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The Daily Mail reports:The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

The on-going ATF "initiative" in Texas is the subject of a Houston Chronicle article that led off Drudge this AM (and my pod rant last week): Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one

US Citizen finds an interesting ranking of gun blogs. Interesting to me that the two anti-gun blogs (Gun Guys and Brady) seem to get all their web-fu from various social sites.

The legal complaint is here.

Some highlights:

They state that no other state allows carry in "bars," then in the footnotes list 23 states that do.
Their entire argument seems to be that writing an exemption for carry permit holders equates to specifically allowing guns in bars, and no other state specifically allows it.
They falsely state that Carry Permit Holders can carry while drunk
"Petitioners aver that the law violates due process and amounts to a taking of property that exposes bars and restaurants that serve alcohol to guns with no effective deterrent to carrying guns on posted premises and increases civil liability for shootings.

We are now exactly one month away from the shipping of the Baen edition of Monster Hunter International. I’m positively giddy. If I get a little too giddy, I’ll just watch the news to bring me back down, but until then I’m eagerly awaiting July 28th.

When I signed my contract with Baen and discontinued the Print On Demand version of MHI, it seemed like it would be forever until it was available again. During that time I wrote two and a half other books.  I can’t believe that it is time.

MHI is available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/1439132852/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246206412&sr=8-1

Barnes & Nobel: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Monster-Hunter-International/Larry-Correia/e/9781439132852/?itm=4

Tower Books:  http://www.tower.

Last Sunday I was at the Paul Bunyan Gun Club in Puyallup, Washington shooting in one of their monthly "Fun Steel" matches. On our squad was a fellow named Mark Knapp. I'd never met Mark before, and as the day progressed we got a chance to talk a bit.

This one's been in the works for a while, but it's now official, The National Shooting Sports Federation will be co-sponsoring this year's Gun Blogger Rendezvous. NSSF has agreed to pick up the tab for the "All you can eat" Pizza feed on Saturday night in our Hospitality room. Since the cost of the pizza will now not come out of the Rendezvous Registration money, it, in effect, is a donation to Project Valour-IT, as all money after expenses raised by the Rendezvous goes to Project Valour-IT.

If you are not too familiar with NSSF, you should definitely check out their website.

Last Year's Raffle Para PXT LDA Limited Single Stack Pistol

I now have confirmation from Kerby Smith of Para USA regarding the pistol that Para USA is donating to the Project Valour-IT fund raising raffle to be held at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. Para is having a hard time meeting the demand for their products, but they will definitely be donating a brand new Para pistol to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous to help raise money for Project Valour-IT through the GBR raffle.

Derek of The Packing Rat blog, Alan Gura,
and blogger Dirtcrashr from Anthroblogogy
(Picture stolen shamelessly from Derek)

STOP THE PRESSES!!
(I always wanted to say that....)

Just got this eMail from US Citizen at Traction Control:

Traction Control has just received confirmation - and permission to announce this Breaking News:

Alan Gura the Attorney who won the Heller case in the Supreme Court will be attending the Gunblogger Rendezvous in Reno!

Travel arrangements have been made and Traction Control is welcoming Alan to a weekend of good fun and guns at GBR IV.

WOWSERS!!!

I've got all sorts of good news regarding the Gun Blogger Rendezvous coming up, but I'm waiting for full confirmation before announcing anything new. Today, however, I'm extremely pleased to announce that Glock has agreed to help sponsor the Gun Blogger Rendezvous, coming up September 10, 11, 12, & 13th. in Reno at the Silver Legacy hotel and Casino. As a Glock owner, (a 17, a 22, and a 34, if you must know!) I am pleased to see Glock join the Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

sitting at the beach with the girls; they’re in the water wading. I’m listening to the two most aggro divinity students you can imagine; picture Alex Baldwin’s character from GGR giving the ABC speech. I’m impressed by these two SPU students planning the next five years; the surfer slang combined with hardcore tattoo planning is producing some cognitive dissonance, though.

