The question of “which caliber” is one that is asked and debated quite frequently.  This article gives my opinion as to the proper revolver caliber for self defense purposes. It is true that bullets of every caliber are deadly if placed correctly, however some calibers are much more effective than others. For example, a .22 caliber [....

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When police arrived, they found Hutchinson under an overpass on U.S. 65 Saturday morning, Springfield's KY3 News reported. The boy had fallen 30 feet off the overpass and was lying on the shoulder.When the boy didn't respond to police, they Tasered him, repeatedly.I'll bet that got a response.Authorities say their use of a Taser weapon should not b...

Peter G says about links to gun grabber sites:I wouldn't click them with *your* mouse....

Another installment of "Absolved."And a good one it is....

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...that make a Mike Vanderboegh response a necessary part of the toolkit, regardless of any condemnation you might hear from the more amenable. And incidentally, 45superman confirmed what I suspected and would have reported on yesterday had I not been locked out: All the PSH over that, and I mean all of it, came from that camp.When a paper bills it...

Alexander Erion Neal, 20...and two other armed men had kicked in the door and were trying to rob the house, when they encountered an elderly couple and their adult sons, police said. One of the sons, who is in his 20s, was armed with a high-powered rifle, Lt. Brian Whitten said. The man opened fire on the intruders, killing Neal in the doorway. How...

Because we're free, of course.Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed....

"If we see someone calling the police, then we target them," said Mario Garcia, 20, who describes himself as a former tagger trying to become a professional artist. "You are trying to stop me from what I live, what I believe in and what I breathe? We are not going to let no one get in the way."Let me explain something, young and ignorant savage. Wh...

Apparently the code from Sitemeter was crashing Internet Explorer. It has been disabled until further notice. Update - Here's the further notice. It appears to be fixed....

Some news coverage for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus:States Man (Austin, Texas)WASHINGTON — Should college students have the right to carry concealed guns on campus?Yes, say members of the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Men and women from colleges across the country attended the group's first national conference in Washing...

CSPAN has video of the debate and panels available here. If you have trouble with that link, you can go here and scroll down to where it says "Students for Concealed Carry on Campus First National Conference."...

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The Chicago Tribune has this story:Morton Grove's landmark handgun ban, imposed 27 years ago, died quietly Monday night, as the suburb's Village Board bowed to a new legal reality and repealed the ordinance.The board's 5-1 vote came in response to last month's ruling by a divided U.S. Supreme Court that struck down a similar ban. The high court rul...

I have read numerous articles where Chinese citizens on the street have been saying that the smog in Beijing was not due to pollution. Yet, with the air beginning to clear with all the anti pollution efforts going on there, it will be hard for people to deny the role of pollution in their incredibly bleak skies. BEIJING (Reuters) - Normally smog-...

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Apparently the code from Sitemeter was crashing Internet Explorer. It has been disabled until further notice....

Well, I'm no longer blocked from posting. But Google must have done something in their "fix" to screw up IE. I'm doing this in Firefox, and Safari also works.Someone suggested clearing the cache, but that can be a pain, particularly if you do it and it still doesn't work. I'll do some searching around--I know there are other Blogspot blogs this is ...

Capt. Oliver Parker of Col. Prescotts Regiment, tried by a General Court Martial whereof Col. Glover was President, for “defrauding his men of their advance pay, and by false Returns, imposing upon the Commissary, and drawing more Rations than he had men in his company, and for selling the provisions he by that means obtained” is by the Court f...

More and more people are waking to the idea that violent crime happens every day, and really can happen to them. Robberies, rapes, murders and car jackings are just a normal part of the daily news. When folks realize that they really can become the target of a violent goblin, they start to take action to defend themselves.From News Radio 1200 WOAIB...

It only took Blogger around 32 hours to determine that "A Keyboard and a .45" is not a spam blog.For those of you who get these posts via a feed, Blogger had locked me out. My first email of Friday morning was from Blogger:Hello,Your blog at: http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please ...

Well, I tried everything I could to get Sitemeter to work properly, but to no avail. I emailed Sitemeter about it and they are refusing to even answer me and a number of other techies who have made inquiries about the problem. Their web site and tech blog do not even contain an acknowledgement of the problem. I really detest denial. So, like so man...

This is not a Britain many of us would care to recognise, or even want to live in, although it is true that certain sectors of the middle class are fleeing from inner London like pashmina-wrapped lemmings, desperate to escape the creeping spread of urban decay. Last year, nearly a quarter of a million decent, law-abiding citizens packed their bags...

Be sure to check out a new website: GunBlogs.org. GunBlogs makes it easier to keep up with the best of the gun blog writers. The site is new and more blogs are being added.4 Vote(s) ...

For the Brady Campaign, Violence Policy Center, Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, U.N. gun-ban extremist Rebecca Peters and her globalist billionaire sugar-daddy George Soros, for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his horde of big-city politicians-in fact, for all those individuals and organizations who would harm or destroy our Second Amend...

Joyce Lee Malcolm...

Home for "work on garage and land weekend." The remaining garage food stores are going to moved to a snug storage area that's cool and dry. I have grain and seeds and such, stored in inert nitrogen, enough to last me a year in times of need. Heavy tools going to be used for an overhauled work/reloading bench that's in the works on the other side...

Standing on my driveway with my father, looking at each other's carry pieces while he had a smoke. That, and being secure in the knowledge that if any of my neighbors saw us, they'd have come over to check them out as well. (Yes, we followed the 4 rules)....

I'm going to disagree with one of my favorite gun bloggers, Say Uncle. Regarding the recent stabbing, disembowelment, and decapitation that recently happened on a Greyhound bus So, let that seep in a minute. 50 or 60 times and then decapitated him. 37 passengers and a bus driver nearby. How long do you suppose it takes to stab someone 50 or 60 tim...

The DCist is reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may allow a vote on Rep. Souter's bill. Actually, the report is that she'd have vulnerable blue dog Demos introduce the same or a similar bill, and allow a vote on that. Here's a more extensive report in The Hill. The bill would strike the ban on semiautomatics, allow residents to buy from FF...