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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 grip safety complete …

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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 U.S.

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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 Disease Control (CDC) recorded a 69.6%

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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 side.
So what are hoplophobic, anti-rights bigots to do? Why, edit a person’s image

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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 proceedures and …

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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 facilitating Newsom’s …

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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 02DEC09 edition of …

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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 PayPal Inc.”

A percentage …

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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 Of Washington

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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 to start a conversation.

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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 of Counties and Municipalities

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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, so …

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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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