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happy samhain

With ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedied beasties and things that go bump in the night about to start prowling the streets, I wish you all a Happy All Hallows’ Eve, and would like to share with you our door-keepers [...]

one-line review

Zombieland: I am going to have to go with Tam on this [...]

want

When the time comes that my budget can finally support a John Moses Browning masterpiece (otherwise known as its more-mundane name, “1911″), I think I finally found the one it is going to be: an Olympic Arms [...]

vocabulary lesson

I do not often put up interesting words, but I figure today’s is worth it – you know how in certain woods and gems, it appears as though there are many deep layers of material that cause the surface [...]

cannot choose your family

Ok, so this is just whacky:

A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.

BridgeAnne d’Avignon, who attends Monte [...]

those annoying numbers, again

Both Sharp as a Marble and Of Arms and the Law point me towards a dataset I possibly should have considered when I built my massive firearms-and-crime chart: accidental deaths from [...]

exposing your idiocy

Public opinion is not on their side.
The Constitution is not on their side.
The Supreme Court is not on their side.
Statistics are not on their side.

trade swindle administration

(The below information was originally gossip from a business associate, but has since been verified from official sources, to be disclosed through the course of the post.)
A lot of people spend a lot of time griping about [...]

not in the script

The ringleader (who shall remain nameless, in accordance with this webpage’s policy) of the band of inhuman monsters who tortured and murdered Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in January of 2007 was found guilty yesterday on all [...]

schooling guns

To keep from reusing (again) a word, Hsoi dug up an intriguing find – David Kopel’s paper, Pretend ‘Gun-Free’ School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction. Said paper (downloadable at the above link) is not completed [...]

Gone Phishing…

I’ll be at phreakNIC 13 and (possibly)the g33k shoot for the next few days.
If the world ends, I probably won’t know [...]

show me the money

These past few days appear to have a high density of “interesting announcements”, though this one will probably be better-received than yesterday’s:

GUNPAL, Inc. is a transaction-neutral online payments platform with a philanthropic spirit,” announces [...]

Ur doin it WRONG

I rarely hit the CNN homepage, but this morning I did and followed a link about “vigilantes” thinking it was going to be another story of a reporter painting carry permit holders as vigilantes.
The story starts [...]

quote of the day

It looks like Bob S. was on the ball this morning:

I don’t think I or any other Open Carry advocate have ever said there aren’t other ways of starting a conversation.

I just think [...]

More AG Opinions

From an alert from the Tennessee Firearms Association

There have been several Tennessee Attorney General Opinions issued recently which may be of interest to firearms owners. Here are some over the last two months:
09-152- September 8, [...]

private versus public

So this is an interesting turn of events:

A landlord can legally prohibit tenants who hold handgun carry permits from bringing their weapons into a rented apartment, according to an opinion from Attorney General Bob Cooper that [...]

those annoying little “facts”

A common meme among the anti-rights advocates of the internet is that women do not use or purchase firearms, and some even go so far as to say that firearms are detrimental to females in general (who knew that [...]

big badda boom

Having been involved in one accident as a child (we were turning left across a divided (but not access-controlled) highway, and a car on the other side indicated it was turning right at the same road – it did [...]

making your voice heard

After my hoplophobic restaurant encounter this weekend, Kevin reminds me that I need to procure some of these. I do, of course, send letters to the owners of establishments that disarm [...]

Speaking of situational awareness

I used to live about 2 miles away from this Target. My wife and I used to shop there regularly (my wife more regularly than me). The thing about this Target that they don’t mention in any of [...]

official verdict

Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s new CD, Night Castle, officially rocks. If anything, their sound has hardened and sharpened (for lack of better words) over the years, unlike most groups, and I can only quantify that as A Very Good Thing [...]

self-aggrandizement

I have it on good authority that this comment won the thread:

I am apparently a little late to this party, and much of what I have to say is probably a rehash, [...]

mind your own meat

Unless you have not yet graduated from high school / college (and I am not sure how many people in that situation read this weblog – feel free to pipe up if you are), you are probably keenly aware [...]

expand your minds

Alright, folks, it is time for some creative thinking… and possibly some critical thinking as well. For the sake of argument, pretend you are a criminal – someone who operates outside the laws, frequently breaking them whenever you feel [...]

questions and answers

Reading assignment: Caleb answers some questions concerning his recent defensive coffee/gun use. Trust me, it is worth your time.
One important take-away that keeps coming up, again and again, is simply this: if you [...]

redefine the debate

Sometimes, you cannot help but to be impressed with the blind, irrational, nonsensical tenacity displayed by some people… especially some of the duly-elected representatives in our government:

A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it [...]

Something to think about at budget time

The Nashville Police Department has nine helicopters. Some (all?) have thermal imaging cameras with microwave video downlinks.
The NYPD, the largest police department in the United States, has eight [...]

throwing it out there

Of late, we pro-rights activists have been having more and more discussions and debates as to what activisim is the “right” activism, and what activism is the kind of activism that should just stay in the closet. I guess [...]

put it together

OnStar can now remotely disable vehicles being pursued by the police.
Additionally, if your car is powerful enough to pull over .9Gs off the starting line, OnStar has some words for you.
People all over [...]

robin hood, prince of looters

After digging long enough through Atlas Shrugged, I have finally met the mysterious Ragnar Danneskjöld:

“I do not approve of it, Mr. Rearden. But I’ve chosen a special mission of my own. I’m after a man whom I [...]

gross negligence

If our government was working the way it was intended to be, this news report would be sufficient grounds for a recall vote of the civil servant in question:

When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) [...]

Awww…How Cute!

A quote from a commenter at FoxNews.com on the opt-out version of a “public option”:

Let’s call it the “States Rights Option”. . How will you guys from Tennessee, Georgia, Alaska and South Carolina feel when the rest [...]

defensive coffee usage

Remember: according to the anti-rights advocates of the world, things like this never happen.
It is very good to hear that Caleb came through the situation unscathed, with his only loss being a cup of coffee… He [...]

Bring all of your friends who have guns

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. This is just a feeling, but I suspect a lot of people with carry permits are friends with other permit holders (I know, it’s a stretch, right?). Do [...]

businesses vs. individuals

It would appear as though The Tomato Head on Market Square in Knoxville, TN, would prefer that their patrons were disarmed, defenseless victims – they have properly posted their premises as off-limits to patrons legally carrying firearms, [...]

shinysuite

If you want it, the beta version of Adobe Lightroom 3 is free from now until April of 2010 – just head over to the above link, fill out the appropriate information, and off you go.

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yearly commercialism

I hate to be the one to point it out, but Christmas is fast approaching… and whether you are looking for Nba comforters (assuming basketball is your schtick) or an oilless turkey fryer (how does that [...]

dudes for boobs

Better Half and I just got back from doing our little part to try and save the breasts of the world, and let me tell you – pushing someone in a wheelchair over three miles and up and down [...]

insert slot ‘a’ into tab ‘b’

This has got to be the coolest rifle barrel design I have seen in a very long time. The equation is pretty simple:
1. Take a barrel with a breech-face-to-crown length of 12.25 inches – that would be [...]

record-setting president

… just not in a good way:

The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.

Gallup recorded [...]

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