If you look close, there’s some guns.

Multicaliber SCAR

Suppressed 22

Sig 238 review

Some bloggers tour the Sig Academy

Heh.

I actually shot my Smith and Wesson M&P9. I put 200 rounds through it yesterday. Zero failures of any kind. Trigger pull is good, not fantastic. It’s a bit stacky and has a short reset. I was consistently low and to the right with it so a sight adjustment is in order. Not sure how to do that yet.

I’ve missed shooting a 9mm. Good to have one again. 18 rounds of goodness is fun but it makes reload math more difficult when you’re used to counting by tens.

I’ve also missed shooting a full-sized gun. All these compacts and sub-compacts I shoot all the time made me forget what it’s like to get a good grip on a full size pistol.

Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting leads some lawmakers to say they’ll carry weapons to protect themselves

Good to see lawmakers carrying. Of course, there are special rules for the special class:

The U.S. Marshals Service can deputize a member of Congress as a special deputy marshal if a threat assessment shows they are in danger, a federal law enforcement official said.

Carrying a special deputy badge allows the bearer to carry a concealed handgun anywhere, including inside a federal building like the U.S. Capitol.

Those who are so deputized aren’t publicized, but Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has said he was granted deputy status after receiving death threats in the 1990s.

Heh.

Laser sights from back in the day.

In Texas, reporters get their carry permits so they can bypass security checkpoints at the courthouse.

Another gun chick is blogging.

Lyle of Ultimak posts some pics and details of his latest offering. Cool.

Someone should beat Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pennsylvania about the head and neck area. He wants to pass a law making it illegal for me to say things like that:

Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pennsylvania, said he will introduce legislation making it a federal crime for a person to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a Member of Congress or federal official.

Honestly, I don’t think one of the biggest problems we face as a nation is threats of elected officials. Up next is Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who thinks that congress critters deserve special treatment because they are like you and me, only better:

“We’ve had some incidents where TSA authorities think that congresspeople should be treated like everybody else,” he said. “Well, the fact of the matter is, we are held to a higher standard in so many other areas, and I think we need to take a hard look at exactly how the TSA interact with members of Congress.”

A higher standard? No. You guys are held to no standards. Honestly, as my employees, you guys lack any standards.

And, of course, McCarthy clamors for relevance and wants to pass gun control laws.

The internet is killing them.

ATF already has the form, despite the questionable legality.

VP70 machine pistol

Nice 1911

Very cool

Backpack rifle

Kimbers

Government issue.

And from PDB: marvel at a time when America produced the finest individual weaponry the planet had ever seen.

Tam:

You should be ashamed of yourselves, you savage pack of jackals.

Gun questions answered in Giffords shooting.

Iraqi health ministry looks to ban toy guns.

Eeeww.

On non-citizens and guns:

And it’s easier to buy a gun in California than it is to get Citizenship. Apparently Larry seems to think that “just” passing some kind of Citizenship Test is an easy hop-skip-and-a-jump kinda thing. I’ll just guess that he’s never had any personal or family experience with the bureaucracy of the State Dept. or the INS.

The rumor:

From the rumor mill, I got an e-mail from someone about some possible new sights from Glock in 2011. The new sights are possibly a ghost-ring style sighting system with a wide aperture sight in the rear and a post up front.

Looks like it. Several years too late.

Go fishing.

Rejoice.

Someone shot a congresswoman in AZ. Now, folks are arguing over which brand of crazy the shooter is.

A really dumb idea.

In an update to the story I mentioned yesterday about a non-citizen suing to get a carry permit with the help of the ACLU, Gun Owners of America opposes gun rights:

But Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt says the state has every right to restrict conceal and carry permits to citizens.

No compromise, indeed. Very disappointing. NRA, who supposedly is willing to sell gun rights down the river, has a different take:

“If you’re a law abiding citizen and you’re allowed to buy a gun you should be allowed to carry it to defend yourself,” NRA spokesman Andrew Arulananda told FoxNews.com. “Just because you’re not a us citizen doesn’t mean that you’re somehow to immune to crime outside your home.”

The other important difference being NRA actually has influence.

And hats off to ACLU taking the case!

JayG in chat last night: I put bayonets on my bayonets.

The big news here is not that someone used a gun to save their life, that happens all the time. The big news is that a Taurus Judge actually stopped someone.

Before SHOT: Ruger Announces New LCBM Pocket Rocket Pistol

Heh.