The Queen Of The World whispered sweet nothings in my ear ...

"I'm out of .380."

I actually don't think that's nothing ...

Just a reminder

Clarity is a virtue when it comes to language.

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— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) July 17, 2019

Glock vs. 1911

I guess the debate is over.

The Glock vs 1911 debate has been settled.

1911 ftw. pic.twitter.com/HrG3yHFXwl

— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) June 18, 2019

Oh no! There's a man chick with a gun!

The Queen Of The World and I visited ASM826 and Mrs. ASM826 over the weekend.  Not only are they terrific hosts, but ASM826 is an excellent shooting instructor.  He helped TQOTW get lead on steel target in a jiffy.

While she's not a new shooter, she hasn't been a frequent shooter and so the "New Shooter Smile" seemed to apply.  The "I Hit The Steel" smile was definitely there, too.  She has a pretty good idea of which guns she'd like Santa to bring.

Later we went to the local Pirate Fest which seemed a lot like a Ren Faire brought to the down town.

Just a random group of revelers.  Later we threw hatchets which was a lot more fun than I had anticipated.  TQOTW joked that we brought her on a "guy's weekend".

Man, it was a lot of fun.

Lissa is back blogging

Long time readers here will remember a number of links to Lissa, a fellow member of the Northeast Gunbloggers.  She posted a lot about how she came to be a shooter.  She's back blogging now after a hiatus.  You might want to go check her place out.

You want to see a strong, empowered woman?

That's a strong, empowered woman:

A Virginia state senator utilized the state’s open-carry law in a unique way on Tuesday by carrying her .38 caliber revolver with her right into the state’s capitol building. 

Amanda Chase, a first-term conservative state senator who has made news by being a vocal opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment, decided to carry her gun after pro-immigration activists confronted a fellow state senator the day before, forcing Capitol Police to be called, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

There's a photo at the link which is made of so much win that it's in danger of collapsing into a black hole of win.

 Note: I believe that this is the first time I've used both the "Chicks with guns" and "politics" post tags together.

Progressive heads exploding in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..

They don't like this because they're racist and sexist.

The most Interesting Woman in the World

Lived 1000 years ago:

Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard (Poitevin: Dangerosa; 1079-1151) was the daughter of Bartholomew de l'Isle Bouchard. She was the maternal grandmother of the celebrated Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was also mistress to her granddaughters' paternal grandfather William IX, Duke of Aquitaine.^[1] As the mistress of William the Troubadour, she was known as La Maubergeonne for the tower he built for her at his castle in Poitiers. Dangereuse was a sobriquet she received for her seductiveness; her baptismal name may have been Amauberge.

Yeah, baby!  It's on my bucket list to date a woman known as "Dangereuse" ...

Except maybe from Kiev:

The following account is taken from the Primary Chronicle. Princess Olga [born c. 890 died 11 July 969] was the wife of Igor of Kiev, who was killed by the Drevlians. At the time of her husband's death, their son Svyatoslav was three years old, making Olga the official ruler of Kievan Rus until he reached adulthood. The Drevlians wanted Olga to marry their Prince Mal, making him the ruler of Kievan Rus, but Olga was determined to remain in power and preserve it for her son.

The Drevlians sent twenty of their best men to persuade Olga to marry their Prince Mal and give up her rule of Kievan Rus. She had them buried alive. Then she sent word to Prince Mal that she accepted the proposal, but required their most distinguished men to accompany her on the journey in order for her people to accept the offer of marriage. The Drevlians sent their best men who governed their land. Upon their arrival, she offered them a warm welcome and an invitation to clean up after their long journey in a bathhouse. After they entered, she locked the doors and set fire to the building, burning them alive.

Rumor has it that your Czar of Muscovy was Olga's boyfriend, but since he wasn't burned to death, this is entirely rumor and conjecture.  Because what happens in Kiev stays in Kiev, истолковывать?

Muscle and brainwave activity during shooting

Isegoria finds this look at how Olympic shooters train.

