Apparently a thief made off with one of Teddy Roosevelt’s hunting trophies. The thief is probably lucky Teddy is dead. Related posts:Maybe She Needs To Talk to Hil Again Invest a Little, Save a Lot Mixed Messages ...

Ed Friedman explains what they are for. Who would have thought fraudsters and embezzlers in the Department of Education were so dangerous? Maybe the Federal Government needs to think about its hiring practices. Related posts:Obama’s Pick for Education Secretary Two Things to Read Counterfeit? ...

… you can guess the rest. Thank God for California’s strict gun laws preventing this man from getting a gun. Someone could have gotten hurt. Related posts:Mall Mass Killing Because It Works So Well! Frommer’s Travel Guide Advocating AZ Boycott? ...

Good for us, bad for the Administration. Maybe it’s time for him to come around a full 180 and help push a major piece of pro-2A legislation through Congress. Maybe then we can lend President Obama some of NRA’s popularity with voters. Unfortunately, I give the odds on that somewhere south of having Rahm Emanuel showing up naked and scr...

Check out this interview with Matt Carmel, owner of Constitution Arms, where he discusses his struggle to sponsor a Little League baseball team, and then sponsor a Rugby Team. Related posts:Matt Carmel Gets His Team Jilted Again We Need 1000 More Like Him ...

Tam asks a really perplexing question: The Department of Fish & Game won’t let you shoot Bambi with full metal jacketed 7.62×51mm M80 ball because it would be inhumane. The Hague Accords won’t let you use .308 Winchester 150gr. Ballistic Silvertips on enemy personnel because it would be inhumane. Discuss. Good question. Relat...

The Brady Center are elated over two recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in regards to gun rights. Two two cases are Commonwealth v. Runyan and Commonwealth v. DePina. Both cases rest a great deal of their reasoning on the fact that the Second Amendment is not incorporated against the state. In the latter DePina case, the entire Se...

Maybe I need a better analogy, but I said a few days ago in a comment that gaining progress in politics is a lot like flinging pooh at a wall and betting on which pieces of s**t stick. To be successful, you need to fling a lot, until you find the right kind of turd, then repeat the performance as many times as you can. This is an example of that, o...

With six to seven thousand people descending on the Illinois Capitol in Springfield, here’s a round up of all the main stream media coverage of the event: Related posts:Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) 2009 More on PA Sasquatch Coverage in the Washington Post ...

According to Hotline, the two top candidates in the GOP primary for Arizona governor are bickering about web ads. Meanwhile, the longshot campaign of NRA Board member Buz Mills has just gone on television with his first ad. One of the interesting observations: He has a mobile campaign. I read something the other day about campaigns using mobile ...

Need some data to back up your anti-gun views? Now Joyce is helping make your life easier. You can find the site here. All the research on the site is funded by the Joyce Foundation, of course. Related posts:Second Amendment Research Center Defunct More on That Joyce Study Joyce Getting Behind Gun Control in Pennsylvania ...

The State Police are continuing to ensure that Pennsylvanians only have access to shitty beer. Either that or the State Police are planning one hell of a party and figured out a cheap way to get the beer. I’m surprised they went after a distributor. The beer distributor lobby in this state is powerful. Normally I am politically opposed to the...

If you had asked me what pro-gun bills might be at the top of my priority list, I might have ranked making sure Pennsylvania has an official state gun somewhere down with a house resolution making next February “Gunsmith Awareness Month”. That said, I don’t have any issue with Pennsylvania making the rifle named after the state (d...

Looks like Thirdpower will be at Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day (IGOLD), but if you want to track the happenings live, check out Illinois State Rifle Association’s Twitter Feed. Related posts:Competition Tweeting Daley Counterattacks <a href='http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2010/03/01/want-to-follow-our-mcdonald-activities/' rel='bookmark...

Dave Hardy points out the response from their director of public safety. These are the bureaucrats they believe you should rely on for your protection. I went to school in West Philly. The area we were in wasn’t too bad, but outside of University City, things could get dicy. I remember similar advice being doled out by campus security. I neve...

SayUncle covers a pretty disturbing story about a guy in Oregon who was fired from his government job because he was supposedly disgruntled, and bought some guns, which the police noticed. Uncle asks, “Seems they knew he bought guns from the background checks. He did not purchase multiple handguns in a week which makes me wonder how the polic...

Same as last year, we will be conducting interviews with selected candidates for NRA Board. Also the same as last year, I’ve set up a form so that people can submit topics they’d like to see covered or submit questions. [contact-form] In the interest of respecting the candidates’ time, I won’t be able to ask every question, ...

