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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Election Day has been rather quiet re. heIt’ll be an hour or so before results start coming in. I’m waiting for them and will let you guys know if anything interesting happens.
    ETA: That bra-mounted holster was probably designed by a man. You know what they think about all the damn time, don’t you?

  2. 2.

    greennotGreen

    Betty, you’re thinking “bra” when you ought to be thinking “bikini top.” The true patriot goes to the beach packing in order to defend Liberty from North Korean marines.

  5. 5.

    dr. bloor

    Hate to be the poor soul responsible for cleaning the men’s room closest to that vendor’s booth.

  6. 6.

    Southern Beale

    Speaking of boom, in case you hadn’t heard, the West, Texas fertilizer plant carried only $1 million in liability insurance, because the State of Texas doesn’t require any more than that. So 200+ injured, 14 dead, all get to share in that $1 million which I’m sure will cover everyone’s hospital bills…. NOT.

    Freedom!!!

    Of course, Perry is whining that the federal govt. needs to provide disaster assistance. When a wound is self inflicted and your governor is screaming about state’s rights and the Tenth Amendment, I’m wondering if they shouldn’t be asked to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps and show some personal responsibility and fix their own mess.

    Honestly, I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for Texas right now. Stop voting for this shit, people.

  7. 7.

    mb

    Looks really comfortable, too. Also very convenient if you want to shoot off your nipples.

  8. 8.

    Southern Beale

    @mb:

    Also, having a loaded gun so close to your heart, I just think: what could possibly go wrong?

    I’ve been following accidental shootings news, it seems a large number of these gun accidents happen while people are holstering or unholstering their weapons. That and cleaning a gun seem to be the most dangerous times to be around a weapon.

    I guess people are just fucking stupid.

  11. 11.

    big ole hound

    “all I was trying to do was unhitch her bra officer. I thought it had the hook in front”

  12. 12.

    c u n d gulag

    Is there one that attached to an old white male geezer’s truss?

    “Is it twue vat zay say about you old male gun peepow?

    Oh, it’s twue! IT’S TWUE!!!”

  14. 14.

    Southern Beale

    Did y’all click on the link and see the other bra holsters? It’s hilarious. I can’t imagine any place I’d rather LESS wear a gun.

  17. 17.

    Southern Beale

    I suspect most of this is just gun-sex Vi@gr@ for the NRA doodz. Sorta like driving a Hummer; when I hear about a guy with a gun fetish I just think, “Sorry about your pen1s.”

  18. 18.

    elmo

    I’m just thinking about the weight. Loaded guns are heavy, as accessories go. How is hooking a three-pound sinker to the strap not defeating the whole purpose of wearing a bra?

  20. 20.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Hell, as big as some women are getting today (men too for that matter), they could hide an AR-15 in their bra.

    Maybe even a howitzer.

  21. 21.

    Southern Beale

    I suspect most of this is just pron for the NRA doodz. Sorta like driving a Hummer; when I hear about a guy with a gun jones I just think, “Sorry about your pen1s.”

    (reposting because my last one had embargoed words in it …)

  23. 23.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Insomnia is the pits. Thanks Betty for the laugh. Just out of curiosity is this Cary concealed a big thing for woman or mainly used as p@@@@ extensions for men. I is curious.

  24. 24.

    WereBear

    It is fitting that Ted Nugent inadvertently revealed all when he said that going to the State of the Union, NOT packing, made him feel “very small.”

    We’d kinda guessed that, Ted.

  25. 25.

    Poopyman

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: I’m guessing they could do a brisk business in man-boob bra holsters if it weren’t such a public sale at the convention. Maybe mail-order only.

  29. 29.

    Honus

    @Southern Beale: Yeah, the way that thing is located and oriented, somebody is going to get hit in the vitals with an accidental discharge. It doesn’t help that all the gun sites recommend carrying those little automatics “cocked and locked” with a round in the chamber.

    ETA: Also, nobody gets shot cleaning a gun, because the the very first step to cleaning any firearm is to unload it and break it down. Any time you hear somebody was shot while “cleaning a gun” it means they were playing with the gun, not cleaning it.

  30. 30.

    PsiFighter37

    I’m surprised the NRA hasn’t developed the machine-gun boobs from the beginning of Austin Powers 2. Wouldn’t that just get rid of the need to have a bra to begin with?

  31. 31.

    Schlemizel

    The great part will be when your boyfriend shoots himself trying to unhook your bra in a make out session!

  32. 32.

