US must invest in ‘smart guns’ to reduce avoidable deaths, activists say. Smart guns are a stupid pipe dream. No serious person should even consider them.

Turn in your gun and get welding training.

Well, unless you’re in a wheelchair

They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.

Well, they have an agenda and all but you’d think they’d know about the firearms they’re in charge of regulating.

Senate Republicans pass open carry bill for handguns in Texas

The underboob selfie violates Thailand law

Weaver vs. Isosceles, not a court case.

Like hope and change, it was made up

Custom guns. Look kinda cool.

Finest Winchester Model 21

Clipfort, a biometric magazine substitute that locks up the gun:

If you let college kids go shooting, they really like it.

It’s all, of course, a gun industry plot!

A write up over at LuckyGunner.

“Journalism”

Just to go read tweets on TV. Obama is OK with guns when they’re used to defend him.

The Colombian:

A Clark County District Court jury has convicted a man who fired his gun to scare away alleged car prowlers, then later told reporters that he was just following the vice president’s suggestion.

Jeffrey C. Barton, 53, made international news when he told journalists: “I did what Joe Biden told me to do. I went outside and fired my shotgun in the air.”

He was convicted of obstructing a police officer.

Massad Ayoob:

Some open carry advocates hope for test cases to go to courts and validate their cause. I wouldn’t be betting on that outcome. When someone’s behavior is sufficiently frightening that the school in question goes to lockdown, I don’t expect the courts to say that’s just fine.

Details are sketchy but a man was shot through his pocket and killed with the gun he was carrying. My guess is no holster and probably something else other than the gun in the pocket.

A class on Shooter Self Care

And Glenn is speaking at the Firearms Law Seminar.

The Hill:

Congressional Democrats are pressuring the Obama administration to move ahead “swiftly” with a proposal that would ban a form of armor-piercing ammunition.

In a draft letter first obtained by The Hill, Democrats are urging the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to use his “existing authority” to keep “dangerous ammunition out of our communities.”

“We hope that the Bureau will swiftly review comments on the proposed framework and issue a revised proposal that will address the danger posed by handguns that fire 5.56mm and other rifle ammunition,” Democrats write in the letter.

Well, some of them.

In New Jersey, an intruder breaks into a home and beats a woman. (yes, it’s an older story)

In America, man breaks in and gets shot in the junk.

In Indiana, it applies when the intruders are police.

The least kept secret? Or not.

Stephen Stromberg. I also notice the pic they use is not M855.

One fine holster. I have a holster, mag carrier and belt from The Holster Site. Highly recommended.

Schouboe Prototype .45 Pistols

Heizer Defense Pocket AK in 7.62x39mm. Ok, then.

‘Strongest’ Research Shows No Link Between Gun Ownership Rates and Higher Crime

ATF Director: “Any 5.56 round” is “a challenge for officer safety,”

A bill stripping ATF of their ability to regulate ammo sounds better and better.

Gallup: Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem

ISIS isn’t spending all my money, eroding my civil liberties, and ensuring that my washing machine does a shitty job washing my clothes. The government’s doing that.

This is what he thinks of gun owners.