The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Don’t forget that over at the Second Amendment Blog Bash site, we have a poll up through the end of the weekend at Blackwater on who will win the big shoot-out – Joe Huffman or Caleb.
So far, 86% 78% 81% of voters think Joe will win the bet. If you think Caleb can out-shoot Joe, it’s time to get over there and make your vote count. If you think Joe will top Caleb, make sure you show him your support by voting.
Make this a memorable Battle of the Gun Blogs!
Mr. Completely posted video of Todd Jarrett at the Steel Challenge recently. Alas, you’ll have to click through since his video hosting service doesn’t seem to have any sharing or embed options.
Our first stop on the way to Blackwater is at the Blackhawk headquarters.
After this stop, we board the bus again and take a ride in luxury down to North Carolina.
Bryan Miller seems to be taking the Mary McFate thing pretty hard. I can’t really blame the anti-gun folks who feel betrayed. I mean, imagine if you found out SayUncle was really a mole for Sarah Brady. But none of us are really pissed at NRA over the whole “spy” incident, and it has nothing to do with wanting to preserve gun industry profits. I worry about gun industry profits when I’m going to buy a new gun, not when I’m wearing my activist hat.
No, this is about preserving our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Are any tactics too despicable to prevent someone from undermining the very basis of natural and civic rights of the American people? Would it be wrong to try to gain insider knowledge on a group of people who were intent on silencing newspapers, and ending all publishing in the United States? What Bryan doesn’t understand, or perhaps he does understand and merely doesn’t want to acknowledge, is that we hold the Second Amendment right up there with the First in importance for maintaining a just and free society. We demand the Second Amendment be respected. We’re quite serious about it. Serious enough that we’ll condone our own advocacy groups doing opposition research, even if it means being a little underhanded. If that makes you upset, if that makes you paranoid, that’s not my problem. My problem is the fact that you want to trash the Bill of Rights.
I’m in my hotel suite in Norfolk. I figured a suite would be good if other bloggity types wanted to come over. It was also all they had left. I’ll be having dinner with an old friend, then hitting the hotel bar if anyone wants to join. At least I hope this hotel has a bar. Not to worry, though. I do have a backup plan.
Tomorrow the trek to Blackwater begins!
Sebastian and I spoke while he was headed down to the tip of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He promised me that he would take photos of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel system since I have never seen it, and I was looking forward to it.
He also mentioned that it was apparent he crossed some kind of weather system line since it very suddenly got hot and humid in southern Delaware. I suspect the haze in the photos is evidence of the humidity and not camera quality.
It focuses on Heller as a debate of source materials.
Dellinger considers Heller as a win for Gura and Scalia. Gura for his abilities and arguments, and Scalia for the opportunity to write such a big and important opinion on a subject that hadn’t really been addressed.
Found via Orin Kerr.
Greetings from Bridgeville, Delaware. Home of Ralph and Paul Adams Scrapple company, and a former employer of mine (long story). Just making my way down the Delmarva. Should arrive in Norfolk in a few hours.
A developer in Connecticut is not stopping at anything to try and shut down Blue Trail Gun Range. First, they were sued over bullets supposedly hitting houses. Only they weren’t. But, the range went ahead and addressed some safety concerns and made changes.
Then the complaining party brought in family to use the strong arm of government and force a change.
Democratic Councilor Vincenzo DiNatale has asked local officials to consider whether Blue Trail, a North Branford Road range which abuts part of the reservoir, is posing a lead hazard to the water supply. …
DiNatale is the nephew of Pat DiNatale, a Durham resident who sued the range over alleged safety problems after bullets hit his home earlier this year.
What did they find? Nothing. Not a single bit of lead.
The legal lead limit for raw water is 50 parts per billion, while testing could not find even one part per billion in the water flowing from the Ulbrich, Adair said.
It doesn’t matter that they can’t even find one part per billion, as the headline states:
No lead, but issue isn’t dead
I’ve now got all of the feeds set up and running at the Blog Bash website for those looking for more robust blog coverage of the Para USA blogger training.
Since the site still primarily serves as an event planning site not meant to show a ton of posts, I have set up a category page which will feature all of the posts with excerpts so you can easily peruse the many posts going up any time.
I should add that I’ve included a new poll about whether Joe Huffman will beat Caleb in their shoot-out bet. So go vote!
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