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Category Archives: Have Gun, Will Travel
Shopping List: Groceries, Small Appliances, Furniture, Guns, Ammo…
In mid-December, one of my buddies at work mentioned he had ordered a new rifle. I asked what kind. “A Smith and Wesson AR,” he responded. Since I had been lusting over just that make and model of rifle only … Continue reading
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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!
@ The Commonwealth Club [UPDATE WITH AUDIO]
…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
Shotgun Class!
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
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Graphic Bias
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