AP’s typo, not mine.  Note that Assemblyman Reed Gusciora believe that this is an assault rifle. ...

Peter has a pretty good review of Steve Halbrook’s book “Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II“  Just a reminder, the Second Amendment Book Bomb is still ongoing, and you can now get copies of Steve Halbrook’s current book, “The Founders’ Second Amendment,” from Amazon. ...

Nancy Pelosi is stacking the deck, and changing the House Rules to shut out the GOP.  This will make it much harder for Republicans to kill gun control bills.  Giving Pelosi such a solid majority was going to have consequences.  A lot of people gave me grief for fighting with the lesser of two evils last election, well, this is the evil I was fi...

You know, it seems like once anti-gun Caroline Kennedy, you know, started talking to the people of, you know, New York, they stopped like liking her, you know. PPP says Kennedy’s popularity “has taken a major hit as the result of her public campaign” to get the appointment of New York Gov. David Paterson. Although Kennedy is still...

Apparently there’s nothing about guns or the shooting sports that the DC City Government won’t hate on with a burning white passion.  Here you will find a letter rejecting the tag “TRIGGER” because they deem it offensive, followed by a letter from one of NRA’s attorneys warning them that it’s a First Amendment v...

Another issue you’ll want to contact your Congress Critters about is this.  I’m skeptical that anyone knows for sure at this point which direction they will attack us from, but one thing I’m fairly certain of is that an attack on our gun rights is coming.  We need to be ready for anything, and writing your reps about opposing an...

The blogosphere seems to be pretty effective at creating noise, and making people pay attention.  Today is the first day of the 111th Congress, which is the new Democratic Congress that we elected along with Obama.  Pretty shortly Congress will take up the issue of Obama’s nominations.  Among those people is Eric Holder for Attorney Genera...

Marko seems to have the worst luck with people plagarizing his writing.  I’d have mixed feelings about it, personally.   On the one hand, I’d be awfully pissy that someone is taking credit for my writing.  On the other hand, someone apparently thought my writing was good enough to pilfer.  Marko makes money off writing, though, so ...

I have ordered a new server to run the blog, and a few other things I also run on the side.  The new machine will also be rather small.  It’s a 1.6GHz Intel Atom based machine with 2GB RAM, a 7200RPM 500GB SATA hard disk and DVD-ROM.  The little provisional server I’m on right now isn’t quite quick enough to handle my traffic p...

The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a puff piece on it today, with Bryan Miller’s big mug plastered all over it.  We’re also back to that “personal privilege” thing again: “What we’re talking about here is some sort of balance . . . between the privilege of a tiny minority of handgun owners in the state and the...

Jacob links to some nasty predictions for New York Gun owners, including serious restrictions on the use of lead ammunition.  It would be one thing if there were reasonable alternatives, but there isn’t.   At least not yet. ...

JR reminds everyone of the importance of cleaning your rifle after firing corrosively primed ammunition.   I can personally attest to this.  I bought some corrosive 5.45×39 before I realized it was corrosive.   I found out the hard way.  Didn’t take long either.   Fortunatly, no lasting damage, but yeah — corrosive ammo is ...

Joe Huffman offers a lesson in exterior ballistics. ...

I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike to work and back every day.  Tomorrow, I will begin paying the Ed Rendell Approved higher rate for turnpike tolls so Philadelphia can continue to grossly mismanage its public transit system.  Previously, I paid $1.25 each way, which comes out to $2.50 a day, or 625 dollars a year.  Now I will be paying $1.56 each...

I’ve decided I should make at least one purchase during this panic gun buying season, so I decided to throw down some benjamins and buy TD’s FAL.  Blue Book of Gun Values says the gun is worth $700, but today everything has an Obama Panic Premium (we’ll call it OPP for short) attached to it, so that must be taken into considerati...

Looks like the National Association of Park Rangers is also going to file suit to keep the new rule from going into effect.  I have to admit, I’m little miffed at the Bush Administration for not getting this rule change done sooner.  I think the strategy of our opponents is to run the clock out, until they can deal with an administration wh...

I’ve moved the blog to a new server.  If any of you were noticing an outage, that is why.  Unfortunately, it’s actually not as fast as our previous server, which sucks, but if I’m going to replace it, I’ll need to the blog running on something else so I’m not having to deal with a lot of downtime for the blog while I...

SayUncle pointed out North Dakota had zero gun murders in 2008, despite being 44 out of 50 in the Brady Campaign rankings.  Bruce looks at New Hampshire, and finds a similar story. ...

Dave Hardy’s paper on the subject is now published.  You can read the thing in full by downloading it from here. ...

Looks like there’s some murmuring in Minnesota of a lead ammunition ban for hunters, along the same lines as California’s ban. ...

Local NRA members are apparently teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service to clean up sections of National Forests which have been used for illegal dumps, in order to make room to shoot. ...

… to make a difference in helping a local community clean out drug dealers. ...

Jim Geraghty has dug up some information on Roland Burris record on guns.  Roland Burris being Blagoevich’s pick to take Obama’s seat.  Fortunatly, Harry Ried says he won’t seat him, or even let him onto the Senate floor. ...

