David Kaplan has a blog called Bad Guys.

Ben emails a link to this TN bill:

Criminal Procedure – Extends circumstances under which there is a legal presumption that a person using deadly force in self defense had a reasonable belief of death and confers civil immunity upon person properly using self defense. – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

Does that mean what I think it means? Anyone heard?

Transformers movie trailer. Live action. Via Kit.

Phil talks about his SHTF equipment review due to recent events. Good lessons to learn for you survivalist nuts err responsible and prepared individuals.

Read it.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:

Violent crime is up in America for a number of reasons, but one very likely cause is that it has become easier for criminals to arm themselves, and with ever more deadly weapons.

It was never hard for criminals to arm themselves. They don’t obey the law, remember?

For almost six years, many have systematically made it easier for criminals to have access to firearms by weakening enforcement of laws that cut illegal gun trafficking, supporting policies that encourage more firearms on the streets of American cities, putting AK-47s and other military-style semiautomatic weapons back onto our streets and even placing huge restraints on the ability of governments and individuals to hold the gun pushers accountable through the civil court system.

The military uses automatic weapons. Again, the Brady Bunch is trying to obfuscate machine guns and weapons that look like assault weapons. Meanwhile, 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!

Update: David Hardy says funny how crime rates declined for years, as Americans bought more guns.

Mr. Completely is putting together the Gun Blogger Rendezvous II for October 2007. Also, there’s a blog for it here.

While in Reno, I thought that we all agreed that Rendezvous sounded gay and we’d work on a name change. Guess not.

A post at the gun blogs is asking for info:

I need some help
I recieved my grandfathers rifle after he passed away and i had it reblued and had a new butt and stock made.
I have been trying to research the Data sheet. I have gone to the winchester site and from there i got lost. Here is the data on the weapon

New Haven Co
Winchester repeating rifle arms Co
Model 64
30 W.C.F.
Serial # 1091961

I know nothing of them, being more an Evil Black Rifle guy.

Congrats to Rich! He’s a new grandpappy.

Jeffy Weffy says that a MA mayor wants AR-15s banned, because someone used one in commission of a crime. Well, they already did that in 1998 with the passage of their assault weapons ban. Says some nanny state prick:

“There’s no rhyme or reason to have civilians with this type of firepower,” Lang said. “It’s not something that you could ever possibly justify. It’s insanity and it doesn’t fit in society in any way.”

The beauty of being a free man is I don’t have to justify a fucking thing to you. Never mind the fact that the AR is essentially the same as any other .223 caliber rifle. Or the fact the military is looking at scrapping the M-16 because it’s not powerful enough.

Ooh, AR-15:

Isn’t she? I mean the suppressor. Kids not bad either.

Taking a metal firearm into a giant magnet is not a good idea. ND results.

South Dakota has the Highest Per Capita Rate of Licensed Concealed Carry.

Speaking of South Dakota, Jeff Martin is a dick.

Pascagoula Shooting Club:

This is a fully functional machine gun, legal for most American citizens to own. All NFA laws apply to this raffle. Please check your state and local laws concerning ownership of NFA firearms. Winner must be at least 21 years of age. The firearm pictured is the actual firearm being offered.

Ticket price: $50

Only 300 tickets will be sold. The drawing for the firearm will be held as soon as all 300 tickets have been sold. This offer void where prohibited by law.

For more information, contact Jerry Frayser at (228) 875-0708

Monday was a sad day in Knox County Commission. In one of the most confused meetings, that often resembled the Keystone Cops more than a Commission meeting, the Midway Industrial Park received 7.5 million dollars of funding from the Knox County Commission. This happened even though there is a lawsuit seeking an injunction against any breaking ground on this project. It was a tortured, confused, and often comical 45 minutes that made those who watched in person or on Cable Television wonder about the old joke of “Who is on first”?

The Midway Industrial Park is covered in great detail at the website KnoxAction.com. There have been many web posts on KnoxViews and at Say Uncle. It has received much coverage also at the News Sentinel blog No Silence. So with all of the known information that questions the risk and return on investment of taxpayer dollars the Knox County Commission chose to ignore the demands of those in the Thorn Grove community and the voice of taxpayers who see this as the biggest gamble since the Farmers Market.

The MPC hypocritically and perhaps illegally ignored their own sector plan to choose the Midway Industrial Park site. The Development Corporation chose to ignore its main requirement that the slope of the site no exceed six percent. Both of these entities and the Knox Area Chamber of Commerce ignored that this site had much greater financial return as a tourist area or subdivisions and that those ideas would not require over 57 million dollars of taxpayer investment.

Most importantly all parties ignored that the Thorn Grove community is one giant karst sinkhole waiting to happen. This will literally be a black hole that money is poured into never to be seen again. The Ragsdale administration is its most irresponsible move yet has bragged that the Midway Industrial Park will create 4,600 jobs and bring over 12 million dollars a year of tax proceeds to Knox County government. That is an abject falsehood.

Lets review who will be around when this goes bad. Mayor Ragsdale is in his final term. So are Commissioners Griess, Leuthold, Hammond, Guthe, Schmid, Ivan Harmon, Cawood, Moore, Tindell, Strickland, Jordan, and Pinkston. The vote was 15-4 with only John Mills, Phil Ballard, Larry Clark, and Mark Harmon voting against funding the 7.5 million dollars for the Midway Industrial Park.

So you may see your government in action I have posted the entire Midway Industrial Park discussion on YouTube. I have done so to create a record of how this happened so in the future when this blows up in the face of the taxpayers you will know who was responsible. It is said that people deserve the government they get.

No one deserved this disaster.

