So how does a Suburban, white, college educated Christian father of two beautiful little girls become a pro-gun/pro CCW blogger? Well … it’s a long strange trip. And you’ll be surprised at what made me turn the corner.I grew up in the 1970’s in a household that included a few firearms – but then, what small town household didn’t include...

Throughout most of the gun rights struggle, and especially In the wake of D.C. v. Heller, the focus of the right to keep and bear arms has been primarily on firearms.  That certainly makes sense, given the supremacy of guns in the arena of self defense.  However it is worth noting that there are other [...]...

By Chad D. Baus When is "innocent until proven guilty" a controversial concept? When is an Ohio law designed to protect a homeowner protecting themselves from an intruder interpreted a license for drug dealers to murder one another? And when are self-defense advocates and rank-and-file cops described as saying it's ok to shoot first and ask quest...

A Waukesha man, accused of throwing an ax at a neighbor while she was taking out the garbage, was charged Tuesday with two felony count of second degree reckless endangerment. - JSOnline Clearly, axes are jumping into people’s hands, and using their mind control rays to make the holder throw them at innocent passers by. Especially dangerous a...

Politics can be confusing. Story here. Basically, the House committee is expected to report out a much watered-down version, but the rule for debate (fixed by Rules Committee, directly under Pelosi's thumb) allows a quick up or down vote between that and the stronger version (which, with nearly half the House cosponsoring, will likely win). If th...

Snowflakes in Hell has a posting (via Ry Jones) about a converter kit to turn a Ruger 10-22 rifle into a pistol. I'm not utterly sure of the benefit (why not just buy a Ruger pistol?) but I'd agree that the legal risks are considerable. ATF's position is that the receiver is the gun, and a rifle receiver is thus a rifle, so one turned into a pis...

...who recommend that we give the goblins what they want, Xavier points out The Danger of Compliance.Head on over and give it a read, have your wife or husband read it, send it off to your sons and daughters. It is that important....

I just ordered a No Obama shirt, and liked it so much I decided to make it available to anyone who would like to make it clear to your friends, neighbors, and passers by, that you say No Obama! I......

But of course, he's not talking about Palin 10. You can put perfume and a fancy dress on a whore, but it's still $25 to get your rocks off9. You know what you won't get with an Obama administration? Two words - Moose Knuckles8. It's the difference between a sneaky midget and a former Mayor of Wasilla in a race - you know, one is a cunning runt7. Yo...

Now the Washington D.C. police chief is claiming that HR6691 allows people to carry loaded guns in public in the District.  I guess she got the Brady Campaign press release.  I’d still like someone to point out to me where this bill does anything to address the issue of carrying firearms outside the home. UPDATE: More here. Hat tip to Carl ...

My friends JPG, Holly,and family, Phlegm and Lawdog may have hurricane Ike knocking at their door in a few days. Bayou Renaissance Man is still dealing with the damage from Gustaf. Old Blind Dog and A.D. are watching and waiting. How very quickly our world changes. Acts of God, or fate? In any event, one goes to sleep in the bounty and shelter ...

This coming Sundays Home on the Range "Range and Recipe Report". A couple of items that are small but effective in the right circumstances. The Beretta Tomcat in .32And homemade Snickers Bar Cookies ...

Obama and Biden seem to share the same love of sticking their own foot in their mouth. UPDATE: Some other figures of speech that Obama considered using. ...

Is there any promise that Obama has stuck with? Will somebody please tell me what it is? When a promise comes in conflict with self-interest, the promise is tossed aside. The Atlantic Blog has this:after a year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not to form them and of suggesting that outside messaging ...

New Jersey has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Get a carry permit in NJ? Not very likely. These kind of laws do disarm the innocent, but not all of the innocent. There are those who have decided that they are responsible for their own safety, and take this responsibility seriously.Let's play a "what if" game.What if one of thos...

This interview is too much. Some left wing radio hosts are trying their hardest to get Gravel to attack Palin. Even though he doesn't agree with her politically, he keeps on discussing how she is the one who put an end to Republican corruption in Alaska. It is an amazing interview....

