It can’t be easy being a TSA agent. Not when you have to enforce stupid rules written by stupid people for stupid reasons. Take the recent example encountered by Phyllis May who was flying home from St. Louis with one of her sock monkey creations, Rooster Monkburn. As nationalreview.com relays, “Agents said that it posed a threat because it could be confused for a real gun, according to local reports. ‘[The agent] said ‘this is a gun,’ said Phyllis May, recounting the experience to fly back to her home in Washington state. ‘I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey.’” Silly Phyllis. Bet you we don’t have to tell you her explanation didn’t cut much ice with the blue-gloved groper who stopped her at the security checkpoint. Crisis averted. [h/t Victor E.]
Anyone flying over the Holidays?
I dare you to wear a shirt with a firearm motif!
Meanwhile, somewhere in West Africa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lc81P-R8k
I bet that gun violates the undetectable firearms act as well.
It’s still a loss. Anti-2a NRA supports the extension.
The media is bound and determined to put George in jail for as long as they can keep him there, and to take away his guns for life. It has convicted him of the MURDER of poor innocent St. Skittles and he must be punished. The media is never wrong. (Except when it is, and we can’t talk about that right now.)
Where is his mother from? He should go there for a few years. Until he becomes old news, he is damned.
The stupidity of government is infinite.
Why did Indiana only get a D-?
It that the Nationalized Rebels against America?…
Sort of like the American Anti Republic Party (AARP)
If PA didn’t make first day of deer season a national holiday, we would be an F
I am shocked SHOCKED I SAY! that Glock stepped up to the plate in this long running California case (which started before the new microstamping mandate). It is the first gunmaker to date that has done so, I do believe. And Glock hasn’t to date seemed terribly concerned that the roster prevents it from selling its Gen 4 pistols to the hoi polio since it is still doing a bang up business in Gen 3s, and is free to sell Gen 4s to leos. Nor does the microstamping mandate applies to law enforcement sales, only to “civilian” sales, since both agencies and officers are allowed to buy and possess anything they want (well almost–Barrett doesn’t sell rifles to California governmental entities after his 50 bmg was banned).
I am not saying this is a bad thing, I am only saying that it is surprising.
The most vulnerable aspect of the “roster” law is the new microstamping requirements. Back in 2007 (?) California passed a law that required it when the tech became generally available. The tech was patented, and therefore not “available. When the patent expired, CalGuns Foundation paid to extend it, but the owner of the patent waived the protections of the law, and the AG (famously anti-gun) declared that the tech was therefore “generally available” notwithstanding the fact that not a single manufacturer has adopted the technology nor spent the millions of dollars necessary to implement production.. The net effect is that, except for grandfathered pistols and those already in the testing pipeline, there have been and will be no new pistol models in California since May 2013. It is certainly possible that a court will enjoin the continued enforcement of the new requirement until manufacturers start producing pistols that meet the letter of the law. [Which by the way is pretty unlikely both for reasons of cost and because the stamping is easily defeated either intentionally or simple wear and tear.]
That leaves the mag disconnect, LCIs and various iterations of drop safeties, and now an external manual safety. The law when drafted was intended as a safety measure–to prevent accidental discharges of dropped weapons–and in this respect it succeeded, quite well (even if Colt aficionados all want series 70 pistols and not series 80 pistols because they claim the sear disconnect alters the “FEEL” of the trigger). Unfortunately, the law was expanded as more of a method of keeping guns off the street–guns that are not “unsafe.” For example, Springfield XDs are legal–and quite4 safe with both a trigger safety and the grip safety–but the XDm and the XDs cannot be sold, even though these guns have the exact same features, because they don’t have an external manual safety. Glock has the same issue.
In short, California is trying to legislate to prevent accidents caused by shear stupidity. (“I didn’t know the gun was loaded, and I’m so sorry my friend….”) People who think that dropping the mag means the gun is empty, or who fail to personally ascertain whether a gun is loaded.
Another schlub who elevates the false god of government before Yahweh,
Ah libtards (democrats).
Ever here this argument from the pro-homo crowd:
“Who would ever choose to be gay?”
If gay is any kind of a choice or option, then George Zimmerman has reason enough to consider going gay.
GZ should rent his action as anonymously as possible as far from Florida as he can get.
Funny how the F state of Vermont had THE LOWEST rate of gun murders (at 0.4 per 100,000) in the entire US despite their “fail” rating. In the meantime, California ranked 13th highest (at 3.4/100k), and DC, which would probably get an A rating, had the highest rate (at 16.5/100k). In the science world that generally means your measuring scale is crap …
Good for California! Florida has a 3 day wait for handguns (waived for those with a CCL), none for long guns.
Doesn’t the guy at top of photo look like Barry’s son?? The fingers are right, anyway.
The gene pool really needs a lot of chlorine….
Ok, before I pass this on, has TTAG fact checked this… police report, media reports, etc.?
If she is attractive somebody has been living in upstate NY too long.