Tom points out that a story I linked to was not accurate. I would say it was my error except that, uh, it wasn’t.

Natalie Dee just makes me laugh:

nataliedee.com

Chris will not obey:

As I have said here before, I am a senior technical executive at a large bank.

As it happens, a bank that was forced at gunpoint, by the secretary of the treasury and chairman of the federal reserve, to accept TARP funds (as all the top surviving banks in the U.S were).

Let me be clear. We did not want TARP funds, or need them; but were told in no uncertain terms that we WOULD take them.

As obscene as that is, it is irrelevant to what follows; excepting that we did take TARP funds.

The United States House of Representatives recently passed a blatantly unconstitutional bill, placing confiscatory tax burdens on anyone making more than $250,000 and working for an institution that received more than 5 billion of TARP funds.

Also, since they forced them to take money, they can regulate corporate travel.

Update: Equally scary:

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.

You can get a one year membership to the NRA for free.

Update: Commenters tell me that the site crashes when you hit submit. Let me know if it works for you.

More misrepresentation that rocket launchers are heading into Mexico from the US. Insty also says:

If rocket launchers and grenades are making it into Mexico from the United States, it’s because they’re being sold out the back door of military and police armories, since civilian gun stores don’t sell them.

Say, anyone know the rate of desertion from the Mexican army? About 150K in 6 years? Hmm.

The Times Free Press:

Tennessee lawmakers, like those in other state Legislatures now pursuing the National Rifle Association’s radical agenda, have far too little concern for the “well-regulated militia” side of the Second Amendment’s gun rights.

The right to arms is not contingent upon membership in a well-regulated militia. Heller settled that. And:

If they thought about it, they would require a range of regulations that could vastly help law enforcement keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

Well, it is illegal for criminals to have guns.

Via ACK.

Gold inlaid, even.

I dig those fancy FN P90 Personal Defense Weapons you guys are using to defend your precious cargo. However, they’d be more effective if you actually had magazines in them.

Local Restaurateur Mike Chase chats with Betty Bean about the guns in restaurants bill. Mr. Chase owns a few of the prominent local chains, most of which are OK but Calhoun’s has some good beer that they brew themselves. I like their Porter. Says Chase:

Water goes with scotch. Coke goes with Jack Daniels – but guns and alcohol just don’t mix

Water never goes into Scotch.

And guns and alcohol do not mix, which is why the bill in question and Tennessee law in general prohibit drinking while being armed. But facts aren’t at issue here, I suppose. That’s why the debate is usually framed as guns in bars because if we framed it honestly as, say, the guns at Pizza Hut bill or I don’t want to leave a gun in the car when I hit the Ruby Tuesday’s salad bar at lunch bill then that doesn’t really get the emotional reaction you’re going for here. And we can’t have that.

Last night, I stopped off at a local eatery to grab some food to take home. I didn’t know if the place served alcohol or not. So, I had to decide whether to leave my gun in the car or take it with me. Looking at a coin flip, I erred on the side of not leaving the weapon in the car. Went in, picked up my food, and still don’t know if I broke the law or not. I didn’t see alcohol advertised there. But it could have been on the menu. That’s how the debate of this bill should be framed.

Chase continues:

It’ll be worse than the Wild West – back then, they wore their guns on their hips where you could see them. Wyatt Earp made them take off their guns when they went into bars. This is ridiculous. Crazy. There are a million scenarios where this could be a disaster – jealous boyfriends, jealous girlfriends, jealous spouses. It’s a bad, bad idea, and whoever is pushing it is absolutely irresponsible. I am always going to oppose anything that will endanger my customers and employees.

Starts off with Ravenwood’s Law. But those scenarios play out with almost the frequency of winning lotteries. And they would also be illegal. You see, all of Tennessee’s neighbor states, except North Carolina, allow handgun carry in places that serve alcohol. And they don’t experience any sort of substantive increase in deadly situations. And you’re in luck, Mr. Chase, since even if the law passes, you, as a property owner, can still prohibit the carrying of arms at your establishment.

Via Linoge who has a lot more.

Update: More here.

