Times have changed. LA has really changed.

First, Al Gore gave us the internet. Cheney turned them into the internets. Ted Stevens gave us the intertubes. Now, Biden: Do you know the website number? I thought this was supposed to be the technology administration?

Leather, 1911 and a Sig.

Cali-legal magazines.

Brady Camp fears losing Illinois to concealed carry laws.

Gillibrand writes letter to ask for repeal of Tiahrt amendment. I gave her the benefit of doubt. Now, not so much.

The Maryville Police would like a word with you.

AR-15s as varmint control.

Mentioned earlier but Brian Doherty notes it wasn’t presented as a gun rights case. Joe wonders if a similar case could be treated as one though.

Those TN gun bills, that is. This is usually the part where Naifeh would have killed them.

Via AC.

Update: In the news, looks like all the pro-gun bills advanced.

A hearty thank you to Christian Do These Labels Look Suspicious? Trejbal. Seems the bill to limit access to handgun carry permit data in VA is heading to the governor for a signature. Passed unanimously in both houses.

From Political

Was it something he said?

Via Insty, comes this:

“When President Obama submits his budget blueprint this week, reports indicate the proposal may include language designed specifically to repeal the Tiahrt Amendment,” says Snyder, named the senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News.

May include? Pretty strong qualifier. But, still, keep an eye out.

Dilbert sums up how politics works.

You’ll remember Max Brantley published a list of Arkansas handgun carry permit holders in some alt-weekly. And, by golly, if there wasn’t some uproar and then a bill proposed to make this illegal.

One would think that these reporter types might actually stop and think before doing something like this. I mean, all they’d have to do is hope on the internet and search for terms like publish handgun permits. Then they’d learn what happened in these instances and probably knock it off. But, then, that requires research and reporters don’t seem keen on that.

Anyway, the reason they do it is to generate buzz and pageviews.

* yes, it’s wrong on purpose since I have the grammar Nazis who tell me when I screw up.

If a bill making it’s way through the capitol passes, it would be a crime to publish handgun carry permit records. In their attempt to crap on the second amendment, the Commercial Appeal has, ironically, crapped on the first amendment. Again, thank you. Without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Pat yourselves on the back. You’ve done good work.

Michael Silence says: This is the unfortunate and predictable byproduct of a Memphis newspaper going for some page views. I mean, why not post the databases of sex offenders or home burglary rates for neighborhoods. The answer is simple: Those wouldn’t inflame a large number of law-abiding citizens.

Seen at Tam’s: Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for covering up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed.

Is botched a synonym for shooting her, letting her bleed to death while they found drugs to plant in her home and then forced an informant to corroborate their story?

Ten years?

Pro-gun bill sponsors at the capitol have carry permits.

First, it was illustrated.

Now, the video.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.

Yes, in light of the dramatic increase in face-eating monkey attacks from zero to one (a near infinite increase), congress must do something. I guess a ban on feeding chimps Xanax and giving them booze is too much. It beats gibbon up.

Clayton Cramer in the Idaho Statesman:

Remember back in February 2008 when President Obama came to Boise and spoke at a big rally? He made a big point of saying, “I won’t take away your guns,” because those nasty, dishonest Republicans were saying that Obama was going to do that.

It sure didn’t take long for Obama to reveal his intentions. The afternoon of the inauguration, the White House Web site’s Urban Policy page admitted that he is indeed going to try and do exactly that. “Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

Kinda like how he’s not a big government guy but is?

An unconstitutional bill.

That event where guard troops were going to practice confiscating arms has been canceled. Bad publicity.

First, they came for the sex offenders.

I agree. Made some the other night.

Wilson Polymer 1911

meet

Metal framed Glock.

Disabled? Yes. Defenseless? Never.

Billings Gazette looks at Montana’s new gun bill that will say the feds can’t regulate guns in their state:

“The primary purpose is to set up a legal challenge but also to say we have a lot of really good people in Montana who do the right thing,” said Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

You’ll recall that SF Mayor Newsom banned bottled water at the city .gov. Now, he’s been caught with a case in his vehicle. Hypocrisy.

After receiving threats, the mayor of Juarez moved his family to El Paso. Odd. I mean, if all the problems in Mexico can be blamed on American guns, why would you move closer to our guns?

Animation of how an AK-107 works.