The new NFA handbook that I linked in the past is creating quite a stir in the NFA weapons community. Apparently, the handbook has some new rulings and those seem to be designed entirely to make the life of those who work with guns hard. Some examples from subguns.com:

1.) The outfit doing the parkerizing is also a “manufacturer”, and must therefore be an 07/C2.
2.) Since this is a transfer of a post-sample, and not at the request of a LEA, this process must first be granted a variance from ATF to allow the refinisher, who is a “contractor” in this scenanio, to receive the post-sample without a demo letter.
3.) The contractor, in this instance the shop applying the finish, is required to mark the firearm with their manufacturing information, unless they request a receive a variance from the requirements.

Yes, someone basically applying a coat to a firearms is now a manufacturer.

whoever cuts down your barrel had better be a 07/C2 as well or they are committing a felony

Whoever cuts your barrel on your lawfully registered short barreled rifle must be a licensed manufacturer.

No more 80%?

They say it’s also designed to apply the 11% federal firearms excise tax more liberally.

Seems that any work on an NFA items is now manufacturing. So, if you have multiple customizations done, each manufacturer must stamp the firearm receiver. Wow. It seems the ATF is trying to get the little guy out of the game as only the big players can succeed in this environment.

Any SOTs out there that can clarify?

Become policy:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday won an early round in his high-profile campaign for greater access to federal gun-tracing data.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said she would remove language from a massive spending bill that restricts how much information the government can share about the dealers and purchasers of guns used in crimes.

The language, known as the Tiahrt amendment, has been part of appropriations bills every year since 2003, when Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., first offered it.

While the bill remains in the early stages of review in a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Mikulski’s action as chairwoman of the panel makes it more difficult for the Tiahrt amendment to survive this year.

“It is time to remove this provision to help bring corrupt gun dealers to justice,” Mikulski said.

A House subcommittee is taking up its version of the bill next week.

Bloomberg and the anti-gunners are full of it. But don’t take my word for it, take the word of the Fraternal Order Of Police or the word of The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

Update: Hello Babs. I see from my referral logs that someone from your office spent about a minute reading this post. Hopefully, it did some good.

By Sandy Froman:

This honored tradition went completely unchallenged until the 1900s. Then New York passed the Sullivan Act in 1911, one of the first gun control laws. This law required that firearms small enough to be concealed on a person be registered. This state law became a test measure for future gun control laws.

IIRC (and there is no guarantee I do) the first gun control law in this country was passed in Tennessee to disarm blacks and poor. The law basically said the only handgun allowed was some expensive Colt and, of course, poor folks couldn’t afford that one handgun.

Ooh, pretty. Sigarms P250.

I guess I’ve arrived as a blogger since people are sending me free books. I received John Lott’s (website here) Freedomnomics yesterday. Made it through two chapters. One of the interesting things the book says it will discuss (and a theory I’ve heard before) is that the increased size of our federal government is tied to women’s suffrage. Don’t know yet what Lott says about it but the theory I’ve heard is that women tend to be a bit more, err, protectionist.

Lott’s book is also a counter to Freakonomics, which I’ve been meaning to read.

Here:

Annapolis narcotics officers hit the wrong apartment last night while serving a search and seizure warrant, terrorizing the four tenants and damaging their home.

Flashbangs and rifles, even.

All those reports that said violent crime in DC was declining were horse shit:

Violent crime in the District jumped nearly 9 percent last year, the latest police statistics show — a big turnabout from earlier claims that the numbers had dropped from the previous year.

Police revised the yearly crime tally after turning up major discrepancies in their crime databases, officials revealed yesterday. An internal review uncovered crimes that were misclassified or not counted, officials said.

The new figures show significant increases in assaults and robberies, in marked contrast to the preliminary tallies released at year’s end. Police officials first flagged questions about the record-keeping last summer and have been working to reconcile the numbers. But they made no mention of these problems when they provided the rosier crime outlook in December.

Via PGP.

Advice on avoiding it, from rimfire who has it. Again.

Mayor Daley video going off on gun violence. Say, Mr. Mayor, how can their be 500 shootings a year in Chicago? Just asking since guns are banned there.

Al Sharpton has come forward to claim a double standard exist in the treatment of Paris Hilton who was released under house arrest and must wear an ankle bracelet for the remaining 40 days of her sentence for DUI.

So after the Steve Gilliard “Nashville is Talking” dustup of 2007 we now have Al Sharpton of all people claiming there is a double standard in America.

This weeks Pot and Kettle award goes to Al Sharpton. Runner up Jesus General, aka Patriot Boy, was unavailable for comment.

Al Sharpton said, “Though I have nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton whom I have met and appeared with on Saturday Night Live the night I hosted in 2003, this early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color. There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.

I have served several sentences for civil rights and civil disobedience actions and I even fasted which caused health concerns to prison authorities who paid for a doctor to come see me daily rather than release me. This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise.”

Remember those open meetings the anti-gunners canceled because someone wanted to video them? Well, Texas Native sends the linkies:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsyrBTvN2g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8uXTfpdHM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-CnDvnPFzL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOg1pEnddwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1h8_Y0P7M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cD-H3s7aQ

Pussies.

