4th Circuit Rules Open Carry Isn't Probable Cause

Interesting case. The person whose sentence was vacated was actually violating some laws (at least possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and concealed carry with no license), but the court held that he was illegally searched.

You mean the police just can't frisk you because you look suspicious? Who knew?

WaPo's Lame Hit Piece On Wayne LaPierre

Obviously timed to coincide with the NRA Annual Meeting, the Washington Post trotted out a ridiculous hit on Wayne LaPierre on Friday.

The legislative changes that LaPierre supported as the NRAÂ’s chief lobbyist in the mid-1980s opened the door to the import of military-surplus weapons, which effectively had been banned for two decades. The legislation helped make a new, more powerful class of firearms more readily available to civilian gun owners and begin to shift the profile of American gun ownership.

You know what gun the eeevillll Wayne LaPierre was trying to import? The M1 Garand.

The federal government has, for decades now, sold M1 Garands and other guns to the public through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. The legislative changes LaPierre supported were simply to allow a bunch of Garands stranded in Korea after the war to be brought back to the U.S. and sold to collectors here.

Go and read the whole thing for an example of a really shitty piece of anti-gun advocacy masquerading as journalism.

Gun Of The Week

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Marksmanship Award

Gun Of The Week - Answer

That's the Model 1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield in .45-70. Or, as liberals call it, an AR-15.

3D Printed Gun Arrives

Defense Distributed will be hanging the files for its prototype on the web soon. They need to be downloaded heavily by everyone and tinkered with if you have an aptitude.

"Gun control" is idiotic. A gun is just a simple machine, and anyone who wants one will always be able to get one. Kudos to Cody Wilson for pushing this point to the next level.

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Keynes Was Gay — Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That

This piece by Jonah Goldberg is, as Drew M. pointed out, a better defense of Niall Ferguson than Ferguson offered for himself. Of course, Ferguson just fell on his sword, so the bar's low, but it's still a good read.

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Because the Derby one has been up for about 300 times as long as it took to actually run the race.

For your evening hilarity, take a guess (1) what state these people live in and (2) what they do for a living.

Next test: now guess what these thing are:

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TV coverage just started on *spit* NBC. The Derby race is around 6:30pm Eastern.

Official Kentucky Derby Site

Betting guides from Bleacher Report and SB Nation

More on the favorites Orb and Verrazano

ESPN's Horse Racing page

My Old Kentucky Home

Woodford Reserve Mint Julep recipe

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May the Fourth Be With You. Yup, you guessed it. It is a Star Wars celebration day. But did you know that Margaret Thatcher was the first to use this term back in 1979?

Margaret Thatcher has won the election and become Britain's first woman prime minister. To celebrate their victory her party took a half page of advertising space in the London Evening News. This message, referring to the day of victory, was 'May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations.

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Shit Status: Real.

Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations in the agencyÂ’s Counterterrorism Bureau; and Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was the regional security officer in Libya, the top security officer in the country in the months leading up to the attacks.

So, Ambassador Steven's top deputy is one of the whistleblowers? Unless we wind up with a Frankie Pentangeli situation, Wednesday's hearing is going to be very interesting. Very.

One note I've been wanting to make and it's related...despite the stuff from Fox this week about how a military response was possible, it wasn't.

Even the scathing report from the House said there was no timely military rescue/support option (pdf).

Although responsible military officers and civilian officials within the Department of Defense reacted quickly to the attacks in Benghazi,
the effectiveness of their response was hindered because U.S. military forces were not properly postured to address the growing threats in northern Africa or to respond to a brief, high-intensity attack on U.S. personnel or interests across much of Africa.

You can fault the DoD for not being properly set-up that night but given how they were deployed and their alert status, there was simply no way to get military assets to Benghazi in time that night.

There's plenty to go after Obama on over this, making up stories about potential rescue missions doesn't help.

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Number one "the Constitution matters."

Senator Ted Cruz at the NRA convention. more...

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The Reading Room At Casa de Muse

No, not really. I wish it were, though. Those chairs look mighty comfy.

Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to the the award-winning AoSHQ's comfortable and warmly inviting Sunday Morning Book Thread.

What the Landlord Has Been Reading Lately

Apparently, there's more in ace's apartment than back issues of Busty Lesbians Quarterly. Earlier this week, he posted a review (and recommendation) of a book he's been reading called The Monster of Florence. I noticed that Ace didn't bestir himself to include an actual link to where one might purchase the book that he spent several hundred words recommending, so I just did. You're welcome. The Kindle price is a not-completely-outrageous $8.89. Ace already gave a pretty good rundown on what The Monster of Florence is about and why it's interesting, so I'm not going to repeat any of it here. Go read it, if you haven't already. MoF now on my Amazon wish list.

Bestsellers

I was curious as to what other people are reading on their Kindle devices, so I searched Amazon for and found their list of Kindle Bestsellers for 2013. Here are the top 10:

1. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
2. Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
3. Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
4. Wait For Me by Elisabeth Naughton
5. Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson
6. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garci
7. The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel by Matthew Quick
8. The Forgotten by David Baldacci
9. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
10. The Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer

A number of these have made the New York Times bestsellers list, presumably in their paperback or hardback editions. Me, I haven't read, or even heard of, most of them. I must live in a completely different world.

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Lemurs. more...

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One of the many excuses by the MSM in not covering the Gosnell house of Horrors is that he represents a one-off loose cannon, unrepresentative of the abortion industry as a whole; a clinic that fell through the regulatory cracks.

I suppose we are supposed to ignore the obvious: If that is the case, isn't this exactly the "man bites dog" type of story that news organizations used to be famous for airing and that reporters would pursue to make their name?

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