Snowflakes in Hell

Ryan has the scoop on how Sullivan’s confirmation hearings went.  A little butt kissing in a confirmation hearing is par for the course, but I’m concerned about his statement indicating he’d release more trace data.

Have you sent your letter to DOJ yet?   Here was mine.

I’m looking for a case that can hold two rifles, but in a configuration where I don’t feel like I’m carrying around a telephone pole.  The case has to be OK for flying, and has to have a lock.  I would prefer metal, but polymer is OK as long as it’s tough.   I’m going to take out to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous:

1. AK-74
2. AR-15 carbine
3. Glock 19

I’m thinking about taking my S&W 629 is lieu of the Glock, since I can’t carry concealed in Nevada, I don’t need to be all that concerned about having my carry gun with me.  But I did pick the AK-74 and AR-15 specifically because I’m limited to 11 lbs of ammo on the plane, and both those platforms have lighter ammo, meaning I can take more of it.  .44 Magnum loads are heavy.  A case that had ample room for securely storing ammunition would be nice too.

Any suggestions?

I guess unless you’re proposing.

GeekWitha.45 finds another Joyce funded Coalition of One.  Interestingly, CeaseFire NJ doesn’t list itself as raising any money recently.  Money is being raised by CeaseFire PA, however.  I notice Bryan Miller hasn’t been very active on his blog recently.

Bitter updates us on the Colin Bruley situation. Bruley was the man in Florida who lost his job and was evicted after grabbing his shotgun to investigate the screams of a woman who was shot by her ex boyfriend.

The prevailing attitude among corporate leadership to firearms is a big impediment for our right to defend ourselves. People spend most of their waking hours at work, after all. I don’t know how to solve this problem, because it’s a hearts and minds issue, and I don’t think trying to solve it legislatively is the proper remedy.

In the mean time, folks like Colin will just have to keep doing the right thing, and we’ll continue to smear corporate cowards like Oaks Mill Creek and Village Green Properties as best we can.

I’ve been looking at the speeches the various candidates gave before the NRA’s Celebration of American Values, and I’ll offer up a few impressions. I’ll split this up into a few posts, because there’s a lot that was talked about, and it’ll get too long otherwise.

Senator John McCain

McCain, whether you like him or not, has generally been pretty friendly to gun owners over his career. I have my differences with him on several gun issues, which he acknowledges:

Over the years, we’ve not agreed on every issue. We had differences over my efforts to standardize sales procedures at gun shows and to clean up our campaign finance system. I understand and respect your position. But while we may disagree on the means, we do agree on the need to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and, in the light of the number of my colleagues who have been disgraced or under investigation and are worried about indictment, agree that Washington needs cleaning up. Americans have lost trust in their government, and that trust must be restored.

But I’m as big a believer in the first amendment as I am in the second, and I can’t abide by a method of restoring trust that places limits on the speech of its citizens to criticize candidates for federal office. I will never forgive John McCain for McCain-Feingold. He either repudiates that, or he won’t get my vote.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney tells us:

Now, as governor, I worked closely with the NRA and the Gun Owners Action League to advance legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners in my state. And my door was always open to you, and that will continue to be the case if I’m elected president. Together, we reduced burdensome bureaucratic regulations, we made it easier for people to exercise their constitutional rights.

This would be Mitt’s definition of working closely:

“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

Now, as it happens, the bill Romney signed actually helped out gun owners in Massachusetts in a number of ways, and kept the federal exemptions to the assault weapons ban in place when the federal ban expired. But you’d think from the Governor’s rhetoric, he was, you know, pandering or something. Mitt Romney? Pander? Naaah. At least he said he’d repeal McCain-Feingold:

And I’ll ask Congress to repeal the McCain-Feingold law which sought to impose restrictions on the First Amendment rights of groups like the NRA to advocate for issues we care about. Some parts have already been declared unconstitutional. We ought to get rid of the entire bill.

I couldn’t agree more, but can’t help but feel Mitt’s lips are chafing against my ass a bit too harshly. I’m surprised he didn’t offer to not only repeal the law, but personally eat the paper it’s written on at the Banquet for the Annual NRA Members Meeting.

PDB Asks, “You people are carrying your damn guns, right?”, because you never know when you might get attacked by ninjas.

Head over to Joe’s for some good gun porn. That’s a fine looking Siaga-12. Fine looking woman too. Joe and his wife must have some good genetics to have such attractive daughters.