Snooping around my web album, I noticed the similarity between a pic I recently posted and one I posted a bit back. Now:

From Home Life

Then:

From Home Life

Lack of a kiddie pool aside, I thought the comparison was pretty neat.

Aunt B.’s dad:

The second I realized I recognized almost every name going into his cabinet, I knew it was going to be business as usual.

Yup.

Regarding this post, Michael Brings the funny:

Take out guns and I’d think the writer was talking about the Obama administration.

State to regulate large capacity dog breeders.

Remember how they said whites who wouldn’t vote for Obama were probably racist? Roger wants to know about the inverse.

After a bit of a lull, the Mexican Gun Canard is back. The LAT parrots the whole machine guns coming from gun shows thing, which is false.

Strategy page:

The U.S. Army has ordered 38.4 million rounds of .300 Winchester magnum ammunition for its newly modified M-24 sniper rifles, as well as similar SOCOMs Mk13 models. The new ammo will cost about $1.30 per round. The .300 Winchester magnum will be ordered in minimum lots of 56,160 rounds (117 boxes of 480 rounds each). The entire 38.4 million rounds will last a while.

Seems they want more range than the 308 but less weight than a 50.

Caleb asks a favor:

My father is entered into a contest on the Food Network, having to do with creating recipes using ingredients native to his home state of Washington.  He needs your votes though, so if you could click on this link right here and scroll and down to the video and then vote “Yes” if you like the recipe, it would be greatly appreciated.  You don’t have to buy anything or enter your email address, just click the link, scroll down to the video, and vote “yes”.

Busmaster ACR now the Remington ACR?

Steve confirms.

Richard Mann:

Does the slide-lock feature on semi-automatic handguns offer a tactical advantage or is it nothing more than an administrative function?

Both. It let’s me know I’m empty and it makes cleaning at the range easy. And showing clear.

The Firearm Blog has video of Yeager responding to criticism of the video where the photographer is down range at a training session.

ACK reminds us that TN politicos did not make handgun carry permit information private.

Clearly, she was just compensating for the size of her penis:

About a month ago, Audry Sauceda was carjacked and fought back.

He stuck a gun in my side and told me to get out of the car,” Sauceda said while sharing her story with FOX 13 on May 15. “And I pulled out my gun and stuck it in his face, and told him, he needed to get out. He screamed and jumped out of the car.”

Gun Nuts argue over 1911 v Glock, AR v. AK, 9mm v. 45, etc.

Now, they’re arguing over the material your holster is made of. Started with James, who said real men carry nylon. Ahab says:

The point is that cheap nylon holsters don’t hold the gun in a consistent location. For self defense or competition shooting, the butt of the gun needs to present in the same place every time, regardless of whether or not you’ve been moving around, getting in or out of a car, etc.

More from Tam.

Sebastian thinks everyone should calm down. I agree. Holster selection is a matter of preference and how much money you’re willing to spend. I have two spend holsters and three inexpensive holsters. Each serves a different purpose. I’ve spent more money on concealed carry holsters (Galco and CompTac) because they fit my style of carry. I have a cheap Uncle Mike’s nylon that I actually used at the GSSF shoot because it was easier to access than my CCW rig.

Les Jones on the story behind the subpoena for anonymous posters:

The case involved Robert Kahre, a Las Vegas businessman who paid his contract employees in gold and silver U.S. coins. The employees then paid taxes based on the face value of the coins, rather than their much greater worth as bullion. The difference can be considerable. A $50 U.S. gold coin contains one troy ounce of gold, which currently fetches over $900.

The IRS sued Kahre and some of his contract employees, essentially claiming that taxes should be based on the actual value of the coins, rather than their face value. Which tends to raise an obvious question. A $50 bill has a real value of essentially nothing since it’s only good for lining a bird cage, so can I get paid in $50 bills and not owe any taxes?

Over R. Neal’s repeat of Nate Rau’s fabrication, metulj comments:

These bills, though, aren’t about guns. They are about being authorities. Guns are just the vehicle for that authority. This authority manifests itself in being able to correct and discipline people who “misstate” simple facts and, now, all the way up to laws. It is very interesting to unpack this. Think about it: An ostensibly “anti-Statist” movement institutionalizes itself, takes over the State, makes laws, sets up its own education system, and begins distributing its power to others. It manifests itself as its own media (gun blogs), its own political entities (the gun lobby and its client politicians), its own schools (HCP permit classes, the PhD of the gun world), people see themselves as being able to police others (HCP “badge” holders), etc.

And we’re the paranoid ones! I don’t know that we police anyone. I think quite a bit of the pro-gun laws (from the good ones to the silly and pointless Firearms Freedom Act) were largely a snub at the former Democrat power structure in general. And specifically to Jimmy Naifeh, who used to kill the restaurant bill every year with procedural maneuvers. I think it’s a way to, politically, let them know who’s boss now. And law-abiding gun owners benefit. Pretty much, the rest of the legislative session has been a bit embarrassing.

