Old and Busted: Sarah Brady trying to take your guns.
The New Hotness: Sarah Brady participating in multi-level marketing fraud.
(Actually, she probably still wants to take your guns…)
Archive for the ‘Guns’ Category
It May Be Easier to Take the Money of the Clueless than the Guns of the Vigilant
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Ridiculous Tactical Gear
Friday, July 16th, 2010Thirteen mostly silly items your probably don’t need. However, is it wrong that I kind of want the Tactical Toiletries Bag? At $36.99 it’s not hideously expensive. On the other hand, none of the internal compartments seem suited for a Sonicare Toothbrush, so it probably wouldn’t work for me anyway…
(Hat Tip: Say Uncle, which has also been added to the Gun Blog Roll…)
NRA Selling Out on Free Speech to Obama/Pelosi/Reid?
Monday, June 14th, 2010So the reports go that they’ve cut a deal on the anti-free speech DISCLOSE Act. Pelosi and company are besides themselves with joy.
Members might want to contact the NRA at all levels to know this is a very bad idea. You can also call them at 1-800-672-3888.
LinkSwarm for June 3
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010A handful of links you may find of interest:
CHL carriers get an express lane through Texas State Capitol Security. This is a testament to how effective the CHL program has been.
Catholic Bishop killed in Turkey.
George Will on the conflict between the limited government of the founders and Progressivism’s vision of unlimited government power to meet an ever-expanding array of material “needs.”
Victor David Hanson on Europeans waking up to History returning to Europe, “from Mediterranean insolvency, to the threat of radical Islam, to demographic decline, to new international dangers on the horizon.” But I’m guessing Europeans will hit the snooze button a few more times before they will bother to rouse themselves from their slumber. And by then it may be too late.
A statement of the obvious, sure to infuriate those on the left: “The U.S. can’t afford to provide everyone with food, clothing and shelter, not to mention medical and child care, college tuition, a low-interest mortgage and a Social Security check until death.”
Updated the Blog Roll
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010I’ve added a few more sites to the blog roll, especially those focusing on local politics and gun rights. So feel free to give them some sweet link-clicking goodness.
We Now Interupt Serious Political Blogging…
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010…to bring you a man cooking bacon with his machine gun.
This is, of course, incredibly awesome.
Caveats:
- Even at a discount price of $15/100 for ammo, it’s going to cost you around $30 to cook.
- This test uses a 7.62mm machine gun, but for true scientific accuracy, I’d like to see how long it would take using a .50 caliber machine gun.
Hat tip: Instapundit.
Steven Seagal: Pistolero?
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010You may have noticed the (relatively) new show on A&E (A&E?) called Steven Seagal Lawman, which features his real-life work with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.
In Full-Bore Squinty Mode
Seagal is an easy person to dislike. As an actor, he’s a fine martial artist, and as a movie martial artist, he’s not 1/10th as engaging as Jackie Chan or Chuck Norris. Plus there was that scathing article in Spy magazine back in the 1990s that basically accused him of being an asshole phony who hung out with mafia figures. And don’t get me started on his music career.
So it’s easy view his job as a part-time police officer as some sort of publicity stunt. On the other hand, Seagal has evidently been doing this for 20 years, which is an absurdly long time to do something just as a publicity stunt, especially since Seagal was a big enough star in the late 80s and early 90s that he probably could have spent the time snorting blow off the backs of hookers instead. So more power to him.
Since Dwight over at Whipped Cream Difficulties has some sort of ironic attachment to Mr. Seagal (it was his fault I ended up watching Urban Justice, and lo it did stink unto the heavens), he insisted that we watch the premier episode of Steven Seagal Lawman, which is basically Cops except duller. But what made me bring it up for the purpose of this blog was the part during the show where Seagal offers some firearms training to a fellow officer, during which Seagal seemed to shoot some nice tight groups.
Dwight made me watch it. Learn from my misfortune.
Since I know noted firearms instructor Karl Rehn (who you may remember from his piece on the Ft. Hood shooter), I thought I would solicit his impressions on Mr. Seagal’s training technique.
Here are Karl’s comments:
Observations:
Seagal appears to be a good shot and does seem to understand the fundamentals.
The grip he uses is “state of the art” circa 1975 – not a bad grip but not as good as what 99% of the schools teach now.
The more upper body and grip strength you have the less technique matters when it comes to grip and stance.Grip’s not as important as trigger manipulation and that’s basically what he was telling his student, and that’s what they were working on during the session.
You can always teach an accurate shooter to go faster; it’s harder to teach a fast, sloppy shooter to shoot accurately.
Minus a few points for the student not wearing eye protection when shooting – particularly since they were shooting steel plates for some of the drills. You never know with these TV things whether the student chose to wear his sunglasses on his hat instead of on his eyes because the producer told him to, or because he was having trouble seeing the sights through the dark glasses and they didn’t have any clear glasses with them, or nobody thought about it because there are still a lot of folks out there that don’t treat eye protection as mandatory when shooting.
So, in summary: Seagal’s firearms advice may not be state-of-the-art, but you could do worse.
FWIW, here’s another view of Seagal’s pistol prowess, this one from a first-hand perspective.
Heh
Monday, February 15th, 2010Another random Fark image I feel compelled to repost here:
