Tam, over at View From The Porch, has a lovely piece about someone stepping on his own dick over the proposal being bandied about to ban the internet/mailorder purchase of ammo by lowly civilians. His idea is that if we surrender Poland, maybe the Germans will leave the rest of Europe alone.

At which point, his Facebook exploded.

So, a guy who makes his business selling ammo is supporting restrictions that will force people to come to him for his ammo. Okay, it’s a bit self-serving, but at least I can understand that. But then it gets clouded in the Neville Chamberlain-ing Bill Ruger-ing of ‘maybe if we throw this one guy out of the sled, the wolves will stop chasing us.’

Back-pedalling and ‘what I really meant was…’ has already started. I dunno about you  but if the zombie apocalypse was going on and this guy was the last source for 9mm ammo, I’d forget about my Glocks, go all Daryl Dixon on the zombies and lead ‘em straight to this guys shop.

Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.

Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say.

The ATF recommends that manufacturers voluntarily submit weapons for case-by-case determination. But those judgments are private and, it turns out, sometimes contradictory. Critics say nearly identical prototypes can be approved for one manufacturer but denied for another.

It’s like some sort of government-institutionalized version of Calvinball.

Not as good as having his head in a sack, but you take what you can get. I’m guessing that he’s taking one for the team and he’s just the sacrificial anode in a hot water tank full of corruption. Still, anything that makes ATFE look bad is good enough for me. Article.

I normally refrain from using profanity in blog posts because with the huge amount of verbiage available to me in the English language there should be plenty, more descriptive, and more accurate terms available to get my point across.

But, to no ones surprise, discussing the TSA brings out the George Carlin in me.

I really dislike talking about it, but I once spent 6 hours with my hands cuffed behind my back in a jail cell because the TSA goons didnt know the difference between firearms packaged correctly for airline travel and those that werent. Since then, I put TSA employess in the same category as the guys in the death camp guard towers…dont tell me “its just a job”.

So, the goons at TSA are now saying that once you go into the inspection/detection process youre committed. If you refuse, you can be arrested and face about $10k in fines. Personally, Im not seeing where the TSA actually has the authority to physically detain anyone. However, if I have to go through this absurd and, to me, unconstitutional process I have no intention of making it easy. I’m gonna wear my Utilikilt, sans underwear of course, and if it looks like theyre gonna put on the gloves and start groping I am gonna close my eyes, concentrate on my favorite high-definition internet porn, and conjure up a massive erection so that when that waste of life starts groping under the kilt he finds a deadly weapon alright……

Ever hear the old expression about how “when the revolution gets here, the first ones up against the wall are gonna be….”? I , of course, dont mean it literally….really. But metaphorically, when the political revolution gets here I hope the first agency ‘up against the wall’ is the TSA and a few of the other goons at Fatherland Security.

TSA: Making America Safe One Strip-Searched Grandmother At A Time