Second Amendment News Roundup for 12/21/07

NOTICE! The Second Amendment News Roundup will take a break for Christmas. There will be no roundup on Monday or Tuesday (Christmas day). We will resume next Wednesday.

Be sure to visit the Liberty Sphere throughout the holidays. We will, as always, provide provocative reading every single day of the year.

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

Another Congressional idiot has gone berserk. 'Leaky' Leahy, D-VT, has blocked the plan to require passports at the northern and southern borders:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200712/NAT20071221b.html

Mike McCarville posts Lee Bandy's assessment of Fred Thompson in South Carolina. Of course, I disagree with Bandy's assessment, as I have provided extensive evidence that Thompson is much more of a force here than is commonly recognized:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/12/in-south-carolina-thompson.html

A Keyboard and a .45 tells us about an afternoon at the gun shop:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/12/afternoon-at-gun-shop.html

Armed and Safe says 'dump 'em' rather than 'reform 'em.' We fully agree:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/12/id-rather-see-them-dumped-rather-than.html

Through the years I have become convinced that you can't put ANYTHING past the Clintons, even promoting Mike Huckabee because they know Hillary can beat him. Born Again Redneck has the story:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2007/12/todays-conspiracy-theory-clintons.html

For the sake of fairness, Sebastian presents the opposing viewpoint (on this blog anyway) concerning the passage of H.R. 2640, which we strongly opposed. Many within the NRA opposed it as well. This shows that gun rights advocates can disagree and still work together toward the same ultimate goals:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2216

Nicki responds to some recent balderdash by laying out the facts, including some jabs at the Brady Gang:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/12/pathetic-little-twerp-responds.html

Traction Control has the best endorsement for Fred Thompson ever, from a man who says that Christians don't have to support Huckabee just because the Huckster is one. It's Fred all the way:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=868

Of Arms and the Law reports that Mitt Romney has once again endorsed assault weapons bans:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/12/mitt_romney_end.php

Not only is Jack Pribek a musician but he is quite a good writer. Here he has an interesting read on the problems with ethanol and the possible solutions:
http://pribek.net/2007/12/20/the-ethanol-proble-and-some-possible-solutions/

Red's Trading Post reports the latest news on the new ATF reform act:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-atf-reform-act-introduced.html

Say Uncle has today's MUST-read on 'incrementalism':
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/21/incrementalism/

Robb Allen has the quote of the day and the essential commentary to go with it!:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/12/21/Quote-of-the-day--The-puzzled-immigrant-edition.aspx

Now we can safely say that Mike Huckabee has completely lost his mind. He is now attacking Rush Limbaugh and running as the 'anti-Limbaugh' candidate...not exactly a brilliant strategy for winning the conservative Republican vote. Michelle Malkin has the story:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/21/mike-huckabee-the-anti-limbaugh-candidate/

The Buckeye Firearms Association reports that a political parody has sparked a pre-Christmas buying rush on guns:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4105.html

The GOA issues its alert concerning the bill passed yesterday by Congress with backing of Brady and the NRA:
http://www.gunowners.org/a122007.htm

The NRA gives its take on the passage of H.R. 2640:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=3321&issue=

From the NRA: More Proof Americans Support Gun Rights and NRA Has Clout in Elections:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3328

The Volokh Conspiracy has excellent reading today on ignorance and the Iowa Caucuses:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_16-2007_12_22.shtml#1198221838