Author Archives: Alaska

@ The Commonwealth Club [UPDATE WITH AUDIO]

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Alaska

…in San Francisco, where Calguns Foundation chief Gene Hoffman is the token pro-gun panelist of the night on a panel discussing you can guess what. Basically a more erudite version of Piers Morgan’s nightly antigun show. 4 to 1 odds … Continue reading →

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Rosebank FTW

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Alaska

At Dosa, a very nice San Francisco Indian restaurant, for my boss’ wife’s birthday, I found a bottle of Rosebank 21 year old Scotch, single-malt of course. Apparently the distillery is no more, and that is a pity, because this … Continue reading →

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Shotgun Class!

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Alaska

  Brief writeup on Calguns here. I’ll have more detail later. This was an LMS Defense class and it was awesome! Yes, Dirtcrashr, this was the Metcalf 200-yard range. We signed up last minute or I would have said something … Continue reading →

Posted in Have Gun, Will Travel, Kewel! | 7 Comments

Graphic Bias

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Alaska

They don’t even hide it now. Note in the right-hand column, a one-point change in “for ban” opinions gets a much longer change in the length of the bar than a two-point change in “against-ban” opinions. Not to mention that … Continue reading →

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Pipes

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Alaska
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Gun Shop Follies: Saiga 12 = Car

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Alaska

Strange times, indeed, when a Saiga-12 shotgun (for which in Cali a reasonable price would be $1200 or less, but which was recently on sale for the eye-gouging amount of $2400) was just taken off the market because somebody’s trading … Continue reading →

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Driverless Cars and Systemic Vulnerabilities

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Alaska

Food for thought. Parallels with the vulnerabilities of systemic firearms regulation I will leave as an exercise for the reader.

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The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Alaska

Utterly fascinating article.

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DI Vocal Trance End of Year Special

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Alaska

Some very nice tracks, and it’s running in heavy rotation on DI.fm’s Vocal Trance channel, natch.  

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End of The World Gun

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Alaska

I’ve got two, a Ruger Security-Six and a Rossi Winchester 92 clone in carbine form, both in Skeeter Skelton’s TEOTWAWKI cartridge, the .357 Magnum. I picked up the Rossi the other week instead of an AR because there was nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Armageddon, By Ourselves, For Ourselves, Have Gun, Will Travel | 3 Comments