Barack Obama Memorial Black Evil Rifle

US Citzen on ammo:

I’ve watched as $90,000 in 50BMG inventory went to $0 in the last 10 days or so. Distributor-level inventories of .45ACP, 9mm, .380ACP, .223 Rem, and even .22LR have been depleted for weeks.

Two is one. One is none.

Never seen a woman hunt turkey in a wedding dress before.

Jay G. takes a newbie shooting.

over 2M responses. 96% say second amendment means individual right.

One of our DVD players went poop. So, we need a new one. I figured I’d go ahead and get a Blu Ray unit at some point. Thing is, I know nothing about them. I gather they play DVDs as well. And some of them are wifi enabled so that you can stream audio/video from your PC.

Anyone have a recommendation?

AirSoft AK-47s, apparently. Oh, and they come from US gun shows, natch.

Bonus for ravenwood’s law too.

Update: Image changed. Heh. This was the first image she opted for.

Drug control breeds gun control. The ever evolving Mexican Gun Canard goes through another iteration.

Court upholds rules on firearms in national parks pending, and I am not making this up, an environmental assessment.

InsideHigherEd has a look at the issue.

FactCheck.org, which is ordinarily in the tank for Obama, comes out and says that the 90% of guns in Mexico come from the US that the administration parrots is false:

But is it true as President Obama said, that “More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?” No, it’s not.

The figure represents only the percentage of crime guns that have been submitted by Mexican officials and traced by U.S. officials. We can find no hard data on the total number of guns actually “recovered in Mexico,” but U.S. and Mexican officials both say that Mexico recovers more guns than it submits for tracing. Therefore, the percentage of guns “recovered” and traced to U.S. sources necessarily is less than 90 percent.

Furthermore, the 90 percent figure is based on a badly biased sample of all Mexican crime guns. Law enforcement officials say Mexico asks the U.S. to trace only those guns with serial numbers or other markings that indicate they are likely to have come though the U.S.

Fox News has put the percentage at only 17 percent, but we find that to be based on a mistaken assumption that throws its figure way off. We can’t offer a precise calculation because we know of no hard information on the total number of guns Mexican officials have recovered. But if a rough figure given by Mexico’s attorney general is accurate, then the actual percentage of all Mexican crime guns traced to U.S. sources is probably less than half what the president claims, and more than double what Fox news has reported.

If I had to guess, I would say that the majority of handguns likely do come from the US. But not 90%. I would also say that hardly any of the machine guns, rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft guns the press likes to parade in photo ops comes from the US.

Really:

AN ALLEGED double killer, his accomplice and one of his victims were all carrying firearms at an anti-gun event in London, the Old Bailey heard today.

Shakah Anderson is accused of shooting dead Mohamed Korneh and Selorn Gbesenete, both 21, at the Tudor Rose night club in Southall at Unarmed 2, dedicated to stopping gun crime among young black people, the jury was told.

Campfield floats a rumor about a gun bill:

Word on the hill is Democrat leadership is planning on bringing an amendment to Frank Nicleys gun bill allowing carry permit holders to be able to carry in parks. The amendment would be brought on the full house floor and say if you have a permit you can carry everywhere that is not posted otherwise.

The rep has his doubts given the Democrat’s stalling of gun bills in recent years. But is that really an issue now that Naifeh doesn’t have the gavel?

Obama declares war on drugs. Odd how it’s usually tied to the war on guns.

After pledging support for international gun control, Obama was asked about the ban on politically incorrect self-loading rifles. The press says that Obama won’t seek a ban on the most popular rifles in the country. But did he really say that? No, he did not:

Now, having said that, I think none of us are under any illusion that reinstating that ban would be easy.

He wants the ban but realizes it would cost the Democrats. And, of course, a lot of the Democrats will not sign on anyway. Obama rambled on about tracing. I’m not sure what he was trying to get at there but it seems to be a reference to the Tiahrt amendment. And, of course, he misrepresents what it does.

Story kinda broke yesterday but, being at my secure and undisclosed location, I wasn’t able to blog about it. Sebastian did the heavy lifting. Anyway, it looks like Barack Obama has pledged his support for a treaty that will advocate restricting gun rights:

In addition to making illegal the unauthorized manufacture and exporting of firearms, the treaty calls for countries to adopt strict licensing requirements, mark firearms when they are made and imported to make them easier to trace, and establish a cooperative process for sharing information between national law-enforcement agencies investigating arms smuggling.

