As reported, armed robberies in the village of Oak Park, IL are up a staggering 250% compared to 2007, and during the last 4 days, 3 Oak Park residents have been robbed a gunpoint in their own garages. The latest such robbery occurred on Thursday afternoon. It involved a man in his garage on the 1000 [...]...

A son finds the Rifle his father carried in the Korean war and gives it to him for his 79th birthday. Should a 79 year old have a “military style weapon of war?” as some of our anti-gun friends like to call them?Although certainly the Garand was not covered by the 1994 Clinton gun ban, it has been included on other gun ban proposals over the ye...

Mark Morford, who introduced us to Obama the Lightworker, has a new piece out on Sarah Palin: It’s more accurate to say that every thoughtful or liberal or intuitive or open-minded white woman I know worth her vagina monologue and her self-determination and two centuries of nonstop striving for equal rights and sexual freedom and exhaustive p...

Click Image to Listen to the facts behind the Mortgage Meltdown. h/t Ace ...

...I will be at the Dallas Market Hall Gun Show gun show registering voters. If you happen to go to the show, stop by and say "Hi". I'll be selling a couple of things to help purchase a few items that I feel are important to have around after this last bit of acquisition mania from our .gov.Looking forward to seeing you there....

PDB talks about his decision to take a defensive carbine class: My pistols and shotguns are for the defense of family and home. My rifle is for my country. Read the whole thing. ...

A son found his dad’s M1 from the Korean War, and gave it to him for a birthday present.       ...

This is a great story of a son who found the M1 his dad carried around with him in Korea.  Read this and remember that Congressmen Patrick Murphy, Joe Sestak, and Allyson Schwartz all have signed on to make sure this can never happen again.  They should be forced to explain themselves for this. ...

We had a good deal of success at the Valley Forge Gun Show handing out literature, bumper stickers, and talking to folks.  For the first half of the show, we worked the NRA Volunteer Table.  We managed to get a few names of people for various other EVCs, but no one from my own district, sadly.  Hopefully we’ll have better luck in Allentown...

Number 10,000 was from Australia… Pretty cool in my book Thanks everyone for visiting, hope you enjoy it.       ...

This is amusing:After dumping its $10 million contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three ads (only two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where regular people and a few celebrities say, “I’m a PC!” One problem with the campaign’s credibility: the ad work was created using Macs..Flickr user LuisDS found that metadata o...

Omaha, NebraskaFrom the Omaha World Herald of September 10, 2008Omaha man who shot another man to death won't be chargedTeThe Omaha man who shot another man to death on Saturday will not be charged in the shooting, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said today, because the man's account of what happened aligns with the evidence at the scene.Robert ...

NYC's CBS2 has this story:Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN SnubCBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups' Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite. . . ."This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, ...

Dawsonville, GeorgiaFrom the Dawson News and Advertiser of September 17, 2008One dead in Big Canoe domestic disputeA 44-year-old man died Tuesday morning from gunshot wounds related to a domestic dispute inside the gated Big Canoe community, Dawson County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Tony Wooten said.The shooting on Columbine Road apparently involved a ...

Jackson, MississippiFrom the Desoto Times of August 26, 2008Clerk shoots robbery suspect to deathJackson police say they won't charge a gas station clerk in the shooting death of a robbery suspect.Police spokesman Lt. Jeffery Scott says a man wearing a clown mask and carrying a gun entered the gas station just after 9 p.m. Sunday.The man took money...

Forrest Park, GeorgiaFrom the First Coast News of September 20, 2008Robber Disarmed by EmployeesPolice are praising four employees of a Forest Park, Georgia furniture store for a bold stroke of self-defense, for turning the tables on an armed robber, for risking their lives to disarm and capture the masked man, who had invaded their store Tuesday m...

Muncie, IndianaFrom the Star Press of September 17, 2008Clerk’s shots miss robberIndiana law allows Hoosiers to defend themselves, even with deadly force, and Tuesday morning a woman working behind the counter of Zipp's Deli did just that.Police said she fired shots at a teen who jumped the counter and tried to take money from her cash register. ...

Are these persimmons? I’m pretty sure they look like them and they look like the wiki entry pic. From Home Life Click to embiggen. If so, what do you do with them? ...

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I knew it wouldn’t go well but not that bad. ...

I finally got to shoot my new mule eared SxS today.  Fun.  Only thing is, the triggers feel totally different than anything I’ve shoot before, like instead of pulling straight back, I need to lift up as well.  But I’ll get used to it, the more I shoot it. I think I might have resolved my issue with my Lightning.  I found THE guy to ...

Week 3:Kansas City @ Atlanta - my pick: AtlantaOakland @ Buffalo - my pick: BuffaloTampa Bay @ Chicago - my pick: ChicagoHouston @ Tennessee - my pick: TennesseeCarolina @ Minnesota - my pick: CarolinaMiami @ New England - my pick: New EnglandCincinnati @ NY Giants - my pick: NY GiantsArizona @ Washington - my pick: ArizonaDetroit @ San Francisco -...

From the NY Times in September 30, 1999:"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. . . . ''Fannie Mae has expanded h...

Oddly, Brigid of Mausers and Muffins somehow has escaped my blog roll. That has been summarily fixed....

Giving the Iraqis some trigger time on the M2. ...

But the 0 - 3 days to the shop was impressive... Some plastic bit holding in a sensor to the choke decided to not sense something or other and popped on the CEL. The service department was quick and courteous, especially given that I purchased the vehicle on Wednesday evening and the light turned on last night. I'm not worried. It's a part issue an...

They treated us like animals. They were not there to protect and serve, they were there to search and destroy.I guess I have to disagree here. If they'd treated you like animals, you'd be left laying in a pool of your own blood for hours--just like your dogs.But they did treat you like terror hostages. Which is what you were.Which makes Prince Geor...

Surprise weapons ban targets bow, blow-gun useThe Blow-Gun Menace must be destroyed! I wonder if it distinguishes between "assault blow guns" and "patrol blow guns"?Here's the agenda.Here's the ordinance.These are the folks with nothing better to do. They really couldn't think of a safety workaround that doesn't involve a ban?Somehow, none of this ...

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I thought the political left said we couldn't joke about this kind of stuff--that it was taboo, that there is nothing funny about rape, that racial jokes are hate speech...but I guess it's OK now, because they're not only doing it, but defending it--hell, they say they're proud of it. And we all kow how funny and insightful America's beloved comed...

"It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win"...Ah, gee, Woody Allen, weren't you the guy who was bangin' your girlfriend's adoptive daughter and then ran away with her? And a judge called your conduct with another of her daughters, then seven, "grossly inappropriate"?I guess you would know something about disgrace and hum...

The dedication page of my new book reads: To the man I had to shoot to save my life.Susan Callaway shares a fascinating story about a first step on a journey.Compare her mindset to those of doughy Oprah-watchers, Obama supplicants and sneering urban sophisticates who fear and disparage guns. What would have obviously happened to one of them?Some of...

Clark Limited Gun Xavier blogs the IPSC/USPSA Limited gun by Clark Custom. With pics. ...

A Phoenix man who held an armed burglar at gunpoint in his home was shot several times by a responding officer, police said Thursday..."We fire upon people when we believe there is a danger to ourselves or others," Thompson said. "So what exactly the officer was thinking, I would say yeah, that for him to fire he would have believed there was a dan...

Or is he just waiting until he has the votes in congress before doing what he would really like to do with respect to guns? Listen closely to his answer to a question he took at a Duryea, PA, glass factory. After using the same tired code words of "gun safety" to describe ending private sales at gun shows, shutting down gun dealers as he proposed ...