You’d think: With gun prices so high, surely Mexican criminals are looking elsewhere.

Re-usable reactive targets.

In Knoxville, a man walked right through a restraining order and shot two people. You can’t have a gun when you’re subject to an order of protection.

The silly restaurant lawsuit failed to get an injunction from the court:

Temporary injunctions denied. But judge thinks the case needs to be heard in full. Constitutional clarity of law needs to be examined.

The suit will also likely fail when heard in full, according to every lawyer I’ve discussed the issue with. So, tomorrow, looks like carry will be allowed in restaurants that serve alcohol.

Starts today. Kasey Dread (one of the lawyer’s wives) is twittering it.

Cops catch more criminals with guns. Tennessean blames it on legal gun purchases and carry laws that haven’t gone into effect yet.

A report on Tennessee’s handgun carry permits by the Department of Safety.

I found this interesting:

The average time it took to obtain an original Tennessee handgun carry permit days. For a renewal it was 90.22 days, and for a duplicate it was 29.10 days. took an average of 69.47 days to obtain a Tennessee handgun carry permit.

IIRC, they are mandated by law to issue a permit within 90 days. I do not know that they are required to renew one that quickly.

And it looks like the HCP program made almost $1.4M this year.

TN Governor Bredesen May 2009:

to carry a concealed weapon into a crowded bar at midnight on a Saturday night defies common sense.

Guns and alcohol don’t mix

He vetoed the bill that allowed those with handgun carry permits to carry in places that serve alcohol as long as they didn’t drink. But last week, he signed into law a bill that allows off duty police to carry concealed weapons into places that serve alcohol. I guess police have magical powers to ward off booze that they kept trying to tell us permit holders would drink while carrying, even though that’s still illegal.

Also, note the press coverage. When it’s for police they refer to establishments that serve alcohol. When it’s for handgun carry permit holders, they’re all bars.

Sebastian notes the difference between what Zumbo said and what Jan Libourel said. And tells us why it’s different. The trouble is that to someone with the mental faculties and whatever mental condition that Sugarmann has is that there isn’t a difference. He just wants to create a conflict.

GLOCK Reports 71% Quarterly Earnings Jump

A look at crossbow hunting in PA.

A Congressional Research Service’s report on the M4 and switching to a piston system, like the FN SCAR.

A push for age limits on private sales of firearms.

Realtors carrying guns.

Preemption coming: Murfreesboro, Clarksville outlaw guns in parks

Ireland effectively bans handguns because, apparently, people wanted to buy them.

Murdoc has the skinny

Breda reports that a guy who was arrested for failing to tell the police he had a concealed weapon has been cleared. Seems he got out of the car, had a gun pointed at him, and in the 51 seconds it took them to arrest him; he kinda forgot to mention it. 51 seconds?

Looks like there’s a bill to establish that. The Violence Policy Center is not amused. But they are amusing.

No, Tom, it was not the Year of the Gun. It was the year Naifeh lost power.

You should not put a vertical forward grip on your Glock for a couple of reasons. One is that ATF considers it an Any Other Weapon subject to NFA rules. And two, the grip my come off causing you to shoot yourself in the hand (with video).

Obama’s science guy is scary.

Stacks of guns and a report

Marlin 336

I like the new cat. But they are exactly unlike dogs. A couple of examples:

If you cover a dog (head and all) in a blanket, it will fight like mad to get out. Even if it has to hit its head on the coffee table a couple of times to do that. A cat will just lay down and go to sleep.

If you point at something, the dog will look where you’re pointing. If you point at something, the cat will sniff your finger.

Ed Friedman:

Rwanda is in a back-slapping mood today after it was commended by a United Nations body for its efforts in combating small arms trafficking. One Rwandan official even said: “As a country we suffered in 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi partly because of small arms and light weapons, that is why Rwanda is now at the forefront of the fight, and I hope other countries can learn from what we are doing.”

This woman must be quite young, as her memory seems to fade around 1995. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide was committed almost entirely with machetes, not firearms.

A piece on Ronnie Barrett being elected to the NRA board of directors. I met him briefly at the NRA convention a couple years ago. Nice guy. And I like that he won’t sell his weapons to California law-enforcement since they pushed to have his weapons banned.

Seen at Marko’s:

Massachusetts has a mandatory seatbelt use law.

Massachusetts has a 67% seatbelt use rate.

New Hampshire has no mandatory seat belt law for adults.

New Hampshire has a 69% seatbelt use rate.

Good:

A federal judge in June threw out seizure of three fake passports from a traveler, saying that TSA screeners violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. Congress authorizes TSA to search travelers for weapons and explosives; beyond that, the agency is overstepping its bounds, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley said.

Clinton initiated keeping guns out of public housing as part of staying there, even making residents give up fourth amendment rights. Now, it looks like Congress is stepping in to allow guns.

America, Fuck Yeah:

The 2009 Small Arms Survey reported that the Untied States alone was responsible for about half of the worldwide increase in legal international gun sales between 2000 and 2006. The U.S. now accounts for over half of the world’s imports of pistols and revolvers and 45 percent of shotguns, it said.

Seems that Barack Obama’s new president smell has kinda worn off and people aren’t so happy any more. Heck, the guy lost Greenwald and Rall among others. Jon Stewart is making fun of him. And left leaning bloggers have categories about the hopey changey.

Hi Point to donate carbine to GBR4!