April 30, 2006

Subdivisions

Recently in the pro-gun bloggers community there has been some debate between the Absolutists & the Incrementalists. Some of the relevant posts are listed below. Absolutists vs. Incrementalists from Say Uncle Continuing to mine an old tradition from Toys in...
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April 28, 2006

Ronnie Barrett

Cool guy who makes really sexy guns. He did an interview with The Shooting Wire (no link yet since their webpage still isn't up - it's a new publication). TOW: Another gear change. Some observers, myself included, say the firearms...
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April 21, 2006

A Non Silent Minority

In response to The Minority Retort Kevin has fired back, so to speak. Actually there are three pieces. Publicola Throws Down the Gauntlet Preamble Contracts and Absolutes That should be enough reading for now. I'll have another post on this...
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April 19, 2006

A Patriot

Whose Paranoid has a link to the story of one Sam Whittemore. Read it. Read of him. Today is a day we should remember the patirots who fought for this country. Off the top of my head I can think...
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Patriots Day 2006

Yesterday marked 2 years as a Munuvian. Yay! (I never did find out what the hell that means exactly...) That's out of a little over 3 years total blogging (the first year and 3 months were spent at blogspot). Many...
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April 18, 2006

The Minority Retort

Kevin of The Smallest Minority is a good writer. I've been reading him since a few weeks after he started blogging & I highly recommend him to be on your list of daily reads. He has a very nice three...
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April 17, 2006

Deja Moo

Deja Moo - the feeling you've heard this bullshit before. See also: The Euston Manifesto (via David of Resurrection Song). They lost me at "...It involves making common cause with genuine democrats, whether socialist or not." More or less collectivist...
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April 15, 2006

Problems And Defense Of CCW In Nebraska

From the Heartland has a couple of posts that deal with two topics relating to the recently enacted 'Shall Issue" CCW law. How many tax dollars will be wasted because LB454 is bad law? In the words of Duncan MacLeod;...
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Bear Country

When I first arived in Colorado I was taken up to Rocky Mountain National Park by a friend of mine. We parked & before we started walking around I checked out the bulletin board by the parking area. It had...
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April 14, 2006

Trashing Our Shooting Areas

(Cross-Posted from FreedomSight) Assholes. Outlaw target practice in forests: An editorial piece:Undoubtedly, Boulder Ranger Christine Walsh, who is considering making changes to how and where recreational shooting is permitted in the 160,000 acres of Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests, will be unpopular...
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April 13, 2006

How Much?

You might have already seen it, or at least heard about it. There's a movie called United 93. Yep; that Flight 93 (more can be found here). Through the first link you can view a trailer as well as a...
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April 11, 2006

Get A Fore Grip

I found this one scanning KeepandBearArms.com Adding a Vertical Fore Grip to a Handgun The gist is since in the GCA of '68 it defines a handgun (in part) as a firearm that is discharged while holding with a single...
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Absolutism 301; Felons

"You want axe murderers to be able to walk into a store & just buy a gun?" If you've ever argued against the federal or state laws creating classes of persons prohibited from owning arms then you've heard that sentence...
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Culture

What's the difference between Myer's Park (an affluent neighborhood in Charlotte, NC) & yogurt? Well yogurt is a living culture. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night. Don't forget to tip your waitress - heroin isn't getting any...
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April 09, 2006

It's Nice to Know That We Don't Stand Alone

Publicola has a webpage that lists gun enthusiasts that have volunteered to teach the fundamentals to new shooters. Here in Ohio we have Chublogga down south, me in the middle of the state, and The Steaming Dragon is up north....
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April 05, 2006

MySpace Kid Convicted

The question is of what? SayUncle is where I first saw it. He links to this Rocky Mountain News piece describing the court proceedings & the result. From the article: "An Evergreen high school student who posted Internet photos of...
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A Little Help

This is mainly an academic question but when such questions start rolling through the mind of a gun nut who knows how concrete the answer may become. A friend & I discussed this a few days ago with no resolution....
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