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So there's been a lot of nattering on the gunblogs about the Department of Education's purchase of 14" Remington 870s, compl...

Your daily dose of Dada . (H/T to Breda .)

Hey, remember when liberals were so all-fired “concerned” about illegitimate rule by Executive Order, circumventing the usual legislative pr...

I'm a moderately active pistol shooter. In the last two years I've taken two three-day handgun courses, one with Todd Jarrett at Bla...

Haisong Jiang, a PhD candidate who moved to America from China, perhaps to get away from a paranoid, control-freak government, has plead gui...

If the authorities are reading this, I want them to know that I am not at all disgruntled . I am as gruntled as gruntled can be. If ever I f...

The EMA Tactical CountDown mag : If I've got time to look at my magazine and check its little gas gauge, I'm thinking I've proba...

With all eyes on McDonald v. Chicago and its implications for our Second Amendment rights, it's interesting to note that the Supremes h...

The Department of Fish & Game won't let you shoot Bambi with full metal jacketed 7.62x51mm M80 ball because it would be inhumane. Th...

On this date in 1804, the French flag was lowered in St. Louis, soon-to-be-MO, and the U.S. flag was raised. The Spanish lieutenant governor...

A bad economy only slightly deterred Americans from flocking to cosmetic procedures last year. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic S...

Another 5+ miles on the bicycles today, running an errand and grabbing a bite at Panera Bread for lunch. (Riding a bicycle to eat at Panera;...

Hypnagogue in comments here : The problem with biometric ID cards is that they can be forged. Without strong encryption, this is folly. With...

As Frank James points out , biometric National Identification cards are about as sure a way to flip out a plurality of the population as I c...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that the standard for a Terry frisk is whether the officer reasonably suspects the person is “armed an...

One well-known trainer has opined that, with the increasing popularity of "tactical training", it seems like half everybody who...

When you can get your tramp stamp in the mall , twenty feet away from the people buying Snuggies and ShamWows, it's a sign that the fad ...

I have done some hare-brained things on motorcycles before in my life, many of them at Warp Factor 9, but these guys are lunatics. My palms ...

With the mercury flirting with the 60 degree mark today, Roomie and I saddled up the bicycles and took a leisurely ride to the grocery store...

I've had the weirdest little hit-and-run troll pop up in my comments section. I don't get a lot of 'em, but this one's a doo...