Impolitic as it is to admit, it is a rare murderer indeed who has their very first meeting with the police over a still-cooling corpse....

Now I have to clean guns.Well, not really "have to", I guess, but I should. At least I feel like I should.I mean, the Para gets cleaned every few months whether it needs it or not, but this makes probably 600+ rounds through the carbine (not counting rimfire) without anything more than squirting more lube on the bolt carrier group.I should at least...

You are responsible for every bullet that leaves your muzzle.Anything you hit, you just bought, so make sure you can afford it.Every bullet comes with a lawyer attached.4. Identify your target, and what is behind it.No matter how you want to phrase it, don't ever ever forget it....

Tired, sore, and sunburned, but I have successfully leveled up in Mall Ninja.Now, don't get me wrong: There's nothing wrong with having good gear, and it can make a training class a lot more convenient when you're festooned with Cool Guy dump pouches, Camelbaks, and enough loaded magazines to reenact the taking of Fallujah. However, when you look a...

The very last shooting exercise of the day had two students paired up on the firing line. Ahead of them was a thicket of four "no shoots" at awkward angles, and one bad guy that looked identical in the middle of the group, moving laterally back and forth in spastic, twitchy jerks, powered by Louis yanking on a pair of ropes. The target, only seven ...

In one of the occasional moments of lucidity that occasionally grip the craziest of nutters, the California Senate has shot down a bill that would have abolished the plastic grocery bag from their fair state.Ever tone-deaf to hyperbole, Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, turned the melodrama dial to eleven:Brownley has been fighting to r...

I bruise like a banana, so this will probably be the day that the collection of bruises on the upper right quadrant of my body, from the huge one atop my bewb to the yellow-brown-purple line along the top of my shoulder, will just merge into one big owie.At least I'm not into some crazy hobby, like MMA or whatever; those people pay to get punched i...

I took my carbine down to Tennessee to have the guys at CCA dial the new-to-me Aimpoint in before class. Joe got both the glass and the backup irons sighted in at fifty yards. Without thinking about it, I demonstrated the quick-change barrel feature on the MGI upper to a friend right after that. "Gee and gosh!" I thought to myself, "I hope that did...

I was so proud of my awesome sunblock yesterday, but my sunblock application skillz were neither mad nor 1337. I missed a patch on the right side of my neck just above the collar of my shirt, and I got cooked there. In a cool room I can feel the heat coming off of it on my jawline right above it......

...by cheaping out on your gunsmith.Saw a Bushhamster "Y-Comp" muzzle brake launched into the berm yesterday, due to an indifferent job of pinning the thing on. You'd think that the shooter would have noticed the sudden departure of several ounces of metal at a high rate of speed from the front end of his gat, but he says he didn't feel anything.It...

Long day in the hot sun.Great class so far.Good group of students; it's not anybody's first time, and everybody's gun handling is good, which is always very comforting. The downside to that is that every class has "That Guy", and if you're looking around and not seeing anyone standing out in that respect, then, well...Anyhow, more later....

I'd always wondered how they do the crowd-estimate thing in the news, and thanks to a piece at AOL News, now I know:[T]he "Jacobs Crowd Formula": pace off the length and breadth of any crowd, add the two figures, multiply by seven for a slack crowd, by ten for a dense one.Then, if you disagree with the cause the crowd is rallying 'round, you divide...

It's hotter than the hinges of Hades here in Indiana in August, so what does that mean?That's right, it's Louis Awerbuck time!Seriously, last week it was in the 70's and 80's... not too humid... just gorgeous weather. Yesterday morning I wake up and the Weather Gnome on the TeeWee is saying "...and by Tuesday, we'll be back into the nineties..." an...

From a commenter at John Robb's place, I was led here.Haven't you always wanted the answer to questions like "Does God HATE Astronauts?" and "Does the Earth MOVE?" I know I did.I just had to share that link with you guys. Go and bask in the gloriosity of it all......

Oleg's wondering about the expense and difficulty of setting up a Jerry staplegun to take a suppressor.From what I've heard about the difficulty of swapping barrels on those things, my first instinct is "pass", but someone out there may have better data....

