The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Drudge is reporting that ABC News is turning their organization over to the White House:
On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
The media can’t finish circling the bowl fast enough for me. It’s a shame too, because I think journalism, real journalism, is still important and has a place in the world.
Apparently the people who administer Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky are upset because we legal gun carriers are clearly going to trap everyone in a cave and shoot them like ducks in a barrel:
Mammoth Cave has previously banned guns from the cave, saying it keeps everyone safe. McDougal says there aren’t many ways to escape once you’re inside on a cave tour.
Does McDougal really think the rule was preventing a mass cave slaughter before? Apparently in his world, mass killers were busy checking the Code of Federal Regulations to check first whether their gun possession would be legal before they go on a killing spree.
Either way, I have to accept that they might be a little challenged in the reading comprehension department, since they are waiting for “guidance from Washington on interpretation of a new law opening national parks and refuges to people with loaded guns.”  All the guidance one needs can be found in the Coburn Amendment itself. It’s one of the simplest laws you’ll ever read:
The Secretary of the Interior shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm including an assembled or functional firearm in any unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System if the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm and the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the State in which the unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System is located.
There’s your guidance. Guns are legal in Mammoth Cave according to Kentucky Law. Now quit your whining and deal with it.
Apparently one of the bill’s sponsors switched at the last minue and voted no. The bill tied 14-14 in the Senate. This passed before, and was vetoed by Napolitano, so it will probably pass at some point. Hopefully before NRA goes back to Phoenix.
This unsafe shooting exhibition has been making the rounds. If it were me, I would have refused to fire until the cameraman got his ass off the range. No reason that shot couldn’t have been taken with just the camera downrange.
I’ve heard the term “automatic” used to describe semi-automatic pistols, but this one Pennsylvania dealer seems to have the nomenclature a bit off:
“Sales have been booming since then,” she said. “People were scared the government would re-establish the ban on automatic weapons. Our sales went up 30 percent. People are buying automatic guns, revolvers and handguns. We also sell collectible guns.”
I hold out the possibility that the dealer said semi-automatic, and the reporter heard automatic. Either way, I wish the ban on automatic weapons had to be re-established, because it would imply that it lapsed, but sadly it’s been in full effect since 1986.
The Arizona Rifleman discusses the ridiculousness of the idea of anti-stab knives, which have been introduced in the UK, and are being promoted by the Home Office. The mind boggles at some of the comments:
This is intended to make homes safer places for everyone regardless of age, ability (disability) or useage. The common kitchen knife hasn’t evolved since its medieval beginnings and has no place in the 21st century home. By the way £50 each is a misprint. They will be much cheaper.
No place in the 20th century home? What about screwdrivers, or sharp scissors? Straight razor anyone?
I once took my S&W 629 apart to clean out the lockwork, and re-oil everything. Tam isn’t kidding about it being a complicated mechanism. I was rather frightened I wasn’t getting it back together on my own, and I would have hated to go to a gunsmith with a baggie of parts and a frame and had to sheepishly ask him to put it back together for me. I did manage to get it back together, and it works as it did before, but it took a bit of research on Al Gore’s internets to figure it all out.
Guns and hunting profiles the new National Match Air Rifle, based on the AR-15 platform. It’s expensive, but it’ll keep you shooting for next to nothing. For instance, I just ordered 1000 pellets, match grade pellets, for 15 dollars.
Hat Tip to SayUncle
If I’m on a road trip, I’m almost never without a firearm. This kind of thing is why.