Larry:

Apparently H und K is now suing every manufacturer of Airsoft guns for copyright infringement

Gatling potato gun. A whole lot of video so just go to 4:15.

S&W 625

Steyr guts

Guns from the Sanders Center at Texas A&M. Some interesting pieces there.

Jay looks at the virtues of different calibers.

But I wish I had a gun room.

Some language in the park carry law in Tennessee allows municipalities to ban carry in their parks. Since some cities are in a rush to enact such a ban, I imagine preemption will be on the table next session. Meanwhile, the rep:

When election time rolled around everyone could be for the second amendment because their was nothing to vote for or against. Now, it will be a local decision and the local officials will have to go on record as some of them go into an election cycle. Will those people who said they supported the constitution still stay as strong as they once said they were or will some tunes change?

Copy of a letter I received from state Rep. Joshua Evans:

I encourage you to take the next step in standing up for our Second Amendment rights by opening the legislative complex to carry permit holders. As you know, Legislative Plaza and the War memorial Building are currently posted to prohibit law-abiding carry permit holders from carrying firearms into the buildings when coming
to visit their own elected representatives or to attend legislative sessions. Therefore, any law-abiding permit holder visiting the legislature must leave their gun in the parking lot. We must not be hypocritical in telling our permit holders we trust their judgment all across the state, but not in our workplace. I feel confident lifting this
ban would not affect the safety of visitors or ourselves while at the legislature.

I neglected to mention that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Heller decision. But others remembered. SM:

y’all ought to join me in burning some powder this weekend. After all, the first anniversary is suppose to be the paper one. Let’s punch some holes in some targets!

And Reason has a round up.

Now, I know Jeff Cooper was kinda the man when it came to guns and tactics and such. But I never got the concept of the scout rifle. It does every thing OK but nothing great. Seems you would be better served with, say, an AK. Dropping the caliber to 5.56 just screams that you would be better served by an AR-15. But Tam seems to think they’re cool.

Les Jones has a look at the new Brownells page.

Well, you can probably find it at the Second Amendment News Roundup.

Michael Jackson has died. Everyone in Iran says that sucks.

The second amendment for dummies.

Strip searching for Advil ruled to violate fourth amendment rights. Thomas dissented, which is inexcusable.

Via Greg, it looks like Nevada is dropping reciprocity after their audit of the handgun carry process of other states.

Nevada is weird. First few times I went, there was no reciprocity with TN. Last couple of times, there was.

The National Shooting Sports Federation to sponsor the event. Cool.

Also, Mark Knapp, Firearms Lawyer & Blogger, will be there.

A new Showtime series:

Showtime presents a new original reality series about guns, and the people who buy them.

With trailer. Wonder if it will continue the trend of cable TeeVee helping with pro-gun attitudes?

Enfield that takes AK mags.

Winchester 1400

Ruger SASS Vaquero.

No kidding:

The interviews indicated that gun-control laws would have had little effect on the study subjects’ criminal behavior. Most got their guns through a variety of ways, including borrowing, stealing and taking them by force, the professor said.

The book is underwritten by the U.S. Justice Department’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program.

Help pick carry sights.

Gun rationing passes. In NJ, of course.

Farrah Fawcett, who was probably responsible for the first time men who are now my age took an interest in women, has died.

Insty:

I wonder if they’d use that term for more PC rights? I mean, polls pretty consistently show that about 3/4 of Americans think the Second Amendment gives them a right to own a gun, and the Supreme Court has said so, too. So how “divisive” is that, really?

As he would say, indeed.

The attorney whose research fabricated out of whole cloth a rebuttal to the claim that 40 states allowed lawful handgun carry in places where alcohol was sold (see here, here, and here) is heading up a lawsuit to thwart the law he misrepresented. And they’re still misrepresenting their findings:

“Our legislators were actually mislead by some slick lobbyists to believe this is common in 37 other states, and it is law, and it was just a flat lie, and they fell for it,” said attorney Adam Dread.

First, it is 41. The only one lying is you. Here’s the data you are relying on and why your assertion is false.

But, I’m glad you’re doing this instead of something.

Bob Herbert over at the Paper of Making Up The Record says we gun owners are just paranoid that Obama was going to enact gun control. So, obviously, his solution is to say we need gun control. Yeah, makes no sense.

Regarding Lamar Alexander’s inaccurate statements on the guns in national parks bill, Michael Silence and I were having an offline conversation. And I was still telling Michael that the Senator was wrong. And his spokesperson was wrong. Then, Michael quipped:

I just think it’s very cool a US senator has responded to a blogger

You know, that is pretty damn cool. So, hats off to Senator Alexander and his staff. You’re still wrong about the issue but at least you’ll address with bloggers.

Heh.

It’s just like capping kneecaps.

Just like speaking your mind at a rally, leaving online comments critical of your government are viewed as terrorist threats by the powers that be. Fortunately, TBI disagreed.

Heh.

The theme on blogs lately seems to be kids and guns. A topic I’m familiar, since I have some of each. One is loud, requires regular maintenance, and is expensive to feed. Wait, actually, that’s both of them. Anyway, Laurel notes that BabyCenter tells you:

Get rid of them — they’re not safe around children.

Well, I did not get rid of mine and they are not around children. You cannot wrap the world in Nerf and your children in bubblewrap. There simply is no way to make your little darlings perfectly safe. Sure, you get rid of the guns. Then you have a home invasion. Or your child can drown in a bathtub. Or die by eating household chemicals. etc. The trick to this parenting thing is, uhm, being a parent and no amount bubblewrap can make up for using your brain.

Meanwhile, Marko ponders toy gun control:

I know there are parents out there who refuse to buy toy guns for their kids.

As a responsible gun owner, I’m of two minds on the issue. On one hand, I don’t want to encourage or even tolerate picking up the habit of unsafe gun handling. On the other hand, I don’t believe in the “pretend it doesn’t exist” prohibitionist approach to anything—guns, drugs, sex, or what-have-you—because those methods don’t work.

He continues discussing options. Now, I never really thought much about the toy gun aspect. We have toy guns. Our toy guns are even the little Nerf guns that actually shoot the little foam padded suction cups. They’re great fun. The kids and their cousins have little war with them all the time. I did the same thing when I was a kid and I handle real guns safely.

I’ve not done it with my kids yet but their older cousins (who are 9) have been shooting (airguns) with me. Their parents, who do not own guns, wanted me to teach them gun safety and I said OK under the pretense they actually go shooting too. And they did. Had a good time putting holes in cans with a Gamo. A few months later when I returned from the GSSF match and had to clean my gun. My nephews were there. They wanted to watch. I taught them how to field strip a Glock. Their mom seemed less happy about that than about the air rifle. But one thing I didn’t do was go hide the gun and act like it wasn’t there after they saw me take it out of the truck.