YouTube coverage of the Knox County Commission meeting on the Midway Industrial Park:

Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, and Part7

Bitter has one:

Now, I’ve seen several of you blogging about Wayne LaPierre’s official call to call the ATF out on why Mike Bloomberg is getting a pass on illegal staw purchases. He wants people to call 1-800-ATF-GUNS and ask them to investigate. Now, aside from being a nice little personal “up yours” to Bloomberg, with enough phone calls and follow up from citizen media, they will have to start giving us answers. They will eventually have to either admit that there’s a need for evidence because a crime may have been committed or that no crimes were committed and Bloomberg has been targeting innocent businessmen without evidence.

However, this needs to be a campaign. I don’t know what the NRA’s plans are with this move, and I won’t pretend to speculate. However, I do know some things that we can do which may get things stirring just a little. All we need is a little stir to get our answer. Remember, ATF guys are government workers. Eventually, they will get us an answer. If anything, they’ll do it so we’ll leave them alone and let them nap in peace.

So that said, I want to cut a deal with you. I want you to forward the information about this effort on to your local paper or television news stations.

She even has a way to make it easy for you and a sample letter. It’s a good idea. So, get over there and get to work.

Another shooting in a gun control utopia. How does it keep happening in Chicago? Don’t people know guns are essentially banned there?

Clearly, we should ban cities.

First, asking people to contact the ATF to report gun crimes being committed by Michael Bloomberg was genius. Now, it seems LaPierre is all Bloomberg all the time:

Bloomberg and Menino have been trying to blame violent crime in their own vicious cities on the gun laws of Vermont.

And they want Vermont to pass New York City-style gun bans ’cause they claim it’ll cut crime in their own cities.

But who are they to tell other people what their laws ought to be? Their cities are both disasters compared to the state of Vermont. And yet they want Vermont to adopt their lame laws?

Massachusetts requires a permit to purchase handguns, a special ID to purchase a long gun, and every gun owner has to be licensed by the state. Yet their murder rate is double Vermont’s and their violent crime rate is triple Vermont’s.

Look at New York City. In New York City, you need a permit to purchase any firearm, and every firearm has to be registered. Yet New York State’s murder and violent crime rates are almost four times as high as Vermont’s.

New York State and Massachusetts are two of the only states in the country that routinely deny the Right to Carry to honest citizens.

Vermont is one of just two states that requires no permit whatsover to carry a concealed firearm.

Yet more people are killed in one week in New York City than in the entire state of Vermont all year.

If the NRA keeps up the pressure and has a decent result, hats off to them. Keep it up.

I’m reaching for my checkbook.

The AP:

Two experts on SWAT team missions question the use of a battering ram by New Hanover County deputies to knock down a door in a raid that led to the shooting death of a college student suspected of stealing Playstation 3 sets.

Such a “dynamic entry” tactic is commonly employed during life-threatening hostage situations or drug raids as a way to seize narcotics before they can easily be dumped down a toilet or drain.

“They can’t flush a PlayStation,” said David Klinger, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “Why not just surround the place and give ’em a shout? They come out, you cuff them and you go in and find the evidence.”

Err, because that doesn’t let them use all that cool ninja gear and battering rams and subguns that Uncle Sam gave them as part of the expanded homeland security bill? Give men toys and they use them.

Unite. Or something. Trouble is, people who share the same views unite behind each other. Diverse groups with varying points of view tend not to. For example, I’d just as soon kick an anti-gunner in the balls as look at them. You know, little differences. Smarminess aside, moderates and libertarians don’t jive. Because moderate tends to mean popular with a hint of nanny thrown in (or if you’re John McCain – who people say is a moderate – a whole bunch of nanny is thrown in). And libertarians don’t like that.

Even for spammers. I’ve had a few spam comments hit the site with titles such as Help find missing children and the link goes to Viagra spam. I realize people are trying to make a buck but that’s a new low and a pox on them all.

Translation: She’s got a wee wee.

Random crap below the fold. Those of you who may be offended by, err, pornographic language, look away.

Read the rest of this entry »

Carnaby made it to the range with the Ko-tonics 6.8SPC upper that we bloggers will be reviewing. Here’s the upper.

You know, the language of business. That secret code that MBAs come up with so it looks like they know what they’re talking about and have marketable skills? Still not getting it? Ok, some samples with Uncle’s translation:

Core competency – Shit to do
Leveraging resources – Borrow money
Value-added – Management likes this idea
Catalysist for change – Someone’s getting fired
Shifting paradigms – Either management likes this idea or someone important is getting fired

Those. I hate them. Yet, every office has someone who always uses them. I wish they’d knock that shit off. Every time I hear those phrases, I want to leverage someone’s jaw.

Wayne LaPierre:

There’s someone out there telling folks to buy guns illegally, and I think it’s time we put a stop to it. He’s directing contract employees to walk into gun stores, lie on the paperwork about who’s buying the gun, and walk out after making a straw purchase.

Even worse, he’s bragging about what he’s doing. He’s holding press conferences to tell the world about what he’s done, but so far law enforcement doesn’t seem to be listening.

Well, I think it’s time we help out the ATF agents that enforce our nation’s gun laws. We need to call their Illegal Gun Hotline at 1-800-ATF-GUNS (that’s 1-800-283-4867) and alert them to this illegal firearms activity. Tell them that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hiring private investigators to initiate straw purchases in several states, and you want them to enforce the law.

Capital idea. I’m going to call today. You should do the same thing.

It’s good to see the NRA finally pushing the Bloomberg-broke-the-law angle since the blogs have been saying it for a while.

Bitter:

Remember, an armed society is a polite society and polite people say thank you.

The Changing Face of the Shooting Sports.

So yes, a personal endorsement, amateur science hour, and gun porn, all in one post.