Seems silly:

A Franklin woman will serve six months’ probation for leaving her 4-year-old daughter in a running vehicle while she went into a store.

Judith L. Rogers was charged with leaving a child unattended in a running motor vehicle, a class B misdemeanor.

My truck has one of those electronic keypads on the door so I can unlock it without a key. A few times I’ve had the kids in the car and realize that the place I stopped at for gas doesn’t have pay at the pump. So, I leave the air on, lock the door, and run inside to pay. The truck is locked and I always make certain that I can see my vehicle. It’s a lot more convenient than unstrapping two kids; taking them into a dirty gas station; then having to buy them a Slushee because once they see it, they must have one; herding them back to the truck while they’re under their initial sugary beverage rush; getting them back in their seats; and strapping them back in. I didn’t know I was breaking the law.

Hippie and dirty undies free!

CoolRestaurantsTennessee:

The purpose of this blog is simple: we are offering access to a list of restaurants in Tennessee that people who pee their pants at even the very thought of guns are planning to patronize.

Heh.

So says The Daily Times:

Maryville and Alcoa government officials have indicated they will opt out of a new law allowing people to carrying guns in public parks, according to Parks and Recreation Director Joe Huff.

The issue was discussed at a Parks and Recreation Commission meeting Tuesday.

Huff said he hopes Blount County Commission will also ban guns in parks. The state Legislature recently passed legislation allowing handgun permit holders to take their guns to parks, but gave local governments the right to opt out. The law was sent to the Governor and would go into effect on September 1 of this year.

The city and county governments can be contacted here. Also, if cities keep doing this, it seems like a good way to get the state to pass a law preempting local control of the guns in parks issues. And Campfield reports that the legislature is looking at expanding the state’s preemption powers.

The latest shooting wire quotes a mystery blogger:

That aversion was one that led gun bloggers, some of the new power-brokers in the gun world, to run an anti-campaign against a senior Cerberus member’s campaign for a position on the NRA board. After he failed to get elected, one blogger laughingly told me “maybe now they’ll realize if you don’t talk to us, we don’t have any use for you.”

They don’t disclose which blogger and I don’t know who it is. But I don’t actually know that anyone actively ran a Campaign against Kollitides so much as he was just openly not endorsed. This was due to his refusal to do any interviews, not show up at NRA committees he was a member of, and finally because he apparently didn’t even show up at NRA’s annual meeting. Michael Bane says:

Nice to be one of the new power-brokers, as soon as I figure out what that means. You’d think a new power broker could get ammo, wouldn’t you?

True. I’m still waiting for my wheelbarrow full of cash.

Police in Mexico in a stand off with other police.

Irrational, to say the least.

According to Chris Matthews on Hardball tonight, it’s easier to “get a gun” than it is to get someone “to make you a waffle”.

Survival and Disaster Preparedness Blog Carnival.

Greg notes the AR shortage is coming to a close. I concur. Last week, I was at both Coal Creek Armory and Gunny’s and noticed they both has AR lower receivers and AR rifles in stock. I didn’t look at rifle prices but the lowers were priced at about the $150 mark.

Feds seize online poker accounts.

Reason’s Brian Doherty has a look.

Another Pennsylvania city to break the law.

Dianne Feinstein Memorial Assault Shotgun – and it’s for sale.

Wilson Combat SPEC-OPS9

Range photos of sporting use.

Good: Coburn and Thune are proposing the addition of an amendment promoting interstate concealed carry attached to hate crimes legislation.

It’s a party: Gun controllers say rampage aids cause

Late yesterday, the few lefty blogs I read and the few lefty commenters I encountered were all saying the same thing about the holocaust museum shooter. They all said something to the effect of if only the DHS didn’t have to redact that report on right wing extremism, then everything would be all rainbow-farting unicorns and stuff. And I thought these guys are fast, it’s like they have talking points or something. Turns out, they do. It’s even called Talking Points.

Seems the guy pretty much hated everyone, including Christians, Jews, Neo-cons, and probably puppies. Narrative doesn’t seem to stand up all that well.

