Don’t worry. It is not Bubba’s Tackle and Gun Shop or your local FFL dealer but the Good Old US Government.

According to The Washington Times, the Pentagon has sent 747,000 weapons and auxiliary equipment, mostly small arms, to Afghan forces over the past decade. The paper reported that of the 474,823 serial numbers recorded in the tracking database, 203,888 — approximately 43 percent — had missing or duplicate information. The Times reported that auditors had discovered that 24,520 serial numbers were repeated at least once in the database, and 50, 304 serial numbers had no shipping or receiving dates recorded for them…

…That has sparked fears that at least some of the weapons may be available on the black market, with militants among the potential purchasers. …

via Report says Pentagon has lost track of thousands of firearms given to Afghan forces | Fox News.

ATF expects of Federal Firearm Dealers a 100% accounting of any firearms that happens to grace its inventory under severe monetary and prison penalties even if the mistakes are nothing more than a transposed digit on a serial number. But I guess the same cannot be expected of the Pentagon and I doubt pretty much that anybody will be punished or even given a verbal reprimand for such a screw up.

So much for the accusations of an Iron Pipeline coming from FFL Dealers.

This via TWitter:

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: DC Police Chief Lanier just told force not to arrest a person who can legally carry a gun in DC or any state.

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) July 28, 2014

Again, I am sure as soon as the courts open tomorrow, there will be a flood of lawyers trying to figure out a way to reverse or patch the court’s ruling but that is gonna take some time and it is doubtful that it will be back to business as usual.

I don’t want to get anybody’s hopes up, but this may be some of the last nails in the coffin. I am just dying to see the reactions from Gun Control groups once they come back from their weekend in the Hamptons.

It has been a busy weekend, hasn’t it?

I remember this one. There was a big push to tag propellants as it is done with explosives but the coup de grace did not come from the NRA but from the military and police.  Propellant manufacturers warned Congress that they could not guarantee proper and/or safe burning of the propellant if taggants were added and that they could not afford to make special batches for LEO & Military.  I recall Police Chiefs at the time protesting loudly about officer safety and the bill pretty much went to die a stupid death.

Effective immediately – since DC has no other laws in effect concerning carrying a firearm except the one just struck down – DC is legally a Constitutional Carry area for non-residents at this time. Non-residents will be able to legally carry in DC under the same rules that we currently see in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Vermont, and 99.4% of Montana. Residents appear to still be required to have a legally registered gun, though once they have that they will be able to carry without any additional license.

via Federal District Court decision striking down DC’s ban on concealed handguns: Copy and analysis – Crime Prevention Research Center.

This is atomic-type news. I am still digesting the decision (click here) but I can only imagine heart attacks happening across every gun-control group based in DC.

I also imagine that the DC Council will soon come up with some Illinois-Cook County type of regulation but I also don’t know what kind of word Congress may have in the matter.

This one is monumental folks…monumental.

Specially those with paid bodyguards or that believe themselves above the laws they create.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has ruled that doctors do not have the right to ask patients if they own a firearm when unnecessary to a patient’s care. This ruling is a significant defeat for the gun control lobby and its allies. The Florida chapters of the American Academies of Pediatrics and American College of Physicians, along with a number of other groups and individuals backed by the anti-gun community, filed this lawsuit against the State of Florida after Governor Rick Scott signed a bill backed by the National Rifle Association in 2011.

In the ruling, the three judge panel ruled: “In keeping with these traditional codes of conduct—which almost universally mandate respect for patient privacy—the Act simply acknowledges that the practice of good medicine does not require interrogation about irrelevant, private matters. As such, we find that the Act is a legitimate regulation of professional conduct. The Act simply codifies that good medical care does not require inquiry or record-keeping regarding firearms when unnecessary to a patient’s care.”

via NRA-ILA | US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of the State of Florida and Law Abiding Gun Owners.

I know that some people think this law was bad to begin with regarding Freedom of Speech, but I am gonna disagree on that point. We are not talking about the free flow of ideas or even advice from one individual that is trained on the subject but a couple of medical associations with long-standing political views about guns.

The opposition was not happy:

A main attorney who filed the appeal said the decision would cause Florida physicians to curb their own speech on safe gun ownership.

“We strongly disagree with the panel majority’s holding that Florida doctors have no First Amendment right to ask patients about potential dangers in their lives, including the presence of guns in the home,” Douglas H. Hallward-Driemeier said in an emailed statement.

The ruling, if it stands, “will prevent patients from receiving critical truthful information that protects not only themselves but their families and others,” he said.

I am an NRA Instructor but you would not take professional advice from me on how to treat gall stones, yet we are to believe that a doctor without any firearms instruction training is perfectly able to give “critical truthful advice” on firearms safety because he just happens to have an M.D. appended to his name.

The losing side is mulling about continuing the fight.  So it is not over yet.