Head over to Murdoc Online and leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe.

There’s been a lot of new coverage of the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and all the problems it caused in New Orleans. Like the original go-round, the plight of the areas where the hurricane actually hit got much less coverage. So go check out this post I wrote back at the time on Murdoc Online showing many photos of the effects of Katrina east of New Orleans.

Something else that must not be forgotten about Katrina and its aftermath was the eagerness with which the local New Orleans law enforcement agencies tried to confiscate legally-owned firearms. At a time when people were on their own more than ever, the police spent an awful lot of effort to disarm law-abiding citizens when they should have been protecting them.

If you have only a passing knowledge of those events, I heartily recommend reading The Great New Orleans Gun Grab by Gordon Hutchinson and Todd Masson.

Third Edition is now available:

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition
On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott’s simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention.

Jack Lord in 'Have Gun, Will Travel'

The first episode of the long-running series, ‘Three Bells to Perdido,’ featured Jack Lord as bad guy Dave Enderby. It aired on September 14, 1957.

Like many bad guys in westerns, Lord’s character couldn’t shoot for spit. If he shot even as well as Murdoc, the television series would have been over twenty minutes into the first episode. Instead, it lasted for 224 more.

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It’s time to renew my subscription to Outdoor Life magazine, and they’ve currently got an offer for me to send a gift subscription as part of the renewal. So I’m going to give away the gift subscription to a lucky GunPundit reader.

Contest Rules:

• Magazine will only be mailed to US mailing address. Sorry. No exceptions.
• Murdoc’s immediate family cannot enter.
• Please enter only once.
• Sending Murdoc cash is permissible but will not improve your chances of winning.
• If (and only if) you win you will have to give me your real name and mailing address.
• Winner will be chosen randomly and all results are final.
• Entries must be posted to this site by 2359 hours ET on Friday, 06 November 2009
• I can’t think of any more right now but I’ll add them if I do.

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• Leave a comment on this post.

That’s all there is to it. Leave a comment and I will have a winner chosen from all entrants using the Random Integer Generator at Random.org. If the random number 37 and you have the 37th comment on the post, you win a one-year gift subscription to the magazine and membership benefits. Simple as that.

Please, only one entry per person. Murdoc is trusting you on this.

Book Details Komisarjevsky’s Version Of Cheshire Murders

Author Brian McDonald has written a book telling Joshua Komisarjevsky’s side of the story of the brutal 2007 rape, kidnapping, and killing of the wife and two daughters of Dr. William A. Petit in Chesire, Connecticut.

McDonald corresponded and visited with Komisarjevsky to get the whole story. Here’s a quote:

To be honest, I’m a reluctant true-crime writer. I like happy endings. I took on both projects simply because I needed the work.

Nice.

The book is called ‘In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood’. I guess books like this are what we get when some writers “need work.”

The Supervillain Deadshot on the cover of Secret Six #15

Now, as a convicted felon, Floyd Lawton is not legally allowed to possess that weapon. I guess working for Task Force X, the clandestine government unit also known as the Suicide Squad, has its privileges. However, I appreciate the fact that he’s exercising good trigger discipline. You don’t always see that in comic book supervillians with a blatant disregard for firearms safety, laws, basic morals, or human life.

Gotta love the personalized lower receiver.

(I’ll overlook the various types of ammunition raining down as artistic license.) From DC Comics’ The Source.

Murdoc is giving away a hardcover copy of Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu over at MO.

The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay—known to the public as Gitmo—has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical services.

Gordon Cucullu, a retired army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for himself.

Leave a comment over there and get entered in the contest.

Mare’s Laig:

PUMA M-92 Bounty Hunter, available in .45 Colt, .44-40, and .44 Magnum. Federally approved pistol.

Murdoc wouldn’t mind finding one of these under the Christmas tree one snowy morning, but he probably can’t pull off “good boy” to the $1299 level.

Reading up a bit, I saw that on Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve McQueen wore .45-70 rounds in his gun belt rather than the .44-40 rounds his gun actually used. I haven’t watched the show much, maybe an episode or two over the years, but .45-70 out this thing might take an arm off.