Dude! Isaiah 5:53 in the original language would be tight!

I’m getting the apostle’s creed on my leg right here, but I’m taking one line out. I’m doing it in Aramic.

Now the "simple to fix" part is on "backorder".I was going to try pizza on the grill, but I just wasn't that hungry. So for tonight, a big salad and some Garlic Naan (recipe in comments, not the sidebar). It's a South Asian leavened flatbread. Tonight, cooked on the grill with garlic and butter, I don't mind so much I can't make popovers in the morning. .

Now let's look at the stats to see how the experiment worked.

Read em and weep.


Hat tip to Robb Allen, who is much sharper than a marble.

Here’s a small business who’s had enough and decided to call out their Congressman in a very public way. Also seems that Mr. Carnahan has arranged to have a meeting with the McArthur brothers about their concerns. Hopefully he won’t be sneering at them like he is in his photo on the website.

Good for them. If I can make it down there this weekend, I’ll be buying something to support their business. You know, I think I’d like to see either one of the brothers make a run at Mr. Carnahan’s congressional seat.

So the economic report comes out and nationwide unemployment figures are at 9.5%, the highest they’ve been since 1983, when they were on the way DOWN from the highs created under the tender ministrations of another incompetent dimmocrat, Jimmy “I never met a dictator I didn’t like” Carter.

In May 2009, 14.5 million people were unemployed — 6 million more than one year earlier. The jobless rate during that time leapt to 9.4 percent from 5.5 percent, a 71 percent increase in the unemployment rate.

So a guy is upset (understatement) that his abused wife finally left. So he goes looking for her. East of Loxley: Man forces open front door, gets shot by brother-in-law - al.comA man shot and killed his brother-in-law, apparently in self-defense, late Wednesday at a home just east of the Loxley area, officials with the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said.David Daniel, the homeowner, shot Andrew

Mark Belling broke this story this afternoon.  He obtained a series of emails between state DHS employees and Steve Schultz, a reporter for the MJS.  In the emails, it is pretty clear that not only are DHS officials taking political considerations into account as they move to take over a Milwaukee County department, but they are also coordinating the effort with Steve Schultz to try to do it in a way to paint Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker in the worst light possible.  Couple comments… 1) Steve Schultz has disgraced himself.

In a sure sign that all of the important people weren’t available, Folkbum and I taped a short segment for Mike Gousha’s Upfront.  Jay and I leg wrestle.  He got me the first time, but I won the next two rounds to take home the oversized championship belt.  We also managed to discuss politics, the budget, and the subtle art of pole dancing (that’s how Jay and I paid for college).  Tune in! 

Dang it… I hate it when I end up linking to two lefties on one day, but this is too good to pass up. UPDATE: According to a commenter, the picture is a fake.  Still… it’s a great image. 

But I am genuinely, severely, angry; and it's because of something at work.

Normally I don't let things bother me that way; but this one really got to me.

Obviously I can't talk about it in great detail, but suffice it to say I'm fine, he's fine, and we're both going to remain employed.

I do want to talk about it in some very general ways, as an illustration of inappropriate conflict resolution.

Someone who I generally have a good relationship with is under a lot of pressure. We have a critical project, on an emergency basis, with a very short deadline.

Among the factors determining murder rates, levels of gun ownership is among the most overstated and least reliable, in Mauser’s view. “There is no empirical support for the claim that gun ownership is related to violence rates,” he says.
From The lowdown on crime in Canada, thanks to Uncle for pointing to this.

Who's going to get more troops killed with this garbage.
About two weeks ago, the Obama administration released Laith Qazali after extensive negotiations with the Asaib al-Haq terror network. That network has long been in negotiations with the fledgling Iraqi government, dangling the possibility of laying down its arms, renouncing violence, and integrating into Iraqi society, provided that its top members — particularly Qais and Laith Qazali, as well as Ali Mussa Daqduq — be released.

