Ninth Stage

The cause of Cowboy Blob’s piston upper KaBOOM has been diagnosed and a new upper is on the way.
POF-USA did an autopsy on my kaBoomed upper:
[snip]
They’re going to build me a new upper and bill Wolf for it.
(I still think it should be “KaBLOOM”)

“If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go,” he says. “That’s what happened to the record business.”
Yeah that’d be about right if the Coke you bought could only be drunk from the original container, could not be lent, borrowed [...]

Very interesting analysis from Eugene Volokh of the meaning of “free State” in the Second Amendment.  I don’t think I’ve read anything on it before.
“State” simply meant country; and “free” almost always meant free from despotism, rather than from some other country, and never from some larger entity in a federal structure. That is how [...]

It’s National Ammo Day and the FBI, not wanting to be left out, gives Winchester Ammunition the largest ammunition contract ever in the history of federal law enforcement - worth up to $54 million.

Syd on why he doesn’t carry a gun.  My favorite (and pretty much my reason):
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
There are plenty more.

STI has ceased all shipments of firearms to California.
The move by STI comes after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed microstamping legislation into law. “This law is not going to stop criminals, it is only going to hurt law-abiding citizens in the state,” STI’s Pauletta Skinner told Bullet Points. “We felt like we had to take a [...]

Cowboy Blob’s Patriot Ordnance .223 gas-piston upper is no more, with photos. The upper took a Beta-C Mag with it.
ADDED:  Since it belongs to Cowboy Blob, shouldn’t it be kaBLOOM?

These ads are unfair and deceptive because they suggest to the consumer that the purchase of a fire extinguisher is an effective means of providing for self and family fire-protection without warning the consumer that the introduction of a fire extinguisher into the home actually places the home’s occupants at an increased risk of death [...]

At CBS, The Skinny is “Keach Hagey’s take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet.”
Yesterday a topic was the reaction to The Skinny’s earlier coverage of the WaPo story “U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico“. Hagey distills readers take on the story with.
Skinny readers, it turns out, [...]

Poles in the UK are doing the work Chavs won’t. Unfortunately the police aren’t doing or are unable to do the job you’d expect them to. So, wisely realizing a culture who’s primary response to thug culture is issuing ASBOs is not a culture that values a civilized, well, culture, Poles are fleeing [...]

Tonight Nashville’s WKRN Channel 2 news at 10 had segment called “Life of a Gun”. Mostly it’s trying to find controversy over a Sheriff office selling confiscated guns.
Classie Wilson was killed by 14 year old using a recycled handgun. The gun had been”traded in” by the Maury County Sheriff in 2001. [...]

Tam speaks of the item that should have no name. Ouch! I hope my wife doesn’t forget where she left hers.
Talk about “concealed carry”.

Tennessee Handgun Carry Permits, a media look.
In April, we requested the state of Tennessee’s registry of handgun carry permit holders. The database containing that information is public record.
It will air tonight on WBIR for my east TN readers.
Oops, thought I’d posted this already.  My Middle TN readers should watch channel 2 at 10 for a [...]

In case I wasn’t clear, Packing.org is gone!
I recommend Handgunlaw.us as the new source for CCW information.
Alternatives sites include USA Carry and Open Carry.
If you know of any other sites serving the same audience, let me know in comments.
UPDATE: From comments, www.carryconcealed.net is another good site.  They just keep on coming.  I think it’s [...]

The headline tells it all. Or does it?
[Besides guns,] Deputies also bought stolen boats, trailers, trucks, electronics and drugs. All told, close to $2-million worth of stolen property was recovered.
A storefront sting netted a bunch of stolen goods including guns.  But one boat or one truck is more valuable than a pile of the [...]