Processors:

I have the brain power (for some tasks) exceeding the capacity of several earth-like planets complete sentient population at my disposal.

Hide an AR and a magazine or three in a picture frame.

Obviously compensating for the size of his penis, a wheelchair bound man kills a home invader.

Where Great Britain Used To Be, a man uses a cricket bat to defend his family from a home invasion. He gets 30 months in jail. The home invaders are walking the streets on parole.

Our cat has suddenly started sneezing and we think it’s allergies. Junior was obviously concerned about the cat sneezes since the cat is her most favorite thing ever. The cat starts sneezing and I overhear this conversation between Junior and the Mrs.:

Junior: Why is the cat sneezing so much?

The Mrs.: I think she’s allergic to something. Could be something new in the house.

Junior: The Elf on the Shelf is new in the house.

The Mrs.: He is new in the house.

Junior: And he goes back to the North Pole every night.

The Mrs.: Yes, he does.

Junior: The cat is allergic to the North Pole.

Squeaky:

how would you describe your success with concern to having children and guns in the same house?

Like this:

From Kids

I’ve told Junior that any time she ever wanted to go shooting, she just had to ask. And we’d drop whatever we were doing and go. So, there’s no need for her to handle a gun out of curiosity when I’m not around.

I’ve written about Kids and Guns quite a bit.

Rivrdog on caliber choice:

the gun you have with you will either save your life or not, depending mostly on how much you practice with it, and leastly on how big it is or how tactical it is.

Not panning out:

You will notice now that the Brady Campaign no longer gives states grades, and have rather decided just to rank order them. This is likely because they’ve only had real success in a small handful of states. By rank ordering, it can make it seem like the gun control movement has actually been more effective.

So, number 10 ranked PA comes in with a whopping score of 26/100. The press notices.

Keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch. Or you may find yourself checking into the appropriately named Gympie Hospital.

Via NewsAlert, comes this:

The Supreme Court has turned away a new challenge to a 2005 law that gives gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits by shooting victims.

The justices on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Hector Adames Jr. to revive his lawsuit against the Beretta U.S.A. Corp. over the accidental shooting death of his 13-year-old son.

Adames could sue the guy who left the gun laying around for kids to play with.

It also would probably help your case if you hadn’t just shot your wife in the neck.

That’s one of the problems with gun law cases. A lot of the defendants aren’t exactly Boy Scouts.

A look at The Firearm Blog

Dual Ma Deuce for sale

Been one year since Georgia passed a law allowing handgun carry on mass transit systems. Calls for blood in the street were made. But an odd thing happened: Homicides went from two to zero.

Non answer here.

Caleb debates Dennis Henigan. Video is here along with some of Caleb’s thoughts. SailorCurt shares his thoughts as well. I was rather surprised at Henigan’s talking points. I would have put them more in the area of a supposed right to know and parroting their line about Heller being good for gun control. Because they say that at every opportunity. Instead, he went on about the infinitesimally small number of permit holders who are discovered to have criminal records, despite passing background checks. I guess he doesn’t think background checks are doing their job.

Also, the host of that show seems to have done his homework too.

Anyway, good job, Caleb.

With some people, breast cancer isn’t important enough to bypass petty squabbles.

Remember when folks were wetting their pants because someone was auctioning a rifle to benefit breast cancer? Well, now that same mentality is targeting Sen. Joe Lieberman’s wife because he dares to question the wisdom of government run healthcare:

The liberal activists want to see Hadassah Lieberman booted from her position as “Global Ambassador” for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Komen for the Cure was the same cause guns were being auction for.

Comparing 22 pistols.

I pop in over at Tennessee Gun Owners Forums on occasion to see if there’s any Tennessee gun news I’ve missed. I head over there today and get this message:

It appears that you’ve exceeded the maximum number of posts that you may view as a guest. To unlock the forum and continue viewing messages, all you need to do is sign up for a free account.

Isn’t blocking access to content kinda counter productive to what you have a website for?

Apparently, quite a few democrats in Tennessee are quitting. Jumping ship before the inevitable pounding they’re about to take. The latest is Bart Gordon.

Meanwhile, feminists are shocked to learn what libertarians think of the 17th amendment.

The prettiest sawed off shotgun you’ll see today.

Remington 1100

Springfield 1911

Hero 15

In response to Obama giving himself a B+:

The really scary thing is that he’s suggesting there is very little room for improvement. In other words, this year was nearly a best-case scenario.

Looks like gun blogger Caleb will be getting his debate on at FoxNews:

Just got off the phone with the producer at Fox News. We are on for tomorrow morning, but the time has been moved to 6:20am. Set your DVRs or catch me live tomorrow morning on Fox and Friends at 6:20 Eastern time!

