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1 hour 40 min ago May 15, 2008
19:54
“My own particular “little pony” is a close to stock Bulgarian surplus Makarov. Around about 2001 or so AIM Surplus or one of the other surplus gun vendors had a “buy 2 for $99 each” deal. I hit up my usual FFL about it, and he said “I can do better than that”. All told, [...]
19:53
“My favorite pistol is the CZ B SA in .40 S&W. The first time I fired it at the range it was like I had been shooting with it for years. It happens to fit my hand extraordinarily well, and the grip angle and three-dot sights make sighting fast and easy. The all-steel construction gives [...]
May 14, 2008
20:50
“Aaron Zelman is executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a pro-Second Amendment group based in Milwaukee.THE NEW AMERICAN: What is your organization’s main goal? Aaron Zelman: Our main goal is to destroy gun control. We are an organization that believes we have the moral authority to point out to the rest [...]
20:19
“Remember the Mel Gibson scene in the movie Lethal Weapon, where character Sgt. Martin Riggs goes to the gun range and shoots a smiley face on a silhouette target from about 75 feet? My Glock .45 allows me to shoot smiley faces at will. I’m an insurance claims adjuster by profession. I’ve had a few [...]
May 13, 2008
21:11
“While America awaits the decision from the Supreme Court of the United States about whether Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, we’ll take advantage of the legal cease-fire to have a closer look at this landmark case. By the time the Supreme Court heard District of Columbia v. Heller on March 18, the [...]
20:35
“As a veteran handgun and self defense instructor, I can tell you that there is no ‘best’ handgun, except perhaps for one criteria. Somebody once asked the inventor of modern combat handgunning Jeff Cooper what the best gun is for a gunfight. He said, ‘That’s simple. It’s the one you have with you.’ I agree, [...]
May 12, 2008
22:26
“For many years the United States Government could not deprive you of your rights, without due process of law and a felony conviction. However, since the passage of the Lautenberg Amendment in 1996 tens of thousands of Americans have been deprived of their right to keep and bear arms for mere misdemeanors. Lautenberg’s logic is [...]
21:55
“Some handguns have long and illustrious histories. Some are beautiful, handsome or ‘fine,’ and there are even awe-inspiring movie stars like the custom long-barrel AutoMag used by Dirty Harry. I have a work horse. It’s not pretty, shoots a half-assed round, isn’t fast, isn’t special in any way. But it’s mine.” (05/11/08)
May 11, 2008
21:44
“On the desk beside my keyboard lies an artifact that I have kept at my side for more than half of my life. We’ve been through a lot together. Both of us have undergone a lot of changes over the years, but both of us, deep down inside, remain essentially the same as we began. [...]
May 8, 2008
22:45
“The state of Ohio says that I am now allowed to carry a concealed handgun. The license itself is a little plastic thing, similar to my drivers license. I keep looking at it, somewhat bemused. It bears a photo of me looking grim, some personal information, and a number that I can only assume represents [...]
May 7, 2008
19:38
“The checks are in the mail. Those would be the so-called economic stimulus, or tax rebate, checks, rushed out to about 75 percent of Americans by Congress. The checks represent a pittance of your very own money (or, in the case of those who pay little or no taxes, someone else’s money) being returned to [...]
May 6, 2008
23:21
“Anti-gun Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has taken one more step toward turning his city into a police state by planning to give police fully automatic M4 carbines, while still fighting to block the gun rights of citizens not only in Chicago but throughout Illinois, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms [...]
21:34
“East Brainerd resident Monica Dobbs hikes 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail every winter with friends and craves the quiet days without cell phones, television and work. Hikers who want to leave their daily lives behind sleep next to strangers in shelters, and many trade their real names for trail names. They sometimes can walk [...]
May 5, 2008
21:23
“Gun control may fit into any equation concerning crime, but it does not, in any form or fashion, have a place in the United States of America. In 1974, Dr. Mark Borinsky, a victim of gun violence, founded the ‘National Council to Control Handguns.’ In 2001, it was renamed ‘The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun [...]
May 2, 2008
04:41
“The well-educated, homeschooling, breastfeeding mom at one of the Southern California homeschool park days that we attend, has summed me up as a libertarian. I use the small ‘l’ variety only because I’ve yet to register as an actual Libertarian: ‘I like what I’ve read about Libertarians,’ she told me, ‘but I have a problem [...]
May 1, 2008
21:37
“The California Supreme Court made the right decision in rejecting an appeal by the City of San Francisco that sought to uphold its handgun ban, the Second Amendment Foundation said. SAF was joined in a lawsuit against the handgun ban by the National Rifle Association, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, California Association of Firearms Retailers [...]
05:34
“Seventeen-year-old Amon Schute is social drek. He’s sneering, jeering, and hateful. He proves it with ostentatious displays of filthy jeans, long, matted hair, body piercings, and tattoos. He’s exactly the kind of kid you’d expect to spend his entire adult life in lockup. Sixteen-year-old Coy Minyon is a social cipher. He’s weak, meek, and fearful. [...]
April 30, 2008
19:59
“Gun ban extremists and others who oppose the right of self defense are fond of saying that when a person is in danger, the best thing to do is to call 911 and let the police take care of it. But what happens when you dial 911 and the police tell you to wait … [...]
April 29, 2008
03:58
“The Supreme Court will issue a major interpretation of the Second Amendment in coming weeks. But even as both sides in the gun debate await the D.C. v. Heller ruling, the gun industry should set its sights on a different target: certification. It should develop and adopt a private licensing and certification program fashioned on [...]
April 28, 2008
21:12
“The political situation in the United States is different at this particular time than in any other time that I have witnessed in my 57 years on this planet. This is the only time in my life that I can ever remember when the right and the left agree more with each other than the [...]
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