It’s not what you think.

USA Today: Legislatures in a dozen states are considering laws that would eliminate requirements that residents obtain permits to carry concealed weapons.

Well, why not:

Anti-gunners still delusionally spinning the yarn that gun sales are not actually up.

Another gun blogger gets an M&P.

Six more congressmen call for it

Not the gun. While I do mostly agree with that assessment, it’s not entirely true. Some times, equipment can matter. For instance, you’re going to do better in an IDPA match with a Glock 17 than you are with a Ruger LCP. It’s just a function of mechanics and doesn’t discount training.

Thoughts and prayers to Mike, who is prepping for surgery.

RMR30. Always weird to be making the blog rounds and see my house on someone else’s blog.

Funny XD ad

Colt Mustang Pocketlite

IWI MegaGun Jericho

Zombie guns

If you drive, then every day you probably see someone do something stupid. It’s so common that it hardly warrants a mention until you see someone do something really stupid. Like I did last week.

A woman was in front of me in her Japanese SUV at one of those 3 minute car washes. For those who may not know, there’s a system of rollers on a track and you pull up onto the track, put your car in neutral and it pulls you on through. I say that because some may not know that. Well, this woman just started to drive through. The attendant flagged her and showed her the big sign of instructions saying put it in neutral. She waves as though she gets it and stops moving. Then I watch in amazement as the rollers pass under her car and it bobs up and down as the rollers pass under the wheel. She either had the brake on or had it in park. The attendant explains again. She doesn’t get it. And again. I finally decide it’s too hysterical and that I’m going to video it. And as I did grab my phone, she finally figured it out. So, no video for you.

Now, I’m next. And the nice attendant waves me up. I tell the attendant that, having seen this woman’s leet driving skills, I’ll wait for her to get further along before I go. Three minute car wash, I figure one minute will do it.

I enter. As I get toward the end, she’s at the end under the blower thing. Not moving. Not realizing now is when you move the N to the D. I lightly honk the horn as if to say wake up, sparky. Nothing. Again, I beep. Still nothing. Finally, I’m getting close enough that I’m going to hit her. I lean on the horn. I have to hit my brakes. So, now I’m sitting there with the rollers passing under me like I should be on the Miami strip, bouncing my ride. The attendant heard the honk and shut the wash down.

She, then, peals out of there so fast that she left skid marks and drove right past the vacuum station. I guess she was fleeing embarrassment. As the attendant and I sat there talking about her and laughing, she pulled up and used the vacuum like nothing happened.

Employers picking up the tab for carry permits and training.

Emily Miller:

After four years of trying to hide from the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, Washington realized its gun laws had to change. On Tuesday, the D.C. Council voted unanimously to relax firearm registration requirements. The process to fix the law started just a few weeks after The Washington Times began a series documenting the District’s excessive hurdles to gun ownership.

The proposal will eliminate the five-hour training course requirement, ballistics test, vision test and ammunition restrictions. It also delays for two years the new re-registration and micro-stamping requirements and allows the mayor to act as a gun dealer if there is no other federal firearms licensee in the city.

Looks like the have a pro shooter now.

Silent destroyer:

I kind of want one.

My personal favorite supposed refutation of libertarians is that we advocate freedom for those who can afford it. But one other one is you’re just a Republican who wants to do drugs. Both are stupid. The latter is summed up by Tam:

All the probulating, door-kicking, snooping and spying, asset forfeiting, and armored personnel carriering has done more damage to this country than a hundred Woodstocks worth of stoners, to say nothing of the obscene profits we have basically legislated into existence for vicious criminal scum south of our borders and in our own cities.

Yup.

I keep waiting for the day when someone is in court for violating a license agreement and the judge dismisses the case noting nobody reads that crap.

Similarly, you’d need 76 work days to read all your privacy policies each year. Or you realize that privacy is dead and you just click the button.

How to get anything past the TSA’s nude body scanners. A blogger has posted a video rendering the $1B worth of scanners useless.

Update: Via Aunt B., seems Mythbuster Adam Savage discovered that before.

Nick:

the owner of Apex Tactical triggers wouldn’t be driving around in a Ferrari 458 Italia if the M&P’s trigger had one-tenth of the smoothness of the Italian sports car’s go-pedal.

The issue with the M&P factory trigger isn’t its smoothness. Its as smooth as other polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols. The issue is it’s lack of a distinct feeling reset. At gun school, Tom Givens said the M&P trigger is what happens when engineers design triggers. And I laughed because I had an M&P and this was the section in the class on shooting on reset. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix.

Here’s a stupid bill saying that discharging a firearm into a habitation or vehicle is a class C felony. Seems the intent of it is to make shooting people even more illegaler.

The language of the bill would make the Lucky Gunner Blogger shoot illegal since we shot a lot of cars.

11 year old handcuffed and taken to a holding facility for her ‘bad attitude’.

A push to legalize it.

JT will try to get his MD carry permit. This should be interesting since MD is appealing.

In higher education:

Georgia Southern University is partnering with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to develop an elite sports shooting education center in Statesboro.

The .gov can seize any domain it wants.

A round up of internet gun contests

In DC, knives surpass guns in reported assaults.

Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day for 2012

In a post blasting the snoozefest put forth by Denny Henny (you know, the same one he always writes after there’s been a mass shooting), Sebastian asks:

Anyone notice Henigan is still the public face of the Brady Campaign? Where is this Dan Gross guy we’ve heard so much about? Has anyone seen him? Is he a real person?

I thought it was clear from his bio that he was a fundraiser. So, I don’t know that I’d expect much from him publicly.

Roku player for $50.

I’m a fan of mine.

Hornady Critical Defense vs. Grape Jelly