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The NYT can’t even write an unbiased article about the A Liberal Case for Gun Rights but instead prefaces the article with two out right falsehoods. The first being there have been no gun laws overturned strictly on 2nd Amendment grounds and the second being the there was ever a consensus anywhere but liberal achademia […]

Thanks to Greg there are 2 new shops on the list of central Indiana gun shops. Be sure to check them out.

Some time back I picked up a set of DSA short handguards and packed them off with an Imbel barrel to be properly hacked up. I won’t go into depth on the long road that it’s been but suffice it to say the Imbel barrel simply wasn’t adaquate to the task and finding a worthy […]

The evening news on WXIN Fox 59 just reported a guy robbed a bank with a Tec-9 “semi-automatic machinegun” then continued to refer to the weapon as a machinegun through the rest of the story. Oh and a guy robbed a bank.

When it comes to 7.62NATO battle rifles most know my opinion but I’d still love to put a Kel-Tec bullpup through the wringer. I’d like a closer look at those mags as they look very much like FAL mags. Considering FAL mags can still be had cheap and that one of the newer […]

The DC courts handed down a decision in the Parker case today which has me thinking Christmas came late. Witness, logic :
In determining whether the Second Amendment’s guarantee is an individual one, or some sort of collective right, the most important word is the one the drafters chose to describe the holders of the right—“the […]

Sometime in the last several years Indiana has made the .243 diameter bullet acceptable and reference to maximum case length seems to have disappeared as well. At the same time the rules proposed for this year to allow pistol cartridge rifles for deer still reflects the old numbers I’m familiar with, minumum .357 diameter and […]

Mikhail Kalashnikov is bemoaning the fact that the father land gave away AK’s to 3rd world countries like they were candy. I wonder where he’s been since 1945….
I’ll eave it for you to decide which I believe illicit, the arms or the arms treaty…

Everyone has heard the old adage about outlawing guns and only outlaws will have guns. Yet it it often ridiculed as trite propoganda by the anti-gun crowd. But despite their dismissal of it the truth of it is easily evident.

I received a note from Jim over at Tru-Cast Bullets this morning making me aware of his existence so add to my Cast Bullet Manufacturers list. The 2007 shooting season isn’t as far off as we may think so now is the time to start getting ready. So take a moment and review Jim’s […]

An interesting article in the UK Times on the rise of shooting as a networking tool. It appears they’re talking about a British Sporting Clays style game and I can personally attest to how much fun Sporting Clays is even for novices and non-shotgun oriented shooters like myself. So I see the value of it […]

Techies and especially Canadian techies aren’t typically the type you’d find at the range anywhere let alone in Manhattan. But it looks like maybe we’re making some headway as one of Wired’s writers makes a 4-week quest to shoot straighter. It is difficult to tell from the article if he’s shooting a pistol or […]

When President Bush was campaigning for office he clearly stated that he would sign the renewal of the Semi-Auto ban if it got to his desk. A lot of us took that as “like you’ll ever get that to my desk anyway”. Once elected (like it was an option for Gun Owners to vote […]

Yet again the media is selective about who’s rights they recognize as legitimate though most of the time they’re on the opposite side of logic anyway. And the Second Amendment has long been on their “ignore” list. Case in point, it seems they feel the public has a right to know who owns […]

I have had this open to post for a couple of weeks; interestingly enough our boys in the sandbox have found that the silly toy Silly String has some real urban combat uses.
Specifically they spray it across choke points during close quarters battle to indicate trip wires commonly used by the enemy to trigger IED’s. […]

After a rash of judge shootings a few years ago more Judges are packing court. I think this is a positive step mainly in social acceptance of the fact that law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once and ultimately they’re only responsible for filing the follow up report anyway.
At the same time […]

If you ever need an example of why the UN is bad how about their voting against the world’s right to self defense? What this effectively means is that if you follow the UN’s decrees you can buy firearms but if you recognize the UN is a 2-bit dictators club reaching for control of […]

Police serving a drug related search warrant on a 92 year old woman had to shoot her to serve the warrant. Besides the implication of the police acting on bad information and shooting a harmless 92 year old woman (harmless like granny in Every Which Way But Loose apparently).
Much to the dismay of the […]

It is sad that in England an honest shop owner cannot own a pistol to keep under his counter but a 14 year old gir can get sub machineguns for a drug gang. Society focuses entirely too much on law that curbs the rights of the citizenry because it’s easier than actually catching crooks. […]

Looks like at least some New Yorkers have had enough of Bloomberg’s and New York’s antics where private ownership of guns is concerned. Bloomberg, proving once again the Republicans will let anyone in the party (like John McCain wasn’t evident enough).

Yup, the Indy Star is again showing it’s ignorance. Their staff Op-Ed today looks like it was written by the Brady Campaign: Disturbing the peace of gun-free parks .
So far, Indiana’s application of the Second Amendment has pleased the NRA and kept the state above the national average in gun-related deaths. Opening the public’s […]

The Indiana Department of Naturual Resources director Kyle Hupfer has announce a 1 year reprieve on the policy which bans Hoosiers from carrying their concealed handguns in state parks.
“We’re a society of rights,” he said, “and it’s a basic constitutional right of citizens to bear arms, and any restrictions on that need to […]

We could end up having all firearms classified as “machine guns” even if they cannot fire a single round because of the ATF changing its mind on things already classified and ruled on. What that means is if you were to get a letter from them saying that it’s OK to build something a certain […]

Just a thought… but if the courts have deemed it illegal to charge a poll tax which could deny people their Constitutional rights.. why is it then OK to charge a citizen to live by his Second Amendment rights? Is it not simply a type of poll tax?
Remember that the poll taxes were originally […]

Looking at the front runners, so far, for the 2008 Republican nomination is not good for my digestion. The only light at the end of that dark tunnel, other than the train coming at us full speed, is that many others are also aware of how bad it could be for gun owners. First […]