More pics of that Nighthawk here.

Felons are, generally, prohibited from possessing arms. Obviously, the next logical extension of that plan is to prohibit possession of arms by those who commit certain misdemeanors.

With bonus hypocrisy.

You’ll recall that a crappy paper in Memphis decided to publish a database of those who have licenses to carry handguns. And lumped us in there with criminals.

Turns out, they don’t like turnabout. When someone went to the article and linked to a list of names and addresses of editorial staff, the Commercial Appeal deleted the comments. Nice.

Chris Cox wrote them a letter:

Your decision to publicize the personal information of Right-to-Carry permit holders in Tennessee is unjustifiable, disgraceful, and dangerous.

In Quincy, police chief gets some heat for his comments on concealed carry. Now, he looks to be coming around a bit. Unfortunately, he justifies his stance as being the same as Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, which looks to be one of the many anti-gun shill groups affiliated with the Joyce Foundation.

Ok then: County administrator Melvin Booth is being investigated for selling guns to fellow employees while on county property. If the allegations are true, his actions could be in direct violation of the county’s ethics policy.

Doesn’t he know that’s illegal?

Sebastian and Bitter issue their endorsements for NRA Board of Directors. Note also that one of their endorsements, Joe DeBergalis, has commented at this blog. That’s pretty cool.

Also, bitter gives a non-endorsement.

SOF alleges corruption from ATF agents deployed to Iraq. In other news, ATF agents were deployed to Iraq?

The thought made me laugh.

looks like the stimulus bill will create some.

I’ve said before that I don’t think she’s flip-flopped on the issue and that the appearance that she has is probably just spin from the Paper of making up the Record. Some agree and some don’t. Anyway, triggerfinger alerts us that Gillibrand’s arm being twisted by anti-gun forces. And Sebastian questions the context of another interview. Will be interesting to watch all this unfold.

Another post Obama AR-15 is born. Seems to be a trend.

Nighthawk Custom.

Fixed it for them.

Les said: This would be a good weekend for the FDIC to shut down banks

Then later, four shut down.

Fannie and Freddie had little to do with it. The CRA, even less.

[I originally had the full post mirrored to this site, but rather than monopolize Uncle’s front page, I figured I’d just redirect you to Lean Left.]

A move by Engel to further regulate importing firearm parts.

Quincy News:

Several local sportsmen and business owners want to know why Quincy Mayor John Spring is a member of a group that wants local law enforcement access to information on gun traces collected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Commercial Appeal:

Tennessee legislators have filed a rash of new bills to allow guns in state and local parks, restaurants serving alcohol and even schools and also limiting public access to lists of gun-carry permit holders.

I wonder why they’d consider that last one? Oh, yeah. And:

As of Thursday afternoon, 18 bills were filed to loosen restrictions on where guns may be taken, four were filed to make the information confidential and two others were filed to exempt from criminal prosecution people who shoot others in the protection of their property.

Wonder what the other bills are?

Via R. Neal, we learn of a site called Gun Free Kids which seeks to prohibit lawful concealed carry on campus. As these groups usually do, they frame the debate in terms of the evil gun lobby wanting to arm kids and that is patently false. The implication is that it’s the NRA (they say gun lobby and we know who that means) when the group advocating this is Students for Concealed Carry. NRA is pretty much mum on the issue these days.

The other false claim is that people seek to arm kids. Students for Concealed Carry is pushing for legislation to allow adults with concealed carry permits, who happen to be students, to carry on campus. They are not arming kids. But a little hysteria goes a long way.

Not a hot button issue for me. After all, like the various guns in cars bills, the issue is one of property rights. If a school chooses to prohibit carry on their property, well, it’s their property and they can do what they want.

Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer and Violence Policy Center shill Josh Sugarmann bleats about how people are buying weapons that look like assault weapons since Barack Obama’s election. He notes the lack of ads for “traditional” hunting rifles, which he traditionally calls sniper rifles but somehow forgot this time. He also notes that this spike will lead to a slump. Probably. We’ll see. Note the obfuscation between NRA and gun dealers.

And, lastly, he says all those people buying are just people who already own guns buying more. And we know that is false. He also glosses over the other, larger growing segment of the gun industry: handguns.

Judging from the concerted efforts of anti-gun groups in a span of a couple of days to flood the zone with their talking points, looks like their push will be changing the park carry rule. Going to be their first volley in Obama era gun control efforts.

Follow the script: The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out.

LibertySphere’s Anthony G. Martin now has a column at The Examiner. Also, here’s his round up of second amendment news.

First reports of Fourth Generation Glocks being in stock.

A tribute to John Moses Browning

New AR lower.

Sig’s Blackwater 1911.

Gun buyback nets an artillery piece.

In comments, Stormy says:

The Republican Party: Standing on Principle When It Doesn’t Matter.

Probably get back on that whole smaller government kick too.

Practical to tactical:

From Gun Porn

Via subgunner Jeff.

X-Ray gun lamp.

It’s a gun free zone!

Pipsqueak: The Commie Appeal keeps adding stuff to the gun permit search engine page.