A tax credit for turning in “assault weapons”. I’d likely have a fortune in unused parts in the gun room.

Gun bills proposed in Tennessee

Some legislation filed in the house.

GEICO cancels auto insurance because policy holder makes gun parts for a living!

The Knoxville Police Department is ditching its fotay caliber Glocks and going with .45ACP Sig Sauers. They’ll be carrying more magazines now. Also:

But Rausch noted the Glock has a life of four years while the Sig Sauer is expected to perform for 10 years.

For serious? They’re getting a decent gun, don’t get me wrong. But additional magazines, more expensive guns and a bogus claim of gun life seems, well, expensive.

Sebastian looks at my questions: I’ve also advocated that the courts should consider police use when making a determination about “common use.”

90 Sheriffs and Two Sheriffs Associations Have Pledged to Ignore “Obama Gun Control”

Arapahoe County Sheriff issues a statement

Another statement from lawless extremists.

Rand Paul to Hillary: Let’s face it, you should have been fired over Benghazi. Also, I like that he points out how no one in government gets fired.

MO lawmaker wants a law making parents tell the school if they have guns

82 year old man shoots home invader

Flat shooting pistols

Dark Star Gear holsters

Press release here

No, not that Junior.

There’s a fellow who worked for me for the last several months, in his 70s and missing an eye. He’s been around the block and the world. Often told me of when he ran businesses and how, now, he ran a backhoe or pressure washer for me but he ran his own shop way back when. He’d owned bars, married late after sowing his oats and generally had a good life. He’d also went down to New Orleans after Katrina and ran a successful sheetrock business. All this and he had a third grade education. He is also one of the nicest, most straight forward men you’d ever meet.

He lost his eye, he told me, when a bristle from a steel rotary brush broke off and hit him in the eye. He didn’t notice at first but over a few hours noticed his eye hurt. He looked in his truck’s mirror to see the piece of steel hanging out of his eye. He tugged on it and thought better of pulling it out and went to the doctor. This was decades ago and medicine then isn’t what it is now. They informed him he’d lose the eye.

He’s also about five feet, five inches and weighs 90 pounds soaking wet with his pockets full of quarters.

He always had a joke. And it was always naughty.

And one of me earliest conversations with the man went like this:

Junior: You got a wee borry?
Me: A what?
Junior: A wee borry!
Me: I don’t know. What is that?
Junior: Well, it’s a conveyance of sorts. It has a wheel in the front, two handles and a space for holding stuff in the front. Ideal for dirt, mulch and rock. Easily shoveled into. A damn wee borry.
Me: Oh, a wheelbarrow. Yes, I have one.
Junior: That’s what I said, a wee borry.
Me: I obviously misunderstood.

Anyway, I was saddened to learn that he was taken to the hospital with pneumonia and, from treating that, the docs have determined he may have terminal cancer.

He is a good man. An honest man. And a hardworking man. Things you don’t see much of these days.

Get well, Junior.

And this will be important later.

From the Heller decision:

Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

I’m not a lawyer so take this for what it’s worth. The definition of dangerous and unusual weapons, and the carrying of, may come up if certain gun control laws are passed. “Dangerous” is not very useful or descriptive. Is gun, is not safe. So, meh. However, on to unusual. What is unusual? I doubt that the most popular rifle in America is unusual. And I doubt most common handguns are unusual.

So, what exactly is? I suppose that, since the 1986 assault rifle ban (yeah, they’re already banned) a machine gun would be unusual. What else?

The administration has said this a few times. It’s not true.

Another Million Moms group.

They pull their support for the Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show because of their ban on the most popular rifles in America at their show.

This shooting at a college campus could not have happened.

Introduced by Lautenberg

Actual high capacity magazines.

DPMS Tac 2

I guess in light of this national conversation we’re having on guns, different local TV and radio people are scouring the interwebs looking for gun rights people to interview. I’ve received several of those requests in recent weeks. I respond with something along the lines of:

Sure, I’ll be happy to appear on your program and I will also waive my speaking fee of $100,000 provided that my interview appears unedited. I’ll have my lawyer send over a contract once I hear from you.

Thanks!

I’ve yet to get a response back. Go figure. I don’t actually have a speaking fee but I can gauge their seriousness with that.

Larry tells you why it’s dumb:

Chicago Tribune calls sling mount a bayonet lug. It’s next to the shoulder thing that goes up.

Of course, representatives of the people shouldn’t pass bills without reading them. In NY: NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of gun

They fail due to lack of data and, you know, people not doing their jobs.

You can’t sell wine in grocery stores because kids will stick it in their pooper

From constitutional wiz David E. Young

I’ll keep the guns

How did we get here?

Durbin says a ten round magazine limit is generous, which of course means that limit will be lessened in the future if they get their way.

Keep guns away from politicians