Seen at R. Neal’s:

A friend stopped by his neighborhood market the other day and the guy at the register handed him this “report”.

It says there is a government plot to disrupt our economy and confiscate all private guns by Sept. 2009 so the U.S. can join the New World Order and adopt a global currency. President Obama was to seal the deal at the G20 summit in London. The back page lists several websites you should check out for more information “while you still can.”

I see the crazy talk is back. It has come full circle. I remember the good old days when the New World Order Black Helicopter guys said the same thing about the first George Bush. Looks like a combo of the Prison Planet/Infowars/Truther crowd. Anyway, this is some world class silliness and no one should encourage them.

Speaking of those bias polls, CNN did one too. Also concludes support for gun control is down.

The VPC issues a comprehensive study of how the U.S. civilian firearms market contributes to the ongoing drug-related violence in Mexico. Summing up Google searches, no doubt.

Anyway, this one is easy because it comes pre-debunked.

Ok, we’ve gone from blaming guns, to NRA, to conservative radio, to 911 operators, to the economy. Now, ammo. If only ammunition was more expensive, people wouldn’t be committing these mass shootings:

The man who gunned down 13 people at an upstate New York immigration center fired 98 shots from two handguns in a little more than a minute, police said Wednesday, a gunslinging feat one expert said would make him a “new Rambo.”

Gun control advocates said if a man who complained about not getting enough in unemployment benefits could afford enough ammunition to repeatedly practice shooting and go into his killing zone with a satchel of bullets around his neck, new ways are needed to stem gun violence, including raising the price of ammunition.

Ballistics reports showed Jiverly Wong fired 87 times from a 9mm Beretta and 11 times from a .45-caliber handgun. If he bought the ammunition online, he could have paid as little as $40 for the rounds he fired.

Has the AP paid attention to the ammo price situation? Why, yes, they have.

Politico:

Attorney General Eric Holder is signaling that the Obama administration is not interested in getting into a major political battle …

… to pass sensitive gun control legislation, such as re-instituting a ban on assault weapons or requiring background checks at gun shows.

On Good Morning America:

And we are just going to have to work together to come to some resolution because the court, in the meantime, in recent months, the Supreme Court has ruled in a very- in a direction that gives more opportunity for people to have guns. We never denied that right. We don’t want to take their guns away. We want them registered. We don’t want them crossing state lines…

First of all, you have denied that right. Next, you do want to take guns away. Anything used to justify registration can be accomplished through other means and all registration does is make a list of gun owners. And you don’t want guns crossing state lines? That’s a new one. What about people who hunt or participate in competition out of state?

No thanks.

Cracked: The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don’t Work)

ACK has an article in The Nashville City Paper about TN Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Haslam leaving Mayors Against Guns:

Haslam has had plenty of opportunities, had the group truly offended his sensibilities on guns, to withdraw from the group before now.

He neglected to do so.

Therefore, it is not a stretch to imagine that had Mayor Haslam not announced his intention to seek the office of Governor he would still be a member of the group today.

So, what Haslam did here may very well be pandering but, in the end, it had to be done.

I still say good for the mayor for leaving the group. But I find a few things interesting. I’m the person who first mentioned Haslam’s membership in the group back in 2006. Back then, not a single newspaper or media outlet in TN covered it. Now, after it’s concluded, the press is covering the issue. I question the timing.

Download illegal music and that makes you a terrorism suspect.

Some hunters start with the I’m a gun owner but line to justify bans on weapons they don’t own. If the anti-gunners get that ban then it won’t be long until your hunting rifle becomes a sniper rifle.

Paul Helmke says that right wing propaganda machine Gallup is biased and unreliable.

The hurdles to jump to get your guns there.

A bill in TN:

This bill adds to present law by authorizing issuance of search warrants based on reasonable suspicion that an act of terrorism is being committed. “Reasonable suspicion” is generally described as an amount of knowledge sufficient to cause an ordinary person to believe that criminal activity is at hand. Reasonable suspicion is a lesser standard than probable cause.

Picture is worth 1,000 words.

First, this uptick in violence was blamed on guns. Then the NRA. Then right wing radio. Then a 911 operator. Now, it’s the economy.

“I’m Against Guns and Violence, Unfortunately Reality Has Intruded on My Delusional Paradise.”

There have been a few cases where women were killed while they were going through their waiting period.

