Daily Archives: April 4, 2008

BAG Day Reminder

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April 4, 2008

11 days and counting until BAG Day – time to coalesce your wish list from the fifteen guns that are currently on it down to one or two or five candidates.  Here’s what I’m looking at for BAG Day, in no particular order: 2 Colt Jr .25 ACP pistols The Tactical Folding Stock M1...
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Way to go Wyoming

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April 4, 2008

The courts in Wyoming have decided to slap the federal government around for overstepping its legal boundaries. The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has...
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Paul Helmke is a witch

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April 4, 2008

Because apparently, he can speak with the dead and therefore know exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have wanted to say today. Thirdpower hits it right on the head with this: I think MLK would be more concerned w/ why inner city students have a 51.8% graduation rate. 90% Black on Black...
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Gun Smuggler arrested in Arizona

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April 4, 2008

Remember those reports I scoffed at about guns being purchased in the US and smuggled into Mexico?  It appears that I was at least half-wrong; guns are being bought in the US and smuggled into Mexico, so I was wrong about that.  What I was right about was the guns were not being purchased...
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Live Blog Event on Downrange.TV

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April 4, 2008

Check out Michael Bane’s blog for the time; going to be covering some stuff with Crimson Trace and the new Ruger LCP.
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HB 89 still alive in Georgia

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April 4, 2008

The concealed carry reform bill in Georgia, which had been shipped off to negotiators where many assumed it would die seems to have had some new life breathed into it; “insiders” say that it may come out of negotiations today. Despite it being gutted by the Senate, the amendments added on to the bill...
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Straw Purchases

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April 4, 2008

A woman in Baltimore was arrested for making an actual straw purchase. In the court documents, Brzezenski admitted to signing the forms for the purchase of the Taurus but that her boyfriend selected the weapon and paid for it on his credit card. The woman’s boyfriend is a drug dealer, hence why said straw...
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