Do not go here without some time to kill.

Bet he doesn’t do that again.

Truth: Privacy is dead, get over it.

While I like the idea for symbolic and other self-satisfying reasons, others are telling me to be careful what I wish for. Enforcing gun laws is a job and someone has to do it. The laws won’t be going away. So, roll them back into Treasury?

Joe has a lot more, notably: Because they are so weak this might be the time to get rid of them simply because it is politically possible.

NewsAlert: there were 14% fewer murders in Chicago compared to the first six months of last year � back when owning handguns was illegal. It was the largest drop in Chicago�s murder rate since the handgun ban went into effect in 1982.

First, Ford mentions they didn’t take bailout money in an ad. Now, Ameriprise mentions they didn’t take bailout money.

Expecting those in authority to comply with the law is terrifying for the anti-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself).

SW1911 Tactical Rail Series 1000 Round Range Report

Lots of black rifles

Glock 19 disassembly

Pics, how to and a review.

You can buy them here.

Dick Williams looks at the Para Wild Bunch.

I interviewed the Para folks about it at NRA. The video is here.

CrimsonTrace has launched a video series on their products.

A plan: Start blog. Quit reading stuff to blog about.

You can’t be trusted with a firetruck.

Under White House Control? And we have a new operation.

The White House did know.

Cover up

Unraveling

This looks handy to know.

They just bought a lot more Berettas.

KSG and zombies.

Barrett trade show segment

The Rieger Bolt Action Pistol

Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF:

Multiple sources, including sources from ATF, DOJ and Congressional offices have said there is a white paper circulating within the Department of Justice, outlining the essential elimination of ATF. According to sources, the paper outlines the firing of at least 450 ATF agents in an effort to conduct damage control as Operation Fast and Furious gets uglier and as election day 2012 gets closer.

Congrats, Mike. I guess you’ve arrived when Media Matters does a hit piece on you. Standard MM, though. Complete with distortions and half truths.

Former GemTech board member pleads to possession of stolen firearms and suppressors:

According to court documents and to statements made in court, Sleeva was a federal firearms licensee and had obtained silencers as a member of Gemtech’s board of directors prior to his removal from the board in 2001.

Gemtech is an Idaho firm that is in the business of designing, testing, manufacturing, servicing, and selling silencers for firearms.

When he was removed from the board, Sleeva failed to return the silencers after Gemtech repeatedly demanded that he do so, according to Fein.

ATF agents accomplices to murder in gun program

I find mulling my options in most elections to be the equivalent of seeing two turds in a punch bowl and me and someone else arguing over which turd tastes slightly less bad. Then we get consumed in that discussion and totally lose sight of the fact we’re arguing over two pieces of shit and how stupid arguing over that is. So now, I vote my conscious or don’t vote at all. I’ve never felt right since pulling the lever for McCain. I bring that up because of Bobbi’s comment from here:

I�ll still vote LP, �cos neither face of the Elephant is any more serious about liberty than the jackasses across the aisle.

Max Motors had a gun giveaway. Buy a car, get an AK47. ATF agents showed and were shown that it was lawful because customers were given a voucher for the gun and not a gun. And he was harassed by his bank and GM. And:

The next day, Muller received a call from the ATF asking him to come in for a meeting with all of his personal guns, which they insisted they had to authority to order, he said. Muller held his ground and refused to submit to the audit without first going through due process.

�The ATF people were just as nice as can be. They were not mean or hateful�and finally I asked the lady on the phone: Don�t you have something better to do?� he said. He then re-explained that there were vouchers for guns and that no guns were being given away.

�She said: �Let me tell you how important this is, the White House started their morning with a briefing on you. We got a call from Washington, D.C. this morning. They wanted you checked out,� he said.

The White House doesn’t have anything better to do?

$23.3M from Surefire

NSSF’s site has a new look.

Staff Sgt. Robert Gutierrez Jr. is a bad ass.

Boston increasing knife regulations

Stop touching it:

During a staff meeting last week, Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Charles Hurley pulled out his .40-caliber Glock pistol, unloaded the magazine and placed the bullets on a meeting room table.

He says it was an impromptu demonstration to stress the dangers facing officers and students during a recent spate of shootings. Some in the room, however, say they felt it was a display meant to intimidate.

What you’ve done here, Sparky, is increase the likelihood of a negligent discharge from zero to some number larger than zero. Stop it.

A brief timeline for Gunwalker

Obama evades questions from latino media.

Informants not only used tax payer money to buy guns for cartels, they also bought drugs.

Heh. Buy it here.

Not a very elaborate or entertaining one. Just a wrong one.

Comes in about where you’d think a politician from NJ would. And here’s his misinformed flyer on the assault weapons ban. His attack ad criticized his opponent for not supporting gun bans.

Via Jacob, who says it’s a non-issue.

They’re all racist, even when they vote for a black guy.

Suppressing an AK

War Heroes 1911s

Big Bore 1911

Columbus decides to comply with state law, removing firearm restrictions

A teaser from a brand new, wet-behind-the-ears gun blog.

Shocking: State forced to look at options as revenue from red light cameras declines

Police and FBI pay a visit to a pistol instructor’s house because he bought ammo. You know, an expense for him in the ordinary course of business. Seems who needs that much ammo? warrants a visit. Need has nothing to do with it.

Via Tam, who asks: Where do you draw the line? How far down the slope do you slide before you decide you don’t like the view anymore?

ATF says that medical marijuana users cannot own guns. The logic is sketchy since form 4473 asks if one is an unlawful user. I would say being permitted by the state makes one’s use lawful. ATF disagrees:

The federal government considers all users of medical marijuana unlawful, no matter what state law says.

