Happy birthday (belated) to Rusty.

Guav: BrokeNCYDE is what happens when freaks and geeks don’t get beaten up in high school.

That was awful and I couldn’t make it past about 30 seconds.

Todd Jarrett on pistol shooting:

Not look anachronistic at some shoots.

A look at why the the bill did not pass:

It seems gun lobbyists and the Republican Party realized that, if the records were closed, they, too, would no longer be able to use the database, which was valuable for marketing and fund-raising.

Remember we mentioned the multi-tool designed for the AR-15? Well, you can win one at ar15.com.

I was unaware that there was also such a tool for the 1911.

Meanwhile, the Glock multi-tool is here. Or you can go grab stick.

Pimped out guns.

Magpul ranger floor plates

Junk holsters are worthless. But my experience is that cheap does not always equal junk.

Man finds an heirloom that is short-barreled. Sends it to ATF for determination. ATF classifies it as a C&R firearm, making its possession lawful. See letter here.

Good. And not the first time either.

In a bit of irony, Jeff Woods thinks that perhaps sensitivity training would help curtail some bigotry. Yes, he writes for this alt weakly. Misspelling intentional.

A look at the census.

In Ireland, they’re looking at making it illegal:

Mr Ahern said he was determined to stamp out a practice known as “practical shooting”. His department had monitored with concern “competitions in which people shoot their way through multi-stage target courses based on real life combat scenarios, such as a home invasion or a hostage rescue”.

He said: “This activity is one that seeks to glorify and normalise attitudes to high-powered handguns and promote their use and ownership,” he said. Mr Ahern said “practical shooting” was a “highly undesirable” recent development in Irish shooting sports.

Bitter says not to write the press off so readily. I know, it’s hard since they do, basically, take dictation from the anti-gun groups. But you do find the occasional gem in the pile.

While the Commercial Squeal laments The Year of the Gun, WizardPC tracks the progress we pro-gun folks have made in Tennessee.

Now, it’s the Jamaican Gun Canard. It’s much more exotic than the Mexican Gun Canard.

Gunblogger interviewed by local paper.

Rich:

I just acquired a new bare bones, nothing special, 12 gauge Mossberg 500.

Now I want to kick it up a bit. Stocks, lights, pistol grips, whatever. I’m not really interested in lasers or major optics because, well it’s a shotgun. Effective firepower without supreme accuracy is kinda the point.

I would check out Les Jones’ post on tactical shotguns.

I’d heard various talk of this on various gun boards and such but didn’t put much into it. Now, NRA is reporting:

NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In some cases, agents have asked to enter these people’s homes, and requested serial numbers of all firearms the members possess.

In each case, the agents were making inquiries based on the number of firearms these NRA members had recently bought, and in some cases the agents said they were asking because the members had bought types of guns that are frequently recovered in Mexico.

Looks like they’re chasing down folks through ATF Form 3310.4. NRA’s ILA is asking you to call them if you are contact in such a way.

Remember, he was just compensating for the size of his penis. Not for the fact that a 70 year old may have a tough time physically fighting a 17 year old.

Dave opines on the holster dust up. And reviews Tucker Gun Leather’s The Answer.

STI with cool custom grips. I thought I linked this yesterday but I experienced a failure in copying and pasting.

Video of the Beretta ARX 160.

Colt Army Special.

But remember, there’s no need for a gun in park:

A popular Great Smoky Mountains National Park trail has closed for the second time this month due to bear sightings.

And this is funny.

A look at the sacrifice to the gods of racial politics.

Lamar on my money:

“The audit? It’s a bad idea,” said Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, head of the Republican Conference in the Senate. “It’s a sorry day when the Congress superimposes itself on the Fed, nosing around in monetary policy. It’s bad enough we are nosing around with the car companies.”

No, it’s a sorry day when the guys who represent me don’t care about overseeing my money.

Dave:

The loudest sound you will ever hear is a click when you expect a bang (or a bang when you expect a click).

STI custom grips!

Tokarev.

Suppressed 5.56 carbines.

Siphoning gas with a shop vac is a bad idea.

Just the other day at lunch, I was mentioning how we hadn’t seen any coyotes since I capped the last one about two years ago. This morning, my wife said she saw another.

And an affirmative defense.

In Arizona, a push for Vermont and Alaska style carry.