And why you can’t get them.

Bacon cups. Though I don’t see how they can hold your bacon bourbon.

Day at the Range reviews the Glock 30, my carry gun of choice.

A poll at officer.com:

On July 30th there had been 607 votes tallied with only 14% responding, “Yes, they are important to officer safety.” The other 86% of the responses were either neutral (”they make no difference”) or against the “assault weapons” ban (No, and in fact they impede my on- and off-duty safety).

Well, ever since the FOP supported the assault weapons ban renewal, I’ve not given them a dime. And I used to be an annual donor. I never will until they recant.

Via Cam, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is hosting a fundraiser in NYC. The list of attendees includes rappers Maino and Fat Joe.

Fat Joe’s latest album is called I Wanna Kill People Vol. 1. And Maino says more guns means more pussy and that if you decide to shoot someone, he’ll be your getaway driver.

That’s good marketing there.

did you know that shooting ranges may contain lead?

In Tunica, a woman was detained for a gun at the airport. And I saw this:

Authorities determined that Jones has a concealed deadly weapon license issued by the state of Kentucky, but she violated airline policy by not disclosing she was carrying the weapon and the loaded clip.

And I thought that is some hideous bias there. But, it turns out, that’s actually what Kentucky calls it.

Get Out Of A Speeding Ticket By Carrying Your Gun. A lot of police are friendly to handgun carry permit holders.

Making bacon prices go up:

Bringing home the bacon is getting more expensive.

Whether it’s a bacon cheeseburger from a local diner or packs of bacon on grocery store shelves, you can expect to pay a higher price for your favorite cured meat until demand simmers down or more hogs are bred.

Last week, prices of pork bellies — from which bacon is cut — jumped to an all-time high of $1.42 a pound. Prices have soared more than 200% from a year ago.

The police bring the stupid, the zombies bring the lawyers:

​Seven zombies accused of carrying weapons of mass destruction will be staggering to the bank shortly with a bundle of cash, courtesy of a legal settlement with the City of Minneapolis.

The seven were arrested in 2006 during Aquatennial while dressed for a “Night of the Living Dead.” They were stiff-legging it down Nicollet Mall to protest mindless consumerism when some unhappy soul called 911.

The cops busted the seven for disorderly conduct and said the zombies’ homemade public address rig looked like a weapon of mass destruction. The zombies spent some brief, scary time in jail, where the cops confiscated one protester’s very real prosthetic leg.

A PA looking like a weapon is a crime? Doesn’t matter that it isn’t one, I guess.

More constitutional rights for zombies.

Jacob:

Far too many gunnies spend their time trying to be right, whether it’s compiling facts about private gun ownership and crime or digging up quotes from the Founding Fathers, and not nearly enough time on how to actually implement their ideas. Anyone who has ever seen the floor debates on gun bills in Albany knows that a rational discussion on the facts never comes up from the other side. Why worry about it then? There is nothing wrong with simply telling a legislator to vote your way or else you will work against them next election cycle.

Yes. And the gunny vote is important in many areas. Politicians know that.

In an update to yesterday’s post on the subject comes a couple more enlightening bits. Alan on myths v. reality. A good read. The notion that a Glock 19 is somehow more complex to operate than a 38 is laughable.

And the TXGunGeek on a range day win:

She had been told and taught that she couldn’t properly operate a semi auto and she believed it. After class, she was more than able to hold her own with a semi auto and on her way to actually enjoying shooting a pistol. That just makes it all worth while despite the heat and tiringly long day.

And admitting he was wrong about the NRA. It’s a good clip.

More candidates cater to gunnies:

Jesse Kelly, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona, is wielding an assault rifle in his political ads. Russ Carnahan, a Democratic congressman from Missouri, is pictured in a home state newspaper pointing a pistol at a target. Lou Ann Zelenik, a Republican congressional hopeful from Tennessee, posted on Facebook a photo of her smiling as she gets in “a little bit of practicing” at a target range.

So far, 2010 “has been a big year for guns in political ads,” says Darrell West, director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Bullet rings. Those are very cool looking.

Chats with American Rifleman’s Ben O’Brien.

Everyone seems to like the 22 AR conversion kits. You can get them with three magazines here.

All the AR owners who went to our blog shoot the weekend before last now own them.

Robert has photos.

Browning, the Gun Wizard

CTD has an interview

We must stop unlawful mayors. For the children.

Polymer meets Uzi.

Tactical Marlin 1894?

Nintendo gun, made from soap.

Afghan small arms.

At lunch, discussing how some places exempt military personnel from firearms training for carry permits, Tam (paraphrased):

There’s a different set of rules for shooting someone at West Town Mall than there is for shooting someone in Fallujah

A woman is seeking a recommendation for a gun. In this scenario, one of the consistent, and frankly bad, bits of advice that male gunnies give is to go right out and get yourself a 38 revolver. You know, because they’re simple, unlike those pesky auto-loaders. And they don’t have a slide, which you womenfolk seem to struggle with. This is just bad advice. As with most things gun-related, it’s a matter of taste and preference. And if someone wants an auto-loader, why talk them out of it? Auto-loaders have more manageable triggers. Odd how folks think that someone who lacks the hand strength to rack a slide (though they can) can somehow shoot a revolver with a laboriously long and heavy trigger accurately.

I’m not the only one who thinks this is bad advice.

Update: In comments, Tina:

When I’m asked for a gun recommendation for women in my classes, I tell the person this: Shoot every kind/type of gun you can get your hands on. After that, buy whatever firearm you can easily manipulate under stress, shoot on target consistently and suits your carry or home defense requirements.

What she said.

Daniel Rubin:

At what point does an airport search step over the line?

How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account?

TSA is not law enforcement.

Via Michael.

We have this partially wrought iron bench. It had turned green from age, I suppose it’s rust. Earlier this year, I tried to get it back to it’s original color. Despite a lot of effort, I didn’t make much progress. Then, the other day, the kids had an epic silly string battle. Some collateral damage to the bench:

From Home Life

See how it’s clean where the silly string landed? So, silly string can restore iron. Who knew?

Les Jones: Million Dollar Accounting Firm Idea.

I’ve always been fond of Goodbye Accrual World.

A review

Reuters:

The private security contractor previously known as Blackwater Worldwide, which has protected U.S. officials in Afghanistan and Iraq, has agreed to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of U.S. export rules, the New York Times reported on Friday.

A review