Category Archives: Guns

Dreadnoughts

Posted on April 3, 2013 | Comments Off on Dreadnoughts

Actually, it’s the U.S. battlewagons of 1945, entering Lingayen Gulf in the Phillipines. You can tell the war by that bedsprings thingie perched atop the mast of the battleship in the foreground—an early iteration of radar. Notice the guns trained up. By 1945, Japanese fighter-bombers were their deadliest foe. Apropos of nothing, though it’s too bad they were scrapped. They could help sober the latest North Korean bombast. Click on pix to biggerize.

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Posted in Guns, Library, Sailing, Science/Engineering, Troops

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Beating the white supremacist drum

Posted on April 2, 2013 | Comments Off on Beating the white supremacist drum

[Updated below]

The snooze media, when it’s not sucking up to our imperial president, his cronies and political party (for you newly arrived illegal immigrants, that would be the Democrats), likes to emphasize our political hyphenation of the past several decades. You know, the multiculturalism nonsense (all cultures are equal; none are superior to any other) that’s supposed to (somehow) make minorities feel better about themselves if they happen to come from a (clearly) backward culture.

Thus the recent killing of the district attorney and his wife in their home in North Texas is, the ever-mendacious NYTimes and cBS assure us, the probable work of the “white supremacist” group the Aryan Brotherhood.  (When it comes to brotherhoods the only one the snooze media likes is the radical Muslim version.)

As Wretchard points out in one of his usual understated blog postings, white supremacism is the snooze media’s favorite hobby horse because it excites their multiculturalist chums. After the Tea Party, perhaps. And gun owners are somewhere on the list. But snoozers have been flogging the gun owners recently and before that the Tea Party. So now, apparently, it’s time (to continue mixing metaphors) to beat the white supremacist drum again. All of which are much easier than thinking or actually working, two things the snooze media tries really hard to avoid and almost always succeeds.

Especially when the probable reason for the DA’s murder is (as usual) staring them in the face. It’s one of the big three. The big three any cop will tell you is the usual reason for murder: sex, drugs or money. Wait and see. The odds are it’ll be one of them, not white supremacism at all. And the snooze media will act like they never doubted it from the beginning and go back to picking on the gun owners.

UPDATE:  Indeed, by April 19, a former justice of the peace and his wife have been charged with the crime, neither of them Tea Party or Aryan Brotherhood members. Nor organizers of a dramatic “hit.” Just plain vanilla murderers, apparently over money. Big surprise.

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Why not San Francisco, Kim?

Posted on March 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Why not San Francisco, Kim?

It’s closer to North Korea, whose idiot dictator apparently has targeted our fair village on the Texas Colorado for the reception of one of his new photoshopped ICBMs.

Perhaps he is enraged at Austin’s recent banning of plastic bags, which might be (unbeknownst to us all) a North Korean product? Presumably they produce something besides bombast, phony photographs and comical military uniforms.

Or is it that our Leftism is sullied by too many military retirees of a conservative bent? Fear not, Jong-un, their electoral power is negligible. In any case, the worm should turn his paper trajectories more to the northwest and bombard the more populated San Francisco. It is even less purely Socialistic, amply demonstrated by its unanimous support of gay marriage, surely a threat to manly Marxist paradises everywhere.

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The Ammunition Myth

Posted on March 8, 2013 | Comments Off on The Ammunition Myth

I’m not getting excited about all those chain emails I’ve been getting shrieking about reports of federal ammo buying—hundreds of thousands of rounds here, millions of round there—because I know something more important.

Which is that while federal agents may feel free to push around the occasional unlucky individual, they aren’t crazy enough to take on even ten percent of the population. A very well-armed population.

So I wasn’t surprised to see this pretty good explanation of the phenom:

“And why does the USDA need 320,000 rounds? Because it runs the Forest Service, which covers ‘155 national forests’ and ’20 national grasslands’ on a total of ‘193 million acres of land.’ As well as agents in the field, the outfit has a law-enforcement unit based in Washington, D.C., whose responsibility it is to enforce federal laws and regulations. In context, those 320,000 rounds look a lot less threatening: ….for an organization that covers an area the size of Pakistan (or twice the size of Japan or Germany).”

If concern is keeping you from your beauty sleep, you should read it all here.

Via Instapundit.

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Zionist tanks to Moscow and beyond

Posted on March 5, 2013 | Comments Off on Zionist tanks to Moscow and beyond

Israel Defense Forces mighty 7th Armored Brigade Merkavas (Hebrew for chariot) hard-charging it to Moscow. Well, according to this report in the Russian snooze media, anyhow. Go Zionist 7th! Punch it all the way to Beijing!

Via Simply Jews

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Ignore Biden, ladies, get a handgun

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Posted on February 25, 2013 in Guns, Obamalot, The Economy

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Vice President Stupid does it again

Posted on February 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Vice President Stupid does it again

Joey Hairplugs, who seems to live for sounding like a tough guy, epitomizes Cactus Jack Garner’s famous remark that the vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.

But when it comes to firearms advice, Slow Joe is an actual moron who advises Americans to break the law and injure their neighbors by firing shotguns in the air to ward off burglars. Or as the NRA puts it “As often as he puts his foot in his mouth, it’s a wonder Vice-President Joe Biden can walk.”

Oh, I don’t think he walks. He may not remember how. He”s been sucking on the federal teat his whole life and very probably only rides, in limos at our tax expense.

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