1930s video of a man testing bullet proof glass by shooting it. While his wife holds it.

Students’ Sense Of Security Shattered By Gunman On Campus

I have lots of stuff regarding SHOT to post. But busy day.

Cool:

Outdoor Channel, America’s Leader in Outdoor TV, has acquired the leading firearms and shooting sports online portal, Down Range Television (DRTV). Founded by Outdoor Channel personality and journalist Michael Bane and cowboy action shooter Marshal Halloway, www.downrange.tv is one of the most successful online communities for shooting and firearms enthusiasts with a robust offering of video, active forums and industry coverage.

Tom Ferda, a sports columnist of some kind, took issue with Codrea’s gun column. He displays his ignorance on the topic at hand and is then corrected. So, obviously, it’s us crazy gun nuts out to get him. In comments there, he asserts that:

The aggressive responses to my opinion and comment are the exact reasons many citizens want guns to be taken out of the hands of hard-core advocates–we fear you will use them just to get your points across.

Yeah, that makes sense. You use harsh words and have guns so, no doubt, you’re going to kill me for disagreeing with you. Perfectly reasonable. If you’re an idiot.

In CO: Counties Can’t Keep Up With Concealed Carry Applications

On the right side, I took an ad for an anti-gun book. I plan on using the money to buy ammo. Discuss.

Michael Silence asks about the appropriate web-fu for the location of links. I imagine that one day there will be rules introduced in the Harbrace Handbook or some other school book by a bunch of English majors with not much else to do to govern how one is to handle linking items. Said English majors will also be driven batty by the preceding sentence.

0%: When 19-year-old Deshawn Wright saw his mother threatened by two masked men, he grabbed a small floor heater and hit one of the men in the head with it, fatally injuring him, authorities said.

I don’t get the fascination. Seriously. Not at all.

To the right, he’s some sort of everyman, regular Joe bringing a middle class clarity to everything from taxes to the middle east. He’s almost elevated to saintly pundit status for the conservative crowd. He got a cool job out of this deal.

To the left, he’s an evil shill of the right who should be destroyed for having the audacity to be standing there when Obama happened to want to ask him some questions.

To the press (but I repeat myself), he was worthy of having his personal records ransacked by local political hacks (who then lost their jobs) because he was a threat to Obama. The country watched as they attempted to dig up every bit of dirt on a regular Joe that they could.

Seriously, why is he perceived as such a threat to the left? And why is he perceived as so awesome to the right?

I really don’t get it.

Blogger Kurt is now writing the St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Cool

Breda:

Ken Blackwell needs seven guns because that’s the number he has to have before he buys his eighth.

Bitter has a new media crush on Browning.

Seems so:

In summary, he knew he owed the taxes and Social Security. He was given a separate check each year to pay for them. He signed a form acknowledging he owed the taxes and would pay them using the extra money from the extra check. But he didn’t pay them until he was caught. Instead, for four years he pocketed the extra tax and Social Security checks as a bonus that totaled $45,000.

Man goes elk hunting. Bags feral llama. In other news, there are feral llamas?

Lots of gun porn. Lots of stuff to mention. Instead of a bunch of small posts, here’s one big one.

Here’s the SHOT Show Flickr page.

First photos of the Fourth Generation GLOCK? Hardly.

Walther PK380. And here are the specs.

Day one gun porn. With shiny gold gatling gun.

Smith & Wesson M&P 15 .22 LR

The M22: [made] in response to what American shooters said they wanted in a target and shooting pistol. Looks like a Glock and a Walther had sex and this was the child they produced.

Magpul Massoud 7.62×51mm rifle

More Day one gun porn.

Round up of SHOT show videos. Dick Heller is there.

First photos of Civilian SCAR 16S

Colt ARs.

More as I get them.

And that settles it. I’m going next year.

Part 7

Stephen Halbrook is on the case:

Independent Institute Research Fellow and attorney Stephen Halbrook is among the witnesses testifying, arguing that Holder’s reputation as a steadfast opponent of Second Amendment rights makes him an unfit candidate for the job.

