Colt CCO has some. He confirms that, again, H&K tells the civilian market to get bent. That is precisely why I never buy anything (not even a hat) from H&K.

If your dog is wondering loose, it is a nuisance. End of story. So, check this out. Police dog decides to leave its house and runs loose (it is therefore a nuisance). It is threatening a neighbor and his kid (therefore is a nuisance again). Man shoots the dog, which is what you should do.

Now, he’s charged with cruelty to animals and third degree felony assault. That’s bull shit. The only one who is responsible here is Police Officer Bryon Deeter for failing to contain his dog. He is, of course, not being charged.

Blaming castle doctrine laws for the death of 92 year-old Kathryn Johnston. I’m more inclined to blame shoddy police work.

Squirrel pack kills dog. The suspects:

The Akins Folks have posted the letter rescinding prior approval of the stock system for a Ruger 10/22 that facilitated bump-firing. They have the other approval letters and such too. Very inconsistent and, honestly, just made up as the ATF went along.

Translation: Wait, it works? Then it’s a machine gun. By the rationale they’re using here, any semi-automatic firearm capable of being bump-fired (i.e., all of them) is potentially a machine gun. Some notes on the fly:

Says someone asked them to review the device. I wonder who? My guess is: someone who bought one wanted to get their own letter or a gun maker who didn’t want their gun associated with the device.

Basically says: We changed our mind.

trigger has been re-defined

anything without a trigger can’t be a machine gun

your finger acts as an auto-sear yet a finger is not a firearm

any semi-auto can “shoot or readily restore to shoot….. by single function of the trigger” by this logic

Post 86 MGs can’t be registered, so many people are out some major $$$

Background here.

LaPierre says it was a good year for gun rights. Indeed it was one of the better we’ve seen with castle doctrine, more states allowing concealed carry, the ban on gun confiscations during emergencies, and some significant state level victories. But what next? I have some ideas.

First, with the change in power going to a San Francisco liberal, expect a push to ban weapons that look like assault weapons. So, go on offense with that one now.

Second, time to get rid of the sporting purpose language in the law.

Third, will somebody please do something about the ATF? I’m not calling for them to be disbanded like the purists. The fact is, we are going to have federal gun laws. And, if we do, someone will enforce them. Their recent troubles include:

A circuit court smacks them down for their ruling on model rockets;

An agent testified under oath that the NFRTR (the NFA weapons database) was corrupt;

Having budget issues due to mismanagement;

Being investigated for breaking he law at Virginia gun shows.

And they’ve had funds cut for some of their rather, err, dubious programs.

The ATF Director has resigned over excessive and lavish spending.

The now former head of the ATF ordered staff to do his nephew’s homework.

And there may be somewhat of an internal revolt at the agency. David Hardy posts an email from a group called ATFers United against Mismanagement and Misconduct.

Also, their fickle minds are potentially bankrupting people and making criminals out of the law-abiding since they can decide what is or is not law. There needs to be oversight of the agency.

Win a Winchester Model 70 Stealth

Briefcase machine gun.

High Impulse Weapons System (via Ringo)

The MK11 7.62 Carbine.

Radley is tracking botched police raids so I don’t have to.

Unclear on the concept:

Polcie in Arizona raided the home of a 73-year-old man with Alzheimers this week. The flash grenade they deployed during the raid set the home on fire, and burned it down. No one inside heard a police announcement, though the police of course insist they made one. They claim they were looking for a wanted burglar, and insist they had the right house. But they found none of the evidence they claimed they would find on the search warrant.

Then what is a botched raid?

Shades of Goose Creek:

About 30 police officers, narcotics detectives and five drug-sniffing dogs descended on Bonneville High School in Washington Terrace on Tuesday in a search for drugs being dealt out of lockers and hallways.

The officers walked away empty handed.

Meanwhile, on another famous botched raid:

Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

Unreal:

“If someone has a gun in their home around children, it is not necessarily a case of endangerment,” Marlowe said. “It all involves weighing risk factors that a child might be injured. So it is speculation on the part of the person doing the reporting.”

Seems the ATF can bankrupt a gun maker by issuing an approval letter for a product and then revoking. That’s what they think over at subguns.

Whether Bush versus Kerry or Corker versus Ford these two cartoons sum up nicely our current political system. Does it ever seem that you only have a choice between the two worst choices?

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So sad. Not for the squeamish.

We interrupt this Christmas Break for the following:

Bitter has a job for you:

I have a couple of requests for media contacts that I still need to send out. Because I’m going to submit several searches at once, consider this a call for more volunteers. I’m really looking at those of you in states where Bloomberg has targeted shops. That would be Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.

I’m likely out of here for a while. So, Merry Christmas to you and yours. And some holiday cheer for those of you with a sense of humor. And for those of you without one: God is gonna kick your ass, you infidelic, pagan scum.

Remember how the powers that be in Australia credited their near total ban on gun ownership with a reduction in mass shootings? They never noted that it also correlated with an increase in violent crime but that’s beside the point. Turns out, those charged with enforcing the law weren’t complying with the law:

A review of gun laws a decade after the Port Arthur massacre has found all states and territories have breached the national firearms agreement.

Oops.

Any reader here registered over at the Huffington Post?

Paul Helmke of The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership is pushing his ‘assault weapons and fewer cops’ are responsible for violent crime nonsense. He’s pushing it at the WaPo, The Hill and the HuffPo:

Over the past few years, however, the federal response seems to have reversed its efforts – COPS funding has been cut, the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to expire, and the Brady background checks have been weakened. In effect, our national approach to fighting crime has gone from “more police and less guns” to “more guns and less police.” Is there any wonder violent crime is on the upswing?

