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Seen on the drive home from Chicago last weekend: an honest-to-God “Girls Gone Wild” RV. And a big one, at that.
Also, a tractor trailer towing a flatbed with both a Unimog of unknown model and a Porsche [...]

the power of images

Once again, Chris Muir knocks it clean out of the park:

When you gave the state your responsibilities, you gave us your [...]

blending in

I have been a little light on hints about it, so here is another: it can be found in two different colors… this time. Last time it came in [...]

hie thee hence

Brownells is having a Black (Rifle) Friday sale. Need I say more?
(Yes, I was a blithering idiot with the above link. Such is [...]

QOT(turkey)D

The U.S. Marine Corps has long noted the success of the U.S. Air Force AC-130 aircraft that SOCOM uses. But they couldn’t afford them, as an AC-130 costs more than three times as much an a marine KC-130J aerial [...]

current altitude: 40011 feet

Wifi on planes is somehow just wrong… it takes away the whole “but I am on a plane” excuse for not doing work while travelling…
Anywise, time to go wave at Joe Huffman as we fly over. Y’all [...]

give thanks

Better Half and I are visiting my parental units out west, so do not expect too much in the way of posting over the next few days. Have a happy Thanksgiving, and be thankful that we live in one [...]

piss poor planning

I have been intentionally avoiding commenting on the charges brought against three Navy SEALS, simply because I believe that the full facts of the situation have not been adequately documented or exposed, and are not likely to [...]

a topping of awesomeness

Now that we have figured out how to properly augment frozen pizzas, as well as create our own from more-or-less scratch, Better Half and I buy take-out/delivery pizzas… well… never. However, Papa John’s just earned a metric [...]

*splat*

Remind me to not drop fully-loaded magazines from a height of 8.5 feet. Seems as though the folks at MagPul have some catching up to do, which I am sure they are more than capable of… [...]

the truth will always out

A few days ago, the Hadley Climate Research Unit got its happy little butt hacked, and somewhere over 60MB of data was exported (and is available here, if you want it). The Research Unit has [...]

got to leave a mark

What do 58 Senators, 251 Representatives, 891 state legislators, 38 state Attorney Generals, 42 district attorneys in two states, and various other civil rights, academic,

old-skool capacity

Over at The Firearm Blog, Steve adequately puts to rest the theory that “high-capacity” firearms are a new and recent development.
I would point out that all three of those antique firearms were designed [...]

speaking up for his rights

I really have to give Sergeant Singer credit for standing up and saying what he believes in:

The tragic results of victim disarmament were made real with the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. If this were a [...]

layers of editorial oversight

When it comes to the Fort Hood mass murder, it would seem as though the only thing the anti-rights advocates of America can bring to the table is lies and more lies (which [...]

in search of information

Ok, my Google-fu is failing me.
For my readers in various other states in the Union, if your state allows concealed or open carry of firearms, and if your state further allows those who are carrying firearms to [...]

double-tap

Want.
*sigh* What is it with me and firearms who are designed for things I never do, include functionalities I do not need (I guess crazy-arsed German laws are to blame for the double-barrel, single-shot arrangement), use calibers I [...]

talk about a mental image

Seen last Friday at work: a SMART car… with a U-Haul hitch.
*blink*
… the hell? (Yes, I know, it is probably for a hitch-mounted bicycle rack, but [...]

the plot thickens

Your next hint as to what it is (and this may be sufficient for some people): it is originally from a town called “Flat [...]

clearing out the rodents

I really cannot blame Breda for going this route:

I am now and forevermore going to be deleting comments by mikeb302000 because all he ever does is come here and try to stir up arguments. This is [...]

Let’s talk specifics, shall we?

There’s been a lot of misreporting, assumptions, and insinuations about what actually happened with Restaurant Carry and what it means. I can’t seem to find a PDF of Bonnyman’s ruling yet, so anything in this post [...]

check your common sense at the door

I admit that I have not had a chance to read the entire idiotic ruling from Chancellor Bonnyman, but this is an interesting take on the situation, from someone who has more experience in the [...]

look, ma

It followed me home!
What is “it”? Well, here is your first hint:

Now, I have to go relax from driving 20 hours out of the past [...]