My opinion, seems like an 89 year-old with a 22 rifle is probably trying to commit suicide by cop and have one last hurrah for his crazy ideas.

Everything has an expiration date.

The fix is in.

A look at the Virginia primary:

Here in the cold light of dawn (or mid afternoon) following the Democratic triumph of Creigh Deeds, I’ve been reading what some outlanders think of our little scrum. AP moved an analysis of the race, as has the New York Times and The Atlantic.

What’s striking about all three is just how wrong they are.

Earth and Venus to collide. In 3.5 billion years.

Video here.

Reasoned Discourse^tm

Helmke hops in, since it takes two to Tango:

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

“The Brady Campaign extends sympathies to the innocent victims and others affected in today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum. This shows that having even more guns in more places is the wrong answer to America’s gun violence problem.

Didn’t the armed security guards (who had more guns) stop the guy before he did more damage?

An email received:

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) was saddened to learn about today’s shooting tragedy at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the family of the victim of the shooting.

The shooter in this incident, James W. von Brunn, was a convicted felon and a “hardcore Neo-Nazi” who believed that Western civilization was going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI GOVERNMENT” that would “confiscate private weapons” in order to accomplish its goals. He was convicted of a felony in 1983 for bringing firearms into the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., where he attempted to place federal officials under “citizen’s arrest.” Von Brunn is not the first shooter in the past year to embrace virulent, anti-government views. He joins a long list of violent insurrectionists, including Scott P. Roeder, who killed abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Kansas on May 31; Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski, who killed three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in April; Joshua Cartwright, who killed two police officers in the Florida panhandle in April; and Jim Adkisson, who killed two parishioners at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in July 2008.

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has repeatedly warned of the ascendancy of the insurrectionist idea, which was recently embraced by the Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. We believe that this year’s string of shootings is not a series of random occurrences but part of a new, loosely-knit political movement characterized by the slogan “the guys with the guns make the rules.” This is an incredibly dangerous idea that has real consequences for our democracy and society.

What we are seeing play out in tragedies across our country is the mixing of the insurrectionist idea with increasingly weaker gun laws. In shooting after shooting, we have seen individuals disgruntled with government gain easy access to firearms despite criminal records and troubling mental health histories.

Uh, yeah. Because that’s what Heller was about.

Shooter IDed as James W. von Brunn. Apparently, anti-Semite white supremacist. Here’s his webpage. Google cache here. Said things about how Hitler screwed up by not gassing enough Jews. Shooter had a shotgun. Was shot by armed guards.

Update: Also tried to arrest Federal Reserve Board of Governors for treason. Was convicted by jury of Negroes (his words, not mine). Sounds like a real piece of work.

Also, a possible truther.

Update: Also, 88 years old.

CNN: Shooting reported at or near U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

More:

D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes says a person walked into the museum with a rifle and shot a guard. Hughes says the shooter was also shot.

ETA: Suspect in custody.

LA Times cool with incorporation, except for that whole second amendment part:

It’s tempting for supporters of gun control — including this page — to hope that the high court will rule that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply to the states. That would be a mistake and would give aid and comfort to conservative legal thinkers, among them Justice Clarence Thomas, who have questioned the incorporation doctrine.

We were disappointed last year when the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right, giving short shrift to the first part of the amendment, which refers to “a well-regulated militia.” But we also believe the court has been right to use the doctrine of incorporation to bind states to the most important protections of the Bill of Rights. If those vital provisions are to be incorporated in the 14th Amendment, so should the right to keep and bear arms.

Uh oh: Two passengers on doomed Air France jet had names linked to Islamic terror groups

Don’t read too much into it. People have been on lists before for no reason.

Link to petition here. TriggerFinger has a lot more.

In tacticalgunfan’s review of the SCAR mentioned before, is this photo:

From Gun Porn

And a caption: The buttstock not only folds, but also collapses (with six lengths available). Also note the two-position cheekrest, which can be raised for use with optics.

They should also mention it makes a really cool boot.