Diagnosing your busted Vatican…

Remember, black smoke from the Vatican means the mixture’s too rich and white smoke from the Vatican means it’s burning oil.

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Meme Dump…

Big Bada Boom...

Handguns chambered in 5.7x28mm tend to be noisy, and up to now every one I've fired... FN Five-SeveN, M&P 5.7, Ruger-5.7...has had a barrel five inches long or thereabouts.

The PR-57 from Kel-Tec has a four inch tube and the increase in muzzle blast and flash is noticeable.

There's a code in my indoor range pictures. If you see the orange TQ on the PHLster Flatpack tourniquet carrier, there are other patrons using the indoor range. If not, I've got the bay to myself.

Yesterday the range was crowded and I was using lane 11 in the rifle bay. It was hard to distinguish between the muzzle blast of the PR-57 and the dude shooting a 5.56 AR in lane 12.

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Monday Meme Day...

Tab Clearing...

• Apparently seasteading is in the news again.


• Are em dashes a sign of ChatGPT-generated content, or just a literate and very correct writer? (I tend to be extremely casual about typography and layout here at VFTP, while Bobbi is a stickler for correct formatting at her blog.)


• "If you have nothing to hide, citizen, you have nothing to fear!": More antics from the party of small government and personal freedom. A bunch of script kiddies amalgamating a bunch of previously siloed federal databases into a single point of failure is a breathtakingly bad idea and an irresistible target for future abuse.

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Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #255...

Coming soon to the pages of Shooting Illustrated, a full review of the Ruger RXM, seen here sporting a Trijicon SRO with the 2.5 MOA dot.

Between the true swappable chassis system, the shape and texture of the gripframe, and the optic mounting system, this thing's a legitimately Product Improved Gen3 Glock 19.

I don't want to spoiler it here, but... well, I'm probably buying the test gun and may tote it for six months to a year and run it in classes and some matches.

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The Meme Also Rises...

Tab Clearing...

• Why you'll never see me type "Remember to mash that Like button and subscribe!"


• If I had a bajillion dollars and built a custom home, it sure wouldn't look like a suburban municipal library circa 1998.


• It's that time of year again.

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Meme Dump…

It’s a Good Friday for Memes…

Meme Dump...

Tab Clearing...

• Robocop: Look, there in your modem! It's a fed! It's a bot! It's both!


• Remember when Republicans decried using the IRS as a political weapon? Good times.


• I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but it looks like Fyre Festival 2: Electric Boogaloo is shaping up to be yet another fraud fest.

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Meme Dump...

Ghoulish...

There's a service called InTouch that'll have an AI call your elderly parents if you can't be arsed.

Called inTouch, the service uses an AI generated voice so your parent receives a phone call in which they can talk to the AI about, for example, how their day is going, their hobbies, and how they’re feeling. An AI-generated summary of the conversation is then sent to the child or whoever setup the account, and includes a visual indicator of their state of mind, such as “bad mood” or “neutral mood.”

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