Apparently H und K is now suing every manufacturer of Airsoft guns for copyright infringement

This seems counterproductive. And business as usual for the civilian side of HK, such as it is. That’s too bad.

Via Uncle.

Ed Friedman notes the new National Match Air Rifle (NMAR) by Creedmoor Sports and Anschutz. With pictures!

It’s an M16A2 lookalike. Very cool, though I continue to shudder a bit when I see air guns that look so much like the real thing.

Scratch one lizard!

Invasion of the Iguana: Mankind Strikes Back by Terry Gibson on Outdoor Life.

Hunting the overpopulation of invasive iguana in Florida with air guns:

So far, these invaders are mostly sticking to urban areas, especially along canal systems. Feral iguanas crap all over seawalls and docks, destroy tens of thousands of dollars in landscaping, and eat native species. The City of Boca Grande, for example, has spent more than $100,000 per year for four years trying to eradicate the problem. They even had to create an “iguana tax” to pay the trappers…

Obviously, it is unsafe and illegal to shoot iguanas with any kind of gun in urban areas. Trapping and snaring works best. You’re not allowed to transport these reptiles or any other invasive species off your property. “Iguana huggers” want you to call animal rescue so these things can be “euthanized humanely.” While no one promotes animal cruelty, “cruelty” is not well defined in Florida statute. Hopefully, kill-and-grill does not constitute a crime, or I don’t think there’s much hope for us as a species.

Seriously, a $10 “iguana tag” good for a month of air gun hunting would not only help keep these critters in check, it would probably get more young folks into the shooting sports. I mean, who wouldn’t want to shoot a lizard?

Oh, yeah. It would also raise money rather than costing it. Though the majority of these things are apparently in urban areas where shooting is restricted, Murdoc would guess that there are a lot more in the wild than suspected.

Go check out the photo gallery on OL.

Lakeside Giant Paintball in Barona, San Diego California

Via Rummel: Pictures from Paintball

Murdoc’s only paintballed a couple of times, and not for over 15 years. This place looks like a lot of fun.

Not a photoshop:

William Shatner's Spplat Attack
from 12/28/02 Paintball News

It’s an advertisement for a huge 2002 Trek-themed paintball tournament. More info here. Via Jeff’s Gameblog.

James Rummel points out a case where pink guns make perfect sense.

Via Say Uncle comes this absurd tale:

A group that is, and I am not making this up, protesting that ROTC offers arms training.

Here is a sampling of the group’s messages:

Military science courses (i.e., JROTC) are now taught in most San Diego City high schools. They are not required to include weapons training, yet many of them have high-powered pellet gun ranges on school grounds. This is despite the school district’s zero-tolerance weapons policy and community efforts to teach young people NOT to use weapons.

We’ve been arguing for years and years that assault rifles and civilian guns modeled on them are not “high-powered.” Now we’re faced with “high-powered pellet guns.”

They use pellet bullets but those bullets still can hurt someone

If “still can hurt someone” is the standard, pencils and pens are right out. Right?

• Violence should be left off campus
• Against zero tolerance policy
• School Shootings
• Using what you learn in JROTC can be used in ways that affect the community

The above items are from a PowerPoint presentation. I can just imagine what the discussion points are for these items. Violence? School shootings? They are reaching badly.

Students that can’t handle firearms can make a big mistake and do something they might regret

So the answer is not to teach anyone how to handle firearms.

They’ve also got a couple of slides (apparently) showing a number of JROTC students, titled “Another issue we have w/ JROTC” and “Who’s missing in these images?” None of the pictured students are white, and I imagine that’s what they’re getting at. Are they saying that no white students are enrolled in JROTC in the San Diego school system? Again, I’d sure love to see the discussion points for these slides.

UPDATE: Sebastian noticed that they list The Onion in their “Related Information” section. You can’t make this stuff up.