Snowflakes in Hell

Tom King talks about one member of the United States National Shooting Team being arrested after attemping to transport a firearm in checked baggage as allowed by federal regulations.  Bloomberg apparently wants to host the Olympics at some point in the future.  Hopefully it New York does host, they won’t arrest all the shooting team competitors as they come into JFK.

I will be happy to donate to Republican candidates if progressive political operatives are going to pull crap like this:

The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.

Heh.  At least Mary McFate never tired to intimidate Brady supporters.  God help us if these people ever return to power.

It looks like the major networks are only featuring Chicom athletes in the shooting sports.

Someone reporter in Massachusetts is apparently getting his panties in a bunch because some of us believe the Second Amendment means exactly what it says.  I guess the prospect that we can read plain English is indeed frightning to some who believe most of us can barely read.

Mother Jones is now implying that Sean McFate, the son of Mary McFate, was let go from a D.C. think tank because of his mother’s actions.  The Think Tank says he moved on prior to the incident.

They are considering banning guns at airports entirely, despite what state law may say about the matter.  Since when did airports become federal installations?  I’m sorry to say, but if this passes, Philadelphia will, no doubt, exercise this authority, which means I won’t be able to go to the GBR III event, since it seems to indicate they can just ban them:

The Airports Council International said in a recent letter to Hartsfield, “There is no justification for permitting firearms at any airport.” Policies vary from state to state and from airport to airport. Some bar guns fully, others allow them, sometimes in areas such as a parking lot, said Charles Chambers, the council’s security chief.

Hartsfield spokesman Herschel Grangent said that someone firing a gun in the airport would force a massive evacuation that could disrupt flights nationwide. Hartsfield, with 89 million passengers in 2007, is the world’s busiest airport.

Just one more reason to avoid flying.  This is going to be a bitch on competitive shooters if TSA doesn’t make exceptions.  Does TSA even have the legal authority to do this?

UPDATE: Looking at the relevant US Code and Federal Regulations regarding airport security, it is my, admitedly non-professional opinion, that the banning firearms from airports entirely would require a change in the Code of Federal Regulations (which is subject to the rulemaking process), but because the US Code demands the screening of all passengers and property, essentially you’d have to make the entire airport a secured area, meaning banning them in the parking lots would be largely impossible.  The Aviation and Transportation Security Act doesn’t seem to grant TSA the power to regulate activity in the non-secured areas of airports.  They seem to be able to issue recommendations, so they could certainly recommend to the State of Georgia to ban guns in its airports, but in my reading, they can’t force the issue.

… but the Brady Campaign finally gets to say “I told you so.” You knows, in another 20 years maybe they’ll get to exploit a concealed carry permit holder shooting up a school.