Ninth Stage

Obecalp,
Obecalp,
When your sick
Your pocket it scalps.

God helps those who help themselves. Government helps the rest, who don’t.
- Anonymous

So, I guess my Tennessee concealed carry permit is now recognized there too.
UPDATE: The NPR link used to quote the governer as saying, “We’re just trying to respect the laws of other states and other governments,” (just as I heard on the radio). It has since changed as you can see from this [...]

John Webber, now 70, used to use a brass mug given him by his grandfather as a target for practice with his air-gun. Turns out it’s not brass, but gold, and dates back to 400 B.C.
The Persian mug is expected to sell, at auction, for around a million bucks.

If Kevin can do this with a brand new rifle, why couldn’t Lon Horiuchi hit what he was aiming for with his business rifle?  Oh wait, he did.

that Clayton Cramer does not win the primary against incumbent Corder. I wish it were otherwise and it may be that the morning light surprises me. I hope so.

Ever wonder why the self selected political class in the western world wants you disarmed, even from knives? It’s so when they tell you to spread your cheeks, the only possible answer can be how wide?
Every adult should be forced(*) to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or [...]

I do not believe you’re going to teach anyone a “lesson” by sitting this one out or writing in Fred Thompson or Sunny Lucas. I believe that way too many people are ignoring the forest for the trees and that in doing so, they’re going to have a hand in electing Obama.
- Rachel Lucas
Silly girl. [...]

It’s easy if you try.
Quote of the Day -
…the only solution is to try to drive knives from society. Already, stop-and-search squads have been put on the streets of London in a version of the contentious old “sus” laws. This, at least, is something practical that can be attempted: there is no good reason to [...]

If you hear the unworldly whirring sound of an extraterrestrial spaceship landing in the mid morning, please let me know. But before you do, consider that it may be the sound of the 17 year periodical Magicicada, since we are in the midst of brood XIV’s emergence. Check this map of expected emergence and [...]

When someone invades your home, shoot to kill stop.  I don’t care what they say - the sons of bitches should have knocked and announced.  There ought to be a registry where you can list your home as a knock and announce home. F^(ker got off easy.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Makarov.com is going TU.  Get your goodies now, while they last.
Via Ah Shoot!

Videos.  You get your race-gun hybri-comp plus compensator in action, an AR-15 showing ejection and bolt bounce 2 times,  there’s your CUTAWAY(!) 1911 in action, with and without restraints, an S&W Scandium 340 smashing some dudes hand, plus a bonus feature of I don’t know what.  All courtesy of Tripp Research.
Via da geek!

Gold Bond Powder video (NSFMW).
Via JTG.

I have a tip for the Chicago Police Department (Anti-Gun Enforcement:(877) CPD-GUNS/(877) 273-4867) about a man with a cache of arms. This arsenal belonging to Richard Mell includes powerful banned automatic handguns. Mell is ,obviously, armed is also powerful, and well connected. I highly recommend using SWAT and a dynamic entry team [...]

Name the Jerk-a-Jammer target in Jerry the Geek’s video and earn ever-lasting fame.

Rosebud Lodge?  Really?  For a nudist camp?  Now that’s funny.
“Lodged in the Rosebud” more likely.
BTW, Knoxpatch, your captcha seems to be broken.

You probably remember Metal Storm as the company making those programmable high speed electronic “machine” guns seen on you-tube. Now Metal Storm seems to be having financial problems.
[I]n its 1999 prospectus, [Metal Storm] hypothesised that it could earn as much as $1.1billion in revenues from its technology over five years.
At the time it also [...]

The headline proclaims “Phoenix man kills truck theft suspect claiming self-defense.” Sounds like an iffy shooting.
The story says it differently. Homeowner Cody Geneha heard his truck being started around 12:30 a.m. He grabbed his gun and ran outside were he saw a man taking off in his truck. The thief flipped [...]