I’ve mentioned the bill before but I am remiss in mentioning that both the house and senate have passed the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. This is he bill that, essentially, is a snub to the federal government and its power to regulate everything because everything is incidentally involved in Interstate commerce. But in this particular case, it’s about guns. The bill says that firearms and parts made in Tennessee are not subject to federal law. Given that Tennessee does its own background checks, one might wonder why that matters. Here’s the bill. A couple of other states have passed similar bills and a lot of states have this bill in the works. And the bills, essentially, sets to set up a legal challenge such as what’s happening in Montana.

The interesting thing about Tennessee’s bill is that while it excludes machine guns (as other states’ similar bills have done), it defines sound suppressors as accessories and would exempt them from federal regulations, including the NFA tax and approval.

Or I’m a gun owner but . . .

Rodney Stanley has also never heard of the Heller case.

No kidding. I ordered 1,000 rounds of CCI Subsonic HP. After getting over the price, I was met with Please allow 5-7 weeks for delivery.

Hero Gear hosted an industry shoot. Lots of cool pics here.

I’m sure his re-education is coming

The autoegocrat tells his fellow progressive bloggers to have a nice big cup of cool your shit juice:

Maybe, just maybe, if bar patrons in thirty-seven other states are able to resist the urge to get loaded and proceed to go on drunken Wild West-style shooting sprees, the people of Tennessee can, too. Call me crazy, but I have this idea that the people of this state are not fundamentally any different from the people in bordering states, and among our neighbors, only North Carolina prohibits weapons in bars.

More like this please.

When you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

World’s Weirdest Animal Babies.

I mentioned yesterday the misrepresentation from Doug Pennington that you could count federal gun laws on one hand. Well, here’s a taste of just how voluminous those laws are.

Joe Huffman asks Mayor Nickels if he plans to continue breaking the law.

Listening to the band hand having a good time.

It’s like that time there was a man with a gun at Disney.

In England, a group of thugs threaten some golfers with planks of wood. The thugs want to steal the golf clubs. One problem with their plan is that a seven iron will do a number on a skull. Sounds like all ended happily, right? Wrong. This being England and all, guess who was arrested?

Apparently, David Carradine’s family alleges that he was killed by assassins, even though his death looks like he pulled a Hutchence. Sounds silly. But Squeaky points out that his hands were bound together. That would imply that he had some sort of helper. Or some ninja drew the really, really short straw and had to go kill the guy. Then tie a rope around his wiener. But if a ninja went through the trouble of tying up a dead guy’s Johnson, you’d think that the ninja would have remembered to unbind the hands so it didn’t look like ninjas did it. That, or somewhere the boss ninja is really pissed off. In some boardroom somewhere, I can picture the boss ninja saying Dammit, Larry, if you’d have just remembered to untie his hands, this would have been perfect. Now, we got the heat on us. Bad ninja. No ninja snacks.

But gun pundit has a video of a Serpa holster demonstration by Blackhawk’s Chuck Buis, which is a cool name for someone in the gun industry.

Tactical gun fan reviews the FN SCAR

Some handguns.

Short barreled RPD.

Chicks and guns: M4 goodness

An interesting new AR pistol grip from Stark Equipment.

Energy Department fails its own audit.

Should be banned, for the children. And what the hell is a military-style backpack?

I don’t care how cheap the iPhone is. So long as my only option for service is AT&T, I’ll never get one.

Heh

Weapon Nation

Scott North: a Bushmaster XM-15-E2s, an assault-style rifle capable of fully automatic fire, court papers said.

Well, I guess if you have a milling machine and some M16 parts laying around it could be.

Remington acquires Dakota Arms.

In Florida:

Terry McElroy, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, says his agency is so overwhelmed with concealed- weapon permit applications it doesn’t open packages until they’ve been in the mailroom for two months.

Drink up. It’s easier than thinking.

Jeff Woods looks at politicos blaming that dastardly media for misrepresenting the guns in restaurants bill. And wonders where, oh where, they would have gotten the idea that maybe the press had an agenda. I mean, with all those loaded poll questions, calling it the ‘guns in bars’ bill, and quoting every one who reacted with a bit of hysteria to it; it is puzzling that lawmakers would draw that conclusion. Aside from using every anti-gun PSH-inducing cliche, he then implies that a few crazies dictated state policy. He seems shocked that we crazy gun nuts are politically active and, you know, successful. Drink up.

Kool-Aid graphic provided by Robb.

To cut down on information overload, MKS recommends sixing.

But other political literature was OK.

Aunt B. is none too keen on allowing those with carry permits who work at schools to carry there. She doesn’t trust teachers but the school police officers she has no issue with. An issue to consider here is appropriate retention. After all, if a student managed to disarm a teacher, that would not be good. This is also why most prison employees are not armed and, frankly, most schools these days tend to operate like prisons. I could see armed personnel at a school as a good thing given that police tactics in the event of a mass shooting in the gun-free school zones is to contain and then secure the perimeter. That’s changing, as it should. Armed personnel at schools have minimized the carnage a couple of times that I know of.

And since B. always reminds me of the feminism issue, I see PGP is advocating arming staff at abortion clinics in light of Tiller’s killer saying to expect more attacks on abortion providers.

Handgun Carry Class size increases with passing new laws.

The US is the source of all the world’s gun problems. No doubt, folks are smuggling bazookas, rocket launchers, and machine guns to Canada too.

Joe notes something interesting about how the Brady Campaign is presenting numbers.