If you didn't read his op-ed in The New York Times, go take a peek.

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to see an advocacy group impeached by its own grading system."

Insty links some fun facts about the Brady Campaign's "successes."

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Boston writer Michael Blanding, or the founders of the "pro-gun" American Hunters and Shooters Association itself?

Cam Edwards tries to sort it out.

Via Insty, who's getting mail from genuine grassroots activists who bitterly resent these "Astroturf" groups—and with good reason.

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Wish we'd talked about this last weekend, Rusty. Great to meet you, though. I'll just echo what everyone else has said: get a revolver (.38 Special or .357, please), get some training, spend a little time at the range. Keep it away from kids, and the untrained.

And have fun. Firearms are the greatest.

Via Insty.

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1 One? That's like having one potato chip. You need several. Little ones for tin cans and gophers. Shotguns for being able to say, "I can't miss". And really really big ones to get the frustration out of your system.

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2 I own a 20-gauge, a .40-caliber Glock, a .357 Ruger revolver, and a Ruger Tomcat .32. I used to have a nice S&W Chief's Special--my first, and favorite, firearm--but my mother stole it from me. The husband owns mostly rifles and .45 ACP sidearms, though I did get him a .22 for target practice.

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3 Psh. Getting a .22 as practice for using a .45 ACP is like masturbating as practice for having real sex.

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4 Right. It's just not done I know, I know: there's virtually no perceived recoil, unlike with "the real thing." But the ammo is cheaper, and getting those microscopic bullets where you want them is still a challenge.

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5 I know this is going to sound 'funny', but I really don't know how many guns I have. I have a list of them with serial numbers. My favorites are in no particular order; S&W Mod 19 combat mag. Win Def 12 g pump 1911 45 Lugar 9mm (grandfather got this in WWI) S&W Mod 12 38 spc S&W 456 9mm with 3-15 shot clips

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6 Wow! I want a Luger. But WWII vintage. And a Colt Commander in .45 ACP. And a single-action revolver. And a Sig Sauer. Then I'll be done

Posted by: Attila Girl at August 02, 2006 11:21 AM (4IuF2)

7 Ever see a desert eagle. I got to shoot one. They are fun, but very heavy. They tried to sell me a .50 mag version at the store. But I don't have any elephants in the yard. I also saw an interesting gun recently. A seven shot titanium revolver. It was light, I mean really light. You could carry that backpacking all day. And it was a .357 so it would stop most anything.

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8 Naturally, I saw Desert Eagles when I was working at the gun magazine. But the biggest sidearm I ever shot was a .44. The titanium holds no attraction for me: I'm a small person, and the reason I shoot .45s so well is that they are good and heavy, so I have a decent shooting platform.

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but this is impressive.

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1 You are a cutie.

Posted by: Sissy Willis at March 03, 2006 12:06 PM (FU1id)

2 Don't tell Feinstein

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3 Paging Michael Moore... Paging Michael Moore...

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4 I didn't know they came that BIG!... and LONG! (ItÂ’s big enough to do an elephant! Not that anyone would want toÂ… poor things) Where can I get one?

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5 Yolanda: look here http://www.ohioordnanceworks.com/lahti/l.htm. Way back in the day, I read "God is My Copilot" by Col. Robert Scott, an account of flying with Chenault and the American Volunteer Group in China. One episode related was the recovery of a pilot who'd gone down in a rather remote area. The pilot reported that the locals firearms where of a larger bore than the .50 calibre guns on his plane. Not terribly surprising, tho. A 10 gauge shotgun has a .775" bore.

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6 10-gauge! My shoulder would never recover, I'm afraid. 12 is plenty.

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7 Yes, the biggest surprise to me was that you can actually buy one, for the low low price of only $8500 plus a case of Bud. Now THEre's a DEAL! I suppose something like this could come in *real handy* when you get charged by a wild pig!

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8 I'd like to see this kid pull that gun out of his britches! Clowns in a VW, indeed!

