The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Changes considered for firearms bureau
A name and focus change may be in store for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the bureau’s acting director said.—
Jones confirmed ATF is also considering changing its name to the Violent Crime Bureau.
I’m surprised they’d want to hang that moniker on themselves, given the kitten-stomping, child-burning, armed robbery and vandalism, illegal weapons trafficking, etc. But hey, who am I to complain about truth in advertising?
Where do their criminals get hand grenades?
A video showing the horrific moment two men launch a grenade at a house shortly after a similar attack killed a grieving father has been released by police.
It shows two men approach the house in the middle of the morning before they pull the pin out of the grenade and throw it at the property.
The pair then run off but the effects of the blast can clearly be seen on the video as smoke and dust billows around the front of the building.
The grenade attack seen in the video took place outside a house on Luke Road in Droylsden, Manchester. (AKA: “Gunchester” – Ed.) No body was injured during this incident.
However, ten minutes earlier, the body of 46-year-old David Short was found at a house on Folkestone Road East in Clayton after police were called there following reports of gunshots.
There had also been an explosion at the address, which was caused by a grenade. It took place after his son Mark, 23, was shot dead as a gunman opened fire in a pub in the city in May. His father had previously branded his son’s murderers ‘cowards’.
Ah yes, gun-free Britain, that Utopia that the Brady Campaign fights so hard to bring to our shores.
h/t to Phil B., who has left the shores of Britain and settled in New Zealand where they’re at least a little saner. And Phil reminds us that hand grenades are illegal for private citizens to possess in the UK. I guess no one told those nice boys who were playing with them.
Saw this one at AR15.com:
Well, to be fair, he won received the Nobel Peace Prize long before he implemented that foreign policy. And most of those theater deaths were attributable to the Remington 870 shotgun, IIRC.
That billboard’s supposed to be on I-12 outside of Baton Rouge, LA.
My daughter sent me this one, and I had to share:
And Obama’s next shot at Mitt:
“American students are less proficient in their nation’s history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test,” the New York Times reported last year. “Most fourth graders [were] unable to say why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure.” The exam found 12% of high school seniors “proficient” in American history. — David Gelertner, The Wall Street Journal: The Friendly, Neighborhood Internet School
Tough to love, much less respect something you know nothing about.
And much easier to hate.
We all know this one:
If you’ve got a business…you didn’t build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
~ Barack Obama
That’s not the QotD. I told you that so I could tell you this:
If you’re claiming you got bin Laden……you didn’t do that.
Somebody else made that happen.
~ A Vietnam Vet
(h/t to my favorite Merchant O’Death, Dave, via email.)
The seventh annual Gun Blogger Rendezvous is only 27 days away, and I’m not going to get my .458 SOCOM upper in time.
I ordered it on May 3, with an advertised 90-day lead time. I checked with Rock River a couple of days ago, and here is their response:
The .458’s are running over the approximate 90 day time frame, so it could be 30-45 days before it is available.
Rock River is still advertising “60-90 days” for “most LAR-458 rifles and upper halves.”
Regardless, I won’t have a “thumper” to bring with me to the Rendezvous. I’ve got dies, brass, bullets even (some kind people let me have some of their private stash, so I’ve got about 200 of the 405 grain Remington softpoints to load.)
But nothing to shoot them through.
Ah, well. It’ll still be fun.
I received an email from someone you might have heard of: Kim du Toit. Kim and his wife Connie dropped off the blogosphere completely a few years ago, after being major players. They were quite polarizing (did you ever read Kim’s essay “The Pussification of the Western Male”?), but largely loved by the gunblogger community. Well, Kim has always been a writer, but he sent me an email to let me know that he has a novel out for the Kindle, Prime Target. Kim describes it this way:
Prime Target is about the U.S. Government spying on its citizens through data mining, and one man’s efforts to stop them. Evil government agents, beautiful women… and of course, guns. Lots of ’em.
He has other books, too, available here.
Nice to hear from him!