Meanwhile, Holder is pulling the Obama shuffle and saying even if he wanted to regulate possession of arms that he cannot because of Heller:

Attorney General-designate Eric Holder conceded during his confirmation hearing Thursday that the government’s options for regulating the possession of firearms have been narrowed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling that the Second Amendment ensures an individual right to bear arms.

“Reasonable restrictions are still possible,” Holder said, including measures such as a ban on the sale of what are called “cop-killer” bullets.

Brady Score versus murders committed with a firearm

Says the Shooting Wire:

Crimson Trace Corporation, Inc, the Oregon-based manufacturer of LASERGRIPS® laser sights, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon against LaserMax, Inc. of Rochester, New York to address LaserMax’s infringement of four United States patents.

Crimson Trace seeks court-ordered injunctive relief and unspecified damages for patents assigned to the company related to laser sighting devices for firearms.

From The Memphis Flyer:

The conservative movement is wobbling like a punch-drunk boxer in the wake of Barack Obama’s knockout victory and widespread public eagerness to say farewell to President Bush and his disaster of a presidency. It is grasping at the thinnest of straws. (I’m still getting e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya and therefore unqualified to be president.)

The thing is, we need strong, smart conservative voices in the U.S. (Paul Craig Roberts comes to mind.) Democrats are just as capable of screwing up the country as the Republicans and, as we know, absolute power corrupts absolutely.^* The last eight years have made that quite clear. But as long as the public face of conservatism consists only of clowns and Bush sycophants — Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Coulter, Joe the Plumber, et al. — the movement is doomed to prolong its temporary irrelevance.

^*Or, as Countertop would say, pigs get slaughtered.

Michael Bane has a video report of the new Ruger LCR.

Blogs: Bringing you what will be covered in a couple months in a gun magazine, today!

At some point yesterday, the ol’ blog yardstick ticked over the 5,000,000 page view mark. At some point in the next several days, we’ll also hit the 3,000,000 visitor mark.

The latest from the TN house:

On Thursday morning, Democrats are expected to introduce a resolution creating a new position called Speaker Emeritus.

The plan is to put former Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, a Democrat, in that newly created job.

The Hog Blog discusses Media Day At The Range.

Keep Tennessee zombie free.

In an impressive update to my flashlight post, a hell of a recommendation by Unix-Jedi. Behold the 220 lumen, 4 hour run time (8 on half power) OLIGHT T20. Those are some impressive specs.

Or gun controllers once again disregard the law.

Members of Heeding God’s Call, a potentially a shill group set up by Bryan Miller, decided to protest a gun shop. Get off of my lawn ensued:

Supporters outside the store’s entrance applauded and thanked protesters as police carted them off, one by one, in handcuffs.

“You couldn’t talk them out of getting locked up,” said Lt. Joseph O’Brien, of the Civil Affairs Unit. “Usually you could talk them out of it.”

Others weren’t so impressed.

“It’s trespassing,” said Capt. William Fisher. “I gave them three warnings to protest on the sidewalk.

“They feel they have an issue and they feel this is how they can get the most attention,” he said.

The demonstrators spent the night in jail and are facing charges of defiant trespassing.

Once again, anti-gunners don’t respect the law. They think you’re like them and that’s why they want you disarmed.

An alleged foreign policy expert:

There are nearly 7,000 gun shops along the southern U.S. border, about three for every mile. They sell thousands of hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, and “cop killer” guns and bullets that cut through Kevlar body armor. The weapons quickly flow south, again with barely a nod from U.S. Border Patrol.

Stuff made up out of thin air emphasized. You’d think an expert would know how to do some research and conclude that those items are illegal to sell in the US.

But, that doesn’t matter, Mexico needs a scapegoat.

That’s how Orange County views gun activists:

At the board meeting today, Orange County deputies searched gun-rights supporters, especially those wearing CCW buttons, according to those who attended the meeting. Although Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said she would let the permits expire rather than revoke them, her real disdain for freedom is shown by the presence of the SWAT team and the heavyhanded searches of law-abiding residents who wanted to attend the board meeting. Did the sheriff really think that gun supporters are somehow dangerous. I’ve been to gun shows and gun events and have never felt safer.

Ya know, at a public meeting of this sort, it’s probably pretty common to do weapons searches via metal detectors. But a SWAT team?