Apparently Chris Muir Sees The Family Resemblance, Too.
Separated at birth?
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NO BLOG FOR YOU!
Really busy today, and I’m going shooting this weekend with someone who’s just getting back into it, so I’ll be loading ammo tonight (and probably tomorrow). No new posts for a bit. Sorry.
This Pretty Much Ends Whatever Hope I Had for Middle East Peace
(Via Lileks) Go watch this slide show and then tell me that the Islamicists want peace.
When dogs are rabid, you put them down.
I hope Iraq is acting like flypaper to these wackos, I really do.
Sorry if I’m Late
But I just found Steven Den Beste’s Amazon Wishlist.
Damn, I knew the guy had a sense of humor to match that intellect!
I’m not sure why he’d want a Demag AC650 construction crane (perhaps to drive through a downtown area with the boom swinging freely as in Terminator 3?)
I do see the attraction of a personal submarine, however (at only $4*107! [that’s $40,000,000 to non-engineers] what a bargain!)
And I certainly can understand the Warp Drive upgrade for the Clueless, but
Britney Spears in a bikini?? That’s bad enough, but the associated pint of maple syrup just puts it over the top!
Oh, and Steven? You’re getting your 16 minutes of fame. Just in random 30-second increments.
Just So You Don’t Think I’m Only a Fan of Modern Guns
While I do like the FN P90 for its futuristic looks, I’m also a fan of older guns (though I personally draw the line at the front-stuffer charcoal burners). In fact, like many, I’ve lusted after one of these
ever since I saw “Quigley, Down Under.” This is, of course the 1874 “Quigley” Sharps made with loving care by Shiloh Sharps of Big River Montana. I would probably wimp out and get it chambered in the commercially available .45-70 rather than the shoulder-thumping .45-110 though.
It is a beautiful piece, isn’t it? Wish I had a spare $3.5k.
Can You Say “Double Standard?”
In conjunction with the story of the officer who shot a handcuffed suspect in her cruiser – but wasn’t prosecuted because it was “an accident,” here’s another case of preferential treatment for law-enforcement. It seems that Multinomah County, Oregon Sherriff’s Dept. Sergeant Patrick Coffeen had an unregistered machinegun. Now, this will normally land your butt in Club Fed, but not Mr. Coffeen. No, in a plea agreement Sergeant Coffeen plead guilty to attempted unlawful possession of a machine gun, a Class C felony, rather than actual unlawful possession. He had to pay a $2,500 fine, and has lost both his job and his right to arms (which means he won’t be working in law-enforcement again.)
Money quote:
“You can’t have that weapon unless the federal government gives you permission, and he didn’t have that permission”
And the gun ban control groups want to expand that requirement for possession to all guns, not just NFA weapons.
If you have to have permission, IT’S NOT A RIGHT!
Happy Birthday, Gnat!
Lileks announces Gnat’s 3rd Birthday. (Bottom of the page)
You’re going to have to watch that one, James. She’s BRIGHT (and by that I don’t mean atheist.)
Kim du Toit Needs Help!
Kim ran National Ammo Day last year, and was disappointed in the result.
So, as he says in this post, if he’s going to fail, he’s going to fail BIG! And he needs our help to do it. I suggest that all of us gun-bloggers go sign up and go spread the word.
Now it will be National Ammo WEEK, and involve two weekends in the fine political tradition of stretching the facts.
Let’s get moving!
ALREADY the Reynolds/Lucas Ticket has Competition!
Mark Byron has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2008 race. With Rick Santorum as his VP!
Go read his cabinet appointments. He’s stealing from us!
This is Why My House Has Guns, but NO BARS
(Third story on this page.)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Single mother Tina Marie Satterfield tried to make her home safe from crime, but she died early Monday, trapped inside the burning house by window security bars.
“She was like a mother to the other girls. She’d make them smile,” said Bob Monette, manager of the topless club Deja Vu. Satterfield, 24, danced there to support her daughter, Mia, Monette said.
Satterfield, two other Deja Vu dancers and three children died in a fire caused by smoking materials, fire officials said. Mia, 6, survived the fire.
“It wasn’t a party house. My sister just doesn’t like to be alone,” said Teresa Lundberg, Satterfield’s half-sister.
Lundberg recalled that Satterfield had installed the bars out of fear of neighborhood crime.