Jim on the whole sorry case of Roger the ('Roid) Rocket:Please do not let this confuse you about federal law. Lying to Congress is felony. Lying in Congress is a hallowed American tradition....

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Over at the Advanced Armament Corporation blog, there's a picture of a custom 1911 frame just back from hard-chroming.While it's really hard to gauge workmanship without holding the thing in your hand, I'd like to point out several nice details:See the fine serrations on the rear face of the slide rails? Those will match up to serrations on the rea...

Roomie and I are eating gyros in front of the TeeWee, watching Before the Dinosaurs...

My roomie on Glenn Beck:I know many of my readers are more fond of Mr. Back than am I. It isn't that I really dislike him, I just think the man's got a lot more Huey Long -- or P.T. Barnum -- to him than he has Ayn Rand. I'll take my Becks Billy and my Glenns Reynolds, if you don't mind, and if I want to be entertained, I'll read a book.Unfortunate...

...the EPA got punked on the lead thing.So there....

Five years ago yesterday, VFTP saw its first post.6,704 posts and 3,043,283 visits later, I'm still having a good time.I hope the next five are just as entertaining. :)...

Expired: NASATired: Corporate space projects.Wired: Setting out a guitar case with a sign on it reading "Pls. donate to our cool manned rocket project. It'll be awesome." Then building a homemade manned rocket and a floating catamaran launch platform which you will tow to the launch zone behind your homemade submarine. Because, you know, it'd be aw...

Me: Huh. That's interesting.RX: What's interesting?Me: Urea-powered fuel cells.RX: Piss on that!...

I'm seriously considering taking one of my 10-22's and stenciling "Have Fun" on the stock just to remind me. -Six, at The Warrior Class, from a post on introducing new shooters to the sport....

Someone seems to have launched a free site for gun classifieds: WebChronicle Gun List.Check it out....

American Hunter has an article up by winnah-and-champeen Iain Harrison featuring some behind the scenes gossip from the set of Top Shot.(Thirty-three days with no books or intarw3bz? Dude, there is no way I could have hacked that; I'd have been a shaking, gibbering mess no more than 72 hours in...)(H/T to Unc.)...

...tank further.I hope that goose was yummy, Mayor Nutter, because you ain't getting any more eggs from it....

From a New York Times op-ed looking back on the women's suffrage movement:But, at that time, women’s suffrage was still unthinkable to anyone but radical abolitionists. Since the nation’s founding, Americans considered women to be, by nature, creatures of the home, under the care and authority of men. They had no need for the vote; their hus...

During my little Tennessee visit, I had fallen into a pattern of falling asleep around 1AM and waking up at six or seven.I arrived back in Indy in the middle of a week where my roomie was covering the graveyard shift at work. The alarums at Roseholme Cottage are going off at 0100 hrs, and in a house this small, if one person's up, everybody's up.So...

...but this may be the funniest car ad of the century thus far:However, somebody referred to it as "The best VW ad ever", to which I have to take exception. It was hilarious, yes, but the following is not only a brilliant ad, but also one of the slickest pieces of short cinema I've ever seen on a TV screen:...

Today's comedy comes to us from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, who are going after people trying to evade the sliced-bagel tax.Whole bagels sold for takeout are not subject to sales tax, but "any handling or preparation at the shop turns it into a taxable event," says Brad Maione, a spokesperson for the DTF.Although Maione s...

A union thug spent the dues of working people to travel to Alaska for the purpose of denouncing Emmanuel Goldstein. It's, like, the top story on CNN's Political Ticker, complete with a transcript.I was, quite frankly, a little surprised that the phrase "I'm rubber, you're glue; what bounces off me sticks to you," appeared nowhere therein....

Not to play the Victim Olympics or anything, because nobody gets a gold medal in those events, but I wonder when was the last time the person in this photograph got gunned down by the cops in a Las Vegas Costco for the crime of holding hands?(All this is not to say that holding hands with the wrong person in, say, Laramie, Wyoming necessarily wind...

While the DEA's request for native Ebonics speakers was good for some cheap yuks, Ken at Popehat reminds us that the real meaning behind requests like this is often pretty darned unfunny....