Year: 2011

And it’s about freaking time that North Carolina’s mish-mash of self-defense laws were normalized. Changes to the state’s Castle Doctrine Law that take effect Thursday…

(Via The Email List That Shall Remain Nameless) Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful…

I am so there!

So…me, Son and Old Buddy (Look! A new character!) journeyed to Hickory, NC to hit the Hickory Gun Show. Even though it meant getting up…

Well, we will be tomorrow, at any rate. Hello, Hickory! Not looking for anything in particular, except a magazine or three for the Olympic repro…

But once again, the gun banners lose one. But don’t forget, they’ll be back. (Sorry about the broken link. It’s fixed.)

(Via the Smallest Minority) I have a saying that I use a lot. It may not be original to me. “Being stupid hurts. It’s supposed…

(Via Middle of the Right) This is getting to be a depressing thing, my occasional noting of the science fiction writers whom I have read…

“Those with criminal intent are not going to be deterred by placing a sign at the front door or by declaring the prohibition of concealed…

Read an amazingly juvenile…something…on the subject of guns at the Raleigh News and Observer. Comments seem to be out of order (this is my shocked…

(Original link (now broken) aia the Drudge Report) Everyone else apparently has a conscience. Who’da thunk it?

I’ve been busy dealing with a real-world feces outbreak, but I have been keeping up with the news. One of the stories that I find…

No one was driving!

Guns.com has an interesting article/video on a “thumbs forward” grip to improve your pistol shooting. Given my accuracy with a pistol, I’m going to give…

So sayeth the headline at FoxNews. Of course not. Looters don’t repay their victims. Did the Bringer of Light not teach you that when you…

In New York City within 24 hours. You don’t mess with the cops, morons.

Guns .com takes a look at the Kahr CM9 and it’s pricier sibling, the PM9 in terms of price per unit of performance. Short version?…

This day in Nineteen Hundred and Ought Four, British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. And from…

Urbanites “freak out” over it. Well, they’re going to need to get over it. While I don’t care for the government owning any land outside…

(Via Gun Talk) Many women who wish to carry a concealed weapon face a big problem–how? For men, it’s not so bad. We wear pants…

Why in the hell US taxpayers are spending $50 million to provide security for a political convention? Let the political parties foot the bill for…

A half-dozen protesters were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Bank of America corporate headquarters building while demonstrating against the bank’s financing of coal projects. OK…

“Libertarian” Does Not Mean “Extreme Republican”

I was over at GunsAmerica looking at something else (well, OK, it was the Springfield XD(M) 5.25 test if you just have to know) and…

(Via the Drudge Report) Protesters hope to shut down Wall Street on Thursday — home to the New York Stock Exchange — by holding a…

What you post on Facebook may well come back to haunt you.

OK, so the big Emergency Alert System test was scheduled for 2 PM today, and I made a point of being tuned into a broadcast…

(News story link via the Drudge Report) There are certain signs of a civilization in decline. One of the most unmistakeable seems to be a…