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Back in Roanoke

Yesterday Bitter and I spent the day with fellow gun bloggers SayUncle, Les Jones, Tam, and non-gun bloggers (but we don’t hold that against them) Glenn and Helen. We started out doing some shooting at Coal Creek Armory. Helen had fun with SayUncle’s 9mm AR-15. So did Bitter. She wants me to get her one now.

After shooting, we retired to the SayUncle compound for dinner, which was quite good! Bitter and I appreciate Uncle and Mrs. Uncle putting us up for the night. Thanks also to Les for picking up the tab for the range time.

Now we’re back in Roanoke for Christmas, Part II with Bitter’s family, and tomorrow we head back home.

Too Many Assault Weapons in… Knoxville?

We’ve seen stories like this from the land of John Timony in Florida. Maybe he has a relative working in the Knoxville PD, or perhaps the anti-gun people are hard at work there too.

“We have traffic stops and find rounds or magazines or weapons in cars where there is a group of people in the car.”

In the past, he says police would find someone with a handgun that might hold 8 to 10 rounds, now they are facing assault weapons capable of holding 100 rounds in a single magazine.

“The guys that shoot these high capacity weapons just spray them in all directions and that is obviously an extreme danger wherever this happens,” said Hoskins.

Hoskins says people who carry such weapons are a major threat to police and the public.

Geez, I hope Hoskins doesn’t intercept any of the gun bloggers headed to Coal Creek today. He’ll crap his pants.

A Mountain of Nannying

Liberal Fascism at its best in California.

Huckabee Channels Cheney

Looks like Mike Huckabee has some muzzle discipline problems of his own.

Midge Rendell Longs for “Benevolent Dictator”

Via a press release from State Representative Daryl Metcalf:

Â On November 8, 2007 a panel discussion was held in Philadelphia by The National Association of Women Judges entitled, “Separation of Powers: What Does It Mean?â€Â Governor Rendellâ€™s wife, a federal judge and member of the panel, made a shocking statement that should have made headlines the following morning.Â Following her comments lamenting that there are issues that are not going to be resolved legislatively because they are so difficult, issues such as health care, immigration reform, social security and a national gun law, Judge Rendell stated, â€œGee, a benevolent dictator would really be good right about now to, to put in health care and to put in some of these policies that we all want, but somehow the gridlock within the legislature makes it impossible.â€

It should be noted that Midge Rendell was placed on the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994, than elevated to the third circuit court of appeals by President Clinton in 1997.Â There are exactly the kind of people the Clinton’s like.Â That’s why you can count me in the anybody but Hillary crowd.

This is not an appropriate sentiment from a federal judge.Â God help us if the Clintons get another eight years of appointing the likes of Midge Rendell to the federal bench.

Late to the Party

Bitter and I were off driving around in the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina today, with much getting rained on, so I will have to do a roundup of what other people have posted on the topic of our friend, and troll, CeaseFire Pennsylvania Board Member, Alex Tristan Riley. What these bloggers have gathered is very circumstantial, and we can’t conclusively prove these allegations, because Alex has done an effective job of erasing his past by removing all the blog work he has done. It’s all gone down the memory hole.

War on Guns posts an example of this juvenile satire, posted under the pseudonym NRAfourever. Someone using that Pseudonym has also in the past run a blog, a screens shot of which is showing below:

Rob Allen does the best job of presenting the evidence he has that Alexander Tristan Riley, Culturologist, and NRAFourever are quite probably the same person. Thirdpower backs it up with some more.

You might not be able to take it to court, but judge for yourself whether or not you think they are the same person. All the former blog efforts have now been removed, since Alex accepted his position on CeaseFire Pennsylvania’s Board of Directors.

UPDATE: Armed and Safe has more.

Our Friends at ATF

Looks like they’ve been busy.Â Joe says they are misleading the public on several fronts with a story he points to.Â Agents also appear to be harassing homeowners who lawfully store things that can go bang in their garages.Â Let’s not forget Bill Akins either.

Evan Nappen on HR2640 Passage

Evan Nappen has another editorial defending against attacks by folks less than happy with the passage of HR2640. For those of you who don’t know, Evan is probably the foremost legal expert on New Jersey’s gun laws; not a simple task, they are monstrously complicated, and even the lawmakers don’t really understand that body of law.

Improving Georgia’s Carry Laws

As I’ve said before, I generally find myself being the damned yankee that complains about restrictive carry laws in The South, particularly in the onerous number of “off limits” places.Â Georgia is looking to remedy that with HB 915:

GCO fully supports the Second Amendment Protection Act of 2008, introduced today by Rep. Timothy Bearden, D. 68.Â Â GCOâ€™s top legislative priority for 2008 is the passage of HB 915.

Do you know:

Georgia has more places off limits to carrying a firearm than California. In fact, Georgia has more places off limits to carry than any state in the nation. Shocked, surprised, disgusted?Â Fed up? Finally ready to do something about it?

Sounds good to me.Â Now if we can pass this, maybe we can convince Tennessee to ditch carry restrictions on federal lands, and state parks. Â Same for Florida too, for that matter.

Conservative Sacalawag [wants to know where the NRA is with all of this]*.Â I would imagine they’d be behind lifting carry restrictions, as they have been in many other states, but I suspect we’ll see more movement on this after the holidays.

* Link dead

Blogging Today

Bitter and I are headed out into the wilderness today to spend some time in the mountains of North Carolina, before headed west to hang out with the Knoxville gang tomorrow.Â As far as I know, I’ll be meeting such fine folks as Les Jones and Tam, who we missed last time we passed through.Â I think Glenn and Helen are planning to be there too.Â They were kind enough to buy us lunch when we passed through last March.Â Hopefully this time I’ll manage to say more than 10 words the entire time, now that I don’t feel as much like a newbie to this whole blogging scene.

Needless to say, posting might be a bit scarce tomorrow and Saturday, so I’m going to open up to my friend Brad and Ahab to post one or two things if they feel like it, to keep people interested.