    Walker

    @Honus:

    Except that a similar argument could be made for rich people’s homes built too close to the shore.

  33. 33.

    geg6

    @Southern Beale:

    Exactly. Gun fetishists are simply compensating for their inadequacies. And I have no problem saying that to their faces. It’s actually quite fun to say it. They never can deny it it. They just sputter and shut up. Fucking hilarious.

  35. 35.

    LosGatosCA

    What? No leather option available? With Mother’s Day coming up, they’re missing the market opportunity.

    Doubles as a weaning aid for toddlers, some options include survival. See dealer for details.

  37. 37.

    muddy

    I think with a weight in the front there they had better have sturdier straps. Why can’t women use a regular shoulder holster, instead of the boulder holster? Perhaps they can’t reach past their boob and don’t want to go full Amazon?

  38. 38.

    Honus

    @Walker: No, judge Scalia took care of that. See Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992) It’s unconstitutional not to insure those properties.

    Anyway, that is exactly my point. There’s a lot of government largesse directed at the people complaining about government spending for handouts.

  39. 39.

    PsiFighter37

    Also, since this is open thread – BJ meetup on Friday evening in Los Angeles! Be there or be square…especially since I live in NYC and don’t come out here all that frequently.

    Date: Friday, May 10th
    Time: 7:30 PM
    Location: Golden Road Brewery (http://goldenroad.la/), 5410 West San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

    They do not take reservations, but I plan on being easily identifiable by wearing a gray “I am not drunk, I’m awesome” t-shirt while waiting near the front entrance.

  41. 41.

    MattF

    I don’t think it’s meant for actual, y’know, physical women. More like for the, um, perfect kind, who understand what a real man really needs, really. Need I say more?

  42. 42.

    JCT

    Yup- the NRA has this “create a need and sell, sell sell” approach down. This all stems from their more recent focus on expanding the gun buying public to women (and now small children!). Now that “women need to carry at all times” just like their deluded menfolk, the “problem” arises regarding how to conceal a firearm because well, what do you know, they have curves. Voila! A whole new industry. A rather stupid one.

    The market for gun accessories is huge – all part of the $$ beast behind all of this.

  43. 43.

    askew

    @cathyx:

    Obviously a man designed that.

    My first thought as well. Second thought was that they finally found a way to make a bra more uncomfortable. Impressive feat.

  44. 44.

    Just One More Canuck

    @Southern Beale: $1 nillion? Seriously? I have $2 million on my car insurance, and could get blown through easily if its a bad accident

  45. 45.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    @YellowJournalism:

    Oh, look! A do-it-yourself mastectomy kit.

    Win!

    They could at least make it symmetrical, for two side-by-side guns with the barrels pointing out.

    “Is that a gun in your bra, or are you just – OMG! Call me an ambulance!”

  46. 46.

    Schlemizel

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yeah but that image isn’t as funny in my mind.

    Hope your election day is bright, sunny and calm . . . voting must be over by now(?) hows it going?

  48. 48.

    Ash Can

    Given the fact that, to the NRA crowd, guns are fetish objects rather than practical tools, this bra holster makes perfect sense. I just feel sorry for any women who may be bullied by their significant others into wearing one.

  50. 50.

    Schlemizel

    @Schlemizel: @JPL:

    Just did a little googling & it appears that the charges of ‘irregularities’ that include indelible ink that isn’t. SIGH, looks like they won’t need their supreme court to steal this one, Gawd bless ‘Murica!

  51. 51.

    Schlemizel

    @Schlemizel: @JPL:

    Just did a little googling & it appears that the charges of ‘irregularities’ that include indelible ink that isn’t. SIGH, looks like they won’t need their supreme court to steal this one, Gawd bless ‘Murica!

  54. 54.

    Xenos

    @Honus:

    It doesn’t help that all the gun sites recommend carrying those little automatics “cocked and locked” with a round in the chamber.

    Really? Concealed carry with only bit of pressure on the trigger to make the gun fire? Yikes!

  56. 56.

    Amir Khalid

    As of now, 32 of 222 Parliamentary seats have been called. Barisan won 16 seats in Sarawak in early voting and Pakatan won 2.
    Of seats called tonight, Barisan has won 10 and pakatan 4. Current score is Barisan up 26-6.

  57. 57.

    Southern Beale

    @WereBear:

    It is fitting that Ted Nugent inadvertently revealed all when he said that going to the State of the Union, NOT packing, made him feel “very small.”

