I really could care less about this idiot and the whole racist dog and pony show going on, but this caught my eye:

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity,” he said. “But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.“

“Typical white person.” You know, your typical white person is a well-meaning racist. They can’t help it. It’s how they were bred.

What do you think would happen if a white Republican started going on about his grandmother being a “typical black person?”

On fbo.gov for a solicitation for bid on an engraved Leatherman Micra for the ATF:

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms requires the following items, Purchase Description Determined by Line Item, to the following:
LI 001, EXACT MATCH ONLY - Leatherman Micra Color: Blue - Part number 64340101K Engraved with: ATF-Asset Forfeiture AND “always think forfeiture” PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHMENT. NOTE: ATF MAY REQUEST A SAMPLE TO DETERMINE IF IT MEETS OUR REQUIREMENT.

Isn’t that adorable? The ATF wants little multi-tools engraved with “Always Think Forfeiture.” I always knew ATF didn’t stand for what we thought it did.

Time to revisit one of those photoshops for you old gamer geeks out there …

Via Blogonomicon and Freedom Sight

I should’ve given these folk some attention long ago! Newly added to the blogroll:

Another Gun Blog
View From The Porch
Common Folk Using Common Sense
The Ready Line
Brad’s Place
The Angry Patriot
ZOD!

Love to see a blog community growing, welcome to the front page of my humble space!

#1 in the Country regarding Gun Laws! 79 out of 100 points! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain in the junkyard killing people!

SANTA MARIA, CALIF. — Four men were shot dead Tuesday afternoon at an auto junkyard in northern Santa Barbara County, apparent victims of a workplace attack, authorities said.

In a wild scene that sent workers and customers fleeing for their lives, police said, the shooter killed the men with a semiautomatic handgun, pausing at one point between rounds to reload. A suspect was later taken into custody.

Well, thank goodness for waiting periods, bans on high-capacity magazines, child safety locks, straw purchase bans, no guns allowed at the workplace, preemption, background checks, and one-gun-per month.

Otherwise, who knows what could’ve happened at that junkyard! It’s a shame that microstamping technology isn’t in effect until 2009 though, they’re going to have an impossible time identifying the guy who was standing there with a gun in his hands surrounded by cops that all the witnesses ended up identifying. Ballistics tracing would really help out, wouldn’t it? I mean … to remove all doubt.

Remember kids … when forcibly disarmed under an avalanche of ridiculous legislation with a criminal thug blasting rounds through you and police mere minutes away, take the time during the murderer’s reloading to reflect on the fact that the Brady Bunch has made you safer!

You’re #1!

In the Telegraph. Why am I not surprised?

The Supreme Court appears ready to endorse the right of American citizens to own a gun, opening the way to a potential escalation in firearms ownership across the country.

Ooooh, an “escalation.” Wait … what was that noise? Some Metrosexual Euro-Sissy filthing themselves.

Before I go any further, please note: Not all Europeans are Metrosexual Euro-Sissies - just like all New Yorkers aren’t Self-Absorbed Dumbass Yankee Fans, all Liberals aren’t Smelly Granola-Munching Commies (bad example, sorry), and all Illegal Aliens aren’t Uneducated Tax-Money Leeches.

Anyway …

The case hinges on the judges’ interpretation of the controversial Second Amendment.

There’s nothing controversial about a document our Founding Fathers wrote after you were promptly ushered out of this country 200 years ago.

Still can’t mind your own farking business, can you?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ALEXANDRIA, VA, March 18, 2008 — The American Shooters, Sportsmen and Hunters Association of teh Second (ASSHAtS) is a non-partisan firearm advocacy group who’s mission is to bring civility and common sense back into the gun debate. ASSHAtS formed in an effort to bring some control to the gun debate. The organization has developed it’s ideology around what it calls, “The Five Buts.” This list serves as a roadmap for all ASSHAtS members and directors and is also known as the “ASSHAtS PLEDGE”:

I, insert name here, am a gun-owner … BUT … :

• … supporting individual liberty does not make us racist. We should ban guns in cities, so the Police can safely protect the law-abiding colored folk.
• … the glorification of violence serves no purpose in today’s society. By the way, did you see the new Rambo? OMG it RAWKED!
• … if we had no guns, there obviously would be no crime. It’s a historical fact that it’s impossible to kill someone without a gun.
• … the gun-lobby is made up of murderous whack-jobs. I mean who in their right mind would want one of these things in their home?
• … I support reasonable regulation of firearms. Like municipal bans, microstamping, mandatory waiting periods, closing the gunshow loophole, ammunition purchase restrictions, licensing and fingerprinting, stolen-gun reporting requirements, concealed carry bans, door-to-door seizure, capacity bans, assault weapon bans, and federal regulation of slingshots. They hurt, too. Reasonable regulation doesn’t stop us from being able to go out and slaughter Bambi in an orgy of bloody death.

