If Countertop keeps showing off pictures of his new EBR, Bitter is going to make me get her one. I’m more of an EBC person myself.
Year: 2008
Just One Question
Many of you have probably seen Joe Huffman’s Just One Question. He managed to get a response back from a reporter this time.
Good News!
Fresh from stabbing gun owners in the back with the Heller Brief, the Bush administration seems to have decided to be nice to us again:
At the request of the Bush Administration and 51 members of the United States Senate led by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prohibition of firearms on agency land will be revised in the following weeks.
Victory at last.
Cal State Lockdown
Caleb speaks of Cal State going ape shit over someone walking around with an assault rifle. When I was in college, one of the ROTC kids got himself a reprimand for toting an M16 openly down the streets of Philadelphia on his way to our school’s rifle range. Oddly enough, perfectly legal for anyone to do; open carriage of pistols is illegal in the City of Brotherly love without a License to Carry, but openly carrying a long gun is not, and Pennsylvania law makes no distinction between legal machine guns and other types of long guns.
I’m not sure this is evidence of hoplophobia. If I saw someone openly carrying what looked like an M16 around campus, I’d probably be a little alarmed too.  It’s not so much the gun as it is that it’s something out of context. I’m not sure my level of alarm would be lower if the person was in uniform.
Nebraska Ban on “Inherently Dangerous” Firearms
This turd passed unanimously out of committee. Folks in Nebraska need to get off their butts and join Joe in stopping this. You only get one chance. Repealing laws once they pass is next to impossible.
Let it Snow
Good thing about the snow: No work!!
Bad thing about the snow: Too hazardous to go see Bitter :(
2008 Election Poll
I have a new polling plugin, so I’m going to try this sucker out.
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Your feedback is appreciated.
It’s Only February …
… and I’m already tired of this election year. Tired because I find myself defending John McCain, and I don’t even really like the guy. McCain is pretty far from being a classical liberal I could really get behind, and tends to fall more into the category of “National Greatness” conservative, who are open to a lot more state meddling in things the state ought not meddle in than I’m comfortable with.
But there are more crazy claims about McCain circulating out there than I can shake a stick at. The first is that he’s anti-gun, and no better than Hilly or Obama. Brady gives McCain a career rating of 17%. Obama and Hillary both have 100% ratings, as did John Kerry. The other is that McCain is a socialist. Other than Ron Paul, McCain’s federal budget is the lowest of any remaining Republican candidate. McCain is not in favor of socializing 7% of the US economy in the same manner Obama would. I think McCain on fiscal matters will be a significant improvement over Bush, let alone Obama or Hillary.
To my mind, campaign finance reform is his biggest sin, and there were a lot of other folks, including Fred Thompson and President Bush, and five members of the Supreme Court, who all took their turn to drop their dookie into the constitutional swimming pool.
But given that I’m the only person in the gun blogosphere who is thinking, “McCain! Why did it have to be McCain!?!?” but still planning to vote for him regardless, and encouraging others to do so as well, I find myself wondering if the more apt analogy is Han Solo telling Chewbacca, “Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don’t care what you smell!”
We’re All Shills to Them
It’s probably hard for a cadre of paid activists to believe that folks like myself and W. Scott Lewis do what we do because we value our rights, and not because we’re paid shills for the “gun lobby”
Or perhaps it’s not so hard for them to believe, but in order to paint the big bad NRA, and its 4 million members, in a negative light, it has to claim we’re all paid shills of some nefarious “gun lobby”
From Peter Hamm, of the Brady Campaign:
But Peter Hamm, communication director for the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence, is concerned that the group is the latest tool of the powerful gun lobby.
“We know very clearly that they were organised and they are funded by the gun industry, by the companies that are selling the guns,” he said.
“This is not some spontaneous, grassroots organisation.
“There are more members than there were before Virginia Tech because the gun industry is spending more money to enlist more young people to help them spread the word, that if only we had more guns in America, we’d have less of a gun violence problem.”
So the tens of thousands of people on SFCC’s Facebook group are all paid shills of the “gun lobby” and not real grass roots? If Peter Hamm wants to know what astroturf looks like, he doesn’t need to look very far.
Peter Hamm offers no facts to back up this assertion, but are we really surprised?
Silhouette with Bitter’s Rifle
Shot a 21 with Bitter’s new CZ-452 Lux rifle, open sights. Not good, but I meant to take it to the range last night to make sure the sights were zeroed, but didn’t get the chance because I felt like dog pooh. It was shooting a bit high at to the left, but it’s hard to tell exactly how much just looking at the splatter on the animal. I ended up missing the first couple of animals until I figured out where to aim for that particular animal. After that it was down to my general skill, which only gets me about 30 or so with my scoped 10/22.
I think it’ll be a great shooter once I get the sighs zeroed and get a scope on it.