    Awwww, So sorry to hear about your male inadequacy. Now get in the garage and give my car an oil change.

    LOL.

  59. 59.

    scav

    maybe it’s a clever way to explain away unsightly bulges? But dear, I really am a perfect size 1, it’s just all my freedom loving safety packing. . .

  61. 61.

    Schlemizel

    @GregB:

    Tat story was one of the first things I thought of but I couldn’t think of a punch line to go with it!

    If I may be totally incorrect bitches be crazy!

  62. 62.

    cmorenc

    Puts a different spin on the salacious description “she has nice bullet-point nipples”, doesn’t it?

  64. 64.

    RSA

    @dr. bloor:

    A dollar-for-dollar match by the Feds for whatever the state kicks in sounds good to me. Please proceed, Governor.

    Or “What percentage of the budgets of Fort Hood and the Johnson Space Center would be enough to cover the damages, Governor?”

  65. 65.

    shortstop

    @Alex S.: Yep. Not only was it designed by a man, I’d also guess they aren’t expecting to sell too many of these. Just seeing them gets the boys hopped up (here I am mocking the power of guns to serve as an aphrodisiac, not in any way derogating the awesomeness of boobs) so they’ll buy more of the other stuff at the convention.

  68. 68.

    shortstop

    @scav: Ah, scav. Look at this perfect day. Dog knows we earned the weather coming to us this week.

  70. 70.

    Frankensteinbeck

    The bra holster isn’t intended to be worn. Maybe some guys buy one hazily thinking it’s for their girlfriend, but it’s an advertizing piece. The intended reaction is ‘Woohoo, gotta get me some more manhood!’

  71. 71.

    Xenos

    @Xenos: OK, just went to look it up on a couple concealed carry websites. They do indeed advocate having a round in the chamber, the gun cocked, and by ‘locked’, having the safety on.

    Seems astonishingly reckless unless you are in an actual war zone. Having to reach inside your clothes to get the concealed gun out is going to take a couple seconds, anyway. Why not be a bit safer by not having the round chambered already? Do these guys ever notice they are not getting into gunfights on a weekly basis?

  72. 72.

    RaflW

    For a frightening look at what Glen Beck had to say at the NRA convention last night, @zackbeauchamp of ThinkProgress tweeted the abhorrent spectacle.

    Here’s a sample

    @zackbeauchamp
    Beck now trying to excuse white people from accusations of racism by saying white people were also lynched. I can’t, people. I just can’t.

  73. 73.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If anyone ever doubted that these people fetishize firearms, let them doubt no longer.

    These people are not sane. End of discussion.

  75. 75.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    On a related note: If guns are so awesome, why did wild west towns feel the need to ban guns?

  76. 76.

    Schlemizel

    @Xenos:

    Because the gun is no good if it is not instantly ready when you need it. Seriously, if you have bought into their delusions up to this point there is no other option.

    If you think about it from their point of view*, when confronted by a bad guy with a gun you simply will not have time to be messing with chambering a round, really even having the safety on is a bit of a risk!

    *assuming your vision is not blocked by polyps – if you are over 50 AMA recommends regular colonoscopy!

  77. 77.

    ericblair

    @Just One More Canuck:

    $1 nillion? Seriously? I have $2 million on my car insurance, and could get blown through easily if its a bad accident

    Biggest problem with all this libertarian/free market uber alles crap. Almost everyone on the planet and almost any corporation can cause a fuckup that they can’t possibly pay enough to fix, and know that they can weasel out of any serious judgment anyways by declaring bankruptcy and/or simply being a turnip. Plus there’s the added factor of not being able to bring back people from the dead. You have to have the regulatory apparatus to stop bad shit from happening in the first place and force people and businesses to take on adequate insurance.

    In Virginia, you’re allowed to pay a fee (like $500) every year in lieu of getting auto insurance coverage. I don’t know where this idea comes from, but it sounds like your basic Southern FREEDUMB language. I’m sure that a) this is not being used by high-net-worth individuals who would have some justification for self-insuring, and b) a large fraction of the people think that the fee is some sort of gubmint insurance.

  78. 78.

    Xenos

    @Honus:

    ETA: Also, nobody gets shot cleaning a gun, because the the very first step to cleaning any firearm is to unload it and break it down. Any time you hear somebody was shot while “cleaning a gun” it means they were playing with the gun, not cleaning it.

    I thought it was just cover for a suicide. Much like the inexplicable single-vehicle car accidents that frequently befall people suffering from personal crises.

