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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 to tell me that form 4473 doesn’t ask if you’ve committed a felony *or* if you’ve ever been committed to a mental facility.

There were actually a number of good deals and good things to see at the show as well, but… uh….

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 felony.

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 what was happening, decided on the best course of action, and immediately sprung into action.

We… determined what we wanted for dessert and ordered another round of drinks.

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 who happens to be a minority” without being banned.

Apparently, that is no longer the case.

Their new registrar is pressuring the owners to remove posts and apparently Gab is complying. I get it, sort of, since they recently were essentially deleted from the internet by their last registrar, GoDaddy, with no notice.

Soon the only place you’ll really be able to express your thoughts freely will be in your own home.

As long as you don’t have Google, Apple, or Amazon listening…

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 stocks don’t fall into that definition.

Oh, and this was done without any new laws on the matter actually being passed.

yay.

/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.

From the Kilt Beast.

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.

Exhibit A as to why I got called out on the Assorted Calibers Podcast to talk about knives:

My wife claims that I own enough knives.

Pfft.  As if that’s a thing.

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 day job, but whatever happened I just didn’t seem to have the time to sit down for an hour and hammer something out.

The podcast scratched that itch for a while, but life got in the way of that, too, eventually. Podcasts are a lot of work, even if you are just the co-host with no production or editing to do.

I never really “got” Twitter and it didn’t shock me in the least when they started banned wrong think. I quit Facebook ~10 years ago but recently started a new account just to comment in some groups and scratch that itch again. But Facebook isn’t exactly neutral ground these days, and the two political-ish groups I’m in… Well they aren’t mine so I feel like I am borrowing the audience.

My Instagram page is pretty exclusively Cherokee XJ related and I’m not going to pull a Taylor Swift and start posting political stuff on a nonpartisan business page.

So maybe I’ll start posting more here. More SayUncle than Smallest Minority.

Maybe.