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Wood!

A tribute from Billy Beck, who, frankly, doesn’t say a lot of nice things about any thing.

I have a Gibson Les Paul around here somewhere. I haven’t picked it up since probably 2003. Doesn’t even have strings on it. Sits in a closet next to two new packs of strings that I bought two years ago planning on picking the thing up again. I guess I should probably string it up soon.

you should never use a gun in a crime. Someone will just take it from you and use it against you.

All guns are always loaded.

Since kids, my movie watching has been slacking. Recently got at Netflix account. Love it. Some brief movie reviews:

Bubba Ho-Tep: LOL WUT. Elvis and JFK vs a mummy.

Hellboy: Good guy demon kicks unearthly booty.

Watchmen: MTV is on the air, Nixon is president, 99 Luftballons, a sociopath superhero, Vietnam surrenders, and it’s 1985

Shooter: Sans Funky Bunch, Marky Mark gets his gun porn on.

Restaurateurs banned guns on Beale Street. The enacted security measures in response to the law-abiding being able to carry there. Not before, when the non-law-abiding were the ones carrying there. Anyway, this made me laugh:

There’s a lot less traffic on Beale Street … which made it a lot more enjoyable

Obviously, searching your patrons is good for business.

Handgun carry permit holder thwarts kidnapping of 8 year old boy.

Because the PA killer didn’t use one. Or something.

Rivrdog:

We’re just at the upper end of the Soap Box, and the Obama-bots are screaming as if we were up to the Cartridge Box.

Fart silencers. No thanks.

Don’t let your dog hang out, illegally off leash, in gator filled waters.

Don’t feed bears. And don’t feed some bears while shooing away others.

454 Casul seems to work against big ass bears. Wow.

Range day pics

Stoeger Tactical Double Barrel

XCR Pistol

SOCOM 16

Bill to legalize online poker.

Back later. Dentist.

A potential domestic terrorist speaks.

Because they’re apparently winning:

New Gallup poll shows town hall protests winning over independents?

More pics

Tam on pants-wetting press:

The guy was just standing there minding his own beeswax, which is, granted, a foreign concept to you, but trust me, that’s all he was doing.

Billy Beck on trying to get rid of him:

Here’s your answer, you ignorant cow: it’s for the same reason that we can’t get rid of you, now.

Of course, the SPLC needs money err is capitalizing on the tea party protests to get everyone all scared of right wing militias.

Here. Strangely, dying not one of them.

Tam looks at a kaboom.

I got sidetracked but I wanted to talk about the man open carrying at the Obama protest thing in New Hampshire from the point made in this post. Insty sums up the press reaction nicely:

EEK! A GUN!

And it’s having an effect. However, you couple the gun with the whole blood of tyrants sign and I think the guy made a poor marketing decision. Of course, he was also a half a mile away and there two hours before Obama’s arrival.

One of the more interesting dynamics I’ve found in this debate is the reaction from folks. Some folks are none too happy here. Take Aunt B. for example:

Because the whole “gun nuts” thing aside, the biggest progress gun lovers have made is in convincing the rest of us that y’all are normal people we have no reason to be afraid of.

Unlike the press, Aunt B. is not all EEK! A GUN!. She takes issue with the sign. I really doubt Aunt B. would be concerned if the guy was protesting and did not have that particular sign. It is New Hampshire. You know, live free or die. And NH has had handgun carry for probably longer than anyone. So, if you’re going to open carry at a protest, probably ought to leave the signs that advocate violence at home. In fact, leaving those signs at home when not carrying is probably a good idea too.

Meanwhile, PDB is utterly outraged.

Obama embraces free market – for once: ‘It’s the Post Office That’s Always Having Problems’

Well, the USPS is losing money. So, sell it to Netflix. Lysander Spooner would be proud.

A man and his family are in his sister’s funeral procession. A police officer pulls them over and writes them tickets for not wearing seat belts. They missed the burial.

National Park Service classifies traditional ammunition as a health threat? NSSF says:

In response to an announcement today regarding a National Parks Service program encouraging hunters to voluntarily switch to alternative ammunition, the National Shooting Sports Foundation rejected NPS’s categorization of traditional ammunition as a health threat. NSSF is offering to work with the National Park Service to develop measures to educate hunters about steps they can take to prevent scavengers from ingesting lead fragments of spent traditional ammunition. The park service is proposing to ban, at a minimum, the use of lead bullets, shot and sinkers in the park system by NPS personnel.

While no scientific evidence supports restricting the use of traditional ammunition containing lead components, the firearms industry believes that establishing voluntary measures is a more reasoned step than banning traditional ammunition, a drastic policy decision unsupported by science. NPS has raised concerns that lead bullet fragments found in game meat could cause lead poisoning in humans, a charge not borne out in scientific studies, including a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

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I’ve never been to that site before, I’m in the USofA, and I didn’t get there from a forum. I guess they don’t like traffic from Insty. Seems redirecting traffic from one of the higher traffic blogs is not beneficial for building a readership. And note that I wasn’t actually banned since I managed to get around it in about 0.5 seconds.

Update: Seems to be fixed now.

ACK notes the militia movement is back. It never went away. But the press coverage has kicked up on it a bit in the last few months. Why, it’s like there was some event that triggered this coverage. I wonder what it was?

People say to me Hey, Uncle, I am a law-abiding handgun carry permit holder. Can I carry in a park in the great state of Tennessee? And I say:

That depends.

First, is it a national park? If so, no you cannot. At least now. In February, you will be able to carry in a national park.

Is it a state park? If so, then you can carry your handgun there.

Is it a county/city/other municipality park? Well, then it depends on your location and what day it is. You cannot carry there until September 1. And on September 1, you may or may not be able to carry there depending on if said county/city/other municipality banned the law-abiding carrying of weapons. I’m not sure how you’d know this other than by perusing your local ordinances. Municipalities are supposed to post signs but, frankly, parks tend to have lots of entrances so I’m not sure that you can be certain that the absence of a sign where you happened to enter indicates it’s OK to carry there.

Then the people say to me Man, that’s a lot to keep up with. Sounds like it’s easy to accidentally break the law. I mean, if I’m walking through downtown lawfully carrying and take a step through the World’s Fair Park because it’s quicker, I’m a criminal.

And I say Yup. Local politicos have created a patchwork of inconsistent laws that you can’t possibly keep up with, making it very easy for handgun carry permit holders to break the law unintentionally. So, you should contact your state representative and senators and tell them to start working on the preemption bill.

Sebastian notes a gun control anniversary:

It’s been ten years, according to this Brady press release, since the Million Mom March popped onto the scene, spured by a mass shooting at a Jewish community center in 1999.

In that time, we went from seven states banning handgun carry to two. And from 30 shall issue states to 37 (source). The assault weapons ban was allowed to expire. And the Supreme Court ruled that the second amendment means what it says.

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