Dog Wagged

Think Obama is planning something to help with re-election?

Funny & Furious Update

The LATimes 'airbrushed' out Jimmy Kimmel's gun reference. 

Do they think people don't notice when they do this? 

Awesome!

I would have LOVED to have had this bedroom as a kid.

He's got a pet lizard, he robin-hooded 2 arrows, he is ready for turkey season with those shotguns, he's got a good rifle target on the wall.  Yeah, that's a privileged kid.  Skilled, too, from the looks of it.  More kids should have his opportunities.  It's be better all around for the country, prolly.

F&F stands for Funny & Furious

Hahahaha... All those dead Mexicans and onesy twosy Border Patrol agents. 

4 minutes in:




If I gave some firearms to known criminals and they then went on a predictable murder spree with them (no matter what my intentions) I'd be in prison right now.  Eric Holder has his department do it on a grander scale and... what?  The people that brought this to attention get put on administrative leave, and?  That's it so far.

OMG

Why didn't I think of this first?!

Good job on the lyrics.

Fodderless

I often cover ground and stories already trod on by other gun bloggers.  It adds to the echo chamber and I'd rather not, but it is usually indicative that I have naught to write about. 

I DO try to throw my own angle into the scheme.  For instance, MBtGE's super power in the previous day's post.  Nobody was gonna connect THOSE two dots, chances are.  It's all part of the full exclusive service I try to provide every day at Hotel Thunderbolt.  Please stop calling the concierge so often, there is a senile old man that keeps waking him up at 4 AM to ask why it is so dark out in the afternoon.  He often calls back at 4:05 AM to ask why it is still so dark even though he went back to sleep for 4 hours since he last called.  And why are the digital clocks showing fractions and irrational numbers?

Open Carry

Check out the video of some Open Carry types trying to eat in peace at the Steak and Shake in this post.  Local police can't gin up a reason to toss them nice people with their wives and chillun' in the paddy wagon they brought, so they beg the manager to help by complaining about the OC types.

The manager, in my imagination, says something like this, "Why are you police here?  Those people aren't causing a problem.  YOU are.  Why are you harassing my customers?  Why are you costing me money?  Why can't you just leave nice people alone?  Please, please, please leave officers.  Haven't you done enough damage already?  Why do you have to LOOK for trouble?  I wish you guys came this fast when we got robber 2 years ago..."

And I'm not a fan of OC.  But more than 30 seconds chatting with those nice people and the cops should have left to look for actual criminals and jaywalkers.  Let the nice OC folks OC if they want.

MBtGE always deals with cops the perfect way.  I wish I had his touch.  His spiel is essentially, "Is this illegal, officer?" in the most innocent voice you ever heard.  You have to hear it to believe it.  It casts a spell.  The cops always say to him, "Oh no no no!  We were just called, and had to check up on it.  You have a nice day sir." And they go. 

I don't know how he does it.  It's like a super power. 

Sticky Wicket

Yet ANOTHER co-worker.  Let's call him Dipstick (not meant in a way that makes fun of perceived lesser intellect, mind you.  he comes by the nickname from another route.  let's leave it at that...).

He is going through a divorce.  His soon to be ex is shacking up with a former Marine.   Which is normally fine but this one is a little on the "scary, mind-poisoned by the ex, perhaps violent" side of the former Marine spectrum.

The ex hasn't gotten her stuff out of Dipstick's house, so there is tension involved with a possible meetup of all 3 people simultaneously.

So his question is, "I can buy a gun now that that Maryland court case went through and get my CCW in an afternoon, now, right?"

Sadly, no.  You'd need a good and substantial reason, still, and that would require police reports.  If the Marine gives you a beat down a few times that should do it.  Call 911 after each beating! It will still take 90 days or so for the CCW. 

Getting a pistol also takes a week.

"I'm not allowed to have a pistol at the parking lot of my work.  What if I drive home and they are standing in my driveway, and me without a gun on my property, they between me and it!  I'm BONED!"

Well, you are in a vehicle.  It's an excellent means of evasion, being able to drive 80 mph or more.  Faster than most angry Marines can run.  It is also a 2 ton conveyance with a lot of momentum....  Look, Dipstick...  The pistol you don't have or would be trapped in your house is not the weapon.  The car you are driving is not the weapon.  The weapon is between your ears.

Besides, Marines are cuddly.  And if he wanted to commit 1st degree murder on your sorry self then you'd probably never feel a thing.

And maybe, just maybe, the throes of a divorce is not the time to turn ones thoughts toward firearms.  Just a thought.  It's certainly his right to purchase a firearm at any damn time he pleases.  But it's like he has a problem in mind and thinks possessing the item solves it.  It's more complicated than that.

I am pretty confident he is gonna pre-emptively spend that money on a good lawyer instead.  

Ima Hunter Butt

Lots of this going around.


"I'm a hunter, but, I don't support yada yada with self-defense whatchahoosits."

When someone starts a diatribe with "I'm a hunter but..." or "I'm a gun owner but..." my first, immediate, thought is:  "No, you probably aren't."  It just sounds like astroturf with a narrative made out of whole cloth.

Or.  They really DO support gun rights for what have you, whatever it is they are railing about at that moment, but they only want those rights for themselves.  Not for you or me or those swarthy people she saw on the news.

I don't think the people that say that are delusional and unaware that folks will be coming after THEIR supposed preferred method of shooting sport.   I think they are the enemy.  Plants by Brady/Bloomberg/CSGV.  I don't think there are real Fudds or their equivalent anymore.

"I'm a Gun Owner, but..." just means "I am lying right now..." as far as I'm concerned at this point.