(Probably) Illegal gun porn

Behold the belt-fed 12 gauge 6″ AR upper.
On a full-auto lower, [...]

Restaurant carry lawsuit ruling: We lose

TN 39-17-1305(c)(3) is unconstitutional because it violates the due process clause.
Basically, Bonnyman ruled that its unreasonable to assume that the restaurant you’re in serves meals 5 days a week, and its unreasonable to require you to [...]

Restaurant carry lawsuit live blog

I got Internet, and there’s other people with laptops here, so here we go. Refresh for updates.
1004 – Nikki Goeser and Mary Purcell are here in the gallery with me. We’re waiting on the judge to come [...]

Restaurant Carry Lawsuit–TODAY

In about 90 minutes the hearing on Restaurant Carry starts in Chancellor Bonnyman’s courtroom. I’ll be there, hopefully with the technical ability to provide updates. My netbook is kind of a lemon, and I don’t even know if the [...]

4th Gen Glock 22 in the wild–UPDATE: or not

I just saw it–for sale–with my own eyes. No adjustable backstrap. Dunno about the recoil spring. It did have the stipling and the fish gill slide serrations which werent as ugly as I thought. Didn’t notice an ambi [...]

road trip!

It is looking like Better Half and I will be headed up to Chicago this weekend by way of Louisville and Indianapolis on the way up, and part of Route 66 on the way back. If any fellow gunbloggers [...]

Wherein I have an aneurysm

Pardon me while I vent for a moment.
I was just having a conversation in the hallway with a couple of coworkers about finances and credit cards, and somehow Universal Health Care came up. The context was that [...]

repeating ourselves

It would seem as though modern America is more like the Roman Empire of old than any of us originally thought… or have you not heard yet? Apparently, Christians are to blame for the recession.
I guess [...]

argue not with things that work

Oddly enough, when you shoot back at pirates, they tend to go the other direction. Quickly.
Who’d’a thunk (aside from anyone with a functioning brain), huh?
(Courtesy of Traction [...]

is this the government’s job?

Not having the appropriate hardware myself, my opinions on this topic might be somewhat meaningless, but I cannot help but to echo the general “WTF” reaction to this news, as originally expressed by Wizbang and [...]

Is it really a tea party

if you charge $549 per [...]

STIMULUS!

So I made my choice last night and went to the Metro Council meeting. They didn’t talk about Guns In Parks, and I didn’t get to talk to Sam Coleman about his reversal, so from a gunblogger prospective [...]

the right kind of posting

Apparently this sticker is posted at Lili’s Authentic Oriental in Pulaski, TN (a restaurant that will receive my business if I am ever in that particular town, which, unfortunately, seems unlikely):

We are [...]

commenters are required to submit fingerprints

Today’s bigotry-exposing word-replacement exercise subject is UBU52, a regular commenter troll at Robb’s and Joe’s places. Have you ever had a person loudly, obnoxiously, and rudely try to correct you on something, only [...]

food of the information age

Thanks to the culinary educational genius that is Alton Brown, Better Half and I (though mostly the former) were able to make our own miso soup last night. Well, strictly speaking, we had to forego both the [...]

comcast sucks harder

Just when you think Comcast’s suckage cannot get any harder
As previously mentioned, Better Half and I have a contract with Comcast for cable internet and television. After doing the research, it would appear as [...]

one-line review

2012: Bogus science abounds, but if you are just there for the gratuitous special effects (which, thankfully, I was), then you should be good to [...]

Interesting turn of events

It appears that the Metro Nashville City Council will be reconsidering guns-in-parks:

Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro’s rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.

The thing I find interesting is [...]

Patch your machines, people…

…even if your client asks you to never patch them. I’ve got something like 160 billable hours since November 1 because my client “didn’t want to see popups” on some customer-facing kiosks. The popups they were complaining about were [...]

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