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Month: February 2008

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Cavalry Arms raided by the ATF

Cavalry Arms has been raided by the ATF. Not many details yet, other than their entire firearms inventory was cleaned out. Being a big AR…

February 29, 2008February 15, 2021
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Yeah right

(Via the Drudge Report) Prince Harry has been secretly fighting the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today. First,…

February 28, 2008February 13, 2021
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Generosity

You can talk about Ted Turner and his billion bucks to the UN, or Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. However, I’m…

February 28, 2008February 15, 2021
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A void is created

William F. Buckley, perhaps the most erudite speaker on behalf of conservatism, has died at the age of 82. Farewell, sir. We shall miss your…

February 27, 2008February 15, 2021
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People of the Gun

(Via FreedomSight) People of the Gun. It’s cool. Go there. I shall be listed shortly.

February 26, 2008February 13, 2021
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6’8″ tall, $11,900 to buy and $14 a shot

(Via Capitalist Lion) And boy howdy do I lust for one. The Anzio Ironworks Mag-Fed 20mm Rifle has a range of 5000 yards, and is…

February 26, 2008February 15, 2021
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Your Sunday Firepower Video

Big guns make big booms…

February 24, 2008February 13, 2021
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Huh!

(Via the Survival and Emergency Preparedness blog) Necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. Meet the Hexayurt, a place to live for $200. I’m going…

February 24, 2008February 15, 2021
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A thing of beauty

Via Tam, we find this jewel of political thought: Gun-people are so used to being mistaken for a fireplug by the dogmatic that the GOP’s…

February 24, 2008February 15, 2021
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Sometimes, a man just has to call ’em as he sees ’em

(Via the Drudge Report) GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has offered his opinion on the religion of global warming, and the Perpetually Offended are, well,…

February 23, 2008February 13, 2021
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Regular or Extra Crispy?

The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents’ house on Feb. 4, strapped into his car seat. Eight days later, he was found in the…

February 22, 2008February 13, 2021
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Score one for the Navy

A missile fired from a Navy ship struck an ailing U.S. spy satellite Wednesday night and probably succeeded in destroying a toxic fuel tank on…

February 21, 2008February 13, 2021
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And now, it’s time for the enviro-nuts to eat their own

(Via Timebomb 2000) In an environmental dispute seemingly scripted for eco-friendly California, a man asked prosecutors to file charges against his neighbors because their towering…

February 21, 2008February 15, 2021
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That’s gonna leave a mark

For those of you not familiar with it, The Shooting Wire is an excellent, three times weekly email service that will help keep you clued…

February 20, 2008February 13, 2021
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The Left suffers it’s ultimate irony

(Via the Drudge Report) After decades of effort, the Left may be on the verge of being hoist by its own petard: As Hillary Clinton…

February 19, 2008February 13, 2021
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OK for us, but not for you

(Via The Drudge Report) China is upset that we may shoot down one of our own satellites. Of course, they thought it was just Peking…

February 18, 2008February 13, 2021
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Your Sunday firepower video

More AC-DC… In my younger days, I used to stay at the south end of Myrtle Beach just to watch these guys fly.

February 17, 2008February 13, 2021
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File this one for next year

Mistress Tamara points us to the perfect reply for that question you get too many times on Valentine’s Day.

February 17, 2008February 15, 2021
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The NC Agricultural Review

You know, it’s getting fairly rare that I meet a government expenditure that I approve of. But one of my spies pointed me to this…

February 14, 2008February 13, 2021
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And this the “conservative” Republican candidate for president?

(Via Timebomb) Pressured by a huge lobbying effort by Big Telecom and by fears of being painted as weak on terrorism, the Democratic-controlled Senate has…

February 12, 2008February 15, 2021
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Why the hypocritical son of a …

As was noted in Animal Farm, some pigs are more equal than others. And to prove it, Josh Sugarman of Violence Policy Center infamy, has…

February 12, 2008February 13, 2021
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Buttery taste

(Via Timebomb) Here’s a skill that could be useful soon–how to make organic cultured butter. Right now, the idea of buying the cream makes it…

February 12, 2008February 15, 2021
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Do you know Jack Schitt?

(Via GuyK, who has far too much time on his hands. It must be a bear being retired, hey Guy?) Be sure to swallow that…

February 11, 2008February 15, 2021
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The War on Terror is still on

I haven’t been blogging on the WOT much lately. At least for now, we have things in hand, as much as this thing will ever…

February 11, 2008February 13, 2021
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A lifetime’s passion

(Via The Smallest Minority) The personal firearms collection of Bruce Stern, former NRA director who died last July, is going on the auction block. The…

February 10, 2008February 15, 2021
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Your Sunday firepower video

You can’t go wrong with AC-DC and choppers:

February 10, 2008February 13, 2021
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What to do with “found money”

So our betters in Washington have decided that it will benefit their reelection chances the economy if they give us back some of our money.…

February 10, 2008February 13, 2021
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Here we go again

Folks, the Anti-Freedom Brigade is at it again, and please note, they aren’t waiting for the Presidential election. From the NRA-ILA: This week, Senator Edward…

February 10, 2008February 15, 2021
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Nazzo fast, Guido

John McCain and Mike Huckabee are the two main Republicans left in the race for their party’s White House nomination. And either of them appears…

February 9, 2008February 13, 2021
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Medical preparations

No, not *that* kind of medical preparation (Though it could be useful–and who would have thought they had a web site?) We’re talking about preparing…

February 9, 2008February 15, 2021

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