A look at the census.

In Ireland, they’re looking at making it illegal:

Mr Ahern said he was determined to stamp out a practice known as “practical shooting”. His department had monitored with concern “competitions in which people shoot their way through multi-stage target courses based on real life combat scenarios, such as a home invasion or a hostage rescue”.

He said: “This activity is one that seeks to glorify and normalise attitudes to high-powered handguns and promote their use and ownership,” he said. Mr Ahern said “practical shooting” was a “highly undesirable” recent development in Irish shooting sports.

Bitter says not to write the press off so readily. I know, it’s hard since they do, basically, take dictation from the anti-gun groups. But you do find the occasional gem in the pile.

While the Commercial Squeal laments The Year of the Gun, WizardPC tracks the progress we pro-gun folks have made in Tennessee.

Now, it’s the Jamaican Gun Canard. It’s much more exotic than the Mexican Gun Canard.

Gunblogger interviewed by local paper.

Rich:

I just acquired a new bare bones, nothing special, 12 gauge Mossberg 500.

Now I want to kick it up a bit. Stocks, lights, pistol grips, whatever. I’m not really interested in lasers or major optics because, well it’s a shotgun. Effective firepower without supreme accuracy is kinda the point.

I would check out Les Jones’ post on tactical shotguns.

I’d heard various talk of this on various gun boards and such but didn’t put much into it. Now, NRA is reporting:

NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In some cases, agents have asked to enter these people’s homes, and requested serial numbers of all firearms the members possess.

In each case, the agents were making inquiries based on the number of firearms these NRA members had recently bought, and in some cases the agents said they were asking because the members had bought types of guns that are frequently recovered in Mexico.

Looks like they’re chasing down folks through ATF Form 3310.4. NRA’s ILA is asking you to call them if you are contact in such a way.

Remember, he was just compensating for the size of his penis. Not for the fact that a 70 year old may have a tough time physically fighting a 17 year old.

Dave opines on the holster dust up. And reviews Tucker Gun Leather’s The Answer.

STI with cool custom grips. I thought I linked this yesterday but I experienced a failure in copying and pasting.

Video of the Beretta ARX 160.

Colt Army Special.

But remember, there’s no need for a gun in park:

A popular Great Smoky Mountains National Park trail has closed for the second time this month due to bear sightings.

And this is funny.

A look at the sacrifice to the gods of racial politics.

Lamar on my money:

“The audit? It’s a bad idea,” said Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, head of the Republican Conference in the Senate. “It’s a sorry day when the Congress superimposes itself on the Fed, nosing around in monetary policy. It’s bad enough we are nosing around with the car companies.”

No, it’s a sorry day when the guys who represent me don’t care about overseeing my money.

Dave:

The loudest sound you will ever hear is a click when you expect a bang (or a bang when you expect a click).

STI custom grips!

Tokarev.

Suppressed 5.56 carbines.

Siphoning gas with a shop vac is a bad idea.

Just the other day at lunch, I was mentioning how we hadn’t seen any coyotes since I capped the last one about two years ago. This morning, my wife said she saw another.

And an affirmative defense.

In Arizona, a push for Vermont and Alaska style carry.

Snooping around my web album, I noticed the similarity between a pic I recently posted and one I posted a bit back. Now:

From Home Life

Then:

From Home Life

Lack of a kiddie pool aside, I thought the comparison was pretty neat.

Aunt B.’s dad:

The second I realized I recognized almost every name going into his cabinet, I knew it was going to be business as usual.

Yup.

Regarding this post, Michael Brings the funny:

Take out guns and I’d think the writer was talking about the Obama administration.

State to regulate large capacity dog breeders.

Remember how they said whites who wouldn’t vote for Obama were probably racist? Roger wants to know about the inverse.

After a bit of a lull, the Mexican Gun Canard is back. The LAT parrots the whole machine guns coming from gun shows thing, which is false.

Strategy page:

The U.S. Army has ordered 38.4 million rounds of .300 Winchester magnum ammunition for its newly modified M-24 sniper rifles, as well as similar SOCOMs Mk13 models. The new ammo will cost about $1.30 per round. The .300 Winchester magnum will be ordered in minimum lots of 56,160 rounds (117 boxes of 480 rounds each). The entire 38.4 million rounds will last a while.

Seems they want more range than the 308 but less weight than a 50.

Caleb asks a favor:

My father is entered into a contest on the Food Network, having to do with creating recipes using ingredients native to his home state of Washington.  He needs your votes though, so if you could click on this link right here and scroll and down to the video and then vote “Yes” if you like the recipe, it would be greatly appreciated.  You don’t have to buy anything or enter your email address, just click the link, scroll down to the video, and vote “yes”.

Busmaster ACR now the Remington ACR?

Steve confirms.

Richard Mann:

Does the slide-lock feature on semi-automatic handguns offer a tactical advantage or is it nothing more than an administrative function?

Both. It let’s me know I’m empty and it makes cleaning at the range easy. And showing clear.