And don’t hide guns in candy dishes.

Update: BTW, been seeing a lot of Save the Ta-Tas bumperstickers lately too.

Questioning the legitimacy of drug laws gets you kicked off a jury.

A look at domestic violence misdemeanors and gun rights.

New campaign symbol!

In Chicago, so it’s probably illegal.

Oh No! They hear what we have to say.

Handgun rounds suck, but that doesn’t really matter much.

In Texas, some teachers may be packing.

Broomhandled mauser.

Meanwhile, sticking a stock on your GLOCK can result in 10 years in jail.

Finding the fastest gun alive.

Overregulating our way to police abuse: blame the impossible missions given to police.

Congrats to Straight Line Stitch, who has apparently scored a major record deal, in addition to a new female singer. It was odd seeing them on TeeVee the other day. Back in the day, a band I played in opened for them a couple of times.

Here’s a vid.

TN Attorney General says a person who has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can obtain a handgun carry permit.

Interesting. Doesn’t PTSD denote adjudicated a mental defective and prohibit one so adjudicated from possessing a firearm? Says the AG:

as long as that person has not been adjudicated as mentally defective, been committed or hospitalized, or been judicially determined to pose a substantial risk of harm because of PTSD.

So, I head downtown to get fingerprinted so that I can do an NFA transfer. For those unfamiliar with Knoxville, our downtown sucks. It’s inconvenient to get to. Hard to find parking. When you find parking, it’s spendy. Etc. I avoid it, generally. But I had to go to the KCSO to get printed. Seems the ATF requires their own special federal fingerprint forms and they must be done only by police and certified. Your regular old fingerprint forms done at the gun shop aren’t good enough. It’s like they make it hard to buy an NFA weapon or something.

Anyhoo, first bit is I found parking and it costs $5. Seems a bit high considering I figured my business would be concluded in thirty minutes. And it wasn’t convenient. It was near the federal building which across the other street from the city county building.

Then I walk past the federal building. I note the sweet, sweet irony of the bronze tablet displaying The Bill of Rights right next to the signs on the door that tell you that you’ll be subjected to an unreasonable search and the other sign telling you your right to arms is no good there.

I get to the city county building where I’m to empty my pockets and walk through a metal detector. I’m told by the officer working the station that he’ll have to keep my keys. I ask why and he says it’s because I have a handcuff key on there. I joke about them having to take it in case I’m arrested so that I can’t escape. He laughs and says that it’s because the jail is downstairs.

I get to the KCSO office and am a bit perturbed that fingerprints cost $25 for up to three (so far, this trip has cost me $30). I’m even more perturbed when I hand her a twenty and a ten and she says she has no change. Wow. This particular station exists to provide a service for money to the public and they don’t have the foresight to, say, get change. So, I have to go back upstairs to a coffee shop for change. I do. I come back. I pay up. Now, I have to go downstairs for prints. They have a fancy computer for doing that. They key in all my info and electronically scan my prints and no doubt save copies for their use, in addition to sending that info to every .gov agency in the world. No big deal, been printed before.

After he scans my prints, he hits print, and puts the fingerprint cards I brought in and tells the computer to make three copies. So, let’s make this clear. They charge $25 for up to three prints. You actually bring the fingerprinting cards with you. Their costs are minimal wear and tear on their printer and ink. For $25. What a gyp.

It’s like they make doing business with the public inconvenient and hard, or something.

Both the Trading Post and Ryan’s blog.

To those of you who hit the tipjar (over there on the right if you got money burning a hole in your pocket).

Unfortunately, the Amazon tip jar doesn’t tell me who sent the money so I cannot email you folks a proper thank you. So, I thank you publicly.

In light of Heller, Wayne Fincher (past coverage here) apparently appealed his conviction for possession of a machine gun. He lost because:

[U]nder Heller, Fincher’s possession of the guns is not protected by the Second Amendment. Machine guns are not in common use by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes and therefore fall within the category of dangerous and unusual weapons that the government can prohibit for individual use.

We gunnies pretty much said after Heller that that particular bit in Heller on common use was no good for us. See, the .gov put a cost prohibitive tax of $200 (adjusted for $3,096.97 in today’s dollars using consumer price index, much higher using other measures) on machine guns in 1934. Then, in 1986 when $200 became a minor inconvenience, the Hughes amendment banned transfers of new machine guns. Essentially, government action made these weapons uncommon. It’d be interesting if Fincher had made an M-16 (in common use by our military) or an AK47 (one in six guns on Earth is an AK47). Fincher made two 1919s and a Sten, IIRC.

Sebastian notes the circular logic and offers another measure to test common use: use of arms by police.

This could not have happened since New Jersey’s crime guns come from Pennsylvania.

Ninth stage:

Bill “Ten Round” Ruger must be spinning in his grave over this Mini-14 20 round magazine promotion.

Collegiate shooting sports safer than cheerleading.

Apparently, my acronym is not too well received, mostly because it’s misunderstood. Says Yuri:

Making a silly acronym for people you don’t agree with, who believe firmly that the amendment means what it says, is stupid. Just like adding a “y” to the end of someones name. It’s childish and immature. In addition, does this mean you believe the Second Amendment can be infringed upon? Does that make you SBIs?

David notes we use the term as a pejorative. And we do. But here’s the thing about it:

We all are shall not be infringed types. Some of us realize that there will be infringements and there are infringements. It’s just that we choose to work within the existing system to address those infringements. Where the SNBI, in my opinion, is misguided is that there only responses is some variation of what part of shall not be infringed don’t you understand? While the purists and gun nuts (of which I’m one) like that talk, it’s not real conducive to changing hearts and minds to tell people that if they don’t like, you’re going to shoot them. Just sayin’.

After all, in Heller it took a bunch of lawyers, time, and money to work within the system to get the supreme court to affirm 9-0 there was an individual right to arms. No amount of screaming SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED accomplished that goal.

bigotry:

Thus, I call upon everyone – private employers, government agencies, schools, physicians, and especially parents – to help. First, to put teeth into this initiative, I ask the General Assembly to take the lead and make guns in public accommodations illegal. It is one thing to continue to tolerate people choosing to endanger themselves and their loved ones by keeping a gun at home. We should no longer, however, allow them to force others to endanger themselves by going to a movie theater or baseball game where guns are permitted. In addition, private employers outside the context of public accommodations should prohibit guns on their premises, with prominent signs to remind the public that guns must be left at the door.

Or why SWAT teams are over used.

We must ban:

Big sticks

Hard candy

Spear guns

Bill Gwatney, Chariman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, has been shot.

UPDATE: Gwatney has died. So has his attacker.

PRE-EMPTIVE UPDATE: Those of you, on any side of the gun debate, who want to try to use this to score some kind of cheap political points are hereby ordered to drink a nice warm glass of STFU. This isn’t about that, period.

I don’t care who you are.

UPDATE: The link seems to crash IE, but works fine in Firefox.

Walther PPS.

Republicans for Obama are mythical. Not surprising since the pro-gun support for Obama is also quite mythical.

Is there anything genuine about HopeChange^tm?

Update: Another endorsement: Commies. here’s hoping they’re mythical.

ColtCCO has an update on the situation where his gun was seized by the Gallatin police department due to a clerical error.

So, some bigfoot believers claim to have themselves a body and DNA evidence. I would assume a body is good enough and probably has all kinds of DNA evidence. Instead of showing the body, they’re showing pictures. So, color me skeptical.