Last Sunday I shot a USPSA match at Marysville Rifle Club (Marysville, Washington). In the match I did good, but not great. I got a score of 64.97% of the Limited Class, Grandmaster winner. I had kind of a rough … Continue reading
The scientists who lead the national organization of ear doctors have no excuse for ignorance of how suppressors prevent hearing loss. The ignoble reason that they and other leaders of organized medicine have shirked their moral obligation to prevent human … Continue reading
As I mentioned the other day, last Saturday Barb and I went white water rafting and I went swimming in Class IV rapids. I thought I might get some video from Riverbooty.com but they only took stills. Here are what … Continue reading
It’s the right of the people to shut down speakers. Sunsara TaylorCo-founder of Refuse FascismSeptember 13, 2017UC Berkeley free speech in spotlight over super-tight security plans[No. It is not a “the right of the people”. It is a conspiracy to … Continue reading
“All’s well that ends well” isn’t one of the rules of gun safety, at least so far as I know. Nor is, “If you can walk away from it, then it was good gun handling”. Maybe that does apply to … Continue reading
I just listened to Trump’s full speech at the UN. There are a lot of “rah rah!” comments on the CNN YouTube post, and I suppose a lot of that is justified, sort of. Trump has an air of strength … Continue reading
There is one elephant in the room that is largely ignored in the discussion of crime in Latin America: the stringent gun-control laws present in these countries. While the previously mentioned factors cannot simply be discounted, the lack of coverage … Continue reading
A media release from son-in-law John Vlieger’s sponsor Shell Shock: Shell Shock Technologies, LLC., an early stage technology and manufacturing company focused on developing innovative case technologies for the ammunition industry, is pleased to announce its sponsored shooter John Vlieger … Continue reading
They were preparing to ship out, for the first time, a one-ton steel cylinder of CTF. The cylinder had been cooled with dry ice to make it easier to load the material into it, and the cold had apparently embrittled … Continue reading
He needs to change the chant. I just can’t be enthused anymore about, “Ice cold beer.” It should be “HOT. GREEN. TEA.” Barb L. September 16, 2017 [Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of our first date and, among other things, … Continue reading
The League of Women Voters of the United States believes that the proliferation of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons in the United States is a major health and safety threat to its citizens. The League supports strong federal measures to … Continue reading
Son-in-law John Vlieger, competing against 318 competitors, 79 of them in his USPSA Open division, decisively won the Walther Arms-MGM Targets Area 4 Championship match this year. Area 4 includes Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The next closest competitor came … Continue reading
I want to admit upfront that gun ownership can not be a universal human ethic. A universal human ethic is true for all time in all cultures in all situations for all humans. And guns have been around only for … Continue reading
GRPC is at the end of this month: Come meet national gun rights leaders and your fellow grassroots activists at the 32nd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2017) in Dallas, Texas at The Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport on … Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of 1,200 adults found 48 percent of Americans said they or somebody else in their household owned a gun. That’s 3 percentage points higher than when the same question was asked last year. It’s … Continue reading
Deer season is upon us (Joe; no Hunting category?) so I thought this a good time to post it. Following is a very long, detailed account of customizing a reproduction Colt 1847 Walker percussion revolver and using it in a … Continue reading
I’m the village extravert. CaitySeptember 12, 2017Overheard at work.[I’m on the Threat Intelligence team at work. Caity is one of the analysts. Everyone on the team has a few “quirks”. So Josh, also on the team, decided we should take … Continue reading
Antifa members should read historians of Nazi Germany, like Laurie Marhoefer of the University of Washington, who writes that anti-fascist street fighters who greeted a Nazi rally with violence thought that they had won by disrupting a rally and fighting … Continue reading
In addition to attending the USPSA match in Idaho last weekend I did some maintenance on the Taj Mahal. When I was there on July 1st and 2nd there was a mouse nest inside the storage magazine: I removed it … Continue reading
Bray and others have come to use the intellectual freedom of our universities to advance the most anti-intellectual movement in our history. They are destroying the very academic institutions that have protected their extreme views. Just as the father of … Continue reading