2106 SHOT Show, 3rd Day
21 Jan 16 2016 SHOT show, 3rd Day: Donald Trump showed-up at the SHOT show today! We, of course, stayed far away. The closest I got was watching him on TV this evening. That is as physically close as I ever want to get to any presidential candidate! Surefire, maker of an extensive and wonderful […]
ACLDN Meeting
20 Jan 16 ACLDN (Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network) Today was our annual meeting of the ACLDN Advisory Board, of which I’m a member. Others include Manny Kapelsohn, Mas Ayoob, Jim Fleming, Ton Givens, Marty Hayes, Denny Tueller. The organization’s educational program is better than ever, and the real benefit of becoming a member is […]
SHOT Show, 1st Day
19 Jan 16 2016 SHOT Show, 1st Day: I saw Bob Hindi this morning. Bob is THE expert on duty belt gear and gear arranging, and a good friend. Bob showed me “Street Force” carriers for handcuffs, OC spray, and spare magazines. Spring-loaded to snap open, stay open, and the snap closed and stay closed, […]
2016 SHOT Show, Las Vegas, NV
18 Jan 16 2106 Shot Show, Range Day We spent our day at the Range in Boulder City, NV today. Lots of guns and other equipment on display! I got a chance to shoot most of the “Glock look-alikes” (double-column, mostly in 9mm, striker-fired, variable-grip geometry, no manual decocking lever/button, no manual safety lever/button) today, […]
Arrogance is Contagious!
14 Jan 16 Among those without conscience, arrogance is contagious! From a friend at an FOB overseas, in an area of active fighting: “We were ‘treated’ to a brief visit recently by our current ‘Secretary of Defense.’ First off, all personnel were told our chow hall would be closed during his entire visit, and no […]
“Gun Control” in Israel!
12 Jan 16 “Where there is morality, personal honor, and individual responsibility, laws are unnecessary; where there is none, laws are meaningless and unenforceable.” Anon “Gun Control” is an admitted and abject failure in Israel, just as it fails here, in Europe, the UK, Australia, and everywhere else it has been tried! It “fails” in […]
Comments on Last Quip
10 Jan 16 “Do people who are always demanding that there be more ‘training’ for police ever say that hoodlums with whom police have to deal should have had more training by their parents, instead of being allowed to grow wild, like weeds?” Thomas Sowell Comments from a friend and colleague: “I think that this […]
Cops in Danger!
10 Jan 16 “When we expect cops to stop your bleeding, start hearts, change tires, calm the irrational, comfort the heartbroken, control schizophrenics (when doctors can’t), straighten-out unruly students (when five teachers can’t), routinely make perfect life-and-death decisions in split seconds, recite verbatim city, state, and federal case-law and remember intricacies of 2k ‘general orders,’ […]
Mental Health?
7 Jan 16 “Our 2nd Amendment is about is more than just guns. It is about casting off those who would enslave us. It is about daily breathing the blessed air of freedom, with all it’s disappointments and responsibilities. It is about individual accountability and personal independence.” Ranchhod Mental health? Under BHO’s new plan intended […]
“Misfire?”
6 Jan 16 “Newspapers don’t print the truth. They print what people say” Frank Galvin (played by Paul Newman) from the 1982 feature film, “The Verdict” Why can’t gun manufacturers make guns that don’t “misfire?” Yesterday, in Colorado Springs, CO, a man who said he was “cleaning his gun” (type, brand not reported) had an […]
BHO’s speech
5 Jan 16 “I’ve come to realize what a good test one’s attitude towards guns is about whether someone’s mind is liberty-oriented. If one is okay with police having guns, or whoever is designated as having ‘authority,’ but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who […]
National Readiness, Impossible without Personal Readiness!
3 Jan 16 “Who will not admit he is wrong, cannot repent of his mistake. Who cannot repent of his mistakes, cannot learn from them. Who cannot learn from their mistakes, are doomed to repeat them!” Anon “Given that some attacks have been stopped by gun-carrying civilians, Israeli Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, in October […]
Trends!
2 Jan 16 Trends! After talking with several large gun-retailers and ammunition manufacturers last week, I see pistol caliber trends continuing to favor the 9×19. At the SHOT Show, now only a week and a half away, I’ll confirm. The fastest-selling handguns right now are the: G19 XD/M 9mm, Compact S&W Shield, 9mm, Compact SIG […]
“No, you can’t have my civil rights. I’m using them right now!”
28 Dec 15 “The ‘looters’ credo’ has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter, who […]
Holsters!
23 Dec 15 “Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student.” Stewart Brand After a relatively “soft” year for the gun/ammunition industry, we are now in the middle of a year-end spike in interest and demand. In parallel, CCW applications are currently way up in all states. Three reasons: (1) Recent Islamic terrorist attacks on […]
“Due Process,” an Endangered Species!
16 Dec 15 A little history: “Another significant development in the art of ‘verbal cleansing’ has been changing the names used to describe people who espouse government intervention in the economy and society, as most intellectuals tend to do. In the United Stares, such people changed their own designation more than once during the course […]
Latest on the “DTI Operator Series”
15 Dec 15 Our DTI Operator Series. First group of videos out and available! As a follow-up to my last: I’m happy to say that we’re now doing business with an openly gun-friendly credit card processor! This, after being lied to by other processors who purported to want our business, then, when they found out […]
Watch Where You Step!
14 Dec 15 “Prepared” is present tense. “Victim” is past tense. “Justice,” in theory, can be either, but most agree that no justice exists in past tense! Sharpe From a friend living in Baltimore: “A decade ago, Baltimore City PD had one of the best homicide units in the country, with an exceptionally high clearance-rate, […]
Who Fraudulently Preach “Tolerance”
13 Dec 15 Bigot? In last Monday’s issue of the NYDN, an opinion piece (masquerading as “news”) written by a professing liberal Democrat, tried to make the case that one of the hapless San Bernardino massacre murder victims was a “bigot” and thus deserves no sympathy! We know he was a “bigot,” because he was […]
Gallery of Charlatans
11 Dec 15 “The gallery of charlatans who currently run network TV news no longer see themselves as legitimate journalists who report news. They consider it their first (and only real) job to hold our attention just long enough so that we can be sold male-impotence pills, miracle-cleaners, and worthless insurance!” Taussig How quickly anti-gun […]
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.
