More stories about the curvy cuties at Cowgirls Ranch where guys are only allowed to watch. Any guys who try to participate are fed a heaping helping of hot lead . . .
Desparados [sic] have raided the local model agency and stolen the payroll. Some of the models decide to form their own posse and bring in the outlaws for the reward on their heads.
A gun battle erupts outside the bunkhouse. One by one, girls on both sides fall in a hail of bullets until the last of the models rushes the bunkhouse with guns blazing.
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Two suicides on New Albany, OH gun ranges in the last two years have The Other Paper wondering: should gun ranges take responsibility for screening users’ mental health? According to writer Steph Greegor, “nationally, suicides at gun ranges have been popular since the early 1990s.” Never mind stats; anecdotes are all. “In Bellevue, Wash., Wade’s Gun Shop shooting range changed its policy in December, 2000, to no longer allow lone shooters after two suicides occurred there in a five-day period. The policy change approximated no-rental-without-a-partner changes made in 1996 at several San Francisco-area ranges after a run of seven suicides at three different ranges that year.” The writer also explores the possibility of requiring ranges to perform background checks on customers. And warning signs listing suicide warning signs. Steve Yuszka, co-owner of The Powder Room shooting range in Powell, is unimpressed with that idea.
“I think that would be more of a discussion for some high level psychologist on whether someone would read a sign and say ‘Oh, I shouldn’t commit suicide because they have a sign,’” said Yuszka. “It’s like the gun signs outside of banks that say ‘No guns.’ What is the criminal going to do? Say, ‘Oh, I can’t rob this bank because there’s a sign on the door?’ No. It all sounds good, but it doesn’t make sense.”
WTAQ talk radio reports Green Bay (Wisconsin) police called “time’s up” on a local pet owner’s labradoodle Dudley. And how.
A passer-by spotted Ray Hawley’s [runaway] Labradoodle close to a bridge on Interstate 43. Officers said they spent over an hour trying to capture the pet named Dudley by using food, a snaring pole, pepper spray, and a Taser stun gun. But the dog continued to threaten going into traffic on the busy bridge. So officers shot Dudley four times with a rifle, saying they didn’t want the dog to cause an accident. Hawley said the officers should have checked to see if the pet was missing – and they could have avoided the whole scenario by calling him so he could pick the dog up.
There is some irony here. Wisconsin is home to “Vest-a-Dog”: a program that provides police canines with bullet and stab-proof vests. I kid you not.
Gun owner, legal eagle, TTAG writer and Sarah Palin antagonist Justin Berkowitz is going to have bite his lip a little harder, what with the National Rifle Association (NRA) announcing that the populist politician will headline its annual pow-wow in Charlotte on May 14. In a statement to CNN trumpeting their next headliner, NRA executive director Wayne LaPierre called the 44-year-old former Alaska governor “an outdoorsman, hunter and a steadfast supporter of our Second Amendment freedom.” Not to mention proud recipient of a New Jersey-made Henry Repeating Arms Big Boy 44 Magnum rifle [not shown here].
The New York Times’ Bay Area blog notes that the Bay Area Open Carry campaign is set to meet-up at The Presidio. No, they’re not going to gather to watch the Sean Connery / Mark Harmon movie of the same name. They’re going to, wait for it, pick up trash. Wearing unloaded guns, of course. So, you ask, what could possibly go wrong and why would anyone want to wear a gun in plain view—especially one that isn’t loaded? Last things first. The Bay Area Open Carry’s website reminds us that carrying an unloaded weapon in California is legal. Second, the group reckons doing so draws attention to restrictive Golden State gun laws. And third, “Because you can quickly load and be ready to defend against an attacker if needed.” [see: above] Hakuna mutata? “As long as the weapon is unloaded, they can travel to the event,” SFPD spokesfolk Lt. Lyn Tomioka told the Times. “Guns can scare people and if we get calls of that nature, for the public and officer safety reasons, we will treat that weapon as loaded until determined otherwise.” Uh-oh.
Federal stimulus package money is not behind Wisconsin’s $2m new study “Investing in Wisconsin’s White-tails.” The Badger State’s study “to improve the long-term management of a sustainable and healthy deer herd” will receive Pittman Robertson money (the 11 percent federal surcharge on firearms, bows, related accessories and/or supplies). Yes, well, thanks to the Pierce County Herald, I know what stimulated the study: “After last year’s big drop in the gun deer harvest, Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker called for the firings of every DNR [Department of Natural Resources] employee who’s involved in deer management. Secretary Matt Frank says they’ve gotten the message – and they’ve taken major action to ensure the best system possible.” According to the DNR spokesman Bob Manwell, no one has been decked Decker’s edict. “We’re determined to create data that can help us fine tune our deer population estimates, to devise the best possible seasonal structure,” Manwell told The Truth About Guns. “No one has been fired because of last year’s season.” OK, so, how many DNR employees are involved in deer hunting? “I honestly don’t know,” Manwell said. “I’ll have to find out.” [full press release here]
Chron.com reports that thieves removed some 500 deadly weapons from the Cleveland, Texas police evidence room. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recovered just 112 of the missing firearms from a Humble gun shop (of which there are three). As you probably guessed, there’s a strong suspicion that some of The Lone Star State’s Boys in Blue done did it. Especially as Captain Harold Kelley of the Liberty County sheriff’s department had officially listed 98 of those weapons as destroyed. The same Captain Kelley who had one of the two keys to the evidence room where the guns were stored. Apparently, “The Texas Rangers, which had been looking into the missing weapons, found the sale of the weapons to a gun shop ‘suspicious and irregular,’ according to the court documents.” Ya think? Meanwhile, The Truth About Guns has learned that Captain Kelley is still at his post pending investigation.
“Travis, the 14-year-old, 200-pound pet of Sandra Herold, 71, mauled a family friend in Ms. Herold’s driveway,” the New York Times recounts. “Officer Chiafari and another officer were the first to respond to Ms. Herold’s 911 call, and after the chimpanzee attacked his vehicle and opened the driver-side door in the driveway, Officer Chiafari fatally shot Travis.” Apparently, Travis and the victim weren’t the only victims. The Gray Lady reports that Officer Chiafari’s encounter with a primate’s primal nature has left the policeman mentally scarred. “He was haunted not just by the frightening encounter with the bloody and enraged chimp who outweighed him by 50 pounds, but also by images of the victim in the driveway. ‘I’d go to the mall and see women and imagine them without faces.'” The policeman who, for some reason, still carries a firearm, had difficulty getting CT taxpayers to fund Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatment. “Officer Chiafari required therapy but was denied a worker’s compensation claim. The reason was that harrowing episodes involving a person — shooting a suspect, for example — would be covered but similar encounters with animals were not.” And then he wasn’t! Not covered, I mean. And now there’s new legislation pending that would provide for “compensation for mental or emotional impairment after killing an animal when under threat of deadly force.”
We’ve reported on the relaxation of the federal parks gun ban. As of Monday, licensed gun owners are good to stow. Of course, not everyone is happy about this new state of affairs. For example, the change inspired The New York Times to wonder Whiskey Tango Foxtrot President Obama isn’t doing on gun control. Meanwhile, Maine is considering legislation which would re-ban guns in Acadia National Park and the St. Croix Island International Historic Site. The Washington Post reports that gun owner, hunter and state Senator Stanley Gerzofsky reckons some of his constituents appreciate [legal] gun-free national parklands. Some, but not all. “Now, there’s also families in the state that also want to be able to pack bazookas, but that’s a little different story.” As someone who’s spent a summer in The Pine Tree State, I can say it loud and say it plain: truer words have never been spoken.
