from the sales. But go buy one anyway, to annoy Paul Helmke.

The two police officers who negligently killed a five year old are now facing charges.

Rule four, dammit!

Nashville Was Talking addresses Nashville Is Talking.

The question: Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun?

No, I would actually be safer. Not much for feelings. Surprisingly, this article comes from England.

The latest at Mr. C.’s. Also, David Hardy was nice enough to send me four copies of his second amendment documentary called In Search Of The Second Amendment to be used as prizes for the event. If you’re not going to the GBR, you should buy a copy. Go here.

They allow those in NY?

Les Jones says he wouldn’t shoot a 45-70 derringer on a dare. I have shot one. It was an over/under model called the Alaskan Survival Gun. The barrel could be loaded with 45-70 or a 410 shotshell. The 45-70 wasn’t so bad. The 410 hurt.

Over at Mr. C’s. Need some more folks. And I’m talking to you.

Sebastian has a thread on it. Personally, I’d like to see them more supportive of the NFA community in general. And, at the federal level at least, I’d like to see them go on the offensive as opposed to playing defense all the time. They’re effective at offense at the state level, though.

More here.

There’s a blog about Parker v. DC/DC v. Heller run by the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Via David.

I’m off to Chicago to go see Richard Cheese on Saturday night. In the unlikely event that anyone in the readership is interested in seeing the show and will be in Chicago, I have a few extra tickets. Let me know at tgirsch-at-gmail-dot-com.

P.S. The non-flash version of the web site is hilarious.

Cross-posted at Lean Left.

Again? Seriously, how many times must this be ruled before, uh, a ruling actually gets rid of it? See prior rulings and coverage here.

Full opinion here, via AC.

Jon Stewart explains:

Caught it last night. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny. And, well, kinda sad.

John Lott has an editorial in the Other Biased Washington Paper about DC v. Heller:

The problem for the city is that anyone who can look up the crime numbers will see that D.C.’s violent crime rate went up, not down, after the ban.

[…]

The city’s brief focuses only on murder rates in discussing crime in D.C. Yet, in the five years before Washington’s ban in 1976, the murder rate fell from 37 to 27 per 100,000. In the five years after it went into effect, the murder rate rose back up to 35. But there is one fact that seems particularly hard to ignore. D.C.’s murder rate fluctuated after 1976 but has only once fallen below what it was in 1976 (that happened years later, in 1985). Does D.C. really want to argue that the gun ban reduced the murder rate?

Similarly for violent crime, from 1977 to 2003, there were only two years when D.C.’s violent crime rate fell below the rate in 1976. These drops and subsequent increases were much larger than any changes in neighboring Maryland and Virginia. For example, D.C.’s murder rate fell 3.5 to 3 times more than in the neighboring states during the five years before the ban and rose back 3.8 times more in the five years after it. D.C.’s murder rate also rose relative to that in other similarly sized cities.

reports record profits.

One of those NJ politicos arrested for corruption is a member of Mayors Against Guns.

In California:

California governors would be barred from ordering the seizure of firearms and ammunition from law-abiding citizens during state emergencies, under legislation that was sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday.

No shit? Of course, the state of California has no issue seizing arms when there is no emergency.

Good: A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court’s approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.

Here.

Joe thinks we should take advantage of the condition I mentioned yesterday. One nitpick is that I prefer the term regular capacity magazines.

Ridefast: They no longer control the channels. They no longer control the dialog. It’s a new democracy. I like it.

Joe has sympathy for Robyn Ringler.

Gun sales up in Missouri.

Couple things regarding this piece I linked yesterday:

1 – Mike: they would attack someone, and then when their victim defended himself they would cast them in the role of the aggressor and claim to be in the right. Ayup.

2 – Second, a lot of the comments there scare white people. The folks scaring the white people don’t appear to have come from here, as I don’t recognize their names. Don’t do that. You’re not convincing anyone on the fence with such over the top rhetoric. Leave that to the other side. Be reasonable and avoid the pro-gun version of PSH.

thinks we should draw the line at assault weapons. There goes my bot again.

The AP noting Thompson’s position on guns:

Hostile to many gun control proposals, including mandatory background checks at gun shows. Supported campaign finance changes that gun groups and other activists saw as an infringement of their speech rights.

Hostile? For serious? How about opposed?

Radley notes that Rep. Ralph Hall is sponsoring a poker night fundraiser. Rep. Hall was a sponsor of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Act.

M1A Socom.

SCAR.

SW99.

Is that Dick Cheney?

Turns out, PSH may be a condition.