Firearm blog has a look.

For show and tell, kid brings deactivated grenade to school. Every body panic.

Dead with no co-sponsors and now back. Coverage at ESPN:

To many gun owners, it’s the tsunami of gun control legislation, the mother of all efforts to restrict private gun ownership and the guarantees of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

To others, it’s just the latest anti-gun agitation, a formerly defeated proposal dredged back up for another try in this time of shifting political winds.

“It” is H.R. 45: Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. This bill was introduced in the 111th Congress by U. S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) on Jan. 6, 2009. Failing to attract any co-sponsors, it was referred for consideration to the House Committee on the Judiciary, where it now rests awaiting further action.

This bill is sweeping in its gun control proposals. Its summary description reads, “To provide for the implementation of a system for licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.”

If enacted, this bill would prohibit anyone from owning any type of handgun without obtaining a license for such ownership. The same would be true for any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition-feeding device.

In other news, ESPN does outdoors?

That’s the name of this piece. It should be called four things you do know about the AK-47 and one that is bullshit.

Via DAMIT.

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln — two of the most vilified historical figures in the South and not anywhere else* — were both born on the same day: exactly 200 years ago today. Don’t tell Malcolm Gladwell!

* fixed it for you – love Uncle.

CNBC is currently running a documentary entitled House of Cards on how we got into the economic mess we currently face. So far, it’s quite good. If you’ve missed it, it’s repeating at midnight Eastern time (11 PM Central). I’ve set the TiVo to catch the repeat.

UPDATE: Another review here.

So, if I’m reading it right, the two things that would have actually stimulated the falling sectors of the economy (tax credits on houses and cars) did not make the cut. And the DOW dropped immediately and then rebounded quite a bit.

A couple of weeks ago, I was on vacation in a downtown hotel. My room number? 1911.

Michael Silence told you so. The state Department of Safety is now inviting legislation to make the records private.

Squeaky writes the CA a letter.

In comments at AC’s, Sean Braisted says:

The tax code isn’t all that complicated unless you try to get all the deductions possible.

Yeah, those 6.6 billion hours spent per year on them are because math is hard. And the $194 billion per year in compliance costs is because it’s not all that complicated. And the 117 million times per year that IRS is contacted for answers is not due to complexities in the code. And that code consisting of 693 sections of the Internal Revenue Code that are applicable to individual taxpayers, 1,501 sections applicable to businesses, and 445 sections applicable to tax-exempt organizations, employee plans, and governments. And the Treasury Department had issued almost 20,000 pages of regulations containing over 8 million words.

But, no, it’s not all that complicated. Just ask Daschle, Geithner, Rangle, Solis, and Killefer.

Sources for my tax stats, which are dated and, therefore, understated.

A look at some crime numbers in the brief.

Seen at MKS’ place:

The press ought to declare itself a religion

They do seem pretty adept at taking things on faith without empirical evidence.

It’s an internet hit. Recipe is here. A few weeks ago, me and my brother in law, J-Lo, decided to have a go at it. Here’s J-Lo getting his bacon weave on (and because I told him I’d put his picture on the internet):

From Home Life

Weave complete:

From Home Life

Almost ready:

From Home Life

All done:

From Home Life

Quite good, I have to say. Even better was the next day when I put a slice on a sandwich with some spicy mustard.

For our next artery clogging trick, we’re probably going to try the Double Bypass Burger.

Bullet with a name on it.

67% trust their own judgment more than congress. I wonder why. Oh, yeah that.

I’ve mentioned I’m reading Brian Doherty’s Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment a few times. Joe Huffman and Boomershoot are mentioned on page 80. Cool.

Radley: A jury in Colorado has acquitted a man who organized poker tournaments at a local bar on charges of illegal gambling, apparently agreeing with his defense that poker is primarily a game of skill, not chance.

Long post with lots of pics on detail stripping a 1911. Also, the carbine is cool.

Proper fighting six gun.

Bersa.

Gear and another Bersa.

Both TN senators declined to answer the following questions:

Do you prepare your own taxes?
If not, who does?
Have you or the IRS ever discovered an error on a tax return you’ve filed?
Have you ever paid back taxes?
If the answer to either 3 or 4 is yes, please explain.

I’m not one to generally say There ought to be a law. But there ought to be a law. I think Congressmonkies should be required, by law, to do their own tax returns. And the process should be videotaped. I imagine the tax code would get much simpler.

Some more stuff at SIH.

People say to me Hey, Uncle, why do you need more than X number of rounds in a firearm magazine? X being somewhere between reasonable and making Sarah Brady cry. And my first response is What’s need got to do with it? My second response is In case I’m attacked by 40 or 50 thugs.

Tam in comments here:

It’s sad that the only way to make them act like Republicans is to have them in the minority.

Kinda like the only way to keep Democrats from wild foreign military adventures is to keep them out of the White House.

I guess we can add detaining terror suspects to the list to.

Seems that we can, now, officially bid farewell to change. But maybe folks still have hope. No change:

Elena Kagan Says Government Can Indefinitely Detain Terrorism Suspects.

Via insty.

Finn invents machine gun powered by electric drill.

Campus carry bill in AZ.

Armed robber shot.

Circa 1925

A letter sent regarding their decision to publish a database of carry permit holders.

In VA:

It’s legal to wear a gun on your hip in Waterside, a judge decided Tuesday.

After hearing more than two hours of testimony, a General District Court judge dismissed a trespassing charge against Dan Moore, a Hampton resident who police said was ordered to leave Waterside for carrying a weapon, and refused to leave.

State laws permit openly carrying firearms in public places. City officials contended that Waterside, though built in part with public funds, is owned by a private entity and thus is a private facility not subject to state laws.

In Knoxville and Maryville. If you’re reading this, stop. Go be safe.

My wife reports that our grill cover has disappeared.