Obama First Month: Fail

Building an AR-15: Part 1 and Part 2. Lots of pics.

Guns Magazine: Now free to read online.

I may have missed it but I don’t recall seeing them warning their customers that maybe they shouldn’t put a forward grip on a pistol.

The Commercial Appeal has updated its database of handgun carry permit holders.

The house passes a bill snubbing federal gun controls:

Montana lawmakers fired another shot in battles for states’ rights as they supported letting some Montana gun owners and dealers skip reporting their transactions to the federal government.

Under House Bill 246, firearms made in Montana and used in Montana would be exempt from federal regulation. The same would be true for firearm accessories and ammunition made and sold in the state.

Dow drops 200 points in first 30 minutes. Must be that hope and change in the air.

I would have changed Yes, We Can to Unicorns. But it will do:

From Gun Porn

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CBS News:

The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks, even as it is internally reviewing whether the measure meets environmental muster.

In a response Friday to a lawsuit by gun-control and environmental groups, the Justice Department sought to block a preliminary injunction of the controversial rule. The regulation, which took effect Jan. 9, allows visitors to bring concealed, loaded guns into national parks and wildlife refuges; for more than two decades they were allowed in such areas only if they were unloaded or stored and dismantled.

And:

In its reply, the Justice Department wrote that the new rule “does not alter the environmental status quo, and will not have any significant impacts on public health and safety.”

You’ll recall during the Republican Primaries, a reporter asked the candidates if they owned guns and, if so, what kind. Fred Thompson answered with: I own a couple but I’m not gonna tell you what they are or where they are. A good answer because it tells pro-gunners that you understand the issue and it prevents dumb things like this from happening to you:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has moved the two rifles that she kept under the bed to protect her upstate New York home, her spokesman said Monday.

“Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons,” Gillibrand’s spokesman Matt Canter said.

She relocated the guns over the weekend while upstate to endorse Democrat Scott Murphy in the March 31 election to replace her in the 20th District, he said.

David seems to think people are apologists for Gillibrand. I’m a realist. I, and other people, can’t get too upset that she’s not holding up her three finger salute. It is a gain over Hillary.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Or, in this case, better.

From the TBI, it looks like of 28,606 total January transactions, 1,293 were denied. Of those, 722 were appealed. Of those appeals, 592 were reversed.

So, of that sample, 81% were false positives, I suppose. Doesn’t really foster much faith in the system.

Largo:

Police this week removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state’s Baker Act — against the wishes of his outraged parents.

The boy spent the night alone at Morton Plant Hospital before he was seen by a child psychologist the next day and discharged.

His crime: a tantrum.

Via MKS, comes this:

Reyes grabbed the girl by the elbow and tried to leave with her, but the child’s grandmother caught up to them and pulled the girl away, he said. The man tried to run away but stopped when he was blocked by a crowd that quickly gathered around him.

And this:

“They did not have to put hands on him,” Stahlke said.

Pity, that.

Law Enforcement Amicus Brief

Law Professors/Constitutional Accountability Center

Seventh Circuit Legislators

Institute for Justice

Congress of Racial Equality Brief

ABC News:

“Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation,” the report notes as part of its key findings. “Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft, murder and weapons trafficking.”

So, 0.3125% of the population is responsible for 80% of crimes?

Sebastian looks at the suit they filed against the Park Service. I’m glad they’re wasting their limited resources so poorly.

According to the Paper of making up the Record, the NRA is extremist. I would say that if you went down all the gun issues, average folks would tend to agree more with NRA than with the editorial board of the NYT.

We can’t say that word.

The anti-gunners keep pusing a .50 caliber ban. The logical next step would be a .499 caliber ban.

Via Roberta, comes a book called No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society. Turns out, nannying them is probably not a good idea.

Like Cali before it, Kansas is not remitting tax returns.

Via The Leaf Chronicle:

The first is SB 1908, the “Second Amendment Protection Act” which prohibits the sale of micro-stamped ammunition or firearms within this state. The intent here is to prevent passage of the “Ammunition Accountability Act,” which requires said micro-stamping. The second, and more important of the two, is SB 1644 the “Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act” which essentially says that, under the Ninth and 10th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government does not have the authority to regulate commerce within the state of Tennessee. As such it does not have the authority to regulate the production of firearms within this state as long as those weapons are manufactured, sold, and retained within this state.

Could Tennessee be getting all Montana on us?

There’s also a bill that bans selling serialized ammo. Cool.

Baby’s first gun: Pink.

Rich writes a letter regarding the CA’s lame defense for publishing the names of handgun carry permit holders:

Second, your defense failed to note that you removed addresses and birth dates only after you were deluged in complaints.

And then there’s this:

News events like the Feb. 6 shooting at Trinity Commons shopping center led many people to wonder, logically and instantly, who else might be packing a gun. At the point of that shooting, the online list of who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon became a matter of deep public interest. That’s why, during the past week, thousands of people looked at the list that had been sitting mostly unnoticed on the Web site for two months.

Actually, you’re wrong. What happened was some cracker drew some attention to it after a reader informed said cracker of it. But whatever floats your boat.

Or why you don’t let someone who’s unfamiliar with firing a machine gun do so without some guidance.

Remember the drill team member that was suspended for having her non-gun in her car. The one she practiced drill with? Well, she’s back in school now.

FAL Range Report.

Pink P22s.

A peep sight for the AK.

Hunting rabbits with the Taurus Judge.

NYPD learns lessons from the Mumbai attacks. In the pics, they’re all carrying Mini-14s. An odd choice, I would think. The NY Daily news calls those assault rifles. Actually, at one of the gun blogger lunches, we were talking about the Mumbai attacks. We all noted that the terrorists were killing everyone, except reporters who were left alone so they could photograph and report the carnage. After all, why destroy you propaganda arm. It was pondered that perhaps the police get guns that look like cameras and dress like reporters.

Good for her:

“It’s a false debate,” she said. “It’s political rhetoric that’s sucking you in to believe that hunters owning a gun or an American citizen who wants to protect his home owning a gun somehow increases gun violence.”

Asked if she owned a gun, she said, “We own two.”

I think she just called the ant-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) liars.