World Net Daily cancels Ann Coulter’s keynote because she’s speaking at Homocon.

Variations of H&K’s G3

Yesterday, I noted a case of someone being charged with making destructive devices and being treated like a terrorist for putting dry ice in bottles to watch them pop. Stormy draws our attention to another such stupid case:

Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern owner Jimmy Cirrito said his bartenders have been entertaining his customers — by juggling bottles of alcohol and spitting out streams of flames using matchbooks and lighters — for more than a decade and no one’s complained. But shortly after midnight on July 24, two of his longtime employees were hauled out of the Herndon bar in handcuffs and charged with three felonies each plus other misdemeanors

“They were being treated as if they were terrorists, charged as if they intentionally tried to burn down the tavern,” Cirrito said.

Fairfax County fire investigators charged Tegee Rogers, 33, of Herndon, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, of Manassas, with manufacturing an explosive device, setting a fire capable of spreading, and burning or destroying a meeting house. They also were charged with several state fire code misdemeanors.

An explosive device? Really. Where’s the explosion? More akin to a flamethrower and I don’t know about VA law but a flamethrower isn’t regulated federally.

Getting to know your NRA: A look at who does what and the different functional divisions.

A reporter from Harper’s is asking arfcom about caching weapons for long term storage. If it’s time to bury them, then it is time to use them.

Video and report from Caleb.

Photos and reports from Robert. Just scroll away.

A nice little tourist town up the street from me that has fishing, boiled peanuts, those giant bears carved out of whole trees, and all that other stuff associated with mountain tourism. The state, however, has recently butted in:

Though the uproar has yet to reach the level of torches and pitchforks, business owners and residents of this gateway community are up in arms after state road officials ordered about 80 of them to remove structures, fences, signs and more from a state right of way by Sept. 1, including the sign in the above photo.

Season opens in FL. In other news, they hunt them with bows.

The WaPo: Gun-toting soccer moms a scary thought in D.C. area, but not out west.

Tam:

Sure it’s unlikely, but being old enough to remember riot police on the streets of Atlanta in April of 1992, having 30 rounds of Keep Off The Grass on hand makes a nice security blanket for me.

This is an actual résumé I received:

From Stuff

Sports Illustrated covers the National Matches at Camp Perry.

Guns made of tinted ice so you can eat them.

I can understand folks not wanting a cultural center to be built however many blocks from the World Trade Centers. But I side with property rights and think the property owners can build whatever they want, even if it hurts your feelings or mine. There’s a difference between just not liking something and trying to use the color of law against that thing you don’t like. A concept lost on Nancy Pelosi:

There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how … this opposition to the mosque is being funded,

She doesn’t like your ideas. So, you should be investigated.

Remember the guy NYPD shot 21 times? Turns out, he was shot 23. And apparently wasn’t even limping when he went to court.

Last weekend, I had to get some ammo and I went to Wal-Mart. I saw they had some Federal 230g 45ACP at only $15 a box. I bought it all. I did not notice that it was stamped Not for Law Enforcement Use. Interesting.

Lage Max 41A. And don’t ask, not for sale. The shot counter is neat too.

Dragon Leather.

Knife gun combo

Tomorrow at 7, Kevin will join BB & Guns to talk about one of my favorite events The Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

Sadly, I cannot make it this year due to work and deadlines. But it is a good time and if you’ve never gone, you should.

Google’s Eric Schmidt paraphrased: The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.

Young people trying to purge those drunken posts and pictures taken of themselves in the bathroom mirror, I guess.

John Oliver:

There is a difference between what you can do and what you should do. For instance, you can build a Catholic church next to a playground. Should you?

Second (and third) verse same as the first.

Joe notes the FBI and ATF are having a pissing contest:

The Justice Department has settled a turf war between two federal law enforcement agencies.

A recent audit by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General found nationwide conflicts between the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over which agency is in charge for federal explosives investigations.

Funny how this happens year after year. And is never fixed.

Paul Helmke weighs in, parroting Henigan’s guns are bad, uhhmkay line. Sebastian has more.

This time, though, he’s saying guns are so bad that cops have problems with them.

We must ban cans of green beans.

A baffle strike.

S&W M22

Nighthawk Custom’s AAC 1911

Gatlin gun

From Roberta.

I heard on the news this morning he was charged only with lying to the feds and not the other 20+ charges of being a politician err trying to sell a senate seat. They interviewed a juror who said everyone but one other juror was voting guilty but this one juror kept holding out. If I were an investigator of some sort, I’d be watching her bank account for any unusual deposits.

Just saying.

Some pros and cons that may come up in the courtroom. Seems too much to worry about to me. There are plenty of objective ways to convince reasonable people why an AR is appropriate, such as better stopping power, more accurate, and easier to control than a handgun.

The charges against Kaynor make him sound like he’s buddies with the Taliban. They include unlawful possession of a destructive device, five counts of unlawful manufacture of a destructive device and four counts of disorderly conduct. What did this Al Qaeda mastermind do? He put dry ice in soda bottles and watched them go pop in his backyard.

Not sure if Oregon law defines a destructive device differently but it seems to me that dry ice bombs do not fit the federal legal definition.

A burglary:

Authorities say a U.S. Springfield field grade M1 rifle was valued at $50,000 alone.

Which authorities? Even transferable NFA M1s in excellent condition are only going for $12K.

Via CY, who took one of my favorite band’s name in vain.