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Negative to Positive

In contrast to Linoge’s “Unencumbered stupidity”, and the sad events that transpired with the “santa shooting” near Los Angeles, I’d like to present some positive self-defense firearm articles from across the country, courtesy of America’s First Freedom, January 2009:
A 23-year-old University of Arizona student was at his residence

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missed a pocket

For future reference: Cell phones do not survive a full cycle in a washing machine.
So… does anyone have an old Verizon cell phone they are not using any more that they would sell for cheap?

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quote of the yule

“‘Spill-proof’ my ass!” – Better Half.
Having a half-pint 18-month-year-old (not ours) around for the holidays certainly does make things more… interesting.

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around the block

First, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas all over again.
Second, it would appear as though I have been writing at this particular web address for the past three years, and online in general for another four-or-so years before that (though I have no…

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free is free

Well, I realize that by telling more people about this, I decrease my overall chances of winning, but considering that I have never won… anything… in my life, I am not holding my breath.
The DownRange.tv weblog has a link for a giveaway where you…

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so shocked

How to Win a Fight With a Liberal is the ultimate survival guide for political arguments

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The

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a president and a gentleman

It is always interesting how you learn the most about someone after they are no longer around.

But the size and scope of Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to

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unencumbered stupidity

What do you know – I did get a chance to scribble something down. Anywise, halfwit dumbasses like this one can completely ruin my day.

Police said a Williamson County man is facing charges after he allegedly pulled a gun Saturday on a woman over a parking spot.

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over the horizon

Just as fair warning, Better Half and I will be embarking on a country-spanning, visit-the-families-for-the-holidays trip starting… today, and posting will probably be rather light in the future. Shane should still be around here somewhere, so if he decides to post, you will have that… but otherwise, I only have…

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o fortuna

Ok, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, live, in one word:
Awesome.
There is simply no other way to describe that experience. More later, once I regain my hearing and get some sleep.

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heroes at home

Speaking anecdotally, I knew of at least 3000 service members from the Marine Corps and Navy who missed Christmas at home last year, myself included. We deployed the month before, and celebrated Christmas somewhere around a little collection of islands known as the Maldives, if I remember properly.…

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the foamy threat

You know, if the BATFE has not started regulating NERF guns, they bloody well had better start – I mean, something like this, having a maximum cyclic rate of 500 rounds a minute (before it melts), could easily bring down like a helicopter or jetliner in a single…

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sued samaritan

On the other hand, while some progress has been made concerning firearm rights in the Peoples’ Republic of Kalifornistan, in other areas, the state is still proving itself to be the bastion of idiotic liberalism we have all come to know and hate.
Thanks to frivolous lawsuits, bloodsucking…

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peaceful progress

While I may have escaped the clutches of the evil People’s Republic of Kalifornistan, I still keep up with what is transpiring back there, and I have recently received a few interesting emails from the CalGuns folks I thought I would post up to get them a little…

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hunk o’ christmas

As if our Better Halves needed another reason to go to the malls this time of year…

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steely explanations

Mr. Completely seems to be feeling at least a little better – he wrote a rather interesting post on the various and sundry distinctions between all the different forms of steel target shooting. Definitely worth a read, especially for people like me who are looking to

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next-generation splatter

Blizzard had bloody well not pull a “Ghost” on us, especially after this video.

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armed samaritan

Well, a few days ago, I posed the following hypothetical situation: when a woman is faced with an armed, aggressive attacker, how would the outcome be different if the first thing she reached for was her lawfully concealed firearm, rather than her cell phone? I have always believed that coincidence…

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was it good for you, too?

Is anyone really surprised by this?

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.

Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting

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coming clean

In the interests of fairness, the Tennessee Department of Safety did, indeed, get around to responding this morning to my email:

TDOS STATEMENT ON HANDGUN SAFETY SCHOOLS

NASHVILLE — This week the Department of Safety mailed new Handgun
Safety School Class Roster forms to all 164 Handgun

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plunging in

What the hell.
After my rant yesterday, I went ahead and registered for my first IDPA match at one of those five nearby ranges. If nothing else, it will let me know whether or not I want to actively pursue this avenue of…

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not a good month

First Bettie Page, now Majel Barrett Roddenberry:

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, has died. She was 76. Roddenberry, an actress who appeared in numerous “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, died Thursday of leukemia at her home in Bel-Air,

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playing games

One of the byproducts of living within an hour’s distance of about five different ranges (sometimes I really like this state) is that I have a plethora of choices available to me when it comes to competitive shooting – IDPA, USPSA, steel challenges, three-gun…

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bad architect, no concrete

I am not a home designer, but I do know this: putting the closet and bathroom of a master suite at opposite diametrically opposite corners of the master bedroom is just frakking stupid. Stop doing it already!

