Libertysphere talks about how Bush has been no friend of gun owners. I have to agree.
Author: Sebastian
The More the Merrier
Pennsylvania is home to some really fantastic breweries, from Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, to Pennsylvania Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, it’s a great state to live in, if you’re a beer lover. I’m happy to see us adding Philadelphia Brewing Company to the family of excellent Pennsylvania brewers.
Violence Policy Center Study Bunk
A few days ago I linked to a VPC study that purported to rank states by number of drive by shootings. While I linked to it in such a way as to not take it seriously, it would appear that, perhaps because they lack the funding to conduct a proper study, that VPC determined this through creative Google searching! I couldn’t make this shit up folks.
Stick a fork in them. The VPC is done.
Attention Garden State Gun Owners
The New Jersey State Police might be about to make you a hardened criminal, by changing the state regulations that allow for magazines to be blocked to 15 rounds.
Turning the law abiding of today into the criminal of tomorrow; It’s just the kind of gun control that Bryan Miller says has overwhelming support in New Jersey, and who is intent on bringing into the Keystone State!
Camera’s Fighting Philly Crime?
Camera’s work if you listen to the Philadelphia media, but the murder rate still seems to be climbing.
The Gun Blogger Rendezvous
So I do really want to go to the gun blogger rendevous, and as of now I’m planning on it. I will make my final decision shortly. The basic hangup is the same weekend, my high school marching band is having a reunion. Right now, there isn’t enough people from my years saying they are attending yet, but I’m keeping an eye on it. If it comes down to getting the old mallet section together, along with some more friends from those years, I might be tempted away from gun blogger goodness, as I might not ever have a chance to see these folks back together in one place ever again. But right now, it’s not looking like it’s headed in that direction.
Put me down as a strong tentative, but I will know more definitely by the end of the month.
More PSH
I think SayUncle has offically launched the term “Pants Shitting Hysterics” into the gun blogging vernacular, such that we now call it PSH for short.  Well, Ahab has the latest example from a media type who apparently thinks that he can’t be trusted with firearms, and, possibly none of us should be either.
Bitter Headed Home
Bitter had to take a day off work to deal with all the insurance mess from the accident. Fortunately, it seems that everything has worked out OK.  The at fault insurance company seems to be picking up the whole tab, as they should. She dropped off her car at a local body shop, and got herself a rental car, and is now on her way back to Virginia.
In the mail today, I got our new carry ammo. It’s been six months (you replace you carry ammo every six months, right?) since I got Bitter her first box of carry ammo that doesn’t suck, so I got us both new boxes of Corbon DPX 9mm. Prior to dating me, Bitter used whatever carry ammo someone gave her, which used to be Silver Bear 115gr HP.
I’m a big believer on not skimping on defense loads. Your life is worth something you know is going to work, and Corbon has a fantastic reputation for making a quality produc. DPX in particular does well in tests that involve firing through barriers. It’s expensive, but I think it’s hard to beat as a carry load.
Sir Elton the Luddite
Elton John things we have too much technology, and should shut down the internet for five years and see what happens.
Steve Cappelli Switching Sides?
From the Inquirer, it appears one of our stalwarts against gun control in the Pennsylvania General Assembly might be switching sides:
After a face-to-face meeting with Cappelli last month, Thomas said the lawmaker had agreed to become a spokesman for some of the Legislative Black Caucus’ gun-control bills, 33 of which are stalled in committee.
Specifically, Cappelli agreed to support House Bill 1746, which would allow the city to enact its own gun laws in consultation with the U.S. and state attorneys general, Thomas said.
Needless to say, this is not a welcome development. I have to drive through Philadelphia on my way to see Bitter.  The city, given the chance, will ban concealed carry within city limits. I do not favor weakening our state’s preemption laws. The Pennsylvania Constitution applies in Philadelphia, as it does in every other city in Pennsylvania. If we let Philadelphia infringe on it, other cities are sure to demand the ability to do the same. That would create the patchwork of local regulations that preemption was created to avoid.