LikesBB seems to acknowledge that their browser sucks at javascript by providing the option to enable or disable (beyond default settings) java on specific bookmarked pages. Works great when you want to run with java enabled, but a few bookmarked sites are slow, or running with java off, but a few bookmarked sites require java (like blogger.com). (there is also a keyboard shortcut to turn java on

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Today's actions by the criminals in congress has shown they have no regard for the Republic, and no regard for freedom. They have declared themselves outlaws and traitors to America.

Americans are supposedly a free people, however, many times we have given up our Constitutional Rights meekly and without a whisper of protest. Now is not one of those times for us to do so.

Meh. The president spoke enthusiastically of the White House pastry chef. “Whatever kind of pie you want, he will make it,” Obama said, adding ruefully that that was a problem for him and wife Michelle in regard to their weight.

click to enlarge and see titlesI got to visit a Half Price Book store this last week. There's one right next to where my friend Angie works so it's a regular stop to chat and buy books when I'm in the city. Don't forget to go to the back of the store where they have the "all under $3 Section", a lot of them in excellent condition only $1. With some careful hunting through the higher and

Seems that Dr. Evil has launched 4 more missles today.

Can some one tell me why we don’t stuff a tomahawk missile down his pipe every time he stand one of these up?

It seemed to work in Libya all those years ago……

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Wow, quite a rush of people. Thanks for listening to my story.
So, as I was on my weeklong trip, I remembered something I really wanted when I was a kid - one of those cool survival guns. I knew that .22 LR guns were the perfect survival weapon - cheap, ammo was abundant and inexpensive and I could carry a lot in my backpack if I needed too.
I remember lusting after the Armalite gun - the one where you stowed everything in the stock.

I read this essay recently. It is relatively well known. It was written in 1899, and it is just as true today.

A Message to Garcia

By Elbert Hubbard

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly.

We pray for their safety and their success.  U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.

I am reminded that today one of the seminal military actions in US history occurred. By this time (5:22 p.m.) on July 2, 1863, Joshua Chamberlin has successfully defended Little Round Top and John Bell Hood was in the hospital, losing an arm.

Armchair historians and military buffs have long debated and will long speculate on what might have happened if General Lee had let Hood swing to the right and get behind the Union army. That speculation is all nonsense, because that didn't happen. Hood went up the hill and Chamberlin fought him off.

I spent the majority of the day, along with most of the days this week, helping second son remodel his house. We've spent the last three days in the master bath, and it's still a long way from being finished. Of course, neither of us are plumbers, or electricians, or carpenters, yet we've struggled bravely along ripping out walls, building new walls, setting a bathtub, running electricity to the bathtub, installing running water, building half-walls, and cussing like ship-wrecked sailors.

It's been a time for bonding. Oh, yeah.

We should put the Domestic Urban Terrorists on display in their arrest photos looking like this guy. From the you play around you lay around file. Here it is.

…on the Abigail standing picture, this one would have won:

Comment by Ride Fast 2009-07-02 07:40:03

“Having taken out the knit horsey with the yellow hunting club, the natural huntress prepares to pack her prize for the long crawl.”

And now the exploring begins! What a cutie.

Good one, RF! :)

From Greg's niece, after her first day at the range

This is BETTER than Sea World!

Usually I'm not big on the junk email. I wind up bulk deleting an awful lot of stuff from Bike Nashbar and Vickie's Secret.

I'll open about one in three from Brownells or ¡BLACKHAWK!, though, and I'm frequently glad I did. $40 for a fresh pair of boots? Sold!

This is BETTER than Sea World! Spoken by my niece during her first trip to the range.

What. A. Blast. And points for me. She had a fantastic time and wants to do it again before she goes home next week. Maybe after church on Sunday...



