In San Juan, there’s a tradition on Hoos’gow Day to dress up like cowboys and carry a single action loaded with blanks. Well, thanks to the California legislature’s ban on open carry, that’s illegal now.

High school sports team can’t call itself Cougars because it’s offensive to some middle-aged women. And by some, I guess they mean the ones that like to diddle younger dudes.

It’s things like this that make me want to punch your average school board member.

SOPA author’s official website contains copyright violations.

Officer.com:

In the 62 cases reviewed, the subjects increasingly spoke out against the government, blamed the government for perceived problems and did so in a way that caught the attention of other people in their communities, according to the senior counterterrorism official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private White House event. Subjects became active on the Internet to espouse extremist views. In some cases, the subjects purchased weapons, ammunition or explosive materials.

Terrorism will soon go the way of words like racist or fascist and lose any real meaning.

I must try this.

Cop or soldier?

From Chiappa, which I just learned I’ve been pronouncing wrong.

In Turkey, women’s charity group tells battered women to use a gun.

A good read, in case you have to get all stabby.

For the love of god, stop bolting the CAR/M4 style collapsing stock to everything

Forgetful Women as Second Amendment Champions. It’s quite interesting to watch some of the results of these folks unintentionally violating NYC’s onerous gun laws. The city is quick to call for going easy on them and that’s good, I guess. Now, our congress monkeys are passing a resolution to call for leniency for the Tennessee woman who went heeled in NYC. Or, apparently, our police will start giving people with NY plates speeding tickets or something.

I think Sebastian drew an interesting parallel:

This would have about as much impact as New York asking 1950s Tennessee to go easy on the poor black fellow who happened to not understand that sitting at the wrong lunch counter was a problem.

Raven Concealment VanGuard2 is an interesting looking “holster”.

And comments at Kevin’s.

Something I never thought about.

I would presume the only use you’d have for it if the SHTF is online communication. And, if the SHTF, I’m guessing there wouldn’t much access to the internets. But, if such communication was available, I’d just take my smart phone instead since it would do all the communicating I’d likely need. And I have a hand-crank charger for it.

Chicago went 24 hours without a murder or shooting

.gov shuts down file sharing site. Anonymous shuts down DOJ and entertainment type sites. It is interesting to watch.

Louisville Leather

CrimsonTrace is making a Lightguard for 1911s, specific to models with no rail.

Issa hits up AZ US Attorney Criminal Division Chief, who also resigned.

Crosman makes an upper to turn your AR into an pellet gun.

Lawmaker pushes bill that bans photoshopping someone’s head on a naked body. The obvious happens.

From Steve Sanetti, NSSF president.

Forbes notices gun sale are exploding

Elle magazine (yeah, that one) does a bit on Should I Buy A Gun?

CMMG 6.8 Upper for sale. At Sears.

NRA News coverage

Stuff from Jay

Tom has been bringing some awesome coverage.

Steve has plenty of good stuff.

Media Day from NRABlog.

Derek has lots of pics.

Round up from ToddG

And TTAG has had some really good coverage.

Portraits made from shell casings.

Robb: Damn… your comment was brilliant
me: i occasionally have a smart attack
Robb: Don’t make me slam my forehead on the keyboard again
me: will you crank out Grey’s Anatomy scripts this time?
Robb: No, that requires typing with my ass

Dan Zimmerman with the skinny. These are sure to be popular, though I have to admit I’ve never had a problem with slide-bite.

Michael is back to blogging. Excellent.

But here’s a Surefire wrist watch with a 200 lumen light.

Perry to drop out, endorse Newt. Amazing how a man can enter the race at the top and not survive after a couple of debates.

Meanwhile, it looks like Santorum actually won Iowa. That is frightening.

And the press is in full on destroy folks with Rs after their name mode. Seems Newt’s ex did an unflattering interview. And Romney is rich.