NRA pushing a couple of bills. One would prohibit the Justice Department from banning import of supposedly ‘non-sporting’ shotguns. You may recall that being an issue recently.

The police show up with a tank.

I wasn’t paying attention to the Republican presidential race. I mean really, who was? Have you seen these bozos? The race has boiled down Mitt Romney v. whoever is not Mitt Romney this week. But I was surprised that in the latest poll Newt Gingrich came out on top.

If you are making a right hand turn, it makes sense to swing a bit left to ensure proper clearance if you’re driving a tractor trailer. A Honda Civic, not so much.

New NFA laws went into effect. Seems a local sheriff and the AG think that acquiring NFA items via a trust is illegal. But they won’t prosecute. Interesting. Most states ban NFA items and say that having them registered through the NFA process is a defense.

Ten years of sucking. No doubt will celebrate not stopping a single terrorists attack.

Update: 25,000 security breaches.

And second get a new dog. Lady thwarts home invasion with CCTV camera:

Permanent base in Australia?

And get a decent holster.

Joe Biden’s meeting on transparency done behind closed doors.

CNC to make an AR-15 lower

Tam and Joe recall gun control silliness from gun control’s short lived golden age.

Someone walked right by a college’s no gun sign and robbed someone.

A leisurely bike ride with your machine gun.

M&P 45. M&P keeps showing up on gun blogs.

Another 300BLK gun, this one from Sig.

Early Christmas

Matech rear

Not gonna happen

Sebastian:

During the floor speeches, a few legislators so mentioned that something like 15 states participated in a “Joint Concealed Carry Database.” This is the first I had ever heard of this.

I’m gonna guess that, even if there’s not an official one, that one could be cobbled together from the various databases that newspapers have put on line when they want to be edgy and generate controversy.

And writes a rant about it.

The NRA is 140 today.

Once every few months or so, I get an email from some person who did something stupid, I saw it on the internet, linked to it, and used their name in my post. The email then goes on to tell me that they’re having trouble finding work, getting a date, or whatever because people google up their name and see the stupid thing they did. Typically, if someone asks nicely and their act of stupid wasn’t criminal, I’ll go to the post and delete the name. Not a big deal to me. However, when you email me saying that I have some deadline by which I must take it down or you will sue me, I’ll tell you to fuck right off. And I’ll tell you that you have a stupid lawyer. And if you keep it up, I’ll publish the post again.

Take a Sig P226 and engrave an anchor on it.

For the record, yeah it’s more than that. But that anchor is what people seem to want.

Tam brings a reminder:

If you had showed up in that gun store of 1995 and told everybody that you were a time traveler from a 2011 where the AWB had sunset, ‘Vermont-style’ carry was now ‘Vermont/Alaska/Arizona/Wyoming-style’, and that the House of Representatives had just passed, by a hefty margin, a national CCW reciprocity bill, and there was a shooting-based game show on prime-time national TV, the people in the gun shop would have laughed in your face and told you to stop telling tall tales. And not about the ‘time travel’ part, either

How progressive.

Today’s news of most lasting significance:

Once a year, the J.P. Van Winkle and Son company releases the precious allotment of their heavenly elixirs to retailers and restaurants, and liquor sales reps’ phones begin to go crazy with people clamoring to get their hands on a bottle.

It’s good stuff, if you can find it.

No, really. I had a professor in college who said one of his friends from graduate school in the same program went to a class on getting rid of his accent. The professor noted that his friend was now teaching at Yale and he was at UT. Maybe there’s something to it.

In HR822 discussions in the house, not a single member of congress used the Brady Campaign’s position to oppose the bill. Joe is right, they’re probably done.

The only anti-rights group to worry about now is Bloomberg and his cronies. I think Michael Bloomberg is the second biggest threat to civil liberties in this country.

Smith and Wesson AR-15 lower receiver for sale at Amazon?

Mayors Against Guns issues a statement on HR822: WAAAHHHH!!!!

Jay Tea:

In most scandals, one can usually grasp just what the motives behind the wrongdoers was. Tom Clancy once quoted the four motives for political defectors as “MICE” — Money, Ideology, Coercion, and Ego. That applies pretty well to political corruption motives, too. But in this case, nothing seems to make any sense. Many, many pixels have died futile deaths in trying to find out just what the hell the people behind F&F were trying to achieve.

My theory is that it’s purpose was the “under the radar” gun control push. It’s the only thing that makes sense. A couple of years back, the editorial boards of newspapers were ALL MEXICO ALL THE TIME, stating that 90% of guns going to Mexico came from US gun shows or some such. And it was the NRA’s fault. It was, of course, a lie and refuted often. Someone needed it to be an issue to make a gun control push politically viable again.

The anti-gunners and editorial boards (but I repeat myself) couldn’t do it. They’ve been losing on nearly every gun issue for two decades. They needed something, any issue, to score a victory. Like the supposed ‘assault weapons’ issue, they just invented one.

And if there’s an expert on mythology, it’s the Brady Campaign. A whole piece on guns flowing to Mexico and not one mention of a certain incident that facilitated some of that.

School bans “hard balls”.