Before the trip to the range, we had a complete gun safety review, as well as a discussion about range rules and how the Mossberg Plinkster functions. At the range, I gave her some pointers as she burned up a ziplock bag full of .22lr.

Teacher and student. How cute! (Her, not me. Duh.

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Ilya Glazunov, Легенда о Великом Инквизиторе (The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor), 1985

David Brooks and David Frum have a new companion in the crowd of policy experts rushing to endorse the new era of Big Government.

Thaddeus G. McCotter reports in the American Spectator:

Breaking his half-a-millennium media silence from eternal damnation, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor joined a chorus of presumed conservatives to endorse President Obama’s health care reforms.

A Gun Shy salute to this man of courage, who gave all to save the life of his son. Please read this story. People like this man are becoming more and more rare. America has in many was has become a place of mediocrity, full of whining yuppie types (aka latte sipping gerbils), who were groomed for the kingdom of self by pampering parents when they were young, and never grew out of it. They are now card carrying members of the "I, Me, My" entitlement generation. This is not the case with this heroic man.

The more you read, the worse it gets.

I received a fun contact yesterday from the folks at Playboy. Yes, that Playboy.

We recently sent the head of Playboy Security to a shooting range with our
Cyber Girl of the Year, Sharae Spears, to see who is a better shot. It’s kind
of a fun video. I wanted to pass on the link to the feature in case you have any
interest for your blog. Just let me know if you need anything else from us.

My immediate thought was: Oh, boy – this is going to be positively vapid.

But, I decided to give Ms. Spears a chance, and watched the video.

Have you ever driven a particular route so much that it take an hour for the mind numbness to wear off?

The endpoints make the drive worthwhile, but that stretch between the east side of St. Louis, and Plainfield, IN is just murder.

I’ve made this drive probably several hundred times, and I swear each time, it just gets longer.

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When I started reloading a few years ago, I started out on a Lee Pro 1000 that was given to me. It made my entry into the reloading world a little cheaper. This post isn’t going to be a bash Lee Precision because Dillon Precision is better. I think each company’s products fill a niche. I’ve loaded several thousand rounds of 9mm and 45 ACP on my Lee press. And all my rifle ammo is produced using Lee presses, using Lee and RCBS dies, and I’ve been very pleased with the quality of the ammo churned out using this equipment.

A good friend of mine has a couple posts on the snub nose revolver, part 1 and part 2. Go pay him a visit.

There’s not much in there I’m going to disagree with, other than the plastic gun bigotry. Secretly, he covets the Glock 19. He just won’t admit it because he’s afraid that John Moses Browning is going to visit him like the Ghost of Gunnie’s past. I shouldn’t poke fun, as much as he would like a Glock 19, I probably covet the 1911 more. But that’s not the point of this post…….

when the temp hits

Go shooting, of course!

Why? Because if you ever need to do it for real, it’s not going to be 65, slightly overcast with a gentle northern breeze.

Not everyone has the benefit of being able to take classes where your instructors may be screaming in your ear while you’re shooting to induce additional stresses on your system, so you just have to get a little creative.

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Photo taken just outside Sleeper, Missouri. No, I’m not kidding.

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This has to be the biggest rig I’ve ever seen on the highway:

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The company, Diamond Heavy Haul, specializes in moving big stuff. Tip of the hat to the driver of this rig. I’d have to imagine this is a pretty slow moving operation, and you’d have to be on top of your game all the time when driving this rig.

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Disclaimer: This is going to be the equivalent of looking at someone else’s vacation photos. If you don’t like that sort of thing, I’d advise moving along to the next site in your feed list….

This past weekend we celebrated the 11th anniversary of the day that Mrs. LeadChucker decided that I was worthy of walking down the isle for. I’m eternally thankful she didn’t pull a runaway bride and go running the other direction out of the church on that day. On the worst of days, I can’t imagine not having the life we have together.

I’ve been running this press for a few weeks now, and I’m ready to share a few more thoughts on it….

