Joe reminds us of Lautenberg’s concept of an open exchange of ideas.

The city that wants to host the Olympic games arrested an Olympic competitor:

Three or four weeks ago a young competitor on the National Shooting Team was training and being coached at the Coast Guard Academy. Upon finishing the training program he properly stored the firearms and headed for the airport and his home in the western United States. After declaring his legally transported firearms, at a NYC airport, he was arrested by a New York City Transit Authority Officer. This young American competitor after explaining what he was doing with the firearm and showing his credentials was arrested, handcuffed and spent a number of hours in custody until some public official realized the perfect public relations storm brewing in a scummy detention cell in NYC.

That’s also likely a violation of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which NYC has openly violated as a matter of policy.

HK MP5.

But you can’t have one. Because you suck and we hate you.

Robb is back.

Squeaky had a birthday.

Mayors Against Guns (which Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a member of) recently received $175K from the Joyce Foundation (which Barack Diggler Obama used to be director of) so that they can sue.

Six gun hair-dryer.

CCO has some new CCA 1911s.

The fact that someone went all redneck with this (MP3), or the fact that it’s so conducive to redneckification…

Album info here.

First, Mr. 3000. Now Chef. Isaac Hayes dead at 65.

There were only three things from Chicago that I liked: Pizza, hot dogs, and Bernie Mac.

Bernie Mac has died at age 50.

But I laughed…

Kevin is right. They have shipped. Junior got hers yesterday:

Child’s medium was the smallest they had. Little big on her. And, no, I don’t why she’s making that face.

Says Not the first time. Look at this fabulous hair. The chicks dig the locks.

Story here. The real story, though, is that the media kept quiet about this despite knowing about the allegations.

There are two Americas, one where you’re faithful to your wife and one where you’re not.

Today people will wonder how Black Wednesday died. Was it from the editorial saturation from the News Sentinel? Did Jack McElroy’s editorial advocacy turn off voters? Did people think February was all that was needed? Did the misleading and dishonest marketing campaign of the Knox Charter Petition signature collectors drive people away?

Or was Black Wednesday a myth? Was February only a highly charged Presidential Primary with Black Wednesday as tag along that meant nothing? Was this Black Wednesday movement ever real? Or was it an editorial illusion? Read the rest of this entry »

Mother Jones seems to have a real hard on for this NRA spy story. So much so that they keep mentioning it. Recently, they ask if Mary’s son was fired for mom being a spy even though there’s no evidence of that and the firm for which he worked said he left before the non-controversy.

Why the obsession? I think they’re upset that, frankly, this story has almost zero traction. I think they thought it was gonna blow the lid off NRA or some such nonsense. To their surprise, most folks don’t care. And some are actually glad.

So, they have to say it over and over and over hoping someone gives a damn.

Or rather not so much.

Hmmm. Maybe I should re-think this Kel-Tec thing.

Seems threatening to kill Barack Spaceman Spiff Obama is newsworthy. Threatening Bush, not so much.

Nike is pulling an ad because it offends homosexuals. Here’s a pic of the ad.

I have no comment that doesn’t involve the phrases tea bagging or salad tossing. So, I’ll just shut up now.

Update: And in the event you are not familiar with those terms, I recommend that you do not under any circumstance Google them. And you should get out more. Or your wife probably hasn’t made you watch Sex and the City.

Sebasitan notes the TSA is exceeding its authority:

They are considering banning guns at airports entirely, despite what state law may say about the matter.

The linked article doesn’t clarify an exception for traveling with arms. Seems to me that would violate the Firearms Owners Protection Act’s Safe Passage provision.

So, Barack Down To Electric Avenue Obama made a pretty stupid statement about how properly inflated tires will lead to world peace, the cure for cancer, and an end to poverty and starvation. Oh, what’s that? I overstated his case? I see, so when the buffoons in the media understate his case so as not to make him sound like he actually has a grasp on reality, you’ll be there too, right?

Damn you, Tommy Tutone!

Ouch:

It looks like the Brady Campaign finally got its wish: A Concealed Carry Permit holder has finally killed a law-enforcement officer!

It’s been a long, but ever hopeful wait by Brady, but now they can finally, after more than 20 years, give a big “I told you so!” to the legislators that passed Florida’s concealed carry law – “See? We told you that law enforcement officers would be killed by this legislation!”

Well, there’s always those dead children whose blood they love to have an orgy in.

An article on the National Firearms Act from October 31, 1968.

Nifty:

Via BC.

This time, in Nashville, they shot a tethered dog. Panel says officer acted appropriately. Now, the dog was tethered. I think they would have also acted appropriately if they, say, backed up to where the dog could not reach them.

Not sure if I’d go more for the bigoted angle or the why are anti-gunners so violent angle?

Taking a shot with a bolt open?

Teh Sexy: Volquartsen Inferno. More here.

Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet.

Dave Kopel and Robert Levy have a look.