A town in NJ booted its entire city council after an eminent domain abuse land grab

Dragon Leatherworks has opened up a retail space

Nevada governor vetoes dumbe background check law

Assault stick.

A salt rifle

Why another caliber? I’d just ask Libertarian Chicken. He knows.

Browning Hi Power

Seems the actress and the prettiest Starbuck lost half her twitter followers in one day because she spoke about gun safety. And I mean gun safety in the real gun safety way, not the fake way that anti-gun people have tried to make the phrase synonymous with gun control. And she was attacked by her anti-gun following. After the backlash, she got about 40,000 back. You know, the smart ones that can intelligently discuss gun safety.

Good for her for sticking to her guns.

I’ve been enjoying listening to The Rude Awakening in the mornings on WKVL (with hot facebook on facebook action here). I wish, though, that they’d go FM because AM kind of stinks.

It’s a good, thought-provoking show that discusses current political happenings. They even have a handy smart phone app so that you can, basically, comment on their show like you would a blog. I’ve sent a couple of messages to them correcting certain factual errors made, such as when Shine said there was not right to vote mentioned in the constitution or the time he said the Senate can’t enforce it’s actions or the law. And, unlike other hosts you correct, they read both corrections on the air and thanked me. I’ve even heard Steve call in on a few occasions.

Beats the other news/talk shows and definitely beats music circa 2013.

So, if you’re local, give them a listen.

Tennessee has a Department of Homeland Security. For all those terror attacks we have. Surprising to me also is that the agency in charge of the war on some noun now administers handgun carry permits. That sounds like mission creepy.

Using metadata to find Paul Revere.

Forget 3D printing, shotgun made from a caulk gun

Lego figures are getting angrier!

A buyback for toy guns. The stupid is strong here.

Professor killed by woman with stiletto heel

I’m not a technical gun expert. I’m not a competitive shooting expert. I’m not a self-defense expert. I’m not a gun law expert. I’m not a gun history expert. In fact, I’m not an expert on just about anything I blog about. The few things I am actually an expert on consist of accounting, finance, accounting information systems, building spec houses, and I’m an expert on stuff Chance likes. And, frankly, all of those except the last one are boring and no one would read a blog about them. So, when it comes to experts on this stuff, I know some and defer to them. For instance, for people who know gun laws, I’d probably hit up this guy or this guy. For competition, this guy. For history and general knowledge, this girl. Training, probably this guy. General self-defense, this guy. I could go on naming names but the point is I know who to take seriously and, while I appreciate the input of others, I’m inclined to go with who I know over unknowns.

The fact is, I’m not an operator operating in operations operationally. I’m no where close to operatingest*. And most people on the internet are also not operators. I’m guessing the number of actual operators who post operations on the internet is about zero since operators spend all their time operating.

I’m someone who does other stuff and happens to like guns, carry guns, and mess around with wizbang tactical gizmos. It’s fun. A hobby. It also has the benefit of saving my or someone else’s life some day. Mostly, I’m just a guy who says smart ass things on the internet. And I make a little ad money from it.

Point is, be careful who you listen to out there. I’m no expert, but I’ve encountered this before.

* Told you I was stealing that.

In Boulder, police can enter your home if you don’t lock the door.

Spent all day with my son and wife at Splash Country, doing the water park thing. On the way back, I stopped by The Local Butcher Shop and Market to refresh my supply of duck eggs (which, by the way, are awesome), grab some grass fed ribeyes for dinner, and picked up other assorted knickknacks (namely, the fresh from the farm bacon). After being home a bit, I see that I am tagged on a Facebook and it didn’t register because it wasn’t my wife tagging me in 87 pictures from Splash Country, none of which I was in. The Local Butcher Shop left me a message telling me that my son had left his toys there and to call the store to come pick them up.

Now, that’s service, right there.

The best tactical pen on the market! I love my TacPens but even they can’t do that.

Not sure the last time I bought a hat. Being a gunblogger of some renown, I just always seem to get them. Each time I go to some shindig, I manage to leave with a whole lot of hats.

Now, I’ve managed to get non gun hats. I get most of my supplies for the business from 84 lumber. One day, while at Lowe’s where I pick up stuff that I have to have right now, they gave me a free hat. One day, I was wearing my hat when my 84 Lumber rep showed up and shook his head. He grabbed an 84 Lumber hat from his truck and said here you go. And, today, I was at Home Depot, who is the only place on earth that sells one particular thing I always need, I was wearing my Lowe’s hat. As I checked out, the contractor salesperson reached under the counter and handed me a Home Depot hat.

Hats attract other hats.

A Boba Fett holster. Hell yeah

Chewbacca actor has a lightsaber cane. Also, the TSA was not a fan of it.

And, lastly, on the press misspells wookiee.

Kids need to deal with it: “My Dad is in jail”: Sesame Street Teaches Kids About America’s Incarceration Epidemic

Sad.

and raise you gun giveaways.

Hey, it’s giving away free stuff, sounds like liberals would support it.

1903 Colt Pocket Hammer semi-automatic pistol

Because they’re fun

Challenges them to learn what the Hell they’re talking about.

Vintage firearm teaching aids

Guess the shooter’s name!

So, let’s see here, carrying a gun in Cali is illegal. Carrying onto a school, also illegal. And carrying in a library, illegal. But one more law should do it!

And, judging from the pics, he had a black powder revolver and an AR-15 upper. Just an upper was shown in the police pics. However, the video of him walking in shows what looks like an AR. I’m sure it had a bullet button and was Cali legal.

428,919 active Tennessee Handgun Carry Permits

Right here, from the folks at The Firearm Blog. And you can win stuff!

Second verse, same as the first

We believe the ITC’s final determination has confirmed Apple’s history of free-riding on Samsung’s technological innovations

But the interesting bit is this: The ruling could also be reversed by a US presidential order within 60 days.

Judges? We don’t need no stinking judges.