Life in the firearms industry
(Via Frugal Squirrels) A sordid tale of a small successful company that is bought by a big successful company. Personal experience tells me this goes…
It’s offical
(Via the Drudge Report) Over the years, I can’t tell you how many times on this or that Intertubz fora, while discussing some government excess, that I…
Methinks they doth project too much
(Via SurvivalBlog) L. Neil Smith pole axes leftists, progressives, communists, socialists and their ilk. Not as if they don’t deserve it.
Where’s the fun in that?
For a piddly ten grand, you to can be Mr. Bad Ass Sniper Guy–at least out to 500 yards. This technology turns even a neophyte…
In other news, water is wet
It isn’t like we haven’t been saying this for years, but perhaps this time someone will listen: Gun Control Laws Do Not Reduce Violent Crime…
Fair warning–savers will not be spared
Time for more economic bad news. So you are one of those hopelessly boring folks who “did it right”. You didn’t buy more house than…
And in a small yet significant victory for civil rights and common sense
Grass Roots North Carolina is announcing that Cherokee County, NC has revoked a law that kept citizens and county employees from exercising their right to…
Aaaaand…they’re gone.
As good as their word, Magpul Industries is bailing out of Colorado for Texas and Wyoming. Colorado is going to take an $85 million dollar…
Hard to tell what the UK Mail makes of it
(Via the Drudge Report) The UK Mail has a story on the Mormons and their teaching of storing food against hard times, and how that…
Worried yet?
(Via the Drudge Report) So, when Wall Streeters are recommending stocking up on canned food and shotguns, do you suppose it’s time to take this…
Merry Christmas
From our house (yeah, don’t I wish this was it) to yours, we at the Freehold would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. Don’t…
Mikhail Kalashnikov has died
Russia Today is reporting that the designer of the ubiquitous AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is dead at age 94. Not a big fan of the AK…
Nancy Pelosi just ruined a pair of undies
(Via the Email List with No Name) It’s evil, it’s black and it’s magazine fed. Best of all it looks like an AR. Now all…
And once again, “the question”
So we have another spree killer (fortunately an incompetent one this time) who decides to go to a gun free zone in a state that…
Something different this December 7
Normally, on December 7 I will post something about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I still am, but in a different sort of way. While…
Armed self defense–you don’t automatically win
One of the things that those of us who go armed probably don’t like to think about is what would happen if it all goes…
Urk?
I saw this this morning on Drudge and just about ruined a keyboard. Yeah, buddy. I want me some 18% interest rates, 65o thermostats, even/odd…
Karma is a bitch
Port Marion, PA po-po closes the doors after paying out damages, including damages for one for serial offending officer. Locals worry that the lack of…
Happy Thanksgiving, Internet
One could think from some of my recent posts that I would not be the person to find much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.…
Security Theater, Act IV: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
A part-time security researcher works out how to create some nifty MacGyver-ish weapons from items allowed in airport secured areas and, good guy that he…
Well, now they’ve done it
It seems that the Evil Party has decided to push on with the job started by the Seventeenth Amendment–they have broughtmore Democracy (capital “D”) to…
This guy wins the Internet today
Don’t know if the story is true or not, but if it isn’t, it should be. Call it The Iron Law of the Unintended Consequences…
It’s the cold and flu season
Along with more than a few other…interesting…diseases. HealthMap will keep you updated on the latest hacking, puking or whatevering bug in your area. If, in…
It could be useful
And it’s definitely better than putting on a tinfoil hat. Electromagnetic Pulse Protection by Jerry Emanuelson, BSEE I’ve got no way of telling if it’s…
The hell with that pesky Fourth Amendment
Some of you may have heard of the case where a number of Duke University lacrosse players were accused of rape–falsely as it turns out. …
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent
Thank you, gentlemen, and now, ladies and gentlemen, for your courage and your sacrifice. Despite our current trying times, we do not forget, and we…
In which Dick Metcalf is
Unless you’ve been hiding from the Intertubz, if you’re any manner of gunnie you’ve heard the story about Dick Metcalf, who decided that his excrement…
I’d say that genie is well and truly out of the bottle
The world’s first 3D printed gun–in metal. Gun grabbers all over the world have just felt a great disturbance in their bowels the Force.