A primary upset in Alaska. Allen West defeats an incumbent.

I’d call it hope and change except that it’s the opposition party that’s changing.

The local branch of radio for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy had a show this morning on what it would take to reset the country. Given that this is Tennessee, there were a lot of callers who would call in and say things like the country needs to get back to God, which is apparently some folks answer for everything. And I don’t get that since I didn’t vote for God. And a lot of them said term limits too. But one guy called in and said (paraphrased):

The best way to reset the country is to have deficit spending on the largest scale ever, government bailouts of industry, big government, socialized healthcare, vast unfunded entitlements, and government employees who make far more money than their private industry counterparts.

Some folks seem to get it.

Governments don’t have rights. They have powers. That aside, this piece from Time is disturbing:

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway – and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.

That is the bizarre – and scary – rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants – with no need for a search warrant.

How dare you!

Paul Helmke cannot believe that people would disagree about closing the gun show loophole. Part of the problem, Paul, is that there is no such thing and no loophole to close. Sales at gun shows are subject to the same rules as sales not at gun shows.

I wonder how Maino and Fat Joe feel about the gun show loophole?

That’s the name of an art show on guns in pop culture. The whole point of an Uzi was to have a lightweight weapon, I thought.

Video comparison at Vuurwapen Blog.

Via John, who has more and pics.

With topshot competitor JJ Racaza.

Seen here:

From Political

It teaches you good things. And bad things.

I have worked for two companies that had operations in California. Both companies closed shop and moved out of the state. In one case, we shut down a large warehouse facility and moved it about 40 miles across the border to Nevada. The simple act of moving operations resulted in about $1.2M in savings per year because, at the time, California decided that inventory was subject to tax. Hint: large warehouses have lots of inventory.

A list of companies leaving California for the same reason.

Is either this or that Baucus has never been introduced to tar and feathers.

Everyone’s talking about advice for new shooters.

Not so radical after all. Related, former RNC chair comes out swinging and discusses why Republicans should find common ground with gay people.

As far as I can tell, the only reason Republicans and gays don’t get along is because, you know, your Republican leadership makes it policy to hate the gays to pander to another minority. Just like Democrats.

The NRA reports success:

The Electoral Board in Cook County, Illinois has agreed to dismiss a bogus petition to create a referendum on the November ballot asking if the sale of semi-automatic firearms should be banned in Illinois.

Zell Custom Magazine Fed .50 Cal Upper

Baikal MP-161K Carbine

Leather

Ruger’s piston driven 6.8 AR.

All those rappers going to the Brady Fundraiser apparently didn’t show, according to Cam Edwards:

According to our on-the-ground reporter, none of the rappers advertised for the Brady anti-gun event in NYC actually showed up. I guess next time I should keep my mouth shut until AFTER the event takes place.

NSSF:

With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition.

As mentioned here, Doug Powers has some more lyrics from the participants in the “peace walk”.

According to the gay test, I am 18% gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Rumors that Shaquille O’Neal has been seen hanging in The City (My The City). Now, look Shaq, don’t go ride along on no-knock raids here.

Update: Seems confirmed to me.

The guy who was charged with Going armed to the terror of the public for carrying somewhere near Obama has had that charge dropped. He was convicted of violating a city ordinance on possesion of a weapon on city property, and possesion of a siren by someone not in law enforcement or emergency services.

In DC on travel, do not tell hotel staff you have a gun. In other news, hotel employees ask?

Westchester lawmakers not going to change their clearly unconstitutional law.

Rolling strip searches: full body scan technology deployed in vehicles.

And the Houston PD has unmanned drones.

Jericho B pistol.

Galil Ace Rifle.

Dinosaur edition:

Look, pathetic loyalty to losers and chumps is cute and touching when you’re a Chicago baseball fan, but creepy and disappointing when you’re in a voting booth.

You can use your phone to rat on people you think are drunk at football games. Wouldn’t that be most of them?

Continuing the discussion, Caleb:

If there is one thing I learned from firing over 10,000 rounds through a revolver last year, it’s that these things are hard to shoot well.

And Michael Bane:

You guys know I’ve been really hot lately on getting beyond the whole “best gun” meme. It’s tiring because it’s just BBs rattling around in an empty tin can…I seriously doubt whether your average miscreant is going to feel worse from a .45 ACP out of a Kimber than from a Hi-Point.

Read the whole thing.

At NRA-ILA:

Anti-gun group employees can still sit around doing pretty much nothing and collect a paycheck, but the money—lots of it—comes from donations, from foundations and individuals who share their ideals. While the rest of us have to contend with anything tangible they might produce, at least we don’t have to pay for it, most of the time.

Need more of this: “Because the challenged sections of the warrant were ‘so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence unreasonable’” — that the police officers were not shielded from liability by qualified immunity.