The report here is a little jumbled. And I’m always a bit skeptical of local news reports. But the gist is that the gun store where one of the Adam Lanza guns was originally purchased has some pretty bad inventory problems. Just days ago, an unmedicated schizophrenic was able to make off with an AR-15 without store employees even knowing it was gone.

From WFSB reporting out of East Windsor, CT … Read More

Picking up the pieces from last night’s debacle, Speaker Boehner holds a press conference in DC at 10 a.m. ET. Watch.

It seems like only midday yesterday when Boehner said: “I’m convinced the president is unwilling to stand up to his own party.”

Don’t worry about the Mayan prediction flop. There’s still a ton of stuff to worry about, from the Aztlan/Reconquista Uprising to the new Persian Empire to just regular old avalanches. And there are people who worry about these things … a lot. Benjy Sarlin examines the “prepper” subculture.

NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre’s screed against everybody is on-going. In LaPierre’s mind the main victim of all this appears to be the NRA. But I want to set that aside for a moment and focus on one part of LaPierre’s statement — where he seems to be endorsing what amounts to ‘Prepper-ism’. We wrote about it today — the movement that Nancy Lanza was apparently a part of, that believes in storing supplies and guns for some inevitable collapse of civilization when it will be every man for himself. Read More

Read Wayne LaPierre’s remarks as prepared for delivery.

Heads up that I’ll be doing a live chat with TPM Prime members at 4 p.m. this afternoon.

Topics include the fiscal cliff, Plan B, the debt ceiling, and any of the myriad silly things Congress does. Get your questions in now.

A couple great, edifying reads as you get set for the weekend.

Who are the Preppers, the quasi-survivalist group storing baked beans and guns for the impending civilizational collapse? Nancy Lanza was apparently among them. Here’s our report.

And what about the gun, the Bushmaster AR-15? Here’s our piece on the history on the gun at the center of the Newtown story.

Instagram has switched back to its old ad policy post-outcry and even introduced a new filter so there’s no hard feelings.

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a dentist was within his rights firing an assistant who he found attractive simply because he and his wife thought she was a threat to their marriage. That seems a bit iffy to me. But perhaps he could be held culpable simply for saying the following. And I don’t just mean for harassment — that seems kind of like a given in this case, just for being maybe the weirdest dentist ever, in addition to being a harasser. Read More