Monthly Archives: September 2007

A question about NFA

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September 29, 2007

Are black powder firearms subject to the NFA laws?  For example, say I hypothetically had a double barreled 10 gauge muzzleloading shotgun that I wanted to chop down into a replica of a Wells Fargo coach gun. Obviously, I don’t want the ATF climbing up my ass, and before I go wading through the...
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When reason doesn’t work

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September 28, 2007

Then you have to appeal to emotion. The problem is that you know that if you call it an “appeal to emotion”, you’ll be verbally castigated from one end of the internet to the next by people like me. So, you need to come up with a new term. The term you come up...
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Two for the Price of One

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September 28, 2007

HR 2640 stalls (again) and Mayor Bloomberg of New York is an idiot.  Both fascinating topics in one article.  On the first issue, it seems that the passage of HR 2640 has been stalled in the  Senate (again), but this time it’s for a decent reason. But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) questioned the $5.5...
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Real power

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September 27, 2007

You know how they say money is power?  The Gun Shots make an excellent point about the power behind America’s Hunters. Here’s a quick breakdown of what hunters spent last year: Firearms: $2.4 billion Optics: $203 million Decoys and game calls: $187 million Hunting apparel: $459 million Ammo: $696 million I doubt that those...
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Talk about misleading

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September 27, 2007

So, you’ve probably heard about the student at St. Johns that was arrested while wearing a George Bush mask and carrying a .50 caliber deathray sniper rifle muzzleloader in a gym bag. The university had a good response, and no one was hurt. Good job for them. Now here’s the funny part (aside from...
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I wish I had a baseball bat

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September 27, 2007

And I wish that said baseball bat had magical powers, and the magical power of my baseball was to teach people about economics.  Then, I would ride merrily around the country, pummeling people senseless with my Economics Bat, and though they would be bruised and battered, they would limp away from their beating with...
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Accidental vs. Negligent

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September 27, 2007

Two of the common gun terms that you may encounter are “Accidental Discharge” and “Negligent Discharge”, which refer to the action of firing a weapon when you did not intend to.  For some reason, I have seen these terms used interchangeably, and that is something that should not be. A Negligent Discharge is when...
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I didn’t know they did that

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September 27, 2007

But apparently, Utah will stop issuing CCW permits to non-residents of the US. A legislative committee learned Tuesday that about 1,000 citizens of foreign countries have earned Utah’s wallet identification card signifying they can pack a gun out of sight in Utah and any of 30 U.S. states that have a reciprocity agreement with...
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It’s not often

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September 26, 2007

That someone openly admits on the internet that they’re afraid of toys.  I had this story emailed to me by Sue, then I saw that Uncle had already beaten me to the punch (figures).  Anyway, the gist of the entry is that this woman was cruising around the Farmer’s Market in Palo Alto, CA...
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That’s unpossible

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September 26, 2007

But I thought that armed citizens with guns would only escalate robberies into bloodbaths?  Does that mean that the Brady Bunch lied to me? A grocery store clerk in Framingham had a surprise Monday night for a would-be robber who flashed a .22-caliber Ruger and demand cash, police said. The grocery store clerk pulled...
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