My Lee dies work well. The guy who sold it to me said they would work, but followed it up with “But you’ll want to switch to the Dillon dies”. I’m honestly not sure why. The barrels might be a bit shorter than the Dillon or RCBS dies, so you will need to screw them into the tool head fairly deeply. As a result, you will want to switch to thinner lock rings.

The old stat counter has been showing that fair number of visitors are stopping in by way of Hell In A Hand Basket, Home on the Range, and from The Next Chapter of Zack’s Life.

Welcome folks, thanks for stopping by!

I don’t have muffins (those were polished off this weekend), or any gun reviews (which I hope to correct), and don’t take any self defense advice from me. These two guys are far more qualified.

But there is a fair amount of lead here.

Somewhat disconcerting story in the OWH.

Had she not been a police officer, who knows what might have happened?

Maybe nothing.

But on Tuesday, police found a stun gun in the front seat of an SUV driven by a 47-year-old Omaha man who had been following the plainclothes female officer for several miles — changing lanes when she changed lanes, slowing when her car slowed.

The officer, an 18-year veteran, was returning an unmarked police car to the police training facility in northwest Omaha when she made eye contact with a male driver on the North Freeway.

Firehand has the must-read.

According to The Tennessean, the judge assigned to that infantile lawsuit to stop Restaurant Carry is Claudia Bonnyman. She'll hear it on Tuesday at 3pm.

She was appointed in 2003 by Bredesen. I wonder which Bredesen appointed her, the one that supports the second amendment or the one that showed up last month?

A good sign is that she is the same judge that refused to stop a referrendum because it was politically unpopular. A bad sign is that she had previously stopped it from being on the general ballot last November.

Another bad sign is that she chose to hear this case.

Seabrook, Texas. You can almost see Galveston Bay over the fence. Almost.

working out? Not real well.
Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.
But, but, handguns are BANNED! That makes them safer!!
In the decade following the party's election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.
Well, apparently not.

Many of us in Federal Way have been following the embarrassing story of how our city government has struggled to organize its municipal court in order to gain credibility and establish integrity. There are presently serious suggestions that we shut down the court and contract with King County or other municipalities for court services.

Court services, required by law, are expensive; a major component of the cost is providing facilities for the court’s functions.

Quote of the Day - Day Late and a Dollar Short EditionIf I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting.

Since I supposedly have a suppressed immune system (I say “supposedly” because that seems to be a common conception of fibromyalgia), and I’ve been tired lately, etc., I fully expected to wake up this morning having to actually go to the minor med to get anti-biotics for my hands.

Well, it turns out that my freakish powers of super-healing have not completely left me in the past few years.

That is, if she lives long enough.

I'm still working on the 41-ounce bag of Skittles that my kids gave me for Fathers Day.

On an unrelated side note: The next person who tries to make a stupid joke about the rain in my presence is getting his ass kicked.

Been busy. Since DD started her new job our schedules have been reversed. I’m getting the Newt ready for school and dropping him off before work. Also, we’re being audited at work. More posts soon.

In 1903, the Pistols Act forbade selling pistols to anyone who did not have a license.

The 1920 Firearms Act repealed the Pistols Act of 1903, but also expanded the licensing requirement to the purchases of all all firearms and ammunition. The license specified not only the weapon the person was eligible to purchase, but also the quantity of ammunition, and in order to procure a license, applicants had to convince their local constables that they had a sufficiently compelling reason for the license, and did not have "intemperate habits" or an "unsound mind".

(Via Timebomb 2000)



Ho. Ly. Moses. I feel like I just took a punch in the gut. Dr. Manning is a powerful speaker (in the tradition of other black ministers I've had the opportunity to hear speak), and his message both resonates with and scares the hell out of me. Resonates because he speaks the truth, and scares me because it's a frightening truth.

While I pray it doesn't happen, revolution may well come to our country.

