They are smarter than you. Everyone knows that but you.

Granny, get in your free speech zone.

Link fixed. I suck at the internet.

NSSF has some numbers on the Economic impact of the firearms industry.

Headline: Driver Accidentally Killed By Lebanon Officer

But the article:

With a weapon drawn, police said McKinnley went into the ditch toward the car, slipped and accidentally discharged his weapon.

McDannald said he saw McKinley hit the ground and the gun discharge and thought Thompson had shot McKinnley.

McDannald then returned fire and shot Thompson multiple times, killing him. Neighbors said they awoke when they heard about 15 gunshots.

How the holy Hell, excepting that your carry rig is a G.E. Mini-gun, do you accidentally shoot someone 15 times?

Assuming you’re a guy and kinda geeky

A Slave Leia Bikini Carwash For Charity

David:

Anticipating a setback for Chicago’s draconian gun ban when the Supreme Court decides on the McDonald case, Mayor Richard Daley is showing his desperation—and how far he will go to enforce his will on those of us who will not bend to it.

And:

The Illinois Senate unanimously agreed to make unlawful use of a weapon a non-probationable offense — punishable by one to three years in prison — whenever the offender carries a loaded weapon and has no valid Firearms Owners Identification (FOID) card.

Definitely the latter. Self-defense does not make one a vigilante. Also, I found this interesting:

Harry McCullough could still face a misdemeanor charge for carrying a concealed weapon.

Douglas County Attorney, Don Kleine has already said Harry McCullough won’t face criminal charges for shooting Marquail Thomas to death in the Walgreens Monday night. City officials are now deciding if he should be cited for carrying a hidden gun, when he only has a permit to carry his gun in plain sight.

City officials say they will decide by Friday if McCullough will be cited for the misdemeanor.

Robber goes into a restaurant. Someone thinks his gun looks fake. So, they grab it. And it was fake.

I can’t sell my organs. But some idiots in NY are proposing that the state gets to divvy up your organs when you kick the bucket.

CMP rifles have to go through an FFL.

What the most commented on posts to this site were. Well, the top 5 are:

A round up of Chai Vang

Me v. a trans-gendered bigot who complains about bigots

#9 asks: Are Global Warming Skeptics Criminal?

Me, birds, threepers, and douchebags!

The only highly commented post that’s about guns: What gun controls will you crazy gun nuts support?.

why is the .38 Special only .357 in diameter?

This is my shocked face.

From Rivrdog. Keep scrolling down.

Interesting design. And engraved.

Because who doesn’t want a 23 round shotgun?

This is awesome. Via Robb.

Night vision coming to glasses, cell phones.

In comments, some disagreement on the nature of what the bill does. A few things:

It relies on rather broad police discretion with regards to contact. The rules regarding such lawful contact change at whim.

My issue is more with the problems of the law’s application not the actual meat of the law (except that whole carry your papers thing).

And, I think, most agree we need a better and easier means of lawful immigration.

Psychopaths use knives instead.

A review of Jerry Miculek Practical Rifle DVD.

I’m a fan as well.

Carry permit holders comply with law in overwhelming numbers.

Papers please.

So, about that immigration bill. One of the dumber ideas out there. It requires police to verify the citizenship of those they have reasonable suspicion to believe are illegal immigrants. In other words, if you look Mexican, they might ask you for your papers. And police can be sued for not enforcing the law.

Sure, illegal immigration may be a problem. But randomly harassing people is not the best solution to that problem.

From Face Book:

GLOCK, Inc. announced today that the company experienced record sales in the 2010 fiscal year

While keeping their prices stable, GLOCK, Inc. has enjoyed not only growth in their earnings, but has also gained market share.

Hugo Chavez is looking to take the destruction of capitalism to Al Gore’s internets, using that fancy new social media thing.

Knoxvillians suing over red light cameras.

Ponderous:

An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the federal government couldn’t recall many details of the two-year probe yesterday during questioning by defense lawyers.

Even the judge who must decide whether to release the nine until trial was puzzled.

“I share the frustrations of the defense team … that she doesn’t know anything,” U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said after agent Leslie Larsen confessed she hadn’t reviewed her notes recently and couldn’t remember specific details of the case.

Judge Roberts is hearing an appeal of another judge’s order that has kept members of so-called Hutaree militia in jail since their arrest in late March.

Short on details for a bunch of press that scared a lot of people.

Mayor Daley wants to take gun manufacturers to world court:

Six years after the state Supreme Court dismissed his $433 million lawsuit against the gun industry, Mayor Daley today called for a change of venue — to the World Court normally reserved for disputes between nations and crimes against humanity.

Wrapping up the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum, Daley convinced more than a dozen of his counterparts from around the world to approve a resolution urging “redress against the gun industry through the courts of the world” in The Hague.

“This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America. … We don’t want those anymore because guns kill and injure people,’ ” Daley told a news conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Kopel looks at what that court actually does.

In other suing gun industry news, a case in NY:

The handgun industry appeared in a Buffalo courtroom Monday, arguing it cannot be held responsible for the gun violence that severely wounded Buffalo teenager Daniel “Bud” Williams in 2003.

In a case that could have broad implications regarding the industry’s liability over illegal handguns, attorneys representing those who manufactured, distributed and initially sold the gun used to shoot Williams asked Supreme Court Justice Frederick J. Marshall to dismiss the lawsuit filed by William and his father, Eddie.

A judge in Chattanooga says that’s what we need. I have an idea. If you shoot someone, you go to jail for a very long time.

The governor kills a coyote messing with his dog. Looks like he carries a Ruger LCP with a Crimson Trace Laser.