Heh.

Recent poker tourney at the final table with 6 players, I’m the short stack due to a bad beat two hands before. I’m the big blind, which is about a third of my stack. I have no choice but to take any two cards and go all in. In this situation, most of your opponents will call since putting you out is a priority at the final table. I get 9♠ 10♣. Last to act with three limpers, I go all in. Limpers call. Flop:

9♣ 9♥ 9♦

I quadruple up, now have the second biggest stack and take second in the tourney due to bad beat in the coin flip err heads up portion.

The Munchkin Wrangler: why the gun is civilization.

Hell in a Handbasket: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know About Hollowpoints

Publicola: Cats and AKs

Snowflakes in Hell: Windex to clean your AK?

Egregious Charles: Bore cleaning trick

Dr. Strangegun: Marlin 60 gun porn

PawPaw’s House: Daddy’s guns

The Sopranos returns. Sweet.

In Ohio, a lawfully-owned M-60 and Uzi machine gun were stolen.

I’ve already said that I believe Jim Zumbo and take his apology and his pledge to fight for gun rights at face value. And his attonement continues:

He has publicly apologized on Ted Nugent’s Internet forum, and he offered the same apology to Gun Week and its readers. The experience has humbled him.

But the disaster to his career has not made Zumbo want to run and hide, though many of his critics say he should. Instead, Zumbo is going to use this experience to become what he hopes will be the worst nightmare that gun-grabbing politicians and gun control activists could imagine.

“I want to join the fight, do whatever it takes,” he said in earnest. “Let’s educate the other dumb people like me who didn’t know about AR-15s. I will lead that charge.

“I’m stupid,” he added, admitting that he has never had what some people might call a “fascination” with firearms. “From my ignorance, let’s enlighten everyone else.”

Zumbo said he could have retired a year ago, and he could do likewise today, but in his heart, he feels a responsibility to square himself, and use his energies to unite the hunting and shooting fraternities, which do not always see eye-to-eye, even in this controversy.

Welcome back, guy.

Series 80 Colt Gold Cup

Heh:

Question:

What would happen to a pistol like the Glock if it was submerged in a container of drano (Drain Cleaner)?

Answer:

Since Drano is safe for plastic and metal pipes, I think it would only dissolve the hair clog in the barrel.

However, in just a few minutes a Glock fanboy will come by and post a link to a test where a Glock was put in a blender filled with Drano, sulfuric acid, Coca-Cola, pirahna, and 2 pounds of industrial diamonds. A CAT D8bulldozer was then dropped on it from 1000 feet. The owner picked up the Glock, chambered a 155mm HE round, hit a post-it note at 917 miles, and then proceeded to run 726,761 rounds of Wolf ammo coated with Gorilla Glue with no failures.

Seen at Terry Frank’s:

Sen. Jackson’s “Girls Gone Wild” bill moves forward

If they can come up with this much stupid being part time, imagine how much stupid they could come up with if they were full time.

Not sure I agree with this:

I agree that Webb should get on the repeal DC gun ban issue pronto.

I think congressional intervention would completely ruin any chance that Parker v. DC has of making it to the supreme court. For good or bad.

As told to me by Junior:

Junior: Knock, knock

Me: Who’s there?

Junior: Orange

Me: Orange who?

Junior: [runs away laughing hysterically]

It made my day.

The Corner notes a press conference by Jim Webb:

QUESTION: Do you, Senator, feel that you are above Washington, D.C.’s gun law?

WEBB: I’m not going to comment in any level in terms of how I provide for my own security.

You weren’t asked about your own security. You were asked about violating the law (for little people). Now, Webb is pretty darn pro-gun. But that doesn’t excuse how the wealthy/powerful/white get off in this town. And I have some more questions:

What type of gun was it? After all, if (in DC) you have a semi-automatic that holds more than 12 rounds it is a machine gun.

Has it or will it be returned?

Is each round of unregistered ammo a separate violation?

Is there a congressmonkey exception to DC law?

What about other DC residents who want to provide for [their] own security? And they don’t have the capitol police on guard.

Via Insty.

Update: Webb says he didn’t give the guy the gun but he doesn’t say if the gun is his or not. He also says:

“I believe that it’s important — it’s important for me, personally, and for a lot of people in the situation that I’m in, to be able to defend myself and my family,” Webb said. “Since 9/11 for people who are in government I think in general there has been an agreement that it’s a more dangerous time. Again, I’m not going to comment, again, with great specificity about how I defend myself, but I do feel that I have that right.”

Good. But what about other DC residents?

And there’s this:

Capitol Police rules allow members and their employees to bring a weapon onto Capitol grounds if it is unloaded and securely wrapped. In this case, it was allegedly neither.

