Snowflakes in Hell

Another Gun Blog has the quote.  Seems Castro is worried if he says too many good things about Obama, he’ll help McCain.  That’s probably true.

Michael Bane argues that the regulations applied to short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and suppressors, are worse than stupid.  I couldn’t agree more.  Even most European countries don’t regulate suppressors, and regulating barrel lengths has never made much sense. Suppressors particularly, with more and more shooting ranges under threat from noise ordinances, would be particularly useful for ranges in keeping friendly relations with neighbors.  But suppressors aren’t common in the US like they are in Europe, because of their excessive regulation in this country.

I think it’s politically feasible to create a movement against these aspects of the National Firearms Act, but if Obama ends up in the White House, we’ll be two decades just undoing that damage, if we ever manage at all.  If gun owners don’t win elections, we don’t win.  Michael also isn’t too happy about the candidacy of Bob Barr on the Libertarian ticket.  I agree with him that it’s no time for a feel good vote.  If Governor Richardson had gotten the nod, I might feel better about telling the GOP to go to hell, but the idea of an Obama presidency scares the ever living crap out of me.

Word from Dave Hardy is that there’s a major shakeup at ATF.  Hopefully they can clean this mess up before we’re looking at President Obama.  Also, Dave points to an article that talks about the kinds of justices that Obama would likely nominate.

You can read about the history of memorial day here.  Wyatt has his thoughts, and highlights a World War I veteran, which Marshall Manson thinks our society doesn’t pay enough attention to.  Brent Greer joined a local boy scout troop to plant flags on the graves of veterans.  Tam’s reminder is simple, but powerful.  Jeff has pictures from Arlington National Cemetary.  Murdoc has a fantastic shot of a 21 gun salute.

In other news, Google pretty clearly doesn’t appreciate the sacrifices made by others so they could make their fortune, but Yahoo! does.  I mean, you can do an earth day logo, but not one for memorial day?

Kit and John have gotten married, and someone actually liveblogged the wedding.