From Subguns, the legalities of a patch catcher. Made to allow easy clean up of patches and solvents. But can attach a bottle to a gun barrel.

Jesse Fox Mayshark to return to Knoxville’s alt weekly.

Day 3 in pics

CTD’s recap

The most expensive gun at SHOT

Turns out, they actually amplify signals. I think MIT got it wrong. You’re supposed to use two layers with the shiny side out.

The P250 to have a manual safety?

Five memes destroyed by Brown’s victory:

The GOP is just a regional party that’s limited to the south.

And a poll

Mentioned before SI Defense lowers that were a helluva deal and my initial impressions were that it was a fine lower. After assembling one last night, I still say they are fine lowers. Fit was nice. Installing the lower parts was a snap.

Highly recommended, though I doubt they’ll be selling them for $50 again, since they’re out of stock and back ordered.

ATF solving crimes by committing them:

Undercover ATF agents in Virginia have funneled more than 250 million cigarettes onto the nation’s streets in the past three years through black market sales targeting smugglers, an Associated Press review has found.

Authorities say the flood of government-provided smokes – a pack and a half for every man, woman and child in New York City, the smugglers’ main destination – leads them to organized crime rings and can even cut off financing for terrorists.

With bonus guns on trains!

Police One:

An Amtrak police officer has sued the national rail corporation, claiming it’s liable for an incident in which a woman was able to grab his gun and shoot him in the foot.

[…]

Police and witnesses interviewed by the Daily News at the time of the incident said a 30-year-old woman, who appeared to be homeless, began arguing with McDonald’s employees about 11 a.m. when they refused to refill her coffee.

When Bullard tried to remove the woman from the restaurant, she grabbed his gun from his holster and shot him in the left foot.

FBI Flyer for gun shops on identifying terrorists?

Rich came by last night and we assembled his AR. Here’s his pretty funny list of Things You Need to Know Before Assembling an AR-15.

While I have put together several ARs, last night’s gave me trouble because 1) I hadn’t done it in a while and 2) the revised instructions at AR15.com suck. I usually get the instructions because, while I can probably assemble it from memory, there are some things that have to be done in order (for instance, putting on the stock before the selector switch would be bad). Any way, far superior instructions on the build are here. Any way, we got it done despite me launching the buffer retainer three times, eventually losing it. Fortunately, I had a replacement:

HK replaces Sig in Navy contract.

Open carry events on the rise in the bay area.

Magazines with a counter

A bunch of new stuff from Thompson

Dan Wesson 1911

Chiappa Rhino Revolvers

I was starting to wonder where the booth babe posts were this year. Here’s one.

Heh

PDB not a fan of the Bren Ten. Or the round it shoots.

Tam not a fan of the gun either.

A buddy of mine was a 10MM fan boy long before it was cool to be one. He had a few Glocks and Delta Elites in them and went back and forth on gun choice. But he loaded his own so they were of the proper configuration. And they were painful to shoot. The off the shelf stuff doesn’t have the same oomph.

Curt has a report.

Meanwhile, good guys outnumber bad guys 100:1.

Ouch: Mayors Against Guns..But Not Fraud, Bribes, Kickbacks…

Good luck with that:

Public Citizen will aggressively work in support of a constitutional amendment specifying that for-profit corporations are not entitled to First Amendment protections, except for freedom of the press.

On 9/11: If they can make Avatar, they can make anything

Not some Truther. But the former PM of Malaysia.

Cam Edwards:

Air America has gone kaput… Not that anyone will notice besides the employees and media geeks like me.

Lots of photos at Packing Rat.

Pics from arfcom

Rock River Arms pistol and piston ARs.

CTD rounds up day 3

Ayoob on day 3

Suit over the bill going to court in Montana.

Now, NH is pushing a similar act. This one also exempts guns from federal taxes.

If you’re going to go get upset about potentially being labeled a domestic terrorist, you should probably refrain from getting arrested for raping seven year-olds. Or people might think that label applies. And maybe you ought to not have a likely unregistered stolen M-203 and traces of explosives when the police show up.

This guy was reportedly active in Oath Keepers and Crooks and Liars tried to assert he’s a Tea Party leader and Oath Keeper leader. I decided to check. A search of the Oath Keeper site however reveals no content for Dyer nor July4Patriot. Ditto for Google results.

But it looks like someone is in CYA mode because Google has a few references to this guy and Oath Keepers. But only as a member and speaker. But they’re scrubbing references from their site.

And some folks are already screaming he was framed.

IDF guys seem nonplussed about their Jesus rifles. Something in Jules Winnfield if you’re out of Psalms.

So says Navy Times:

A company under fire for etching biblical reference on rifle scopes used by the U.S. military said Thursday it will stop the practice, and offered to provide modification kits to the Pentagon to enable their removal on existing optics.

Guess those ‘Jesus Rifles’ will be collectors items. Via Robert.

Supreme court rules that you can put your money where your mouth is:

In a stunning reversal of the nation’s federal campaign finance laws, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that as an exercise of free speech, corporations, labor unions and other groups can directly spend on political campaigns.

Siding with filmmakers of “Hillary: The Movie,” who were challenged by the Federal Election Commission on their sources of cash to pay for the film, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that banned corporate and labor money. The decision threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.

The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.

Shocker: Liberal side comes down against free speech: Dissenters included Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

Muslims angry over Jesus rifles. They still to refer to the inscription as secret, even though it’s not a secret. Also, the Army will investigate if Trijicon violated army procurement regs. Err, guys, been there a while and you’ve had them for years.

And layers of editorial oversight: telescoping sights

Err, yeah.

Liberals and guns:

In the city’s attempt to preserve its weapons ban, it proves too much, essentially urging the Supreme Court to find that protection of the Bill of Rights and other fundamental liberties against state infringement has no basis in constitutional text or history, and is instead achieved solely by judicial implication. To make matters worse, Chicago’s brief makes common cause with precedent that has been properly labeled by civil rights leaders as “among the most misdirected in the history of the Court” and celebrates a post-Civil War Court that looked the other way while Jim Crow perpetuated decades of discrimination and violent rights suppression. Accordingly, even gun-control advocates, who might otherwise support the city’s argument in this case, should think twice about selling out substantive rights protection in order to protect gun laws

HT to Reason