I heard an ad on the local talk radio from an unknown running for senator. His ad had all the tea party stuff like common core is bad, low taxes, less government, pro business, balanced budget and maybe a pro-gun thing. And I thought that, well, the primary is over. Who is this guy? Some tea party upstart running as an independent. No, it turns out he’s just a democrat who’s probably lying. Here’s his webpage.

Democrats are so desperate in Tennessee, they act like they’re in the tea party.

So, Candice Bernd is butthurt that the NRA hosts a police shooting competition. Because, you know, you want to turn police loose with guns and not know how to shoot them. I kid, she’s butthurt because the NRA is hosting it.

But it’ll do

Most searched porn term by state. Someone should do one of those map thingies.

1955 Smith & Wesson K-22 Combat Masterpiece and a 1957 Smith & Wesson Model 34 Kit Gun

1911 add on

They all look alike

So, why did they lie about it for years?

The NRA says we should probably be leery of these sudden changes in anti-gun people.

Glenn: The Tennessee Law Review’s new Second Amendment symposium issue

I guess it depends. It does here.

Sig made a muzzle device that featured unenclosed baffles. ATF said it was a suppressor. A judge said to be a suppressor it had to actually suppress. Now, ATF is hitting the constructive possession angle, because you could enclose it.

Well, I have some PVC, wire mesh and some foam. I’m clearly in constructive possession.

A problem I don’t have but interesting to know.

Child porn charge overturned because a Navy guy scanned all computers in a state. Frightening.

If it’s the end of the world, I’m having a drink:

How To Get a Family of Four Prepped for The Coming Collapse – In The Quickest and Easiest Way Possible

God’s own pistol caliber

Angry little garden gnome

The Navy sends doctors to a Chicago and LA hospitals to prepare them for treating gun wounds:

Because the Navy doesn’t have any trauma training facilities in the U.S., military medical teams can’t get experience dealing with penetrating wounds, inserting IVs in emergencies and other techniques common to combat areas, said Bernard, a 37-year-old lieutenant commander who has been deployed to Afghanistan. He’s a trauma surgeon at the Lovell Federal Heath Care Center in North Chicago, where the Navy teams work when they aren’t at Stroger.

Launched this past spring, the program is one of two of its kind in the country. The other is at the Los Angeles County-University of South California Medical Center.

Navy doctors, nurses and medical corpsmen rotate through Stroger because its trauma unit is one of the busiest in the U.S., a result of the nearly constant gun violence in some troubled neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West sides.

They should ban guns there or something.

So, someone took the ATF ruling that trusts aren’t people and applied to make a machine gun. ATF sent them an approved form 1. Apparently, ATF thinks this ruling only applies to some things and not others and called the guy asking him to send it back. Personally, I’d lawyer up and tell them to fuck off. I wouldn’t build the gun until talking to a good lawyer but definitely tell them to fuck off.

English teacher admits she’s illiterate. Well, I don’t think so. But a good read.

In WA, a proposed bill would criminalize loaning your gun to someone at the firing range.

Welcome to the SEC, you’re doing great. Also, good job on the recent civil rights victory.

From one of my favorite blogs, ForgottenWeapons, comes InRangeTV:

We don’t prosecute wife beaters with damning video evidence. But a mom who didn’t know the law gets the book tossed at her.

Threatening gun rights groups

So long iPod classic

Tam and her toys

Men wearing skirts

DHS tells retailers to spy on us

Longslide

‘Murrica

Ugliest gun you’ll see today: Golden Chicken AK

Because I’m uncertain if I should be all sad and remembery or if I should be pissed because I can’t go through an airport without being finger banged. Or pissed because the job wasn’t finished.

Talk amongst yourselves.

Via the cap, comes this story of poker playing. If you are playing for money that matters to you, don’t play. There are two factors in gambling and most people forget the most important: does the money matter to you. You cant make the proper mathematical decision because the money matters and you don’t want to lose. So, guys like me will pressure you, you’ll fold, then you’ll go all in with a good hand but mine will be better. Because I’ve figured you out.

If the money matters to you, do not play. Period. If the $2, $20, $200 or $200,000 matters to you, do not play. Period. Even if your money mattering, as the article suggests, only matters on principle.

The next is odds. What are the odds I win vs. odds of pay out? Take a coin flip for instance. You say to me “let’s flip a coin for $1. You win, you get $1. I win, I get $1”. I’m indifferent to this bet. Odds are even money and the $1 doesn’t matter to me. I’d take it because I want people to perceive me as an action guy.

Compared to a coin flip where you’d pay me $0.75 and I’d pay you $1. I probably wouldn’t take this bet unless I wanted the perception as an action guy to manipulate you later, because the money doesn’t matter to me. But my odds of winning are less than my payout.

If you want to pay me $1.25 if I win and I pay you $1 if I lose, I’m all over it. Mathematically, I’m a winner and it’s money I don’t care about.

If you up it to money I care about, I’m not taking any bet. So, you bet me $1M that you can roll a one on six sided die. Odds are in my favor. I’m not taking the bet because $1M matters to me. Even though, mathematically, it’s a solid bet.

It’s also why I play powerball when it gets to eleventy billion dollars. The money doesn’t matter to me.

Tomorrow is 9/11. There may or may not be planes missing. There may or may not be different brown-skinned people coming in the country from the southern border. There is probably not anything going to happen. But I put an AR and 5 mags in the truck anyway.