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Year: 2012

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It ain’t just Detroit

(Via The Email List That Shall Not Be Named) We’ve all seen the pictures of a decaying Detroit, and we’ve all been told by folks…

July 8, 2012February 15, 2021
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Well, I missed this one

(Via Say Uncle) Bad guy shows up at a Stop-N-Rob that has decided that it doesn’t like concealed carry holders patronizing the joint. So does…

July 7, 2012February 13, 2021
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Happy Birthday!

To the AK-47. Not my favorite gun; I don’t even own one of the civilian versions. (Yes, I have shot the civilian version. The thing…

July 6, 2012February 15, 2021
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Occassionally, the ACLU gets it right

(Via the Drudge Report) While the (probably) vast majority of police officers are the sort of stand-up folks we’d all want them to be, there…

July 5, 2012February 13, 2021
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More niceness from our government

(Via theDrudge Report) Are you “reverent of individual liberty”? Do you think that a large, centralized government is a Bad Thing? I know I do.…

July 4, 2012February 15, 2021
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The difference between Obama and Romney is a bucket of warm spit

Seriously. I want someone (*cough* the NRA *cough*) to tell me one more time that we need Romney to so we can appoint conservative justices…

July 4, 2012February 13, 2021
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Hey, they say a .50 Barrett can shot down an airliner…

(Via the Drudge Report) I have to wonder how it would work on a drone. Just thinking out loud, mind you.

July 4, 2012February 15, 2021
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“Forget everything we’ve taught you for the last 10 years”

That seemingly innocuous quote from this article on the TSA’s “trusted traveler” program tells us more about what has really been going on with that…

July 3, 2012February 15, 2021
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John Roberts: Genius or what?

Predictably, there has been about 48.6 scads of commentary written since yesterday’s SCOTUS decision on the Affordable Yada-Yada Obama is Great Act. Much of it…

June 29, 2012February 15, 2021
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I never thought I’d see the day…

…when we as a country were told that we could be taxed not on what we earned, not on what we consumed, not on what…

June 28, 2012February 15, 2021
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Interesting

(Via The Tactical Wire) Back when I used to frequent gun boards and survival boards, there was a question that came up every so often–“Would…

June 28, 2012February 15, 2021
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Working the system

(Via Say Uncle) And doing it for the children. Intrepid gunnies venture into the lair of the beast to sell some scrap metal in order…

June 27, 2012February 13, 2021
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Oh no!

(Via the Drudge Report) Another elected idiot with a “common sense approach” to a problem. To paraphrase Bugs Bunny, “Run for the hills, folks, or…

June 24, 2012February 13, 2021
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Why “lock your guns away from minors” laws are a bad idea

North Carolina has a “safe storage” law pertaining to guns–you have to “secure” your firearms where minors can’t get to them, or face charges. I…

June 24, 2012February 13, 2021
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No matter what, we will win

(Via Claire Wolfe) Because our very culture is a weapon of mass destruction. Heck, it may be stronger than Chuck Norris.

June 22, 2012February 13, 2021
Found on Facebook
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Found on Facebook

As one commenter said, “My idea of help from above is a sniper on the rooftop.” Who says Facebook is a waste of time?:-)

June 21, 2012February 15, 2021
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Could socialist France be getting the joke?

(Via the Drudge Report) Could be.

June 20, 2012February 15, 2021
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MSNBC steps on their…

…editing. Again. Look we all know that most of the national media is in the tank for Obama. But at what point do We the…

June 19, 2012February 13, 2021
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No! Really?

Millionaire Parents Say Their Kids Are Unfit to Inherit This is my shocked face. Seriously. Rich parents are saying that their kids “lacked the requisite…

June 19, 2012February 13, 2021
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Updating

As I noted this time last week, The Freehold has been in something of a time of troubles. As is the way of the universe,…

June 17, 2012February 13, 2021
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Sociopaths at the top

(Via the Email List That Must Remain Nameless) Doug Casey points out that our government is full of sociopaths. It certainly would explain a few…

June 15, 2012February 13, 2021
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The lack of free ice cream

I can tell by the declining page counts (like they were ever that high to begin with) that the lack of posting around here is…

June 10, 2012February 13, 2021
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It lives!

HB 111, the North Carolina version of restaurant carry, has been resurrected in the NC legislature. Of all the restrictions placed on concealed carriers in…

June 8, 2012February 15, 2021
D-Day
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D-Day

Originally, the term “D-Day” was simply the specific date that a military operation was to occur. It was a generic term, much as “H-Hour” was…

June 6, 2012February 15, 2021
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Why would I need a gun in a coffee shop?

Because security cameras don’t stop the bad guys–force does. (Shout out toMountain Man for the meme.)

May 31, 2012February 13, 2021
How much?
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How much?

Memorial Day has become the “first day of summer” in the minds of many.  We celebrate it with travel, pool openings, cookouts and the occasional…

May 28, 2012February 15, 2021
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Want to minimize the possibility of the Feral Government snooping your Intertubz postings?

Avoid these words.  Feel free to laugh at the list, because it seems to me that, with that list almost everyone would be under suspicion.…

May 28, 2012February 13, 2021
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These guys haven’t stayed in business all these years by being stupid

(Via the Drudge Report) So when Lloyd’s of London decides to reduce their exposure to the Euro and the Eurozone, I think our ears ought…

May 27, 2012February 13, 2021
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Money talks

(Via Firearm News) Apparently eBay has noticed that gun owners spend money–lots of money.  Four years worth of losing out is enough pain for them,…

May 26, 2012February 15, 2021
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Does size really matter?

(Via Gun Talk) The Semi-Mythical One Shot Stop vs. Research. And while I would still rather be armed with a .45 ACP than a .22…

May 24, 2012February 15, 2021

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