Bitter gives a run-down on ACORNs attempted involvement in a gun case in New Jersey.

In the comments at my post on the Form 4473 changes a commenter asks how that might affect folks that need a purchase pistol permit.

The commenter has a blog, and from that blog I gathered he lives in North Carolina, and in my 10 minutes of research on NC firearms laws I learned that you need a pistol purchase permit for a crossbow in North Carolina.

Wow. Gun laws applying to things that aren’t even guns.

In my inbox right now:

Vote Freedom First — Vote Dave Agema for State Representative!

“Vote Freedom First.” What a crock of shit. The dude’s good on gun rights in Michigan, and I’m glad he’s going to win the local election, but I have a hard time equating “freedom” with the dude that got his mug on local television a few months ago pitching a fit because a local university was going to start offering benefits for unmarried people that lived together. He wanted to cut their entire budget by 5% for doing that.

Why? Gay cooties. We just can’t have our tax dollars going to them homosexuals now, can we? That’s immoral and a waste of taxpayer money!

Never mind that local businesses in this staunchly conservative area offer the exact same plans to their employees. I’m not sure how many do, but my wife’s employer does.

Of course, I shouldn’t be surprised at the NRA’s willy-nilly stance on tossing the “freedom” label around. They’ve endorsed McCain after peppering their America’s 1st Freedom magazine with anti-McCain articles, related to his legislation in campaign finance reform, for years.

The NRA’s “vote freedom first” campaign is as ludicrous as the ACLU sending me “I vote the Constitution!” bumper stickers.

I like the slogans, and I like the organizations, but I’m not delusional enough to think that they’re actually promoting what they say.