The report is finally out and it is a masterpiece of wishful thinking. They have previously stated that the report dos not cares for constitutionality and from what brief reading I gave it, they don’t care about how much it will cost all the stuff they want.

They cover school construction (imagine pretty much everything they may have found in the internet, movies and military fortifications. As for the gun part, let’s say that is filled with all the goodies Gun Control wants plus some.

I have no idea how much this Commission cost the taxpayers, but looks like wasted money.

From Florida Carry:

Two very important pro-gun rights bills are meeting their first committee stop in the Florida Senate on Monday afternoon. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will hear SB 290 (the emergency evacuation bill) and SB 176 (the college campus carry bill).

SB 290 will create an exception to current carry restrictions for those individuals who are in the process of complying with a mandatory evacuation order. It will apply only to those exiting a designated evacuation area and only for the duration of their evacuation. Upon reaching a safe destination within the state, individuals will need to comply with current statute. This bill is important because in a time of emergency, current Florida laws prohibit the public possession of a firearm during locally declared emergencies (even for concealed carry licensees) and transporting long guns through the common areas of condo and apartment complexes. An even less desirable alternative is to leave firearms at home, where they would be subject to looting and/or damage.

SB 176 simply removes college campuses from the prohibited places list in Florida’s Concealed Carry License law. This will allow only those persons having valid Florida concealed weapon/firearm licenses to carry while on campus, just as they do off campus. Your safety is your own responsibility, thus it is unconscionable that those licensed for the very reason of self-defense are deprived of that ability on campus while those who would attack Florida students continue to target places where lawful gun possession is prohibited.

Over 130 Sexual Predators and Convicted Offenders live within walking distance of FSU.

HAUSER, Idaho – A bus carrying paintball players struck and killed a Washington state man inside a zombie attraction at a corn maze in northern Idaho, authorities said Saturday.

via Washington man killed by bus inside a zombie attraction at Idaho corn maze | OregonLive.com.

The man was dressed as a zombie and attacked the bus with extreme fail. No points awarded to the paintballers.

The again, it sounds like a MCB media control job and that could only mean:

Hat Tip to Weer

This is why we have the .44 Magnum. Because Elmer Keith kaboomed this SAA cylinder in 1924 or 25 hot-rodding .45 Colt with .458 heavy bullets.

via This is why we have the .44 Magnum. Because… – Forgotten Weapons.

This is a bonafide historical relic. “Dude! Elmer Keith played with this!”

It does not get any cooler.

In America’s endless debate about gun rights versus public safety, there should be no disputing the hard facts in a new report on gunshot fatalities showing that at least 722 nonself-defense deaths since 2007 were attributable to individuals with legal permits to carry concealed weapons. Concealed carry by citizens has been a soaring phenomenon as states liberalize laws in the name of lowering crime that allow more permits and easier gun access in public places, even schools, churches and restaurant

via Concealed Carry’s Body Count – NYTimes.com.

The Violence Policy Center once again has updated its terminally flawed and misleading Concealed Carry Killers report. The title itself gives you the idea of gunmen roaming the streets with a license and a gun just shooting people at random, hard-core felons with nothing to lose. Murderers all.

Let’s begin first with the numbers: 722 nonself-defense deaths. Have you ever heard that term? Why the new moniker? Because you see, VPC includes suicides in the 722 in order to pad the outrage. But let’s go to basics: 722 deaths in 7 years or an average of 103 deaths per year.  Now, if we use the number Antis bandy about “gun deaths” of 30,000 per year, we have that a whooping 0.34% of those deaths can be “directly linked” to people with a CWP.  That is 99.66% of all “gun deaths” have nothing to do with the 10 million people who have a license to carry a weapon. Let me put it this way, if a Concealed Weapons Permit was a vaccine, even the “hippiest” and “hipest” of the Anti-Vaccine movement would have no problem inoculating their kids under those odds. Jenny McCarthy would be on the steps of the Capitol waving a Gadsden Flag in one hand and a pink 9mm SIG in the other demanding every kid in America to have a CWP.

Right off the bat in this report, we are confronted with the word Pending. This means that no determination has been made about this particular individual in a court of law other than he was arrested for killing somebody. Whether or was criminal activity or legitimate self-defense does not matter to VPC: He had a CWP therefore he is guilty and goes on the list. There are 50 individuals listed under Pending and in all probability some will be found guilty of murder/manslaughter, but it would be nice for VPC not to pass sentence a priori.

Next is Suicide. This category covers mostly those Murder/Suicide events or confrontation where people choose to kill themselves. As stated above, Gun Control loves to add the suicide numbers to the overall “gun deaths” to inflate the count, so I was willing to give VPC half a break with Murder/Suicides until we arrive to this:

 I went “Holy Chit! Was this a mass event that I missed?” Nope, I stopped and read with care only to realize that VPC is counting plain suicides as regular killings in deviation of what they were doing earlier. Since this event is in page 113, I am guessing they were counting on people not paying attention. They pull the same stunt on pages 117 (with 56 more suicides), 121 (29 suicides), 125 (43 suicides), 138 (28 suicides), 136 (29 suicides) again in Michigan. So in Michigan alone, VPC pads the concealed carry killers (cue ominous music)  with 213 deaths that are actually suicides. If we remove theses death from the total tally, we are looking at 509 deaths by (cue ominous music) concealed carry killers! 

Next I counted Convicted and got 172 incidents. This would be the only hard number: People with CWP who misused their guns and were tried and found guilty. A far call from the original 722 (cue ominous music) concealed carry killers!

I kept checking for other categories and found that (cue ominous music) concealed carry killers! included accidental shootings where somebody else died even if the owner of the gun was not manipulating the gun or even present at the time!  

This time around I did not have the energy to check for individual Pendings and how their trials ended up. It is not the first time that somebody branded by VPC as concealed carry killer was found not guilty because it was determined to be Self-Defense by a judge or a jury. And you can expect that VPC will not apologize for the unfair branding and they will just memory-hole the person from their records..

Listen, I am not gonna sit here, blow smoke rings up your ear canal and say that 100% of all those with a Concealed Weapons permits are saints incapable of doing wrong. But the numbers are what they are and it has been long proven (and even the massaged stats in VPCs “study” supports it) that we are a very safe conglomeration of individuals. It is also been proven that VPC still searches for relevance with a bullshit report and it some was given because the editors at the Nueva York Times Newspaper and Tamales (under new ownership) chose not to do their due diligence. Then again when you are losing money and have to fire people, fact checkers appear to be the first ones to go to the unemployment line.

You remember the town that posted signs saying “This is not a Gun Free Zone”? It seems that some compassionate, thoughtful soul took offense and vandalized four signs with spray paint.

It is so nice to have such an adult conversation.

Despite today’s ruling, I’m fairly certain that most Federal Firearm Licensees are not going to sell to out of state buyers until they have guidance from ATF telling them it’s OK to do so. I don’t know whether or not that guidance will be forthcoming, and the government is almost certain to appeal the ruling and ask the Court of Appeals to stay the judges injunction until the appeals court rules. So celebrate, because we did win a victory, but don’t run off to a neighboring state to buy a handgun just yet

via So Can People Purchase From FFLs Out of State Now? | Shall Not Be Questioned.

It is a GREAT decision, but it is not final yet. So far it only covers Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas plus you know it will be challenged and a temporary injunction requested and probably given.

Go read Sebastian’s post. Feet on the ground and no, you still cannot buy a full auto MAC-10 at the 7-11 so don’t even start complaining.