Edward SIGhands?
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jul 2 2009, 01:41 PMA celebrity we might not have expected to enjoy his Second Amendment rights apparently enjoys them indeed. While I don’t think he’s about to become an activist for our most important civil right, it’s nice to know he’s not an anti-freedom nutjob.
Uh Oh...
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 30 2009, 01:28 PMThis is not supposed to happen. It makes it hard to shoot, which is bad.
Big Brass Ones
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 29 2009, 03:16 PMThis obituary will make you feel very, very small. We should all be very thankful that such men ever lived.
Space Program
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 26 2009, 02:16 PM
Kudos to Ohio Democrat Zack Space for his steadfast support of our gun rights. Congressman Space issued a statement calling on his colleagues to support the BATFE Reform and Firearms Modernization Act of 2009, which will “replace the all-or-nothing rules for punishment with a graduated system, remove promotion guidelines that reward agents for the quantity of arrests and citations, and it would require the BATFE to establish intent behind minor violations.”
For NRA-ILA’s take on this important bill, go here.
I'm Confused
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 24 2009, 03:20 PMApparently, Chicago has a blood supply shortage owing to a rise in violent crime. There must be many horrific knife, chainsaw and pointed-stick crimes in the Windy City, because handguns are illegal there.
Clueless
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 24 2009, 12:44 PM
So Marco Rubio, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, made the fairly obvious observation that “…the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment like ours,” and a brilliant political reporter beclowned himself by completely missing the point.
Mr. Rubio was indicating that grossly falsified elections and tyrannical assaults on unarmed protesters unhappen in the United States precisely because we are a population capable of resisting such tyranny. Our politicians may not be honest, but they are not (yet) so craven as to falsify tens of millions of votes in a (sham) election or to massively and systematically oppress peaceful demonstrators. Why? Because we have the means to make a club-wielding thug think twice about wielding his club. But that’s clearly an insane idea our founding fathers would never have thought up, right?
BREAKING: NY Times Columnist Implicitly Endorses an Armed Citizenry
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 18 2009, 01:22 PM
In the most shocking development of the week, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (no relation) implicitly endorsed the concept of an armed citizenry as the best defense against tyranny. Speaking about the little kerfuffle in Iran, he said:
“Second, even if defeated electorally, the Islamists and their regimes have a trump card: guns. Guns trump cellphones. Bang-bang beats tweet-tweet. The Sunni Awakening in Iraq succeeded because the moderates there were armed. I doubt Ahmadinejad will go peacefully.”
Clearly, his editors at the dying publication were too enthralled with his analysis of events to recognize his (implied) support for the Second Amendment. Logic is not allowed in their precious fish wrapping.
Hat Tip: Countertop
Waaaaaaaah!
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 17 2009, 01:10 PM
It seems our mincing cousins across the pond subsidize far more than a failing and useless healthcare system. Apparently, the Brits give government cash to aspiring Olympians, or at least they did until they decided to spend away a generation on bailouts, stimuli, etc. You know, kind of like some other country…
Anyway, here’s the money quote:
“Without funding, though, Ms. Geikie will be at a big disadvantage. Training is particularly costly for shooters in the U.K., where strict gun laws force them to travel to Switzerland or use air pistols—an option Ms. Geikie likens to training with a badminton racquet to go up against Roger Federer at Wimbledon.”
Sounds like a lovely place, Britain.
New AR Air Rifle
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 12 2009, 07:20 PM
This is pretty sweet. Creedmoor Sports and Anschutz have teamed up on an air rifle based on the AR platform. The National Match Air Rifle (NMAR) is intended for competitive shooters as a means of practicing in foul weather without risking equipment damage (as in shooting in your basement), but I think we can all find a use for a cheap-to-feed AR these days. It’s a tad expensive, but given the companies involved, the NMAR is probably of the highest quality. And just think of the savings in ammo…
Also, Murdoc found a good use for this rifle already.
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A New Blog for Your “Entertainment”
Posted by EdFriedman2, Jun 10 2009, 06:41 PM
Noted two-sport high school superstar Kyle Wintersteen now has a blog at AmericanHunter.org for some reason. It is a highly entertaining look inside the mind of a man who once scored four touchdowns in one game for Polk High, but didn’t really do much after he turned 18.
Kyle discusses his obsession with fudd guns and animal husbandry in his first post.
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