You have probably heard that pro-gun Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin and Presidential Candidate John McCain are coming to Virginia tomorrow for a campaign rally. While McCain is not perfect on our issue, he is head and shoulders above Senator Barrack Obama and the fact that he chose such a pro-gun running mate makes him ...

Kirsten might be a Democratic strategist, but she has often struck me as a reasonable person. Her piece today in the NY Post is very interesting.Obama's toughest challenge has always been to connect with working-class swing voters. So attacking the poster child for small-town values, Sarah Palin, was a bad strategy.No, Obama didn't engage in the m...

Looks like a federal grand jury has indicted a New Jersey Democratic Party boss, and one of their attorneys in scheme to defraud local governments.  The Republican Party in New Jersey should starting feeling better now.  Maybe this is how the GOP will start winning again in New Jersey… all the leading Democratic politicians will be in jail ...

People are stupid. So stupid to the point you just want to be free of them or throw them off a cliff.It's our own fault. We've cultivated this culture of ignorance. This "controversy" over the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a prime example. I'm glad that basic chemisty is the only requirement for active life because if it required intelligence, ...

See the discussion on vandalizing Sarah Palin's Wikipedia article here....

From the Politico:"Any time someone goes to the library and says, 'I want to ban books,' and the librarian says 'no,' and she threatens to fire them -- that's scary," he said.(Palin at the time said she was just inquiring about the library's policy on banning books, with no aim of actually banning any. "It was a rhetorical quesiton -- nothing more,...

Are there any attacks on Palin that are correct? The banning books, the Bridge to Nowhere, etc. are all false. Brendan Miniter had this discussion in the WSJ's Political Diary:Palin's Apostasy on TaxesTalk about strange bedfellows. Ultraliberal Mother Jones magazine is attacking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a "tax raiser" and similar hand wringing ...

John Fund has this info at the WSJ's Political Diary:Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women, a reversal of Mr. Obama's eight-point lead last month.It's no surprise, then, th...

Pdf of ruling here. If anyone ever doubts that licenses have serious recordkeeping duties, the ruling should answer that. Even the electronic recordkeeping will likely require custom-written software (which won't be cheap). There are thirteen requirements to be met. (It's possible that pharmacies have related software to keep track of controlled ...

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I will be going to the fall meeting of the NRA Board of Directors this Thursday through Saturday, to report on the major themes, or any interesting happenings.  What I expect will be major topics of discussion are the coming election in November, getting H.R.6691 passed as quickly as possible, and legal strategies post-Heller.  The board meetings...

Not many new gun owners start a gun blog, but this one did.  This is a useful thing to get out onto Al Gore’s interwebs. ...

Looks like PDB took a defensive carbine class at Defensive Concepts of North Carolina.  Here’s day two. ...

So I have decided that I am in need of a progressive press.  The main thing keeping me from practicing my shooting more is the fact that for guns other than .22LR, I’m either stuck paying in limbs for ammo, or spending hours at the reloading press.  I can reload about 50 to 60 rounds per hours with the single stage press.  What takes me an...

Apparently, his thinking goes, if the party of Lincoln wins with a strategy like that, it puts at risk gender norming, race-based college admissions, minority only business enterprise zones, taxing the successful to ease life for the stupid, hate crimes legislation, and sending global warming deniers to re-education camps - you know, the things tha...

So, scientists are looking to flip the switch on the big ass doohickie that will kill us all. Or not. Depends who you talk to, someone educated or someone thumping a holy book. Supposedly, this will simulate the universe at the approximate time of the Horrendous Space Kablooey. And don’t even get me started on The Universe. In equally scary b...

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Gotta love Israel! Abdur-Rahim Jackson was singled out from other members of the black American dance ensemble when they arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday night at the start of a six-nation international tour, said publicist Shauli Baskin. "They stopped him ... as he has a Muslim name," Baskin told The Associated Press. "He tol...

But it’s the armed moonbats, so that’s OK. Seems we got DUed (pronounced duh’ed?) Via unix jedi. ...