Utah has been working on it for a while but it looks like the house there passed a bill recognizing the 1911 as the official state firearm.

And stop touching it:

A law enforcement official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the case, said Stenroos was mishandling a firearm when he was shot, but he did not go into any more detail.

Claimed he was shot by someone, setting off a manhunt.

If Egyptians were armed things would be a lot different.

Guns are more effective than pastries.

In The City (My The City) the mayor vows to veto property tax hikes.

Training with rimfire revolvers.

3 inch toy guns from toy soldiers banned at airport.

NPR interview states collective rights mythology as fact.

Over at The Survivalist Blog.

Suicide bomber gets explody after wireless carrier sends him a text. Oops.

From PDB

They respond to their odd SHOT photo policy. Short version: our bad.

Robb is feeling it. It does seem to getting geared up.

Odd tale about how a blog post made someone a complainant.

Second Amendment Does Not Extend to Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking

Airsoft guns are not arms. I think a case could be made that they’re good for practice. But doubt that would pass muster in courts.

What do ‘sporting purposes’ have to do with Second Amendment? Nothing.

Would it affect the Saiga?

Sporting purpose has to go

Reader Jim emails this:

From Gun Porn

Sig 716

Chiappa

Highway Patrolman

It’s here. Reading now. Not really a ruling, more a study. Via Caleb.

Updates as I read:

Misuse term assault rifle.

Competition not sporting purpose, nor are many lawful activities common in the sporting use of firearms. Plinking is not sporting

They’re looking into it:

Therefore, the working group believes that a more thorough and complete assessment is necessary before ATF can consider practical shooting as a generally recognized sporting purpose.

AWB features used to determine ‘sporting’. Added light rails and such as well. And weight and size limits. Odd.

Fiber optic sights? For serious?

Those features can lead to ban on importation:

The purpose of section 925(d)(3) is to provide a limited exception to the general prohibition on
the importation of firearms without placing “any undue or unnecessary Federal restrictions or
burdens on law-abiding citizens with respect to the acquisition, possession, or use of
firearms….”

Our determinations will in no way preclude the importation of true sporting
shotguns. While it will certainly prevent the importation of certain shotguns, we believe that
                                                           

those shotguns containing the enumerated features cannot be fairly characterized as “sporting”
shotguns under the statute. Therefore, it is the recommendation of the working group that
shotguns with any of the characteristics or features listed above not be authorized for
importation.

So says Newsweek:

Obama intentionally did not mention gun control in his State of the Union, but aides say that in the next two weeks the administration will unveil a campaign to get Congress to toughen existing laws.

My guess is a push on requiring states and .gov agencies to report more. More people on more lists. And to push background checks on all sales. We’ll see.

I’m guessing with the overt Republican complicity in gun control lately that they might get a bill through. Could be a good thing to attach some pro-gun bills to as well if this thing actually gets some momentum.

Some dude at Salon: Guns cost more lives than they save

And he has all sorts of facts and figures to back that up. Oh, wait, no he doesn’t.

From Ask a Korean. This bit is interesting:

it is eminently possible to eradicate guns from a society — even in a society where nearly every single adult men are familiar with guns (during their military service.)

No, it’s not.

In Tucson:

We’re hearing more from one of the mass shooting victims who ended up under arrest himself.

J. Eric Fuller ended up in psychiatric custody, after making threatening comments a week after the shootings that killed six and wounded 13 including him.

Fuller says he meant no harm when he pointed a camera at a Tea Party activist and said, “you’re dead”. He says he was trying to make a point about how easy access to guns, makes it easy to kill.

Les Jones: Frequently Asked Questions About the 2011 Deficit

Joe will be on the radio.

Joyce Foundation shill sorta starting to get it:

Gun control policies should focus on restricting access to firearms for dangerous individuals or repeat offenders rather than making guns illegal, a prominent gun policy scholar told a group of public health students on Tuesday.

And this:

“This discussion has gotten us to where we are today, which is nowhere,” said Webster, who has served as an informal adviser to Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. “We get in these silly sorts of discussions about guns are good, guns are bad.”

Of course we do. Some folks are trying take our guns. They’re failing but they are trying.

Using a catapult to smuggle drugs across the border.

Given my recent gun purchase, this is relevant to my interests.

Continuing with the NY theme today:

A New York City man filed a lawsuit this month seeking $400,000 in damages after a pair of police officers mistook his cigarette break for a suicide attempt.

Mark Moody, a 40-year-old trial lawyer, was sitting on the window sill of his second-floor apartment, smoking a cigarette back in August when he says a police car stopped in front of his building. One of the officers got out and asked him if he was trying to commit suicide.

That warranted ambulances, four more police cars and being taken to psych ward for evaluation.

Knights Armament tells people not to take pictures of their stuff. At a show where people go to show their stuff so that people can take pictures of it. But there’s still pictures of their stuff there.

Looking at a year in prison for carrying a common tool.

Them grapes are sour.