Even if the guns are illegal? Which they would be if they are 1) in DC and 2) not registered prior to 1976.

The story so far. A new twist to the tale of me and my privilege to be allowed to engage in my chosen profession. The latest conversation:

SayUncle: Hello

Tax Collector: This is blah-blah-blah from the waivers department calling about your request for a waiver for penalties on your Professional Privilege Tax payment.

SayUncle: You have a waivers department?

Tax Collector: Yes.

SayUncle: Odd. So, you have an entire department dedicated to the fact you guys make a lot of mistakes.

Tax Collector: Sir?

SayUncle: Nothing. How can I help you, ma’am?

Tax Collector: Well, we show your address as [old address from a number of years back] and I have this letter from you requesting a waiver.

SayUncle: I no longer live there. Like I told the last guy, I let you guys know that via your handy little website that exists expressly for the purpose of letting you know that.

Tax Collector: We need to get your current address.

SayUncle: Well, on that letter that you have, just below the words I can be reached at.

Tax Collector: Yeah.

SayUncle: Well, you’ll notice that the first line ends in the word Road and the second line, oddly enough, ends in a five digit number. We commonly call that a zip-code. It typically indicates that, uh, that would be an address.

Tax Collector: *silence*

SayUncle: It also matches the top left portion of that thing it came in. You know, an envelope?

Tax Collector: So your current address is?

SayUncle: My address is blah-blah-blah.

Tax Collector: Thank you, sir.

SayUncle: Have a good day.

Wow. Just wow.

I know they got it rough due to bureaucracy and red tape from our alleged health care system but at least kiss me first. In the past, I’d go to the doc and he’d see me. On the way out, they’d ask for their money. Now, the want it in advance. The Second is having a very minor procedure (ear tubes) and the Dr.’s office called today to say they’ll need payment ($500, btw, that’s with insurance). But they haven’t even scheduled the procedure yet.

You’ll recall that TN Governor Phil Bredesen wanted to retain the power of restricting the ability to purchase guns and ammunition during times of natural disaster or declared emergency. He has since had a change of heart, reports Bob Krumm:

Gov. Phil Bredesen, who was at one time leery of giving up that power, signaled his support Monday for a plan to prevent Tennessee officials from suspending the sale or transport of guns during a Hurricane Katrina-like emergency.

Glenn has more.

In addition to publishing the names of concealed carry holders and comparing them to sex offenders, he’ll endanger people because he doesn’t like their bumper stickers. I wonder if he’ll get some pre-paid postage again?

A senate staffer working for James Webb was busted trying to get a pistol into the senate building. It was the senator’s gun. I guess the senator was taking advantage of the recent Parker v. DC decision? Nah, he’s one of the privileged who gets to disregard laws for little people. Anyway, if you’re just going to violate the law willy-nilly, you may as well do it big and go ahead and get the machine gun.

Silly people in Parker had to actually, you know, sue to make progress in this area.

Heh.

I need some legal advice. I also need some guidance.

Per Randy Neal’s request to me to not link Copyrighted material from YouTube on KnoxViews I requested via email permission from Community Television of Knoxville (CTV) to continue to provide Knox County Commission meetings on YouTube as I have done for several months now.

I received a reply email from David Vogel, the General Manager of CTV. It read, “Please remove all segments of the Knox County Commission Meetings that you have uploaded to YouTube, until proper copyright clearance has been obtained.”

I replied back that I did not recognize the alleged Copyright per the fair use doctrine of Copyright law. I ask what I had to do to receive permission from CTV to continue to post the County Commission meetings on YouTube. I also requested that CTV provide the service I have been providing for several months. I explained I did not want to provide this service as it was very time consuming and I hoped that CTV would decide to take this off my hands.

Today I received from Mr. Vogel an email stating, “As a non-profit corporation, CTV has the same rights under the copyright laws as any other company. CTV owns the copyright to any program produced by its employees. As the copyright owner, CTV maintains its right to exercise all privileges of copyright, which includes the right to exclude others from making and publishing copies of its programs and the right to exclude others from making derivative works using its programs. If someone edits or changes a CTV program, this constitutes a “derivative work.”

As a matter of policy or choice, CTV will allow others to publish copies of our programs under certain conditions. In order to make and publish unedited and completely unchanged copies of our programs, a Permission Request must first be submitted in writing, along with a copy of your personal identification (eg. driver’s license or passport). As a general rule, we do NOT grant permission to publish edited or changed versions of our programs (derivative works).”

I replied to Mr. Vogel that the Knox County Schools already has an Internet Archive of school board meetings and asked him if there was a way for CTV to do the same with Knox County Commission meetings. Mr. Vogel responded and said there were exploring this with the same firm that does the Knox County School Board meetings. He explained there was no time table as yet.

