Short shottie.

Taurus Slim 9mm

Cannons!

AR-15 project

M14

Man smuggles handgun and two magazines into jail. In his fat layers.

No real point. Just wanted to use the headline. Seems they’re undergoing a DOS attack.

The new GI JOE stands for Globally Integrated Joint Operating Entity. And works for the UN. Weirdest thing to happen to GI Joe since he went from 12 inches to three.

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Yes We Cannabis

Time is getting near for Gunblogger Rendezvous IV. Ridefast has a nice little round up of some of the sponsorships, people, and goodies that will be there.

I always knew that one could not get a transfer for a short-barreled rifle or shotgun in Alabama. Never really knew exactly why. It turns out, a short barreled shotgun is considered a weapon of mass death and destruction.

Ben Garrett on the FTC’s pending nationalized media:

Interpretation: Five million bloggers exercising their First Amendment right isn’t a good thing for American democracy.

Walter Olson:

under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing—at prohibitive expense.

The Mrs. collects children’s books. She has for years. It appears she’ll soon need a black market book dealer. HT to SIH who notes you need an interest group for everything.

Bernie Ellis had the TBI investigate him a bit back because our secretary of state, Tre Hargett, accused him of being a terrorist threat. TBI said there was nothing to it. Mr. Ellis recently headed to the legislative plaza for a meeting where he was detained. For being a terrorist. Odd how people who choose to voice opinion contrary are often branded as terrorists, kooks, and nuts. Just like Jeff Woods does.

It’s a former board member of the Joyce Foundation.

A new shooter report.

At least he didn’t nut check R. Lee Ermey. I hear you get a free pistol if you do.

Paying for propaganda.

Some atheists are using a hair dryer to de-baptize themselves. I find that a bit odd since the atheist crowd tends to be down on the pomp and ceremony of religion.

Call poison control, lose your kids.

A look at tactical decor.

Bear spray now legal in the Smokies. My brand of bear spray won’t be legal until February.

I’ve used Doublestar and their sister company J&T Distributing AR-15 parts for years. Here’s a look at their 1911.

Steyr Scope

Chicks and guns: the sub-gun edition

The Colt 22 AR. If I didn’t love my ruger 10/22 so much, I might get one of those.

Tam on the FEMA camper.

Jefferson guilty.

Republicans. Because the shooter was clean cut, had a reasonable net worth, and white. Or something. Nevermind that his blog said he hated right wing fundamentalists and all that. Cheap political points are to be scored.

This advertisement made me laugh.

A poll at the local rag: Do you favor banning guns in Maryville city parks?

As I’ve said before, I’m actually glad various localities have opted out of the park carry business. One, you know who your allies are and, two, this law will probably be revised and preempted next session.

Saddam’s pimped-out arsenal.

Junior starts kindergarten this week. We (and by we I mean mostly the Mrs.) have been doing the prep stuff. Last night was open house where we got to go meet the people who will be shaping Junior’s life. Frankly, they were not the most organized bunch and I really question some of the things they did. For instance, yesterday was open house. And this morning was document day, in which I had to haul over various documents showing proof of immunizations and such and pay some fees. Why they can’t combine open house with document day and save me 45 minutes of time, I do not know.

Also, one of the documents was a computer usage agreement. In this agreement, Junior agrees not to look at porn and bomb making instructions on Al Gore’s Internets. And she has to sign it as though it’s a contract. For a five year old. I guess we gotta introduce them to legal contracts at some point.

Next issue I had was the ridiculousness of paying for stuff. We had to pay a supply fee, buy a tote bag, and get a prepaid meal card. Now, one would think that the school would be set up to handle common transactions in a convenient manner. You’d be wrong. I have to write one check to the school. One check to the cafeteria. And one check to the PTA. I guess they don’t have an accountant or bookkeeper to sort that out. I wrote three checks today, which is more checks than I’ve written in the last five years.

Speaking of the supply fee, that really annoyed me. In addition to paying a $40 supply fee, we also had to go buy supplies like markers, pencils, hand sanitizer, and tissues. So, we buy supplies. Pay a supply fee. And, of course, I’ve paid property taxes in The City (My The City) for a while that I thought were there to partially fund the schools. But then, it gets better. You see, those supplies we bought? Yeah, they’re community supplies. They’re not Junior’s supplies. They’re for everyone. I figure it’s a good way to teach Junior about taxes. Or communism.

The tote bag seems like a scam to me. Sure, it’s only $5 but it looks like it cost $1.25 for Chinese kids to sew it together. All the kids have the same bag. Between that and the community supplies, I’m not getting a big individualist groove from the school. I think that will be a problem for Junior, who tends to take after me. Also, we were sternly warned that the bag is for school supplies only. Sorry, Sparky, I paid for it. It’s mine. I’ll use it for whatever I choose.

It also makes me wonder. I’m guessing that not all parents can readily afford these expenditures. And it might be a particularly undue burden on some of them. I guess that’s why we all pick up the tab on supplies. But what about the fees and such?

Complaints aside, her teacher and assistant seemed to be nice folks. And the school’s renovations were nice. And they have a lot of interesting items and activities in store. This is going to be fun. But I’ll still complain about it.

The Daily Times:

Maryville City Council unanimously ‘opts out’ of handguns in parks, public places

Typical nonsense about people losing their shit at little league games and other unfounded nonsense. And a new one:

Councilman Tommy Hunt said he does not want a situation where the police don’t know who the good guy is or who the bad guy is. He mentioned a case in New York where a young policeman off duty and not in uniform was chasing a thief and, because he was carrying a gun, was shot to death by other police officers.

Brilliant!

The Mrs. is not a fan of my language choices, a lot of times. But good news, dropping a few f-bombs is healthy:

Well, it turns out a potty mouth does more than earn your conversations an R rating: it actually relieves pain, according to a new study by Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University in the UK. But that’s not all: you’d never know it from what your mom told you, but there are many positive, beneficial aspects of swearing, including harmless venting and social bonding (not to mention reams of adult comedy). Bad language does a lot of good.

Fuck yeah!

Phelps on racist:

You are killing the word “racist”. Just like you killed “fascist.”