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  • Texas: Pawn shop manager shoots would-be robber
    Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog on April 5th, 2009
    Houston, TexasFrom KTRK of April 5, 2009Pawn shop manager shoots would-be robberA robbery attempt in southwest Houston ended with gunshots and a suspect being taken to the hospital. Saturday evening, investigators say that two men walked into the Bayou pawn shop off Fondren near Clarewood with guns drawn. The manager reportedly grabbed a gun and f...
  • Cook County Justice: Shoot at innocent people and get...
    Learn About Guns on April 5th, 2009
    Back in January, 42 year old Ronnie Kindred, a man from the upscale suburb of Hoffman Estates, IL failed to make payments on his Cadillac or his Isuzu SUV.  Eventually a repossession team was sent to take back the vehicles.  The repo team recovered one vehicle, and went to the man’s door to inform him [...]...
  • The gun banners’ forgotten push for open carry ...
    Buckeye Firearms Assoc. on April 5th, 2009
    By Chad D. Baus In a recent editorial entitled "Gun Lobby Working Overtime to Normalize Abnormal Behavior", the Joyce Foundation's anti-gun blog "GunGuys" asked if readers would be willing to "sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you?" But before they chide gun rights acti...
  • Ohio Hunters Provide Red Meat to Local Food Pantries
    Buckeye Firearms Assoc. on April 5th, 2009
    COLUMBUS, OHIO - Ohio deer hunters have donated more than 54,800 pounds of venison to local food banks through the 2008-09 deer hunting season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The 54,800 pounds of venison equals approximately 219,200 meals for Ohioa...
  • That hope which springs eternal…
    View from the Porch on April 5th, 2009
    What a beautiful Opening Day.Derek Lowe pitched eight innings of two-hit shutout ball; a performance of almost Madduxian proportions against the defending World Series champs. McCann crushed one into the upper deck on his first at-bat and Francouer drilled the first pitch he saw into the left-field seats. Best of all was watching the Braves' rookie...
  • Buy a Gun Day Countdown: 10 Days Remaining
    Traction Control on April 5th, 2009
    Buy A Gun Day is April 15th! Hand Guns Long Guns In God We Trust, In Guns We Invest! ...
  • Response time at Binghamton NY killing
    Arms & The Law on April 5th, 2009
    Police took 1 to 1.5 hour to organize and enter the building (the gunman apparently having shot himself as they first arrived). "The chief defended the time it took officers to go into the building — an hour to 90 minutes. "If some crazy lunatic decides to pick up a gun and go someplace and start shooting people, I really don't have the answer...
  • Quote of the Day - Simple Math Edition
    Firearms and Freedom on April 5th, 2009
    Heavy 5″ steel 1911 + OWB holster + church pew + sitting down too fast = BONK = concealment FAIL. If anyone noticed, they were too polite to say so. - pdb on Facebook ...
  • Civil War resource
    Arms & The Law on April 5th, 2009
    Just found that Nat'l Park Service has an online search capability for Civil War troopers' records....
  • A Beautiful Start to IHMSA Season
    Snowflakes in Hell on April 5th, 2009
    Today we had our first IHMSA shoot of the year, and it was a beautiful day. Because I had a wedding to go to yesterday, I didn’t get to hand load for field pistol. Instead I shot smallbore twice, once standing, and once freestyle (creedmore position).  Shot an 18 standing, which was disappointing (Only single A).  I was hoping to do b...
  • Air Traffic
    Traction Control on April 5th, 2009
    Helpful tip: FlightAware.com is a very useful site.  See a plane on the news? Look up the tail number and find its registration, ownership and flight history. The site also has real-time tracking of planes in the air! This video clip is shows flights during a 24 hour period in the Continental United States. I remember September 11, 2001 when thi...
  • More Details, and They Aren’t Good
    Snowflakes in Hell on April 5th, 2009
    From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The report quoted Mrs. [No Publicity for Cop Killers] as saying her son, after being kicked out of the Marine Corps for assaulting his drill sergeant during basic training, had been “stockpiling guns and ammunition, buying and selling the weapons online, because he believed that as a result of the economic co...
  • What do I think?
    The Liberty Zone on April 5th, 2009
    Invariably, when some armed, bitter nutbag goes on a shooting spree, I get asked the stupidest questions about gun control.  "Well, don't you think that this tragedy wouldn't have happened if he (insert name of nutbag here) didn't have easy access to weapons?"  Or the "See what lax gun control laws in this country have led to?" (said with...
  • GHOSTS OF TRAINS
    Home on the Range on April 5th, 2009
    "(c) 2009 - Home on the Range - all rights reserved"From the mist there comes a traina vision of noise and steam.Vital glory not tempered by timeheaded East for suns first gleam.Bridging a gap of deep drowned past moving onto mournful plain.Abandoned dream and memory washed clean by wind and rain. The whistle sings the sad goodbyeof lovers that h...
  • Shooting in Pittsburgh
    SayUncle on April 5th, 2009
    Domestic dispute over dog goes wrong. Guy says he was afraid of Obama gun ban. So, the logical thing to do was shoot people. Just what we need. ...
  • It’s a Beautiful Day
    The War on Guns on April 5th, 2009
    I'm going outside.I'm even going to enjoy doing yard work.If it's not nice where you are, or if you insist on staying inside on your computer, go visit my Gun Rights Examiner column....
  • More Videos from Top Sniper 2 TV
    AmmoLand on April 5th, 2009
    More Videos from Top Sniper 2 TV Check out the video on demand including deleted scenes. Silver Spring, Md. – -(AmmoLand.com)-If you can not get enough of The Military Channels Top Sniper 2 TV Series you can now see every episode on line including deleted scenes. The role of the sniper has never been more important than on the modern battlefie...
  • Gun control humiliated again.
    LA Gun Rights Examiner on April 5th, 2009
    With every single criminal shooting, gun control is shown to have been a failure; an absolutely, abject, humiliating failure.   I could begin by showing how every nation banning guns also saw its own share of increasing violence first, then th... ...
  • New Jersey Sunday Bow Under Attack! - Email / Fax / C...
    AmmoLand on April 5th, 2009
    New Jersey Sunday Bow Under Attack! - Email / Fax / Call Governor Now! “We ask all Hunters, even if you are not from NJ, please call, fax, email and write our governor. Tell him to listen to the majority and sign the Sunday Bow Hunting Bill. - AmmoLand” Trenton, NJ - -(AmmoLand.com)- Below are snippets of emails I have received regar...
  • Subversive couture.
    View from the Porch on April 5th, 2009
    Liberty Girl is showing off the spring line of awesome Simon Jester apparel. Get you some....
  • Range Pub Grub
    Home on the Range on April 5th, 2009
    When cooking for a family that considers salad something that's not food, but "what food eats", it's hard to go wrong with basic meat and potatoes. My family surname is English (though being adopted, they were forewarned that I was Scot/Norwegian and not likely to be shy about cooking or anything else). I did learn to make some good English pub ...
  • Hating the player, and not grokking the game.
    View from the Porch on April 5th, 2009
    Henry Porter, a Limey columnist with that Moody Loner look that suggests he's only a pair of sunglasses and a hoodie away from typing manifestos in a tar paper shack, feels that the benevolent governments of the world should, while they're binding the mouths of the financial industry kine, look into regulating that soul-destroying internet thing to...
  • Sunday Music
    Rustmeister's Alehouse on April 5th, 2009
    This song makes me think of the beaches of Europe for some reason...."Peaches" by The Stranglers ...