Colt before and after

Steyer AUG in 9mm

Foiling face recognition software with make up.

Speculation of NRA’s position on the issue.

It would be fun to take a pistol course armed with only my Kel-Tec and a pocket holster. Or the Glock under a tucked in shirt. But no one really does that. Until now.

And they’re scary! Booga booga.

That seems to be the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s latest fundraising strategy.

Couple of updates here and here. I have no problem with the gun and the slash through it. And there may not be enough time to, once again, override the governor’s veto, this could give Phil Bredesen a second shot at breaking his campaign promise.

Google has a website that tracks government requests to remove information from Google and youtube.

Via EFF.

A poll:

Tea Party members disapprove 85 – 10 percent of Obama, while liberals approve 77 – 15 percent, as do moderates, 54 – 34 percent. Conservatives disapprove 76 – 18 percent. Men disapprove 50 – 41 percent while women approve 47 – 43 percent. White voters disapprove 55 – 35 percent while black voters approve 92 – 6 percent.

Don’t want anyone telling me what I can and can’t put on my device. It’d be funny if Microsoft got all Apple on Apple and disallowed installation of iTunes on their PCs. Of course, they could also block Google ads in IE.

For the last couple of days, my computer has started going to myspace. That is, any url with google in it redirects to myspace. My various spyware and virus scanners have picked up nothing. Clearing browser caches do nothing. And it affects both chrome and firefox at the same time. It’s fixed by a reboot and nothing else. Then it will appear later. Any idea what sort of critter this is?

ETA: Affects IE too.

ETA: Ip release and renew fixes it too.

If, like me, you’re going to be there, you should know about their carry laws. Local yokel PDB breaks it down for you.

When it comes to guns, the enthusiast truly acts at his peril.

Hecklers at Obama speech give him the what for since this promise, like most others, had an expiration date.

Meanwhile, the name has been changed to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Film, Don’t Report” policy.

Transparency!

89 year old woman fends off intruder with revolver. Bonus officer friendly:

Police show up and what do they do?

“This is a .22. And the police reloaded it for me,” said Turner.

Good for them.

In Chicago:

Chicago has more gangs and more guns than any other major city

In DC:

Actor-turned White House aide Kal Penn was robbed at gunpoint near his D.C. townhouse early Tuesday, police sources told the Washington Examiner.

UK speed cameras outerspace.

Heh.

Still digging the tactical car. It’s fun to drive and the Mrs. steals it whenever she can. I’ve discovered it will outrun all manner of Charger, Challenger, Mustang, Beemer and Audi. But a Subaru WRX STI will smoke it*. Really? A Subaru. Who’d have thought?

A few issues, though. The trunk/rear window design of the Infiniti G37 has a little flaw. If it rains and you open the trunk, the rain droplets from the window will go right in the trunk. And I didn’t realize that the windows in the back weren’t tinted until the kids complained that it was bright and they couldn’t see their DS game. I took it to Pro Mark Window Tinting. For $160, he put on a most excellent window tint that was the legal limit. The legal limit, I suppose, is different for front windows than rear because my truck’s rear windows and the wife’s SUV’s rear windows were tinted from the factory and they look a bit darker. I’m happy with it and probably would never have noticed had I not had it done and it came factory. Looks factory and the service was excellent. Dropped it off one morning and had it two hours later. Highly recommended.

I’d mentioned it it needed a rail because it lacks storage. Well, Les tells me the new Mini’s actually do come with rails.

* ETA: Only from about 0-60. After that, it’s probably all G.

Backyard Ballistics:

Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide.

In Virginia, political squabbling is more important than teaching kids gun safety.

Gunwallet to back up data about your guns.

Vacations.

So, all the news about Eyjafjallajökull getting all explody and generally mucking with Europe got me curious how to pronounce it. Well, here’s wikimedia’s bit on pronunciation and I still can’t do it. So, yeah, let’s all call it Fred.

Jerry Miculek’s revolvers.

Fixed sights for S&W revolvers.

That guns cause crime:

I mean, guns were all over most every state capital this past week, and nobody busted caps, so what’s your problem? You keep tearing at your hair about this blood in the streets that keeps not happening. For heaven’s sake, get a grip on yourselves, okay? Everyone with a gun is a violent spree killer armed robber only in the way everyone with a car is a drunk driver or everyone with a p33n is a rapist…

NRA-ILA has a statement.

The first amendment wins.

John Roberts:

[T]his Court will not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely because the Government promises to use it responsibly.

Only without all the racism, eugenics, sexism and various other inconvenient truths.

Aunt B.:

I’ve heard the Commercial Appeal has a policy of not linking to bloggers. It’s so cute when newspapers think they can just asshole the internet into working how they want it to work. It’d be cuter if it didn’t affect friends of mine, but it’s still cute, like they still think they control the flow of information.

That’s the funniest (yet saddest) state of commentary on media I’ve heard in a bit.

Cool. The minute someone makes a working gun with one, though, they’ll be regulated.

And no gay divorce either. Weird.

Watered down a bit but passed.