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June 12, 2019
PINNING AND NO LONGER PINING
PINNING AND NO LONGER PINING Regular readers of this blog know that its writer, who shot the great old Second Chance match for some 24 years until its cancellation in 1998, pined for it thereafter until it was reinstated as … Read more
June 7, 2019
RE: THE VIRGINIA MURDERER
Ah, me, once again the Prohibitionists want to take away the property of the innocent as if that will somehow impact the guilty. Once again, a respected citizen, a municipal employee, snaps and commits mass murder with ordinary handguns he … Read more
June 3, 2019
GREAT ADVICE TO AVOID RUINING HANDGUNS
Bill Wilson and Ken Hackathorn are two of the most knowledgeable “gun guys” out there. I’m proud to have known them both for decades and to call them friends. They have a great series on Wilson Combat’s YouTube channel titled, … Read more
May 30, 2019
OF GUNS, “PREPPING,” AND MATH
One of our blog readers, Terry Fossler, brought this excellent essay to our attention. It’s more than worth the time it will take you to read it, particularly if you follow the wise practice of preparing for the worst while … Read more
May 26, 2019
ON MEMORIAL DAY
It is a day when we celebrate the uniformed heroes who first won, and then preserved, our freedom. It is significant that the first of those were the patriots of the American Revolution, who for the most part brought their … Read more
May 23, 2019
THE SHOTGUNS IN THE CLOSET…
Flying home from a murder trial a few days ago, I read the book “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep. Harper Lee, you’ll recall, wrote the iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” … Read more
May 20, 2019
PASSAGES: DENNY REICHARD
This month we lost Denny Reichard of Rochester, Indiana, who has been mentioned in these pages many times. He was a cop for 36 years, the last decade of that on an artificial leg due to a line-of-duty injury. As … Read more
May 16, 2019
THE GUN DEBATE: SOME POINTS TO REVIEW
What is the most contentious and persistent socio-legal policy debate in the United States? It’s probably a tie between “gun control” and abortion. The latter is not within my purview as the firearms editor for Backwoods Home magazine, which hosts … Read more
May 12, 2019
MORE GOOD GUNS CHEAP
We live in a golden age of quality firearms which, when adjusted for inflation, require proportionally less of our income to purchase than their predecessor models cost our parents and grandparents. Offered as evidence: the Springfield Armory’s new Defender 9mm … Read more
May 7, 2019
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE MASSES WERE CRIMINALIZED
Assorted prohibitionists have of late become more strident in their demands that certain firearms be banned, and their owners declared felons and imprisoned if they failed to turn theirs in. Some of the most radical have suggested that such a … Read more
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