Where Great Britain used to be, comes the anti-stab knife:
The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.
Ok, then.
More Tennesseans are applying for handgun carry permits than at any other time since the state began issuing licenses for concealed weapons.
From the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of this year, the Department of Safety has seen a 120% increase in the number of applications.
Handgun permit manager Lisa Knight says her 8-person office has been so overwhelmed, she’s brought on seven temporary employees to answer the phones.
That would explain the complaints I’ve heard of their slow turnaround time.
If we cared about international standards, we’d be metric.
The Firearm Blog reports that the MIL-STD 1913 (the Picatinny rail) is about to retire and be replaced by STANAG 4694 (Nato Accessory Rail).
An air rifle based on the AR-15 platform. I like it but at $2K, I can buy two ARs and some ammo.
I’ve said many times that drugs are winning the war on drugs. Nicholas Kristof agrees:
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
At GBR2, we met Larry Weeks and he gave us a nice presentation on Brownell’s AR-15 magazines. The Shooting Wire says that Brownells is set to start shipping their magazines to the US military as part of a contract. Cool.
A meme from Xrlq. The letter C and I picked stuff on my MP3 player since I doubt I could even find a CD now:
Cake
Captain and Tenille
Carrie Underwood
Cavalera Conspiracy
Candiria
Chess
Christmas Classics
Cindi Lauper
Clutch
Coal Chamber
Collective Soul
Coolio
Counting Crows
Cracker
Crash Test Dummies
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cypress Hill
The Cardigans
The Clash
The Corrs
The Cult
The Cure
But a gun helps too.
The sheriff in Bradley County has 10 new special deputies who will have guns at church services they attend to protect the congregations.
[…]
Gobble said “there are those who target churches to vent their frustration and rage over moral and religious issues.” He said church violence is a reality.
The sheriff organized the church deputy program after reading about church attacks around the country, including one in Knoxville.
John Lott: Only nine states still ban carrying a concealed handgun in restaurants that serve alcohol
I checked out the map he cited and it’s not right. Both GA and SC permit carry in restaurants that serve. Perhaps the issue is that it’s an open carry site?
A look at the utter bastardization of the commerce clause. There may as well not even be a commerce clause.
Guy is drunk. Cops show up and guy gets in his car. Cops tell him to stop. Then Tazer him. While being tazed, the engine revs and car lurches forward. Cop puts six rounds into the drunk as his car lurching is seen as aggressive. I’m no expert but I can imagine that the engine revving was caused by muscle spasms from being tazed. And I can’t imagine that someone in the act of being tazed is a threat to anything other than upholstery.
Looks like they taught one of their candidates he had better toe the line. Or else. Else being a lot of whining.
Man with Glock goes to recycling center. Drops of glass, aluminum, assorted paper products to keep the Earth a bit nicer. Mingles with hippies. Hippies don’t notice gun. No hippies harmed.
Moreover, many mental health professionals have concluded that the official version of 9/11 is false, and that those who believe the official version suffer from emotional problems or defense mechanisms.
Many Chicagoans Carry Handguns Illegally. No way. That’s illegal. Also, sometimes the man is on your side:
Chicago police who responded did what officers often do in the city’s toughest neighborhoods. They pretended that the victim had not broken the law by defending himself with an illegal handgun.
“Nothing was said about the gun going off,” he said. “The police come over to make a report. The guy said to me, ‘Well, you’re lucky you weren’t killed. You should’ve had a gun with you. If you had killed the guy, then you would have had to say you took the gun off him.'”
No shots fired. Suspect had a 1911 and 25 rounds of ammo. Much birthday celebrating.
Well, later today. I’ll be at one. Attending some close friends’ birthday party for their son. New law and all. I wonder if I can refrain from shooting kids. Because that’s what Jeff Woods thinks I’ll do.
The Governor said of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act that he let become law without signing:
This bill is not about firearms. It is about a fringe constitutional theory that I believe will be quickly dispensed with by the federal courts.
He calls federalism and the tenth amendment fringe and then proceeds to say:
While I share the General Assembly’s commitment to federalism, this legislation contravenes our Constitution.
ACK takes the governor to task on his inconsistency. And I agree. But I wonder why he did not veto it? Unless he realized how much damage was done when he broke a campaign promise and vetoed the guns in restaurants bill. Maybe he is considering further office in the state.
On June 11, the top law enforcement officials of nearly half the states signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, expressing their opposition to reinstatement of the federal ban on semi-automatic firearms.
Tennessee’s Attorney General was not among them. I find that odd. He’s usually a pro-gun sort of guy.
If you’re going to be a carjacker, it’s probably a helpful job skill to know how to drive a stick.
Carry in state parks is OK now. But in local parks, it doesn’t go into effect until 9/1.
If you have a handgun carry permit, you can keep a sort of loaded rifle or shotgun in your vehicle. You can have the magazine in but not one in the chamber. No, I don’t know why that’s in there. Odd.
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