Scott North: a Bushmaster XM-15-E2s, an assault-style rifle capable of fully automatic fire, court papers said.

Well, I guess if you have a milling machine and some M16 parts laying around it could be.

Remington acquires Dakota Arms.

In Florida:

Terry McElroy, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, says his agency is so overwhelmed with concealed- weapon permit applications it doesn’t open packages until they’ve been in the mailroom for two months.

Drink up. It’s easier than thinking.

Jeff Woods looks at politicos blaming that dastardly media for misrepresenting the guns in restaurants bill. And wonders where, oh where, they would have gotten the idea that maybe the press had an agenda. I mean, with all those loaded poll questions, calling it the ‘guns in bars’ bill, and quoting every one who reacted with a bit of hysteria to it; it is puzzling that lawmakers would draw that conclusion. Aside from using every anti-gun PSH-inducing cliche, he then implies that a few crazies dictated state policy. He seems shocked that we crazy gun nuts are politically active and, you know, successful. Drink up.

Kool-Aid graphic provided by Robb.

To cut down on information overload, MKS recommends sixing.

But other political literature was OK.

Aunt B. is none too keen on allowing those with carry permits who work at schools to carry there. She doesn’t trust teachers but the school police officers she has no issue with. An issue to consider here is appropriate retention. After all, if a student managed to disarm a teacher, that would not be good. This is also why most prison employees are not armed and, frankly, most schools these days tend to operate like prisons. I could see armed personnel at a school as a good thing given that police tactics in the event of a mass shooting in the gun-free school zones is to contain and then secure the perimeter. That’s changing, as it should. Armed personnel at schools have minimized the carnage a couple of times that I know of.

And since B. always reminds me of the feminism issue, I see PGP is advocating arming staff at abortion clinics in light of Tiller’s killer saying to expect more attacks on abortion providers.

Handgun Carry Class size increases with passing new laws.

The US is the source of all the world’s gun problems. No doubt, folks are smuggling bazookas, rocket launchers, and machine guns to Canada too.

Joe notes something interesting about how the Brady Campaign is presenting numbers.

Seems Paul Helmke is a sad panda because Obama is not enacting more gun controls. Well, Paul, don’t you remember when Obama was wooing us gun owners and he said as much? I have to admit, I did not believe him. Here I thought I was being duped but, it turns out, he was duping The Brady Campaign.

Third notes it’s a trend: Obviously, as is his SOP, that includes throwing all those minorities like gays and gun controllers under the bus when his promises become inconvenient.

Anyway, not the first group to be disappointed with Obama. Seems the gay rights folks are feeling duped as well.

In response to a police officer shooting another plain-clothes police officer in NY (of course, in NY if you have a gun you’re a criminal or cop),Robb notes a solution in search of a problem:

One idea involves the use of radio frequency tags that would allow officers to pinpoint where other cops are in the city, Browne said. Another involves tags that would work gun-to-gun and use an infrared sensor: When a weapon is pulled from an officer’s holster it would trigger a signal that would be sent to the gun of a nearby officer. The signal may be seen or heard.

Using technology to solve problems that are better solved through other means tends to create more problems. There is no magic switch or button for every thing.

With all the whining from the lefty bloggers and press (but I repeat myself) over the guns in restaurants bill, Kat Coble reminds us of something:

Guns In Restaurants; This Is How Adulthood Works

[…]

Everybody has their rights. Gun people have the right to bear their arms with them wherever they go. Restaurant people have the right to say “this is my restaurant and you can’t bring that gun in here.” Gun people then have the right to go to a different restaurant where they can eat with their gun.

It seems pretty logical to me. Pretty harmless. A lot less offensive than constricting the free commerce and movements of gun owners.

And it’s worth noting that some political weasel in Nashville is proposing to constrict the free commerce of local restaurants that serve beer just to get back at us evil gun nuts.

Over 16% of income in this country comes from government.

