Heh

Stinger Covert Cigarette Guns

CBS News:

Assault all the things!

This cracked my right up:

.50s being tested against body armor and other stuff. Including Legos.

They want their political opponents dead.

Seems the FBI is turning loose one of its databases to be used for NICS checks. This database has 400,000,000 records and would have supposedly stopped the Charleston shooter.

5 Must-Know Drills for Your Home-Defense Shotgun

Personally, don’t dig the shotgun as a home defense gun. But as a shotty noob, I enjoy practicing this sort of stuff.

A group of Parkland shooting survivors are suing the Sheriff’s department:

Incompetence, poor training and inaction cost lives in the Valentines Day shootings that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 15 current or former students claim in a new federal lawsuit.

The suit says the 15 suffered at least, psychological injury and trauma during the Feb. 14 mass shootings, which left 14 students and three adults dead and 17 other people injured.

Courts have ruled in the past that cops have no duty to protect you.

Here’s a 9mm AK variant from Palmetto State Armory:

I spy with my little eye, the PSAKV. @highbarhomestead #AK #WYOMING #Repost @pewpewtactical with @get_repost ・・・ Earlier today…testing out PSAs prototype 9mm AKV. More to come! @palmettostatearmoryofficial @highbarhomestead

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The Krinks of Osama bin Laden

A feel good story about how an armed citizen thwarted a robbery. But there’s this:

“There were some people in the store. I figured I got a minute or two to get home and get back and get my gun before he would be able to do anything.”

He had time to go home, get his gun and held the perp for police.

We have a lot going on in TN. We have a senate race happening where my choice of vote is for former Democrat Governor Bredesen. Bredesen actually signed a few pro-gun bills into law during his tenure. The Republican is Marsha Blackburn, who I’m generally not a fan of because she’s pretty flaky. I was disappointed to see Bredesen call for more gun control recently. So, I guess he’s right out.

For Governor, we have NRA endorsed Diane Black. She’s an otherwise entrenched local politician. And then, there’s Randy Boyd, who is trying to run like Trump. He has the whole successful businessman thing down. Though he was critical of Trump during the 2016 campaign. And his ads tout his pro-gun bona fides. I’m leaning toward him because he’s not a career politician.

For my local house district, I’m voting for Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett. I’ve met him. He’s a good guy with definite libertarian leanings.

And Scott P. Williams will get my vote for state senate.

But only because they’ve been at record highs for so long. Still, the third highest June ever.

Snubnose Revolvers: Tried-and-True for Concealed-Carry Use

Democrats have to hide their intentions to win, usually:

Tedra Cobb, the Democratic candidate in New York’s 21st Congressional District, told a group of teenage supporters that she supports a ban on certain firearms but won’t say so publicly for fear of losing her election.

It’s satire but it’s right on the mark:

Resistance Movement Vows To Do Anything To Stop Trump Short Of Treating Other Half Of Country With Respect

Remember dancing FBI guy who negligently shot some body? Wel, he’s allowed to carry his gun again.

Good grief:

Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at U.S. airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing assaults, false arrests and other abuses.

In a 2-1 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners are shielded by government sovereign immunity from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act because they do not function as “investigative or law enforcement officers.”

The TSA is the gift that keeps on getting.

Border Protection said that NY Mayor de Blasio crossed into Mexico illegally.

Morgan Submachine Gun

Seems good on the second amendment. The fourth? Not so much.

This seems like a big deal:

DOJ, SAF REACH SETTLEMENT IN DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED LAWSUIT

[snip]

SAF and Defense Distributed had filed suit against the State Department under the Obama administration, challenging a May 2013 attempt to control public speech as an export under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), a Cold War-era law intended to control exports of military articles.

Under terms of the settlement, the government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3-D files and other information at issue. The government has also agreed to pay a significant portion of the plaintiffs attorneys fees, and to return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by Defense Distributed as a result of the prior restraint.

Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to .50-caliber including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms are not inherently military.

More at the link.

I’m just now getting around to it because of stuff. But last night, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace Kennedy. The bought and paid for astroturf protesters were ready to go with pre-printed signs with various names on them. And ABC and the women’s march folks had their opposition pre-printed with the judge’s name spelled wrong or with XX. It didn’t matter who the next nominee was, they were going to be literally Hitler immediately. So, what does the gun community think?

NRA endorses him.

SAF endorses him.

NSSF endorses him.

The anti-gun astroturf does not.

Dave Kopel and Ed Whelan have some detail on how he has ruled on second amendment issues. But don’t expect him to be perfect on the issue.

He was the dissenter in Heller 2.

I was hoping for Barrett but Kavanaugh seems like a safe choice.

Heh

Personal-Defense Ammo: Top Picks from the Experts. I may need to look into running +P for the M&Ps.

No idea. But he usually posts cool stuff.

The Fifty dollar Colt

Why are anti-gun activists so violent?

It’s a phrase I’ve used here a lot. And it typically applies to leftists in general and anti-gun loons specifically. Since Trump’s election, I have gotten quite a few chuckles watching the left and the media (but I repeat myself) melt down, sometimes in hysterical fashion. I’ve seen the creation of safe spaces and trigger warnings and micro aggressions. All of which are made up. If you can’t handle what’s happening around you, it’s not someone else’s fault. But I digress.

I supposes that after one emerges from all that SJWing and realizes it was for naught, stage 2 is violence. Remember when someone ran Sanders from a restaurant? Well, there’s a lot more than that now:

The left is ginning up violence. Listen to Maxine Waters.

Rand Paul has been attacked twice. Well, three times if you count the attempted mass shootings of Republican senators.

A 16 year old was attached for wearing a Trump hat.

More of these little fascists verbally berate Mitch McConnell.

And someone stalked the Kent State gun girl and threatened to assault her in a restaurant.

And you have reporters celebrating this stuff.

They really need to stop. Going down the road to violence is not going to end very well for anybody.

And the one that takes the cake is one Michael Sean Winters:

To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting.

I was not a Trump supporter. But if the left resorts to this sort of thing, it’s going to end in a way they won’t like. Of course, this little pansie probably thinks others are going to get the revolution on for him. Rest assured, he won’t lift a finger.

Organizers of pro-gun rallies lament low turnout

Here’s the problem with that: They were in DC, LA and Chicago. How many gun rights folks live there or would go there?

Plus gun owners typically have to go to work.

H9, what I didn’t like.