Everyday, No Days Off bring us this sad video from Esquire Magazine. The image is a capture of the video and to look at it gives any half assed gun enthusiast a major OMFG headache.

After ingesting a couple of Excedrin and ignoring the obvious stupidity, I checked the video once more and noticed the nice gun sweeps that the beautiful woman from ATF does to herself drawing the “Glock & Wesson”….

And then reholstering it.

And one has to wonder who was her firearms instructor. Could it be…

Nah! It would be too damn easy.

After the McDonald v. Chicago SCOTUS decision, I caught an Alan Gottlieb interview in a podcast or a radio show where he admonished about the dangers of people inundating the courts with silly lawsuits based both on Heller and McDonald. He also warned us about the possible misuses by defense lawyers on both cases and the unintended consequences. One already popped out: U.S. v. Yancey.

Mathew Yancey was arrested and charged with possession of firearm as an unlawful user of marijuana. He pleaded guilty, was convicted  but appealed saying that it violated his the Second Amendment Rights as interpreted in District of Columbia v. Heller.

The United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, heard the appeal and affirmed the conviction. And in the decision, the judges added this little tidbit of interpretation.

We have already concluded, based on our understanding of Heller and McDonald, that some categorical firearms bans are permissible.

I have not finished digesting the whole decision, but that sentence alone made my day go a bit sour. I am not a lawyer no matter how many times I stayed at the Holiday Inn, but my reading of this is not good and I think the legal consequences may come back to haunt us.

If so, to the pot smoking idiot, I wish to express my hope that the nightly colon exams courtesy of his fellow inmates while he reconsiders the virtues of being a stoner.

From Everyday, No Days Off Gun Blog brings this very polite note.

Now that is a neighborhood business.. whatever they sell. 🙂

Sorry about the delay. Mind obfuscations will happen 🙂

EPA announced that it would not acquiesce to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy and assorted tree huggers to ban lead under the Toxic Substances Control Act (which expressly exempts ammunition. The EPA cannot create legislation out of the thin blue sky realted to this, but they tried anyway) . It appears that once the news of the petition jumped from the Blogosphere to the Drudge Report, EPA decided that it would serve its interest better to pretend they did not jump into that bandwagon, even though they were asking for comments which is part of their “allow me to pretend I care about your opinion but I’ll do what I want” process. According to the USA Today article, the evil force behind the EPA backtracking is the NRA who challenged EPA to dismiss the petition under Second Amendment issues.

In Other News: The GOA says it was them who did all the grunt work on the EPA issue while vacationing from Martha’s Vineyard where they recued a bunch of kitties lost at sea. GOA is also requesting more donations because things are expensive up there and they ran fresh out of Great Poupon.