Carol Bambery As everyone who reads Dave Hardy knows, Carol Bambery is one of the hardest working Board members at NRA. For us, her skills and background with the National Firearms Law Seminar stand out because she works hard on this program to help keep other attorneys up-to-date on the latest issues in the gun legal world. Carol also serves as ...

Looks like we were a bit premature in celebrating Matt Carmel’s success in his quest to sponsor a sports team: Matt Carmel’s quest to get the name of his business, “Constitution Arms,” on a team uniform has come up short again, with a rugby league that initially accepted his sponsorship doing an about-face under pressure from ot...

Looks like I’ll be attending the Firearms Law Seminar this year at the NRA convention in Charlotte. This is something I’ve always meant to attend, but things have been so busy previous years this is the first year I really have a chance. If I were a lawyer, this would count toward Continuing Legal Education, but they do have a reduced f...

Orin Kerr I think sums it up nicely over at Volokh, as to why it’s going to be very difficult to get justices to revive key constitutional principles because they are more academically correct: My point is only that it’s the system the Constitution gave us. The Framers bestowed responsibility upon politicians for nominating and confirming J...

Cemetery: [...] one of the complaints, of smokeless cartridges, by police, was that during gun fights, they could not see where the bad guys where.  Because there was no smoke to place their locations. So Brady thinking would dictate, because it’s about LEO’s safety much like bullet encoding and microstamping, that smokeless technology be outl...

Morris Rugby has accepted Constitution Arms as a sponsor for their rugby team, since they were rejected by the little league. Rugby is probably responsible for more bloodshed than guns anyway. Related posts:Zero Brains Great Slogan For Your Shooting Team Living Constitution and the Right to Arms ...

In PA the ruling was called Commonwealth v. Hawkins, and ruled that an anonymous, unsubstantiated report of a “man with a gun” was not sufficient evidence to justify a Terry stop. Now it looks like Indiana has a version of the same. Related posts:<a href='http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2009/12/16/georgia-ruling-may-shed-light-on-h...

Apparently we’ve solved so many crimes in this state that the State Police have nothing better to do than go around looking for unregistered beer. I am particularly disturbed that they seized one of my very favorite area beers, the Monk’s Flemish Sour Ale. I was completely unaware that there was any such thing as a beer registry in Penn...

I don’t know how many leaders in the gun control movement drive pickups, but it seems to me this would be the perfect kind of trailer hitch cover for them. Why not make the statement everywhere they go? Related posts:Quote of the Day When it Comes to Public Service It’s High Time ...

Looks like Daley is firing a return volley at the Second Amendment just as his city’s handgun ban looks to have a very limited future. What’s surprising is he openly admits this is a counterattack: “The aggressiveness of the gun advocates is just one reason it’s more important than ever that we work for common-sense gun laws...

I was eager to read his opinion on this topic, because despite being friendly on the gun issue, he’s a bit of an outsider to it. He didn’t really commit one way or another, but he brought up an interesting point: Beyond the legal and practical issues, of course, there is the question of whether open carry activists are helping or hurtin...

Over at the other blog, we talk about how the Congressional races are shaping up in Pennsylvania on the gun issue. The first big one is for Murtha’s seat. Related posts:Murtha’s Seat How NRA Fared in District 8 Races to Watch ...

Thomas Sowell has an excellent interview here discussing why it’s dangerous to put intellectuals in charge of everything. This is truth. I’ve often heard people decry the influence of lobbyists in Washington. I don’t. The lobbyists are the only ones who know how anything works. If you took the lobbyists out of the equation this co...

Tam has a pretty good post on the subject. I have both a 20″ and carbine length AR. I shoot the 20″ more often because that’s what I compete with when I shoot CMP/high-power. I’ve shot a few practical matches with my carbine, but I would consider it my go-to gun in a home defense situation if I kept it at the ready. It’...

It’s the sad truth. Related posts:On True Believers Now We’re Heroin Addicts I’m Glad One Of Us Can Still Get Orders ...

This story of a Russian kid designing a new electronic sniper rifle looks like bullshit to me, and considering it’s coming from Pravda, it probably is. The reason I think it’s a hoax is that we’ve never been able to make portable electromagnetic weapons that can shoot a projectile fast enough to rival chemically driven projectiles...

I’ll admit that I have an offbeat sense of humor. So I’ll admit that I was way too amused by this description of a new release posted to Hacking Netflix today: Nine strangers face the mind-bender of a lifetime when a hooded madman locks them in a basement and announces that he will slay one of them every 10 minutes until they uncover t...

Thomas Jefferson Club, one of our local tea party groups, is making note of the fact that our Congresman, Patrick Murphy, doesn’t seem to want to be seen in public with President Obama. This is a smart move for Murphy politically, but it’s quite telling. Murphy is vulnerable this year, but despite that, the Bucks County GOP is doing eve...