Dirtcrashr meets Alan Gura of Heller fame.

Or Gun control on National Geographic?

A summary, from Rusty.

Caleb tries the video thing.

And rounds up other tips from various pros.

Level the gubernatorial fundraising playing field

S&W M&P fires 50K rounds in 8 months.

Seen at ACK’s:

Bill has resigned from the group. He did so because he believes MAIG has expanded its mission in ways that go far beyond fighting criminal gun use, including a number of ideas that he does not share.

Good for the mayor.

I’ve followed the issue of gubernatorial candidate and Knoxville mayor Haslam and and his unfortunate membership in an anti-gun group for a bit. A reader notes:

Hey, I went to the Mayors Against Illegal Guns web site and Knoxville and Haslam are not there.

Did he quit? He did distance himself from them in the past. If he did quit, good for him!

Heh.

ETA: TN Democratic Party News has the same post?

Via presser from email:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A House subcommittee has killed a proposal to allow faculty and staff at public Tennessee colleges to carry handguns on campus.

The proposal sponsored by Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Knoxville Republican, died for lack of a second to a motion to consider the bill in the House Criminal Practice Subcommittee on Wednesday.

Campfield said his proposal would have allowed colleges to opt out if they publicly guaranteed students’ safety.

College campuses are currently covered under a general ban on guns on school grounds. Only law enforcement officers or members of the military can come onto a campus armed.

The panel also rejected another Campfield proposal to allow retired members of military and ROTC cadets to carry handguns on campus.

Presser is a bit misleading since the bill specifies those that can carry a handgun lawfully may do so. Not all faculty and staff.

I’ve been reading yours and the various other April Fool’s jokes. And they’re not funny. You know what’s funny? No, not Dane Cook. He’s about as funny as a cricket infected with Parasitic Gordian worm (oh and don’t watch that unless you want to be really creeped out). Where was I? Oh, yeah. You know what’s funny? Monkey knife fights. Those are funny.

Representative Judd Matheny organized an event that was sponsored by Barrett Firearms and Hero Gear to conduct firearms awareness training with many of our elected officials from Nashville. Pics and report here, including one of Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey having some fun with an AR-15.

Update: Zing: Haslam, I’m Guessing, Doesn’t Have Pics Like These

So reports a Jeff Woods, in between taking breaks to clean his soiled panties.

Good.

Also, I note he’s using, no doubt sans permission, the NRA’s trademarked logo. Disregarding intellectual property rights seems to be a trend with Mr. Woods.

Clenched-fist salute to ACK.

We must ban assault weapons because some psychopath shot a bunch of people with a bolt action rifle.

Like you and me, only better: the poll (at the bottom right):

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF FACULTY, MILITARY, EX-MILITARY, AND CURRENT AND RETIRED LAW OFFICERS APPROVED TO CARRY CONCEALED GUNS ON STATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES

If you can lawfully carry a firearm, I don’t see why being on campus matters. Or your military status.

Matthew Hurt has more on the campus carry bill proposed by Campfield.

A blogger needs your help.

His daily column is here.

A bit back I mentioned Michael Yon’s falling for the Mexican Gun Canard. He continues to parrot that line.

If you disagree with him and use facts and reason and stuff, you are a fanatic.

UJ tells Yon to stop digging, which is good advice when you’re in a hole.

Don:

if you were a leader in a Mexican cartel with access to rifles, ammunition, grenades and RPG’s from Mexican military arsenals, M16 rifles and ammunition from scavengers all over South America who have old American military exports to sell on the cheap, and a dozen other sources . . . would you be sending people to gun shows in Tucson and Albuqurque (sic) to find someone with a clean background check to buy a few semi-automatic rifles and then try to smuggle them south?

Dan Gifford has quite a bit.

Ya know, gun nuts are a funny sort. Seriously, will anyone be buying tactical socks for operators?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it’s a quality sock. But do folks not realize how silly Special Operations Sock sounds?

I thought it could have been an April 1 joke at first.

A bill in TN:

The sponsor of a proposal to allow dogs at restaurants’ outdoor dining areas has delayed a vote on his bill.

The measure, HB1603, sponsored by Rep. Harry Brooks, a Knoxville Republican, would allow cities with populations of at least 100,000 to allow the practice.

So, those of us in small towns will be discriminated against?

Bob finds it a bit odd that someone isn’t too bright.

You know, if I want to be exempt from restrictions on carry, I should just become a Special Deputy:

Knox County Commissioner Greg “Lumpy” Lambert said he wasn’t armed when he confronted a citizen during a public meeting. However, he is one of a small number of elected officials who can carry a gun in the City County Building.

[…]

10 News also asked Lambert, who’s been very public about owning a gun, if he carries one to commission meetings.

“It is not my practice,” said Lambert. “I may have inadvertently. I am a bonded deputy through the Sheriff’s Department, so I’m not going to say I’ve never accidentally carried a weapon into the courthouse.”

And:

Lambert said be became a special deputy after he received death threats and became a witness in a murder trial.

So, can I become a special deputy or am I just limited to my handgun carry permit? I mean, not being an elected official and all.

The bill to remove the restriction on carrying weapons where alcohol is sold for on-sight consumption is getting silly. The bill has devolved into a ton of silly, near unenforceable, and poorly defined regulations that could make it useless. Such as:

You can’t carry in such an establishment after 11 p.m. Because, I suppose, that’s when guns turn into pumpkins or werewolves or some such.

Bill not applicable to places that only allow those 18 and up. Uh, Ok.

And you can only carry if 60% of sales come from food. So, am I going to have to get an income statement before entering? Is that calculated on an annual, quarterly, or daily basis? I mean, one day it could and the next day not.

As Sean says: So, basically, at the end of all this, we’ll have a bill that allows people to carry weapons in restaurants where 60% of sales come from food, as long as you leave by 11PM, and as long as kids are allowed in the same room. Ummm, yeah, this is a complete waste of time.

Pretty much. For fuck’s sake, carry is binary. Pass a bill or don’t. Putting unenforceable and poorly defined measures on a bill is an invitation to legal trouble.

And, in all likelihood, judging from the restaurant lobby’s reaction, quite a few restaurants will put up signs prohibiting carry anyway.

What media bias against guns?

Rusty has a list of pending bills.

Indeed: If we, the hunting population, start to define what hunting is, where will it stop?

A lot more from Bitter.

Seen at PGP’s:

As the issue of Mexican violence continues to boil over, it has become clear that for many anti-gun politicians, the war on drugs and the war on gun owners’ rights are the same thing.

Robert has video from the TSRA mid range championship.

Another good guy at ATF? Not unheard of. Those guys tend to be gunnies themselves. But they get of, err, shall we say enthusiastic training.

Here.