Mr. Completely has the second edition of the rimfire round up.

Dr. Helen looks at the impact of daycare on kids’ behavior and cognition. Interesting to me since we’re pondering Junior’s potential enrollment. Well, assuming I land a job some time soon.

Coal Creek Armory has some and there’s is for sale. I have actually handled that exact Arsenal AK and I have to say it has the nicest finish of any AK I’ve ever handled. I know, you’re thinking that still wouldn’t be that great of a finish. But it really is the nicest looking AK I’ve ever seen. Those milled receivers are pretty slick.

Kevin looks at culture and violence and race and, well, lots of stuff. Good stuff in comments too.

Shoot-N-Scoot is looking to put together an ar15.com local shoot on March 25. I’m up for that, if I can figure out where the Cherokee NF is located. If interested, leave a comment there or here. More info to come.

Head tells you how to remove rivets on AK receivers without doing damage to the weapon.

Check out Kit. Good gun stuff. And pics. And she has more dirty magazines than I do.

In a follow up to My Dirty Magazine Collection, The Mrs. emails:

By my count:
Sig 229: 5 magazines (2 too many)
Glock 30: 3 magazines (just right)
AR-15: 12 magazines (9 too many)
AK: 4 magazines (1 too many)
Ruger 10/22: 4 magazines (1 too many)
Walther P22: 2 magazines (may need 1 more)
AR 9mm: 4 (for which I get bonus gun geek points for owning magazines to a gun I don’t even have) (4 too many)
Total: 34, if I did my math right. (By my math, that is 16 too many)

I told her me and junior were off to count shoes, purses and scrapbooking stuff! I’ll, of course, use this as a reason to justify buying another Walther mag.

Update: 3 per gun, eh? I just need more guns!

I have a project for those who are into the history of firearms and technical information. Wiki needs us.

The California DOJ has seized 500 legal AR-15 stripped lower receivers:

Here’s some basic background information on CA gun laws: The assault weapons law bans guns by feature, and a detachable mag is a required feature. There are also guns banned by model. The DOJ can add AR/AK receiver names at will, and then owners have a few months to register them as assault weapons. So fixed-mag AR’s are legal unless the DOJ bans that model, at which point residents have some time to register them as assault weapons, and assault weapons can have politically incorrect features. The DOJ announced such an addition to the ban list (for the first time), and so CA gun owners went on a buying spree. However, the DOJ just published a memo stating that they would not allow politically incorrect features to be added, which is not what the law states, but that’s another battle…

More here and here. Via Gun Law News.

The Brady bunch says it’s OK to break the law if we’re going after those evil gun dealers and their evil gun shows. Actually, I made that up since the Brady presser says nothing about the fact the ATF violated the law during this alleged abuse. Go figure. They have to lie to win. Nothing new.

First up, here’s a video of what a 28 gauge will do to a paper target at 30 yards.

The quail were on the grassy knoll!

Der Commissar asks if canned hunting is really hunting. I don’t think it is. I think it’s more like trap shooting at live targets. And to anyone who wants to yammer on about it being cruel, spare me your moral indignation unless you’re willing to forego your processed pork chops, steaks and chicken wings you get at the store. If you’re a vegetarian and do forego those things, you’re still wrong. You’re just not a hypocrite about it.

Kevin completely makes up what canned hunting is and uses every lame anti-Bush administration metaphor there is.

Nathan Moore reads what the moonbats are saying about it so you don’t have to. They think Cheney was drunk. Or stupid. Or something involving Halliburton, oil and the souls of the unclean. Or some thing.

And the girls are too.

David Hardy says:

I realize that fear sells newspapers, but you’d think they’d find some subject that they can legitimately scare people with, rather than going this far to create a boogeyman….

David notes that Jeanine Pirro, a gun ban supporting Republican, is trying to appease pro gunners with talk. It shouldn’t work. David asks:

In my earlier post about her run against Hillary, it was noted her husband is a convicted felon.

“I have a .22, a .38 and a Mauser.” Jeanine announces to thunderous approval.

Where do you keep ’em, Jeanine? Under the same roof as hubby?

Can any felon in New York live with a gun-owning wife? There’s no violation of gun laws going on here, is there?

The law is rather ambiguous on this (at least federal law). They can be in the same home but the felon can never be in possession of one. This why Mrs. G. Gordon Liddy has a heckuva gun collection. However, all the law has to do is prove possession. Some folks suggest a safe that said felon can’t open.

Seen at Michael’s:

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn’t change with society are “idiots,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

Heh.

Randall Nunn points out that the investigations into alleged lawbreaking by the ATF at VA gun shows has gone unreported in the press:

hearings are scheduled in Congress this month to examine a pattern of apparent wrongdoing by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives at a number of Richmond, Virginia area gun shows. According to reports, BATFE agents released confidential information to local police officers with which to harass lawful purchasers of firearms at these gun shows. There are even reports of confiscation of firearms from lawful owners and questioning of family members of purchasers as if criminal activity had occurred as a result of attendance and purchases. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee intends to hold oversight hearings on these incidents to determine if BATFE was out of line. Probably very few Americans have heard about this because most of the mainstream media believes that the Second Amendment is not important and that gun shows are an evil which should be stamped out. The fact that millions of law-abiding Americans attend gun shows and lawfully purchase guns and other items is of no importance once the liberal media has decided that citizens should not have the right to purchase firearms at such shows. If government uses its coercive power to chill the exercise of such civil liberties, that is acceptable to much of the mainstream media.

