In places with strict gun control:

9 Killed, 39 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago

Three dead, suspect killed in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in California

Shooting at Brooklyn block party leaves 1 dead, 11 injured

Vintage FN FAL ad

91% Democrats see violence next in war of words

Kevin: Civil War

As Billy Beck said years ago: All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war.

Increasingly, I find that to be more and more true.

Related: Player 2 has entered the game.

Murder record in Mexico.

Three people gunned down in a London drive by.

Where they have all those gun laws.

Joe:

There is only hot and pain. It had long been a source of great perplexion to me, Why do people deliberately cause themselves pain for no apparently benefit?

I have several nice scotch bonnets that I’m making a jerk sauce out of. I am a pepper snob and if it’s hot just to be hot, no thanks. If it’s flavorful and hot, it’s good.

As for spicy food causing dementia, I don’t know. But I can’t recall any of my Mexican friends or Korean friends having such issues.

Don’t really see the point: Non NFA Maxim 9

Daisy Airgun Museum

A few more things to tidy up but I anticipate being back soon.

Decided to secure the site while I was at it. Still working some of that out.

Blogging to resume at some point.

All posts from yesterday have disappeared. I’m working to resolve some technical issues. BRB.

Vacation. See you in a week or so.

Garmin has a gizmo out that monitors your trap shooting.

A guide to silencers with some decibel level testing.

CROWN ROYAL WHISKY AR-15. Yup, really.

They hold that an AR-15 is illegal because bump stocks allow them to be readily restored to fire full auto. Thanks, Trump.

The VA legislature shot down the governor’s special session on gun control.

Seems they spent a ton of money lobbying the legislature for an armed police force.

Big Horn Armorys 500 Auto Max Rifle

Adam Kraut:

Late yesterday, I received an email from an individual containing a letter from ATF which was a response to a correspondence requesting the correct method to measure a firearm with a stabilizing brace and folding adaptor. It was explained that the correspondence was sent in the form of an email over a year ago and that the person had received a response via email shortly after it was sent. This letter was unsolicited and came over a year after the original request and response.

Read the whole thing.

A court has ruled that Trump banning twitter users is a violation of the first amendment.

In Washington, sheriffs are refusing to enforce the state’s new gun laws.

Is that an air gun?

Google tweaked algorithm after rise in US shootings

It seems a lot of bad information post shooting is being found by using Google. So, they tweaked it a bit.

Over at BattleSwarm:

The more we find out about how the NRA has been run, the worse it seems. The crisis started out looking like a case of lax management, but the deeper you dig the more it looks like a case of systematic looting.

Turns out, gun owners in New Zealand aren’t turning them in.

Venezuelas transgender community fears hormone shortages

The future is stupid.

Calls for the left to arm itself.

Can’t afford to feed him anymore.

First SAFE Act conviction dismissed

Good.

Clear mags and suppressors.

Ed Brown SOCOM Edition 1911

Interesting:

A new startup using computer vision software to turn security cameras into gun-detecting smart cameras has raised $2.2 million in venture capital funding in a round led by Bling Capital, with participation from Upside Partnership and Tensility Venture Partners.

Aegis AI sells to U.S. corporations and school district its technology, which scans thousands of video feeds for brandished weapons and provides threat-detection alerts to customers within one second, for $30 per camera, per month. Coupling AI and cloud computing, Aegis integrates with existing camera hardware and video management software, requiring no on-site installation or maintenance.

We can take over the role of a security guard with much higher accuracy at a much lower cost, Aegis co-founder and chief product officer Ben Ziomek tells TechCrunch.

I’m skeptical.