Seriously … ammo costs are rising faster than fuel costs. If I stock up on something like a bazillion rounds of .22, considering it was about $16 for a brick of 500 last year, and it’s $24 for a brick of 500 right now …

… China continues to buy up raw materials such as brass, copper; raising the prices continually here in the States just like they have been …

… Then … in a couple of years, when it’s $38 for a brick of 500, I could turn around and sell it for a hefty profit!

Only … I wouldn’t be able to. Because I’d already have shot the whole damn stockpile at steel cans and whatever other breakable shit I have lying around in my garage. Seriously, what gun-nut can resist a bazillion rounds of ammo stacked up in neat little perfect piles in his basement? I imagine myself sweating a little … staring at it before a trip to the range … “Maybe I’ll just … take one extra brick … or two …”

Damn. Seemed like a good idea for a minute there.

Filling up, $3.75/gallon. Guy across from me blurts out, “You’ve got to take out a loan to get gas these days.”

Then …

“… that or wear a turban, I hear they get gas a lot cheaper than we do.”

And there you have it.

Bruce hits on some serious dumbassery at a NUKE PLANT of all places:

Manthorn said Hill, a security instructor at the nuke plant, was cleaning his gun at the time “and didn’t realize it was loaded.”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again …

IT’S FUCKING LOADED!

Thank you.

A perfect example.

A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Sullivan’s a tool. This is laughable:

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sullivan called battling violent crime the No. 1 priority of ATF and said the agency is trying to help cities with federal task forces and technology.

What the hell does the ATF do to “battle violent crime”? Last I saw the ATF stormtroopers weren’t smashing down doors and raiding crack houses like you’re average bubba’d up Police-Ninja. Besides, I thought the ATF’s motto was “Always Think Forfeiture.” I figured that was their #1 priority.

Anyway, Mr. Sullivan is a complete douche. Observe:

Sullivan also said many cities no longer have the police manpower to respond to calls as quickly as they once did.

Okay, is it me, or does “respond to calls” crap indicate that the crime already happened? How is that “battling violent crime,” exactly?

Paramedics respond when someone has a heart attack.

Firefighters respond when somebody’s home is up in flames.

Janitors respond to someone spilling a jar of prune juice in aisle 6.

Police respond when some thug with a 90-page rap sheet shoots a convenience store clerk in the unarmed utopia of New Jersey.

They can never get there fast enough because they can’t get there before it happens and if they could we’d all be screwed with a whole new set of problems (see Minority Report - and by the way, I TOTALLY want a “sick stick”).

It’s up to your average citizen to look out for their own person, and that of their family. Call the police when it’s time to take pictures and clean up a goblin stain in your hallway - not when you’re begging for someone to please not hurt you or your kids.

“In fact, some of the jurisdictions have seen a decrease with regard to patrol officers who are available or detectives available to follow up on some of these incidents,” Sullivan said. “And that obviously is a compounding effect with regard to what’s going on, with regard to crime.”

That makes absolutely no sense. Can someone translate that for me? I don’t speak idiot.

He described funding squeezes in many cities, like Chicago and Detroit, that “contribute to the potential of an uptick with regard to violent crime, because they don’t have as many resources to respond as quickly to it as they once did.”

For the cost of a .38, you can respond to virtually any potentially violent life-threatening situation a hell of a lot faster than any government- or city-funded organization ever could.

Here’s my boy plinking with the Browning Buckmark .22.

Poppa’s proud! Semi-range-report is here.

He was my designated .22 loader-upper. Here we are at a beautiful outdoor range. Before us is a table with a Mosin-Nagant, a Browning Buckmark .22, and a Daisy Red Ryder.

My son is 6 years old. He took a couple of BB shots, then I loaded up one round in the Buckmark and had him take a shot. I’ve never seen someone smile so wide.

So he’s plinking this big dirt pile and watching little puffs of dirt go off one after the other. I tell him about some of the rules, always point the gun downrange, never put your finger on the trigger until you see what it is you’re shooting at and you’re ready to shoot, make sure of what’s behind your target, and of course …

IT’S FUCKING LOADED!

Naturally, I was a bit more delicate with my language as explained to him.

So I’m packing everything up, and putting it into the van. I take the bolt assembly out of the Mosin all together and pack it up separately, laying the gun down in the back of the van. Ammo is back in the ammo bag, steel cans are put away, etc. We get in, and we’re driving home …

Son: “Daddy?”

Me: “Yeah?”

Son: “The gun’s always loaded, right?”

Me: “Yep.”

Son: “What if it’s not?”

Me: “Well, it always is. So you can never point it anywhere unsafe, and you always have to check it before you try to clean it or handle it.”

… pause …

Son: “Daddy?”

Me: “Yeah?”

Son: “You better be careful because that big gun back there is pointing at your butt.”

Heh.

That’s my boy …

… right beside his lawyers - because they’re all traitorous little scum-sucking bastards:

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

It’s hard to believe that Bloomberg could be SUCH a monumentally self-absorbed douchebag as to request that a piece of the United States Constitution dresses up as the elephant in the room during a trial which very much is centered around the 2nd amendment. I guess I should expect nothing less from a billionaire ego-maniacal statist commie-liberal.

In a recent court deposition, Mayor Bloomberg said he believed “the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms.” But in a recent brief to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr. Bloomberg argued that the amendment “was not intended to vest armed power in citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort — either federal or state.”

Yeah. We’ll see about that when Heller comes down, biotch.