By Charles C.W. Cooke:

When debating the wisdom of the Constitutions Second Amendment, the media tends to start from the presumption that the question is purely scientific, and that the answers can and should be derived from statistical analyses and relentless experimentation. This approach is mistaken. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is not the product of the latest research fads or exquisitely tortured data journalism, but a natural extension of the Lockean principles on which this country was founded. It must be protected as such.

It is also, of course, settled case law now.

Why the Term “Racist” No Longer Means Anything

Misuse and abuse of the terms have diminished any real meaning to serious people.

Because you can:

9 prototype Soviet assault rifles

Ruger Introduces the GP100 in .22 LR

X Calibur

NY gun shop raided by ATF* for SAFE act violations. Supposedly have a stack of form 4473s.

Remember, kids, you sold that upper already. Or boating accident. Right?

* wouldn’t that be a job for the state police?

Why bans on so-called assault weapons are unlikely to reduce mass shooting deaths

I don’t know that we’ve ever used semi auto AR-15s in wars. Maybe some high end sniper version.

If you have a gun, you should be hanged without a trial.

Machine guns, no-fly zone guard pope’s opening of Holy Year

And what you need to know

Not escalating anything that doesn’t need escalating.

Buyer beware: good to very good condition.

Sturmgewehrs: Originals and reproductions

We all have one. Let’s hear yours. Mine:

Buy once cry once. My nephew even recites this one back to me now. But it’s true. Say you want to carry a 1911. Not my choice but it’s an adequate gun. You’re not doing yourself any favors by snagging up that Taurus that’s on sale. Sure, you’ll save a few bucks but eventually you’re going to wish you’d picked up that Springer or Sig. This applies especially to optics and holsters, in my opinion. People go and shell out a bunch of money on TheOneTrueGun and then throw it in a $19 holster or find some optic made for Airsoft and stick it on their AR. Then, they realize what they’ve done and buy quality, which they could have done in the first place.

Seriously, it’ll save you some headaches.

Sebastian has some analysis. Basically, we need one more judge on right side of history. My guess is that the good guys on the court realized they didn’t have the win in the bag and punted. I could be wrong, of course.

Thomas filed a sharp dissent.

So, the president thinks that people on a secret government list (that has included babies, a senator, and 72 department of Homeland Security employees) should be denied constitutionally enumerated rights. And then wonders what the argument against that would be. Volokh responds.

You can be on the list and still work for DHS?

Dragon Leatherworks, who makes some damn fine holsters, is now offering gift cards.

Do the reasonable thing

First, new nonsensical media term: Assault-style clothing. We must ban pants, for the children.

Then, Denver news station discovers bump firing, poops self.

Ken at Popehat: Talking Productively About Guns

We must ban dogs, for the children.

It’s difficult to talk productively when the press can’t even be bothered to learn about the issue and the lies spread by the anti-gun movement become part of the media’s style guide.

Americans stock up on weapons

Gun stocks (the paper kind) rally after Obama speech.

S&W stocks at 8 year high

With a big, front page idiotorial:

Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

No, you can’t define them in clear ways since your paper goes out of the way to lie about current guns. And it’s not going to happen. Full stop. Even the president can’t define what you’re trying to ban.

At least the masks are off now. How about no.

Loretta Lynch thinks a mass murder is a wonderful opportunity to make changes. Well, alrighty.

What we seem to know

It is amusing. Yesterday, I knew the shooter’s name at (checks facebook) about 6:15. It was listed on a couple of websites and the source was a local police scanner. Shortly after, the po po changed to a different channel. And I don’t think the press released the name for another few hours after that. Gosh, I wonder why?

Meanwhile, politicians were in a hurry to try to push through two stupid gun control bills, one banning gun possession for abortion protesters and one trying to sneak a ban on possession to those on the terror watch list, with a side of that BS Manchin Toomey bill, into the bill that would repeal portions of Obamacare.

No, there really haven’t been eleventy billion or whatever number of mass shootings this year. The whole bit and map are a lie. Tam explains. Heh.

Retired cops exempted from LA magazine ban.

Man didn’t tip off authorities because of fear of being labeled racist.

Mans hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing arms in U.S.

He had stolen property. Owning a bunch of guns is not a crime.

H&K SL-6 and SL-7 Rifles

Suppressed and subsonic birdshot

True.

Obama: I say this every time weve got one of these mass shootings; this just doesnt happen in other countries.

He said this in Paris. Yes, fucking Paris.

The local reporters called him an asshole and worse, something our press would never do.