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Seen at the Gun Show Today

By | January 5, 2019

Someone desperately trying to sell their bumpfire stock. Buy now, before it’s a felony! Someone selling a Cobra 380 for $400. Surprisingly, there were no takers. A manufacturer selling electronic AR trigger packs, and claiming that they have an ATF letter stating that it’s cool. The guy running the Friends of the NRA table trying… Read More »

Good Luck With That, Buddy

By | December 23, 2018

Went to the gun show yesterday, and, among the tables of beef jerky and emergency food rations, was a guy trying to sell a Slide Fire bump stock with a “last one in stock!” sign on it. I guess he was trying to sell it to someone before having it in his inventory became a… Read More »

A Successful Self-Defense Story

By | December 11, 2018

This past Saturday, I was eating dinner at the local Logan’s with my martial arts instructors after running a testing. As we were finishing up, we witnessed a couple of folks getting into a fight, that quickly turned into a stand up wrestling match. The three of us, being highly trained martial artists, quickly observed… Read More »

Et tu, Gab?

By | November 22, 2018

I think I posted one thing on Gab.ai maybe a year ago and never used it again. It promised to be a place where free speech could flourish, or at least a place where conservatives could say things like “there are two genders” or “abortion is wrong” or “I have a policy disagreement with someone… Read More »

Yep… they went and did it.

By | November 15, 2018

Looks like the DoJ has decided “screw it, we’ll just make the law up as we go,” and declared bump stocks to be machine guns. Never mind that the ATF declared them to not be machine guns, since… you know… the law has a very specific definition of what a machine gun is, and bump… Read More »

Overheard at the range yesterday

By | November 4, 2018

/me gets to try a new rifle *Bang*  *Bang* “nice” *BangBang* “uh…” “Did you bump fire it?” “I don’t think so…” *BangBangBang* “right” /me drops the magazine and makes clear The owner sends a message to the manufacturer asking for a shipping label.

Listen to me talk about knives!

By | October 23, 2018

I’ve started talking about knives on Assorted Calibers Podcast, the spiritual successor to the Gun Blog Variety Cast that Wizard used to be on! If there’s something that you’ve been curious about when it comes to sharp pointy things, let me know.

Reassembling the Blogpsphere

By | October 8, 2018

This has been festering in the back of my brain for the past few days. I stopped blogging, really, about the time we got pregnant with our second child. I don’t know if it was that or Google Reader being discontinued, but both certainly had an effect. Maybe it was the new position at my… Read More »