American Gun Ownership Highest In 18 Years

[Ed Anger]

I bet you used some slick-looking canes, though.

A quad cane. I was pimpin'. And a walker.

[11B4V]

Is that Elvis on the back seat?

Josef Mengele. He and

[derspiess]

I bet you used some slick-looking canes, though.

A quad cane. I was pimpin'. And a walker.

So you were Marty Crane, then Herbert the Pervert 

[Ed Anger]

I had a rented wheelchair (which was hideously expensive) and best yet, my own potty chair. My wife got the pleasure of wiping my ass for close to nine months.

[derspiess]

Looks like the firearms market is starting to edge a little closer to normal, at least in terms of availability.  Prices should go back down whenever dealers realize the good ol' gouging days are over.  Ammo is showing up more often and staying in stock longer, and prices are down ever so slightly.  Secondary market for both is starting to crater.

[CountDeMoney]

The TSA announced a dubious record this week, reporting that it had seized 65 firearms at airport security checkpoints.

The seizures buried the previous mark of 50 guns, the TSA reported, and included 54 loaded weapons -- 19 of which at rounds chambered.

Among the seizures was a firearm strapped to the prosthetic leg of a male passenger at Salt Lake City International Airport.

Authorities said the passenger received a pat-down after an anomaly was detected during advanced imaging technology screening.

During the pat-down, officers discovered a fully loaded .22 caliber firearm inside the passenger's boot and strapped to his prosthetic leg.

The man was arrested by Salt Lake City Airport Police on a state charge of "carrying a concealed weapon in a secure area."

The transportation lobbying group AAA estimates that 2.3 million travelers were expected to fly during the Memorial Day weekend.

[DGuller]

WTF?  Are all those people absent-minded concealed carriers, in which case it's an amusing piece of karma, or are there that many wannabe terrorists out there?

[CountDeMoney]

Here's your feel-good story of the day, derpastrygun.

NRA membership given to boy suspended in pastry incident
Arundel Republicans buy lifetime membership for boy who nibbled food into shape of gun

By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun

9:54 p.m. EDT, May 29, 2013

The 8-year-old Anne Arundel County boy who was suspended for biting a pastry in to the shape of a gun received standing ovation and a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association Wednesday night.

At a fundraiser for Anne Arundel County Republicans, House Minority Leader Nicholaus R. Kipke presented Josh Welch with the membership, which cost $550, during a tongue-in-cheek presentation that involved a Pop-Tart fashioned into pistol and gun safety tips.

Josh's March 1 suspension from Park Elementary School for chewing a pastry into the shape of a firearm captured national attention over how seriously students should be punished for such threats.

Josh, who was 7 at time he was suspended for two days, gave the NRA certificate to his parents at the Glen Burnie event and returned to playing games on a cellphone.

"Everyone keeps asking me why I did it," Josh said. "I don't know why I did it. ... I wish people would stop asking me about it. It'll probably go on for 45 years or something."

Josh said he didn't know what the NRA was or what it meant to have a membership, but chimed in when his parents were asked whether anyone else in his family belonged to the NRA.

"Nope, only me," he said.

An attorney has filed an appeal to expunge the suspension from Josh's record. Anne Arundel County schools spokesman Bob Mosier said Wednesday that he could not comment on the status of the appeal.

Josh also received an autographed photo of himself with David Keene, the immediate past president of the NRA and the keynote speaker at the fundraiser.

[Berkut]

You know, not for nothing, but that is just a casebook example of how fucked up the NRA is - that their paranoia is so acute that they think this is actually a meaningful story.

[derspiess]

You know, not for nothing, but that is just a casebook example of how fucked up the NRA is - that their paranoia is so acute that they think this is actually a meaningful story.

Seedy apparently agreed that it was meaningful, for whatever that's worth.

In other news, I bought two of these for the hell of it.  They should hold up better than the 3-D printed variety

[Razgovory]

Well, in my view this poor girl was murdered by the hostage taker, not the cop.

The internal review board may not see it your way.

Hostage taking was never brought up in any of my classes.  What does the average beat cop do there?

