A year after handguns are legal, none used in crime. None used in self-defense either. Why, it’s like lawful gun ownership doesn’t hurt anyone or anything.

I don’t advocate breaking the law and I don’t advocate getting on the internet and telling people you’re going to break the law. But Mack says he’s gonna carry like he always does.

Handy tip: In TN, it is an affirmative defense that a gun was used in lawful self defense.

A criminal enterprise already exists to evade the law. As long as it’s profitable to avoid tax payments, that enterprise will continue even if the product is now legal.

Don Gwinn is now writing the Chicago Gun Rights Examiner.

Cool AR pics

Lever guns

A girl and her rifle

Pretty in pink

What you should know about the Marlin 336

Caleb and Dave address some of the issues you may have traveling with firearms.

Facebookers are gun friendly

From email:

We believe any individual who does not agree that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right and who does not respect our God-given right of self-defense should not serve on any court, much less the highest court in the land. Therefore, the National Rifle Association of America opposes the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Update: Presser.

And not the fact he’s 83 years old.

Les Jones on simpler times:

In the permissive, litigation-free Seventies we campers used to walk down the country road (with no sidewalks or shoulders to speak of) from camp to Dude Cooper’s store to buy cokes and gum and candy cigarettes, back when there were candy cigarettes, our shorts filled with pocket knives that were part of the required equipment for attending camp. If you forgot to bring a pocket knife you could buy one after dinner in the camp store along with fountain cokes and ice cream and candy bars and comic books.

And his wife go to dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s.

Pretty girls selling guns.

IIRC, at the NRA convention, one of the EAA girls was there signing photos.

The rep tells us that the opt out of park carry option is good for gun owners:

At the local level, mayors, city councils and county commissions are going on record with their views. If your representatives views don’t match your own you can let them know, vote against them, work against them, donate to their opponents or even become their opponent.

True. The odd thing about this particular law is the opt out option. After all, other Tennessee gun laws are preempted by state authority. And this one allows municipalities to decide. Since a few larger cities have opted out, I see the likelihood that the legislature passes a bill removing the opt out option as more likely. And it’s consistent with Tennessee’s existing preemption on other gun laws.

The TFA has created some cards to leave at restaurants that post no guns, unless you’re a criminal signs.

A law to regulate private transfers.

Say, isn’t it illegal to go armed there?

Chain SAW

Tactically refreshing

Gun sales still up compared to last year.

Also, CNN’s Fast Money interviews S&W’s CEO.

I mentioned earlier that there was an FBI agent arrested for dealing firearms without a license and that those weapons turned up in Mexico. Some seem to think he’s being railroaded by the ATF.

With all that’s going on these days, I should apparently concern myself with the fact that the most powerful man in the world throws like a girl.

Eugene Volokh:

Many people don’t want guns for “sporting” purposes. They want them to defend their and their family’s lives.

Hence, he says, why gun control arguments aren’t convincing. In recent years, I would say it’s not many but most. Hunting is on the decline and has been for years. Yet the recent uptick in firearms sales only recently lulled. People aren’t buying guns to hunt. They’re buying guns for defense. Of course, the various IDPA and IPSC leagues combine both defense and sport.

Well, they said if we passed carry laws, it’d be like the Wild West.

Chattanooga bans guns in parks.

Via Jack.

Aunt B. looks at Tennessee’s year of the gun. She notes what we’ve said all along: we have the facts the other side has dick jokes.

After all, these people are just compensating for the size of their penis.

You, generally, have no way of knowing if you can carry in a place that serves alcohol in Tennessee since the legality is mandated by the percentage of revenue that comes from food sales. So some are offering advice on how to tell.

I’d advocate asking them for their last years’ tax returns and a current monthly profit and loss statement. You know, to be sure.

An FBI agent in El Paso has been arrested and charged with dealing guns. Some of those guns wound up in gun fights in Mexico.

In The City (My The City), not much expected to happen, other than lame headlines from the local fish wrap.

In Nashville, a place I’ve never heard of called Tootsies is, and I am not making this up, using metal detector wands on patrons. Yeah, that’ll be good for business. Talk about over reacting. Rich notes:

Oddly, they weren’t as concerned with the criminals who were carrying into their bar for the last 20 years. At least, not enough to spend money on metal detectors.

Yeah, when you fear the law-abiding more than criminals, you’re the one with the problem.

Meanwhile, we await the rivers of blood flowing in the streets due to the new law.

Armed man has lunch in a place that serves alcohol.

A mob of armed people descend on Ruby Tuesday’s!

Anytime I’m sighting in a rifle, I have to consciously think about which way to move a sight to adjust it. Tam educated me: F.O.R.S. = Front, opposite. Rear, same. I did not know that. Well, I mean I knew it worked like that just not that there was handy tool for remembering it.