The no-questions-asked program yielded more than 200 nonworking guns, 170 rifles, 219 handguns and even a 12-gauge “street sweeper” assault rifle.

Heh.

50 cal

Kahrs

Pics from the Panola NRA Regional.

Tactical Blunderbuss

KSG Bullpup Shotty

Perry de Havilland:

So is it hard to believe that someone whose entire world view is based on using force to take what is private without prior consent might have used force to take what they wanted from a woman?

Not at all.

That’s one of the reasons the FBI doesn’t want to comply with information requests.

Police Chief Tim Dolan uses all the hysterical rhetoric on the castle doctrine bill. The usual shoot first, guns don’t make you safer, quoting a long debunked study, and that you citizens just aren’t trained well enough. This laws keep passing despite the screeching and hysterics. Yet, an amazing thing happens. Nothing.

At all the discussion of them and their tactics, since they like that stuff kept secret.

Brownells wants to see your 1911.

Why would anyone need a gun in a restaurant?

The ‘study’s’ list of responses is full of spam and other oddities.

Publishing the names, email addresses and phone numbers of those who responded.

The cool factor

First, SAF challenges their carry ban. And now, NRA is moving with a suit too:

The National Rifle Association is funding and supporting a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Illinois’ complete and total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home. The case, filed today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, is Shepard v. Madigan.

More on the case of resisting unlawful entry from Kevin.

Someone tried it.

1895 Nagant

The R2D2 smoker

By stingray:

And as soon as you fucking little thieving perverts decide whether or not something shiny in my wife’s carry-on is banned all of a sudden or not, I’ll be on my way. Now either get a real cop and charge me with something or go fuck yourself you petty little shit.

To Kevin, whose blog is now middle aged.

Guns of Modern Warfare 3

Beretta and Stoeger

Mark 3

Every day carry kit

New gun owner

AP has a bit on the porn found at the Bin Laden compound.

In Illinois, Moore v. Madigan:

Illinois’s ban on carrying handguns violates the U.S. Constitution, the Second Amendment Foundation Inc., an advocacy group, said in a federal court lawsuit.

“Illinois is currently the only state in the country that imposes a complete prohibition on the carrying of firearms for personal protection by its citizens,” foundation Vice President Alan Gottlieb said today in a press statement announcing yesterday’s filing in Springfield, the state capital.

Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, the Bellevue, Washington-based group seeks a court order declaring two challenged state statutes invalid to the extent they prohibit people who are otherwise qualified from carrying handguns for self defense.

Headline says out of town gold buyer charged with not following. You have to go to the fifth paragraph to see what the charges are:

He is accused of leaving town without keeping the items he purchased in Oak Ridge in a safe on the hotel premises for 30 days as required by state law.

Dennis is also charged with not submitting to police a detailed list of gold and other items he bought on his last day in Oak Ridge.

Those are some pretty stupid laws. But, hey, someone stepped up to defend them:

Officials said the laws governing gold purchases are an effort to help law-enforcement investigations in instances where gold and other precious items have been stolen.

Which officials? We need to know who the dumb ones are.

Court says the cops can come into your house even if it’s unlawful:

Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.

“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.

This is patently wrong and an affront to liberty. I would defend my home from unlawful entry not matter what the court says.

Via Alan, who says it’s time for tar and feathers.

Update: More from Orin Kerr

From John over at The Gun Shots.

There’s a gun blog popularity contest. I’m not shilling for votes because these things don’t matter much to me. But, really, I’m not nominated in the news category? But relegated to politics and entertainment?

Man-Cans: Candles for men. Scents include grandpa’s pipe, sawdust and bacon. Needs one for Hoppes 9.

An art exhibit depicting phobias as holes at a golf course has one for hoplophobia:

Hoplophobia comes from the Greek word hoplon, meaning armor. One belief of people with this fear can be that the control of the weapon lies in the firearm itself and not in the handler of the weapon. In other words, guns do not kill people, people kill people.

Awesome.

Via John.

Courts rule it’s ok to attach a GPS tracking device to your car without a warrant:

Holbrook wrote that “a reasonable expectation of privacy” does not exist for those parking and traveling on public roads.

“The device was attached to a vehicle found on public property” and “monitored their travel in public and at no time did the defendant attempt to shield the vehicle from the public,” he wrote.

They seem to advocate treating guns as a public health problem. And seem to endorse legislation:

There are a variety of ways of dealing with the problems caused by guns in society, and legislation is one of the methods most commonly used. Franklin Zimring has noted that laws that regulate gun use fall into three categories: those that limit the place and the manner of firearm use, those that keep guns out of the hands of high-risk users, and those that ban high risk firearms. Place and manner legislation sets out to do as it suggests, to limit certain uses of firearms in certain locations. Examples include banning the use of firearms in public places and prohibiting the carrying of a firearm (except for those carried by security personnel and police). This legislation is difficult to implement, however, without the active support of the police force, and that support requires additional funding to make sure that police monitor potentially violent events.

So much for gray dawn.

The RONI Glock Carbine Conversion Kit:

From 2011 NRA