[CountDeMoney]

Hostage taking was never brought up in any of my classes.  What does the average beat cop do there?

Call his FOP lawyer.

[merithyn]

Wow. This guy's a real winner...

Clark Aposhian, Utah Gun Lobby Chief, Arrested On Domestic Violence Charge

When Aposhian received a call from his ex-wife's husband asking him not to return, he allegedly responded by saying he'd go wherever he pleased and would run over their cars and "bury" him, the AP reports.

When he returned to the house in a different car, reportedly to offer to clean up any tire marks he may have left, he was booked by police who had been called to the scene, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Officers confiscated the weapon he had with him and charged him with trespassing, harassment, domestic violence, failure to appear in court and for multiple outstanding traffic violations. He posted bail later on Monday.

Aposhian has adamantly denied the story given by his ex-wife and her husband, telling The Salt Lake Tribune that it is "so far removed from any semblance of truth as to be categorized in the bizarro world." His attorney, Mitch Vilos, told Utah's KSL-TV that he had witnesses to corroborate Aposhian's version of events and was sure his client would be "vindicated." That said, Vilos admitted to the Tribune that Aposhian's career as a firearms advocate could be destroyed if he is found guilty.

"It would be ruinous to this man's profession," Vilos said. "I would blame the Cottonwood Heights police for doing an incompetent investigation."

Under state law, a domestic violence conviction could force Aposhian to turn over his guns, his concealed-weapons permit and concealed-carry instructor's license. It could also potentially cause others to scrutinize his leadership roles on a number of Utah gun groups.

Aposhian has emerged as a controversial figure amid the resurgent debate over guns in the wake of last year's massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In December, he held a special concealed carry permit class for 200 Utah educators, insisting that equipping teachers with guns would make classrooms safer. Utah law currently allows for a person to have a loaded weapon inside a school.

While Aposhian has made a living in part by teaching people how to secure their weapons, he himself fell victim to theft in March, when he reported that an AR-15 rifle with a thermal-imaging scope had been stolen from a lockbox inside his vehicle

[11B4V]

Wow. This guy's a real winner...

Clark Aposhian, Utah Gun Lobby Chief, Arrested On Domestic Violence Charge

When Aposhian received a call from his ex-wife's husband asking him not to return, he allegedly responded by saying he'd go wherever he pleased and would run over their cars and "bury" him, the AP reports.

When he returned to the house in a different car, reportedly to offer to clean up any tire marks he may have left, he was booked by police who had been called to the scene, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Officers confiscated the weapon he had with him and charged him with trespassing, harassment, domestic violence, failure to appear in court and for multiple outstanding traffic violations. He posted bail later on Monday.

Aposhian has adamantly denied the story given by his ex-wife and her husband, telling The Salt Lake Tribune that it is "so far removed from any semblance of truth as to be categorized in the bizarro world." His attorney, Mitch Vilos, told Utah's KSL-TV that he had witnesses to corroborate Aposhian's version of events and was sure his client would be "vindicated." That said, Vilos admitted to the Tribune that Aposhian's career as a firearms advocate could be destroyed if he is found guilty.

"It would be ruinous to this man's profession," Vilos said. "I would blame the Cottonwood Heights police for doing an incompetent investigation."

Under state law, a domestic violence conviction could force Aposhian to turn over his guns, his concealed-weapons permit and concealed-carry instructor's license. It could also potentially cause others to scrutinize his leadership roles on a number of Utah gun groups.

Aposhian has emerged as a controversial figure amid the resurgent debate over guns in the wake of last year's massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In December, he held a special concealed carry permit class for 200 Utah educators, insisting that equipping teachers with guns would make classrooms safer. Utah law currently allows for a person to have a loaded weapon inside a school.

While Aposhian has made a living in part by teaching people how to secure their weapons, he himself fell victim to theft in March, when he reported that an AR-15 rifle with a thermal-imaging scope had been stolen from a lockbox inside his vehicle

Where is this article from? Sounds flakey.  Looks like a "he said she said" at this point.

[The Minsky Moment]

More like he said, she and the entire town police force said.