Author Archives: oddball

The problem with pysch exams

By | December 19, 2012

One of the common things that some of my left leaning friends bring up when ever their talking about “reasonable” gun laws is that they think there should be a mandatory psych exam before you can own/carry a firearm.  I understand their reasoning, and, in a perfect world, it would be a decent idea.  Of… Read More »

So… umm… yeah…

By | December 3, 2012

So, all across the gun blogosphere, people have been talking about Bob Costas’ anti-gun comments in response to Jovan Belcher’s murder-suicide where he shot his girlfriend and then himself.  Costas is apparently under the firm opinion that if Belcher didn’t have a firearm, they would still be alive. I don’t know the exact details of… Read More »

Stupidity at the gun range

By | December 3, 2012

I went with a couple buddies to the unregulated state run range yesterday, and had to deal with a little more stupidity than usual.  Mostly from the same group of guys. First off, they were the “hunters sighting in their rifle” types.  Which means they’d take three shots, then immediately want to go cold so… Read More »

Quick note

By | November 21, 2012

Went to an open shooting competition with Wizard this weekend (think IDPA + ISPA + some steel challenge thrown in for good measure). Interesting match to participate in considering I’d only done one IDPA match before (way back in March). Instead of using the Beretta Px4 that I took last time, I decided to take… Read More »

Yeah… I did it…

By | November 13, 2012

Because Evyl Robot is a bad influence… The silliness was worth the $16. By the way, my Buck Mark is also now sporting some Fire Sight fiber optic sights.  I’ll be posting a review of them soon.

/me listens to pundants, beats head against desk

By | November 8, 2012

So… the question of the day, according to the news, is “how did the Republicans fail to get the presidency this time around?” Gee…. let me see… You take a your most left leaning candidate (thus failing to motivate your largely conservative base) You try to dress him up as a staunch conservative (thus alienating… Read More »

And now for something a little lighter…

By | October 29, 2012

Was at a fairly major department store yesterday buying a few items, and had this conversation: cashier #1: Do you have a [store] card you’d like to use? me: nope cashier #1: would you like one?  It will save you %15! me: If it’s a credit card, I’m not interested.* cashier #1: Ok, think about. … Read More »

hmmm… let’s see…

By | October 29, 2012

According to the Washington Post, “Obama campaigned four years ago on a promise to revamp the federal government’s disaster response functions…” and has already signed off on 9 declarations of emergency in the north east before the Hurricane Sally has even hit the shore… You know what I’m reminded of?  When Nashville had a 1000… Read More »