New url is here. There are reports that Google for some reason marked his original site as a spam site, and so his provider cut him off....

Standing on my driveway with my father, looking at each other's carry pieces while he had a smoke. That, and being secure in the knowledge that if any of my neighbors saw us, they'd have come over to check them out as well. (Yes, we followed the 4 rules)....

I'm going to disagree with one of my favorite gun bloggers, Say Uncle. Regarding the recent stabbing, disembowelment, and decapitation that recently happened on a Greyhound bus So, let that seep in a minute. 50 or 60 times and then decapitated him. 37 passengers and a bus driver nearby. How long do you suppose it takes to stab someone 50 or 60 tim...

As the Chicago Tribune reports, a committee of the Chicago City Council is considering a proposal to create an online database of gun offenders, complete with photographs and interactive maps.  If approved, anyone convicted of a felony gun offense after the ordinance’s effective date would have to register with the city as a gun offender. [....

I think that the debate went well with Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign, on whether permitted concealed handguns should be allowed on colleges and universities. It was nice of him to participate. The link for CSPAN1 on the internet is available here....

I read about this first at The Volokh Conspiracy, checked that blog with IE7 and sure enough, IE7 gave the message, “Internet Explorer Cannot Open the Internet Site Operation Aborted.” The long and the short of it is that this is a “security fix” that was recently added to one of the Internet Explorer updates. It has to do with the way IE7 ...

A president stays in office four or eight years, but his appointments to the Supreme Court can extend his impact for decades. It's likely that Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama will be able to appoint one - and possibly three - justices to the court during his time in the White House.3 Vote(s) ...

The First and Second Amendments of the Constitution are twin pillars of America's unique form of self-government. Having spent two decades defending one of those pillars, I am grateful to Rush Limbaugh for defending the other on a scale few can equal.5 Vote(s) ...

If New York's strict antigun laws are overturned in the near future, it may be the work of a hot dog vendor. Daniel Vargas, is due next month in court to fight misdemeanor charges that he kept an unlicensed revolver loaded on a basement shelf in his apartment. The case, which has generated 23 hearings and been heard by no fewer than 10 different j...

Quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg famously posited that it is impossible to precisely measure the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously. His "uncertainty principle," in popular usage, has come to mean that any attempt to observe something changes what is being observed. This is becoming an accurate description of Barack Ob...

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No longer sanctuaries Linoge gets some comments from someone who was at the Knoxville UU church during the attack. Why don't more churches call for gun control? Who knows? Doesn't everyone everywhere favor gun control? I know criminals do. D.C. City Council's False "Findings" of Facts on Firearms What? Misrepresenting facts in an anti-gun argumen...

Per the TN Department of Safety, they now require proof of citizenship. There’s also this bit: A permit holder can submit a Renewal Application at any Driver License Center or renew by mail. To receive a renewal application by mail call 1-866-849-3548. The renewal application must be complete and signed by the applicant. The application, CE...

And we know how I feel about the dentist. Conversation with hygienist in regard to the voice recognition gizmo that records numbers that somehow correlate to gum health. Hygienist: I became a hygienist because I can’t count. Me: I became an accountant because I can’t count. Or do math. Hygienist: You’re an accountant? You don̵...

A number of gun bloggers have suddenly found their blogs locked to new posts and then they receive a form letter from Blogger saying that they are suspected of being a “spam site.” (This is kind of funny to me since there are thousands of real spam blogs on Blogger that they never seem to do anything about.) Anyway, this has resulted in...

From Glenn Reynolds on the 2008 Bejing Olympics: I won’t be going, and I don’t plan to watch. The Olympics are a fount of corruption and chicanery anyway, upholding no ideals and promoting no good ends anyway. Plus, they’re boring. I won’t be watching either.  Even the shooting events.  What the Chinese government is doing...

22 conversions for Sigs. Of course, for less money you can get their Mosquito, which is a whole gun. ...

Suspect held after 3 swimmers killed in Wisc. Sheriff's authorities said a man armed with a military-style assault rifle shot and killed the three Michigan teenagers and wounded a 20-year-old Michigan man Thursday evening. The group had gathered to go swimming near the Wisconsin-Michigan border near Niagara, Wisconsin... The victims had gathere...

Can ya’ll do me a favor? Email Bill Hobbs at billhobbs@tngop.org a copy of this post? Thanks. ...

Pics here. What kinda dog is that? ...

Plaintiffs? Motions to Strike Answer, and for Summary Judgment, Filed As a non-lawyer, I don’t know what that means. ...

Plaintiffs have filed a motion for summary judgment (pdf). As they're subject to a page limit of 15 pages, it can't be a treatise. But the critical points are made, and the style excellent. A person without a legal background can read and reasonably well understand it, which for a technical issue like 14th amendment incorporation, is hard to do. ...

