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sometimes, blogging pays off

Thanks to the fine folks who work there, I now have an annual range pass to Coal Creek Armory… gratis.

Shiny!

And while the guy who arranged for this did not ask for anything in return, I figured that a little link-whoring might not hurt by…

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crazy is crazy

By now, you have undoubtedly heard about the now-resolved hostage situation at the Discovery Network HQ, summed up by Sarah:

If your personal agenda involves completely ridding the planet of human beings, people aren’t likely to listen until you go completely bonkers and

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all it takes is a stamp

I sent in my crappy old earbuds on Monday, and yesterday, I received a $35-off coupon code for any v-moda Vibe, Vibe duo, Vibe ii, Remix Audio, Remix Remote, or Crossfade LP. For all of those except the Vibe duo and Vibe ii, that puts them…

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making friends and influencing people

What is with folks obnoxiously demanding to know where other people’s proverbial “lines in the sand” are (see here, here, and, hell, all the way back here)? (1) It is rude (both the question, and how it is delivered the vast majority of the…

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captain ernie’s fish house does not want my business

… which is probably just as well, considering that their fried catfish was so bland and grease-soaked, I am honestly not sure if it actually was catfish.

At any rate, travelling to distant corners of the world with the Navy taught me to try food from strange and unusual…

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misguided attentions

In writing up a comment for yet another of Weer’d “Gun Death?” articles, I stumbled across something rather interesting.

We all know that WISQARS keeps track of the number, intent, and mechanism of fatal injuries across the country, but did you…

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well that feels a little wierd

Over the years, I have become rather accustomed to waking up with at least one of my limbs still soundly asleep, and completely disfunctional – just one of those things. However, waking up in the middle of the night, face down in your pillow, with both arms asleep… yeah, that…

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piranah 3d

Piranah 3D: Exactly as advertised – one part gratuitous bloodshed, one part gratuitous nudity, one part gratuitous 3D-ness, and one part gratuitously idiotic characters… liberally blended with appropriate cameo appearances from Richard Dreyfuss and Christopher Lloyd.

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clickboomclickboomclickboom…

Anti-rights bigots like to make a lot of noise about how firearms that are capable of taking multiple shots before reloading are relatively recent inventions, and thus things like semi-automatic home-defense rifles (i.e. AR-15s) are not protected under the Second Amendment. Ignoring the obvious similarities between that argument, and one…

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quote(s) of the day

It seemed appropriate to put these up together. First, Roberta X:

Americans were a free people. We used to watch in varying degrees of horror movie scenes where a hapless European was importuned by police or security guards on the street or in a train station. “Papers,

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out of one, many

A few weeks back, I posted about Sarah giving a sidearm to her brother, who was in somewhat narrow financial straits after his recent wedding. This is exactly the kind of transfer that anti-rights nuts would just love to ban by way of closing the non-existant, mythical “gun…

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quote of the day

Joe knocks another one out of the park, this time in response to noted anti-rights bigot, UBU52:

I would like to remind anyone that believes such a thing that 100+ million people died in the last century because of attempts to create just that type of

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dictionaries serve a purpose

The comment thread (to which I would link directly, if Echo was not a piece of gos-se) at this post over at Kevin’s is so completely full of stupidity and fail, I am genuinely surprised that the internet does not somehow start to collapse in on itself around…

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five years ago

… and I still remember it like it was yesterday, even if, as Pistolero points out, parts of it are being intentionally forgotten. Rather than just ramble about, as I often do, I will just share what few pictures I took of the post-Katrina disaster – though these…

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pretty lights

And this is what happens when you give me two new toys to play with:

You get to deal with artsy-fartsy gos-se. I do like depth-of-field, though…

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welcome aboard

It is always good to welcome yet another pro-rights activist to the blogosphere – I had noticed Alpheus commenting at some weblogs I frequent, and it would appear as though he just launched one of his own: The Power of Epsilon. Offhand, I would say that

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always good to know

Joe has talked about this a few times, so the concept is not a terribly new one to me, but this new playing field and application is still a little disturbing:

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle

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heard in the shower last night

Me: *squeezes the soap bottle, resulting in a faint squeak*

Better Half: Was that you squeaking?

Me: Maybe. Or it was the gnomes.

Better Half:

Me: One of them has asthma.

Better Half: … That’s horrible.

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give an idiot a wire

Incompetent cable technicians who use two-way cable splitters in places where they should use inline couplers deserve to be forced to use 56k dialup for the remainder of their natural lives.

In other news, I positively despise drop/suspended/tile/whateveryouwanttocallthem ceilings – sure, in this case, it let me…

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slow-assed rhino

‘Bout darned time – it would appear as though the Chiappa Rhino is finally shipping to its distributor, MKS Supply. We have discussed that particular firearm before, and while I still have my misgivings about the platform, I figure that by the time I…

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they just never quit

This has already been covered by all the usual suspects, and, in fact, I talked about just this topic a little over a year ago, and then again

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*sigh*

I know have said this a few times before, but if you value your money, and you want to use it for something other than correcting his work, never, ever, ever use Hammonds Contracting LLC, of Knoxville, TN. That is all.

