Various guns used by Clint Eastwood.

Potential supreme court picks and their record on the second amendment.

EOTech’s webpage hacked?

One more hurdle, before a floor vote.

A nice piece on USPSA.

A look at states with the most and least gun sales.

Soap guns.

In PA:

The Luzerne County Sheriff’s Office has not been complying with a state mandate to notify gun owners when a license to carry a concealed weapon is about to expire, according to two state legislators.

Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana joining suit over the Firearms Freedom Act.

New version of iPhone OS looks to be merely catching up to Android.

With cuts in the police force, an Ohio judge is telling residents to arm themselves.

A bull gores you. So, after you recover, have him for dinner.

While the Chicago police super is having a presser to discuss a rash of killings, someone gets shot a few blocks away.

Stupak retiring.

I’ve said it before but SM would like more folks to remember that Fred Phelps and the Westboro wankers are a scam:

Please remember that Fred and his merry band of assholes have a legal team that is a branch of their church.

Their M.O. is to be as obnoxious as they can, while exercising their first amendment rights, all the while hoping to God that someone gives them what they deserve.

Then they sue the shit out of them. It’s that simple.

Murder, shootings on the rise in NY.

Cartridge confusion is bad.

U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit coaches wounded soldiers

No more carry permit backlog in Texas.

On the desk of AZ governor is a bill allowing carry without a permit.

On the desk in Iowa, shall-issue concealed carry.

More of the same.

Simplicity for guns. Depends. My ARs usually have an optic and some have flashlights.

My Rep:

more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.

Heh.

Do people stop for funeral processions anymore?

Sighting in your scoped rifle.

Alexandria police officer’s Glock exploded. Looks like, as a result, the department is getting some Sigs. Most kabooms are caused by ammo problems so I don’t quite get why they’d switch all guns.

Interesting note is that this original article referred to the weapons as 45 millimeter.

No, really.

Hurry up, Science. I need a bacon tree.

Via insty, comes seven disruptive foods that change the way we eat. I found it interesting that every banana we eat today is actually a clone of the same banana. But even more interesting is this:

What if meat didn’t have a brain attached to it? One imagines the guilt factor dropping lower, in addition to increasing efficiency. If science serves up a filet mignon that was grown in a filet mignon factory, it will require less water and other resources than the commensurate number of actual cows, in addition to staking the presumable moral high ground.

Non-sentient lab meat is not yet a reality for widespread human consumption, and growing a steak with longer strands of tissue presents greater difficulties than simulating ground meat. But the wheels are already in motion — witness the In Vitro Meat Consortium, In Vitro Meat Foundation, this FutureFood.org article, and researchers at universities and labs around the world.

Harvesting animals is expensive, time-consuming, has negative effects on the environment, and cow farts apparently cause global warming (like everything else). Probably a good idea. What say you?

I think such a development (presuming it was cost-effective) would lead to the extinction of the chicken.

ETA: Chickens are safe. I forgot about eggs.