Defend yourself in Jersey and become a felon.

Another bear sighting in Knoxville. Likely the same bear mentioned before.

ETA: looks like authorities found the bear and killed it, upsetting hippies every where.

Safety lesson

Another blogger’s secret identity has been revealed. Seems to happen regularly enough. Most outings occur out of spite as opposed to revealing something like their ulterior motives or motivation for their position or other information that could be valuable to a reader. I blog under a pseudonym because of the issue I address: gun rights. And my opponents are some of the most irrational (and often violent) people out there. And given the level of irrationality on the other side, why potentially make my professional life difficult? Who needs the hassle?

Insty says:

I think blogging anonymity is fine — though in the absence of a track record I tend to trust anonymous bloggers less

Rich:

If you don’t have the courage to stand for your convictions, then sit down and shut up.

Kevin:

There are two reasons to identify someone who writes pseudonymously: they claim to be someone they are not and the claim has an overwhelming bearing on the credibility of their writing or to bully someone.

While, as Kevin shows, there are instances in which outing someone serves a greater purpose then I don’t find it that objectionable. I mean, if someone thought that I was, say, the CEO of some big gun company that might have a bearing on my blog. But I’m not. I’m just some guy. Though it seems more people I run into know who I am any way.

Pennington misrepresents federal gun laws. How many pages of laws are there and how many pages of regulations interpreting those laws are there?

Perusing the lefty blogs and the newspapers (but I repeat myself), it seems as though they all think we’re all going to die on July 14 when the ordinance to allow, err, ordnance into places that serve alcohol goes into effect. Unfortunately, they’re in for disappointment because, like other states with such a measure, nothing is really going to happen. But still, it’s fun to see what they’re up to. Wendi Thomas, whose utter genius we’ve witnessed before, won’t eat where her fellow diners are packing heat. I am curious how she’s going to ensure that no one near her is strapped. Oh, she’s going to start a webpage that shows places that prohibit the law-abiding from carrying. Those places will be safe from the law-abiding and their money. I was going to track places that prohibit the law-abiding from eating there but the hippies are doing the work for me. Here’s the other of their efforts. In their latest, they’re all butthurt because someone in Seattle unlawfully brandished a weapon. If only unlawfully brandishing a weapon was unlawful, then we wouldn’t need to ban guns where there’s alcohol. Oh, wait.

Via Squeaky, who seems upset that Wendi and her big brain don’t want comments that shatter the worldview. Not sure why you’re upset. The only one reading them is us.

Meanwhile, here’s a non-hippie tracking of places that don’t want my money.

Mosin Nagant Pistol

Bling

An SKS manufacturer is being sued because someone accidentally killed themselves with an SKS.

Interesting:

Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the “warrior gene,” are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, according to a new study from The Florida State University that is the first to confirm an MAOA link specifically to gangs and guns.

Findings apply only to males. Girls with the same variant of the MAOA gene seem resistant to its potentially violent effects on gang membership and weapon use.

I find the tie in to guns odd as opposed to weapons in general. I imagine that using a weapon is part of being in a gang as a tool of being a gangster as opposed to a gene dictating gun ownership over, say, a stick.

No ceremonial weapons at the Naval Academy graduation?

Israel’s counter terror units in training

A good start

Police in NY ticket a car with a dead guy in it. For weeks.

A non-fatal error in the victim selection process.

Three Rivers Cornmeal is still going under but apparently White Lily is the same recipe. Some folks are upset:

I have two bags of Three Rivers cornmeal left. I’m going to bronze them for bookends.

Via Shane.

A lot of yammering from folks about the proposal in Nashville to use their authority to regulate beer as a means to ban weapons. In other words, the city says post a sign or we’ll yank your license. Two issues. One is that the proposal is probably illegal due to Tennessee’s preemption laws. The other is that the state would very likely step in and regulate beer, like it does wine and liquor. And who wants that?