May
30
Go Kart Science
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According to the Woodbridge Cart Club target weight distribution for go-karts are: 43% Front Weight 57% Rear Weight 50%/50% Left/Right Weight Are these the ideal ratios? Update: I see that wildkart and dinardokarting suggest: KF3: 44.4% Front Weight 55.6% Rear Weight KF1/KF2: 43.3% Front Weight 56.7% Rear Weight KZ: 43.5% Front Weight 56.5% Rear Weight […]
May
29
Britain wants its guns back
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Bill Quick has this “Too Bad, So Sad…Too Late” at Daily Pundit. Britain wants its guns back – The Commentator and adds: Too late. You gave up the ability to exercise those rights, and the state sure as hell will never give them back to you. Which is why you don’t give them up in […]
May
29
Colorado Sheriffs Rally Against Magazine Bans
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Colorado sheriffs hold rally in support of magazine ban lawsuit Over 800 people rallied to support Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, El Paso Country Sheriff Terry Maketa and the Independence Institute in their lawsuit against the unconstitutional gun laws passed by the Colorado legislature. . . . Sheriff Cooke said […]
May
29
Days (sometimes “minutes”) Not Weeks
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Alaska Gun Store Sells Out Three Weeks of Ammo in Days Sportsman’s Warehouse in Fairbanks, Alaska says what used to be a three-week’s supply of ammunition for the store now sells out in mere days. In fact, popular calibers like .22 and .308 generally sell out just “minutes” after hitting the shelves in Fairbanks. Imagine […]
May
28
Obama’s “Fast and Furious” Gun-running Scandal Grows
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From NewAmerican.com: Justice Department Inspector General released a report blasting a government leak intended to smear a key ATF whistleblower. The leaked memorandum was apparently aimed at discrediting Special Agent John Dodson and contradicting his explosive testimony before Congress, which blew the lid off of a federal program that put thousands of high-powered weapons into […]
May
28
Cool: bob_owens is following TexasFFL on Twitter!
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Bob Owens has some great stuff at his place. Check it out.
May
26
San Francisco Gun Store: 9mm Ammo Stays on Shelves ‘About Five Minutes’ A box of 9mm ammo at High Bridge Arms in San Francisco “has a shelf life of about five minutes,” according to Steve Alcairo, the general manager of the city’s only gun store. via Breitbart
May
24
Steven Hayward has ’em at PowerLine.
May
24
The Firearm Blog: Arsenal to Cease Production of Entire SLR-106 Line of 5.56 Kalashnikovs
Category: Gun Stuff, Guns |
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” … if you want a high quality, original style Kalashnikov that shoots 5.56 NATO ammo, you’d better get one while you can. Its the end of an era for the AK in the United States.” – The Firearm Blog Here is what’s currently available at the Commercial Site.
May
22
2:39:14 with Bill Whittle
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The always amazing Bill Whittle at home.
May
22
Fast and Furious’ Scandal Returns to Haunt Obama
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“As if the Obama Administration needed an additional problem …” BloombergBusinessweek Report. There are some interesting morsels of truth amongst the bias in today’s article. [ – Ed]
May
21
The Medical Consequences of the Retreat from Marriage Sounds bad.. So … do the right thing, OK?
May
18
Dion’s “Run Around Sue”
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Billboard Magazine’s #46 of the Top 100 Songs of 1961 was Dion’s Run Around Sue. Enjoy.
May
17
Hat Tip to the Sipsey Street Irregulars As a gun owner and an 11-year UPS driver, I get a lot of questions from people regarding the safest way to ship and insure firearms through UPS. Theft of firearms and other items by UPS employees, ‘though rare, unfortunately does occur, but there are a lot of […]
May
15
The State of Hunting During the Ammo Shortage
Category: Gun Stuff, Ingenuity |
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The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys has this neat video!
May
14
Gun Shop Kudos to Midwest Gun Exchange
Category: Gun Stuff, Travel |
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When I travel, I peek into gunshops. I look at their stock; their arrangements; their people. Occasionally, I am treated to an exceptionally good place to do business. Today was one of those days. Allow me to present: Midwest Gun Exchange 3415 Grape Road Mishawaka, IN Gun Shop of the Year (so far) Nominee: […]
May
14
Inconvenient
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Sometimes air travel has its disruptions – even on a bright and sunny day. My flight connection yesterday afternoon was to link through New York’s Kennedy airport, but as soon as our plane left the gate, the pilot shut down the engines and announced that JFK had a ground hold in effect while a ‘certain […]
May
11
I’ve heard of near beer In Colorado, but I never heard about “Ear Beer” before today: See Ed’s post
May
11
Pump 16 – Burbank
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[Video Removed] h/t Powerline
May
7
from the Daily Mail: “A firearms collector has been accused (by a Gun Control Group, naturally) of making ‘gun porn’ after posting almost daily photographs of his 115 weapons online.” Then, the article goes on to repost 10 of their ‘favorites’. Sweet. FTR, I think the correct term is “Gun Pr0n“. h/t Weasel Zippers
May
5
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a Member of the National Rifle Association?” If the answer is “No”, I hang up the phone. Let their database algorithms chew on that a while!
May
3
US Global Entry System: Nationwide Outage
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The kiosks for the US Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program went dark today. The agent manning international border checkpoint at the DFW Airport claimed the outage was nationwide. Seems like anything the Federal Government can control fails to work under the sequester plan. Solution? Let’s find less things that the Federal Government can […]
May
1
Say Uncle Turns 9
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Million.