Update 2: Will he ban cars in his parking lot?

A look at Mexican gun laws in action.

Meanwhile, insty notes that the canard of Military hardware flowing into Mexico from the US is being parroted by the press. The LA Times (yes, that LA Times) who is known to shill for any anti-gun cause notes:

Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

Ya think?

Delegates wish to carry weapons without a permit because the permitting process they’ve put in place takes too long and is inconvenient when they decide they really need a weapon:

Controversy often inflames passions, and mindful of this lawless age and a propensity of some in society to go over the edge, a few lawmakers want the right to arm themselves without a weapons permit.

One sponsor of such a House bill, in fact, Delegate Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, relayed a personal threat directed at him and his family, penned by the hand of a convict.

A self-described “monster,” the man behind bars warned of what he intended to do to Hunt and his children.

Hunt decided to leave nothing to chance and get a firearm, but was told he had to wait during a two-month concealed weapon application process.

Despite the written threat, the man was released, but authorities picked him up a day later.

Hunt is a co-sponsor of HB3248, aimed at adding members of the Legislature to a list of officials and others who are allowed to skip the waiting period and carry a firearm.

Delegate David Walker, D-Clay, the lead sponsor, says he has never been threatened, but if he were, wouldn’t hesitate to arm himself.

Living under the very laws you passed, that’s just for the little people, right?

Gun porn and range photos here.

Robb says bring enough gun but realizes that, sometime, any gun will do.

Personally, I like my Kel-Tec. Reliable, small, reasonably priced. You could get the Ruger if you want but not much point.

Markos on custom guns: We also call this process “spending $1000 to turn a $600 gun into a $700 gun.”

Probably won’t happen since Cali doesn’t like to arm the little people but there is a bill:

What issue could unite a Republican lawmaker from Southern California and a 46-year-old lesbian from Natomas?

Guns, of course.

A bill introduced in the state Assembly last month aims to make it easier for Californians to obtain a concealed weapons permit.

Assembly Bill 357 – yes, the number is right – would change a state law that currently gives county sheriffs or chiefs of police final say in who can carry a gun.

By stripping the local law enforcement discretion, the bill would mandate that any Californian who passes a training course and demonstrates “good moral character” can tuck a pistol into his or her waistband.

Sebastian illustrates why may issue laws are problematic.

Mayor in NY wants to declare martial law. Not because citizens are out of control but because the police are.

A rescue operation in NY called Big Apple Bullies, if you’re looking.

Stealing guns from a gun show.

A pic from breakfast:

From Kids

Breda tells us how to roast garlic in a crock pot. Cool. I do the same on the grill. Cut the tops, put in foil with some oil, and toss it on the grill for 20 to 30 minutes.

This weekend, me, the wife, and kids built a raised garden. Ours is 10X4. Gonna put some tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and some veggies. Any suggestions for something I might be missing? Junior wants to do watermelons.

Update: I didn’t know it was a survival garden.

Coincidentally, compost is easy to get when you share a border with a cattle farm.

MSNBC did a hit piece on guns. Of course they did. I got a kick out of this:

“Seven year old Teresa has an AR-15: an air-cooled, semi-automatic, shoulder-mounted rifle that is currently used by the U.S. special forces in Iraq.”

Shoulder-mounted? So, it must require one of those shoulder things that go up. And I love the gratuitous use of terms designed to scare.

They all look the same, you know.

BTW, if Bush had done this, it’d be front page everywhere. Now that it is the chosen one, not so much.

David notes NRA’s tendency to not credit the Second Amendment Foundation. That always bugged me too.

Even applies to bows and arrows.

To learn that the bastion of journalistic integrity, The Commercial Appeal, is laying off staff.

Heh.

A Memphis indy paper reporter takes the carry class.

Via Tom who notes it was much different than his experience.

Les has the details.

Howard Nemerov on the Oakland shooting:

The incident involving the gunman “is bad because he’s a state ward, he’s a state parolee, they let him out,” said California Attorney General Jerry Brown, a former Oakland mayor. “There are hundreds of shooters walking around the East Bay. Our parole system isn’t working.”