I thought they had all the gun control already but apparently they want more:

While H.4278 has been significantly improved in many areas, perhaps the bill’s most egregious provision, which gives issuing authorities discretion to deny firearm identification cards, remains in the current version of the House-passed bill. This discretionary provision has been somewhat limited compared to prior versions to require that the issuing authority can show “reliable and credible information that the applicant or card holder has exhibited or engaged in behavior that suggests the applicant or card holder could potentially create a risk to public safety if issued a card; or (ii) existing factors that suggest that the applicant or card holder could potentially create a risk to public safety if issued a card.”

Some commie: Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech

Via Joe, who notes: It’s mind boggling to read this crap.

Thoughts on bug out bags

John Lott says that the murder rate drops as carry permits rise:

The study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found that 11.1 million Americans now have permits to carry concealed weapons, up from 4.5 million in 2007. The 146 percent increase has come even as both murder and violent crime rates have dropped by 22 percent.

Here’s a link to the study.

Interesting bit on Chicago’s gang culture:

Another starling fact: in New York and most other big cities the gang members will throw away the guns as they are being chased but, in Chicago, where police confiscated over 3,200 guns during the first half of the year, they shoot back instead. The top cop says that is because “there is a greater sanction for the gang members to lose that firearm from their gang than there is to go to jail.”

In Chicago a gang member will fire back instead of discard his weapon because members face “severe beatings” and financial punishment if they lose their gun. “There are way too many guns. On any given weekend, our police officers take more guns off the streets than either New York or LA. It’s too easy for anybody to get a gun.”

If guns were easy to get, why would there be such penalties for losing one? Sure, there are other reasons they might do that but the first thought to come to mind was that they were hard to replace and, therefore, the risk of it being evidence outweighed that cost. As reader JKB, who emailed it to me, said:

The gang crime in Chicago is so bad they are violating the law of supply and demand. An op/ed in the Chattanoogan has the following quotes from the Chicago police superintendent.

Notice the “It’s too easy for anybody to get a gun”, which seems to indicate a large supply compared to demand. But the gang members shoot it out with the cops rather than throw away the gun because the gangs will exact a high price for the loss of the gun, which seems to indicate that guns are not easy to replace.

It just doesn’t make sense. Once a gun is discharged in the commission of a felony, it is known as evidence. Evidence is something the smart criminal tries not to keep on them. Throwing away guns is the cost of doing crime. Perhaps the Great Recession is hard all over. Guns are plentiful?, but hard for a gang to afford? Maybe private citizens in the gang areas are buying up the supply?

Isn’t there a big economics school in Chicago? Perhaps they should look into this failure of economics?

A. Barton Hinkle, who hopes to some day be The Barton Hinkle, writes: The Misguided Open-Carry Movement

And congrats to Brian Doherty, who managed to get beyond the first few pages of the revisionist anti-gun book called The Second Amendment: A Biography. Says Doherty of the book:

Yet in Waldman’s merely two sentences explaining what was at issue in the case that has defined the modern meaning of the Second Amendment, 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller (I wrote the biography of that case, Gun Control on Trial), he seems strangely ignorant—or wants his readers to stay strangely ignorant—about exactly what law the case challenged.

I took the book to the shitter once. Once.

The SAF has filed supplemental briefs in the case.

TrackingPoint has apparently filed for one:

TrackingPoint’s chairman John McHale applied for a patent (#20140182179) which describes an invention that can disable the trigger of guns, such as TrackingPoint’s smart rifles, if they are within school zones (1,000 ft. of a school), on the grounds of a federal facility or on the grounds of private business that bans private firearms.

On the new gig.

Another illegal mayor goes to the big house.

Fixing a PF9.

Smith & Wesson M&P15 MOE

North China Type 19

Five Great Concealed Carry Guns That I Stopped Carrying

I guess he wants his TV show to fail too:

Piers Morgan is gone from CNN, but new host John Walsh plans to continue his campaign for gun control.

Besides hosting “America’s Most Wanted” and advocating for victims’ rights, Walsh has been a longtime advocate of background checks and other safety measures. He said he would continue that fight now that he is joining CNN as the host of “The Hunt,” a new show about catching fugitives.

“I am the guy that has seen both sides of the issue,” Walsh told reporters Monday. “I own guns. I’m the father of a murdered child. I’ve done nothing but track violence in America since my son was murdered. We have a serious problem with guns in this country. And we refuse to address it. And the NRA solution to arm every grammar-school 80-year-old teacher with a gun is absolutely ludicrous,” he said.

Actually, what’s ludicrous is your statement on the NRA’s position.

I guess he’s planning on national politics:

“Are we saying that the 10 children on the clip they advocate for, that their lives are less valuable?” he said at an event Monday, according to a video posted on his Youtube page. “If you take the logical conclusion of their argument, you go to zero because every life is valuable. And so why 10? Why not six, six? Why not two? Why not one? Why not zero? Why not just ban guns completely?”

NYPD cop goes on drunk shooting rampage.

Looks like the 700 had a problem of firing without pulling the trigger.

Grassroots wins.

Or what the press parrots from the Brady Campaign.

So, the senate votes overwhelmingly for the bipartisan sportsmen’s act.

They were, once again, raided by German police.

What you need to know.

American flag rifles from Stag. And a contest.

Police Chief in Uniform Told to Leave Gun Outside Ikea:

In between, he stopped at Ikea to shop for furniture for his daughter’s new apartment. And that’s when a loss-prevention officer at the store approached him.

“He says we have a no firearms policy, and you’re either going to have to leave or you can lock your gun in the car,” Goldberg said.

The store has signs posted on the front door that read “Weapons Free Environment.”

As demonstrated, making one with a cheap small-format 3D printer and some parts purchased on the internet (with no paperwork) is trivially easy.

A concealed carry holder shot an attacker:

A Gresham man fired on a group of people leaving a party, only to be shot himself by one of the victims, a military service member with a concealed carry permit, authorities said.

In Chicago. Wow.

Relevant to the post below, comes news that a progressive understands why they lose the gun control battle.

Bloomberg and his angry moms are sending out questionnaires to political candidates:

The group formed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to pressure political candidates to come out publicly in support of some gun control measures.

Everytown for Gun Safety on Monday released a questionnaire it’s sending to candidates as it decides which ones to support in this year’s midterm elections.

Students For Concealed Carry:

This week Students for Concealed Carry Foundation, Inc. filed a lawsuit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court challenging The Ohio State University’s authority to ban lawful possession of firearms by students, faculty, staff, and other affiliates on its campuses.

The group, joined by Ohioans for Concealed Carry, believes that Ohio State’s campus gun ban unlawfully infringes on fundamental Constitutional Rights. It also disarms students to and from campus, leaving them vulnerable to violent crime on their commute in what is historically a high crime area, the University District. While Ohio law permits a concealed handgun licensee to store a firearm in a motor vehicle on OSU’s campuses, a student could face administrative sanctions from the university including expulsion due to the certain provisions in the Student Code of Conduct.

FLOOD OF LAWSUITS OVER CONCEALED CARRY DENIALS

Please stop doing this.