Gentlemen, remember that she'll like ammo today*

Except please be classy enough to personalize the holes with .38SP, not a hole punch.

* Err, if you haven't really p***ed her off.  Or maybe especially if you've p***ed her off.

Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder and Lead

This song is topical once again, here on Planet Borepatch.  Not only did I post a review of Emily Miller's Emily Gets Her Gun, I'm reloading at a secret off-site secure location.  Gunpowder and Lead are required for both of these.  'Nuff said.



Gunpowder And Lead (Songwriters: Miranda Lambert, Heather Little)

County Road 233 under my feet
Nothin' on this white rock but little ol' me
I got two miles til' he makes bail
And if i'm right we're heading straight for hell

I'm going home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
He wants a fight well now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet

Slapped my face and he shook me like a ragdoll
Doesn't that sound like a real man
I'm gonna show him what a little girl's made of
Gunpowder and Lead

Well it's half past ten another six pack in
I can feel he rumble like a cold black wind
He pulls in the drive gravel flies
But he doesn't know what's waitin' here this time

Hey! I'm going home gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
He wants a fight well now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet

Slapped my face and he shook me like a ragdoll
Doesn't that sound like a real man
I'm gonna show him what a little girls made of
Gunpowder and lead

His fist is big but m guns bigger
He'll find out when i pull the trigger

I'm going home gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
He want a fight well now he's got one

Slapped my face and he shook me like a ragdoll
Doesn't that sound like a real man
I'm gonna show him what a little girls made of
Gunpowder and gunpowder and lead

A holiday gift for your anti-gun friends: Emily Gets Her Gun

Image via Amazon

This book has two purposes.  The first is to show the thicket of nonsensical gun laws currently on the books, that get in the way of ordinary people who want to buy a gun to protect themselves and their families.  Emily Miller - a Senior Editor at the Washington Times - is one of these people.  She had never shot a gun, and found herself trying to navigate the legal labyrinth of Washington D.C.'s crazy firearms restrictions.  She came to this as a newbie, who had never been involved with this sort of thing and indeed had no idea what she was getting into.

The second purpose is to describe the political landscape of 2013 regarding firearms laws, and in particular the Congressional battles over proposed new gun control statutes in the wake of the Sandy Hook, CT shootings.  In this, she is a seasoned veteran of the political give-and-take, having made her career on Capitol Hill.

These two stories are well told, and interleaved throughout the book.  The two stories are both useful for your anti-gun friends, but probably not at the same time.  However, giving them this book will open their eyes, and maybe open them a second time.

Most people don't have strong feelings one way or another, either pro-gun or anti-gun.  This is preyed upon by the gun control lobby, using terms like "common sense gun control" because it sounds so, well, reasonable.  Ms. Miller's book is an excellent counter to this.  For example, she points out that there are no gun stores in the District because the government will not grant any a license, and that Federal law criminalizes buying a gun in a different State.

Cool "common sense", huh?

And so into the Never Neverland that is the legal way for a citizen to purchase a firearm in Washington D.C.   She recounts how the system is set up, and brings a useful perspective to those who would like to convince others that the current laws are anything but common sense.  For example, the District gives out a (outdated) list of people who can offer the required firearms training.  Most do this from their homes, and this made her nervous:

The [D.C.] police officer said claimed that it didn't matter that the instructors' addresses weren't on the list because they would be teaching the class at a shooting range.  Then why did they all say I had to meet at their houses?  He didn't know.

...

While I was glad to learn that these men had been given a criminal background check at some point as of 2009, I still didn't feel safe going to any of their houses.

In the whole four months that I went through the gun registration process, this was the only time that I wanted to give up on the idea.  I couldn't find any way to take this mandatory class in a way that didn't scare me.

A "common sense" law that makes it so that a woman have to meet strange men in strange places, or not be allowed to get a gun to protect herself.  The book is filled with examples like this, for example when she filled out the application for a gun permit:

You're also deemed ineligible if you've been convicted of "vagrancy."  I'm not sure why hanging around the 7-Eleven parking lot too long makes you unqualified to have a gun.

