The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
In regards to Bryan Miller’s new blog, one of my readers, tkdkerry, comments:
Well, he finally changed the “boys†to “guys†and “fellasâ€.
My female girlfriend, who has her Virginia Concealed Handgun License, and who carries a SIG239, might take offense to gun rights advocates being referred to as “boys”, “guys” or “fellas”. Don’t forget about Tam, Zendo Deb, Denise, Squeaky Wheel, or Kit.
Careful about offending the feminist gun nut crowd there Bryan :)
Joseph gets two links today.  This one for a quote from a US Attorney, who no doubt is eager to tout his prosecution of a whacky militia type, but done under the absurdities that are the National Firearms Act:
The mere possession of an AR 15 semiautomatic rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches is a crime of violence, he said.
So does that presume there’s nothing violent about having a 16 inch AR-15?   Get that folks?  Have a 14.5 inch M4 upper, violent nut case, 16 inch upper, you’re a OK.  Sounds a lot like the Canadian nonsense about pistol barrel lengths I linked to earlier.  See, we have our own nonsense too.
This could be one of our folks, but the possibility of this kind of thing happening is exactly why I think it’s important to engage the gun control movement publicly. We don’t get to do this in the regular media.
It’s good to see that gun control is not such a settled issue in The Great White North, that things like this are still a bone of contention. Canada is a great example of why anyone who thinks they will stop with licensing and registration is a fool.
“The risk that a legal handgun becomes an illegal handgun is not a hypothetical risk. It’s established,” Bryant said, pointing to the Toronto police figure that 30 per cent of crime guns are stolen from legal owners and 70 per cent are smuggled.
To Bryant and company, it means that getting rid of legally owned handguns in Canada would reduce a significant number of handguns from getting into the hands of criminals.
If it were up to Ontario and Quebec, Canada would already have a handgun ban.
This article talks about the slaying of an Oakland journalist. This would be not blog worthy material except that it closes with:
Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, was the last reporter killed in the line of duty in the United States. He was killed by a car bomb in 1976 while reporting on organized crime.
Emphasis mine. Sorry folks, journalist don’t get “killed in the line of duty” that’s reserved for police officers, firefighters, soldiers, and other such professions that report for duty (sorry John Kerry, not you) to serve the public. Reporters get murdered while working on a story, or killed on the job. As much as other journalists might think they have a duty to the public, that they serve, saying something like this diminishes those who actually do.
Ryan Horsley has the details. And this is happening under a “pro-gun” administration folks.
Cam Edwards notices some inconsistencies in some of Bryan Miller’s statements, and points out the true history of the Tiahrt Amendment:
The ATF has been opposed to the general release of its trace data since at least 1999, when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley sued the ATF to try and gain access to the data under the Freedom of Information Act. The ATF, under the Clinton administration, also felt that this information should not be available to the general public.
It wasn’t until the case was headed to the Supreme Court in 2003 that Congress stepped in and passed the Tiahrt Amendment, rendering the Daley case moot.
The facts are such inconvenient things for the gun control movement.
It was only a matter of time before the shit awful drivers on I-95 between DC and Philadelphia nailed one of us. Bitter called me and told me she had been rear ended. She’s OK, but the car is screwed. Don’t know if she’ll be able to make it up now. Might have to go in a rescue mission, though she says the car is drivable, but I don’t know how drivable. More later.
UPDATE: Bitter called me back. She’s resumed her journey. The MD State Trooper said the car was road worthy. Doesn’t sound that bad. They hit the rear tire and shattered the windshield.  The door is probably toast, but the main body, I’m thinking, is probably OK.  Door and window will have to be replaced.  The question will be whether to get it done here, and have her rent a car to take home, or drive the car home and get it taken care of there. The State Trooper said it was the 9th accident today, the tenth happened while Bitter was off to the side, and she witnessed it.  I’ll need to be careful when going through Baltimore.  In my experience, drivers along the I95 corridor in the Northeast are among the worst in the country.
Interesting article in The Register talking how the Kalashnikov is the open source rifle that took the world by storm.
I seem to have a faulty battery backup unit on my FiOS system that’s causing the outage. When I came home the light was on at the junction box outside that indicated the power was out and battery was low. I go check the AC line, and it’s feeding power to the BBU just fine. Fortunately, unplugging the battery convinced it that it had a bad battery, but everything else was fine. We’re back up for now. Verizon will be out tomorrow to replace the faulty BBU.