So he says:

Obama told the TCU team that he, too, practiced shooting with a rifle. “He said he practiced with the Secret Service,” said Riford, who graduated from TCU in May and now works in Fort Worth.

Good.

Via Sebastian.

I’m sure the Mexican drug lord who is the owner of this rifle had it purchased lawfully at a US gun store. I can tell by the short barrel and the grenade launcher and grenades.

From Gun Porn

College course preps students for the zombie apocalypse.

That class is more likely to be useful than the minor in pop culture.

Oleg Volk spent the weekend at Casa de Uncle. He took some pics, so here’s a few of the Para and various accessories:

From Gun Porn

From Gun Porn

From Gun Porn

According to the FBI report:

According to the figures released today by the FBI, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined in 2009 for the third consecutive year. Property crimes also declined in 2009, marking the seventh straight year that the collective estimates for these offenses dropped below the previous year’s total.

The 2009 statistics show that the estimated volumes of violent and property crimes declined 5.3 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, when compared with the 2008 estimates. The violent crime rate for the year was 429.4 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants (a 6.1 percent decrease from the 2008 rate), and the property crime rate was 3,036.1 per 100,000 persons (a 5.5 percent decrease from the 2008 figure).

Some quick stats at ENDO.

In comments, Sebastian takes the press to task. It’s pretty funny how they don’t think of the obvious.

And Rusty has more.

CTD’s blog has a look.

Awesome

Sure, burning someone’s holy book makes you a dick. But having a fatwa issues against you kinda makes the point.

Brian Doherty on gun rights.

Reising .22 Pistol

A carbine that shoots.

Steampunk 50 cal

You lose points for misspelling socialized (we have Zs in America) and referring to debt as a department. But otherwise, most folks seem to agree.

From Drop Box

I was perusing some various training sights and ran across this bit at Tactical Response on why they do not allow Blackhawk’s Serpa Holster:

While Blackhawk may intend for the end-user to apply inboard pressure with the flat of the index finger, under stress, shooters tend to push the button with the tip of their index finger. After all, this is the manner in which most people have the most repetitions pushing buttons such as keys on a keypad or phone or ringing doorbells. When the finger pushes in on the release button and the user initiates the upward motion of the draw stroke, the finger tends to stay in motion and as the trigger guard clears the holster, the finger enters the trigger guard and contacts the trigger, with possibly tragic results.

I’ve used a Serpa at a training class and occasionally carry one. I don’t know that that is all that likely. And, yes, it’s the same Tactical Response who put a photographer down range while people were shooting.

The public hates almost everything Congress has done

A rubberband Gatling gun.

What kinda gear do I need?

if you see this, it’s not broken.

GunFreeDiningTennessee.com. Personally, I’ve never eaten a gun.

Over at Robb’s. Uhm, what makes it tactical?

Editing out PBUHs and other things on wikipedia.

Since the law removing restrictions of handguns in parks, an amazing thing happened. Nothing.

Whenever prohibitions on carry are loosened, there’s always calls that there will be blood in the streets and violence at kids’ soccer games. But it keeps not happening.

TFA’s John Harris:

I have started to receive information that there is a group or organization that is approaching restaurants face to face with literature and telling them that they are required to post their property. They are selling these restaurants signs that prohibit firearms. There is a possibility that they are representing or “suggesting” that they are government officials and using some degree of pressure to make the restaurant believe, incorrectly, that they have no choice but to post.

A miracle.

Make your own magnetic holster

Vonore lesbian couple victims of arson.

All kinds of pics here

More stuff here.

Wish I could have made it this year.

Get a little fame and employees of police agencies start snooping.

GBR Range Day

Some pics from Robert.

Show and tell

$4K 1911

Stahl Rifle

Detained by the feds for not answering questions about international travel.

Tam’s observations. The failures are interesting to read about.

An engineer has a look at the differences. Via John.