Via, well, everybody comes the ultimate computer den. And John asked if this was JayG’s house. Also, the caption mentions an anti-aircraft gun. There’s not one in the pic that I can see.

Formal injunction issued against enforcement of ammo ban.

Mosins from Cabela’s for $90.

Mossberg Turkey Thug, seems to be an unfortunate name.

Glock 21 4th Generation is here

Folks are still excited about the Chiappa Rhino, which I never really got. But, as Les explained yesterday at lunch, this is the first time something new has happened to the revolver in a billion years.

Quiet time in the desert

WW2 Three Gun Match. Heh.

Hers is bigger

The guns of Firefly

Marlin 795 bullpup. Yeah, you heard me.

I just had lunch with Steve from The Firearm Blog, who probably traveled further than any one I’ve had lunch with. Les Jones and some other local yokels were there too.

Sheriff lies about terrorists group to score some sweet, sweet funding.

To hold your kids’ Hello Kitty and Cars magnets:

From Drop Box

And alphabet blocks too!

By the way, in my house that is known as The Bureau. You see, on top of my safe is my humidor and to the left is my beer fridge. So, it’s the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Les Jones:

Apparently shooting your friend in the face qualifies you to endorse gun control

Is a robot programmed to fire a semi-auto as fast as possible a machine gun?

The NYPD would like it’s unarmed citizens to hide behind filing cabinets and use staplers as weapons when there’s an active shooter. I’m guessing a 9mm would go through most filing cabinets. May have to test that. Jacob asks:

If ever in a SHTF scenario which would you rather have immediately available:

1. Quality office furniture
2. A Swingline Collectors Edition 747 Rio Red Business Stapler
3. A firearm

That’s no choice at all. In NYC.

We knew that already. Yet we still hear claims about turning some place into the wild west whenever we liberalize gun laws.

100 years since the gun control law was put in place by notoriously corrupt, syphilis-addled delusional paranoiac.

Southern New Yorkers that is.

ThinkProgress follows NPR’s lead and goes shopping for the point of view they want.

A timeline into allegations that ATF let guns travel south of the border. Some gun store owners have made similar allegations.

I dunno about the story. Seems the sources are mostly forum posts and self-referencing examiner.com links when you start looking into it. Still, if true, this is a big deal.

Joe has a plan to counter the anti-gun push in the media.

Tennessee makes the list twice.

Someone gets it:

Gun control not only does no practical good, it actively causes harm. It may be hard to show that it saves lives, but it’s easy to demonstrate that we’ve sacrificed a generation of progress on things like health care, women’s rights, immigration reform, income fairness, and climate change because we keep messing with people’s guns.

Well, those other issues mentioned are a smokescreen for something else or made up. But he’s willing to take trampling gun rights off the table. One at a time, I suppose.

Can we toss sporting purpose for vagueness? ATF seems to operate under the presumption that 3 gun or practical shooting isn’t a sport, since no clay pigeons, feathered critters, or stack-barrel Perazzis wielded by Vice Presidents are involved.

To this round up of booth babes from SHOT.

Registration leads to confiscation and, apparently, something else in MD:

When the drug raid squad is considering using a SWAT team to bust in your door and shoot your dog, one of the considerations, apparently equivalent to having a criminal background, is whether or not you have a weapon registered to you.

No fees awarded in NRA v. Oak Park. None awarded in the McDonald case either. David Hardy says the ruling is “simply indefensible”. Well, they don’t want to encourage those civil rights lawyers.

Interesting snippet from Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness. I’ve pretty much found all arguments about people’s preference for an effective handgun carry round to be largely academic, for reasons illustrated here. And I say that as someone who carries a 45ACP, mostly.

Still, given my recent purchase of a 9mm, I am pondering what my self defense load should be.

John Lott has a post that shows NICS data. I found this interesting:

At least one state, Kentucky, appears to have recently started doing monthly NICS checks on its concealed carry permits in the summer of 2006. These monthly checks have dramatically inflated Kentucky’s NICS check numbers.

Googles for “buy a gun” near record highs. I notice a big spike in 2005 too. Probably due to the expiration of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons.

Because guns are fucking cool.

Jay has a look at the Dragon Leatherworks holster.

I actually received one of those this weekend. I wore it around the house yesterday for a bit to break it in and try it out. I wish outside the waistband carry was more practical because it’s darn sure more comfortable.

Is that how “ergonomics of a walrus” is translated from Russian? Russian defense minister calls to replace AK-47.

Man tries to rob convenient store, indicating he has a gun. Apparently, he didn’t be cause the clerk pulled out a Samurai sword and chased him to the parking lot. Where the clerk hit him with the sword.