Bob Bicker, President of ASSHAtS explains the groups vision thusly, “Firearms are a crucial part of this great nation’s history. We formed ASSHAtS to be an advocate for reasonable people and to restore a sense of calmness around the increasingly juvenile rhetoric surrounding the gun debate in America. We’re basically taking on all of those bloodthirsty troglodyte murderous whackjobs who believe firearm ownership has something to do with their rights.” Mr. Bicker continues, “I mean, I have a right to buy a newspaper, but the first amendment doesn’t say I can go beat your brains out with it. That’s why we can buy guns. But of course we can’t use them!”

One of ASSHAtS stated goals is re-framing the political landscape in regards to firearms, “Just because you support some measure of gun ownership,” Mr. Bicker explains, “doesn’t mean you can’t donate all of your money to the Democratic party. They support guns and stuff, too. Especially this year.” According to Mr. Bicker, ASSHAtS membership numbers illustrate the point. ASSHAtS boasts over 265 million members across America in something called a “combined membership.” “A combined membership entails the board of directors being members of the organization, and the fact that my Mom is in it and her blog gets lots of pageviews. We don’t like to think of our membership in terms of dollars because it’s so restricting. She has a very popular blog that allows us to reach a wide audience of primarily 50 to 65 year-old women who like cats.”

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign adds, “Common sense organizations like ASSHAtS in conjunction with grassroots organizations like the Brady Campaign extend membership numbers to something … like … four memberships for every person on earth last I counted. Take that, NRA!”

Please contact Bob Bicker via e-mail at BigBick@ASSHATS.com for more information.

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Actually I’m going to shoot a few things. Let me explain …

Up here in Northern NH, it’s hard to get out to the range when it’s … you know … minus-ten degrees outside. That chill tends to put a damper on nearly any outdoor activity aside from skiing in many, many layers. And ice fishing.

Range time is something I’ve not had much of in the past few months. Check that … not had any of in the past few months. However, the thaw has begun, and my trigger finger is itching a great deal for a trip to the range surrounded by cool-but-not-cold temperatures and a mountainous backdrop that makes a lazy afternoon firing lead downrange just oh-so-enjoyable.

I’m so looking forward to a hot cup of coffee, a stack of ammo, the sounds of birds chirping, squirrels squirrelling, and the sweet music of steel soup-can death brought on by pure .22 plinking nirvana.

I’m determined to have some real fun my first few times out, getting re-acquainted with Mr. Mosin, and utilizing “alternative targets”. By that, I mean, “crap laying around the house I’ve managed to horde a pile of in the basement that I can’t wait to put dozens of holes in”. It is in this spirit of self-discovery and excitement at the outdoor firearm season which is rapidly approaching that I present to you …

That’s it for the gallery - so far. I can’t tell you how eager I am to get out there with this crap and have at it. I’m undecided on whether to bring a film camera and record Furby carnage. I can only imagine the YouTube comments now …

If you have range time and crap in your basement, by all means join the First Annual “Gallery of Inanimate Crap I’m Going To Shoot and Destroy.” Post the before pics on your blog and I’ll link you. You must promise to post the after pics within a few weeks time and by all means, describe the round, the range, and the good times shooting something other than a paper target or a steel cow!

Alan Gura and Robert A. Levy. Read the whole thing. Twice.

The Second Amendment guarantees a “right of the people.” The “people” protected by the Second Amendment, as well as by the First and Fourth Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, are all the same: individual members of the American community.

Recognizing that truism, the city and its fellow prohibitionists have abandoned the “pure” collective-rights Second Amendment theory — which secures only a right of states to arm an organized militia. Instead the city has adopted the “sophisticated” or “hybrid,” but equally wrong, collectivist view: that the Second Amendment guarantees rights to individuals, but only when they are serving in a state-controlled military organization.

Imagine a right — intended, in part, as a deterrent to oppressive government — that can be exercised only when, where, and in the manner that government directs.

Hell. Yeah.