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Happy Independence Day

Editor — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:14:01 +0000

Instead of trying to come up with an original post while crammed into a hotel room with 2 small kids on our annual excursion to the coast I’ll post a roundup of observations from my fellow gunbloggers.

Starting off we have some Thomas Jefferson coverage with The Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms and more coverage of Citizens, Not Subjects over at Sispey Street Irregulars.

You can read the Declaration of Independence from Boots & Sabers and Walls of the City.

Borepatch looks at what the Founding Fathers would think of the Tea Party movement. New Jovian Thunderbolt has some awesome videos of Anvil Shooting, a 4th of July tradition.

Les Jones has a bunch of cool infrared pics of fireworks, and Breda has John Adams’ thoughts on the even of Independence.

I will update this post as the day progresses, and I have time between trips to the beach.

Flag credit to Jonathon Colman

GunBloggers.com is Back Up

Editor — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:44:27 +0000

I’ve switched over to using rawdog to parse the feeds for gunbloggers.com instead of rolling my own. It uses some of the same python modules, but generates a static page for much lower load on the system.

Happy Patriots’ Day

Editor — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:25:51 +0000

I think Patriots’ Day should be a national holiday.

Oregon CHL for WA Residents

Editor — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:22:16 +0000

I don’t have anything to add to D.W. Drang’s post about applying for an Oregon non-resident permit. Head over there and read it.

Open Carry is Legal in WA

Editor — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:35:31 +0000

And it looks like WA Ceasefire’s Ralph Fascitelli got a reminder of this at the recent hearing on an attempted WA ‘assault weapon’ ban. From Dave Workman’s Examiner column:

Prior to the hearing, as several Open Carry activists gathered in the hallway of the John A. Cherberg Senate Office Building, Washington CeaseFire’s Ralph Fascitelli approached a member of the State Patrol’s security team and, after pointing out that there were visibly armed citizens in the building, demanded of the trooper: “Do you know if they’re loaded?”
Sources have confirmed to the Gun Rights Examiner that Fascitelli appeared both irritated and unnerved, and he wanted the State Patrol troopers to check every firearm at the door of the building to see if they were loaded. He was told by the WSP that troopers do not have the authority under state law to do that.

That, Mr. Fascitelli, is what is known as freedom.

Cleaning up the blog

Editor — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:09:23 +0000

I hadn’t realized it has been September since I posted anything. I noticed the sidebar wasn’t working right after one of the recent wordpress updates. I’ve switched to a new theme and tweaked the logo to fit.

Part of the reason for the silence is that I don’t want the blog to be an echo chamber, just posting the same things everyone else posts. I haven’t had anything original to write so I’ve been focusing on other things.

Do You Remember?

Editor — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:54:57 +0000

How you felt when you saw the attack of 8 years ago?

Never Forget.

You can view the WTC Image Archive here.

Citizen Carries AR-15 at Obama Rally

Editor — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:43:41 +0000

A clean-cut, well spoken citizen shows up armed at a Obama rally in Arizona. This guy has guts, we need to see more of this.

Disarmed Societies are Sheep

Editor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:52:00 +0000

In the UK they are discovering what happens when you disarm your population. According to this article muggins are now commonplace occurrences, with the thieves so bold that they will rob you in front of witnesses and so called security guards.

…and I speak as someone whose car was carjacked and whose house was broken into, with us in it, listening to his every stumble.

When my husband chased the robber down the street, the dutiful police officer advised us to install even more expensive security.

I can only hope that at some point our friends in England will realize the error of their ways and allow their subjects to arm and defend themselves as all people should be able to do.

H/T to John Lott

Kitsap Rifle & Revolver will buy their land!

Editor — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:10:52 +0000

For a number of months now the fate of the land that Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club sits on has been uncertain. The land is leased from the WA State Department of Resources (DNR), and they recently announced that they want to swap the ownership with Kitsap County for some other property that the County owns. There was concern over how the County would administer the lease.

Back in March we packed the land use hearing, and on Monday there was a meeting (that I missed) of the County Commissioners to vote on selling the land to KRRC outright. All of our pressure worked! Because today we have this:

The Commissioners signed an agreement to sell the 72 acres that the club sits on to the club! No more lease hassles!