Michael Yon has some photos of old school. Scroll down a bit for the firearms.

Lots of discussion and links in the comments section. (via a reader)

Battle Creek, Michigan:

Police say two teenagers were shot with an AK-47 while walking a Battle Creek street Sunday evening.

Battle Creek Police say the teens, ages 18 and 17, were near the intersection of Gladys and Ardmoor in Bedford Township around 8 p.m. when the shooting happened.

One teen was treated at the scene for what was described as a “minor graze wound.”

And this:

Witnesses describe the shooter as a black male in his late teens driving a black Ford Explorer or Expedition.

So the witnesses can’t identify the shooter’s vehicle but they know what sort of rifle it was? Seriously?

Looks like something from a Bugs Bunny cartoon

More info and picks at Rifle Peeled Like A Banana

Defense Tech talks about this weapon that would have fired caseless ammo: The Gun That Never Was

My guess is that we’ll be seeing this in the military (and then filtering down to us poor civvies) long before we see laser weapons.

New site: Rifle Talk: Everything Rifle and More

Washington Post/ABC News Poll Shows Obama Up by 9 Points

Only one opinion poll counts. It’s going to be conducted nation-wide on the first Tuesday in November.

Tapping Into What a Deer Sees, and Doesn’t

For now, thanks to decades of research into ungulate vision combined with the latest in military concealment technology, hunters can don a computer-generated camouflage with fractal designs that look nothing like a shrub or a tree, at least not to the human eye. Named Optifade, it’s being introduced this fall by W.L. Gore (the makers of the breathable Gore-Tex rain gear) and promoted as the first camouflage scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer.

Deer vision is about 20/40 and they are red-green colorblind. However, they’re very sensitive to light in the blue end of the spectrum and hav 270 degrees of vision.

Via Instapundit.

Jay Tea writes about police trying to stop people from videotaping them.

Which is a crock.

The inaugural 12-week season of ActionAirgun kicks off today. Here’s the kit I mentioned last week:

ActionAirgun Advanced Shooting Kit

I’m participating in the first season, and I’ve signed my son up to compete, as well.

Here’s an intro clip:

Clerk shoots robbery suspect to death

Jackson, Mississippi:

Jackson police say they won’t charge a gas station clerk in the shooting death of a robbery suspect.

Police spokesman Lt. Jeffery Scott says a man wearing a clown mask and carrying a gun entered the gas station just after 9 p.m. Sunday.

The clerk chased the fleeing clown/suspect and shot him.