Author Archives: oddball

Long slide on a short grip?

By | January 1, 2016

First things first: New Year’s resolution: more posting to the blog.  I’ve got a good amount of blog fodder, just need to write it. Now, on with the post! For a little while now, I’ve been interesting in finding something that apparently no one makes: a pistol with a “full-sized” barrel (think 4-5″) on a… Read More »

Of all the stupid things…

By | December 1, 2015

So… apparently Nashville has decided to kick out the gun show that has been running regularly for 35 years at the Fairgrounds.  There reasoning?  Beyond the usual pants wetting hysteria, they were able to link 3 cases of people possessing firearms bought from there being naughty since 2011. Less than 1 a year. I can… Read More »

That moment when…

By | November 9, 2015

…you’re giving a presentation at a hacker con on 3D printed guns and a guy wearing an ATF hat walks in and sits down. Turns out he was actually someone deeply involved with the TFA and decided to give me shit. Oh, and there may be video later so you guys can make fun of… Read More »

“Big” Win for the Anti-gunners?

By | October 19, 2015

So, apparently the state of California recently passed a bill to make it illegal to carry a gun on school campuses.  I wouldn’t have known this except that a lot of my friends on both sides of the fence posted this image: Of course, my pro-gun friends commented on the fact that they pretty much… Read More »

It’s that time of year again!

By | September 3, 2015

Hold on… It’s already the 3rd?  How did that happen? Well, I’m sitting here in Atlanta for Dragoncon, so I’ll make this brief.  As you probably remember from previous years, September is prostrate cancer awareness month, and I will be once again participating in Kilted to Kick Cancer! Last year, we raised $13,000 to the Prostate… Read More »

Gotta love it.

By | August 6, 2015

Don’t you love how you have to spend the first part of the argument with a left winger arguing that yes, Obama and the Democratic party as a whole wish to ban guns. I had a rather lengthy Facebook thread where that was the argument.

Active Shooter Near Me

By | August 5, 2015

Looks like someone decided that shooting folks at the movie theater is cool thing to do, and did so down the road from me. This is still a “developing story.”  At this time, we’ve got cops surrounding the place, and there’s reports that the SWAT team is responding. Here’s what we do know: The shot(s)… Read More »