I love the headline for this over at CNN. Seems someone stole Elvis’s Smith & Wesson 9mm from a museum. I doubt someone will be able to fence that for its actual value. The real shame is, it’ll probably end up sold on the street for much much less than the gun is worth.
Month: August 2007
One Gun a Month Woes
If this ATF data is to be believed, then Virginia is still a major source of traced firearms.  Maryland is too.  It’s useful to note that Maryland has some rather restrictive handgun laws, and that Virginia has one-gun-a-month. One gun a month, folks who support gun control tell us, is critical to stopping illegal gun trafficing.
Forgive me if I call bullshit. This is more evidence that particularly law is particularly useless.
Hat tip to Jeff Soyer
Closing Ranges in New Hampshire
Denise has a story about how new arrivals, presumably from the worker’s paradise to the south, are trying to shut down a local New Hampshire gun range.
Random Conversations With My Friend Lee Ann
Lee Ann is a friend of mine from back in the MUD days:
Sebastian: She’s back blogging now, since she found a new bitch girl
Lee Ann: ha!
Lee Ann: i told you it woudln’t last
Sebastian: She’s only 22, but really impressive
Lee Ann: really?
Sebastian: yeah
Sebastian: She seems like the kind of person who’s going places
Lee Ann: good deal
Lee Ann: it’s Bitter’s new bitch right? not yours…
Sebastian: That’s right
Sebastian: She has a pimp gun and all
Sebastian: Bitter does, I mean
Sebastian: To keep her bitches in line
Lee Ann: sweet
The pimp gun I’m referring to is her Davis Industries DM-22 derringer.
It’s only ever been fired once that I know of, and that was by me in Texas. It’s a hard trigger pull (as it needs to be), and you can’t hit crap with it, but it’s great for keeping your Bitch Girls in line!
Great Research on Ammo Prices
Confederate Yankee offers a different explanation for why ammo is currently so expensive.
Great Article on “The Peace Racket”
Kevin Baker points out a long article, but one that is well worth reading, that documents the moral failings of the peace racket.
Castle Doctrine Could Help Cops Too
Most of the castle doctrine bills that have been worked through legislatures typically carry a provision to make someone who is involved in a self-defense shooting immune from civil suit from the attacker or his estate. It’s always seems to me this would benefit police officers as well.
Wyatt Earp tells of a case where a police officer was involved in a self-defense shooting that was completely justified, and which the city is likely to settle instead of fight. Â Yet the city politicians could be absolutely counted on to fight any kind of civil immunity for people involved in self-defense shootings, including police officers.
This is yet another example of the City of Philadelphia’s sick political culture, which does very little to empower police officers and citizens to fight crime, and does everything to empower the criminals. Two things kill Philadelphia: taxes and crime. There’s no indication that the cities leadership is interesting in tackling either.
More Robberies Gone Sour
If I keep hearing about robberies like this happening in Pennsylvania, I’m going to have to reconsider my belief that it’s generally best to let these kinds of thing go down, be a good witness, and call the police, as long as the Robbers proceed according to getting the money and getting out.
The robbers seem to be violating that unsaid agreement, which means if someone comes into a convenience store with a gun drawn and declares a robbery, the proper course of action should be swift and well aimed fire.
Hat Tip to Zendo Deb
Save Sergeant York’s Machine Gun!
Dave Hardy says there’s a chance a piece of our history may actually be destroyed.  I know there are a lot of military museums out there, like the Ordnance Museum at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen Maryland. Could one of these museums take an NFA firearm that’s not registered under the military exemption?  I would hope a way can be found to save this gun. Registration would, of course, be preferable, but absent that, I would think there are other ways to save it.
More on PA/WV Reciprocity
Sorry folks, but it looks like it’s for resident permits only. West Virginia, as far as I know, generally only allows that.