Rich has another planned for Saturday. I can’t make it due to prior obligations. Actually, I counted and from the end of March through June we have:

2 anniversaries
13 Birthdays
3 Holidays

So, most of my weekend time is taken up this time of year.

AC:

This parliamentary crap goes on all the time. Bills are brought up and bills are passed just to make a statement or prove a point or settle the score and it is all hid behind this pomp and circumstance.

I understand we have to have a legislature but do we need two separate bodies? It seems like if we were able to merge our two bodies into one unicameral legislature we would have somewhat less of this nonsense.

Au contraire, mon cracker. This is one case in which the Leviathan gets my support. I like when there’s a pissing match between them. It keeps them from doing really stupid stuff. When a large group of politicians agree on something, it’s probably bad for me and you. Hell, I think six houses would be good.

Remember that anti-gun activist that was arrested for illegal machine guns and suppressors? Turns out law-breaking runs in the anti-gun family:

Police arrested Charleeda in 2001 after she and fellow gang members admitted dumping the badly mutilated body of a young man — shot at close range in the head at No Guns’ offices — near her dad’s property in San Bernardino. The victim was found with his hands and genitals badly burned.

This was the treasurer of the anti-gun group No Guns, who received $1.5M in grants.

I’ve known (well, as much as you can know someone on Al Gore’s Internets) Andy Axel for a while. He and I have probably agreed on issues a sum total of two times in all that time and those agreements were with respect to the Brittney Gilbert dust up and brands of air rifles. Andy has always had a sharp wit and displayed intellectual honesty and integrity when we disagreed. And he’s not afraid to throw civility out the window when warranted. I know nothing about the guy other than through his opinions expressed at various blogs and forums. He can eviscerate those with whom he disagrees and he does so quite handily. Exhibit A:

It’s the daily death by a thousand cuts, and the guy almost always wielding the knife for the coup de grace in this godforsaken place always seems to have a donkey on his lapel. (And I do mean “his.”) And then we get to play laughingstock to the smug, self-righteous “fuck the South” types. Not saying that Tennessee doesn’t earn it at times, but Brittney Gilbert sure as hell didn’t. These people conveniently forget: If Al Gore had spent five minutes here, he’d probably be president today.

Exhibit B:

Great. Your scalp is claimed. Now take that flickering “conscience” you claim to possess, and feel free to wander back to your Tom Schaller books, continue to write off all the people of the South, continue blithely to claim that you were 100% in the right, smugly to assign blame to victims, and know that you didn’t make a damned bit of difference to help drain the swamp of pervasive racism in the South. You just pissed on the margin of it.

He can bring the righteous verbal smack down. He’s not a hack. We don’t agree on much but I respect the guy. And that’s the difference between him and some schlub like Oliver Willis.

Chicks and guns

2006 French Women’s IPSC champ, Laetitia Daguenel:

Via Tam.

Of course, it was no big deal in 1938.

Times Community:

A meeting on preventing gun violence scheduled at the Centreville Regional Library for June 4 was canceled because pro-gun activists were videotaping it.

About 30 people showed up for an informational meeting about gun laws organized by the Million Moms March of Northern Virginia, according to Terry Hartnett, past president of the organization.

Before it started, organizers asked two men associated with the Virginia Citizens Defense League wanting to videotape the meeting to sign a handwritten contract promising to use any “photographic representations” recorded for private use only.

One of them refused, and the meeting was canceled, said Hartnett, a Burke resident.

“We just want to have meetings without everything getting distorted and ending up on YouTube,” Hartnett said.

People fear youtube!

Staring at a police dog is animal cruelty?

Ohio CCW : It is being reported that Pennsylvania may not be honoring non-resident Concealed Handgun Licenses any longer.

Someone did one. He hasn’t known me for a thousand years. More like 25. It looks nothing like me, I don’t have an AK.

I dunno, Google maps can be scary. Of course, per Google, my house is still a field.

Hey, remember all that talk about allowing handguns in parks and whatnot? Nevermind. Maybe next year.

Looks like Pilot Oil is going to start selling Ethanol 85. That would be good news for yours truly and the environment as I drive a vehicle that will take that. But I’m boycotting Pilot Oil since one of it’s owners, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, is a member of the Joyce Foundation funded Mayors Against Guns.

How to write an anti-gun editorial.

The new NITWit is Coble.

And Brittney’s other blog is about to get a lot more kick ass!

Seen here:

The only way we are going to be able to get a good set of reasonable laws controlling access to firearms by persons who have demonstrated their willingness to break the law is to guarantee the law abiding gun owner that a future congress cannot enact a law mandating confiscation like happened in Australia.

There’s more to it than that. Additionally, additional restrictions on types should not be tolerated.

Homemade guns. And they don’t even have a Home Depot.

I hope it’s a gag. But Brittney has apparently turned in her resignation at NIT due to some pants-shitting hysterics by a prominent moonbat blogger. Sad to see ya go. The lefty blogs have few sane voices and now they have one less.

Update: background here.

Update: Wage nails it: this is one of the most spectacular examples of groupthink stupidity I think I have ever seen in my entire life..

Red’s Trading Post, a gun shop under fire from the ATF for various clerical violations, now has a blog to tell their story. Via David.