The University of Tennessee has issued their New Safety Policy about Firearms on Campus. Still a no go at Neyland Stadium.

There was a lot of this at the NRA convention. I couldn’t help but move out of the way many times when people were pointing guns in unsafe directions.

True story: At the NRA convention, I pointed an H&K VP9 right at Tam. At their booth, they had those little retractable cables that keep people from stealing guns. And theirs had a pull weight of about 70lbs. Expecting to pick up something light, and instead grabbed something heavy, I bent my hand and muzzled myself then her.

Like a good populist pouncing on headline news, Trump says he’s going to meet with the NRA about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns.

The NRA responds with, well, this. They say we shouldn’t sell guns to terrorists but due process protections should be in place. Not certain the stop the sale while being investigated bit is constitutional.

Senator Chris Murphy is filibustering for a gun control bill. Specifically, the “terror watchlist” bill.

The latest: In denying all of Firecleans demands, the judge called their motion a fishing expedition.

Says he may be open to gun control.

BB Machinegun

3.5 pound AR-15

For whenever someone says “why do you need an AR-15?”:

None of your damned business.

What’s “need” got do with anything?

Because I can.

To shoot totalitarians who think they get to determine what I need.

To annoy people like you.

Because fuck you, that’s why.

Standard snark aside, the reason anyone owns any gun is to put holes in things at a distance. If you have a gun for defense, then you have that gun, as Tom Givens said in his training class, to shoot people. Because sometimes, people need to be shot.

The state of Tennessee is providing just south of $9M to the failed TeeVee show Nashville.

Or a Sig Sauer MCX? Well, that depends. To the gun banners, no. They want to ban guns. All of them. So, no, to them it doesn’t.

To me, I think it (like the Glock with a lot of clips in it) illustrates that our opponents are simply ignorant about guns.

Obama:

It appears that one of those weapons he was able to just carry out of the store, an assault rifle, a handgun, a Glock, which had a lot of clips in it. He was apparently required to wait for three days under Florida law.

Whoa, how do I modify one to do that?

Gun control now part of Homeland Security.

Chris Cox: Gun laws dont deter terrorists

Idiot Alan Grayson claims the AR can fire 700 rounds a minute.

Some real pansy went out and fired, arguably, one of the easiest to fire rifles around:

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions loud like a bomb gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

A few other things of note, the Orlando shooter did not use an AR-15. Did he really fire a full auto gun? He says you can buy one in 7 minutes. A full auto in 7 minutes? Sure, Sparky.

And to top it off, he’s afraid of metal and plastic and booms.

This: There Really is No Policy Solution to Tragedies Like Orlando, and It Can Hurt to Seek One

Spanish FR-8: the Cetmeton

The other biased Washington paper:

The California state Senate voted 28-8 Wednesday to exempt itself from the pointless gun-control laws that apply to the rest of the populace. Legislators apparently think they alone are worthy to pack heat on the streets for personal protection, and the masses ought to wait until the police arrive.

Gun controllers are arguing over ergonomics.

Pre 2004 AR-15s v. post 2004 AR-15s

Tom Brokaw advocates a ban for a gun that doesn’t exist. I mean, if you can’t bother to learn the name, color me skeptical with regard to your ability to know what one is.

Sen. Bob Casey wants to ban gun sales if you’re maybe, kinda, sorta guilty of hate crimes and misdemeanors.

Yeah, what exactly is a “suicide vest“?

France is not a developed country.

Being a good witness can get you killed

Not here. Here. It mostly seems to be ZOMG BAN ALL THE AR15S

Hillary Clinton says those under FBI scrutiny shouldn’t be able to buy guns. Aside from her complete disregard for due process and civil liberties, it should be pointed out that she’s under FBI scrutiny.

3D Printed MP5 Lower

Apparently, one of you guys met my nephew in Florida a week or two ago. He said to say “Hi”.

Tam is breaking up with her Crimson Trace Light and Laser guards:

Unfortunately, when I switched to the Glock earlier this year, I discovered that the shape of the Glock Lightguard was not as friendly, especially during extended shooting sessions. By the end of the first day of the Contextual Handgun: Armed Parent/Guardian class in Topeka back in April, I had the worst case of “Glock Knuckle” I’ve ever had. I’m not normally susceptible to the malady, but with the addition of the Lightguard, the second knuckle on my shooting hand was slathered in Liquid Skin and wrapped in Bandaids by the end of the class.

I started carrying M&Ps because I really liked the Lasergrip that I shot at Gun Blogger Summer Camp. I liked the laser as both a sight and a training aid (seriously, trying to hold the laser steady while shooting will change your shooting). The laser just fits the M&P. There’s nothing to add bulk and it comes on when I grip the gun. On the Glock, it adds width to the grip. Someone in the industry told me that the way the Lasergrip fit the Glock, that the laser could pivot and lose zero. Never had any experience with that myself but it seems plausible.

And I see no downside to having a small light on the gun, so I like the Lightguard as well. Sure, it’s not the brightest light but there’s no downside I can see to running one (BUT YOU’ll GIVE AWAY YOUR POSITION!!!!11eleven – Ed.). As a side note regarding all the Lumens, I think I may have put too many lumens on my AR. The Streamlight is rather large.

I had almost exclusively Glock pistols before I got turned on to the lights and lasers. But those just don’t work on the Glock. Yet. If Crimson Trace comes out with a laser that replaces the Gen 4 backstraps, then that’d be something to consider.

Hillary won’t say the second amendment means what it says.

The DNC platform committee members says no one should own a gun. Video here.

This and the potential for court picks is exactly why I see a lot of my gunnie friends saying they’re going to hold their nose in November and cast a ballot for Trump.

It was supposed to be all flying cars and laser guns. Instead, it’s pictures of food on the internet and sex robots.

An actual patent application to use an ax as an AR-15 stock.