Here’s a pretty one from Champlin Arms:
I’ve had a fresh perspective on Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company ever since I watched Jonny do a tour of the place a while ago.
Despite being located in gun-hating Connecticut, it’s a company I’d love to buy from, especially one their top-end RBL shotguns.
Of course, I’d get a side-by-side and not one of those new-fangled O/U things, but still.
…and of course with a double trigger:
But that’s just me; others may vary.
…you know, that 10-day waiting period before you can take possession of that gun you just purchased.
Let’s just hope you don’t need that shootin’ iron before then, is all.
Or if you are being robbed and you’re still stuck in that waiting period without a gun, I’m sure that if you explain the situation and ask the burglars / robbers nicely, they’ll go away and leave you alone till the end thereof.
That’s what the CalGov means by “tough shit”, I guess.
(My CA Readers — and why are they still there? — are probably not in that same boat, as I’m pretty sure they’re all, shall we say, adequately armed.)
We all know about the dreadful Lucas Electronics, or in shorthand:
But what if they got it right?
Iain Tyrrell talks about how Lucas’s fuel injection system was the bees’ knees, and dominated racing from the late 1950s all the way to the 1980s. Even Ferrari were forced to use them in their monster P3 and P4 Le Mans cars.
Take a few minutes to learn about it, from the master mechanic his own self. Then watch as he makes an old TR6 work properly again.
And by the way, I would take a (Tyrrell-restored) Triumph TR6 into my garage, any day of the week.
Rule Britannia, and all that.
If we’ve learned nothing else from history, it’s that it will be almost impossible to stop one lone asshole (e.g. ex-Marines Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Whitman) from doing bad things to people in a public place.
As happened in gun-free Sydney AUS over the weekend:
Authorities received calls around 3:30 p.m. local time that a knife-wielding man was attacking people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said during a press conference.
Footage obtained by 9News Sydney showed the suspect, wearing a gold and green rugby jersey and shorts, brandishing a long knife and approaching several horrified shoppers.
Point of interest: the “gold and green jersey” is in fact the team jersey of the Oz national rugby team Wallabies — no doubt, the OzGov should ban sale of said jerseys to prevent future events like this from happening.
Or, as Reader Mike L. suggests, the OzGov should institute commonsense knife control laws, like:
Much praise is being heaped on the “hero” Oz coppette who ventilated said stabby asshole and reduced his body temperature to the “room” setting. Doing her job, in other words, and not going all Uvalde, running away and hiding. And yes, good for her.
Of course, had a situation like this occurred in, say, Arizona, Florida or Texas, there is an equally-good chance that a Concerned Citizen would have applied the same solution as the hero Oz coppette did, perhaps even before he had a chance to stab anyone. (We call that “pre-emptive goblin disposal” — okay, “fear for one’s life”, see next post — but cops usually have to wait until the stabbing actually begins before applying the appropriate trigger pressure.)
As I write this, we don’t know why our Wallaby supporter went all Apache in the mall, but frankly it doesn’t matter because in matters of this nature, he may have had what he thought was a good reason (Oswald), or else because his head was all fucked up (Whitman).
Sic semper dementis.
Let’s hear it for Idaho grannies:
The 85-year-old mother of a disabled son committed a “justifiable homicide” in Idaho when she shot an armed burglar who snuck into her home and threatened to “kill her multiple times,” a county prosecutor said.
Christine Jenneiahn presented “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation” that Bingham County prosecutor Ryan Jolley has ever heard of when she shot and killed 39-year-old Derek Condon, according to an incident review written Tuesday.
Yup. The only bad thing that happened in all this shooty goodness was that before expiring, the goblin was able to get off a few shots himself, wounding Our Heroine (may she have a complete and speedy recovery).
In the meantime, please do the usual:
And if ever we needed beer:
...I don’t wanna say “I told you so!!” but…
And completely unrelated to the above:
...no, you shouldn’t buy “an” AR-15. You should buy at least two because, as the old saying goes, “Two is one and one is none.” Three would be better, and four (one or two for you, and a couple for your friends, if needed) is just dandy.
Some International News:
...wait: Japan’s getting upset by this? It has to be bad.
...not so nice when it happens to you Arab assholes, is it?
#Payback
...and then were promptly arrested for destroying an endangered species, I bet.
Some Murkin News:
...name ONE, asshole. Get specific.
...did they overturn Kelo? No? Then nobody cares.
...priorities: they’re important.
And in the Dept. of Education:
...it’s called “free enterprise”, guys; leave her alone, dammit. Also, keyword: Houston.
In Business News:
…
And now, ’tis time for 
...welcome to the boys’ club, honey.
And on that note, it’s time for our little journey down 
:
Unlike the news, that’s just the way we like it.