"Guardian Angel"

An email from VCDL reports on an attempted hold-up in Richmond, VA:

On Saturday [July 11], a violent criminal shot a store clerk, had the customers in the store lined up, and while reloading his revolver told the customers that he was going to kill them all.

Then a person open carrying a single-action Colt .45 came in and shot the criminal in the stomach, saving at least six or seven lives.

http://tinyurl.com/n2m9vq

Open-carrying a single-action Colt .45.

Day-um!

Thomas Jefferson 'Down Under'

Via David Codrea comes word of this interesting group Libertarianz. They're New Zealand libertarians. Seems like an ideal place for it, actually. They've got a website, and look who's quoted on the front page:

Yes, it's our own, our very own Thomas Jefferson.

Now, author Robert Heinlein didn't think much of New Zealand. He visited the place in the 1950's.

You know, the word "loathe" is tossed around rather casually these days, but here I think it would be accurate to say that Heinlein absolutely loathed New Zealand; despised it; couldn't wait to leave. Heinlein advised others to stay away, as far away as possible, lest the evil Kiwis devise some sort of tractor-beam and pull in loose travelers.

Heinlein et ux were so desperate to leave New Zealand that, rather than wait for the next steamer, and despite her pathological fear of flying, they actually took an airplane out of there.

New Zealand does seem to have improved substantially since then.

Cross-Dominant?

When I was into shotgunning, being cross-dominant (right-handed and left-eye-dominant) was a problem. But here is a video from the BBC on the movement to relax gun laws in Tennessee (they're agin' it, by the way) where the pistol shooter appears to be cross-dominant.

Any instructors out there know if being cross-dominant is a major problem in pistol shooting?

h/t The Smallest Minority. Excellent post, by the way; absolutely outstanding. RTWT

How Cats Control Humans

From LiveScience.com.

Damn Right It's Ugly!

Xavier found this picture of an EAA Witness racegun.

Good Lord, how could someone do something like that?

Women and AR-15s... in New Jersey?

Sebastian at Snowflakes In Hell found this wonderful story about Women's Day At The Range in Vernon, NJ. Three hundred women showed up to shoot pistols, .22 rifles, shotguns and AR-15s.

Three hundred!

Ultimate Geek-Out

Morse code practice on my Blackberry. Talk about starting a fire by rubbing two lighters together!

Now I want to blog from Morse code.

Tesla's Birthday

Today is the birthday of visionary scientist Nikola Tesla.

Wired Magazine.

h/t Clue Meter.

Concealed Carry Traffic Stop In Virginia

From the bulletin of the Virginia Citizens' Defense League comes this first-person account:

I just wanted to report a pleasant encounter I had with a Fairfax County PD officer who stopped me a couple weeks ago (for a burned out headlamp). Even though I know we CHP holders aren't required to notify, I choose to do so, as I have a number of friends who are cops, and from their testimonial -- and my own personal experience -- the more "at ease" an officer feels, the less likely I am to get a ticket!

As the officer approached my window, I handed him my license and CHP, and informed him I was armed. His immediate response was a casual: "Oh, that's fine." He handed the CHP right back to me, asked for my registration, and went back to his vehicle to run my info. After returning (and giving me a verbal warning about the burned-out light), he and I had a pleasant chat about his experiences with CHP holders, how his system reports that we have them, and the upcoming gun show in Chantilly.

Aw, Crap!

Fotos that make you say, "Aw, crap!"

Some are shocking, some are funny, some are weird.

From Notoriously Conservative.

h/t Hell In A Handbasket.

Corona y Corona

Today I went urban mountain-biking near my home. Looking at these pix, you would never guess that they were taken inside the Beltway.


This is an intriguing building. What does AOC stand for? Hint: it has something to do with aviation.

And after a hard 2-hour slog, relaxing with Corona Extra and Corona Gorda.