Metrocon Attack Dog

Taking on the execrable New Yorker magazine for being anti-civil rights.

I like it when they are on our side there at National Review.  Thanks, VerBruggen...

Liberty

Parent to Science and Industry according to a 1.15 million dollar penny from 1792.

Metrocon Jay Nordlinger at Mr. Buckley's Fortnightly's website: "In this Age of Obama, we’ve been chewing over some fundamental questions: a classical-liberal society, a more social-democratic society. One of the things we classical liberals have been saying is: All the innovation that America has been responsible for? It will dry up, if we allow the government to grow too big, too domineering, and too confiscatory."  Then he mentioned that penny.


And low and behold there are other things going about lately with regard to the value of Liberty and of the dangers of the Blue Social Model we struggle under, and grows more burdensome under the current administration.  (and probably the next one, and the next, but that's another story.)

At least the State Department declared the War on Terror 'over.'   Did we win or lose?

MSI

I'm kinda tapped on blog fodder...

Lessee...   The Maryland Shall Issue people suggests I might want to treat the return of my application as a rejection, and either resubmit or appeal, as their is an internal appeal process if you are denied.

Alternative they suggest I time if for the late May call on whether the stay should be made permanent, and try to duck into that window.  I'd have to be light on my feet, because Judge Legg could kibosh the stay, and the Appeals court could be dashed to by the AG for them to put their own stay on the ruling.  I'd have to have my ducks in a row.  With an appointment to get my fingerprints done, and passport picture taken, again.  Plus notary.  It costs $50+ in administrative stuff before you even GET to the application fee of $75.  It's frustrating to think of all that money wasted with several re-applications.  And we aren't counting the Supreme Court Appeal.  You think if the Appeals court slaps down Maryland again they WON'T appeal? 

That's about it.  I'm gonna cast about for more inspiration now.

Springfield Single Stack .45

Anyone shoot one of these yet and can give the straight dope?  I guess they finally are getting the new XDs out.

The idea has always intrigued.

Ah, bother!  You know what else is thin, single stack, and has been field tested for 101 years? 

Ah, but I have liked XDs in the past over similar competing models...

[update: I knew it.  Too new. no comments]

Hammerless Ad

Stolen from the lieberry.  (Thanks Breda!)

Colt Pocket Hammerless action!  One of those prints might be cool to have.  Like this:

Yeah, hold the home invader at gun point with your .32.  I guess that would work most times.  Run bad guy!  He's a decent fellow and probably won't shoot you in the back.

Trophy

You know, my birthday is coming up...

Troll #1

Yay.  I got my first actual Liberal Troll! in the comments!  The troll even made a thinly veiled threat to kill me and Ann Coulter.

"Coulter is wrong. We need the right to bear arms to protect us from anybody with the mentality of Coulter or yourself lest they take over this country. When that happens we should shoot all your jack-booted thugs before they even touch us. "  LJP

It took 5 years but I finally got one.  

I wonder why it thinks I am a jack-booted thug?  I don't work for the ATF...

Marine Propeller

Patternmakers were the rockstars of the woodworking world, back in the day, and still are pretty badass. 

What does he do?  He makes something out of wood (generally) to precise measurements.  Then that wooden bit is placed in a sand mold and removed.  Molten metal is poured in the void.  Bingo, a casting. Often a BIG casting.

In the old days they'd build up the pattern with dimensionally stable wood, typically mahogany.  Now they might use plastics or plywood for big bits:



How do you make half a cylinder with hand tools?   The inside part.  The negative.  Easy!  A core box plane.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter schools the Democrats on their racist past and current racist policies regarding gun control.

Many very smart members of the Progressive Intelligentsia will undoubtedly counter with biting and clever ripostes and carefully worded and meticulous supported factual counter-arguments like:

"Nuh-uh!"

"Coulter is a Doody-Head!"

and

"Look, she has Man-Hands!  So everything she says is invalid!"

Bull Market

So if you had bought shares in Ruger and Smith and Wesson back in 2008 right before the election you'd have turned a pretty profit.  More than double in 2 years.

I am of the same opinion as Borepatch (or what opinion he used to have, as he has folded up like a cheap card table).  With the drop in enthusiasm from Millennials and Independents alone, plus he's not running against 8 years of W, Mussolini's corpse could beat Obama handily.  But it's not gonna be Il Duce, it's gonna be Mittens.  The Media will be against him, but people kinda notice when the unemployment is at a real 10% level, and gas and eggs and Cheerios is so much more expensive.  They won't be able to maintain the enthusiasm.  I'm seeing Carteresque auger-in.  I don't LIKE Mittens, but that's what I forsee.

So... what equities do we buy NOW that would be a parallel to firearm manufacturer's stocks that will take off in Romney's 4 years at the tiller?  Be nice to put a couple grand on something and take out 5 four years later.

Mitt himself uses a LOT of hair care products it seems.  Maybe buy stock in Aqua Net.

He's Mormon, people will be buying beer and coffee ahead of a ban.  And sales of green jello will spike.

He'll ditch the stupid greenjobs failures so go short on wind farm totem poles and go long on Exxon and North Dakota.

Pet Peeve

Investing is what you do with your money.  Or one of the things you can do.  Do what you want with it, it's your money, I don't care.

Spending is what the government does with your money.  They never invest it.  They spend it.  And often waste it.  When they insist on calling it investment they are undoubtedly getting ready to waste your money.  They don't bother to call worthwhile spending 'investment'.  They rebadge the spending with another term to make it seem more worthwhile.  SEEM being the kicker term.  It's marketing.  It's trying to make the poop-burger look more palatable.