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emo-felicitations

Sluggy just turned 13. BRACE FOR ANGST!

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for sale, still

Not to toot my own drum too terribly much, but I just want to point out that the Acer Aspire Revo AR3610-U2002 Nettop computer I listed as “for sale” last week is, indeed, still for sale. $300, or your best offer, if it is amenable, gets him shipped…

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the truth is corporate

I do not often copy-paste press releases just for the sake of copy-pasting press releases from companies that do not pay me to do so, but this one is just too much to pass up:

We are pleased to announce the new Ruger® SR-556® in 6.8

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use that squishy stuff between your ears

Back on my most-recent post concerning open carry, JP made a comment about how his openly carrying stopped a robbery in progress. My curiosity naturally piqued, I asked him to elaborate by way of a post, and he did over at his new digs at

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self-imposed blinders

*snort*

Just as a brief reminder, once-Great Britain’s firearm-related crime rate is increasing seven times faster than its population, it was the most violent country in the European Union (and probably still is), and the British government has been lying about and

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i can see clearly now

Green lasers have become quite the thing in the firearm community, primarily due to the fact that the green light emitted by them is both brighter and more noticeable than the “old” red lasers. That said, did you know that the green light is…

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quote of the day

This time, some enterprising employee at the NRA-ILA earned the honor:

Anyone who traveled behind the Iron Curtain back in those days probably didn’t have to look very hard to find groups of “workers” sitting around doing pretty much nothing, except collecting a taxpayer-funded government paycheck.

The

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trolling for ideas

As regular readers are probably already aware, I am going to be out of pocket for a few weeks in the coming month, and since internet access during that period will be spotty at best, I am working on queueing up prescheduled posts. Unfortunately, what I have at the moment…

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fear and intimidation

Over the weekend, anti-rights nut and noted internet troll MikeB302000 accused “a lot of” pro-rights webloggers of engaging in “respect through fear and intimidation” tactics. Naturally, this accusation was completely and entirely devoid of anything even approximating facts, evidence, or substantiation – no doubt as a…

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yesterday, at sam’s club

Unlike its competitor (*cough*Costco*cough*), Sam’s Club (being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wal-Mart) does not really care if you carry a firearm into their establishments, so when Better Half and I headed out to the local one yesterday to pick up some various materials (in the bulk those stores are known…

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am i missing an eyebrow?

Note to self: If you open the grill, and everything inside is gloriously on fire, and I do mean everything – the coals, the wood (for smoking), the beef roast, the pork butt, even the aluminum-foil-wrapped corn-on-the-cobb – something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. That is all.

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mantis knives, in review

Over the past few years, I have said a few things about Mantis Knives, but I have never actually fooled around with or owned one of their products. Well, this past weekend, an opportunity presented itself to put the rubber to the…

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kids and guns

A lot of anti-rights nuts tend to make a lot of noise about how children cannot, under any circumstances, in any potential situation, be taught to handle firearms in a safe and responsible manner. This is, of course, a patently fallacious statement, but is even more disproven by the recent…

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now with 70% more wombat

Speaking of things that you know you want, Larry Correia just keeps cranking them out:

Hi, The Combat Wombat shirt has just been released for Pre Order. We will send the shirt to the printer on October 1st. We hope to be sending them out

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guns and alcohol

A few months back, a member of a forum I read offered that any fellow member could come into the liquor store he owns, and get a discount on any purchase. Unfortunately, the store itself was a little out of the way for us, but we happened to be out…

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armed citizen update

For those interested in how the frivolous lawsuit against The Armed Citizen is progressing (which should amount to any weblogger anywhere who has ever copy-pasted so much as a paragraph from any news source online), they have an update:

One alert reader wrote telling us

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in case of aliens

You would have to pay not one, not but two, but three whole $200 NFA taxes (if my accounting is correct – one for a short-barreled shotgun, one for a short-barreled rifle, and one for an automatic weapon), and I know the webpage says, in large, bold, all-caps text, “THIS

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seeing you clearly

Being the inveterate geek I am, it is unusual to find me outside on a non-overcast day without a pair of sunglasses wrapped around my head – currently, a set of black-on-black Oakley Canteens that I procured when I was eligible for Oakley’s military/government purchasing program (something…

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signatures make it better

You know you want at least one, so go tell Larry Correia how many signed copies of his new book, Monster Hunter Vendetta, you will order, so he can get them sent off to the right place.

And you do want one, especially what with its timely pre-Christmas release.

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spike tv fails at new media

Apparently part of one of these two shows was filmed at a range down the road from me.

I am going to have to go with Exurban LeagueSpike TV screwed up. It is unquestionably awesome that these…

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