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bwaha!

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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 for the night.
Better Half’s:

And mine:

Stay safe.

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zombieland

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

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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 Westerner. With Schuetzen Pistol Works inner bits, a beavertail…

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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 of the object in question to shimmern and almost glow? Tiger…

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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 Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other

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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 firearms.

Between 1984 and 2006 (latest data available) the Centers for

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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.
Even our duly-elected representatives are not on their…

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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 the Transportation Security Administration, complaining about their relatively idiotic…

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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 counts of murder, kidnapping, and robbery, of Christian’s rape, and of…

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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 or fully-edited yet (it is due to be published in the…

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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 it.

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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 Founder/CEO Ben Cannon. “It is also the first serious competitor for

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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 off pretty much the way I expected:

A group of University

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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 that it doesn’t make sense not to use all the ways

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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, 2009 – Cooper, Barbara- Representative, Lollar, Ron- Representative
Authority

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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 was released today.

Well, strictly speaking, apartment complexes are private property,…

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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 the mere existence of an inanimate lump of metal was enough…

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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 not, and it desperately tried to take the front end of…

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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 law-abiding citizens, but in-person activism lends a little weight to the followup correspondence.

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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 the news reports is that Metro Nashville Police Department’s West Precinct

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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 (TM).
I failed to say this last year,…

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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, but here we go anywise.

…because you don’t convey context.

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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 how the prices of various meats have increased over the past…

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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 the need or compulsion. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that…

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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 have decided to carry a firearm, carry what you can, but…

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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 may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a

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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 helicopters.

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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 we should be thankful that we are in the kind of…

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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 the country are very concerned over the stupidity of revenue… er……

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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 want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but unitl the

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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.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to

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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 of us have access to the best health care system in

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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 covers the take-aways pretty well, but to recap:
1. Be…

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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 you ever discuss what-ifs with people you regularly hang out with?

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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, in accordance with Tennessee State Code 39-17-1359.
To their…

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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.
My father swears by it for his photography post-processing, but in…

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presented without comment

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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 work, after all?), it is likely that you will be able…

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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 a few hundred feet in elevation change is not an easy…

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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 regulated by the National Firearms Act, quantified as…

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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 an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr

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