I knew Alphie was a reformed liberal but I didn’t know he was a reformed hippie.

Xavier looks at shooting while pregnant. Don’t do it. But if you do, read his advice.

Jeff has the latest on anti-gun bias in the media.

I often ponder, if I were to meet particular people of note, what would I say to them? That is to say, how would I initiate a conversation with these folks? Well, here’s the presidential edition:

George W. Bush: Dude, why are you fucking up the Republican revolution?

John Kerry: So, I heard you were in Vietnam?

Al Gore: 2000, good year? Oh, and thanks for inventing the internets.

Bill Clinton: So, is it true? The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin’?

John Edwards: Dude, did a muskrat die on your head? A thick, lustrous muskrat, that is.

Seen at Leanleft:

Some guys lament that Valentine’s Day is all about women and the burden lies on the men to make it special — but they won’t necessarily see the lovey-dovey gestures returned.

“All the responsibility for Valentine’s Day falls on the guy,” the Connecticut husband said. “If the guy and the girl both agree to do nothing, and the guy doesn’t come up with at least a flower and the girl doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t hold the same value.

“There’s no reciprocated holiday for the guy. Like how about a steak and porn night? Would that be so awful?”

There is a reciprocal holiday on March 14.

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’ meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. — Larry Hardiman

A while back, Les mentioned that European American Armory was going to stop importing Saigas, a sporterized version of the AK. Well, Russian American Armory (are they related?) has started importing them.

I don’t have a problem. I can stop whenever I want.

Sunday, I went to the gun show. It was the worst gun show ever. Seriously. But this ain’t a post about that, it’s a post about this:

Get home from the show, and the Mrs. asks if I bought anything. I said yeah, some AK magazines. She then, not realizing that all my guns don’t take the same magazine, goes into the typical diatribe that goes something like this:

How many of those things do you really need? Are you planning on going to war? There’s not going to be an armed occupation of Maryville. Yada, yada, yada.

So, I decided to take an inventory. Here’s a pic of my dirty magazine collection:

By my count:

Sig 229: 5 magazines
Glock 30: 3 magazines
AR-15: 12 magazines
AK: 4 magazines
Ruger 10/22: 4 magazines
Walther P22: 2 magazines
AR 9mm: 4 (for which I get bonus gun geek points for owning magazines to a gun I don’t even have)
Total: 34, if I did my math right.

Now, I look at this list and think: Man, I need some more AK, Glock, and Walther magazines.

So, fellow gun nuts, how many magazines is enough?

ETA: BTW, whenever the Mrs. asks When are you going to be done buying guns/magazines/optics/etc? My response is usually When I have them all.

An unsigned piece in the Tennessean comes out against the bill to allow concealed weapons holders to pack in places that serve alcohol:

A proposal to allow guns to be carried in bars and restaurants was a bad idea last year and a bad idea this year.

Gun advocates are reportedly reloading and aiming for approval this year of a state bill that would allow gun permit holders to take their guns into establishments that serve alcohol. Lawmakers should reject such a dangerous idea.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported recently that advocates for gun rights are prepared to seek approval of the bill in the General Assembly. The bill passed the Senate last year but was hung up in a subcommittee in the House and the subject of intense debate. Opponents of the proposal argue correctly that alcohol and firearms simply don’t mix. Law enforcement officials, including Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas who testified before lawmakers, have opposed the bill.

And by hung up in a subcommittee in the House and the subject of intense debate they’re referring to the time when speaker Naifeh broke the rules of the house in order to further his personal agenda of killing this bill. Regarding the point that alcohol and firearms simply don’t mix, I concur. That happens to be why the bill specifically states that those carrying weapons cannot legally drink. Weapons are already in bars, may as well put some lawful ones there. And it’s not just bars. Pizza Hut serves beer and so do other family restaurants.

No, really. There’s a push for shall issue CCW in the Aloha State. It has almost no chance of passing, I’d bet.

Stupid gun owners, don’t they know that privacy only applies to confidential sources and abortion? Not the right to not tell the world you have a gun in your home and usually on your person.

No, really:

Larger than life images of law enforcement officers confiscating legally-possessed firearms from New Orleans residents, who were accused of no crimes, played on video screens at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre urged the audience to Remember New Orleans!

We’re gonna make New Orleans the worst nightmare the gun ban crowd has ever seen, I promise you that," LaPierre told listeners, many of them NRA members, in a packed banquet hall.

LaPierre listed numerous studies by both government and private researchers, including some who oppose gun ownership, that show no correlation between gun control laws and reductions in violent crime.

No gun control law anywhere ever had, ever has or ever will have any effect on crime, period," LaPierre argue. All of this information is readily available to any policy maker who chooses to live in reality. But, still, there’s a steady supply of people who just don’t get it

Then how about getting on that sporting language stuff there, guys?

“This would be the end of a dream for a lot of people,” Frenchtown resident Kim Vest told the St. Charles City Council Tuesday night.

And what, you may ask, is Kim Vest talking about. Well, she’s talking about a bill that would restrict abuse of eminent domain:

A group of Frenchtown residents say a proposal to restrict the city’s use of eminent domain would cripple their efforts to redevelop rundown areas of the historic neighborhood.

How about, say, someone’s dream to want to keep their land or home?