    A new Rasmussen poll released earlier this week reveals that 57 percent of Americans believe gun sales have skyrocketed in this country over the past several months because of fears that the government – now under control of ...

"Someone is sending thousands of eyeballs per day to my site, free of charge! I'd best put a stop to that!"

In other news, Dead Tree Newspaper Journalist claims that the internets are, despite claims to the contrary, actually a Big Truck.


(H/T to Unc.)

This is not one.  Oh, it's a venial sin, to be sure.  I get more chapped when I see the flag appropriated as a piece of clothing, which is found more often than not on a "red state" back or butt. But, as someone who has worn that flag on my sleeve to provide a convenient aiming point for the armed enemies of the United States, I do rather wish that people who are trying to do the right thing would... think it through.

The View From North Central Idaho currently comes in at number seven. But there are a lot of gun blogs not listed.

It's no surprise that Say Uncle comes in at #1.

H/T to Say Uncle and Traction Control.

This weblog is sponsored by FOS Ammunition and UltiMAK.

Or, The Smallest Minority can, linking up Jay Leno asking people the most simple damn questions. The answers are just astounding. I would've, would have, thought every American would know these answers.
Jay: "Where do you think they speak Gaelic?

American: San Francisco.
Watch the whole thing. Bring a tissue. Ride Fast & Shoot Straight

I helped a few patrons, ordered some books on CD, weeded some books on CD, took the "new" stickers off some books on CD, and then reorganized the new non-fiction...


The middle book is titled, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"

Heh. Subversive shelving.

A guide to which states consume the most beer.  Seems that Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Nevada drink more than most.  You’d think for people that drink so much beer, Montana would have better microbreweries.  Maybe this is my excuse to move out there.

Related posts:Drink A Beer in His MemoryGreat Editorial, but WrongReciprocity with Pennsylvania

 Proof that you don't have to know what you are doing, as long as you do something.  The blog is a year old.  Holy pixelated keystrokes!
  Thanks to everyone that chanced by and all my friends on the deercams who ate and posed.

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. [More]I don't suppose you guys have a couple minutes to devote to Snuffy...?

Just said goodbye to one set of out-of-state relatives on Monday and another set arrived this morning. Plus I have a Guns Magazine article due. And three books in the queue for reviews. And the Gun Rights Examiner column.

WoG posting will probably be limited until next week. Please understand if I do not respond to or post tips from emails.

In the mean time, if you're looking for something to do, head on over to my GRE pages and entertain yourself with my new troll. He promises to have me arrested!

Of yet another gun control myth. Sarah Brady Paradise, where the formerly Great Britain used to be, has much lower gun ownership, yet an astonishingly higher violent crime rate.

It's almost like the anti-gunners telling us that gun control will reduce crime is a lie or something.

Dustin looks at all the successes this year.  Many of these are great victories, but among those are the Parking Lot bill.  From the “not sure why NRA makes this a priority” department, the Goldwater Institute, normally a friend of gun rights, is planning on challenging the legitimacy of the law.

“The Goldwater Institute strongly supports the right to keep and bear arms,” Bolick stated, adding that the Institute filed a brief in Heller v. District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court case that strengthened Second Amendment rights. “But it is a right against government, not against private individuals.

Let’s say that a future government has decided to incarcerate wrong thinking people into “reeducation camps,” to try to get people thinking right, and to quietly “take care” of all those who can’t be rehabilitated.  Free speech is suppressed, the media made an arm of the state, and the government refuses to stand for free and fair elections.  In that situation, most people would recognize the government has forfeited any claim to legitimacy.  We fought a World War, and a risky, expensive, and protracted cold war against such governments.

Here is what it should look like. I stop my cut just shy of the base of the old hammer spur. When the metal is paper thin the spur will start to get loose. I stop cutting and use my finger to bend it back and forth until it falls off. The hammer spur wasn't really that hot I just didn't need to touch it for very long. Let me get some ice on this burn and we will continue.

