SHOT Show, 2nd Day
15 Jan 14 2014 Shot Show, Second Day: As I did last year, I stopped counting at fifty, or so, the number of companies purporting to manufacture ARs. Most actually just assemble them, but, in all fairness, most of them we see in Classes run well. CORE is a manufacturer who actually makes their own […]
SHOT Show, first Day
14 Jan 14 2014 SHOT Show, First Day: The Shot Show is again this year at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, with its never-ending ballrooms, as well as main convention halls, at two levels. The SHOT Show is now the fifth biggest trade show in the nation, eclipsed only by the Consumer […]
2014 SHOT Show, Media/Range Day
13 Jan 14 2014 SHOT Show, Media/Range Day The SHOT Show hosts a “Media Day” at a local range, so people from the gun press (for which I apparently qualify) can handle and shoot guns. There is a simultaneous and separate “Range Day|,” at a different local range, where military rifles and accessories were on […]
The Game!
12 Jan 14 “Don’t spend too much time reading our own press releases!” Political axiom “Positive outcomes don’t necessarily demonstrate superior play. Superior play will lead to positive outcomes more often than will poor play, but even poor players sometimes catch lucky. It is when you confuse catching lucky with playing well, that demons sneak […]
The Poorest of Examples!
8 Jan 14 “Quality” People in Government? A KY State Representative had an ND with her carry-pistol (Ruger LCP) inside her office, within the state capitol building, yesterday. No injuries, but too loud to be covered-up, which it surely would have been otherwise! Had you and I done precisely the same thing, we would have […]
Another Massacre!
7 Jan 14 Latest Massacre in the Mideast: On 2 Jan 14, heavily-armed Al Qaeda (Moslem) thugs attacked a hospital in Yemen. Latest count is fifty-two innocents, mostly medical personnel (many of them foreign), murdered via explosions and gunfire. Ten times that number wounded. The attack is reminiscent of another recently in Kenya. Moslem gunmen […]
Gun “Registration,” so “Common Sense!”
4 Jan 14 In 2008, Washington DC liberals passed an ordinance that required all privately-owned guns to be “re-registered” every three years. The ordinance is, of course, being challenged, but, as of 1 Jan 14, all guns that were already duly registered before 2011, must now be re-registered! Re-registration requires most of a day, payment […]
Pistol Calibers
2 Jan 14 “It all depends…” For my first Quip of 2014, I will talk briefly about trends in serious pistol calibers. When asked about pistol calibers and guns, and which is “best,” I’m reminded of this poetic advice given to aspiring poker players by one of my favorite authors on the subject, John Vorhaus: […]
Multi-Tasking
31 Dec 13 “Multi-Tasking” (whatever that means): Yesterday, I was upland bird hunting at a preserve here in CO. Our quarry were pheasants and chukar partridge. We were hunting with the aid of an excellent dog whose job it was to seek out the birds and then persuade them to launch themselves into the air […]
Boston PD
29 Dec 13 ARs for Police The City of Boston’s mayor-elect had declared that BPD officers will not be getting any of the ARs the PD desperately wants. The plan was to equip specially-trained officers with these rifles. The PD wants just 33 ARs for the entire department, so that there will be at least […]
Web Page!
26 Dec 13 Upgraded Web Page: We’ve, once more, upgraded our Web Page, jsfarnam Quips will now be posted automatically, as they are generated. 2014 Training Schedule is now posted. Of course, it will change, but it is all there for your review. Once again, get hold of me directly when you don’t see what […]
Kalashnikov
24 Dec 13 Mikahil Kalashnikov, 1919-2013 Comments on the life of Kalashnikov: When confronted, innumerable times, by air-headed Western journalists (is there another kind?) with regard to his AK-47 rifle and it ubiquity, Kalashnikov always replied with some variation of: “I sleep well. It’s politicians who are to blame for failing to come to agreement […]
“Loserese”
22 Dec 13 Speaking “loserese” “I think everyone should go to college and get a degree, and then spend six months as a bartender, and another six months as a cabdriver. Then, they would really be educated.” Al Mcguire I don’t play the lottery. I refuse to, because I think the lottery is a disgusting […]
SA XD/S Recall
21 Dec 13 Springfield Armory XD/S Recall: The top four pistols we see at Courses currently are, Glocks, XDs, M&Ps, and Kahrs. SIGs represent a distant 5th place. 1911s, Berettas, et al bring up the rear. One exception is the Beretta Nano (small, 9mm concealment pistol), which is right now enjoying appreciable popularity. SA’s XD/S, […]
Honesty, for a Change!
21 Dec 13 No apologies! Putin’s short speech to the Russian Duma, 4 Aug 13. Not surprisingly, it received no coverage in the Western media: “In Russia, live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, when it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect Russian laws. […]
School “Security”
19 Dec 13 “Solutions” in NY In the “liberal utopia” of NY, it is apparently very “PC-sheik” for school officials to publically, and oh, so piously, declare that they just “can’ t fathom” all the bad things that can happen to people on campuses for which they’re responsible. A local police official in the Buffalo […]
Western civilization in decline
16 Dec 13 “Who naively think we can be happy and prosperous by letting the government ‘take care of us,’ rather than taking care of ourselves, had better take a closer look at the American Indian!” Anon From a friend and student who came here to the USA from Eastern Europe in the early 1960s: […]
“Solving” Problems?
15 Dec 13 “The worst enemies of new radicals, are ‘old’ liberals!” Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) “… the status-quo will never want for an advocate” Fosbery NY’s obscure “Department of Environmental Conservation” is now proposing a state-wide ban on wild pig hunting, despite the fact that wild pigs are calamitously destructive to farmland, all because: ” […]
Media and Guns
12 Dec 13 Anti-gun bias in the media is decades old, although they sheepishly, and oh-so self-righteously, deny it. Anti-gun groups, like the Brady Bunch, are unfailingly described by the media as “experts” (even though none of them could distinguish a gun from a waffle-iron), and their intrinsic, far-left, Marxist agenda is never mentioned. By […]
From a friend in NY
11 Dec 13 “Their titles are legitimate… their children are not!” From “Come Along with Me,” from the 1953 Broadway Musical Production, ” Can-Can” Original version sung by Hans Conried From a friend in NY: “A local physician was recently issued an appearance ticket by Sheriff’s Deputies in Wayne County, NY for stealing lawn signs […]
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.
