Open Carry Picnic in Kalamazoo, Michigan:

It resembled most any Sunday afternoon picnic in Bronson Park. Except most of the people assembled around tables filled with watermelon and grilled goodies had firearms in holsters strapped to their waists.

The Glocks and the Smith & Wessons remained holstered but visible during a three-hour Open Carry Picnic designed to raise public awareness of what organizers called Second Amendment rights in Michigan to openly carry a firearm in most places.

Murdoc was not too far from Kalamazoo this past weekend, but he didn’t know of this event.

Predictably, the comments section is full of lunatics. For a good laugh, go read some the choice ones.

Murdoc’s been in the Norfolk area for the past couple of days checking out some of the latest and greatest from the tactical gear manufacturer. We’ve been wheeled around town in an old beat-up Ford Pinto.

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You want to hear something funny? The trigger pullers that actually made the shots got a hold of this poster and laughed out loud. This is also hanging in Maersk’s main office. I know because I made the poster and a buddy of mine is VP at Maersk. It’s also now they’re official computer wallpaper.

That’s awesome. There were a lot of folks here at home cheering those guys and all of those that helped make it happen.

Christine Brashier wanted to start a gun-rights group at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. She was told that trying to “sell” students on the idea was solicitation, and solicitation was against school policy. She was told to cease, desist, and to destroy her remaining pamphlets.

gt. Joseph Prince, a soldier from 3rd Platoon, Company A, Task Force 3-66 Armor, pulls security while Iraqi Army soldiers search a house during a patrol Thursday in Tahweela, Iraq. The IA, supported by soldiers from Company A, kicked off Operation Dark Wolf Pursuit One to execute the “clear, hold and build” strategy in southern Balad-Ruz District of Iraq’s Diyala Province. Ben Bloker/Stars and Stripes photo.

More Sage EBR photos on GunPundit.

75th Rangers will take SCAR to war

Matthew Cox in Army Times:

About 600 members of the 75th Ranger Regiment will soon take the Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle into battle.

The 600 SCARs are the first of 1,800 that U.S. Special Operations Command began fielding in early April, SOCom spokeswoman Air Force Maj. Denise Boyd told Army Times.

SOCom chose the SCAR system — which consists of the 5.56mm MK16 and the 7.62mm MK17 — to replace weapons including the 5.56mm M4A1 carbine, made by Colt Defense LLC.

We’ve been waiting for what seems like forever to see how these perform in action. Looks like the wait is almost over.

Boatswain Bobby Petree, a civilian mariner, fires a shot line to Military Sealift Command supply ship USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE 5) during an underway replenishment for the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort received food and supplies along its route to the ship's third stop, Antigua and Barbuda, during Continuing Promise 2009 (CP09). CP09 combines U.S. military and interagency personnel, non-governmental organizations, civil service mariners, academic and partner nations to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering services afloat and ashore alongside host nation personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jessica Snow/Released))

Gotta love the M14.

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I was running around an “unidentified ” camp in central Iraq, working on some company tasks, when I noticed the tricked out M2 HB on this Hummer. Vortex style flash suppressor, and some sort of optics on top of the rear receiver (though they’re not that visible because of the shadows), a multi rail shroud over the heat shield on the rear of the barrel, with a “honkin big” dual beam (white and IR) light mounted, and the large cubish green box appears to be a II device or a FLIR………………maybe one of your more technically knowledgeable readers knows what/which it is? Looks to me like someone’s planning on accurately placing some big hurt in the dark on deserving bad guys…………………..and they’d rather not mess up their sight picture with unnecessary muzzle flash! Ouch!!

I wonder what John Browning back in the day would think about this picture.

Via Rustmeister

Quote of the day over at View from the Porch:

Everyone who’s ever attended a gun show knows that you are guaranteed to find at least one table (and probably several) of genuine whackos: Neo-Nazis, conspiranoiacs, people who think space aliens assassinated Elvis with fluoridated water, that sort of thing. It’s just the eddies in the stream where the First and Second Amendments flow together. Frankly, a gun show without Nazis to mock would be like a gun show without beef jerky. [emphasis Murdoc's]

As they say: “Indeed.”

Via Say Uncle.