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Courting the Gun Makers

Red’s trading post has a bit up about Idaho’s efforts to court gun makers. I’m sure Idaho is also a good state to do business in, in addition to having reasonable gun laws. Idaho has some other states to compete with, however.Â There’s very little chance Pennsylvania would ever see any of this action.

While our gun laws are not bad, from a manufacturing point of view, our business climate is terrible, and it’s one of the worst states in the country in which to set up a manufacturing operation. Plus, you can bet that Fast Eddie Rendell won’t be offering any tax breaks for that industry.

It’s good to see Idaho stepping up to offer a home to gun makers who are being driven out of their increasingly hostile home states. I suspect the competition here will be stiff, though. Still, if I had my chance, I’d love to live in Idaho.

Pin of Triumph

Here is my glorious chicken pin:

I can fairly consistently hit the chickens now with rifle. I’m up to the point with pistol where I can his 7 out of 10 on a good day. I need to work on my pistol skills more to accomplish this. I think I can get another (different colored) pin for pistol.

Get Yourself a Black Rifle

Ahab thinks it’s time. I agree. In very worried about what’s going to happen in November. In the primary election, Democrats are turning out way more to vote than Republicans, which tells me Republicans are feeling alienated from their party (and for good reason). Hillary would be unlikely to push for a new assault weapons ban in a serious way (other than lip service), because she’s been burnt in a big way on that issue in the past, and I’m sure she still feels the sting. I think if we get The Hildabeast, the main thing we have to watch out for is preserving the ability to sell firearms privately.

Obama, on the other hand, is politically naive, and I don’t think understands the world very well outside of Chicago. Despite the fact that I lack the loathing disdain for Obama that I have for Hillary Clinton, he’s probably the biggest danger to gun rights.

UPDATE: Stock up on magazines too.Â That’s another likely avenue of attack under a Democrat president.Â Either one I think is likely to do that.

Another Victim

JR of A Keyboard and a .45 will be coming to the blog bash in Louisville.Â If you have a blog, you should come.Â If you don’t, you should start one and come.Â If you don’t want to start one, come anyway, though there will be blogger only events, it’s not like we’ll be like “Oh, dear.Â You don’t have a blog.Â I’m afraid we don’t talk to the little people.”

Fred for VP!

So, McCain as the nominee is pretty much a done deal at this point.Â Now our best hope is that he nominates a reasonable Vice President.Â Huckabee has already said he’d take the post if offered, which means he wants it.Â Huckabee can win in the South, as he’s demonstrated, but if he picks ~~Jimmy~~ Mike, then there’s two names on the ticket, with neither one of them being “conservative” (whatever that means) in the eyes of Republican voters.

So why not send Huckabee back to Arkansas, and give Fred Thompson a call?Â I’m certainly not the first to suggest it, but I think a McCain/Thompson ticket would be a strong one.Â Let’s face it, McCain will be assuming office at the age of 72 if he’s sworn in as our next President, and you have to imagine that spending five and a half years being tortured by the North Vietnamese and having to live in your own filth probably isn’t very good for longevity. Â McCain’s Vice Presidential pick is important.

Thompson would help McCain gain back some of that conservative street creds that he’s been lacking in recent years, and would definitely help sweeten an otherwise bitter medicine.Â Fred Thompson is pretty clearly McCain’s best choice for Vice President.Â Let’s hope it’s McCain/Thompson ’08.

Countertop’s Criticism

I’ve been critical of GOA often in the past, but ouch:

Bottom line, the Gun Owners of America (and by implication Larry Pratt) arenâ€™t worth the paper I just used to wipe shit from ass.

Follow the comment he linked to, where he deconstructs McCain’s GOA F rating.Â I would note, though, that NRA also dinged McCain’s grade because of McCain-Feingold.Â Last time he ran with a NRA grade of C+, if I recall.

To my mind, McCain’s worst sin against gun owners is huckstering for AHSA speaking in favor of banning private sales at gun shows. Â His worst sin against the constitution is McCain-Feingold.

Lack of Posting

Sorry for the lack of posting.Â Busy busy night.Â Had to leave work at 3:30.Â Woke up this morning with a sore back.Â Today while working on some computer equipment, I bent down to pick something up and ended up with the knot from hell in my back.Â It was bad enough I couldn’t really stand to sit.Â I went home and got a hot pack on it, popped some ibuprofen, and I could function again.Â Went to Pistol People to pick up Bitter’s present.Â Came home, wrapped it, then went to Silhouette.Â Got the chicken pin.Â Shot lousy on rifle because my back is still kind of stiff.Â Switched to pistol.Â Got a 17 animals out of 40 tonight, which sucks compared to the guys who have been doing this for years, but hey, the animals are about the size of a 3×5 card cut into various animal shapes as 25 yards.Â My groups with pistol at that distance are about six inches across, so I’ll take 17.Â My goal is to be able to consistently break 20 with pistol.Â Â To do that, I need to work on my trigger pull big time.

NRA Files Brief in D.C. v. Heller

You can read it here.

Mitt’s Out

Mitt Romney is suspending his presidential campaign.Â It is now down to John McCain and Mike Huckabee.Â Rumor has it, Romney has been on the phone to hell bitching that Satan has not held up his end of the bargain.Â No word yet on whether Mitt will get his soul returned to him.

ATF Pays Red’s Another Visit

Looks like he’s been audited, once again:

Their intentions were not to bring us into compliance as they have claimed in the past but it was to specifically try and drum up violations in an attempt to paint us in a bad light before the Judge.

Looks like they felt like they needed to dig for some dirt now that they lost their motion for summary judgment.Â Ryan also has some tales of SHOT show.