As Press Democrat reports, depressed Iraq war veteran Corporal Matthew Jensen called 911 for help.  The police arrived and eventually took him to the Veteran’s Administration for treatment.  However, the officers discovered a deactivated 1940’s-era SKS rifle on floor, which Matthew had taken from a dead Iraqi sniper and brought back a...

Union City, GeorgiaFrom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 8, 2008Teen shot breaking into Union City home, cops sayA would-be burglar got a painful surprise Friday when he tried to break into a Union City man's home, police said.Around 4:30 p.m., the 75-year-old homeowner on Ravenwood Loop heard some noise coming from the rear of his house,...

I mentioned earlier that the company I work for had significantly cut my manpower. My Lead Mechanic broke his back three years ago or so. Last month he had some complications that are going to keep him out for at least another few weeks. Needless to say my workload had jumped. Today was spent performing annual maintenance on one of our four 150...

At the rate John Edwards has been digging, he’s sure to make it before the closing ceremonies.   Bitter points out why John Edwards doesn’t know when to just shut the hell up.  Over at Volokh, Jim Lindgren points out that Edwards says he was 99% telling the truth when he lied.  I expect next he’ll try to tell us that the reaso...

. Curtis Koehler, the inventor who sent me this link and information, claims that various law enforcement agencies are interested in using his product....

I managed to pull off a lot of small stuff off the damaged drive, things like settings for certain applications (I had lost all my email server settings! But not any more). I just scheduled backups of the databases for every day. I'll keep a week's worth of backups. I figure that's a decent amount. Those are stored on the TB drive. I may make other...

And he’s not going to let the Brady Campaign keep him down.  I’m glad to see Robb is still clinging to his guns.  But off site backups are also a good thin to cling to :) ...

Hilton Head, South CarolinaFrom the August 9, 2008 Island Packet: Slow driving led to a confrontation between a 22-year-old Citadel student and an unidentified man involving a baseball bat and a pistol on Hilton Head Island on Thursday afternoon, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office incident report. The student, who was lost, had b...

This video clip demonstrates the steps to disassemble and reassemble your Remington 870 shotgun, for cleaning. Tags: Beginner, Shotgun, Video Clips Related Articles Mossberg 500 & Mossberg 590 Disassembly and Reassembly for Cleaning Video Clip The Proper Ammunition for Home Defense The Basics of Gun Safety Shotgun Shot Size Infor...

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Scientists have documented what must have been a "sudden" unexplained drop in temperature 14 million years ago. Equally interesting, more recent warm temperatures were not associated with any significant melting of the polar ice sheets. Science Daily has this:An abrupt and dramatic climate cooling of 8 degrees Celsius, over a relatively brief per...

Check out the story of this concealed carry permit holder: A man driving a Porsche pulled in behind him and approached him carrying a baseball bat. The man was yelling about the student’s driving. The student pulled a Glock 23 pistol from his glove box and got out of his car, the report stated. The man with the bat put his hands up, returned ...

From Pierre Lemieux in Canada:Some Canadian doctors are using lotteries to cut their waiting lists (National Post, August 6, 2008). The patients who draw the short straw will have to find another family doctor — which one Canadian out of eight lacks. This phenomenon illustrates some interesting aspects of the Canadian health care system. . . .Fro...

There were only three things from Chicago that I liked: Pizza, hot dogs, and Bernie Mac. Bernie Mac has died at age 50. ...

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From Dan Gifford:AOL's refusal to deliver the August 5th Second Amendment Group email because it contained a link to an AOL banned news source which AOL cannot or will not name has elicited a number of comments like this:"Dan this is really scary. You absolutely MUST tell those on your email group who are on AOL to get OFF that service right now, a...

This video clip shows the Taurus Judge, a revolver chambered for .410 shotgun shells as well as .45 Long Colt. I also discuss the Taurus Judge in greater detail here. Tags: Revolver, Safety, Self Defense, Shotgun Related Articles Pros and Cons of Using Birdshot for Self Defense LearnAboutGuns.com - Home District of Columbia v. Heller - ...

Kevin is right. They have shipped. Junior got hers yesterday: Child’s medium was the smallest they had. Little big on her. And, no, I don’t why she’s making that face. ...

If you're seeing this, don't worry. I'm just doing some Maint. on the blog. It's still here, I'm just using a blank database to test something with...

The Chicago Sun-Times says a cop in the Windy City was suspended for 15 months after the Police Board heard evidence that she "us[ed] her gun and badge to demand free coffee and pastries from six Starbucks stores on the North Side between 2001 and 2004."I was telling people who sent me this that it was an old story and I'd already covered it--but t...

U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger agreed that the protesters would suffer some infringement on their freedom of expression but said those interests had to be balanced with security concerns.I think the theory ultimately goes something like you can't yell "fire" in a crowded crematorium.[Via Cigar Rollers]...

A city of Miami police officer shot himself in the foot on Thursday afternoon, a Miami Police Department spokesman said.Every once in a while, the "Only Ones" come full circle and return to the original source of inspiration.[Via John G]...

Blackwater has their newsletters online. Page 6 of the March 2008 issue shows they really aren't expecting any sea changes in their operations when The Lightworker ascends to his exalted place among the kings of the earth.[Via Whose Paranoid]...

Offering the first significant gun legislation since the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on the District of Columbia v. Heller, (the landmark case outlining the legality of gun laws) Representative Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4) has introduced a commonsense bill that tightens the criminal background check system by requiring background checks for all g...

...if A were to say all this to B, B would naturally conclude that A himself was the most impudent and dangerous burglar that he (B) had to fear; and that if he (B) wished to secure his property against burglars, his best way would be to kill A in the first place, and then take his chances against all such other burglars as might come afterwards.Ah...

But being 99% honest is no longer enough.This is "being 99% honest"?"The story is false," he told reporters then. "It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He professed his love for his wife, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraord...

Off Cape Ann, August 9, 1775, the British sloop of war Falcon, Captain Linzee, fell in with two schooners from the West Indies, bound to Salem...He anchored and sent two barges with fifteen men in each, armed with muskets and swivels; these were attended with a whale boat in which was the Lieutenant and six privates. Their orders were to seize the ...