  79. 79.

    Mike in NC

    Republican propagandist Bob Schieffer is hosting an extra special BENGHAZI edition of “Meet Some Assholes” this morning, featuring scumbag Darrell Issa!

  80. 80.

    MikeJ

    @GregB:

    We got it covered with natures holster.

    O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.

  82. 82.

    raven

    Newt is whining about the lack of Catholic Right’s in relation to gay rights.

  84. 84.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Schlemizel:
    Closely related, the chambered round increases their feeling of power. This is the kind of tell that lets you know who are the responsible gun owners and who are the fetishists.

    On the ‘fetishist’ subject, I’d like to warn people that masculine insecurity is much more than genital size. Being insufficiently manly is punished sadistically and often physically, especially in the South. I think it’s just as likely they have bi- desires and they desperately need to prove they’re macho. Or there’s the Ted Nugent example. He crapped his pants to avoid the military. It’s clearly left him with a need to publicly prove he’s not a weak coward.

  85. 85.

    Ash Can

    @raven: Last I looked, I wasn’t prevented by law from enjoying the legal benefits of marriage simply because I was Catholic. Newt can fuck himself up his nose.

  87. 87.

    ericblair

    @Xenos:

    I thought it was just cover for a suicide. Much like the inexplicable single-vehicle car accidents that frequently befall people suffering from personal crises.

    I’m guessing gun-cleaning injuries are mostly from playing with them: after all, they’re being treated as toys by the gun nuts, so expecting them not to play with their toys is pretty unrealistic. “Cleaning” gives everyone a nice respectable excuse to make the whole embarrassing event go away.

  88. 88.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    He crapped his pants to avoid the military. It’s clearly left him with a need to publicly prove he’s not a weak coward.

    Bolded part can’t be done. You can’t unshit your pants in a situation like this.

    He should have just shrugged off his draft-dodging by saying he had “other priorities”.

  89. 89.

    shortstop

    @Ash Can: But you have no religious freedom if you can’t “exercise your faith” by denying others their civil rights. First amendment breach! First amendment breach!*

    *Actual conversation taking place today, and every day, on NOM’s Facebook wall. I know I shouldn’t look; I never look at car accidents, but the collection of lost and bitter souls who are just incensed at incrementally losing their power to control others’ sexuality is just…wow. They really, truly believe they’re being cruelly victimized.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Actually if you are a wingtard you can. If there was a liberal rocker who had acted like that to avoid the draft in the 60’s and was now trying to sell a political position you would hear about what a chickenshit that person was. But Teddy gets a pass, nobody in that crowd will whisper a word about his behavior.

  91. 91.

    gbear

    I wonder how many women are going to receive one of those as a mother’s day present? It seems like the kind of item only men would buy.

    It could be really popular with cross-dresssers…

  93. 93.

    Amir Khalid

    Results should be coming in thick and fast right about now, as they finish up the counting for the smaller constituencies. But the Electoral Commission is being a bit slow this time around. The Parliamentary count is 66 of 222 seats called, Barisan leading 45-21.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Schlemizel:

    It’s pretty much like IOKIYAR, isn’t it?

    The doublethink these jackasses go through is amazing. Shitstain 43 deserts from the National Guard he joined to avoid the draft, and Bill Clinton takes his chances with the lottery after his deferments are up. Yet Bill Clinton is the “draft dodger” for taking a deferment at all.

  97. 97.

    RaflW

    @MattF:

    This bra is made for roughly two women: Pris from Blade Runner, and Nikita from the fantastic 1990 French film (not the dreck US remake).

    In other words, pure masturbatory fantasy for sexually stunted NRA boys.

  98. 98.

    Just One More Canuck

    @ericblair: a fee to avoid having car insurance? That’s just nuts. So what happens if one of these guys crashes?
    As bad as our system can be at times (I’m in Ontario) thank FSM for soshamalism

  106. 106.

    Mj_Oregon

    Yes, a man did design this. I’m sitting here wearing a blouse with buttons and realized that the holster is oriented for a right hand draw. However, women’s clothing usually buttons right over left, negating the easy access to the weapon. Men’s shirts button the opposite way, which would give the wearer easier access to the gun. It’s NRA pron at its best. bleh.

  107. 107.

    Ruckus

    @Mj_Oregon:
    That’s OK, think how many dipshits are going to purchase this as a gift, only to get one either way too large(boy is she stacked) or way too small(because he only knows what she told him when they were both 16(that’s 30-50 yrs ago).

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