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Another plug for tonight’s show, where we’ll be discussing carry in the House of the Lord on Gun Nuts: The Next Generation. Tune in live at 11pm to listen to the show!

Again, tonight’s show is going to be very listener driven – a lot of us “gun nuts” are also church goers, and as such this is often a divisive issue amongst our community. Additionally, quite a few states bar concealed carry in churches, so we’d like to hear from those people as well. The call in number for the show is (347) 539-5436, and we’ll both be live on Google chat, I’m admiralahab @ gmail dot com, and Squeaks is squeaky.wheel.seeks.grease @ gmail dot com – additionally, if you’re listening live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts you’ll be able to live chat in the custom chat room. While we may not read every chat live, we do keep up with them.

Again, tonight at 11pm Eastern, Gun Nuts: The Next Generation will be talking about carrying in church. Call us at 347-539-5436!

Come on, you knew wouldn’t be able to resist that.

Mr. Heller is suing DC again, because, well, their new laws really aren’t that different from the old laws.

From Snowflakes in Hell, I get the following particulars:

1. The ballistics testing nonsense which requires an undefined fee.
2. The nonsense about not being able to register a semi-automatic pistol under DC’s ridiculous definition of “machine gun”
3. They ask for any further relief the court may want to offer.

I think it’s great – I like that we’re going after semi-automatic pistols on this one.  It’s been pretty soundly established that handguns are the defensive firearm of choice for many, many Americans, and that by a rather large margin those handguns are semi-automatic pistols and not revolvers.  Good luck to Mr. Heller in round 2.

You know, I’m not really what you would call a “Glock guy”. I own one, which I shoot on a regular basis for Pins and Steel and such. If anything, I’m more of a Beretta guy. But I digress, the point is that I just waded through Xavier’s “guide to buying your first 1911” and at the end of it all I could think was “sweet jesus, all that to buy a handgun, why not just get a Glock or a Beretta.”

I mean honestly, here’s how hard it is to buy a Glock/Beretta/M&P/XD whatever:

1. Go to gun store
2. Try all the guns listed above to see which fits your hand
3. Pick whatever caliber you want, 9mm, .40, .45, .357 Sig, 10mm
4. Go to a range that rents guns and rent a version of the gun you picked
5. If you like it, go back to your local merchant of death and hand him/her anywhere from $400-$600 smackers.

Really not that challenging.

Now, I kid 1911 guys, because they are really hard for the guard when it comes to their defensive platform of choice, but at the same time, if you want a 1911 I’m not going to stop you. Because that’s where my firearms preferences end – with me. I choose the guns I like because I like them, or the fit my hand, or I’ve got a lot of experience with the platform, whatever, but my choices are mine and really shouldn’t have any bearing on your choices. I’m not going to say “don’t buy a 1911 because what you really need is more training” just like I’m not going to say “don’t buy a Glock because what you really need is a better trigger”. What I will say is “buy whichever gun fits you that you’ll carry and shoot on a regular basis”.

Because all this silly bullshit over Glocks and 1911s or HKs or whatever is just that – silly bullshit. If I come back from Blackwater and think that the Para LTC (the gun I’ll be shooting) is the coolest thing since sliced bread, it will be because the gun fits me and I was able to run it well, not because 1911s are the sexiest platform ever. Similarly, just because I love my Glock 24 doesn’t mean that you should go dump your STI for a Glock.

But don’t worry, I’m sure that intertrons fanboys will continue to argue over which is the superior pistol platform for centuries to come. If I live to be 352 years old, I’ll probably log into the brain-nets or whatever and see some joker arguing with some tool over which is better, the HK Pulsetron X-12 or the Springfield Space-Armory N-332 Heatbeam.

You know, not even six months ago, if you had told me that an Obama presidency would have been the worst thing ever, I would have agreed with you.  I still think that he’s terrible for the country, and will through his saintly intentions make a righteous mess out of things, namely the economy.

While I still plan on voting for Johnny Mac, my concern with an Obama presidency was that he’d go all Jimmy Carter on us and that the Republican party doesn’t have another Ronald Reagan waiting to pick up the pieces left behind by four years of socialism and screwing with the economy.

I don’t think that any longer.  I feel like with Republicans like Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal,  and others that the Republican party does have strong, young candidates waiting in the wings.  The question then in my mind is whether or not having McCain lose to Obama would be disastrous enough to tell the Republican party to stop running these guys, and run someone who is actually a conservative.

Unfortunately, the problem with realizing that the conservatives actually have strong, charismatic potential candidates waiting is that it leads me back to my previous moral dilemma about voting for McCain.  Since I’m in an election where I’m forced to pick the lesser of two evils, picking McCain leaves a foul taste in my mouth.  Like many others, I’ll be at least half in the bag to have to actually punch the button for this guy.  At the same time, I cannot in good conscience vote for Obama and sleep well that night – the best I could do in that situation is simply not vote for the president, and cast my ballot solely for other races.

Of course, I run into the problem of wondering if the US could actually take 4 years of Obama – we barely made it out of Jimmy Carter’s presidency from an economic standpoint, and with the battering that the dollar has taken I kind of wonder if we could actually make it.  And that doesn’t even bring up the question of Supreme Court justices either.  With only a 5-4 for a .38 revolver on Heller, the potential for Obama to appoint 1-3 justices to court scares the crap out of me.

So where does that leave me?  Unfortunately, right back where I started.  I think the deciding factor for me will ultimately come down to economics – whether or not I believe that the country could make it through 4 years of Obamanomics and socialist programs will be the final deciding factor on whether or not I vote for McCain.

The bright side of the issue is that if the Republicans lose and that loss is devastating, maybe, just maybe, the GOP will wake up and realize that they need to put Bobby Jindal or Sarah Palin or Mitch Daniels or someone other than the same old RINOs in the driver’s seat.   Until then, I guess I’ll just keep having this debate with myself every election season.

Tomorrow on Gun Nuts: The Next Generation we will be talking about the issue of guns in church, in light of the recent church shooting in Knoxville.

Tune in live at 11pm Eastern, or download the podcast.  This show will be very much listener and comment driven – even in the pro-gun community the topic of carrying guns in churches is hotly debated from both a legal and theological standpoint.

The url for the show is www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts and we’ll be live tomorrow night at 11pm Eastern Time.  The call in number for the show is (347) 539-5436.

Call in with comments, questions, you name it!

From Uncle:

The Mrs. often asks why I carry to church. It’s because shootings keep happening at churches.

It’s sad but true – when we go to church, I’m still carrying.

I’m so excited for tomorrow’s pin shoot – my buddy Greg won’t be able to make it, apparently his newborn second child is more important than shooting up a bunch of bowling pins.  I keep telling him to get his priorities fixed, but apparently “family” is more important than “awesome trigger time”.

All kidding aside, for more information on the match check out this link to Marion County Fish & Game – set up starts around 8am, and shooting begins usually around 8:30 or 9am.  I’ll be there for sure, shooting my Glock 24 in .40 S&W.  I’ll also be taking some video, so show up and you might end up being internets famous.

Since the .40 may not have enough juice to blow those pins off the table, I will practice my new strategy of “shoot a lot of bullets faster than the other guy”.