Or something else. Having a handgun makes you look taller?

The $100,000 AR. It’s titanium.

Recoilless rifle

Garands in 308

Choose the form of the destructor.

In other news, Santorum, who doesn’t believe in contraception, pulled out.

Cerberus buys the yellow pages for $950M. Why? These are the folks that own Freedom Group.

Cop-killer bullets! Which, apparently, means rifle rounds. And this: the perp’s initial 12-bullet barrage from a 9mm revolver.

Where can I get one of those 12 round capacity revolvers?

Defending your family is a crime: Man stabs 3 invaders to protect family, may face life for murder.

Four armed men run into a guy trained in the army to knife fight. He kills three.

So, Smith and Wesson can’t possibly be adding another production shift.

So, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is perfectly OK with rich and famous people carrying guns. Wow.

Police chief in NH denies man a carry permit, given his frequent encounters with the law. But a judge says yes. At least, that’s what the headline says. In reality, the chief dropped the ball in his denial. Seems pretty open and shut, if he was convicted of a crime making him a prohibited person, then it’s lawful to deny him a permit. However, the article mentions his extensive criminal history but I see no convictions. Odd.

Gun nuttery at Popular Mechanics

Pravda reports that JSC Izhmash was declared bankrupt. The company is state-run (shocking that they can’t make money, I know!). And this:

Russian news agencies said in January that the defense ministry was not planning any orders with Izhmash within the scope of the state defense order for 2012. It was also said that the new AK-12 assault rifle was nothing more but a bluff.

However, Izhmash officials said that the AK-12 was designed for export purposes to meet all modern requirements to small arms. An order from the state would give the company an opportunity to launch the serial production of the AK-12 for the Russian Armed Forces.

The state tests of the new rifle may begin at the end of 2012 or in the beginning of 2013. Russia’s Interior Ministry has already evinced great interest in the new product.

Is the AK12 vaporware?

Mentioned the Aimpoint Micro a bit back. And a reader suggested that the Bushnell TRS was the same, made by the same folks in China, and comes in a 1/6th the cost. Color me skeptical. But I’m pondering a lightweight AR build as trunk gun and looking at a tiny optic. Thoughts?

Arbitrary and subjective, actually. But one guy had four different accountants look at his taxes and they came up with four different results.

I used to do Happy Fun Tax Facts this time of year but they got depressing. You can read the but those numbers are a bit dated.

A bill in congress to fix some of the issues. I would think that enforcing federal law in anti-gun states would suffice.

Chris has a new custom holster

Round up of internet gun contests

Lewis Black’s stupid idea for gun confiscation.

The New York National Guard is helping fight the drug war.

Bloomberg wants to create an anti-gun rival to the NRA. This won’t work because you don’t have any grassroots. And you have nothing to motivate bystanders. I mean, you can’t have an anti-gun show and an anti-shooting range.

So says Michael Bane. But the anti-gun people tell us that gun ownership is on the decline.

A discussion at Shooting Illustrated

I went with 10 yards with my 9mm.

It advances in the TN house

Heh: The Election Year Hoarding Festival.

90% off gas masks

Benjamin Rogue .357 Pre-Charged Pneumatic air rifle

Colt’s piston carbine

Fireball

Remember officer roid rage threatening to kill a permit holder? He got fired. Now, he’s appealing it.

MorpHex robot turns into a sphere and rolls:

More here.

And he’ll speak at the NRA convention. Says Romney: “we have all the laws we need”.

What about Massachusetts? Do they have too many? And how many did you sign into law?

A bit back, a law was passed in TN which said that those with carry permits could carry a rifle in their vehicle, provided that there was not a round in the chamber. You could have a magazine in but no round chambered. It’s a silly restriction. But it leads to silly legal questions such as can you carry an AR-15 pistol with a round in the chamber in your car?

The answer seems to be yes. You can carry this weapon in your car loaded but this one cannot have a round in the chamber.

Of course, the former being a pistol, you can put it on a sling and carry it around. But I don’t advise doing that.

Some times, gun laws are just stupid.