Now we use the grinder to smooth out the flat spot where we cut off the hammer spur.

The public is urged to report illegal sales of professional-grade fireworks or other explosive devices such as M-80s to their local police department and to ATF by calling 1-888-ATF-BOMB, or 1-888-283-2662. Callers can remain anonymous. [More]Thanks, BATFU! Yeah, that's GOTTA be what the Founders had in mind to celebrate our Independence.

Right Mr. Adams?
It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.

A Collin County judge at a training exercise got a very real shot in the face. The shot came from a gun loaded with blanks, but the damage was nearly blinding.

The exercise Saturday involved Collin County sheriff deputies, court staff and McKinney police. [More]But he was blinded by the light....

"Only Ones"-style.

[Via Chris P]

He was referring to the voluntary training session, in which officers took turns standing next to a target while another officer, a football field away, took aim and fired...

County officials also were concerned that when they tried to look at recordings from the surveillance cameras at the shooting range, they discovered that the cameras had been turned toward the sky or disconnected. They also had been told about an instance in which two officers were seen firing at the berm that separates two parts of the shooting range. [More]Range safety, "Only Ones"-style...

And nice touch with the cameras.

[Via Ben G]

A well-known Nashville restaurant and bar owner plans to sue today to stop the state's new guns-in-bars law from taking effect later this month. [More]Just make sure all gun owners know what Randy Rayburn thinks of them, and reward him accordingly.

Maybe he'll get a sign like the one at Dukes...

Perry Township Police Chief Timothy Escola resigned this week after a tipster called and said the Chief was having sexy time in his police cruiser with a part-time police officer. [More]Isn't that romantic? And having a prisoner in the back seat must have heightened their passion to levels only an "Only One" can ever know.

Here's all you need to know:
David Martin lives in Ottawa, Canada [More]Fortunately, these fine people prove the human quest for freedom is not so easily snuffed out.

And speaking of guns in churches (hey, I include links for a reason), everybody's seen this, right?

Odd. Tested something. Worked on the local box. Pushed it into production and Ansible takes a dirt nap. Turns out, you can't cast a NULL into a boolean. Even if it works for some odd reason on your local box.

Just updated the blogroll. Better sorting, and I can indicate who I've actually met.

Now it's lunch time.

A couple of fun items from around the web.

Pro shooter and amateur comedian (I kid, I kid) Phil Strader has signed with Team Smith & Wesson.

Speaking of Team S&W, Julie Golob was awarded the High Master classification in NRA Action Pistol for her performance at Bianchi Cup.

Watched Cowboys on Outdoor Channel last night. I’m digging the new style of the show, and Tupelo Flash was born to be the host of that show.

So, I’m eating my dinner yesterday morning (turkey & swiss stacked think on wheat with a Deschutes Cinder Cone Red Ale) and I’m watching Obama’s fake “town hall” speech.

He gets done and says he’ll take questions. They make a big deal mentioning about how he’s never heard any of these questions beforehand.

However, there is a video question, kind of like the YouTube debate and even a 5th grader could tell that he knew the answer before he got the question, if you know what I mean.

The he takes a question from the audience.

You don’t want to know what I’ve been listening to as of late. While talented and groundbreaking, it is truly just a guilty pleasure that is truly degrading to admit to listening to.

So I’m gonna let y’all drop your suggestions as to what I should exchange said guilty pleasure for in the comments section.

I’m not turning down the sPaM blocker too far, so posting more than one url will probably get you blocked, but I will try an d keep up with the approvals so that everyone gets through.

Thanks.

“Not even Nixon tried to control the press like Obama”

Geriatric old school liberal reporter Helen Thomas recently joined CBS’s Chip Reid in taking on Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at a White House Press Conference, challenging the Obama White House’s policy of controlled, programmed and pre-arranged questioning at the upcoming promised Town Hall meeting on Health Care.

