Afraid!
30 Sept 20 DOD is not only afraid of guns. They’re afraid of coyotes! Dating from WWII, Camp Lejeune in NC (named after John A Lejeune, 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps) consumes 250 square miles of NC coastline and includes many lakes and waterways. Camp Lejeune has its own Fish and Game Department, and DOD personnel […]
Cars and Riots!
29 Sept 20 Cars and Rioters: For one, I haven’t seen BLM, nor ANTIFA, involved in a single “peaceful protest.” All have turned violent, by design, more or less instantly! We’ve seen several incidents of throngs of violent rioters surrounding vehicles whose occupants accidentally wandered into the riot. We’ve subsequently seen that stationary cars provide scant protection for their […]
Unarmed?
25 Sept 20 Fate of the Unarmed! “Who carried materials did their work with one hand, and held a weapon in the other, and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.” Nehemiah 4:16-18 In the UK (London), a long-serving police officer, who was unarmed, was murdered via gunfire yesterday. A suspect in custody, who […]
More Laws!
23 Sept 20 More Laws? The more corrupt the State, the more numerous the laws! Seneca, the Younger In the wake of the Brianna Taylor grand jury verdict today, and predictable riots that are just now fulminating, leftists (Democrats) are, as always, insisting that instant criminal charges against people who actually work for a living are always the only […]
Commercial Air Travel
22 Sept 20Commercial Air TravelI just completed a trip via commercial air (SW Airlines) to and from MDW (Midway Airport, Chicago) with my usual complement of gear. At MDW, they don’t have an X-ray machine, so all luggage is detail-inspected, manually!There was no issue with any of my equipment, and my luggage all went through […]
“Witch!”
18 Sept 20 “When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamor.” Piers Anthony The new “Witchcraft” 430 years ago, my ancestors in present-day MA, when they wanted a annoying political opponent done away with, would simply accuse him […]
Correction!
18 Sept 20 ACLDN’s main Web Page is at: https://armedcitizensnetwork.org The one listed in yesterday’s Quip is a development site and doesn’t work as well. Sorry for the gaffe! /John
“Innocent Until Proven Indigent!”
17 Sept 20 ACLDN With the current scramble to acquire progressively harder-to-find guns and ammunition suitable for self-defense, many among the naive assume that the only fight that matters is the first one they have in defense of their lives. Yet, the next “fight for your life” will be in the courtroom (criminal, civil, administrative, […]
Serious Rifles!
16 Sept 20 Serious Rifles! Alex Robinson, CEO of Robinson Armament of SLC, UT, manufacturers of the wonderful RA/XCR Rifle, just informed me that a shipment of XCRs, bound for Canada, had been returned. This is due to Canada’s recent universal banning of just about all autoloading rifles. The ban is being opposed in court, […]
Live From The Field
14 Sept 20 “The chicken is just an egg’s way of making another egg.” Richard Dawkins Modern Urban Rifles Some years ago, I (with the aid of several prominent gunsmiths) produced a shortened Garand Rifle (“Tanker” style). I wanted a suitable “car gun” that was short and handy. The “FDR,” as I called it (for “Farnam Defensive Rifle”) was in 308 […]
Rich Punks!
10 Sept 20 Yesterday, seven rich, ungrateful, white punks, progeny of liber-wealthy NYC “parents,” took a break from partying long enough to join the daily BLM/ANTIFA mayhem in NYC, and to their astonishment, got themselves arrested for vandalism by weary NYC police officers! What a surprise to discover that the law actually applies to them too! I’m sure […]
A Disgrace!
9 Sept 20 “Text without context is usually pretext.” Ted Mallory A disgrace to their profession! This morning, WBEN AM 930 Radio (Buffalo, NY) conducted an interview with a Rochester, NY TV reporter. The subject was violent criminal chaos ongoing in Rochester, NY. The entire Rochester PD command staff, including the chief, has precipitously either retired or resigned. Of particular interest […]
It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be!
9 Sept 20 “You must travel through those woods again and again, and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. But the wolf, the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once!” Emily Carroll Bodies of a missing CA couple were found last weekend at bottom of well near El Socorrito in the western Mexican […]
“‘New’ Morality”
8 Sept 20 “A knife may not be a longsword, but its edge will cut you all the same.” Ed McDonald British police arrested a single, male suspect yesterday in connection with Sunday’s knife attacks in the “nightlife district” in the English city of Birmingham. Seven victims seriously injured. One fatality. Chief Superintendent Steve Graham of West Midlands Police instantly […]
No More Right to Self-Defense!
1 Sept 20 “This is not a dictatorship! We are never going to use force, because we belong to the people. Moreover, the day that the people do not want us, we shall leave. As soon as possible I will take rifles off the streets. There are no more enemies! There is no longer anything to fight against!” Fidel Castro in […]
Bolshevik Brilliance!
27 Aug 20 “I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.” William F Buckley Jr From a friend and student in Minneapolis, MN: “Yesterday afternoon, Minneapolis Commissar Frey and his ‘Gang of Aging Bolsheviks’ held a press conference to report on their progress to ‘reform’ police use of force. As with Sleepy Joe, […]
Looking for Trouble?
27 Aug 20 “No ‘trouble’ ever got fixed late at night! Midnight is for regrets.” Holly Black Looking for Trouble! As we’re seeing in WI, when a person arms himself, and then goes out looking for trouble, he will (belatedly) discover that our Criminal Justice System has scant sympathy for him, nor for his personal decisions! When an armed person goes […]
“Former” Voters!
26 Aug 20 Democrats are suddenly finding themselves on the wrong side of the gun issue! At the recent (virtual) DNC Political Convention, radical left Democrats (is there another kind?) grabbed the microphone and endlessly, vehemently denounced our Constitution’s Second Amendment. They called for the omnibus federal reversal of state concealed-carry laws! They called for the elimination of private […]
Short Interval!
24 Aug 20 Time between “incident” and riot(s) is getting shorter! Social media and smartphone video has reduced this interval to just about zero! Observations: 1) Because of the short “incident-to-riot” interval, a citizen could open his office or shop in the morning, only to look-out a few minutes later to find a violent, destructive riot at his doorstep! 2) […]
Free Stuff!
20 Aug 20 “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Churchill Free stuff? DNC proponents of socialism naively believe that, under a socialist/Communist government, capitalists and capitalism (whom they hate with a vile passion), when forever eliminated, will somehow magically continue to […]
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.
