Analysis from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

The NICS Improvement Act, which passed the House by voice vote as H.R. 2640 on June 13, 2007, will strengthen the Brady background check system, and thereby make it harder for criminals and other dangerous people to buy firearms.

It will make it harder for them to buy them from lawful dealers. But that’s not where criminals get their guns.

The Brady Law, which mandated that federally licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) check the backgrounds of prospective gun purchasers, has been an overwhelming success.

It has?

Since 1994, Brady background checks have prevented more than 1.3 million persons from illegally buying guns.

But has it affected crime rates? On the rest of it, it again confirms what I’ve said all along. The bill merely funds things that are already law.

Here he sets an editorial board straight on what his bill actually does.

MBA Weasel: blah blah blah paradigms blah blah blah

Bubba from the floor: What’re paradigms?

Joe Bob from the floor: About twenty cents?

It’s kids and guns day.

SKS as scout rifle.

Another mayor has left Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Mayors Against Guns:

Carmel, Indiana Mayor Jim Brainard is the most recent addition to a list of the nation’s mayors to resign from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition.

“These mayors, one-by-one, have come to realize the misinformation Bloomberg has given them regarding the true intent of his coalition,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “The real agenda is not taking firearms out of the hands of criminals, but gaining access to confidential law enforcement information for the purposes of bringing predatory lawsuits against firearms manufacturers and retailers.”

I think that’s now five that have left. Someone alert Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam that he can be lucky number 6.

Carnaby shooting a Ko-tonics 6.8SPC.

And a boy’s first rifle.

Seems ColtCCO had a run in with the police for obeying the law:

I would tell you all about getting my face mushed up against a wall for not fully concealing my legally carried firearm in public, but right now, I’m just too sad.

In Tennessee, we have handgun carry permits. There is no requirement that they be concealed. And I love when the cops tell you not to tell them what the law is. Well, sparky, if you knew it, we wouldn’t have to tell you.

Update: I think Tam says it best:

Apparently the new fashion among crooks is to go grocery shopping with their girlfriends and make sure that someone gets a glimpse of their kilobuck-plus custom gun in its expensive leather holster

I feel your pain.

Update: Funny in the comments from Jon:

Keep in mind, he’ll be returning the favor someday….

Here.

I’ve covered Red’s Trading Post before. They are being investigated by the ATF and have a blog documenting that. But this from a local news story seems, err, trite:

Monday the agents did find a possible infraction where a date was left off of a transfer slip.

Oh Noes!!!! In other news, he may not have dotted an I. But this is interesting:

Things got heated on Monday when the Times News tried to take a picture of the agents at work. Tuesday on Top Story listeners were invited to go by Red’s and see the agents in action. Horsley says he thinks that may have prompted the agents to leave early.

Well, the watchmen don’t like to be watched.

More advice but for those of us that read them. And he tells me to get over myself.

Now has a blog:

This blog is operated by Project Vote Smart. We are a non-profit and non-partisan library of factual information on over 40,000 elected officials and candidates for office. We cover these candidates in 6 basic areas: (1) biographical background, (2) issue positions, (3) voting records, (4) campaign finances, (5) speeches and public statements and (6) performance evaluations made on them by over 100 special interest groups. Please visit our main web-site at www.votesmart.org to find that information.

Excellent.

Earliest gun shot victim in the new world found in Peru.

And TiVo too.

So, me, the Mrs. and Junior were watching live TeeVee the other day. A commercial comes on. Junior, obviously concerned, says Where’d the show go? It occurred to us that she was three years old and had never seen a commercial before.

Apparently, I should be clear what I meant about résumés. I find it is acceptable to have a multi-page résumé depending on the position you’re applying for and your level of experience. However, entry level folks, not so much.

Apparently, it is only shocking to Michael Bloomberg that he was never a real Republican.

Armed School Teacher:

Danny Boy [San Kotowski] managed to tick off a whole lot of Illinois voters by pushing for lots and lots of onerous gun control . . . so lots of people sent him faxes and letters asking him to knock it off. He apparently is alleging that some of those people were threatening his august person, and going so far as to send detectives of the Illinois State Police to interview people at their homes.

The Illinois State Rifle Association seems to think that this means Kotowski is probably more interested in intimidating the voters into shutting up than anything else. Now, maybe Kotowski has some evidence to show that what he’s done here is reasonable, but the ISRA has interviewed at least one person who was questioned by ISP detectives, and they seem convinced that he didn’t do anything to warrant that scrutiny.

Kotowski is the idiot I mentioned here. Maybe there were some threats

Via tam.

Seems a man had a gun while saving a neighbors life. He was then fired because, err, his employers are retarded.

Email is subject to the same protections as phone calls:

The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, according to a landmark ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their telephone calls — the first circuit court ever to make that finding.

Via Ben.

Seems outlaw gangs in Australia are using guns. How can that be what with the sweeping gun laws and all of that?

Or irony, I’m not sure.

Eventually, we’ll all be crazy.

Via reader Tommy.

Evil black err white rifle.

Light blogging. Crap to do. Like go through 35 résumés. Keep running folks off. A few of my peeves about résumés:

It’s spelled résumé (that é can be created by either hitting alt+0233 or using the character map). It’s not spelled resume or resume’.

Leave off the funky fonts and graphics (ETA: Bold, italics don’t fax legibly)

Learn the difference between ensure and insure.

Unless you’re applying for a management job, UN Ambassador, or professorship, your résumé should be one page and one cover letter.

I’m not a fan of putting personal stuff on résumés (like which church you attend, number of kids, married, etc.). I personally hold none of that stuff against folks but some people do. Don’t risk it.

Use an email address that indicates your name, such as firstname.lastname@suchandsuch.com. Not hobbies or sexual innuendo, like darklordofthesith@suchandsuch.com, hotmom69@suchandsuch.com, or ratherbefishing@suchandsuch.com.

Use action verbs. Don’t say Responsible for . . ., say Managed . . . or Administered . . . or something indicating action.

Speaking of verbs, past jobs should be in past tense. Current job, present tense. And be consistent in verb usage.

Less is more: Don’t say due to the fact when because will do. Don’t say in order to when to will do. This is helpful in getting it down to one page.

Focus on accomplishments, not duties.

I know you may have downloaded a template for your letter or résumé and that’s fine. But change the titles. Don’t address me as Dear Hiring Executive or Dear [click here]. Just sayin’.

I will google your name, after the first interview.

Spell check is your friend. In fact, get another friend to read it. S/he may find something you missed.

If you were unemployed, just explain the gap in the interview. If you were unemployed to stay home with children, explain that in the interview too. Don’t say you ran private daycare. It’s not that funny.

I’m not sure how I’d word web-savviness either, but the phrase Proficient in the Internet just doesn’t sound right.

And, really, are you qualified for the job you’re applying for? Just asking.

Update: There is some disagreement over spelling résumé. I blame the French. It’s also a problem for web browsers and email readers, as I noted here.

Slap. Ya know, likening the law abiding to criminals is insulting. And stupid.

Sebastian looks at Gunzilla, a gun cleaner with no odor that is safe for the environment. He’s sold. May have to check it out.

Only, his name isn’t Kotter.

Noodling. Here’s video of it.

Buckeye Firearms has a fact sheet about the bill. Like I said before, the bill largely serves as a means to pay for things that are already law.