Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/8/07

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

A Keyboard and a .45 blogs about a day at the shooting range:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/10/day-at-range.html

Alphecca has more on the Supreme Court and the DC gun ban:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=459

Armed and Safe has a question for the editorial staff of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/question-for-south-florida-sun-sentinel.html

If you haven't seen Armed and Safe's comments on H.R. 2640, this is a good time to read an excellent blog post:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/about-hr-2640-senator-coburn-and-stuff.html

Blogonomicon has a slide show on the Second Amendment he entitles, 'Force':
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2007/10/force.html

Cameron Bailey is back following his trip and posts this entry:
http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/10/money-and-politics.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel share with us 'shotgun still life' today:
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/10/07/shotgun-still-life/

Dustin's Gun Blog comments on 'a liberal's lament':
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/liberals-lament-by-jonathan-turley.html

Xavier Thoughts describes and posts pics on what he calls his 'go get'em guns':
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-go-getem-guns.html

Calling Jeff Soyer! Jeff, Tamara K. wants to be a 'people of the gun' but is having trouble getting on there:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-wanna-be-people-of-gun.html

Traction Control has some appropriate words for the New York Times and CNN:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=660

The War on Guns points to a strange change of strategy on the part of President Bush when it comes to capital punishment:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/10/because-we-wouldnt-want-to-harm.html

Nicki at the Liberty Zone explains why she doesn't like H.R. 2640:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/some-random-thoughts-on-hr-2640.html

Nicki also posts this in response to a writer who claims gun control would have prevented the shooting in Wisconsin, although the shooter WAS A COP!:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-dont-get-it.html

Of Arms and the Law has the scoop on the federal court that made ConocoPhillips' ban of guns in employee parking lots legal:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/10/fed_court_voids.php

Red's Trading Post has the MUST-read of the day, entitled, 'Enemy Within':
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/10/enemy-within.html

Say Uncle has one of the reasons gainful employment becomes more difficult once the 'nanny state' moves in:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/10/08/unemployed_due_to_the_nanny_state/

Sharp as a Marble has today's example of 'pants shittin' hysterics':
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/10/07/PSH-Alert--A-mommy-without-a-clue.aspx

Snow Flakes in Hell has an interesting entry on gun rights within the context of the machine gun controversy that is raging around the country:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1679

The Bitch Girls also give their take in the NFA Collectors-NRA-machine gun controversy, as well as the Hughes Amendment:
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7469

John Lott points out that Hillary Clinton is now getting campaign advice from none other than 'sticky fingers' Sandy Berger, who was caught stealing documents from the National Archives on the Clinton's Administration's failures prior to 9/11, but surprisingly she is getting little criticism for it:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/10/clinton-campaign-getting-only-small.html

The Volokh Conspiracy has an update on groups that wish to deny free speech to those with whom it disagrees on college campuses. One of these has been a target of late--Young Americans for Freedom, which was founded by William F. Buckley many years ago. It seems YAF is now designated as a 'hate group' because it opposes illegal immigration:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_07-2007_10_13.shtml#1191869566

From the NRA: the Mayor of Kansas City is the latest to join up with Bloomberg:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3252