“Extend the circle of love to all creatures.” You know, except for duck hunters I guess.  You know who else eat ducks?  Foxes.  You don’t see the animal rights loons spray painting foxes, do you? ...

I’ve been off work almost two weeks.  Feels good.  Especially after such a stressful December.  That’s why posts aren’t following the normal schedule.  Normal blogging schedule resumes Monday.  This weekend, I might look around for a match to shoot. ...

J.R. found some practical shooters that have a whole 1930s theme going. ...

I’d say “Nice Carry Gun,” but he lives in Wisconsin.  Someday, Peter.  Someday.  You have to get rid of Doyle first though. ...

I don’t know how many of you have figured out by now that Bitter is now a food blogger.  Her crazy Oklahoma traditions say that black eyed peas on New Years is good luck.  Here, for Irish families at least, it’s Corned Beef and Cabbage, and since that is my ancestral heritage, we’re having that in addition to the black eyed pea ...

Happy New Years folks.  You know, I just don’t really feel it.  I think 2009 is going to suck, in a big big way.  I hope you all enjoy the New New Deal. ...

Click here to view the embedded video. Time has posted fond farewells for 2008, and number 17 is Charlton Heston.  However, the writer seems confused: Offscreen, Heston was a figure of epic contradictions. In the ’60s he marched with Martin Luther King; in the ’90s he headed the National Rifle Association. There’s nothing contrad...

Other bloggers review their best stories for the year.  I choose to satisfy my inner traffic whore and look at my traffic stats for the year.  They don’t look too bad: ...

Firearms and Freedom has a post that shows at least some schools aren’t taking zero tolerance thing too terribly serious.  That said, you should know where your guns are. ...

Apparently despite originally being Chicago Public School’s superintendent, he also does a lot of anti-gun activism on the side.  Thank God the federal governments limited and enumerated powers don’t include education!  (*smirk* I can’t even say that with a straight face) Apparently Chicago Public Schools also have a 51% graduat...

This “documentary” by The Discovery Channel is why I don’t watch the Discovery Channel anymore.  When it first came on the air years ago, it was worth watching.  Then it went into all natural disasters, all the time mode.  Now it has maybe one show that I would think about watching. Bitter and I plan to drop cable service short...

The Brady Campaign has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to enjoin the Department of Interior from changing its rules to allow concealed carry in National Parks. The rule will allow guns in rural and urban national park areas around the country, from Wyoming’s Yellowstone and California’s Yosemite to Philadelphia’s Independence Nati...

NSSF has asked us to make at least one New Years resolution to take a new shooter to the range, and Caleb takes it one step further. ...

Makes me glad I got a Liberty Safe. ...

Cemetery finds some more PSH from the media over in New Jersey on .50 caliber rifles. UPDATE: Looks like they are increasing the penalties for machine gun posesssion too.  If at first you don’t succeed, try again, this time with more enthusiasm! ...

Looks like the Pennsylvania cell phone ban bill is back: Democratic state Rep. Josh Shapiro plans to reintroduce his bill to outlaw handheld phones while driving. For Josh Shapiro, the numbers tell the story. Last year, according to the state police, there were 1,245 accidents on Pennsylvania’s roadways where a driver was talking on a handhel...

TD tells the story of a guy who’s Smith & Wesson blew up.  Looks like a manufacturing defect. ...

They scrutinized a wood flute quite a bit, but let someone go through with the individual components, in powder form, of black powder. ...

Blackfork talks about working up subsonic .223 loads for his suppressed AR.  Bullets moving at supersonic speeds will create a small sonic boom that can still create a noise problem. ...

Dave Hardy has some interesting posts — here, on a Second Amendment incorporation case, and also discusses a post by Clayton Cramer on other, more general 14th Amendment issues. ...

The Republicans are gearing up to delay the confirmation of Eric Holder.  The 111th Congress is sworn in on January 3rd, 2009, and starts session January 6th.  It’ll be important to start hitting your local critter with letters and phone calls as soon as the 111th Congress is seated.   Defeating a nomination is difficult work, but Holder ...

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Dave Kopel thinks there’s a correlation. ...

If we could get op-eds like this printed in local newspapers throughout the country, using the arguments outlined here, we’d be in far better shape for fighting on this issue than we are right now: However, if some people had their way, my father would be a felon the next time he passed on a firearm to a family member. These people complain ...

The latest surge in gun sales is because the economy is in the crapper.  It has nothing to do with voters electing a guy who advocates banning guns.  No, nothing at all.  But hey, I’ll give them credit — at the very end of the article they do mention: Sales of guns and ammunition are up 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state a...

Reading, Pennsylvania has passed its own Lost and Stolen ordinance, in addition now to Philadelphia, Allentown, Pottsville, York, and Pittsburgh, in defiance of statewide preemption. Making a straw purchase of a gun already is a violation of Pennsylvania law, but it is a difficult law to enforce because it is nearly impossible to prove that a buyer...

So says the Brady Campaign: “In this season of hope, however, we should not despair and say this kind of violence is inevitable. We should not tolerate the steady drumbeat of gun deaths and injuries that tears our families and communities apart. We can and should do all that is within our power to find solutions to gun violence. “In the...