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Awwww Shucky Darn

Missed the Day of Rage on the Hillsborough County Courthouse steps.Seems a shame to miss the chance to be called a racist by racists, don't it?Wait, it's Anonymous doing the rage and not the Bureau of...

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Actually Black America Is Failing To Deal With It

Henry Rollings, a known dancing monkey, says "White America couldn't handle what Black America deals with every day."Henry, there's nothing a black person is going through that didn't happen to white...

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Snobbery

I have, on occasion, dismissed the M14 as just a Garand converted to take 7.62x51mm and a 20 round detachable magazine.I should consider that an FAL is kind of an SAFN converted to take 7.62x51mm and a...

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Combat Robots

In Traveller canon the Zhondani make extensive use of combat robots.I remember a player objecting to their presence because such robots would be in violation of "The Three Laws".I replied that it was...

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Since The 90's

For over 25 years I have been listening to pundits bemoaning that the police are outgunned.I just realized something.They're supposed to be.That's the whole fucking point of the 2nd Amendment, that the...

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Civil Disobedience

Can anyone think of any reason why mailing the CLEO a "copy" of a Form 1 you aren't submitting to ATF would be illegal?

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Undergunned

At one time the fact that the people outgunned the police was irrelevant.How could this ever be irrelevant?Because the police force was tiny if it existed at all, with many places having just a single...

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A Cynical Lot

Reading a thread about if Glock will offer their new FBI version for commercial sale.Someone replied, "Glock likes making money so I don't see [them not selling them]. If it did just frequent...

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Grenade Sight Restoration

I repainted the markings on Jasmine's rifle grenade sights.Testors Model-Master Insignia Yellow, some thinner and a Q-Tip and all "restored".

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Already Lost Where I Got The Quote

A drawback to being the father of a mentally retarded son is he often loses it while you're composing.Most of the time I have to start from scratch and can't even remember what I was going to write...

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Wanna Bet?

Black Lives Matter organizer Ashleigh Shackelford claims that "Nothing you have is yours. Let me be clear: Nothing you have is yours."First off, nice cultural appropriation of a European name.Second,...

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Revived

If you recall, back in December I posted that the phosphorescent night sights on Portia weren't quite dead, but they weren't far from it.Marv bought some phosphorescent paint and he revived his.I...

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What A Bother

The Lovely Harvey's dearly beloved 15" MacBook Pro (mid 2007) took a dump Sunday night.The hard drive utterly failed.  Complete data loss.Happily, she's keeps her files backed up and she lost very...

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Hate Crime

When we get corresponding Love Crime sentence reductions, I'll think about hate crime sentence enhancement being valid.For fuck's sake, nobody is going to do anything covered by hate-crime statutes...

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Coming Out

Erin mentioned that someone who's LGBT has a second coming out when they reveal they're a gun owner.  (I can't find where she said it or there'd be a finely crafted link here).I had (note that past...

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No It Isn't

Dear Mr Vickers,No, the FAL does not have an SVT gas system and tilting bolt.The FAL is derived from the SAFN (aka FN49) which was being designed at the same time as the SVT and in isolation from...

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Polling

Reading political blogs is sometimes interesting.I've noticed a trend concerning Trump.If the writer used to be a Republican, they think he's going to lose big.If the write is still a Republican, they...

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This Is How It Should Be

Gotta love Switzerland!Lots and lots of those guns being casually toted around are the real-deal selective fire guns.

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Not A Slippery Slope

With Mass-ass-chew-shits (you spell it your way, I'll spell it mine) going the extra mile to ban what they call "assault weapons" there's been some cries that this proves the slippery slope.Never mind...

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Who's Flying This Thing Anyway

Traveller...Most of the time the computer will be "flying" the ship from inputs given by the navigator rather that the pilot.Just like a modern commercial aircraft and surface ship.The autopilot steers...

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