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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.

To Enter:

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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.

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms by Stephen P. Halbrook:

December 15 marks America’s Bill of Rights Day, the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. To commemorate this event, we have created the Second Amendment Book Bomb, a unique and powerful way to communicate the importance of the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment for the protection of liberty. With your help, we can launch constitutional rights to the top of national book bestseller lists, making a loud and clear statement that Second Amendment rights are inalienable!

As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2008 landmark District of Columbia v. Heller ruling finally affirmed that the Founders fully intended the Second Amendment to protect an individual right to own and bear arms. The renowned Second Amendment scholar and lawyer Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, was key to the Heller victory—as well as to three previous gun-rights victories in cases before the Supreme Court. And his definitive defense of the Second Amendment is now available in The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms the first in-depth, book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment and the most readable, comprehensive, and compelling work ever assembled arguing that the right to own a gun is as fundamental under the U.S. Constitution as freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

The book bomb is an effort to get the book to the top of the rankings on the big book-buying sites. I haven’t checked out the book yet, but I am often amused by “the Founding Fathers never meant for people to have assault weapons” claims. If people took two seconds to think about what the 2nd Amendment means and why it might have been added to the Constitution when it was, they’d realize it wasn’t about hunting or home defense against criminals.

Gift Idea: America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman:

Americans love books in which the good guys win. Gottlieb and Workman are adding to that proud tradition with America Fights Back by documenting case after case in which gun-owning citizens who refuse to wear the label victim remain the winners. –Jill J.R. Labbe, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

During my years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving on the Judiciary Committee, I tired of listening to the arguments of one gun-control advocate after another endlessly repeat the same tired, baseless arguments in support of their efforts to disarm law-abiding American citizens. Now, in America Fights Back Armed Self Defense in a Violent Age, we have a well-written defense of the Bill of Rights that provides both sound substantive arguments in support of the right to keep and bear arms, as well as true-life stories of how the Second Amendment works in practice not just in theory. This book ought to be required reading for every Member of the House and Senate; and every occupant of the White House –Former Congressman Bob Barr

In America Fights Back, through vivid real-life stories of citizens forced to face the reality of violence, Gottlieb and Workman provide an accounting of America s crime problem largely ignored by mainstream media. –Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association of America

Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment by Brian Doherty:

This past June, the Supreme Court decided a question at the heart of one of America’s most impassioned debates, ruling that individual citizens have the constitutional right to possess guns. With that decision, the District’s handgun ban–one of the toughest and most controversial in the nation–was ended.

In Gun Control on Trial, journalist Brian Doherty tells the full story behind the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller ruling. With exclusive, behind the scenes access throughout the case, Doherty delved into the issues of this monumental case to provide a compelling look at the inside stories, including: The plaintiffs’ fight for the right to protect themselves and their families from violent neighborhoods. The activist lawyers who worked exhaustively to affirm that right. The forces that fought to stop the case, including city officials and the NRA. The story of the Heller case stretches back to long before the decision struck down D.C.’s restrictive gun ban and forward to the future of the political and legal battle over gun control in America. Doherty provides clear, concise explanations of the issues and battles that have driven the gun control debate for decades, detailing how the Heller decision is a new starting point for the gun control debate as it passionately and energetically continues in the years ahead.

It’s important to note that the Heller decision does not settle every controversy in the gun control debate. It only settles the legal question of whether or not the right to possess weapons under the Second Amendment extends to personal self-defense: it does, writes Doherty. What the Supreme Court decided in Heller may be narrow in its direct and immediate effect; but it’s deep in its implications for the relationship between the government and the American people, explains Doherty. It establishes a new shape to the arena in which the legal and political struggle over guns and gun control will be fought. And that fight assuredly continues.

Via Instapundit.

Last week I noted American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose. Now The Ten Ring has a review up.