With google down in our area, blogging is a problem. I tend to save things I want to blog about in Google reader. So, I forgot what I was gonna talk about.

Or is Google down?

State Court to Philly: Obey the law

I mentioned in this post that I emailed Mr. Smith. He has sent me his data. And his research does note states prohibit the carrying of arms in bars. And that includes Tennessee. As suspected, Rau’s report is misleading. A few issues:

The list includes statutes that ban carrying in bars. Tennessee does not define bars but the bill that passed does stipulate that the places have a kitchen and advertises meals. Some states do. For instance, in Texas, you can carry where alcohol is sold provided less than half of the revenue from the joint comes from alcohol. Also, the list contains Virginia. In VA, you cannot carry concealed at a bar but you can carry openly. It’s not really comparing apples to apples.

The list excludes all ‘may issue’ states except Hawaii. Some ‘may issue’ states (California, Alabama, for example) do not prohibit handgun carry permit holders from carrying where alcohol is served.

The list includes the ‘no issue’ states of Illinois & Wisconsin. And asserts a prohibition on carry in bars. Which is odd, since carry is illegal there.

So, when Rau asserts he is answering the question of:

So, do 37 other states have laws similar to the one Tennessee’s legislature passed this month allowing guns in establishments that serve alcohol?

He is wrong.

Data, as sent to me, below the fold.
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In this post here on alleged extensive legal research, Les comments:

The problem with the analysis Rau cites is that the analysis in no way matches the premise. Here’s the first paragraph of Rau’s article:

“So, do 37 other states have laws similar to the one Tennessee’s legislature passed this month allowing guns in establishments that serve alcohol?”

The analysis he cites only considers states that have shall-issue concealed carry permits.

Here’s why the analysis fails. There are states (like California) that are may-issue but that allow guns to be conceal carried in restaurants that serve alcohol. Likewise, there are states (like Montana) that allow guns in restaurants that serve alcohol if the guns are carried openly, rather than concealed.

Also, Pol says:

I have only looked at the laws that pertain to restaurants that serve alcohol, not bars, in other states, and there are 41 that currently allow carry. I would suspect that many of those states have ‘bars’ defines under law and prohibit carry there.

So, yeah, this story is almost certainly bogus.

Nate Rau says he brings the truth about the claim that 40 states do not prohibit guns where alcohol is served:

Based on extensive legal research conducted by Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith of the local firm Smith and Schmidt, the actual figure is nearly the inverse.

I’d love to see the research because my extensive research (which consists of googling) confirms 41. I scanned a few states for relative statutes and for those I checked, that source was right. Generally, criminal codes are written to prohibit something. He is correct that Tennessee law is unusual in that it explicitly allows carry instead of just not prohibiting it. I would have thought the solution would have just been repeal of existing law, which most states have done. As to the research:

There ARE 37 states according to Smith that have laws mandating the issuance of concealed weapons permits. But of those 37 states, 27 explicitly prohibit guns in places where alcohol is served.

In fact, there are only 15 states in the country which have circumstances remotely similar to the one Tennessee will be in on July 14 when the law goes into effect. Those states issue concealed weapons permits, but do not explicitly ban guns in places serving alcohol. They also preempt local governments from regulating firearms.

In effect, a person with a handgun in a bar in any of those 15 states is not committing a criminal act. But Tennessee’s new law goes one step further than that. It is the first state in the entire country to expressly allow handguns in places that serve alcohol.

I’d love to see this alleged extensive legal research. Because it is not consistent with anything I have read on the issue. I wonder if it’s because of how states define bars and carry. For example, in Texas, you cannot carry in a place where half the revenue comes from alcohol sales. But going strapped in Applebee’s is OK. Another example is Virginia, where it is unlawful to carry a concealed firearm where alcohol is served. But you can carry one one if you do not conceal it. I wonder which column those two states show up in.

Anyway, the extensive legal research sounds made up to me. Or at least heavily spun.

But I’d love to see it.

Via ACK

Update: Email sent to Mr. Smith:

I read the bit at the City Paper on your research. I would love to see it. May I get copy?

Regards

On Beale street, the property owners are prohibiting law-abiding handgun carry permit holders from carrying there.

Obama abandoned they gays, after he got their money and votes. Their growing discontent lead to him extending benefits to same sex couples that are federal employees.

Celebrating international disarmament.

Five years ago now, I was at the hospital with the Mrs. I was nervously pacing and carrying on. And we’d already been there for several hours. The Mrs. was hooked up to an IV. And we were many hours away from one of the happiest moments of our lives.

Happy birthday, Junior.

Wow, it’s been five years. I can’t recall a time when she wasn’t here.

With handy video.

I mentioned in my review of the MTAC that I had a bit of an issue with it. Well, they sent me another and, as you can see, the magazine disconnect issue has be fixed:

From Gun Porn

They even sent me a cool hat. I highly recommend Comp-Tac. Their product and customer service are excellent. Other people are digging them too.

In Maine: 77 year old woman with concealed handgun permit “escorts armed intruder from home at gunpoint”

A black man in Iowa checks out the gun culture.