Josh Blackman looks at the latest second amendment challenge to DC’s gun laws.

In times of war, it’s a good thing to know that the military has the time and money to research and deploy environmentally friendly ammo:

The cartridge, sometimes called the “green bullet” because it has an environmentally-friendly copper core instead of the traditional lead, has been getting mostly good reviews in the 11 months since it first deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom.

Priorities!

Governor Haslam expected to sign sudafed tracking system into law. Yes, a sudafed registry.

Kent Williams gets it right:

“This is a feel-good piece of legislation,” said Williams, adding that Kentucky approved a similar bill a year ago and “it has done absolutely nothing to control meth labs.”

This is what you do instead of something.

Glenn interviews Professor Robert Cottrol.

Concealed Carry Clothing for Women

Wal-Greens employee stops robbery, hostage situation with his carry gun.

How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US

SEE THE GUN THAT KILLED BIN LADEN. IT’S AWESOME!

Leupuld Mark 4 HAMR

The Kentucky Rifle is shorter than Breda

May is zombie awareness month.

Here’s a handy chart for identifying zombies.

And, hey, more zombie jokes.

In Florida, ill-thought out law bans sex.

From Brownells facebook page: TECH TIP: When fitting two parts together, work on the cheaper of the two parts.

Heh.

Even though the market is already taking care of that:

“Let your fingers do the walking” could be replaced with “let your finger do the clicking” in San Francisco. It’s poised to become the first U.S. city to restrict delivery of Yellow Pages business directories.

The Board of Supervisors cast a 10-1 first vote on Tuesday to ban unrequested home and business delivery of the hefty telephone directories. There will be a second reading and final vote next week.

Magtech First Defense Ammo Review

It was a decent show. They wanted to test the myth of whether or not suppressed handguns sounded like they do in the movie. They called the myth ‘plausible’, which I don’t agree with. After all, you have movies like Assassins where someone with a suppressed pistol is shooting at someone in a crowd of people and no one notices. And they only tested a 45 and a 9mm.

A couple of good bits were when Adam said (paraphrased) that police and military like them because they reduce muzzle climb and recoil; reduce the concussive force; eliminate flash; and make it easier to stay on target. He concluded with something like which make guns safer and easier to operate. He also specifically said these were not assassination tools.

Also, citizens love them too. They’re great for teaching new shooters and kids:

From Kids

Photo courtesy of The National Firearms Act Trade & Collectors Association, who Junior is modeling for and they were giving away those cards at the NRA Annual Meeting.

And they had a sound guy measure the db levels of suppressed and unsuppressed, and he noted the difference took them from dangerous to safe. Excellent.

Sound suppressors are the neighborly thing to do.

If I find the video online, I’ll post it later.

On Ron Paul: you’re just about the only guy on the big stage saying things that ought to be said.

Jay reviews reviews the Elite Series Tactical pants. I have one of their shirts that I need to write about.

A bit back, a company offered firearms training and used billboards in the Phoenix area. The city then censored those billboards. Now, there is a lawsuit against the city.

Undercover cop shoots would be robber.

English Russia: Armed with a pneumatic sniper-rifle with a laser aim and silencer, (that costs over 3400 USD) he sets out in the evenings to his hunting grounds- in his case to the city streets.

That’s a pretty cool looking air rifle. Not sure what it is.

ATF detonates explosives. And creates a bit of a forest fire.

Can people under indictment for felonies be barred from gun ownership?

The DOJ tells congress to make ISPs keep tabs on you.

And to make your phone company store data on you.

Nemerov: Obama’s ATF: Too Busy Gun Smuggling to Arrest Criminals?

Governor vetoes constitutional carry bill in Montana.

Right to arms in Puerto Rico

In Ohio, bill removing restrictions on guns where alcohol is served has passed the house. Passed the senate earlier.

Been saying for years that they’ll come after those guys eventually. This time, with a lead ammo ban.

Interesting design so that you can access the safety on your AK without removing your hand from the pistol grip:

There’s an awful lot of effort to make AKs more like ARs. Just sayin’.

Cool steel target

Someone you know’s photo makes the cover of a magazine.

Maxim MG

Handgun of the year: Sig p226 E2

Today is my son’s fifth birthday. He starts kindergarten this year. Man, the time does fly.

I was unaware though that today is also Tactical Day. I have tactical kids.

Toys Я Us posts a no gun sign. The one here in Knoxville that I’ve been to, well, too many times is not posted that I recall.

The NYT idiotorializes on what a great idea it is to deny citizens their constitutional rights without due process of law:

Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is quite free to buy high-power firearms and ammunition at any American gun shop.

No, what’s chilling is that in the land of the free, we place people on such lists. But going on:

This bizarre “terror gap” is starkly underlined by the latest federal data showing that 272 individuals on the terrorist watch list attempted to buy firearms last year, and all but 25 were cleared to make purchases. Those rejected had records for criminal felonies, spousal violence and other threats stipulated in federal gun controls that still don’t use the terrorist watch list as a red-flag caution.

So, 247 people on a watch list bought guns? Did they actually terrorize anybody with them?