He’ll be debating The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s Dennis Henigan on newspapers publishing handgun carry permit data.

New for 2010 – Ruger’s SSCP 180 ACP:

From Gun Porn

Heh:

1,400 fps for a 20 grain hollow point bullet load were attained with a small rifle magnum primer and one medium size pop rock

Tomorrow, on Bill of Rights Day, David E. Young tells us his books, The Origin of the Second Amendment and The Founders’ View of the Right to Bear Arms: A Definitive History of the Second Amendment, will be on sale.

The Opti-Sight:

A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Vision Science Research Center investigator who also is an expert marksman has found a more intuitive way to aim a pistol.

Associate Professor Timothy Kraft, Ph.D., has developed a new gunsight design that relies on subconscious ability. Opti-sight, a UAB-protected innovation, updates a pistol-aiming device that has remained unchanged for more than a century. Opti-sight promises to reduce the time law enforcement, professional and amateur shooters need for target practice to improve marksmanship.

By now, you probably realize that I love my Droid. Via insty, it knocked iPhone out of top spot in Time Magazine’s Gadget of the Year.

Meanwhile, CNET calls it for the iPhone. You know, so long as you don’t need it to be a phone.

Also, I recently got Google Voice and it is amazing on the Droid. Here’s a handy how to.

And here’s a list of essential apps from gizmodo.

Hypnagogue emails:

Having been called every name in the book for arguing that kinetic energy matters, I suppose I should just leave it to the West Point professor of physics. Turns out pressure wave effects cause rapid incapacitation due to nerve trunk and brain injury above 500 fpe. Serious brain injury (concussion) is likely above 600 fpe.

Here’s the study he references. Quote:

Not all bullet impacts produce a pressure wave strong enough to cause neurological symptoms. The likelihood of a bullet impact remote from the brain leading to rapid incapacitation has been demonstrated to increase with the local pressure wave magnitude.

After trending downward to 40 year low, there’s an uptick in police gun deaths:

The number of officers killed in the line of duty by gunfire increased 24 percent from 2008, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a national nonprofit organization that tracks officer-related deaths.

As of Saturday, 47 police officers have died nationwide this year after being shot while on duty, up from 38 for the same time in 2008, which was the lowest number of gunfire deaths since 1956, according to the data.

Quote unnamed criminologist:

The availability of guns compounds the problem, criminologists say. But Pennsylvania, the state with the most gun-related officer deaths so far this year, has among the strictest gun laws in the country, according to a ranking by the pro-gun-control Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Other states, like Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kentucky, have very little oversight and had few, if any, officer gun deaths this year.

Kevin Morison, a spokesman for the Officers Memorial Fund, which keeps the statistics, said he sees people on both sides of the gun debate using the numbers to prove points.

“But folks who are willing to intentionally target police officers seem to be able to find a way to accrue guns regardless of what the laws in those state would be,” Morison said.

Wait. The AP just criticized the anti-gun position? Good. On the overall trend:

In 1973, during a heyday of corruption and crime, there were around 600,000 officers and about 156 gunfire deaths. Currently, there are about 900,000 law enforcement officers nationwide and only 47 gunfire deaths this year — a per-capita decrease of nearly 21 percent.

Despite the increase in the number of gunfire deaths from 2008, there have been fewer overall officer deaths so far this year: 117, compared with 125 last year, according to the statistics. The major reason is that traffic deaths are down 24 percent.

We’re winning

While anti-gunners, editorial boards (but I repeat myself) and the occasional Tennessee police chief were busy handwringing and bellyaching, the pro-gun team was busy winning:

It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.

A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the gun-related bills and put Tennessee at the forefront of a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns.

Well, one guy who lost his position (one Jimmy Naifeh) had been stalling gun bills for years. And the Year of the Gun went nationwide:

A nationwide review by The Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions.

Among other things, legislatures have allowed firearms to be carried in cars, made it illegal to ask job candidates whether they own a gun, and expanded agreements that make permits to carry handguns in one state valid in another.

The trend is attributed in large part to a push by the National Rifle Association. The NRA, which for years has blocked attempts in Washington to tighten firearms laws, has ramped up its efforts at the state level to chip away at gun restrictions.

The Knoxville News Sentinel has a handy little interactive map that shows the loosening of some gun laws. I notice it’s a bit odd that the map shows states that passed more gun control (like Cali and NJ) as No Changes.

Nashville Police Chief Ronal Serpas is all butthurt because our state legislators decided to expand gun rights in the state:

I take my hat off to the (National Rifle Association). “They represent a very small percentage of the population and look how much of the political debate they drive.

Sort related:

So, tonight, it occurred to me that I’m going to find some pro-gay piece of legislation and talk the sponsor into sticking some kind of guns-rights clause into it.

Two civil rights bills? Cool.