Following a testy exchange during Wednesday’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.

Not surprisingly, we start with the 2nd Day at Gettysburg - the hardest-fought day (though the survivors of Pickett's Charge on the 3rd might argue the point).ALLEN, NATHANIEL M. Rank and organization: Corporal, Company B, 1st Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 2 July 1863. Entered service at: Boston, Mass. Birth: Boston, Mass. Date of issue: 29 March 1899. Citation: When his regiment was falling back, this soldier, bearing the national color, returned in the face of the enemy's fire, pulled the regimental flag from under the body of its bearer, who had fallen, saved the flag from...

First of all, I'd like to thank Massa John for letting me use the front door of his Castle.  I hope that I won't let him down. Whenever the general American public hears the terms: Latin American Military and Coup d’état, this is what comes to mind: But why?

Gun control does not seek safer streets, it seeks greater dependency on officials by removing the better tools of weapon and wisdom.

John Longenecker
July 1, 2009
BOOK REVIEW: Lethal Logic by Henigan, Part II.
[Hence the results you see in the U.K. and why they haven't reversed course on their gun control agenda.

Via posts from Say Uncle and Kevin.--Joe]

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Via an email from Mike:

Shooters: The following pro-gun bills which were drafted by IdahoSSA go into effect today (July 1st): House bill 65 which clarified that Idaho residents can buy long guns from dealers in non-contiguous states and vice versa.  House bill 137 which grants State parks the power to regulate discharge of firearms in campgrounds etc. but makes it  clear that they have no authority to ban lawful carry. IdahoSSA is working closely with Parks and Recreation to make sure that their final rule specifically recognizes the right to carry in State Parks.  House bill 194 which grants immunity from liability to shooting ranges, firearms instructors, and match officials.

Motorcycle Safety
Motorcycles are an early form of Terminator, designed to infiltrate human society and pick off aggressive males before they become resistance fighters. They're very good at what they do.

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Just The Facts A motorbike is the bare minimum number of parts required for an engine to reach lethal velocities.As opposed to regular vehicles, motorbikes use the rider to protect themselves.- more - Ride Fast & Shoot Straight

We're growing!

BuckeyeFirearms.org and Forums.BuckeyeFirearms.org will be offline Friday July 3, and may stay offline though Sunday, July 5, so that we can move to a new server.

The websites may come up sooner, but expect intermittent downtime this weekend as we move to become better equipped to defend and advance the right of Ohio citizens to own and use firearms for all legal activities.

Buckeye Firearms is thankful for the brave men and women who gave birth to our country, the veterans who have served to ensure we remain a free people, and for all who currently serve.

Kozinski Cleared

Say Uncle links to an Above the Law report that the investigation into 9th Circuit judge Alex Kozinski concerning material he had on a private computer (related previously here at TSM) has concluded with a unanimous decision (PDF) by the Third Circuit's Judicial Council. No misconduct occurred.

How's that Gun Control Working Out for You?

The Daily Mail reports:The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

July 2, 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, New York - On July 2, at 3:00 P.M., the advanced elements of Brig. Gen. Simon Fraser's light infantry began sniping at the American position. This provoked a furious series of volleys. When the smoke cleared, no one had been injured on either side. Brig. Gen. Baron von Riedesel pushed forward to the marshy banks of Eagle Creek at the foot of Mount Independence. Here, his men came under fire from American batteries on the heights. This engagement ended in an indecisive conclusion. Conclusion: Draw [More]

So where does this leave us? After years of harassment, including holding him for 23 days, confiscating his property, ordering him not to possess firearms, forcing him to surrender his passport and to post a $250,000 bond, and spending--exactly how much in legal costs for both sides?--the government simply files a motion to dismiss the indictment?

And that's supposed to be it? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column brings you news on a case that been ongoing for years. The feds tried to destroy this guy and now they drop an indictment