How’d he do that: A sheriff’s deputy who killed six young people at a house party in Crandon, Wisconsin, apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said.

Police order 8 year-old to break his toy gun or he will be arrested.

What with wanting to defend herself and not wanting to, you know, die and stuff. Sheesh, what’s with these people?

Tam on need:

What’s it good for? Hell if I know; probably useless for anything except turning money into noise, but that’s never stopped me from dropping a wad of cash at the fireworks store.

Oh, and 20MM rifle.

Busy. Crap to do at the office before heading out to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

In other news, I should receive the custom 6.8 upper receiver from Ko-tonics today. This is an $860 upper and Tim from Ko-tonics is providing quite a bit of ammo.

NewsBusters:

On Thursday’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” CNN’s Randi Kaye filed a story in which she promoted gun control as a solution for Philadelphia’s crime problems, as she pushed the argument that the city’s high rate of gun violence was the result of Pennsylvania state lawmakers voting to loosen gun laws in the 1990s. And, as if criminals would bother to apply for a permit to legally carry a concealed weapon, Kaye further suggested that the availability of concealed carry permits has contributed to the city’s problems. Kaye: “In 1995 there were fewer than 800 applications for concealed weapons here. ‘Keeping Them Honest,’ we checked, and today there are 29,000 permits to carry. And it’s against the law for police to ask anyone why they want one. One law enforcement source told me permits to carry are being passed out like candy.”

* well, you might. If you were retarded.

Hadn’t thought of that. I don’t buy them because they told the US civilian market to get bent.

A lot of small victories in Illinois.

Heh.

The GOA has responded regarding the criticism it has received over HR2640.

Bitter has her doubts.

Heh.

I didn’t think this was NRA’s MO: An Iowan who sits on the NRA’s board of directors says the gun rights group may endorse a presidential candidate before Iowa’s Caucuses.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much stupid in one place.

Update: Comments were even better.

Ammo at Dick’s.

I’ve always been lukewarm on these sorts of bills by reasoning that an employer can control what happens on their property and an employee can control what happens in his. And his car is his property. But a judge basically said that banning guns is consistent with OSHA. That’s a rather stupid ruling because, as shown numerous times, a prevalence of firearms does not lead to an increase in violence. And particularly I cannot possibly see how guns locked up in a car in a parking lot can make a workplace unsafe.

In other news, I won’t buy anything from Whirlpool, ConocoPhillips or Williams Co.

David has more.

David Hardy notes the sounds of silence.

Update: Ahab:

Compare and Contrast

The media’s coverage of that crazy kid who was wandering around St. John’s with a .50 cal muzzleloader, and their coverage of the deputy losing his shit and shooting up those people.

Yeah, PGP, tell me about it. Meanwhile, Aunt B. is conducting a one woman boycott.

Mrs. Gunner: Rules are so people don’t have to think.

The best way to explain why we ought not scare white people on the gun issue by bringing up machine guns: That is step 32, and we are on step 4 or 5 at most. So if we want to move the ball forward, what do we do? More here.

Lots of guns stolen from Nashville airport.

I wonder if the perp got the memo that MTSU was a gun-free zone?

You may know that I’m in a bit of a back and forth with them. See here, here, here, and here. Well, Steve notes that google advertises at their own gun site, a google group. Hypocrisy for a buck.

Used to be assault weapons. If the police used them, they were patrol rifles. And now, reader F-Stop emails this pic:

Now, they are police style rifles.

More at Ahab’s and Ravenwood’s.

Be an informed shopper.

Do you support Mayors Against Guns?

Do you support businesses who can’t understand the word No?

File this under consumer counseling. Why do business with bullies?

Pilot Corp. is suing the city of Loudon for the right to build a travel center at the intersection of state Highway 72 and Interstate 75.

The suit filed in Loudon County Chancery Court seeks to overturn the Loudon Board of Zoning Appeals denial of Knoxville-based Pilot’s request for exception to a 2005 ordinance prohibiting the building of truck stops within city limits.

The suit also asks the court to declare the current zoning ordinance vague, to approve use of the land as a travel center and to award Pilot its costs including attorney’s fees.

“Pilot expended significant resources and monies in acquiring rights to the real property based on the plain language of the City of Loudon zoning ordinance” and “representation of its agents” the suit claims.

So, it looks as though WKRN gave AC his boys back. You’d have never seen this two weeks a go.

Update: Ya know, on second reading, it would seem the post is less the balls out editorializing of the past than a relatively tame “news analysis.” Still though, more thinky less linky is always a good thing.

Sebastian has the transcripts and some analysis:

You’re wrong, Paul. And you’re wrong to go on national TV and suggest that you somehow support the Second Amendment, when your actions speak louder than your words.

If you’re not keeping up, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is attempting the old divide and conquer. And we’re playing along, as evidenced by a lot of the hysteria over HR2640.

Because Windows XP and any random printer are retarded when working together, here’s a handy tip for when you print job gets hung and you can’t purge it:

Go to Control Panel
Choose Admistrative tools
Choose Services
scroll to Print spooler and double click
stop

This will close spooler compleatly.
Ok back out and then go back to same page and click start
Spooler comes back to life empty!!

All spelling errors property of the original author.

This is kinda funny since the NRA’s involvement in Parker/Heller has been rather, err, minimal:

If it’s October, then it’s time again for the annual spectacle of the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation cozying up to the organization leading the charge to overturn the District of Columbia’s gun laws: the National Rifle Association. On Oct. 16, the Redskins’ foundation will hold its third annual Redskins Sporting Clays Challenge sponsored by NRA Sports. Since 2005, the Redskins have held the event — despite organized protests by D.C. youth, negative media coverage and the event’s obvious conflict with the stated goal of the foundation to “make a positive and measurable impact on youth in the greater Washington, D.C. region,” including their “health and wellness.”

Yes, because the shooting sports do not contribute to a positive and measurable impact on youth.

It’s time to have a discussion about law enforcement. What is law enforcement exactly? It used to be “feet on the street”. Today it is all about cameras from above and Mayors Against Guns.

The pinnacle of the new form of law enforcement is London, England. No guns, no knives, no cops. A shinning Utopia for the whole World to model itself after.

Of course what London has become is a Shangri-La for criminals, who have guns, knives, and sadly no cops. And they are not camera shy.

Of course there is no way that could happen in America, right? Wrong. In fact in Aberdeen, Maryland, 30 miles northeast of Baltimore, the City Council adds insult to injury by forcing the building owners to buy the cameras that allow the police to stay away. The cameras are connected to the police station where they are monitored, by you guessed it, cops.

But, on the flip side of the coin, Mayor S. Fred Simmons is an advocate for the right of private citizens to carry defensive sidearms. He should be. If you are going the camera route instead of “feet on the street” the people should have the right to carry a weapon. Bullets travel faster than police cars. Time will tell if the people receive from their government the right to protect themselves.

Orwell never foresaw this type of Big Brother.

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