No thanks. There’s enough in there to really rile up gun owners though. You watch. Meanwhile, NRA issues a statement:

The NRA is well aware of the proposed Organization of American States treaty on firearms trafficking, known by its Spanish initials as CIFTA. The NRA monitored the development of this treaty from its earliest days, but contrary to news reports today, the NRA did not “participate” at the meeting where the treaty was approved.

More on the specifics and a copy of the treaty here.

The Wall Street Journal notes that gun sales are up. Everyone knows that. What is odd is that a paper that caters to the financial crowd says:

No one knows exactly what is behind the gun-buying craze.

Only those not paying attention. Curt notes:

This is perfectly acceptable behavior for investors…but for those who invest in guns for the same purposes, it’s all the sudden “greed?”

I find it a bit ironic that they can import M4 clones into Canada. And in the US with our supposedly lax gun laws, we can’t import rifles with 14.5 barrels or if they’re semi-automatic (generally).

Want a gun? Better be ready to discuss your sex life with a government bureaucrat:

Before renewing his gun permit in 2007, the authorities decided to inquire into Lemieux’s bedroom history. Did he divorce anyone in the last two years? Did he break up with a girlfriend? If yes, use a separate sheet to explain.

Pardon me? Explain?

Well, it was nothing personal. Apparently, Canada’s government feels it ought to know the romantic status of all firearm owners.

We’ve covered the bill in Montana that exempts guns made in the state from federal gun laws quite a bit. Turns out, the governor signed the bill into law. Dave Kopel has thoughts.

Drunk with Power: How Liquor Lobbyists and Distributors Control Tennessee’s Wine Laws.

JOHN LOTT: ABC’s Shameful ‘20/20′ Experiment

It opens with an interesting bit. Lott notes that gun control activists appear desperate. After all, why else would they fabricate a piece such as the 20/20 bit? Or, for that matter, bitterly cling to the Mexican Gun Canard?

When Is It Safe to Educate Your Children On Guns?

Insty reports that Napolitano is apologizing for that whole veterans are right wing extremist terrorists thing.

Meanwhile:

“It’s ironic,” Gottlieb concluded, “that President Obama’s friend, William Ayers, is a leftwing terrorist bomber, but nothing in this report suggests monitoring his activities.”

S&W J Frame.

Browning Hi Power.

Iraqi war trophies. Lots of interesting stuff.

M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System because who doesn’t want to mount a shotgun to their AR-15?

I love Jeff Woods. Sure, he’s a simplistic douchebag who misleads readers. But, gosh darnit, he’s always bringing me good news:

The Senate just voted 26-7 for the guns-in-bars bill without the 11 o’clock curfew that the House added.

Good. And it’s not a guns in bars bill as Woods says. It’s a guns in places that serve alcohol bill. Like, say, Pizza Hut. But, you know, that’s not scary enough.

Seen at Krumm’s:

These people are advocating less government, restraints on federal power, and a return to “constitutional government.” Social conservatives who seek expansion of state power on issues from abortion to support for faith-based programs may find themselves at odds with a newly invigorated movement to shrink government and enhance individual liberty.

Well, one can hope.

As Krumm notes: they were a warning to the Republican Party: Leave us alone, or we’re leaving.

I mentioned my garden a bit back. I planted some stuff last week. Notably, Swiss chard, romaine lettuce, cucumbers, variety of tomatoes, carrots, radishes and various peppers. The chard, peppers, and tomatoes came as plants and not seeds. In less than a week, the radishes, carrots and lettuce from seed have broken the soil.

If it goes well, I’ll build another raised garden next year.

Funny stuff:

Rightwing Terrorism apparently consists of standing around in a quasi-orderly fashion, waving signs, chatting with neighbors, picking up trash, walking back to the car, and going home.

And you protest because you’re a racist, of course.

FoxNews:

The National Security Agency intercepted Americans’ e-mails and phone calls in recent months on a scale that went beyond limits set by Congress last year, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.