That is the background so let me explain my problem. CTV does not “produce” Knox County Commission meetings. They “film” the meetings. Today’s meeting may be historic on both the Storm Water issue and the Metro Government issue.

What should I do? I understand Mr. Vogel’s position and I don’t know the fine details of Copyright Law or what the right thing to do is. I feel that the idea of Copyrighting a public meetings is ludicrous. I see this as a violation of my First Amendment rights. But I may incur legal action if I continue. How can anyone Copyright a Knox County Commission meeting?

If you were in my shoes, what would you do?

Via PGP comes a run down of the Democrat party platform on guns from 1956 to 2004 (It’s at DU so if your moonbat quotient is exceeded for the day, you may want to wait until tomorrow). Meanwhile, I present to you a well-known Democrat on guns:

By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

I’ve linked before to silencertests.com. Now, there is SilencerResearch.com. I’m still trying to decide which suppressor I want. Three candidates:

Gem-Tech Trinity. Pro: Designed to be a single solution to three areas (subguns, handgun and rimfire). Has many different mounting systems for many different applications. Con: pricey at $525 not counting mounting solutions. Not the quietest 9mm can. And the different mounting systems are all pricey too. I’ve seen no info on its performance with rimfire calibers.

AAC Evolution 9. Pro: Supposedly, the quietest 9MM suppressor around. Has built in device for use on recalcitrant (i.e., Browning style or non-fixed) barrels. Con: Even more pricey (at $795). Not designed for a subgun and needs a special gizmo to work on fixed barrels.

Gemtech Outback: Pro: Least expensive ($325). Super quiet. Con: It’s only for 22 calibers. It’s a con but, honestly, I’d probably put more 22 through it than anything else.

Any advice? Decisions, decisions.

Boobs. And not just one, there’s two.

Darren Seiber. Fresh from making the same tired joke about guns compensating for penis size [What about my wife’s gun? -Ed.], comes proof of an utter inability to do the slightest bit of research:

However, the truth of the matter is, that Texas gun laws are no less lax than that of other states.

Really? Tried buying a gun in DC, Illinois, Massachusetts, NC, MD or NY? Also, this is wonderful:

We are wrong because guns are wrong. They are deadly, unethical creations that do not save or secure any number of lives that could build a reliable statistic. Instead, there are mountains of statistics telling us otherwise.

Guns are ethically neutral. And, depending on who you believe, guns in the US are used defensively between 700,000 times and 2,000,000 times per year.

And from that, we go to making shit up:

Take, for instance, this statistic: for women, having a gun in the house increases the chances of being murdered by 172 percent. If that’s not good enough, chew on this for a while: one study showed that people who attempt to use a gun in self-defense are four times as likely to die. Having a gun in the home does not make you safer. It is not an imaginary insurance policy.

Now, I’ve read probably every gun statistic on the planet and I’ve never heard that one. I even spent five minutes trying to Google it. Can’t find it. Someone let me know if they locate a source but, for now, I’ll go ahead and call it bullshit. Also, a Florida study concluded that active resistance to crime (preferably while armed) was the best course of action.

Other whoppers in the story: blaming male dominance and America is the leader of gun fatalities.

And, at the end, the source for his statistics is the International Action Network on Small Arms. So, this idiot just parrots the made up talking points of an anti-gun group.

I love, particularly, the rather unsophisticated manner in which he implies the bogus gun statistics for the world as applicable in the US.

What a complete and total dumb ass.

The Roanoke Times, on their brilliant idea to post the names and addresses of people who have concealed carry permits:

Oops. We screwed the pooch. Sorry about that. Please buy our paper again

Heh:

The Population of the nanny State, being composed of irresponsible rednecks, rejects, and retards, must not be allowed to have Arms.

On Eminent Domain:

“Cities use code words,” explained Supervisor Chris Norby, a longtime foe of eminent domain abuse. “In the 1950s and 1960s, governments used the term ‘urban renewal,’ but critics knew that it was widely called ‘Negro removal.’ These days, we’re looking at forced gentrification,” as cities try to redevelop poorer areas into wealthy areas.

Well, I think it’s more poor removal.

A sound suppressor for a, wait for it, tank. Not very practical but as an added bonus: it looks like a penis.

A sound suppressor made of wood.

Traction Control praises Henry Repeating Arms. I had a similar experience with Smith and Wesson.

The ACLU has won another battle against censorship. The Children’s Online Protection Act sought to make the entire internet safe for little children by restricting online speech that is “harmful to children”. All adult-themed material is by definition harmful to children.

Thankfully the court struck down the law and told parents to protect their own kids instead of gearing up the full force of law and bureaucracy to make sure nobody sees any penises. Love that ACLU.