Just when I thought I was out…
I know I said I wasn’t going to write about politics anymore, that it was endangering my health, my sanity, and every breakable object in my home, but I’m bruised and hungover and irritable, and I just...
View ArticleMore gun stuff, because I hate myself.
Coverage of the Aurora tragedy continues to be peppered with articles bemoaning the NRA’s unyielding, unreasonable opposition to commonsense gun control laws. I’m not the biggest fan of the NRA, and...
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Ceci n’est pas un assault weapon
Meet the M1 Garand. It is a gas-operated semiautomatic rifle capable of highly accurate fire to a range of 440 yards, at a rate of 30-50 rounds per minute. At close range it will fire just as fast as...
View ArticleThis shit really makes my brain hurt sometimes
Apologies for talking about gun issues so much lately. A while back I decided I was going to spend more time on this blog talking about tech, and given my occupation (officially “computer scientist”)...
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AR-15: The Honda Civic of firearms
Rebecca Greenfield, writing at The Atlantic Wire about how both the Newtown shooting and the Webster firefighter shooting involved similar Bushmaster rifles, got it wrong pretty much right out of the...
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The new ban on body kits
Senator Dianne Feinstein has, predictably, announced that she will introduce a new assault weapons ban in the new Congress. She has released a summary of the bill rather than actual text, but...
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My little assault weapon
This is the Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol. All by itself it looks like a modern, high-tech, imposing firearm. RAR! When depicted to scale, however, it is clearly quite wee. This one’s mine. Isn’t...
View ArticleThe alcohol test
I want to ask a favor of all of you, which I’ll get to in a moment. First I’d like to make two points. People who don’t like firearms like to point out that their only purpose is to kill things. That’s...
View ArticleThe alcohol test part 2: Apparently I suck at this
Okay, I’ve gotten sufficient criticism of my last entry to warrant a full-fledged response. Clearly reductio ad absurdum sucked pretty badly as a way to make this argument, so let me try to lay it out...
View ArticleThank you, Mr. Dehm
Open to hearing arguments against an assault weapons ban but don’t care to hear them from a man who wears bow ties to work and owns four different species of turtle? Try a 13-year navy veteran.
View ArticleGun laws good and bad
So today the president announced his goals for new gun control legislation. Around the same time (Possibly in response? I don’t actually know.) the NRA started airing a commercial calling him a...
View ArticleOn liability
Imagine for a moment that you are in the market for a new family vehicle. You’re looking for something in the SUV class of vehicles, roomy enough for the kids and all their crap while still being fun...
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Talking to 2nd amendment advocates: Gun safety
Want to make a persuasive argument about gun control to some 2nd amendment advocates? Learn from this assho guy. Pictured: A man who has forfeited his right to keep and bear digits. That’s Virginia...
View ArticleSkeetgate
Consuming my normal diet of leftish media has been pretty tough lately, I don’t mind telling you. I hate to sound like a whiner, but it’s a real downer when journalists, columnists, and even comedians...
View ArticleIn response to Walter Kirn
The New Republic (you know, that magazine that gun owners don’t read), has published a very well-written article by Walter Kirn entitled “What Gun Owners Want“, with the subtitle “I’ve owned six guns....
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Briefly: Steve Stockman trolls the world
Rep. Steve Stockman (the idiot who invited Ted Nugent to the State of The Union as a counter-weight to Newtown families, FFS) has brought this campaign bumper sticker into the world: It has been called...
View ArticleBriefly: Everyone needs to go read Wickard v. Filburn
The 9th circuit has decided that federal laws can indeed apply to guns that never leave their state of origin. Though it wasn’t cited in this particular decision, this outcome (and that of any...
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