The G36

Pics from Appleseed.

Pics from the Whittington Center.

A gun used to kill a policeman had been stolen from another policeman.

Bring your gun to church day.

Another gun poll

The paper in The City (My The City) has a poll:

Will you feel safer in bars and restaurants now that the guns bill has passed?

Well, I’ll really feel the same. HT to linoge.

Michigan State Police police say the Gamo Whisper (an air rifle with a built in suppressor) is illegal.

I’m really digging the new search engine Bing.

SafeRestaurantsTennessee:

The purpose of this blog is simple: we are creating a list of restaurants in Tennessee that prohibits weapons on their premises for anyone not in law enforcement. I believe, as the majority of Tennesseans do, that no one should carry a gun into a restaurant or bar unless one is a member of law enforcement.

Safe from the law-abiding and their money. A list of establishments to not patronize. Here’s a few to add.

I mentioned I got a set of LaserGrips for my Kel-Tec P3AT. Well, I really dig the Crimson Trace Laser Grips. I finally managed to get the package to the range. After I made some minor adjustments (literally, two turns of the wrench), I shot the group below at ten yards (I was aiming at the center of the 7 box):

From Gun Porn

Sorry for the picture quality. Taken with a Blackberry. I don’t even know why they put a flash on it.

Definitely minute of bad guy accuracy. Also, managed to get the revamped 10/22 out to the range. More later.

No, we can’t.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is focusing its resources to hold on to what it has. Not much focus on advancing to other areas. I mean, their Nashville division was hard at work on the guns in bars bill. Oh, wait. They don’t have one.

We Win, They Lose. Now, Let’s Get To Work

SoBe yammers on about those darn ‘anti-choicers’ wanting to impose their will on others all the time. Which is funny, because the new guns in bars bill allows restaurants the opportunity to make a choice. She only wants them to make the choices she’s cool with though. She’s none too keen on the bill that gives restaurateurs a choice to allow the lawful carry of concealed weapons on their property instead of the state dictating what otherwise lawful activities can occur on private property. I thought ‘anti-choice’ was bad?

Obama administration looking at a war on knives?

Via SIH.

Apparently, this site ranks in the top 200 on some blog ranking service. Via SIH.

Yesterday, we noted how they destroyed property and demonstrated their inability to spell. Now, they’re vandalizing signs in Illinois too.

And, of course, now that Tennessee has passed the guns in restaurants bills, the idiots have come out:

I can’t wait til the first person gets murdered by this. Maybe then all these hillbillies will realize how dumb this is. I know I will donate heavily to anyone who opposes Doug Jackson and Stacy Campfield next election.

More samples there.

Voting with Dollars. Cue accusations of intimidation.

From this article:

This is not a right-to-bear arms issue. It’s about creating a problem for businesses when there was not one before

The only problem is that you have to put up a sign to prohibit it. You’ve been given a choice instead of the state dictating what you can and cannot do.

I suppose that someone should start a list of restaurants that will prohibit the lawful carrying of arms at their establishment. That way, you don’t waste your time or money going there and then noticing their sign:

Neely’s BBQ – source.

Cabana Nashville – source

Paradise Park – source

Sunset Grill – source. Note to the owner: your current sign does not abide by Tennessee Code Annotated.

Rooster’s Bar and Grill – source.

Wild Wing Cafe – source.

Jimmy’s Original Southern Pub is a maybe – source.

Midtown Cafe – source

More as I get them. Feel free to send me more with an appropriate cite. Or leave them in comments.

Mad Rocket Scientist:

Most of the restrictions we bear on the rights we enjoy follow this model. Slander, libel, incitement to violence, etc. are all illegal and represent an abuse of a right, but there is no physical mechanism to prevent a person from commiting such an abuse. Similar rules exist for firearms and weapons, and basically fall under the idea that the brandishment or use of a weapon except in defense of self or others is the abuse of the right, and a person found guilty of such an action will suffer the consequences.

Meanwhile, Nashville is looking to use some oddity in the liquor laws to prohibit carrying arms in bars there. The proposed ordinance can be found here.

Another gun found on a plane. I love the icon there, brilliant.

Dan Seitz in a bit called 7 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Modifications to Deadly Weapons:

It appears that the AR-15 is kind of the gun-dweeb’s version of Linux: All kinds of modifications can be made to it, but most of them make about as much sense as tying your dick to a roller skate. The AR-15 also happens to be a semi-automatic rifle, which, by the way, is what we invented specifically so we wouldn’t have to use crossbows any more.

As a gun dweeb, I concur.

Ahab on the sports part of the shooting sports.

Michael Bane reports that La Quinta Inn will whack your internet connection if you read gun blogs.

Tam on TN’s guns in bars bill:

Now Tennesseans can look forward to the same kind of blood-soaked carnage I have to face every time I go to the Broad Ripple Brew Pub. Which is to say “none at all”. (And Indiana doesn’t even care if you tip back a few wet ones while you’re packing, so long as you don’t go ventilating passersby with your hogleg.)

Just like the other 40 or states that have no such prohibition.

The AP: Tourette’s most common in white kids, boys, cocksuckers.

Armed School Teacher gets a full sized 45 through an airport metal detector. Oops.

Remember last month we talked about the student who couldn’t start a chapter of SCCC on her campus? Well, the story is making the news now.

CZ Skorpion EVO III

Some blades from Blackhawk.

Taurus Judge, with video.

Derringer

At the Commercial Squeal: With the guns-in-restaurants bill about to become law, will you look for restaurants that don’t allow guns?

R. Neal ponders why the 40 day wait for guns in restaurants. No, not biblical or due to Bastille Day. It’s in the constitution.

The style of the laws of this state shall be, “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee.” No law of a general nature shall take effect until forty days after its passage unless the same or the caption thereof shall state that the public welfare requires that it should take effect sooner.

Oddly, the bill stipulates June 1 and it is captioned that the public welfare requires it. But I suppose the veto complicated that. Anyway, I think one would have a defense from prosecution but I’d err on the side of not going to jail. So, I’d wait the 40 days if I were you.

ETA: But it does give business owners who choose to do so ample time to put up signs to prohibit carrying that comply with Tennessee law.

As of today, Bill Hobbs is no longer the Communications Director at the Tennessee Republican Party new party chairman Chris Devaney tells Post Politics.

Seen at ACK’s:

Dread asserts that according to Tennessee Codes Annotated section 57-5-106(a) that Metro Nashville can pass an ordinance instructing its Beer Board not to grant licenses to establishments that serve beer and allow guns. Establishments serving only wine and/or liquor would be safe because they are state regulated.

Sounds like a good way to get the state involved in preempting beer regulations.