That popping sound you hear isn’t celebratory gunfire, it’s champagne corks being launched throughout the pro-gun world. Fox News reports that “California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, a tenacious liberal whose election to the Senate in 1992 heralded a new era for women at the upper reaches of political power, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election to a new term next year.” Along with her fellow Golden State partner in crime, Diane Feinstein, the pig-ignorant Boxer has been among the Senate’s most dogged enemies of the right to keep and bear arms. And like Feinstein (may her day come soon, too), she’ll retire with virtually nothing to show for her decades of effort on the federal level to disarm Americans. [h/t Dirk Diggler]