Yesterday, I mentioned the bit by Deb. It was, of course, complete wrong and probably fabricated out of whole cloth. I mean, the press can’t speak factually about guns or gun laws or that would be editorializing. Making stuff up, though, that’s just good journalism. Any way, some others chime in on Debbie:

Jennifer: Yep, they were all legally entitled to waltz into a gun free zone and start picking off the innocent and defenseless people there. I had no idea that being able to own a gun made me immune to the laws against assault and murder.

David: Ah, that’s the media I remember, with an agenda to push! The agenda here being that permit systems, even that of NY, are not functioning — because they’re just too liberal.

David: Gee, a bit of manipulative wordsmithing going on there, eh MSNBC?

It’s kinda funny how the press pushes this gun owners are paranoid mantra but the same press consistently cannot report the issue even close to accurately.

Daniel Defense Carbine.

How to Guide Small Arms and Light Weapons Legislation

Fun begins in chapter 3.

Astroturf organization says gun violence costs Chicago $2.5B per year. A Joyce Foundation funded study saying that gun violence costs all that money where guns are banned.

Cool pic.

Well, in their defense, they were trying to pass plenty of stupid laws before this session.

Question is asked and answered. Here and here.

I find I need to add a small flashlight these days. Lighting at indoor ranges stinks.

Update: More here and here.

NSSF’s Ted Novin takes the group on:

Maligning a legitimate industry and its many millions of law-abiding consumers is as inappropriate as it is unproductive in stopping criminals who willfully disobey the law.

A look at the hysteria in media. What media bias against guns?

Licensed to kill? Nearly every gunman in recent mass shootings had weapons permits

That’s the lede. But it’s false. In Alabama, there is no requirement for a weapons permit to own a gun. In Brady Ranked #6 NY, there is and the ABC piece posted a picture of the shooter’s permit. I don’t know about PA but the Brady Bunch says there is not permit required to purchase.

It would help DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer, if you actually looked up the laws you were reporting on. You know that, despite what you learn from sitcoms, not all states are New York. But at least you got one right.

Even though no one I know ever reports being asked, seems that Gallup says Americans do not favor more gun controls.

Girl suspended from school for taking her prescription birth control pills.

In the War on Drugs, Drugs are winning.

In Fort Campbell, The US Army wants to register any soldier’s privately owned weapons. They also want to know if you have a carry permit.

Once more, with feeling.

Yon is still bitterly clinging to the Mexican Gun Canard. When he’s not calling us fanatics for pointing out facts and stuff, he’s happily parroting talking points that have been proven false. The latest is Yon’s re-publishing a rebuttal to a FoxNews piece by Todd Bensman. You see, you should take Todd’s word for it because Yon knows him. And he’s a great guy who probably likes puppies. Only, he’s a great guy who happens to be full of shit:

The notion that 90 percent of the guns recovered from Mexican cartels can be traced to US retailers derives from hard ATF trace statistics. The majority of the recovered guns that are traced – not all are – have been traced to American retailers, unless the ATF is just making it all up, and no one has even alleged such a thing.

The article in question from FoxNews is here. The article addresses the claim that 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States. And the reason why that claim is false is because it is derived from the ATF stating that 90% of the weapons ATF traces came from the US. In other words, only 90% those guns ATF is asked by Mexico to trace originate here. Not 90% of all guns.

Bensman continues:

Then offered as proof one of the most minuscule slivers of the total seizure take: some military weapons that came from Guatemala. It’s the height of intellectual dishonesty- and terrible analytical thinking – to lump this tiny fraction of military weapons in with the much larger UNtraced group of firearms and call them the same, that they came from Israel and China. That’s what this Fox reporter did and to someone knowledgeable like me shows how horribly he was manipulated.

That has little to do with the debunking the 90% stat but I find it interesting. Whenever you read the news, they show pics of LAW, RPGs, beltfed machine guns, grenades and other military hardware. And imply such weapons are coming from the US and its gun shows. Pointing out that they are not is valid.

Now, I have no doubt that guns are getting into Mexico from the US. But not 90% of them; not the military hardware they show us on the TeeVee news; and the issue is overstated. The AK-47s the gangs are using are not coming from the US either.

That’s what this Yon guy is repeating and, to someone knowledgeable like me, shows how horribly he was manipulated.

Clenched fist salute to Unix Jedi.