Jamie Beyerle. She took 4th in 10m Air Rifle. And Fifth in Women’s 3 Position 50m Rifle. And she’s a Pennsylvanian. Good show!
Sporting Purposes
Kim Rhode Silvers
Looks like Kim Rhode managed to give her competitors quite a run for their money in Women’s skeet:
Cainero, Rhode and Germany’s Christine Brinker were tied with 93 points each, an Olympic record, after the final round of the women’s skeet. The Italian won the shoot-off for gold in the rainy conditions, hitting both skeets while Rhode and Brinker hit 1-of-2.
Rhode then hit both targets in the second shoot-off to pick up silver and Brinker settled for third after connecting on just 1-of-2 skeets.
This marks the fourth Olympic medal for Rhode, who won gold in the double trap event in 1996 and 2004 and bronze in that category at the 2000 Sydney Games.
“I have a collection now. I have a gold, a silver and a bronze,” said Rhode.
We congratulate her. She has represented her country well.
UPDATE: Voolfie comments: “Kim Rhode just won the Silver Medal in Women’s Skeet. FOUR Olympiads, two different sports and nothing worse than a Bronze Medal, ever…2G; 1S; 1B. Simply amazing.” Indeed
This is once instance …
… where I agree with the ACLU. They are going after a police Chief in Arkansas who’s instituting a curfew:
“Now, if somebody wants to sue us, they have an option to sue, but I’m fairly certain that a judge will see it the way the way the citizens see it here,” Mayor James Valley said. “The citizens deserve peace, that some infringement on constitutional rights is OK, and we have not violated anything as far as the Constitution.”
I don’t know what constitution this guy reads, but it can’t be the same one I do. I think it’s high time The Supreme Court ruled definitively on Curfew laws. This might be an excellent case.
Circular Reasoning
Looks like Wayne Fincher appealed his case based on Heller, and lost, based on the reasoning that machine guns, which are banned, aren’t in common use, which makes their being banned constitutional.
Lots of back and forth in the comments about the absurdity of the ruling. I agree with folks that the “common use” test proffered by Heller is insufficient, but I think a way around it, without having to blatantly overrule it, is to suggest that one must look at police use, when determining whether an arm in question is protected. If an arm in question is of a type that is part of the ordinary equipment of police work, it must necessarily be protected by the second amendment. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily get you machine guns, as I’m not certain whether machine guns are common police equipment. But it does get you out of the trap where the government could prohibit or frustrate commerce in new arms technology before it becomes “common” and then not worry. If it’s a useful instrument for self-defense, police departments will probably pick it up, and it will become common. Note that I don’t think you have to show that every patrol car has one, just that it’s not unusual, or unheard of.
Milkin’ It
The Brady’s have been milking the NRA spy scandal for all its worth. Not really unexpected, but for all the hoopla, it doesn’t seem to be generating all that much public interest or outrage.
Gun Theft Ring Busted in New Jersey
A couple of New Jersey cargo handlers, working for FedEX, were busted by the feds for stealing guns being shipped to a New Jersey based importer. The guns were sold on the streets of Newark, East Orange, and Jersey City.
Surely Bryan Miller will find some way to pin this on Pennsylvania’s lax gun laws.
More Lead Issues
This time in the Hartford Courant. Let me ask you folks this: Do you think Barack Obama’s EPA is going to work cooperatively with shooting ranges to help ranges minimize their environmental impact? Or do you think Obama’s EPA will use lead contamination as an excuse to shut ranges down? Think about that come November.
Communist Party Endorses Obama
According to Little Green Footballs, he might not be the Stalin they are looking for, but he’s close enough!
More Trouble for Blue Trail
Blue Trail is the last public outdoor range in Connecticuit. It would be a horrible loss to the shooting community to lose it. After bringing in experts to verify that the houses that claimed to be hit could not have been, it would seem that developer Pat DiNatale is taking up a new approach: lead.
What’s most curious to me is that the picture presented here looks nothing at all like lead corrosion. In fact, elemental lead is highly corrosion resistant. Even strong acids don’t have a large effect on lead. In addition, oxides of lead are usually white, bright yellow or bright red/orange. The picture above looks more like corrosion of iron or steel than lead. Lead is not very soluble in water. Most of the environmental concerns for lead contamination revolve around the use of lead oxides in things like paints, and lead salts. Elemental lead is not really very hazardous, and lead contamination from shooting ranges has never been shown to pose a serious hazard.