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Doing it right and yet failing

| November 2, 2023 | 31 Comments
Doing it right and yet failing

Today, in the latest update on Matthew Perry’s death… we have a war in Gaza and what are the bulk of the headlines? Anyway, there was a fella in Maine who caused a ruckus last week. One thing worth noting – he was unlike the shooter in Texas who was determined to have committed prior […]

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Biden creates Gun Violence office by fiat

| September 23, 2023 | 32 Comments
Biden creates Gun Violence office by fiat

Friday, Joe Biden announced the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Gun ban control groups have been pushing the administration for more confiscation action for years – they are ecstatic that do-nothing Biden has finally taken a positive step. “I’m so excited that President Biden is taking action and listening to March For Our […]

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Props to a good optics company

| September 19, 2023 | 11 Comments
Props to a good optics company

Have a shameless commercial plug for y’all. But I think you will see the point. At a shopping visit to a local gun store, the owner (a former dealer for them) told me I should shop Vortex. I know they are regarded as good optics, on a par with the better mainstream folks like Leupold […]

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So who stops mass shootings?

| September 7, 2023 | 29 Comments
So who stops mass shootings?

  Surprisingly to some: You do. You have probably seen the trope…”so where’s the good guy with a gun?” when a mass event takes place. Buckeye Firearms forum passes this along: The term “mass-murder” was used by criminologists and statisticians to describe a specific type of violence. There, a murderer killed four or more people […]

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Wednesday Military Shorts – Claims, coyotes, and Mini-Mavericks

| August 30, 2023 | 41 Comments
Wednesday Military Shorts – Claims, coyotes, and Mini-Mavericks

In the realm of ‘good; news, VA has identified a system glitch which was delaying veterans’ filings. About 32,000 veterans’ disability claims were delayed — some as long as five years — due to a technical flaw in federal filing systems, Veterans Affairs officials acknowledged this week. The total represents only a small fraction of […]

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Thursday shorts: Harris, Alien, Lee, Dead Russki

| July 13, 2023 | 54 Comments
Thursday shorts: Harris, Alien, Lee, Dead Russki

The few actual duties of the Vice President are to a) keep breathing b) replace the President if they are incapacitated and c) cast tiebreaker votes in the Senate if needed. Kamala Harris is doing the latter (nice, given that the other things she has been assigned to do like address the border crisis have […]

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Look at New Zealand’s gun confiscation by a Canadian

| June 22, 2023 | 22 Comments
Look at New Zealand’s gun confiscation by a Canadian

The Canadian government announced a ban/buyback on over 1,500 “assault-type weapons”.  This is modeled on New Zealand’s ban/buyback (okay, “confiscation” to be accurate.) Here’s a viewpoint from a Canadian writer of what’s up: Like Canada, New Zealand has a substantial number of firearms and firearms owners: 26.3 firearms per 100 persons, compared to Canada’s 34.7. […]

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Serbia: The New Face of Gun Control

| June 7, 2023 | 32 Comments
Serbia: The New Face of Gun Control

In the wake of two shootings last year, Serbia has stepped up its gun control rhetoric in a way the Brady Campaign and others can only dream of: In response to the twin tragedies, President Aleksandar Vucic set out on a mission to cleanse Serbia of firearms. Unlike most European countries, Serbia has many illegal […]

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