Monthly Archives: February 2008

Register to Vote

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February 29, 2008

The NRA has set up a new website designed specifically to encourage non-voters to register in their state and get out and vote this year. I’m registered; I vote in every election we have, including local elections.  The 2008 Election season is a critical election not just for gun owners but for Americans who...
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American Hunters & Shooters

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February 29, 2008

I’m really enjoying watching Bitter and Sebastian take the AHSA out behind the woodshed for a good beating, especially in light of AHSA revealing their true motives with the recent entry on Daily Kos. I want to add my two cents to the conversation, not because I want to pile on or anything, but...
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SOCOM adopting new rifle

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February 29, 2008

The US Special Forces are going to be fielding two new variants of the venerable M16 platform, the Mark-16 and Mark-17 (Mk16/Mk17), respectively. Correction – they’re getting the FN SCAR rifle. From this story on CNN, the detail that will probably interest the most people here is that the Mk17 is a 7.62 NATO...
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Prince Henry serving in combat

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February 28, 2008

Prince Harry has been on the front lines and seen action in Afghanistan. He was deployed 10 weeks ago, in secrecy, so as to not generate the media storm that came with his potential deployment to Iraq several months ago. “As far as I’m concerned I’m out here as a normal JTAC on the...
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They make it look so easy

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February 28, 2008

Coast Guard Fifth District helicopter rescue video, two guys stranded on a 140 foot high tower.  That is not an easy rescue by any standards, and their ability to pull those guys out is a testament to the skill of the pilot, the cable operator, and the AST on the end of the cable....
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MagPul SHOT coverage

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February 28, 2008

I didn’t cover too much from MagPul at SHOT ’08.  Lucky for you guys, someone else did; and Sebastian has the videos at his place.
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Greatest hits

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February 28, 2008

The truly hilarious VPC Blog just keeps cracking me up.  The post about John Browning: Dastardly Mormon is hilarious. It also reminded of my favorite satire piece that I wrote, Gun Control Circa 1782.  Honestly, I had more fun writing that than I did a lot of my other posts, and it was doubly...
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Stayin’ classy

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February 28, 2008

Way to be, SailorCurt.  That’s how it’s done. We’re all bound to disagree eventually, but it’s how we comport ourselves during and after such disagreements that shows our nature.  That’s staying classy.
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Guns and Alcohol

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February 28, 2008

Still don’t mix.  GunPundit links to a letter in an Arizona paper where the letter writer is concerned about a proposed Arizona law that would allow carry in bars, provided the person carrying isn’t imbibing.  As usual, the letter portrays gun owners and permit holders as trigger happy maniacs, and assumes that we would...
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Two gun control bills in Illinois House

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February 28, 2008

Two bills passed out of committee in Illinois yesterday, one was an assault weapons ban, and the other was a proposal to limit people to one-handgun-a-month purchases (like Virginia). The debate was pretty much the usual attempts to portray semi-automatic rifles as “military style assault weapons”, amongst the usual hand wringing and histrionics that...
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