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Note They Used AR-15’s on the Badge

Guns they can’t (legally) get in the UK anymore.

The associated article states:

The design is based on a poster put up by a Fenland landowner with a picture of two crossed rifles and the words: “Warning – This Property is Protected by Tony Martin Security Services.”

Go read the whole piece.

I love the free market!

You’ve GOT to Wonder How Many WEREN’T Intercepted

According to this BBC report, a freight truck was stopped at Dover trying to enter the UK and thirty Uzis were found (along with ammunition and suppressors) hidden in a spare tire.

So, how many got through? I believe the estimate for intercepting drugs here is about 10-20%?

Oh yeah. Disarming the innocent really cut down on the influx of guns in the UK, didn’t it?

Heard About that Berkely “Study” of the Psychology of Conservatives?

Jonah Goldberg disassembles it – with great humor – at National Review Online.

Link via Dodd from Ipse Dixit. Same place I found the cartoons mentioned below.

If You Like the Political Cartoons I Post Here…

Go to Cut On the Bias for three terriffic ones.

THIS is Why I Read Lileks!

Today’s BLEAT:

My favorite article today concerned the French computer game industry, and yes there is such a thing. Turns out that it’s in the pissoir for all the usual reasons – the companies can’t fire anyone when business heads sud, the taxes are onerous, and, uh, the games suq. But the French PM believes that the industry deserves to be subsidized, because French computer games reflect European values.

Well, yes, if they’re subsidized, bought by no one. It got me to thinking about French versions of some popular games:

Half-Life. An interdimensional gateway opens up, and thousands of murderous creatures from another world spill through. Your mission: help them establish their own parallel society in your country.

Doom: An interdimensional gateway opens up, and the minions of Hell itself enter a Martian moonbase. Your mission: nothing! Lucky you, they invaded in August, and that’s your month at the beach.

Grand Theft Auto: You steal Deux Cheveaux and attempt to escape from the police at speeds up to 30 MPH

Medal of Honor: WW2. This was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Resistance. At its peak it had 400,000 members who logged on and did nothing. Then someone named “Yank44” signed on, and the system crashed when all 400,000 members attempted to remove the picture of Marshal Petain from the wall of their cottage.

Accurate, Pithy, and Gun-Related!

Cox and Forkum, of course!

I Hope it’s a Best-Seller

Looks like Tony Martin’s going to write a book, and title it My Right to Kill.

I expect that will result in a mass case of the vapors.

Good.

Another School Shooting

In Germany. Four shots fired, one teacher wounded, shooter commits suicide.

Yup. It must be the guns.

(Link via Keepandbeararms.com)

THIS Got the Secret Service’s Panties in a Wad?

(Mike Ramirez, LA Times)

I like this one, too:

Of course, in this one Bush is holding the gun.

Don’t those Secret Service guys have anything better to do?

Civilian Disarmament Proceeds Apace in the UK

According to this BBC story

Gun permits at all-time low

The number of firearms and shotgun certificates issued in Scotland has dropped to its lowest recorded level, new figures show. There were just under 80,000 certificates at the end of 2002, a drop of nearly 4,000 from the previous year.

But the number of legally-held weapons rose slightly from 2001, according to a report from the Scottish Executive.

So there are 4,000 fewer permit holders but more gun owners with “arsenals?”

According to the 2001 census, the population of Scotland was about 5,062,000 of which about 3.8 million were above the age of 19 and eligible for a firearm or shotgun certificate. That means the percentage of legal owners is just about 2% of the eligible population. And declining.