The rest of the story
(With apologies to the late Paul Harvey for stealing his famous tag line.) A few posts ago I did a little thing about how the…
Year: 2018
When things don’t go quite the way you thought they’d go
I’m not sure whether I feel sorry for these sanctimonious turd burglars because they’re being taken advantage of by unscrupulous adults who don’t give a…
The top X items that will disappear from the shelves when something horrible happens
So how many lists have you seen along the lines of that title? Five, 6, a dozen? 50 items, 100 items–crap, if something bad enough…
Again, we remember
While those few that remain are still young in their memories, and many who were were once young will forever remain so, those of us…
What we have here…
Is an amazing lack of situational awareness. Along with some amazing stupidity. The swarm of teenagers milling around the Village at Sandhill on Saturday evening…
Do you blog? Have a Facebook account?
Then the Department of Homeland Security is probably going to be creeping on you. I suppose I should apologize for all those times I made…
“Their safety equipment took the search out of search and rescue.”
We preppers sometimes let ourselves go down the garden path thinking that prepping is about big emergencies like hurricanes or economic collapse. But stories like…
Upgrades for your AR
(Via The Woodpile Report) Practical AR Enhancements That Work From practical experience, I can endorse reliability enhancements I, II and IV. I feel that III…
Low budget wind turbines
(Via Gab) So the world has gone all Mad Max on you and you need to make some energy. You didn’t stock up on solar…
Today, we honor those who didn’t come home
The National memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Honolulu, Hawaii
Reason #4,237 why we go armed in public
(Via the Drudge Report) 18-year-old wants-to-be-famous bad guy walks into a restaurant and shoots a mom and her daughter who are celebrating a birthday. On…
The inversion continues
I have tried to keep off of politics on the blog lately, with the exception of the gun thing, which I’ll never lay off of.…
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
That statement, attributed to Rahm Emanuel, mayor of the gun-controlled paradise of Chicago, takes on new meaning in light of the news that Obama-ear Education Secretary Arne…
As Michael Bane has said so many times, “The mask is off.”
Okay, Now I Actually Do Want To Take Your Guns This is what many/most/99% of anti-gunners want, and why even hypothetical discussions of alternatives run…
Yes, Virginia, you do need a gun
(Via The Woodpile Report) Not that most of the people who stop by here need to be convinced of that fact. As we all know,…
The End of the World as We Know It will not be what we think it will be
(Via The Woodpile Report) From a guy who has been there and collected most if not all of the “been there, done that” t-shirts, the…
Will this “Make You Go Hm-m-m”?
Jon Stokes claims to be a “gun industry insider”, and claims he goes to church on Sunday with his 9 mm tucked inside his fanciest…
But why would a business owner need to carry a gun?
When you’re a part of a group that is being targeted for robbery and murder, it’s an entirely reasonable reaction. Chinese-American business owners in the…
Time to ridicule the anti-gunners and anti-gun politicians
(Via the Drudge Report) Yes, I know, this is something you’d never expect to see here. Ahem. The weekend just past saw a gun show…
But for the grace of God, there go I
(Via the Drudge Report) Over the years I’ve been blogging, I’ve written about finance, both macro and micro. I’ve also written about prepping in all…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation strikes back
It seems you can’t be a Dick’s and be a member of the NSSF. And that’s a good thing. We need to stand fast–together–if we’re…
If you won’t give up your guns, the banks will force you to
I heard this on the morning’s “Flash Briefing” from the Amazon Alexa on the Wall Street Journal, but not having a paid subscription, it wasn’t…
Occasionally the other side of the street gets it
(Via The Woodpile Report) I’m not one to read Medium very often. The tone of the place isn’t one I find compatible with my world…
About those cell phones and biometric security
Allow ol’ Uncle Freeholder to refresh your memory on why you never use biometric technology as the “password” on you cellphone. At least make the…
This is one of those 2.5 million defensive gun uses the CDC couldn’t be bothered to release to the public
(Via The Woodpile Report) It’s also an answer to the questions “Why I need an AR-15”, “Why I need standard capacity magazines” and “Why I…
Interesting firearms manufacturing news
SCCY Firearms is moving from Florida to Tennessee. Obviously, something like this takes a lot of time and planning, and therefore isn’t a reaction to…
You really want to zero your rifle?
Then you do it this way. No shortcuts.
Of course this CDC study on defensive gun use never saw the light of day
It’s really quite simple. The CDC buried a study that showed that guns are used defensively nearly 2.5 million times a year because it doesn’t…
Someone in the Minnesota legislature doesn’t like guns
(Via The Woodpile Report) The masks have come off in Minnesota, as Representatives Linda Slocum, Fue Lee, Jean Wagenius, Karen Clark and David Bly have introduced HF 3022, an unnamed bill…