For the next question, I had to go back to Google again, this time to figure out what "abrogating strikes" meant.  I went through three pages of search results, and I still don't know.

But you have to sign your name that the information you provide is accurate, under penalty of perjury.   Remember that perjury is a felony, which results in you losing your right to own a gun.

This laying out of the hurdles that must be jumped will be eye opening for people new to this topic.  In fact, this story is entirely toxic to the very claim of "common sense" gun control: none of this is common sense, and it's obvious to all readers that the legal system is quite frankly insanity.

However, it seems that the second story told in the book - of 2013's gun control battles on Capitol Hill - will get in the way of this first message.  I would suggest telling your friend to just skip over the parts about the gun control politics and the NRA, and read through Ms. Miller's epic journey through the bureaucracy.  Once your reader finishes that, the notion of "reasonable gun control" will very likely be a smoking ruin.

Then have them go back and read the politics, because then they'll know how to see the sausage being made.  Rather than injecting some badly needed common sense into the law code, the story of 2013 was more of the same stupid, useless restrictions cloaked in high minded blatherings to fool people not in the know.  Of course by this point your friend will be very much in the know indeed, and will be able to see this for what it was.

Of course, it might not convince them, but it will educate them.  The most compelling parts of the book are when she describes honest people caught in the web of unknowable gun control laws.  And while she now can have a gun in her house, it is illegal to carry a gun to protect yourself when you leave.  She describes her feelings in an incident after she already had her gun but had to leave it home:

A strange man at my apartment building, who turned out to be a non-uniformed mover who was working for a neighbor, took violent offense when I closed the propped-open security door of the apartment building.  I stood in the lobby of my building, where I was not allowed to carry my gun, and was terrified as he violently banged on the glass door, screaming, "What the f--- you doing?  You f---ing bitch open the door.  I'm going to get you, you f---ing bitch."

No one else was around, and I was scared that if I left the lobby, someone would let him in and he'd carry out his threats.  I called 911.  I waited exactly fifteen minutes, but he had not stopped screaming and trying to get into the building.  I called 911 again.  The police finally showed up twenty minutes after the incident started.

It's "common sense" that a man who moves furniture for a living will be much larger and stronger than a woman who works at a white collar job.  "Common sense" says that it evens the odds, allowing her have a gun to defend herself against a man like that making threats against her.  "Common sense" says that putting a myriad obstacles in her way (the Washington D. C. licensing procedure involves seventeen steps and took her four months to complete) will keep her from being able to do that.  You might even call it a "War On Women".

Meanwhile, the city is swimming in illegal guns.  Remember, according to the police department's own data, assaults with a firearm increased 12 percent from 2011 to 2012.

So get this for your anti-gun friends.  Not to convert them and convince them to become gun owners, but to shatter the mirage of "common sense" marketing of ideas that are anything but.  The stories of Emily Gets Her Gun are intertwined with the efforts to keep her from getting her gun.  These twinned stories will change their view of the honesty - or dishonesty - of the political debate.  That's something very much to be thankful for.

Remember when you Open Carry, the Press is not on your side

The Vulgar Curmudgeon muses on the OC event at the Moms Demand Action lunch:

Bad form in my book, you are not helping your cause and are instead seriously reinforcing a negative image.

That makes all gun enthusiasts look bad and we don't want that.

Capiche?

This is the kind of shit the media laps up and runs with, it makes their job easy.

Wise up people.

Word.  It doesn't matter that you're all meek as lambs.  It doesn't matter that you brought your daughters to the event.  It doesn't matter that you have logical arguments prepared.

The Media hate us, and they will go out of their way to find the camera angle that makes us look like the Das Reich division.  It's what they do, and it's best for everyone to keep this in mind.

And quite frankly, there's no getting around this.  Maybe if the group is comprised of nothing but armed women and girls with pink rifles.  But even that's no guarantee.

