The coyotes are getting awful brave. Mostly because I’ve not shot one in a while. The past few weeks, I’ve heard their yips at night and, yesterday, the dogs were going nuts and I looked out to see a coyote traipsing through the field without a care in the world. In broad daylight. By the time I could retrieve a rifle, it was gone. I remedied that by putting the rifle in a more accessible place.

Today, the dogs were going nuts again. I grabbed the 10/22 and the magazine for it. Tried to pop the magazine in and it was a no go. The first two rounds were hanging out of the mag and the mag had lost its spring. Easily fixed with the turn of an allen wrench. But, still, a lost shot.

When you need it, it can fail.

Now, I have three magazines beside the rifle.

NSSF responds. So does the NRA.

More updates and lots of inventory.

So says the NFA owners association. We’ll see. Reid may have been more inclined not to do that if he had an NRA endorsement under his belt.

ABC’s Nightline looks at restaurant carry. They get substantially everything wrong. But the really funny bit is that they point out how drawing and firing from a holster is less accurate than taking slow aimed shots under ideal conditions.

Stealing your stuff and not going to jail for it:

A 37-year-old former Transportation Security Administration officer has been sentenced to three years’ probation for stealing laptop computers from passengers’ luggage at Philadelphia International Airport.

Interesting read on what the police tell us about home invasions.

At the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership.

Animation of how an AK works.

1911 in 22LR

Christian Sharps’ four-barrel pepperbox pistol

Watch where you point that thing.

Trial court says second amendment protects nunchaku.

SayUncle: More advanced reading than those high-class hoity-toity sites like The New Yorker and Harpers.

I guess I get points for making up words?

I spend a lot of time undoing things that are done because of federal regulations. You know, taking the flow restricter out of my shower heads; turning my hot water heater temperature higher than the recommended temps; putting real exhausts on my car; hoarding regular light bulbs. That sort of thing.

I’m not sure how to put more phosphates in my dish detergent though.

11 year old girl uses gun to defend home. It’s a good thing she was not subject to any of those laws restricting children’s access to firearms.

Bonus: a pink Crickett

The caps lock key. Google’s new netbook doesn’t have one. Good.

This is pretty damn neat:

Officer says GeorgiaCarry.org bumper sticker on car is probable cause for search. And also cause for three officers to show as backup.

Really. First, why does Mexico have aerial drones? Next, why are they buzzing Texas?

A good read: I would posit that without prohibition, the gun control movement is nothing.

Three robbers with guns try to hold up jewelry store. Move to tie up owner’s wife and who knows what after. Owner introduces the three robbers’ insides to the outside.

A popular theme among anti-gunners is misuse of the phrase ‘semi-automatic’. Even when acknowledging what it means, they still have to mislead.

TSA fails to catch loaded gun in a man’s bag. Too busy harassing grandmothers and children with leg-braces, I guess.

Brady Campaign Board Member Joan Peterson:

It’s just natural to want to shoot someone when you don’t agree with them or have a beef or you’re drunk and can’t quite think straight.

No wonder she wants you disarmed. She thinks you’re as crazy as she is.

Kevin talks about people being clueless on the gun issue. This time, with fewer words and more charts and graphs.

Here. I started making one yesterday. I recommend letting the glue dry overnight. A few cuts:

From Stuff

When I started cutting mine, the glue came undone in spots so I had to re-glue it and stick it back in the vice where it’s still sitting:

From Stuff

DIY

The Mexican Gun Canard. The WaPo brings it in, poorly. The NYT parrots the same bogus numbers. And a proposal that FFLs report bulk rifle purchases.

And so ends the NAACP’s hunt for racists.

Les reviews Streamlight PT 2AA Flashlight with C4 LED

This is horrid. I think it is cause for worry.