TPM’s Eric Lach traveled today to Albany, N.Y., where gun rights protestors were expecting 35,000 people to greet National Rifle Association President David Keene. The actual numbers ended up being quite a bit lower than anticipated, but some of the attendees did bring signs comparing Gov. Cuomo to Hitler. So there was that.

The Coahoma County Sheriffs department has charged 22 year old Lawrence Reed with the murder of Marco McMillian, a candidate for Mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi. McMillian was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the state’s history. Authorities did not comment on a motive for the crime.

Male congressman ducks taking a position on transvaginal ultrasound mandates by joking that he didn’t have a position on the topic because “I haven’t had one.”