Generally, the government considers us criminals anyway.

I would answer the question with a no, personally, since someone with their card is not an unlawful user.

Support middle class firearms rights.

And a petition for national CCW bill.

Great story: Thank you, Eddie Eagle.

And, today, the Brady Campaign prevented zero gun accidents.

Come back with a warrant. People now no longer presume the police are the police and people now are less inclined to cooperate. I wonder why?

Through your company’s United Way program. At least something good can come from your company’s annual employee pestering err community drive.

The ongoing saga of the fraud committed against Glock.

S&W getting a new CEO? Also, I like this: Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: SWHC), a leader in the business of safety, security, protection, and sport . . .

That is some good PR right there.

Insurance premiums up, shocking no one.

More wishing for death.

Seen on facebook:

IBD: Again, Fast and Furious was no botched sting operation. The ATF simply didn’t “lose track” of thousands of weapons. We believe this was a planned and premeditated attempt to further the administration’s gun-control agenda and its claim that violence in Mexico was our fault.

Yup. Is the media ignoring or covering up?

Obama’s Watergate? No, Watergate had no body count.

The SlideFire stock works with 22LR:

More ammo tests here

That this was a case to begin with is kinda sad. Good for Nappen, fighting the good fight behind enemy lines.

Open carry and not much happens. And I didn’t know you were supposed to use the wet end.

ParaUSA is no longer selling their TTR rifles. This makes, to my knowledge, the third company to sell and then stop selling the folding stock AR-15 design that was started by (IIRC) Z weapons. I guess the design just won’t gain traction.

Nothing will happen

Ahmadinejad is a troofer?

Could US consumers save the Russian firearms industry? In a free market, certainly. Various import restrictions make it a little difficult.

More guns, less crime

Glock 17, Gen4

Court overturns ban in Oregon

It’s a gun and a camera. What could possibly go wrong?

I don’t know that I’d shoot it . . . much: Massive Homemade 12 Gauge Revolver

I’ll eat up all your crackers and your licorice

Makes me laugh whenever I hear it.

NRA’s magazine catering to young shooters is now available online: NRA InSights.

NC Gov:

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover

Ok, Sparky, look here. I’ll ignore the whole subverting the nature of the republic aspect of your stupid statement and address the reality: Congress is pretty much why the country is in the economic shitter. Letting them run loose and even more unaccountable is like trusting the pyromaniac 8 year-old up the street to watch your collection of gas cans and fireworks.

Rasmussen: 39% See ‘Pro-Gun’ As Positive Label, 27% Say It’s A Negative

I wonder if you did the poll and used the word ‘Anti-gun’ how the results would skew. All in the marketing.

I have lots of Crimson Trace lasers. This knife for your gun-mounted laser would be handy at the range, rather than keeping up with all those wrenches.

So they can buy and sell machine guns illegally. Or something. Also, the FDA is involved? I guess they’re taking the regulation of Sara Lee sammiches and cigars seriously.

Ouch: Only a “gun control” extremist would think hiding under a desk would make someone an expert on firearms.

Until the manufacturer comes up with a new model:

A spokesman for the rifle’s developer, the Izhmash plant in central Russia, told Izvestia newspaper that a new model would be ready for demonstration by the end of the year.

Wonder what changes the army wants? The ability to hit a barn from inside the barn?

Terror watchlist includes people cleared of charges.

Capitol police profile then arrest Revolutionary War re-enactor.

Knoxville airport to get privacy invading, not adequately tested for human use body scanners.

Insurance for the Zombie Apocalypse.

I admit to being a little amazed at the civility since Ron Paul pretty much values the free market and personal freedom principles that Stewart routinely mocks on his show. I suppose being against wars helps.

From a blog I don’t read. Snark aside, I think she makes some decent points, notably the one about being boring. You can make up for being boring by doing shorter posts to cater to the short attention span of readers who prefer clicking to reading. And, yeah, I’m looking at you. See, you’ll totally click this. And you’ve already forgotten what I was talking about, haven’t you?

Who knew?

The gun nuts will be your guides.

For a good cause

Or the White House will call and intimidate you: Ford pulls ad critical of bailout after criticism.

PSH from spotting an open carrier in the snack aisle.

Sig launches the M400

Bushmaster ACR testing

Pics from the KY 3 Gun, featuring Tactical Homer.

Not a gun but I like the pic.

Thankfully, ATF shenanigans haven’t become a something-gate. I hate that suffix. But: Watergate didn�t have a body count. Gunwalker has hundreds.

John’s impressions.

One of those days.

The Hino-Komura pistol.

NYPD can take down planes. So they say. I am curious how.

Weerd had the same thoughts.

Clayton needs numbers of permit holders on a state by state basis.

In MA, even if you’re innocent, you’re punished.

Remington R1

C7 and C8s

Opting out of No Child Left Behind. A trend of this administration.

If the laws are bad, they shouldn’t be laws and should be gotten rid of through the legislative process. Selective enforcement of the law is tyrannical.

Using a waiver letter to force gun dealers to sell.

STI and Saiga

I do not want her shooting at me.

Artillery in slow motion

Yeah, the ad is an attack ad. I don’t know that the point is to give his position.

In Ohio, restricting access to carry permit lists.

Puts a smile on my face.

It’s only common sense to regulate newspapers.

From Richard

If you watch one thing today, make it this.

I’ll start saying Federal Reserve Bank a lot.

Unpossible! Beale Street bans guns and has metal detectors and stuff.

The book is coming

The Brady Campaign is helping Rick Perry’s poll numbers?