Weer’d Beard in comments: Guns are like gays, they seem really scary, but once you get to know one you feel pretty foolish for being afriad Heh. ...

In what has to be one of the more gruesome crimes I’ve ever heard of, a man on a bus full of people stabbed another man 50 or 60 times and then decapitated him. Then walks up the bus displaying the head. Wow. And: Sgt Colwell said the “brave” behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt. S...

Or stupid Brady Campaign. You pick. ...

SEE? I LOVE STUFFED ANIMALS. My first bow kill. Field dressed with my handy Gerber knife....

JR says Google locked him out of his account for being a spam blog. Update: Insty reports Dr. Helen has suffered the same fate. Update & Bump: War on Guns too. One more: Leftwingcracker too. For a second, I thought they were picking on gun blogs. Sorry, no conspiracy. Just general ineptitude. ...

A guy from where Great Britain used to be goes to a gun show. ...

NRA has a presser. Thirdpower notes what the bill does. One bit is to repeal the District’s ban on semi-automatic handguns. Which is good. Currently, my Kel-Tec is considered a machine gun in DC. To the folks belly-aching about the Democrat involvement, tough. They control the house and bills don’t get voted on unless they say so. ...

Means count. Not 28 pages of personal info. ...

Looks like NRA will attend our little shindig. ...

I thought the protection of lawful commerce in arms act was supposed to prevent lawsuits against gun dealers? Even if they’re getting sued because someone walked out of their store with a gun that they did not sell them. ...

Lots of National Match blogging over at Blackfork. ...

Biggest guns in history. Well, maybe. S&W 52. ...

Via Yahoo News. Condolences to the families of the victims. Here’s hoping they get the bastard quickly. ...

Huntington, West VirginiaFrom the Huntington News of July 26, 2008Apartment Resident, Would Be Robber Trade Gunfire on Huntington AvenueHuntington needs a superhero. Following a shooting during the afternoon of Friday, June 25, in the 1100 block of Huntington Avenue, a frustrated citizen posted on a TV website that the city needs a real Batman to g...

I meant to link this earlier but forgot: Choosing Your First 1911 A great read and lots of pictures....

Dave Hardy provides a few links to the motion for summary judgment in the Chicago handgun case.  A few things pop out at me: They offer the possibility of using the privileges and immunities clause, which was gutted in the Slaughterhouse Cases.  If the court bites, we’d be re-blazing a trail long ago scorched by the Supreme Court. It appea...

The bill is now in Thomas, if you care to search for it.  Interestingly, Congressman Patrick Murphy has signed on as a cosponsor.  Makes you wonder why he was unwilling to sign on to the congressional amicus brief to help overturn DC’s law at the Supreme Court.  Sorry, but if Congressman Murphy is only going to be a friend of gun owners cl...

Looks like Google locked a bunch of blogs reportedly for being spam blogs.  I think if you enjoy blogging, and you’re good at it, it’s very much worth the investment to get your own domain, and get some hosting.  It helps with your google-fu too, because Google ranks people higher if they have their own domain, where blogspot.com gets...

For those interested, I will be debating Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign, on whether permitted concealed handguns should be allowed on colleges and universities. CSPAN3 will be covering the event live from 1 to 2 PM. After that, the rest of the conference will also be shown on CSPAN3. Presumably parts of the conference will be r...

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Americans use a gun in self defense once every 13 seconds: The National Self Defense Survey, as conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, indicates that Americans use guns in self defense 2,500,000 times per year, which is once every 13 seconds. In about 30% of the defensive gun uses, the would-be victim believes that the [...]...

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I'm wanting to finalize plans to attend GBR III in October. Here's my conundrum: I want to shoot. I'd really like to bring my Swedish M96 sporter/sniper in 6.5mm. My conundrum is the fact this rifle is unique. It isn't like an AR-15, even an unusual one like my Arctic Panther, that I can replace with some moderate effort after the insurance cla...

1962 model guns.ru just posted an article on the Korobov TKB-022, an early bullpup assault rifle designed by Russian gun designer G. A. Korobov. All weapons were tested by Soviet army, but turned down on unpublished reasons (most probably becuse the gun was simple too advanced for contemporary military thinking, but also possibly because no-one a...

On Board RestrictionsFor everyone's safety and comfort, Greyhound asks that customers please follow certain restrictions while on board. Federal law does not permit smoking on Greyhound buses. We have a zero tolerance for alcohol, drugs, weapons and unruly behavior.Yeah, right.Go Greyhound and leave your safety to us....

Albany County authorities have cut a deal with an armed robber, with past violent record, to testify in a misdemeanor case involving alleged false accusations against officers. Under it, the robber will serve three years. Around here, if he had a prior felony record (the story isn't clear), he'd have done more like 15, ten of it without chance of ...