I’ll repeat: Brady has issued grades for states. These grades are gun control rankings from A to F, with an A indicating more gun control and more in line with Brady’s goals. Strangely, most of the increase in violent crime occurred in states that earned higher Brady rankings. That’s unpossible!

Somebody go post that at the HuffPo.

Update: Federal background checks have been weakened? How is that? News to me.

Meet the JIC (Just In Case). It’s a PVC tube with a survivial kit in it, with matches, medicine, fish hooks, rope. Oh, and a 12 gauge pump. You know, the important stuff.

It’s like it comes ready to be buried in the ground, or something.

Via The Geek.

Speaking of being prepared, Les looks at Inexpensive Alternatives to Emergency Generators.

From someone:

anyone know where I can get my semi auto NEW auto ordinance machine gun fixed so it will fire faster.

My response:

If it’s semi-auto, it’s not a machine gun. If you try to turn it into one, that’s illegal.

So, wayward boyscout? ATF? Bloomberg cronie? Brady staffer?

Heh.

metulj, who I rarely agree with and who I largely think is a dick, has called it quits:

My brother, with whom I am estranged to a degree, called me tonight to complain that someone had called him asking questions about me. Judiciously, my brother told him he had no idea who I was. This person promptly called my sister-in-law” threatening to expose details of “her relationship with me and identified himself as associated with the University of Tennessee where he said I am a student and, weirdly, as part of a Trade Commission investigating me. She hung up and got my brother to call me.

There’s a few crazy people out there and, thanks to Al Gore’s Internets, you’re more likely to run into them. Careful out there. It sucks that it happens and I wish metulj the best,

Phil, on the TN bill i mentioned yesterday, says:

My rational, though utterly non-legal, opinion tells me that if I harm an atacker in self-defense that I cannot be sued by family of said attacker after the legal system decides: 1. Not to try me, or 2. I am found not guilty.

Via The Ninth Stage comes Justice For Sal. Sal was shot and killed during a SWAT raid for sports gambling with his friends:

Dr. Salvatore J. Culosi. Sal was unjustly shot and killed by a member of the Fairfax County, VA police SWAT team on January 24, 2006. Sal was under investigation by Fairfax County police for supposedly taking sports bets. Police sent a fully-armed, paramilitary SWAT team to his home to serve a documents search warrant and killed him with a .45 Heckler & Koch handgun – a powerful weapon typically used by U.S. military forces in combat. Sal was alone, unarmed and cooperative outside his home – in plain view when he was shot and killed. He had no criminal history and did not own a weapon.

Ninth Stage has more here. Looks like two things killed Sal:

1 – A SWAT raid for a non-violent, non-imminent danger situation.

2 – Incompetent policeman who should have kept his finger off the trigger.

Cowboy attitude and incompetence don’t mix.

I appreciate LaPierre’s post tyring to get people to call the ATF to report the fact that Michael Bloomberg’s people broke the law. And I do hope the NRA makes that a campaign.

But dealing the The Gun Guys is a waste of time. They are paid liars. And that is, generally, all they do. It’s one of the many non-grassroots, shill organizations funded by the Joyce Foundation. It’s ran by Mark Karlin & Associates, who also does Buzzflash. And this guy is affiliated with them, per THR. Here’s a big list of Joyce Funded, Karlin run sites. And there’s some sites the Brady Bunch runs there too.

But Wayne catches them in a couple of big lies.

Seen at Les Jones Joint:

In his first study, 33 male and 13 female officers of different ranks and years of service, were sent into a room to arrest a “suspect” and to “act in a way they thought appropriate” while doing so. The officers were armed with a SIG-Sauer P226 that was rigged with force sensors on the trigger and grip. All the officers were instructed that if they drew the gun during the exercise, they were to keep their finger off the trigger unless they had made the decision to shoot, per their training and department regs.

There’s more. Go, read.

Some Bests about my home county. But stop telling everybody. We already have quite the influx. My former subdivision had like 6 people from Chicago and two from Boston. Of course, being in Blount County, it did make for an interesting cross section of American accents.

BC Local: Howdy, neighbor. Whatcha doin’?

Bostonian: Wuhkin on mah cah.

BC Local: huh?

Chicagoan trying to translate Bostonian into Redneck: He’s working on his car, dere. Eh, fuck it. Let’s go have a couple two-tree beers.

BC Local: Beer, cool.

Bostonian: Beeh, cool.

Project Boresnake. Send our troops a boresnake to keep their weapons operational.

Basic AR-15 operation:

Via the Ninth Stage.

Tam:

Square up towards the opponent, lean in, toe of the stock high on the shoulder (bring the weapon up to your eyes, don’t duck your eyes down to the weapon), elbows in, weak side foot slightly forward.

Uncle concurs:

Photo courtesy of USCitizen.

Next, we’ll be banning them:

One of the males suddenly tackled the man, threw him to the ground, and threatened him. The other male, holding his dog back, then threatened to have the dog attack if the man didn’t hand over his cash.

Over at the moderate voice, Paul Silver asks:

I came across these reasonable comments from Paul Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., and the new president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:

…Concerns for gun violence prevention and public safety should not be categorized as pro-gun versus anti-gun.

What’s “anti-gun” about wanting background checks to make sure that those with criminal records aren’t buying guns legally?

What’s “anti-gun” about restricting bulk sales of handguns, a sure sign that someone wants to sell those guns illegally on the secondary market?

Why isn’t it “pro-gun” to want to crack down on the 1 percent of gun dealers who sell 57 percent of the guns that end up being used illegally; or to support more financing for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives?

Everyone else is having the second amendment fight but I answered questions about reasonableness here.