Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Still Light Posting Ahead

As I've said, my computer access and time for it are extremely limited this week. Please understand if I haven't replied to your email--I haven't replied to anyone's email.

We're the Only Ones Pooped Enough

An off-duty Napa County sheriff’s deputy and his service weapon were reunited after a customer found the loaded firearm in the bathroom of a restaurant in Cotati last Friday.

He was no doubt wiped out from the strain of doing his duty?

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

Introduce a Woman to the Shooting Sports

In cross-examination yesterday he was asked about the cellophane wrapper that had been found around the barrel of a .22-calibre gun that also had a dildo attached to the end of the barrel.

Hey, maybe it's a way to get Rosie O'Donnell on our side...

Bloomberg Warned to Back Off VA Gun Shop Stings

Again, via Say Uncle:
The new legislation passed this year at my insistence and signed by Governor Kaine, makes clear that such non-law enforcement activities related to undercover illegal firearm purchases will be punishable as a felony in Virginia.

I'd say Mikey was just put in his place, except that won't be true until he's behind bars.

Tennessean Treason

Say Uncle has been following another paper outing the names of CCW holders.

So far, he has updates here and here .

Looks like the paper took the names down. I wonder if protesting to advertisers had anything (everything) to do with that.

As hard as it is to believe, I think these people were actually astonished at the uproar. I think they were ignorant of the whole Christian Trejbal mess. I may be wrong, and you're free to disagree, but in my experience, many reporters and editors actually are this ignorant about their subject matter.

Circuit Denies New Review of Second Amendment

District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. Fenty told reporters on Tuesday that an appeal to the Supreme Court is one option being considered as the city seeks to regain full authority to regulate private possession of handguns.

About damn time. Bring it on.

[Via Of Arms and the Law]

This Day in History: May 9

On the night of May 9, 1775, about 100 men crossed Lake Champlain and at dawn on May 10, slipped into the Fort. Most of the dozen British soldiers garrisoned there were still asleep. As they entered the officers' quarters, Allen is said to have yelled, "Come out of there, you damned old rat!" Although in his memoirs, Allen later wrote that he had said, "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." The commander of the fort appeared and quickly surrendered the fort.