Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/29/07

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

Mike McCarville has the results of an interesting poll that show the influence of the 'new media':
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/10/poll-shows-influence-of-new-media.html

A Keyboard and a .45 gives us a timely reminder that the ominous H.R. 1022 is still alive and well:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/10/hr-1022-is-still-alive-and-well.html

Alphecca says that Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News is the idiot of the day:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=493

Armed and Safe has a very good post on 'back door gun registry':
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-door-gun-registry.html

Several of us wrote about this, but Blogonomicon has the picture of your newly-designated 'home-grown terrorist':
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2007/10/meet-your-friendly-neighborhood.html

Blogstitution has the story of a middle aged man who decided to take up the habit of smoking, and for good reason:
http://www.blogstitution.com/2007/10/28/for-all-you-smokers-out-there/

With Canadians and Britons coming here in droves to get our medical care as opposed to their supposedly 'superior' socialized care, Cameron Bailey has the following excellent read:
http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/10/socialized-medicine.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel blog on the .44 Magnum and the .357 Magnum, along with a pertinent quote from 'Dirty Harry':
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/10/28/quoting-harry-callahan/

Dustin's Gun Blog reports that a high school student in Arizona was suspended for having shotgun shells in her car:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/yet-another-wacky-school-district-in.html

Red's Trading Post has an interesting read today on the firearms industry:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/10/idaho-seeking-firearms-industry.html

Say Uncle has a late-breaking update on ATF abuses and Congressional hearings:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/10/29/atf_abuses_update/

Sharp as a Marble posts information on the gunblogger challenge:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/10/29/Gunblogger-challenge.aspx

Snow Flakes in Hell says that New Jersey has gone to a politically correct Halloween:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1808

Breda reports that she found a gun bearing her name:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-in-name.html

Nicki at The Liberty Zone has the complete scoop on Fred Thompson's plan for comprehensive immigration reform:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/comprehensive-immigration-reform-right.html

The Ninth State reports that the jackbooted thugs of the TSA broke a guy's laptop and then ordered him to move on or else he would be arrested:
http://ninthstage.com/index.php/2007/10/29/clumsy-jackbooted-oafs/

David Codrea of The War on Guns tells us about his latest article for the December issue of Guns Magazine:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/10/shameless-plug-not-obliged.html

Tam at A View from the Porch has this interesting post on the S & W Model 36-1 at her blog entitled 'The Arms Room':
http://cosmolineandrust.blogspot.com/2007/10/sunday-smith-20-model-36-1-1980.html

Gun Owners of America issues the following alert:
http://www.gunowners.org/a102607.htm

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership has this piece entitled, 'Another Glimmer of Hope':
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20071029.htm

From the NRA: A pillar of the First Amendment discriminates against the Second:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3273

The Volokh Conspiracy has an excellent read today on Constitutional originalism:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_28-2007_11_03.shtml#1193593601