Question Of The Day: WTF Do You Call the TFG (The Freedom Group)?
In a recent post I rather clumsily referred to "Marlin/Remington" as a conjoined entity, but an astute reader noticed my grammatical faux pas in using the plural verb 'are' instead of the singular 'is.' This...
Teach Your Children Well.
I'm fairly certain that when that noted folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith wrote that song, teaching your children about guns was hardly what they had in mind....
Okay…the wheels come off. NOW what?
So I'm driving along the other day, and my daughter starts asking questions about stuff she's heard about in the news. She's thirteen, and painfully aware of the sucky economy, polarized political situation, Obama,...
Guns and Manhood
A member of our Armed Intelligentsia sent me a link to this Sunday's Doonesbury comic. In subsequent panels, our coffee house hero responds to the challenge to his manhood by revealing that he "spent...
Life Imitates Art Dept: Australia Considers Banning Hammers
It's all my fault, apparently. (Just ask my ex – she boarded that train when it was parked at the station years ago, before it's initial run.) Yep. Back in February of this year,...
Is Private Gun Ownership a Conservative Affair?
I spend waaaay too much time online. (If I spent as much time at the range as I do Facebook, I could qualify for Top Shot.) Anywho, I got into it recently with a...
The Limits of Armed Self-Defense
I used to carry a full-size Springfield XD(m) 45. It was a fearsome weapon. Then again, so is its replacement: a Glock 30. The XD9(m) was easier to grip out of my holster and...
A Tea Party guy explains the 2nd Amendment.
Look past the repetitious (and somewhat cheezy) graphics. Listen to what Whittle has to say. If you're a gun owner and you're not a Tea Party supporter, watch the video with an open mind,...
Three Reasons Why Constitutional Carry (No CCW Permit) is Not Insane
" Republicans are considering two versions of the concealed carry law," columnist Eugene Kane writes for jsonline.com, "which I would label thusly: There's the 'sane' bill and the 'insane' bill. The sane version - which I oppose...
Army Refuses to Admit Cause of Ft. Hood Massacre. Still.
When US Army Major Nidal Hassan opened fire last November in the Ft. Hood soldier readiness center filled with military and civilian personnel, he shouted, “Allah Akbar.” He’d been in frequent contact with Anwar...
Why FPSRussia Should Wear Hearing Protection
Over the past few days some folks have been taking the defibrillator to the long gone IGOTD about FPSRussia. Much ado has been made about how you don’t need hearing protection when you’re outdoors...