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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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just another money-sink

I really, really did not need to know about Ballistic Reload. Think “Woot-for-gunnies” and you have the right, though infinitely dangerous, idea.

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set them up and knock them down

Time for some good, old-fashioned myth-busting. Why? Because I am feeling lazy today and want to do the whole linky-no-thinky schtick I say it is.

Myth #1: Stay out of the criminal’s way / give the criminal what he wants / hide and call 911, and everything is going…

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follow the money

Anti-rights nuts often make a lot of meaningless noise about how organizations endorsing and espousing their particular breed of bigotry are, in their minds, just as powerful as the organizations seeking to preserve and protect civil rights, as can easily be demonstrated by the copious quantities of pro-control legislation making…

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it’s so shiny!

If you really, really liked me and/or this weblog, you would buy me one of these.

Or, at least, you would buy yourself one, so Toshiba gets the clue that this might just be an awesome idea and keeps it around, rather than sticking to their initial “limited…

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you are responsible for your actions

This is the simple truth that you will never catch an anti-rights nut admitting, lest their precious reality bubble come crashing down upon them:

It’s not the NRA’s fault that Lakeisha Gadson refused to do her most basic duties as a mom. No amount of gun control laws can

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peter hamm responds

Or, well, not. Specifically, Petey Hamm left a comment on the post wherein I pointed out one of his most-recent lies, but I would hardly call it a “response” – it comes across as more of a reaction; an amalgamation of childish namecalling, schoolyard projection, and complete denial.…

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the numbers are out there

Currently, once-Great Britain “enjoys” the highest violent crime rate in the world, measuring in even higher than South America, and nearly four times the rate here in America.

Likewise, the rate of firearm-related cimes is increasing over seven times faster than once-Great Britain’s population growth

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we can rebuild it. we have the money.

*sigh* Would that all fictional firearms were this easy to reproduce.

Speaking of, to all the enterprising firearm fabricators, manufacturers, and designers: create a fully-functional copy of Captain Malcolm Reynold’s sidearm, and I can guarantee you at least one purchase. And by “fully functional”, I…

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surprise, surprise

“Gun control” is inherently discriminatory.

Who would have guessed?

The funny thing? In 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution barred any municipality from imposing a poll tax on federal elections – poll taxes that were specifically and intentionally designed…

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they chose wisely

Everyone remember the conspiratorial, violent, and murderous anti-rights weblogger “Kavips”?

You have my heart-felt, enthusiastic encouragement to rub his bloodthirsty face in this happy news:

Residents of public housing in Wilmington will now be allowed to legally keep firearms in their units.

The Wilmington

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quote of the day

This time, courtesy of Sarah at Cranky Chicks with Guns:

I gave Bro my Mil Pro because his finances have been tight for a while; he just couldn’t swing a gun of his own. Now he has the one that I trusted enough to carry for roughly

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peter hamm lies

For your own personal edification, I present to you a prime example of a rabidly-anti-rights nut lying through his teeth:

“We’ve never taken issue with law abiding citizens who have a weapon legally,” said Peter Hamm, communications director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “They

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heads in the sand

Remember, ladies and gentlepeople – if we just banned guns, all of the ills and evils in this world would shrivel up and die, and we could all live in a happier and prettier place… because no one, and I do mean no one could make a fully-automatic

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gpal falls down

I have done a lot of free pimping advertising for GPal/GunPal over the past year, but I have never had the opportunity to actually make use of their services.

Might be just as well.

I am irritated that gPal did not notify

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quote of the day

Despite having some disagreements with his opening statement, this comment from Lyle at UltiMAK at Joe’s place just made me giggle:

Of course mikeb and anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the U.S. constitution knows that guns and books are both covered equally in the

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stupid is as stupid does

Right idea, wrong person:

Leonard Embody, who drew attention to himself months ago by carrying an AK-47 into a state park and walking near a country club with a revolver in hand, says Tennessee laws restricting handgun use are vague and unconstitutional. He also wants his permit

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frivolous lawsuits attack

Clayton Cramer has posted an update on the ludicrous lawsuit being filed against The Armed Citizen:

There are several dubious claims made in the lawsuit, among which that we targeted advertising to the residents of Nevada, which is wholly false.

There is also a powerful argument in

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guns do not kill people

Advanced, microprocessor-controlled, high pressure inert gas cannons, however, can be used to kill people… among other things.

It is not a “firearm” by ATF definitions, in that it does not “expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” (after all, inert gasses are, by definition, non-explosive);…

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quote of the day

*snort*

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone, I carry a gun because I don’t want to have to beat them to death with a rock I found on the side of the road. I’m just a humanitarian that way…

That certainly sounds better than…

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far too reasonable

So, does anyone know anything about the Firepower Extreme FX45 Thunderbolt? Because, let me tell you, Google is failing me miserably, and the whole “Compatible with most 1911 parts, and accepts 1911 magazines.” bit at the end kind of concerns me – is it a 1911 or is…

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capitalism + firearms = wonderful thing

Remember the wholly unimpressive condition of Gunny’s Indoor Range in Maryville? Well, it looks as though they might be getting a spot of competition in the form of Frontier Firearms down in Kingston, TN:

THE NEW STORE IS OPEN BUT STILL EXPERIENCING DELAYS

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choose wisely

Note to fellow Tennesseeans: Birdshot is not the appropriate load to be used against bears. Sure, it worked… this time, but now the bear knows it will not kill him, and it might not successfully discourage it next time. Birdshot is demonstrably less effective against humans

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you are screwing up the message

A lot of anti-rights nuts make a lot of noises about how the Second Amendment is nothing more than an outdated, ananchronistic relic of an earlier time, and can simply be ignored or disregarded due to its inherent inapplicability to the present day. This “argument” is, of course, hogwash, but…

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sign up and go

If you have not yet signed up for the Gunblogger Rendezvous, you really should. This year, work, other plans, and money are all conspiring to block me from attending, but the one year I was able to make it (thanks to some very considerate assistance from…

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unholster your camcorders

I suck at videos – both being in them and making them – but if you are not like me in that regard, and you want a free holster, get to making a video. Michael has the specifics over at his site, but here is the brief rundown:…

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