Category Archives: Guns

To My Brothers and Sisters Up North

Even compared to the worst states in the Union, Canada has horrible gun laws. And like most gun control laws they are both ineffective, and result in innocent people getting killed. A Canadian only needs to look to the South … Continue reading →

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NRA Show Must Have

There are two guns that I saw at the NRA Convention that made me FLIP, one was the FNH SCAR-17 that I talked about on Vicious Circle #50 and I’ll probably be doing a brief review of later. The other … Continue reading →

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Bring me the Straw Man!!

Uncle links a Brady post. If you really want to read the screed, go through him. I can’t be bothered to divert traffic to that particular puss-filled part of the internet. But I’ll do up some quotes: We came across … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

“I grew up believing guns were bad,” he continues. “That’s what my parents taught me. But they also taught me to read. That was their first mistake.” Go read the rest of the article, its quite good. I just liked … Continue reading →

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Wild Western Europe

Hey, can anybody tell me, even in Hollywood myth, a scenario in the “Wild West” where somebody rode through 5 towns murdering a dozen people, wounding over a dozen more, and never once encountering the lease bit of resistance. Then … Continue reading →

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WORKS GREAT

More on the UK shooting which has now killed 12: “Then he turned round and stared at me and he just had this absolutely huge sniper rifle. It was almost touching the floor, with a massive scope,” he told the … Continue reading →

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Gun Control: Works Good!

I complained here about the fruitlessness of British Gun control. This is why: A taxi driver described as quiet but friendly went on a shooting spree across a picturesque rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, killing at least five … Continue reading →

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Losing Arguments

Bit of a combo post. First a reference to a post by Sebastian Talks about the press to revoke Finnish gun rights. The Finns, like most Europeans are quick to fall back on “Sporting” uses of guns. Of course just … Continue reading →

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Today’s DGU: Alaska

The Armed Citizen Links this interesting story: A backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with his handgun in Alaska’s Denali National Park, officials said. A man and woman reported that they were hiking Friday evening when the bear emerged … Continue reading →

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Mistaken Identity

These Guys Gave a link to This Nonsense Look Bucky, cases like This are controversial, but you know what, no matter what the controversy the dude who pulls out something that looks like a gun when the police (or a … Continue reading →

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