Bullets feed the hungry too!

Kel Tec to expand manufacturing operations.

For NRA Board of Directors, from bitter.

UFC mixed martial arts events have banned firearms, ammo and knife companies from events sponsored at Zuffa promoted events. I’d boycott it but I don’t watch it anyway.

Statement from Fox

Harold Chrismon’s Death Grips

SHOT Day 2

More SHOT day 2

FN57

Because nothing says “Home Defense” like a crew-served weapon.

Apparently, after the state of the union (not good, btw), a panel will take questions from twitter and facebook. And there’s some good questions to be asked about ATF and Fast and Furious. You can use the #SOTU or you can go to Sean’s where he has some links you can click to do it automagically.

I added ShareThis so people can share posts and such in their InterWebNetSocialMediaTwitterVerses. On the main page, it looks fine. But on a link to a single post, the buttons show up twice. Any ideas?

Update: all better.

Mexico is Immune to Tornados

My son’s went tango uniform. And we could have replaced the disc drive or buy another. It was less painful and not much more expensive to just buy another. So, I have this old Wii and the disc drive works some times. Any cool ideas of what I can do with it?

A few weeks back, my five year old son informed me and the wife that he wanted a Wii game called Skylanders. Having just given him no less than eleventy billion toys for Christmas, we said no. He, then, informed us that he had his own money and asked if he could buy it with that. Sure. I hop on Amazon and order it. I tell him that it will be here in a couple of days. He looks frustrated because he wants it now. He then turns the laptop around and shows me Target’s webpage and says “Target has them. We can just go there and pick one up.”

A five year old who can’t clean his room, fold his own laundry, or remember to flush the toilet can hop on the internet and tell you that the local Target store has an item in stock. I like living in the future but not that much.

I received a copy of a letter from Andrew M. Molchan of the American Firearms Industry and publisher of the American Firearms Industry Magazine. Well, used to be. Seems the magazine has stopped publishing for a few reasons outlined in the letter:

I stopped publishing AFI for a number of reason. First, 90% of all print media: magazines, newspapers, books, trade shows, etc., are obsolete. Although AFI was still the best home on the block, the entire block was going downhill fast. Frankly, the product (AFI) no longer represented what I thought was good value for our clients. In my opinion, ALL of the gun publications, including AFI, no longer represented good value for the money.

Twenty years ago, AFI would have its special January AFI SHOW Issue, and get over 200,000 inquires. They were all real inquires for a specific company & product. No funny games. AFI helped to make several start-up companies successful. However, by 2010 it was clear that the landscape had radically changed, and the Business Model for print trade magazines, and specialized gun magazines in general, and trade shows, was obsolete.

95% of all magazines have significantly LESS circulation today than 15 years ago. Most trade shows are dying. The very over priced SHOT Show’s days are numbered. Sales, advertising and marketing are all moving to the Internet that has proven itself to be much MORE effective, and for a lot LESS money.

While I agree with the general sentiment, seems there’s still good marketing potential in magazines. As I’ve said before, the day a gun blog can get $20K for a front page ad for a month is the day I’ll believe all this internet superiority is really real.

Emily Miller bought a gun in DC.

Seems they’re concerned about the recent spate of invasions from the war on drugs.

Citizens of California used to lawfully carry unloaded handguns openly. Then, the legislature passed a law banning that. In response, citizens started openly carrying unloaded rifles and shotguns instead. Now, as predicted, comes a proposal to ban the open carrying of unloaded long arms.

The anti-gun folks are still sulking because Starbucks chooses to respect the civil rights of its patrons and allows the carry of firearms in their stores. As such, they are organizing a boycott of Starbucks on February 14. Why it’s just one day, I do not know. I guess anti-gunners drink a lot of Starbucks. As a response, it’s time for Starbucks Appreciation day where those of us on the side of civil rights will go and purchase some overpriced coffee and pastries in support of their decision.

More from Gay Cynic:

A buycott of gratitude, where we go out of our way to spend at Starbucks as enthusiastically as we can – by preference open carrying where legal and practical, concealed carry where it’s not, and for those desperate lands of greater and lesser Mordor where carry is not an option for the average peon (for surely they cannot be citizens in such a land) simply spending – but in all cases making a point of thanking counter staff for their corporations stand against bigotry and discrimination against law abiding persons.

Bonnie and Clyde’s guns.

For the children: Rapid fire archery!

This is a man’s gun.

Yesterday, I mentioned the ResQMe, Dan has a review. In comments to my original post, Stan recommends the Gerber Hinderer Rescue Knife, which he says does all the same stuff and more.

Booby traps from the Vietnam war.

A review, at American Rifleman.

I have an idea! Let’s take an agitated bull, rig his horns so they’re on fire, then turn him loose on crowded city streets.

Go Foods, makers of foods designed for 25 years of storage, are giving away free samples.

But the size of the fight in the woman: 85 year old woman stops moose attack with shovel.

Police justification for buying a .50 caliber. Just tell the truth, you bought it because it’s pretty fucking cool. And, hey, they bought a pretty cool one: Zel Custom.

Oh and NASA has a SWAT team. You know, for aliens.

SHOT show was a record breaker, must be from letting all that new media in.

The inside of a suppressor

RRA Polymer 1911. I do wonder the deal here. Seems that most folks who love their 1911 do so because it’s not polymer. Well, at least that’s one of the reasons listed for liking the old warhorse.

C-More M26 MASS

SHOT AAR

This, I want.

JP carbine. Looks like an 9mm AR that takes Glock mags.

This keeps happening, travelers getting busted in NYC with guns. Man claiming to be a Navy SEAL arrested with a gun in NYC. Cops throw him in psych ward for claiming he’s a SEAL. Turns out, he really is.

Some semblance of common sense returns: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

Do not stand in doorways. And when someone happens along and politely says “pardon me”, don’t look at them like you’re trying to figure out who the stupid person is. It’s you.