Until someone figures out how to get around this instinct of the MSM to set us up, you're just being photographic canon fodder for the antis. 

Thigh holster for the win

In a creepy Anime-ish way.  But still, nothing wrong with Take Your Daughter To The Range Day ...

And this one is pretty cool, in a completely non-creepy and totally awwww sort of way:

Racist gun controllers: still racist

Via Blue:

I'm reminded of the racist roots of gun control, and how women are the fastest growing demographic in gun ownership.  Perhaps it's because they have the smallest penises. 

Why do gun controllers hate African Americans and women?  It's a bit of a mystery, at least if you listen to the gun controllers talk about how nice they are.  And don't say anything ugly about Class - the Left sees itself as Class Liberators, not Class Oppressors.  They won't like it if you go there.  Won't like it at all.

Quote of the Day

Here's why the gun control bill lost in the Senate:

You say "Gun control."  I hear, "We want you to defend yourself against a man who is a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier with your bare hands."

You say "Common sense regulations."  I hear, "We don't like these cosmetic features, like an adjustable stock or a foregrip, that make it easier for a woman to use."

You say, "If it saves just one life."  I hear "Except yours, you stupid bitch. We'd rather you get raped and murdered while waiting for the police to arrive."

You say, "Think about the children."  I hear "But not yours. We won't let you defend them, and if we find out you have a gun in the same house as a child, we'll take them both away."

You say, "Compromise."  I say, "Fuck you, you mewling cowards. I will not embrace victimhood. I will not willingly disarm. If you demand I give up my life just to make you feel better, you are selfish on a level that is beyond comprehension."

The banners don't have logic on their side, they don't have honesty on their side, and they don't even have passion on their side.  Not like this.  RTWT, which is epic.  Erin doesn't care what the gun banners think, and you shouldn't either.

Brava, Erin.

Why I carry a .45

The old joke is "because they don't make a .46" but there's more to it than that.  It's maybe a bit gauche to quote your own posts but this sort of sums it up:

But why do you need a standard capacity magazine?  Because after she emptied her revolver into the guy, he went back to his car and drove away.

This was the Atlanta suburban Mom who when they guy broke into her house took her kids and hid in a crawl space.  He broke down 4 doors to get to them.  And so when there was no place yet to run and no place left to hide, and with her children behind her, she shot him.

And shot him again.  And again.  And again.  Again.

And so he left.

Think about that - when she shot her gun dry, he turned around and left her house.

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There are two choices: standard capacity magazines holding more than ten rounds of 9mm, or .45 ACP hollow points.  Shoot him a lot or shoot him with something that will put him down.  I'm not trying to restart the caliber wars, but people who think that 7 round magazines are the shiznit don't have any idea what they're talking about.

Blogroll updates

I had thought that it had been a year (!) since I updated the blogroll.  Yes, I suck.  I'd say that it's been an interesting year, but that's whining.  Nobody wants to hear that (well, I sure don't), so here are some great blogs you should go check out.

Lawrence Person's Battleswarm blog should be on your daily read list (at least while Google Reader yet draws breath).  He did a simply epic trolling of the leftie/feminist community (but I repeat myself) on April Fool's Day - so epic that the butt-hurt Progs got his article taken down.  Undetered, he posted about it ()name and shame, baby - name and shame).  That attracted dozens of comments, including butt hurt Progs in an echo trolling.

[stands]

[*clap*] [*clap*] [*clap*] [*clap*] 

Plus, Lawrence has asked three times if I'd blogroll him. Did I mention the "I suck" part. (If anyone else has emailed asking me to add them, ping me again because I promise to try to suck less).

Nothing About Everything is from frequent commenter Goober.  Despite his nom de blog, he is a bit of a polymath - Boats, cigars and whiskey, and the science of organic farming:

Like the E. Coli that was recently found in the farmed produce from one German organic farm that recently made the news for sickening hundreds of people and killing 29.  We now have one German “organic” farm that is responsible for the deaths of more people than the much-maligned Gulf oil spill, Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Fukushima Nuclear disaster combined, but you won’t hear about that in the news, I’m sure.  