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eminently drool-worthy

If I had the coinage, one of these would so be mine.

LIMITED EDITION MPL LIGHT RECCE

Featuring the MAGPUL MPLA lower!

16.1″ Cold Hammer Forged Barrel, 1 in 7″ twist, 5.56mm
–Made of Mil Spec M249 Machine Gun barrel steel, with heavy

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all proactive and stuff

Yet another email sent off to the civil servants of my state:

Sir or ma’am,

My name is [NAME], and I am proud to have my handgun carry
permit in the state of Tennessee. However, it has come to my
attention that a new Handgun Safety School Class

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cooked santa

Merry (high wattage) Christmas.

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our society is losing

Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say.

Brittany Zimmerman’s screams and struggle for her life were captured by a 911 tape.

But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time,

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no payment for no services

You know, it is asinine, ignorant, idiotic, and racist gos-se like this that really gets on my nerves sometimes.
First, did the author give a crap about Mrs. Bush, or Mrs. Clinton, or Mrs. Bush (wait a second…), or any of the other First Ladies? Of course…

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price… adjustments

In searching and searching for a complete AR-15 upper in this absurdly-high-demand market, I have been trying just about every source, supplier, manufacturer, and assembler I can lay my grubby hands on. One of the more recent shots in the dark has been a firm by the name of

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dear santa

It is that time of the year again, other gunnies are putting up their Christmas lists, and since I seem to be running a bit dry on material at the moment, I figure I may as well follow suit. Uninspired? Me? Never. Or something…
1.…

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for the kiddies

Courtesy of my father, another engineer:

Santa Claus: An Engineers Perspective

I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in
the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim,
Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for
Christmas night to 15%

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*doodledoodle*

New toy.
And considering that Better Half and I are considering building a new house now, and that this thing looks like an outstanding way to fiddle around with floorplans, I may not be heard from for a few days.

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queued up

Well, I went ahead and did it today – I got my happy ass in line for a Del-Ton Inc. 16in. Mid-Length Custom Upper. Granted, Sarah quoted me a turnaround time of about four months, so I am going to keep working with some other, smaller…

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yet another (minor) record

Well, it would appear as though a visitor from Macedonia, Ohio (where the frak is that?) clocked in as my 50,000th visitor at about 1600 eastern time this afternoon (assuming I am reading my StatCounter page right, which is debatable). Congratulations to him/her/it, and I suppose me.
Hey, every…

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boom in absentia

You know, I am not really sure which is worse:
Option 1: Sticking something in the handle of a gas pump to keep the system running while you go inside to grab a soda… and leaving it long enough that you end up with at least a gallon or…

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where, oh where

When a craftsman tells you to come back in three or four months to get a product from him, you know you are a leetle behind the demand curve…
Bugger all.

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patting the matting

For those interested, below is how those black and white pictures from earlier turned out.

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notorious

In yet another tragedy of mortality, the legendary Bettie Page died today.
Though she has been out of the public eye for quite some time now (at her own request – “I don’t want to be photographed in my old age.”), Bettie will be forever…

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legitimized theft

So the “ammunition accountability” bills running loose throughout state legislatures across the union are complete and utter loads of gos-se, for some blazingly obvious, and interestingly non-obvious reasons.
First, this entire concept is going to be amazingly expensive and time-consuming to implement. By and large, bullets and…

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the “a” list

So Entertainment Weekly took it upon themselves to draw up a list of sci-fi’s best television shows and movies since 1982. Since that is an amusingly coincidental year for me, I took a look at the list, was immediately impressed with the sheer ignorance displayed by…

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helping santa

Far be it for me to tell anyone else what to do with their money, but Better Half and I just got back from dropping off a box-load of goodies at a Toys for Tots location, and we know that we just made a few children’s Christmases.

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