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Great-Uncle Jimmy

March 23, 2022 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

Your great-uncle Jimmy was a lifelong lover of Smith & Wesson revolvers, but when he passed away, he left his entire collection to his sons. However, in order to spread the goodness, he sent Collector’s Firearms a gift card in the amount of $2,000 in your name, with the proviso that it could only be spent on a S&W revolver.

So feel free to peruse the lists (old and modern) thereof, and tell me in Comments which one (or ones) you’d buy, and why.

Me, I’m partial to this old M&P, at $1,495:

The pre-war Target Models are wonderfully accurate, and while I’m not especially partial to the pearl grips, it would make a fine Governor’s BBQ gun.

A very close second would be this Model 624, at $1,395:

Not quite beautiful enough to be a BBQ gun, but damn close. (And amazingly, .44 Special ammo is not as expensive as it used to be — or maybe it’s just that the other calibers have caught up with it.)

Expensive Bag

March 22, 2022 Kim du Toit SHTF

Followed this link from Insty for a survival first-aid kit, but on scrutinizing the contents thereof, my conclusion is that I’d be paying $70 just for a bag — because I already have all the other stuff, and more so withal.

That said: none of it is in one place, but scattered around the house; so Job #1 is to round it all up and put it into a bag, and I’m sure I have a spare one of those lying around somewhere, too.

Waking The InstaBeast

March 22, 2022 Kim du Toit Legal Stuff, Politics

Ooooh you don’t want to get Dr Professor Reynolds angry:

WHEN BIG FIRMS REPRESENTED AL QAEDA TERRORISTS, we were told that everyone has a right to representation.

Yet big firms were bullied into dropping Trump as a client, none of them appear to be offering pro bono representation to the January 6 defendants, and now we see this: Harvard, Yale, And Stanford Law Students And Faculty Pressure U.S. Law Firms To Cut Ties With Russian Clients.

So given that lawyers apparently are morally responsible for their choice of clients, I think it’s fair to criticize Ketanji Brown Jackson for representating accused terrorists.

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

Ouch.

Bad Idea

March 22, 2022 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

I carry guns all the time, but I never carry openly, except at the range. In fact, I’m kind of paranoid about letting anyone know I’m carrying, even acquaintances. (All my friends know that I’m carrying, just as I know they are, and we seldom if ever even talk about it.)

I’m not interested in “making people comfortable about seeing guns in public” for the simple reason that some of those people will want to take my gun away from me. Not going to happen.

Here’s someone who agrees with me, and has some good reasons behind his position. I agree with all of them.

You may or may not agree with me, but argument is pointless because I’m not going to change my mind about it.

Best Ever

March 22, 2022 Kim du Toit Good Stuff, Men & Women

We’ve often seen those “Before & After” pics of people who’d had enough of being fat, scrawny, etc. and decided to do something about it. Here’s one such, where a woman ballooned after having kids, felt ashamed of herself, and did something about it.