Joe responds to the Brady Campaign’s ridiculous candlelight vigil with a cool video.

Update: Symbolic of the effort.

She’s not the biggest fan but realizes that women are arming themselves. And they should.

Good discussion and good ideas. Thoughts?

The Avanti. For something that looks like that, I’d expect more than 240HP.

$50 off and free shipping on a Duracell DPP-600HD Powerpack 600 Jump Starter & Emergency Power Source with Radio

Tam:

“2,750 At Least (Because I Lost Count At Blogorado) Round Challenge”. Still no malfs.

I’ve not had any malfunctions either but I’m only at about the 500 round mark.

Remington to refurbish M24 rifles for non-military, commercial sales.

And you’re outnumbered. So, no, you’re not voting your way out of this.

A placeholder of recipes I need to try:

Asparagus Blue Cheese Soup

Slow Cooker Thai Chicken Soup

Pickled Brussels Sprouts

A round up of internet gun contests.

Gun control kills jobs.

For a new ban on weapons that look like assault rifles?

Shorter Josh Horwitz: If I overly complicate things and make stuff up, gun sales aren’t up as much as those evil gun lobby people in the press would have you believe.

Or something.

The Zombie Apocalypse Store!

Zombie gun cleaning system

Local editorial about the TN arrested for going strapped in NYC:

Graves, an educated professional, is cast in the role of an aw-shucking, dunderheaded hillbilly, down from the hollers where the folks all pack heat.

New York City, America’s hometown during the Twin Towers tragedy, presents itself as an effete enclave where rampant fear and liberalism have gnawed to death all signs of common sense.

Are they coming back? Well, they never went away but they weren’t as seemingly popular as the pocket 380s.

A gunblogger poem

A MAC in 5.7

New custom and made of wood

Micor 50 bullpup

You got some Magpul on your AR.

At some point today or maybe yesterday, this little blog hit 7,000,000 visitors. So, go team me!

Update: And you too. Because, really, you helped.

Weerd says to light a candle and carry a gun to stop violence, lots of pics there. Ok, here’s mine:

I don’t think people posting crappy cell phone pics of candles will do much. But carrying a gun helps.

Some will get it.

Go here, scroll up to the sky. I for one welcome our new pliers overlord.

In gold and silver. Slick looking. Via reader David.

It will go well with my transformer jump drive.

As “America’s top gunblogger“, I get lots of emails from companies and people in the gun and gun accessories business. I get every thing, including product launches, press releases, fundraising requests, sales notifications, and the occasional “this is secret, don’t release it, wink wink”. Now, I do appreciate it and will, generally, mention new products. This is a gun blog after all. And, I’ve met a lot of you and like you and am happy to help get the word out.

The trouble with the emails is that, well, you could be more effective. So, some tips:

Don’t send them on Friday. People start wrapping up the work week and, often, leave early on those days. So, traffic is down. The rest of the week is when traffic is higher. Have a look. I’d avoid Mondays too since people are catching up at the office and have no time to waste on the company dime. And the people at work are, generally, who your audience is going to be. And the weekends are horrible. Midweek seems to work best.

Don’t send files. Put the info in the text of the email. Though, if you feel compelled to use a file, use MS Word and don’t send PDFs, which are hard to copy.

If you have images, host them somewhere.

Also, you could send me a link to the release hosted at your place. Then, I don’t have to host the files, copy and paste, or other stuff. As a bonus, I’ll drive traffic to your site.

If you really want some publicity, send it to me as an actual scoop. Getting the press release when I’ve already seen it in the X Wire pretty much means it’s not a scoop.

So, there you go.

I am posting this on Friday because, apparently, that’s when PR people read blogs.

In Newark, turn in your gun owning neighbors, and get $1,000:

What could possibly go wrong?

You may have noticed that stuff you clean isn’t as clean as it used to be. Your clothes and dishes, namely. Your soaps these days just aren’t as efficient. And, as with most inefficiencies, it came about by government intervention. See, a bit back government busybodies with nothing better to do than to tell you what to do banned the use of phosphates in detergents. This goes for laundry and dish detergents. This glass just came from my dishwasher:

Look at it. It looks disgusting. I’m assured it’s clean by nanny state busybodies. It’s filmy and not real inviting if I offer a guest a beverage. I also noticed that the bottom of my daily coffee mug had what looked to be stains on the bottom of it. Then, I applied some elbow grease and realized it wasn’t stain, it was coffee residue. And it just came from the dishwasher. When it comes to laundry, my whites aren’t as white and my colors aren’t as bright.

So, we’re making our own laundry and dish detergent. There’s a variety of recipes on the internet and we’re going to try a few. I’ll let you know how they do. As a bonus, we figure we can do about 120 loads of laundry for $20. Haven’t made my own dish detergent yet but I’m awaiting my shipment of citric acid. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Also, turn up your water heater. I spend a lot of time undoing what government does.

And, hey, it annoys busy bodies.

I’ll let you know how it goes and post the recipes when we finalize them.

Cowboys & Aliens:

Independence Day
With many western cliches
Need more syllables

I don’t know what ‘diablo gold’ is. But some spammer moron has been hitting the comments section. So, if yours was one of the 1,468 spam comments I’ve moderated into oblivion in the last 24 hours, sorry about that.

Boston.com looks at the Fast and Furious predecessor. Except it’s not.

Also, gunwalker has its own wikipedia page. I did not know that.

Buying silence from the conspirators?