Apparently ATF is going after fisherman who use M80 like firecrackers fired from a gun, in order to scare away seals and birds from their fishing lines. I feel safer already!
Year: 2011
More CSGV Fascism
I don’t like throwing the “F” word around willy nilly, but I just don’t know what else to call this. Seriously? Exercise one constitutional right and lose another? No guns for those who’s viewpoints someone else finds offensive? I don’t want to live in the world that Coalition to Stop Gun Violence would apparently favor.
Annual 2A Rally in Harrisburg
It’s tomorrow. Normally I make a point to attend this, but not this year. With the current job situation, any vacation I spend between now and when we close in a few months causes me to forfeit cash when my employment terminates. Not something I want to do right now.
Suppressors on Mythbusters
Airing this Wednesday. I’m wondering what myth they are busting, exactly? Maybe that silencers actually make a gun silent, rather than just quieter? If you need any more evidence to believe that suppressors are going mainstream, this is it.
Update on Texas Campus Carry
I’m very eager to see this bill move, if only because this issue drives our opponents into raving madness. I don’t blame them. When your defensive action is guns in schools, if not yet completely politically irrelevant, you’re certainly on your way. Looks like they are trying to attach it to various other bills before the end of the session.
If I had to bet money, I don’t think it’ll pass this year.
Like You and Me, Only Better
Apparently a New Jersey state trooper used his undercover ID to get out of liability for an accident he was in, causing a multi-year investigation by the accident victim and his lawyer. Looks like the State Police may have helped cover it up too.
Religious Intolerance
New York Times and Due Process
Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is quite free to buy high-power firearms and ammunition at any American gun shop.
How about this:
Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is quite free to buy books on military tactics and infiltration techniques at any American book store.
Or this:
Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet are not being detained in military brigs, and are free to walk any American street.
Or finally this:
Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is still entitled to continue practicing Islam in any American mosque.
No. All those other things I mentioned are fundamental rights the New York Times agrees with and would defend viciously. Clearly the editorial staff at the Times has not yet accepted the full implications of Heller and McDonald, which is that you can’t deny someone the right to buy a gun because of their presence on a secret government list.
Beer + Raccoon + Small Pistol = Skin Graft
Apparently an Oregon woman is looking at some skin grafts after she shot the tip of her finger off trying to shoot a raccoon with a .25 caliber Beretta. You know any story involving a gun, beer, and a raccoon is not going to end well:
Asked if she had been drinking, the woman told the deputy, “one beer.â€Â The bullet missed the raccoon.
I’m not buying one beer, and I’m guessing the deputy isn’t either. My guess is, based on the story, she gripped the small pistol in a way that her left middle finger was covering the barrel.