Sorry for the lack of posting. Busy busy night. Had to leave work at 3:30. Woke up this morning with a sore back. Today while working on some computer equipment, I bent down to pick something up and ended up with the knot from hell in my back. It was bad enough I couldn’t really stand to sit. I went home and got a hot pack on it, popped some ibuprofen, and I could function again. Went to Pistol People to pick up Bitter’s present. Came home, wrapped it, then went to Silhouette. Got the chicken pin. Shot lousy on rifle because my back is still kind of stiff. Switched to pistol. Got a 17 animals out of 40 tonight, which sucks compared to the guys who have been doing this for years, but hey, the animals are about the size of a 3×5 card cut into various animal shapes as 25 yards. My groups with pistol at that distance are about six inches across, so I’ll take 17. My goal is to be able to consistently break 20 with pistol.  To do that, I need to work on my trigger pull big time.
Year: 2008
NRA Files Brief in D.C. v. Heller
You can read it here.
Mitt’s Out
Mitt Romney is suspending his presidential campaign. It is now down to John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Rumor has it, Romney has been on the phone to hell bitching that Satan has not held up his end of the bargain. No word yet on whether Mitt will get his soul returned to him.
ATF Pays Red’s Another Visit
Looks like he’s been audited, once again:
Their intentions were not to bring us into compliance as they have claimed in the past but it was to specifically try and drum up violations in an attempt to paint us in a bad light before the Judge.
Looks like they felt like they needed to dig for some dirt now that they lost their motion for summary judgment. Ryan also has some tales of SHOT show.
Alcatraz Peace Center
If you’ve always wanted to lock up all the hippies, this could be your chance.
The Georgian Hordes
Looks like trouble is afoot between Georgia and Tennessee. There was, once upon a time, the same kind of problem between Virginia and Pennsylvania over who owned parts of what are now Western Pennsylvania (take that Virginia! We won! ).
Bloomberg Shaping Up For a Run
We’re going to have President Obillery folks. Mike Bloomberg is running petitions to make a third party run (via Instapundit). It’s looking increasingly likely that this authoritarian fascist is going to be throwing his jack boot into the race.
Normally I would suggest Bloomberg will draw the authoritarian fascist vote away from Hillary, but McCain’s saving grace in the election, if there is any, is that he has strong appeal to independent voters who like McCain. If Bloomberg draws right leaning independents away from McCain, it’ll easily hand the election to Obillery.
And that’s not even considering the fact that Ron Paul I think will also run as either an independent or Libertarian in the general election. I don’t see what else he’s going to do with all that money.
Stock up on EBRs while you can, it’ll be a damned miracle if we don’t end up screwed with a Democratic Congress and Democrat in the White House.
Extreme Judicial Activism
Robb has the story from Minnesota, where churches sued to overturn the Minnesota Personal Protection Act, which made Minnesota a shall-issue state. In this unbelievable ruling, the Minnesota Court stated:
The decision means the Edina Community Lutheran Church can continue to legally bar guns with signs saying “Blessed are the peacemakers. Firearms are prohibited in this place of sanctuary.” Other churches may choose their own wording.
The decision also means that parking lots, day-care centers and other charitable, educational and nonprofit facilities owned by churches may ban firearms.
Strictly speaking, the ban has always allowed churches to ban concealed carry on premises, but the legislature drafted a state wide standard for the signs to be uniform, and conspicuously posted, much like the 30.06 signs (I still love how the numbering on that one worked out) in Texas.
The proper response to this, of course, is for the legislature to strike all signage provisions from the MPPA, and revert to enforcing bans on concealed weapons using laws against trespass. Pennsylvania works this way, and it works well.
One wonders how the Court of Appeals would have ruled if the Minnesota legislature had simply chosen to allow concealed carry without any kind of license whatsoever?
Churches are free to ban gun within their churches, using trespassing laws that have been common law for centuries.  The legislature, by mandating signage, specifically intended to ensure that license holders knew that they were carrying into an establishment that prohibited concealed carry. The intent of the legislature has been thwarted by an activist court, and I hope the legislature will take to fixing this problem.
Great Respondent Brief Summary
Over at Leibowitz’s Canticle, there’s probably the best and most detailed summary of the respondents’ brief filed in D.C. v. Heller.
Via Dave Hardy, who also has links to several other thoughtful posts on the subject.
Finally …
… a corporate “good neighbor” community program I can really get behind.