Video here.

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Helmke hops in, since it takes two to Tango:

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

“The Brady Campaign extends sympathies to the innocent victims and others affected in today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum. This shows that having even more guns in more places is the wrong answer to America’s gun violence problem.

Didn’t the armed security guards (who had more guns) stop the guy before he did more damage?

An email received:

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) was saddened to learn about today’s shooting tragedy at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the family of the victim of the shooting.

The shooter in this incident, James W. von Brunn, was a convicted felon and a “hardcore Neo-Nazi” who believed that Western civilization was going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI GOVERNMENT” that would “confiscate private weapons” in order to accomplish its goals. He was convicted of a felony in 1983 for bringing firearms into the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., where he attempted to place federal officials under “citizen’s arrest.” Von Brunn is not the first shooter in the past year to embrace virulent, anti-government views. He joins a long list of violent insurrectionists, including Scott P. Roeder, who killed abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Kansas on May 31; Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski, who killed three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in April; Joshua Cartwright, who killed two police officers in the Florida panhandle in April; and Jim Adkisson, who killed two parishioners at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in July 2008.

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has repeatedly warned of the ascendancy of the insurrectionist idea, which was recently embraced by the Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. We believe that this year’s string of shootings is not a series of random occurrences but part of a new, loosely-knit political movement characterized by the slogan “the guys with the guns make the rules.” This is an incredibly dangerous idea that has real consequences for our democracy and society.

What we are seeing play out in tragedies across our country is the mixing of the insurrectionist idea with increasingly weaker gun laws. In shooting after shooting, we have seen individuals disgruntled with government gain easy access to firearms despite criminal records and troubling mental health histories.

Uh, yeah. Because that’s what Heller was about.

Shooter IDed as James W. von Brunn. Apparently, anti-Semite white supremacist. Here’s his webpage. Google cache here. Said things about how Hitler screwed up by not gassing enough Jews. Shooter had a shotgun. Was shot by armed guards.

Update: Also tried to arrest Federal Reserve Board of Governors for treason. Was convicted by jury of Negroes (his words, not mine). Sounds like a real piece of work.

Also, a possible truther.

Update: Also, 88 years old.

CNN: Shooting reported at or near U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

More:

D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes says a person walked into the museum with a rifle and shot a guard. Hughes says the shooter was also shot.

ETA: Suspect in custody.

LA Times cool with incorporation, except for that whole second amendment part:

It’s tempting for supporters of gun control — including this page — to hope that the high court will rule that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply to the states. That would be a mistake and would give aid and comfort to conservative legal thinkers, among them Justice Clarence Thomas, who have questioned the incorporation doctrine.

We were disappointed last year when the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right, giving short shrift to the first part of the amendment, which refers to “a well-regulated militia.” But we also believe the court has been right to use the doctrine of incorporation to bind states to the most important protections of the Bill of Rights. If those vital provisions are to be incorporated in the 14th Amendment, so should the right to keep and bear arms.

Uh oh: Two passengers on doomed Air France jet had names linked to Islamic terror groups

Don’t read too much into it. People have been on lists before for no reason.

Link to petition here. TriggerFinger has a lot more.

In tacticalgunfan’s review of the SCAR mentioned before, is this photo:

From Gun Porn

And a caption: The buttstock not only folds, but also collapses (with six lengths available). Also note the two-position cheekrest, which can be raised for use with optics.

They should also mention it makes a really cool boot.

Looking at getting relatively inexpensive MP3 player for the car. Something like this. It must have a random/shuffle feature. Any recommendations? I don’t want an iPod.

On the local talk radio this morning was an interview with the proprietor of the Knoxville bar/dance joint Cotton Eyed Joe. He said that he would be prohibiting concealed carry there. I would say that would cost him my business but, well, that’d be a lie since I never planned on going anyway.

The kids are both going through a phase where crying is the reaction to, well, most things that disappoint. Can’t get your shoe tied, cry. Can’t get the pudding open, cry. I usually respond to them with something like You could try to do it another way. But the crying doesn’t help.

Also, after bath, it’s a race between Junior and the Second to see who can get dressed first. And the loser usually cries about that.

The other night, the race was on. Junior was hurriedly getting dressed and I was helping The Second put his jammies on. As a joke, I grabbed Junior’s pajama top and tossed it up on the bed to buy The Second some time. And she started crying. And I, in my usual fashion, state that she could sit there and cry about it or go get her top. And I say to her, for the millionth time, that crying doesn’t help. She runs up to the bed, gets dressed, and comes over to proudly display that she still won, despite dad’s attempt at a setback. She then looks at me and says See, crying did help.

Tactical Corsets

How many steel plates does it take to stop a 308 or a 300wm? With pics.

Suppressed rifles get very dirty. A nice write up with some pics on just how dirty suppressed rifles can get.

We were told that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act would let negligent dealers off the hook. So, this could not be happening.

The Doc has some harsh (and deserved) words for a man who advocated raping conservative women:

I say, “put up or shut up.” Honestly, do you really think a pansy guy like this Guy Cimbalo would have the courage to get in a room with, much less actually rape any of these conservative women?

The DC voting rights bill is dead. Unfortunately, it had the repeal of DC’s gun laws attached to it.

Barack Obama brings the Jesus more than Bush did?

Pro-gun Democrat Creigh Deeds takes Democrat primary in Virginia. Sebastian notes:

Moreover, it’s definitely a slap in the face to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, including Ed Rendell and Mayor Bloomberg, who put so much on the line only to come out with an empty bag.

It’s amazing what happens when Democrats take the gun control off the table, eh?

Glocks with adjustable grips?

Wanting civil rights for everyone and not just those people in flyover country.

Female business owners arm themselves. And not because they’re forced to.

Commies.

FACTORY MANUFACTURED SIG 556 SBR’S

Mk-99 AK/PPsH hybrid rifle

Doug has a bit in the KNS:

For years, schools have pondered how to get more computers into the classroom. Now, students walk into the schools with powerful computers in their pockets and are told to turn them off.

Jack Lail: Gee, you think a network effect would work on the Internet

I am curious how this bill would work:

As amended, HB2249 sets up a system for collection of records on anyone found mentally ill by a court and providing them to the FBI and TBI for inclusion in the background check database. The records will otherwise be confidential.