Some may be appalled that this Texas homeowner used deadly force when a bunch of teenagers broke into his home.Yes, they were looking for drinks and snacks... supposedly.  But consider this:  when you're an elderly homeowner and a bunch of individuals break into your home, is your first thought, "Oh!  They must just be hungry!" or "S...

It is a well understood principle that as a right becomes more difficult to (lawfully) exercise, fewer people will (lawfully)exercise that right.  This holds true for guns, and many of the so-called “reasonable restrictions” on guns actually amount to de facto gun bans: The National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. § 53) This act of the US Con...

How cute.       ...

I’m shooting a Garand match tomorrow, and I don’t have a sling for my Garand.  I do have an M1907 sling, but that’s on my AR, and since I’m also shooting the AR in the CMP match after the Garand match, I don’t want to transfer it.  A commie sling is just going to have to do.  The one that came with my PSL seems to w...

...our two year old butterfly faced granddaughter...

Got an email from a shooting partner of mine in PA.  He’s been experimenting with Black Powder loads in .45acp for his 1911.  I think he might’ve found the right mixture that equated to plenty of smoke and brimstone.  So what did I say *I’ll join you in the 1911 Black Powder posse at the Wild Bunch match at Topton in a few week...

One of the advantages of having your own ranges out your front (and back) doors, and no neighbors, is that you can shoot whenever you want.I don't know what the stats are, but I would bet that there are about four or five to one odds that a self-defense incident involving firearms will occur in poor light. So about every month I go out around dusk ...

Looks like Missouri's governor isn't on board with "Truth Squads":“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden cam...

A friends cats, Noodle the Crime Scene Kitty and Tinker got a hold of a chipmunk the other morning. It required crime scene tape and some Murpy's Oil soap to clean up the mess on the hardwood floor. Thinking of that, and listening to Queen on the stereo tonight while I clean guns - this popped into my head (and now won't go away). Have a great w...

Today I hit the streets, knocking on doors and talking with folks about Texas State Representative Bill Zedler. We met at 8:30 in the morning, had a couple doughnuts, met with Rep. Zedler and his team and then hit the streets. We canvased one South Arlington Precinct today. Each small group of three or four was responsible for a neighborhood....

The financial melt-down and the subsequent attempts by the Bush administration to throw money at the problem in the hope that it will go away strike me as the final “nails in the coffin” for Republican election hopes in November 2008. While I know that the roots of the problem in the mortgage market go back as far as the Carter administration, ...

At the Gun Rights Conference, right now I'm at the head table. David Kopel is speaking, I'm next up, Just before this adjusting the legal end of concerns from the hotel about open carry (legal in AZ, and the ability of a public facility has to provide lockers if it wants to restrict it). Probably some tourists got upset; you can guess the reaction...

At the Gun Rights Conference, right now I'm at the head table. David Kopel is speaking, I'm next up, Just before this adjusting the legal end of concerns from the hotel about open carry (legal in AZ, and the ability of a public facility has to provide lockers if it wants to restrict it). Probably some tourists got upset; you can guess the reaction...

David has an update on the Meleanie Hain situation.  He also has posted a copy of the letter sent to Ms. Hain by the statist pig who saw it fit to trample her rights because some panty-shitting assholes in a park were "upset" at her lawful exercise of her Second Amendment rights.  ...

From Rex Murphy in The Globe and Mail: …Mr. Obama remains something of a floating, uncrowded presence. His story (and he is so impressively self-aware as to have made the most acute comment on it) is temptingly open-ended, very much a page to be written on. He himself has written, most memorably: "I serve as a blank screen on which people of...

Gun laws invalid: Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania’s law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons. Commonwealth Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Legislature filed by two members of Philadelphia&...

FFL found not guilty in straw purchase case. ...

Here at the Sheraton Crescent in Phoenix. Very solid attendance -- best head count I can make is around 400 people. I've bumped into Chuck Cunningham, Dave Kopel, Scott Hattrup, Timothy Wheeler, John Velleco, Scott Bach Alan Gura, and Howard Nemerov....

Pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship laden with tanks off the Horn of Africa are seeking ransom and have anchored close to the Somali shore...I don't suppose anyone has thought of offering bounties, and unleashing the power of private[er] enterprise...?...

Terzano was arguing that informants whose testimony will be compensated by money, reduced charges or more lenient sentences for other crimes they've committed should be subjected to a pre-trial reliability hearing in which a judge, outside the purview of the jury, makes an independent determination whether the informant is a reliable source.I like ...

A Cook County sheriff's officer who parked his squad car in a disabled parking space was busted Wednesday by a teenage photographer who caught him in the act.What? Edicts you and I must obey apply to "Only Ones"?I don't know what the big deal is though. It sounds like he is disabled.[Via David H]...

A former police sergeant who is married to a television news anchor admitted in court Friday that he used his authority to have sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl.Hmmm. What does "There was never intercourse" remind me of?I hope his 17-second unconditional discharge* was worth the one-year conditional one.I can't help but notice this marriage i...

I wonder if they're "certified pre-owned"?You'll note Joe Arpaio's "War on Drugs" tank--Dan S, who sent me this link tells me "that it is actually nonoperational (engine removed at least) and that it is used as a mobile DARE classroom. They just tow this thing around with a mil surplus heavy equipment transport that operates in the gallons per mile...

Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania's law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons.Good. And just in time for the race war.But let's not forget that preemption carries its own dangers.[Via SameNoKami]...

Britons should be subjected to random carbon spotchecks and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits, says the Government's architecture and design quango in a new report today.The word "monitoring" occurs 19 times in the 32-page publication by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). If th...

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Two men gunned down at in a drive-by attack at a bus stop near the Metro Blue Line Station at Compton Boulevard were identified today as detectives sought their killer...The gunman responsible for Tuesday night's violence, which also left two women and one man wounded, remained at large...I can't figure out how this happened. First off, ordinary Co...

Amos Brown of Capt. Wilders Company in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment, tried at a General Court Martial whereof Col. Bridge was Presdt. for "mutinous and abusive language."The Court are unanimously of opinion the prisoner is not guilty and therefore acquit the prisoner. ...

We’ve made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency. - Rush Limbaugh Amen. Hat tip No Looking Backwards       ...

I'll be leaving to go shoot bowling pins at Marion County Fish & Game in a few minutes. I'm absolutely stoked at the chance to show off my mad, 1337 shooting skillz (or lack thereof) in front of a new audience. Hopefully my 625-2 will be the right gun for the job...Tomorrow is the big blogmeet, when all the cool kids will once again be meeting ...