FNH-USA can’t like this report from Military.com that SOCOM (Special Operations Command) is canceling the Mk-16 SCAR (5.56×45 variant) project so as to spend allocated monies exclusively on the Mk-17 (7.62×51 variant).
I saw both at the NRA Annual Meeting. FNH-USA was pushing the military adoption of the Mk-16 as a selling point over the Bushmaster ACR.
The Belleville News Democrat ran a good story today about the movement towards concealed carry in the state of Illinois.
With 15 killings in six months, East St. Louis is on track to once again earn the label of one of the deadliest cities in the country.
But residents there, like all Illinois citizens, cannot legally walk around with a concealed pistol for protection.
Steve King, who operates the Belleville Indoor Shooting Range, says law-abiding residents of East St. Louis and throughout Illinois should be able to legally carry concealed handguns to defend their lives.
“Much of the crime in our area is in East St. Louis,” said King, “This is not meant to be derogatory toward East St. Louis. There are many law-abiding people there who have their backs against the wall who must risk breaking the law to protect themselves. They should be allowed to protect themselves.”
And some top metro-east lawmen agree. They urge that a law be adopted in Illinois to make it legal for qualified persons to pack a handgun. Illinois and Wisconsin are the only two states to entirely ban concealed firearms.
St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus, Madison County Sheriff Robert Hertz and Belleville Police Chief Bill Clay all said they would support a concealed-carry law for trained persons who could pass an extensive background check.
This issue is of particular interest to me as the Complementary Mother-in-Law lives in St. Clair County. Having driven around East St. Louis, I always pray that I never have car trouble as the place reminds me of a Third World country. If you’ve read John Ross’s Unintended Consequences, you know what I mean.
UPDATE: Here is a link to IllinoisCarry
I now have my first battle rifle. It is a FN-FAL that was assembled for me by CMP Armory.
CMP Armory is a small gunsmithing company located in Dallas, NC. They came highly recommended and they did a fantastic job for me. Both Moses (aka Johnny) and James were easy to work with.
I had purchased an Imbel parts kit from a private ad on the FALFiles Message Board. The guy selling it decided that after getting the parts kits and most of the compliance parts that his interests lay elsewhere. I then obtained a DSA Inc. Type II upper receiver which is American made.
CMP assembled the rifle, refinished it in matte black KG Gunkote, did a trigger and accurizing job, and then added their own Hurricane flash hider to it. Jim Rawles on the SurvivalBlog has spoken very highly of this flash-hider.
I would have posted pictures of the fine job that they did but the Complementary Spouse is out in St. Louis with her mother (aka the Complementary Mother-in-Law) and she took my digital camera with her. A cell phone picture wouldn’t do this rifle the justice it deserves.
Tossing A Few Legal Queries Into The 'Void' – IBD – Investors.com
George Will has some interesting questions that no doubt will NOT be asked of Elena Kagan by either Democratic or Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. More’s the pity.
This case caught my eye because it involved fishing!
When Taxpayers Go Fishing For Deductions
A Norman Rockwell-esque “Gone Fishin'” sign on a business may provoke nostalgia of halcyon middle America. It probably means something altogether different to Steve and Janice Lowe, taxpayers who recently went to U.S. Tax Court but came home with an empty creel. To put it in fishing nomenclature, they got skunked. The case is a good summer read, plus a roadmap of how taxpayers fare in hobby loss cases and which mistakes can prove fatal.
If you have a hobby that you’d like to turn into a business, make sure to read the whole article. It’s good!
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed HR 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, by a vote of 219 to 206 with 8 not voting. The full title of HR 5175 is “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act.” I can’t conceive of a more Orwellian title than that.
I wonder if the next jobs bill will be entitled the “Arbeit Macht Frei” Act.
The Supreme Court released seven of the remaining 11 undecided cases today according to the SCOTUS Blog. McDonald v. Chicago, the case that we hope will incorporate the Second Amendment to the states, was not one of them.
It looks like Monday is the day. That is the last day of this year’s October Term. Also, since Justice Ginsburg issued the opinion in Skilling v. United States, the betting is that Justice Alito will write the decision in the McDonald case.
Given that he was called “Machine Gun Sammy” by the Brady Campaign during his confirmation hearings, I hope this will be good for our side. Sebastian at the Snowflakes in Hell is ambivalent about that given that Justice Alito is a Jersey boy and is not part of the gun culture like Justice Scalia. Time will tell.
I am not a tax professional. I do use Turbo Tax and have for over ten years. That said, if you have a complicated situation, it is best to seek the advice of a tax professional (CPA or Enrolled Agent).
Otherwise, you could face the situation that this taxpayer faces:
Tax Court Rejects Geithner/TurboTax Defense
The Tax Court specifically reject the Geithner defense saying:
Regardless of the facts and circumstances relating to the case to which petitioner refers involving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, petitioner is required to establish on the basis of the facts and circumstances that are established by the record in his own case that there was reasonable cause for, and that he acted in good faith with respect to, the underpayment for each of his taxable years 2005 and 2006 that is attributable to his failure to report self-employment tax.
The Iowahawk has done it again with his latest missive from T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII.
I’m Beginning to Believe This Obama Fellow Is Unequal to the Task
The Bork judicial confirmation hearings were where civility and respect were first thrown out the window by the liberal members of the Senate including our current Vice President Joe Biden.
To say that they were a good thing for “constitutional democracy” is ludicrous. Serious inquiry was replaced with ideological fervor and we as a nation have paid for it ever since. Serious jurists with strong opinions as judges in lower courts have been replaced by shadowy figures whose true intellect and true judicial philosophy never comes to fore until after they are appointed to a lifetime position.
The National Review has examined papers released by the Clinton Presidential Library from the time that Elena Kagan served Bill Clinton as Deputy White House Counsel. Amongst these papers were notes that said the NRA and the KKK were equivalent organizations. While not signed by Kagan, the handwriting appears to be very similar to her handwriting. I’m sure a handwriting expert could say for sure. Robert VerBruggen who broke the story has more here and here. Nonetheless, to equate the NRA with the KKK is repugnant.
Kagan seems to have no regard for Second Amendment rights nor the organizations that defend them. Moreover, she has no judicial experience, no trial court experience, and a mediocre research record. And, finally, she doesn’t seem to understand the United States is a representative republic and not a constitutional democracy.
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