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Now look what Earning a Living has done, he’s gone and made me miss the 6th Annual Music City Brewers Festival.  Stoopid Earning a Living.

Boone Country links to an Officer Survival Guide that’s applicable to everyone who is armed.

When you need a hammer, a rock will do the job.  When you need a gun, nothing else will do.
- Anonymous

Stolen shamelessly from Radley Balko.

Smith & Wesson 640-1 .357 Magnum 5-shot revolver (click on image for larger view).

I purchased this pistol some 12 years ago at one of those rare gun-shows that required a background check. They even made me wait a couple weeks like I was some kind of criminal - cauc-haters - good thing I [...]

Massachusetts resident and journalist Steve Baily went to a New Hampshire gun show with New Hampshire resident and former prison guard Walter Belair.  Belair purchased a revolver and let Baily touch it.  Touching the revolver made Baily feel all icky and stuff.  Washing his hands didn’t get the icky off so Baily wrote an anti-gun [...]

Box o’ Truth #38, high velocity pistol ammo. Testing RBCD Platinum Plus Ammunition with claimed [...]

Quickly.  Video, 10 shots in 26 seconds from a heavy benchrest gun.

The issue of Gallatin Mayor Jo Ann Graves trip to China on the public tab hasn’t generated much media interest. In fact, the only online mention is my post from a month ago.
A reader has taken notice though. Badlands contacted the Gallatin News Examiner and reports that they published his letter. Unfortunately, [...]

Xavier found a video of a punt gun in action.

Iraqi insurgent training video.

A gun at any school, under any circumstance, causes concern for Franklin [TN] parents.One said, “I don’t like the idea of guns on campus.”
“Whenever weapons are involved we should be…
…concerned,” said another.
A third un-ironic parent who’d just been told said “I wish someone would tell parents.”
So what happened?
[Well-respected science teacher and athletics coach Kurt] [...]

People wouldn’t be bothered by this if the same people hadn’t been fostering discrimination oops, “Diversity” based on “good”age, “good” sex oops, “Gender”, “good” race, “good” religion, “good” sexual orientation and etc. She’s just afraid the data will lead to the “bad” sexual orientation getting preference.
MORE:
They want to regulate who you may employ, who [...]

You can argue that Burning Man jumped the shark in 1995 when it first had a theme. But since then the themes have been broad and classical such as “Good and Evil” (1995), “Wheel of Time” (1999) and “The Vault of Heaven” (2004).
Last year the theme, “Hope and Fear: The Future”, seemed to turn [...]

Cool installation let’s you walk on water, sorta.
Via Radley Balko.

One is for fighting, the other for fun.  But where does the Johnson rifle fit in?
Gunrunner Auctions has an M1941 Johnson rifle currently at $4,110.  If you want it you’d best get bidding, it ends tomorrow evening.
They’ve got a whole bunch of other guns up for auction too.  I’m partial to the 40X with Unertl [...]

When it’s warm it’s anthropogenic global warming.  When it’s cold it’s anthropogenic climate change.
There is one constant, change.  That’s how life happens.

Michael Shepherd was arrested 10 months ago during a showcase raid on his home. Seizing 900 weapons and 4,000 rounds of ammunition, the police claimed that their 18 month investigation revealed Shepherd as a figure in a world wide illegal gun trafficking cartel. He was acquitted last month and tells his story [...]

Michael Wyatt was accused of Attempted Capital Murder in 2004 and was out on $150,000 bond when he pleaded guilty in April ‘05. Until last Monday he was still out on bond and has not been sentenced. He’s now back in jail for a different crime. In the intervening years Wyatt has [...]

If rifles were like computers and you cycled the bolt on an empty magazine, the gun would explode when you pulled the trigger.
- Fodder