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9 In the useless information category, the largest shotgun I heard of still in manufacture is the Soviet KS-23, with a 23-mm bore making it approx. 6-gauge. It's a military weapon, sometimes carried by SPETsNAZ forces and can fire a number of projectiles including tear gas cannisters, rubber bullets, buckshot, and anti-vehicular rounds. It can also be used as a grenade launcher. Oddly enough, the weapon has a pistol grip, instead of a stock. I heard a story where a visitor, allowed to fire the weapon, knocked out some front teeth with his first shot. After persuading(taunting) him to try again, he broke his jaw with the second. I think that's a step forward for the Ruskies--accepting responsibility for your own actions! The punishment is built into the weapon! In the past, there were 2, 2.5, 3 and 4 gauge shotguns, called punt guns because they were mounted to boats called, oddly enough, punts. You can still find some of these around--and the shells... We're talking rough 2" diameter bores here.

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10 I saw a video a short while back that featured a fully automatic 12 ga gun (5 rds/sec) that could fire, among other things, small grenade rounds. Just...damn!

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11 Thanks for the link Darth! I wish I had $8500 to blow, but alas... Student loans take priority. "The pilot reported that the locals firearms where of a larger bore than the .50 calibre guns on his plane" Yeah but, please correct me if I'm wrong (i don't know much about guns)... couldn't a flintlock have a larger bore than a .50 calibre gun? I'm positive that pilot's guns were more acurate and reliable than those of the locals. As you said... Not terribly surprising.

Posted by: Yolanda at March 04, 2006 08:42 AM (dLzW2)

12 Good heavens. I can't say from personal observation whether that would Finnish off a tank, but it sure would Finnish off a quail.

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13 Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting tewwowists!

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14 I hope that quail isn't supposed to be dinner.

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. . . intend to outlaw tragedy.

Next to go: human nature.

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. . . with Radio Lone Star, who brought me some nice gun porn, including an entire special issue magazine devoted to the .45 government model. Naturally, we talked about how the gun industry has changed: there was a time when it was harder for publishing folks to "admit" that they worked for firearms-oriented magazines than it was to concede they work down the street at the Hustler offices. It started to change a little in 1999, when the underground "Y2K preparation" scare led some to re-examine their feelings about self-sufficiency in a number of areas, including home defense. But of course after 9/11 the public settled into a realization that all uses of force—even those that require hardware—are not evil in and of themselves.

That is, it might not be any more wicked to have a sidearm under your bed (secured so your children can't get to it) versus bondage equipment (which no one ever insists should be secured away from the kids).

Around the time we drift away from ordnance and onto media in general, the waitress comes by and I order a margarita on the rocks. No salt. Lone Star looks at his watch, which reads 12:40.

"Is this breakfast for you?" he asks.

"No. I had tea," I respond.

"But have you eaten today?"

"Well," I tell him. "There was milk in the tea. I think that counts."

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And this one's a honey!

Via My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

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. . . has a handgunning question. It's an interesting one.

I suggested a rifle, and then re-read Aaron's original question. Longarms are cheating.

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he told me. "But I kinda slacked off after a while when I didn't seen much about sex at all. And very little about guns.

And nothing about me."

Okay. Here's a cogent argument for the right to self-defense, and an explanation of why that is spelled S-E-C-O-N-D A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T

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. . . over here.

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Another fucking school shooting.

Just fuck.

(No. This is not a family blog when kids are dead. Try me next week.)

Maybe we can make lemons into lemonade, though, by trashing the Constitution over this! Anyone want to time it out?—I figure the first calls for gun control will hit the media by tomorrow, noon Eastern.

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Goldstein has the links/details on his suicide-by-firearm. Most of us are still in shock.

I heard him speak once, at UCLA in the 1980s. He was a talented man, and the world will miss him.

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. . . we closed the campaign-trail loophole.

I think this qualifies as a pistol grip, even though it isn't the military style of pistol grip that many people think of straight off when they hear the term. And—joking aside—most gun-control advocates do not seem to want to allow transfer of firearms as gifts: more often, the attitude is that the transaction must go through the state. (That is why I didn't give my mother my favorite gun, my Chief's Special: I loaned it to her, long-term. I don't think California allows me to just give it to her.)

I don't know what Kerry's voting record is on transfer of ownership, but I'll bet there is a contradiction, here.

[If you copy the photo, please know that I'm not the one who named it "Kerryrifle." That was several copies ago; people shouldn't name pictures before they have their coffee—or if they are only piss-ignorant members of the mainstream media.]

UPDATE: Cam Edwards weighs in.

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Baldilocks knows what it is:

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