Guns for me, but not for thee!
31 May 22 New “Facts” About Guns: According to JRB yesterday, “A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.” Really! Funny, but I’ve never seen, nor heard of, such a phenomenon, associated with any pistol bullet! He continues: “There’s simply no rational basis for it (9mm pistol) […]
2022 NRA Show, Second Day
28 May 22 2022 NRA Show, Second day (and last day for me!) Much-reduced protestor presence today. There were even a few pro-gun protestors, but I only observed them through a window. Again, HPD was right on top of it all! 1911 Pistols: Users of 1911s represent an ever-dwindling minority […]
NRA 2022
27 May 22 2022 NRA National Conference and Show, Houston, TX I arrived in Houston yesterday, and Vendors’ Show started today at the Convention Center in downtown Houston. DJT was here and delivered a speech. I did not attend. Watched it on TV later in the day! Friends familiar with NRA […]
DSM
25 May 22 DSM Banners DSM, famous for their pull-over police banners, now has a bright red non-police version that reads, “Armed Citizen” Copies are available at: armedcitizenid.com Farnam discount code is: farnam10 This product is designed to keep you from being shot by police, or other armed […]
Wealth is Vapor!
23 May 22 Ammunition in Europe, from a friend there: “With the war still raging in Ukraine, with no let-up in sight, 90% of European small-arms ammunition production is currently going to NATO military stockpiles. Some ammunition is being imported from the USA, but the vast majority is staying (and being consumed) there! […]
More on the Hellion!
22 May 22 More on the Hellion Rifle: Many has asked if my copy of the Hellion Rifle was provided to me at no cost by SA. The answer is no! I purchased my copy from SA, just like any other consumer. I have no financial relationship with SA, nor with […]
Hellion
21 May 22 Springfield Armory’s Hellion Rifle, Initial Run I took my copy of SA’s Hellion Rifle to the Range yesterday for the first time. As expected, it runs just fine! “Hellion” (after a Marvel Comics character) in the name given to SA’s import-version of the Croatian-built bullpup VHS Rifle (for […]
On our own!
19 May 22 “On our own!” The Tops Grocery Store in Buffalo, NY where last Saturday’s multiple murder took place is now indefinitely closed. Residents of the local community now must shop elsewhere. The 911 Operator who precipitously hung-up on the panicked Tops Store manager who tried to call-in the incident has […]
5.56×45
18 May 22 Ammunition manufacturers are still telling me that primers are in short supply, particularly pistol primers. However, Defiant Ammunition now has 5.56×45 55gr TCX (all copper) ammunition in good supply, but it won’t last! Contact Pete Pi directly. Be sure to use the DTI Student Discount Code (below) Peter […]
Repent!
17 May 22 “And you throw-off every conceptual cloak of self-defense. You give-up fleshly resistance of your ego. ‘Repentance’ has nothing to do with self-serving ‘sorrow’ for transgressions and resultant poor outcomes. Repentance is an ecstatic self-emptying, a precipitous change of mind about your mode of thinking and being.” Christos […]
NJ
10 May 22 “Jesus reserved his harshest criticism for hypocrites” Philip Yancey Life in NJ! I just completed a Defensive Handgun Course in NJ last weekend. I maintain a cadre of enthusiastic students and instructors there! In NJ, as in a few other states, state-issued CCW permits are unobtainable by mere […]
A Tale of Two Clips!
4 May 22 “‘Failure’” is just success in progress!” Albert Einstein Metallic cartridge and feeding. Detachable, box magazines were invented by British/Canadian (later American) inventor, James Paris Lee, in the 1870s. Lee went on to design the 303 British Lee-Metford Rifle (that incorporated his detachable box magazine), adopted by the British […]
A Girl and a Gun!
28 Apr 22 “A Girl and a Gun” (G&G) “Celebrate 2022″ Conference, Grand Junction, CO Vicki and I are here in Grand Junction, CO at the beautiful and expansive Cameo Range Complex for the 2022 G&G Conference. We’re both teaching classes, along with John Murphy, Tim Kelly, Tiffany Johnson, Diana Rathbone, Steve […]
“With ‘friends’ like these…
25 Apr 22 “We have met the enemy, and they are us!” Pogo (comic-strip character created by Walt Kelly, published from 1948-1975) The Inter-Allied Military Control Commission arranged for the destruction of countless tons of German WWI small arms and other military equipment after WWI ended. Not so in France and […]
Behold, I Make All things New!
21 Apr 22 New Rifle, New Caliber! Two day ago, the Pentagon officially announced what many have suspected for some time: After over two years (actually, more like fifty years!) of testing and evaluation, the US Army’s new rifle will be SIG’s candidate, an upscaled version of their existing gas-piston MCX Rifle, […]
Unsung Hero!
20 Apr 22 “Every war has martyrs, the unsung heroes. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to, and die because they are destined to.” Anurag Shourie Ferguson and his rifle! Matchlock muskets were in use in Western Civilization starting in the 1400s, but were […]
Fear!
15 Apr 22 Crime wave! In the middle of our current manufactured national violent crime crisis, Los Angeles criminal gangs have recently targeted “the wealthy,” with scant interference from (defunded) local police! “Follow-Home Robberies,” is the new catch-phrase. An apparently well-to-do person seen exiting an expensive retail store, restaurant, or night […]
Distrust!
9 Apr 22 “Our own brand of democracy has reached a point in its evolution where we expect ruthless, self-protective pragmatism from our politicians, rather than idealism; where noble sentiments are likely dismissed as ‘the vision thing;’ where winning is everything, civility is in short supply, and the lack of respect between political opponents, […]
Live From The Field
5 Apr 22 “Who wants to be cruel will finds things to be cruel about” Spanish Proverb It’s the 1940s all over again! Shortly before I was born, safe and sound in the USA, Nazis, Japanese, and Bolsheviks alike were carrying-out mass murders of both POWs and innocent non-combatants in Ukraine, […]
Ready of Not!
31 Mar 22 “Preparedness carries the day.” FC Yee Excitement in Israel: Three deadly terror attacks, eleven innocent Israelis wantonly murdered (many more injured), in less than a single week! And now Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, at long last, says: “Whoever has a weapons license, this is the time […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
