Julie Golob’s S&W M&P

It’s OK for conservative sorts to be anti-interventionist again.

I would call the bird hunt a success. Enough dove for a family meal. Sore shoulder and I know own far fewer shotgun shells than I owned yesterday morning. Birds are fast. For speed, I’ve almost decided a bird gun needs an EOTech. Almost. Took me a while to get into the groove. And I was not happy with my shooting.

Two major newspapers and one gets it right.

Come and take it.

N.Y. couple charged after posing kids with guns. Well, and they had some marijuana and are being charged with weapons violations. Seems they emailed the pics around and someone called child services. Posting pics of kids with guns with guns is a crime? Well, come get me.

From Sig:

Purchase a new SIG SAUER® P220®, P226®, P229®, 1911, SIG556 pistol, or SIG556 rifle from your dealer’s inventory from September 7th through November 30th, 2009, and SIG SAUER will give you $200.00 for your old KLUNKER* pistol or revolver.

LaserLyte NAA-1 Red Laser for North American Arms .22 Revolvers

Be sure of your target and what’s behind it:

State police have charged a self-proclaimed Civil War buff with accidentally firing a 2-pound cannon ball through the wall of a neighbor’s home.

I see, now, why it’s on the decline.

I’m going hunting tomorrow for the first time in about 15 years. Gonna go shoot some dove. Never been much of a hunter but it’s a good opportunity to spend some quality time with Dad (hi, dad). Today, I purchased a license ($30), shells ($24), a vest since I can’t find mine ($22), lease of the land ($30), and Dad says I should really pick up another 100 shells ($24). I guess he lacks respect for my shotgun ability. So, $130 for a one day trip that might net 15 birds. $8.67 per bird. Good thing Dad’s loaning me a shotgun.

That aside, should be fun. Any day spent shooting is fun. Any day spent with Dad is fun. Both together should be pretty damn cool.

ETA couple more things: As a resident, TN doesn’t have one day licenses for me. Odd. The license is $28 and $2 for migratory birds. I guess all birds are migratory.

A fishhook in the earlobe really hurts. Moving stuff in the garage and a rod fell. Ouch.

Mentioned here, Chad comments:

As a guy who lives hand to mouth, I don’t have the resources to sue. If you know of an attorney, feel free to send him on over. I don’t mind going after them. I do mind neglecting work and family responsibilities.

So any help is appreciated.

Katherine Mangu-Ward: GMail Goes Down for an Hour and a Half: There Oughta Be a Law!

Seriously, some tech guy at business week suggested the outage be investigated. Wow.

Insight Tech Gear gets into the red dot sight game with the MRDS.

Anyone know where I can get one of those pocket-size assault weapons?

The nanny in your car took a long time to get there. But there she is.

Carried by the people using the parks to grow marijuana.

What round for depantsed giant?

Hunter getting death threats?

Impeccable logic

Machine gun video

Sig 220

Lots of pics

Franken AR

Tom Selleck’s 1911

And other unusual items confiscated by the state of California.

Some idiot in Knoxville decides to pull a gun on another driver. The problem with her plan was the other driver was an off duty police officer. The woman had a handgun carry permit. The local paper asked hard hitting questions like if the incident might have been caused by road rage. Gee, ya think?

Or mangy dog?

The Rep:

Today, September 3 at 5:00 p.m., the Knoxville City Council will consider an ordinance that, if passed would remove a long-time ban on the possession of firearms within city parks.

The meeting will be held at the City County Building located at 400 Main St. in Knoxville. You can also contact your city leaders Mayor Bill Haslam at (865) 215-2040 and the City Council Members at (865) 215-2075 and voice your thoughts of this resolution and effort to allow you your right to self-defense in local parks.

People mishandling firearms put their pictures on the interwebs.

MKS reports that Blount County schools have a new policy that states that the press shall not bring cameras to board meetings without the consent of the executive committee.

Awesome:

From Stuff

From GunTrustLawyer.

Sebastian reviews the Fenix LD10.

My past flashlight blogging is here.