Thursday, July 31, 2008

Oak Park is Short on Cash – but still has money to defend the handgun ban

by LearnAboutGuns.com July 31, 2008 Learn About Guns

As the Wednesday Journal reports, Oak Park, IL is short on cash due to decreased revenue, which is blamed on the faltering economy.  Despite the $1,368,100 budgetary shortfall, Oak Park will still spend taxpayer money defending their (likely unconstitutional) handgun ban.
It is unfortunate for the people of Oak Park that the village management has decided [...]

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Discussion of FLA ruling on guns in parking lots

by Of Arms and the Law July 31, 2008 Arms & The Law

A clear discussion, at last, in the St. Petersburg Times. The ruling apparently upheld rights of employees to have guns in parked cars, but not the right of customers to. The latter was keyed to how the legislature worded the statute, so they can amend it to cure the problem.

In the meantime, I wonder how a company would enforce against a customer anyway? They can always demand to search employees’ cars with threat of firing them, but a customer has a right to tell them to go to. I doubt any commercial establishment that actually searched customers’ cars as a condition to coming into the store would be in business very long.

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Brutal attack on bus in Canada

by GunPundit July 31, 2008 Gun Pundit

Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Manitoba

Grisly:

Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.

Caton said he heard a “blood-curdling scream” and turned around to see the attacker holding a large “Rambo” hunting knife above the victim, “continually stabbing him in the chest area.”

“He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times,” said Caton.

“Like, just everywhere, arms, legs, neck, chest, guts, wherever he could swing it, he got it,” said Olmstead.

“It looked kind of like a scuffle or an argument, you know, and then somebody’s, like, ‘Knife! Knife! Run!’ so I was running up the alleyway, slapping people telling them to get going, move, get off the bus. I got pushed over, some lady got pushed over, I was just making sure everybody was OK, and we all got off the bus,” said Olmstead

As panicked passengers fled the bus, “the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point,” Caton said.

Even more grisly:

“When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” said Caton.

The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.

“While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us,” said Caton.

Police arrived “about 10 minutes after the attack began.”

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Rep. Souder on DC right bill

by Of Arms and the Law July 31, 2008 Arms & The Law

Rep. Souder, who introduced a bill to curtail DC’s resistance to Heller, has a well-written letter to the editor in the Washington Post.

Via Instapundit…

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Call the A-Team

by GunPundit July 31, 2008 Gun Pundit

Someone Call the A-Team

The A-Team has the best of both worlds: Lots of evil fully-auto weapons AND no one ever gets hurt.

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Get well

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

I was unaware the Rusty was taken to the hospital. Squeaky reports he’s doing well.

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More on Hate Crimes

by tgirsch July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Back on Monday, we had a pretty good discussion going about hate crimes. Frequent Lean Left commenter LarryE expands on this theme:
The usual (flawed) understanding of “hate crimes” legislation is that it would make the hate itself, rather than any actions based on the hate, the crime. It’s that misunderstanding that leads people to [...]

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Dems and NRA Compromise

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

At The Hill:
Details of the compromise were still incomplete late Wednesday, but a bill is to be introduced Thursday that would narrowly enforce a June Supreme Court decision rejecting the District?s decades-old handgun ban.
A vote on the bill could occur this week, but is more likely in September. Such a delay could give opponents of [...]

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Not an offer

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Apparently, you get offers of organs.

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They always shoot the dog

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Mayors dogs killed in drug raid. This one is a bit odd. Seems the mayor had 30 pounds of weed mailed to him:
“My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs,” Calvo said. “They thought we were drug dealers, and we were treated as such. I don?t think they really ever considered that we [...]

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Interesting

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

One of the UU guys that stopped the shooter left a comment at Walls of the City.

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So, does that mean I have to stop using words like douchebag and butthurt?

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Bitter on why a professional web presence should matter to NRA.
I should note that the offending blog is offering good coverage of the National Matches at Camp Perry.

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Disregard for your rights, you can believe in

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre on HopeChange!

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Worlds Colliding

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

I wouldn’t say I support McCain, so much as I oppose Obama.
Transadvocate:
feeling torn between my affiliation with both what i?ll call ?gun culture? and the ?trans community??.
Like Chris said:Only on the interweb, could you find such a group of people arguing with each other.

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SayUncle sells out

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

So, after nearly six years of doing this for free, I decided to put up a tip jar figuring you freeloaders may want to tip your host, with whom you are six years in arrears, btw. There’s two over there on the right, currently below the empty ad slots (note empty). One for you Amazon [...]

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Gun Porn

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Mike’s latest acquisition.

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Gun toting in Georgia

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

A good read on carrying a concealed handgun in our neighbor state. And restaurant carry.

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On that bigotry angle

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Sebastian has thoughts.

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No, it’s real

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

I thought it was a parody. But it turns out it really is Barack En Vogue Obama’s new ad.
These people really, really scare me.

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Heller 2: The Awakening

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Sticking with bad movie sequel themes.
NRA has a statement:
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia?s gun ban, the District, Mayor and City Council are being sued again over the District?s thinly veiled attempt to continue its restrictions on firearm ownership. D.C. residents Dick Anthony Heller and Absalom F. Jordan, Jr., in [...]

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Congress’ Duty to Intervene

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Mark Souder:
Considering the Supreme Court’s broad decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, I’m surprised that The Post would continue to raise the tired old canard of home rule [...]
Moreover, when Congress chose to delegate home rule to the District in the 1970s, it specified that legislation enacted by the District must be “consistent with [...]

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Guns and felons

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Local man who is a felon is challenging his arrest for having a gun. Unfortunately for him, this guy is a killer, a felon, and had a machine gun hidden in a wall. Oh, and that whole bit in Heller about how it should not be read as invalidating laws banning felons from possessing [...]

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Quick, call a waaaahmbulance

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Seems that Paul Helmke, Keith Olbermann, and Kevin Drum are all butthurt because the NRA (which actually has members, resources, and stuff) engaged in a bit of deception.
Now, what is funny is that I’ve seen no evidence that Mary was actually working for NRA. But we’ll see.
PGP is equally nonplussed about the whole thing.
The [...]

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Blogging advice

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

From an insurance company.

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Texas Shotgun Guy

by SayUncle July 31, 2008 SayUncle

Joe Horn walkthrough.

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Testing out the new GA law

by Of Arms and the Law July 31, 2008 Arms & The Law

Story here.

“What happens when a Middle Eastern-looking man and a young black man walk into a LongHorn [restaurant] with loaded pistols on their belts?

“Welcome to LongHorn, will it just be the two of you?”"

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