We’re at company outing today. Family is invited so we’re both here, and thus the lack of posting.
There’s nothing like a genuine, bona fide, electrified six-car monorail!
You Know You Want This Gun…
I know I just posted about this last week, but I feel like it is my duty to report that ticket sales for our local Friends of NRA raffle are going slow. As in so slow, that I took out 100 tickets from the stash to sell, and I’ve still got like 50 of them – and that’s after I sold some at a gun show recently.
I’ve heard from folks that they just assumed we would sell out quickly due to the nature of the raffle, but we haven’t. We still have lots of tickets.
So, at this point, the odds of a blog reader who buys tickets winning, are fantastic. Even if we did somehow hit a busy period and sell out, the odds per ticket are 1 in 60. For only $20, and the fact that we’re drawing 5 times, make this a pretty awesome opportunity to win.
Since it’s been a common question, if you buy multiple tickets, you can, in theory, win multiple guns. We don’t pull your other tickets out if we draw your name for one of the first guns. All ticket stubs remain in the jar until we run out of guns to give away.
Whether you want the Taurus featured here, the Colt in the original post (which also has the raffle details, so please check it out), the Kimber in last week’s post, or one of the two Kahr 1911A1s I haven’t yet posted, then email me so I can send you the information on how to buy tickets.
If you already emailed me and just haven’t gotten around to formally ordering a ticket, then there are still tickets available!
What the Jury Didn’t See
North Carolina Gets Better
North Carolina finally gets HR937 done. John Richardson has the word on the agreement, which is now on the way to Governor McCrory. It’s quite disappointing that they had to leave the Permit to Purchase provision stand, but it probably wasn’t worth sacrificing the rest of the bill over that. One wonders whether North Carolina will ever get rid of that oddity from the era of Jim Crow.
Is MAIG in Hiding from its Own Members?
From the sounds of this story out of Fargo, North Dakota, MAIG is trying to keep their anti-gun rallies so far under the radar that they don’t even tell their member mayors in the cities they are visiting.
Next thing you know …
… they’ll publish a map that puts crosshairs on the districts of “targeted” politicians. And here I thought we were the violent ones.
Mayor Carlos Danger?
That latest Anthony Wiener scandal:Â I couldn’t make this stuff up. Mild mannered politician by day… every woman’s superhero by…. eeew. I wouldn’t want to use the phone booth after he’s changed into that particular alter ego.
Canada’s Registry Closer to Deletion
Quebec just keeps losing at the appeals court level in their quest to preserve Canada’s long gun registry after the federal government voted to get rid of the expensive boondoggle.
After Quebec lost their case to force the federal government to hold on to the data so they could use it for a provincial registry, they asked for a stay to preserve the data while they appeal to the Supreme Court. They apparently argued that it would cost their province quite a bit of money to recreate the database, and that’s why they didn’t want to allow the federal government follow the court decision. According to the article, the judge said that saving Quebec’s money for the program they voted for isn’t a good enough reason to force the federal government to keep maintaining the database.
Michelle Picking Up Gun Control
Looks like she’s dumping the fat kids and picking up gun control as her cause célèbre.
Aides say the first lady isn’t making gun violence a new and distinct issue, but is folding it into her work encouraging youth to focus on getting an education.
Yeah, because not enough gun control is the reason the youth today aren’t getting a quality education.
DRM in 3D Printers?
Jeff Soyer reports on a company that claims it has built in firearm component detection into its software. You can’t stop the signal. I predict this will be about as effective as Digital Rights Management has been at preventing people from copying video games, movies, and music. I suspect 3D printer makers are concerned that hysterical politicians in states like California and New York may enact restrictions on their product if the printer manufacturers don’t act first. This is not an unreasonable fear, given that both these states have an instinct to ban scary things first and ask questions only later, and then not very intelligent questions at that.