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Author Archives: Alaska
$26,500 AR barrel
I knew chop shops, as with cars, charged more for rifle parts than the same parts assembled into a complete rifle, but this is ridiculous. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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Two Thousand Rounds
Following Boston’s admonition to turn ammo into knowledge and experience, the wife and I are about to expend most of my remaining stash of 9mm in LMS Defense’s two-day Pistol I course. We took this class a couple years ago; … Continue reading
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Awesome Waves
…in the sky. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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A Modest Proposal…Not
Eugene Volokh notes that Dean Chemerinsky’s proposal to make school funding equal by eliminating all private schooling options is one with implications: A clearer example of how an excessive focus on equality undermines liberty is hard to find…. [Chemerinsky’s] argument … Continue reading
Even POS Rifles Are Sold Out?
I was musing last night about the injustice of Elijah Craig 18 being discontinued, and I thought about other things that might remain unavailable for some time. Even though buying into a panic is stupid, one can’t help but think: … Continue reading
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Gun Show Blues
All the cool kids are blogging about the Indy 1500. Sadly, I’ve never been to a gun show. Happily, after a decade-plus-long convoluted court case that went all the way to the 9th Circuit three or four times (I lost … Continue reading
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And here’s how not to win a gun rights debate
Listen to Gene Hoffman’s masterful job linked in the post below, and then compare it with NRA-ILA’s Director of Media Affairs Andrew Arulanandam’s utterly cringe-worthy performance on a (thankfully low-listenership) radio talk show (interview starts at about 4 minutes in). … Continue reading
If you listen to one thing this weekend…
…listen to this. http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20130117_gunviolencepanel.mp3 This is how you win a gun rights debate. UPDATE: Link fixed, sorry!