You know how many people have been proven to have been killed by the dangerous chemicals used in non-organic farming?  Zero.  Zippo.  Zilch.  Nada.  (Unless you count industrial accidents either at the place of manufacture or the farm, itself).  

You can have your organic limes.  When I drink my Tequila, I savor the wonderful pesticide aftertaste.  You can savor the bacteria-ifested cowshit all over your limes if you want, but count me out.

He is clearly and Enemy Of The State™, and I'll save him a seat on the bench at the Camps.  We can talk about whiskey, and science and stuff.

Livin The Dream is trapped behind enemy lines in the People's Republic of Maryland.  Next time I'm up there we'll need to get together with T-Bolt to talk about 'splody stuff, fishing, and heavy-duty house remodeling:

The house was built in 1910 and we remolded the entire first floor new hard wood, ceramic tile,  granite fire place surround and wainscoting I will miss that old house but not the amount of work that needed to be done to the rest of it somehow I lost the pictures of the bathroom that I built it was truly unique with a walk around shower wall so my 95 year old grand mother could just use her walker and walk in.

Or cooking - venison goulash and cornbread, yum indeed.  Another polymath.  We seem to collect 'em here in our little corner of Mr. Gore's most excellent Information Superhighway.

In the knock me over with a feather category, I find that Kathy Jackson has blogrolled me.  For the two of you who have been trying to get your money out of Cypriot banks or something and haven't run across her Cornered Cat site, she's well worth spending a week or two going through her archives.  If you are a man and want to get your wife/girlfriend into shooting, Kathy's place should be your first stop.

Simon Grey writes on politics and society from the reactionary-libertarian perspective.  I've linked to his posts repeatedly which if you're a frequent reader is hopefully all you need to know.  I don't always agree with him but he seems to be another sigma from the mean higher in intelligence than I am.  Go, read.

Den Of The Wolfman posts on guns and prepping.  I expect that come TEOTWAWKI, he'll be the guy living in style:

I'm trying a new experiment. One of the things that I work towards on a regular basis is bringing all my various skills close to home. A big part of my prep plan is SHIP (SHelter In Place) rather than SHOW (SHelter Out in Wild) now that we have a young'un. And a big part of that plan is having food sources within walking distance.

I can grow a garden- I learned that last summer, and I'll be growing it a bit this year, and see what I can eke out of it. As it stands, we are still eating last summer's zuchinni, which I froze as it came ready. Meat is a little trickier- that'll be a barter situation at best, right now. And bread...

Oh, bread! I don't know if this is clear, but I love baking bread. Normally I'm a lousy baker, because I'm not real good at following recipes, but bread is a different story. Its a little bit alive, a little bit flexible, and a whole lot of satisfying. My new pet is a yeast culture.

So there you go - great blogs.  I still suck, but in future I shall endeavour to suck less.

Man shot by mother of two in home invasion sentenced to 10 years in prison

Breaking news on a high-profile case:

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. —

A burglar shot multiple times during a home invasion will spend 10 years in prison for the crime.

...

Investigators said Slater broke into a Loganville home on Henderson Drive in January and pursued a woman and two children inside. Investigators said Slater broke through a bedroom door, a bathroom door and a closet door before he reached an attic crawl space where the woman was clutching a .38-calibur [sic] handgun.

She must have been compensating for something, like four broken down doors.  But that's not possible, because I heard that the attacker would have just taken her gun away from her.  Or something.

But why do you need a standard capacity magazine?  Because after she emptied her revolver into the guy, he went back to his car and drove away.

Quote of the Day: Learning

Man, I hope that some day someone says something this good about me:

I can’t remember if I met Massad Ayoob before or after I took my first class from Jim Cirillo. Like Marty, Mas modeled an obsessive concern with safety on his range, and the work ethic he brought to his classes struck me hard. Here was a man who called his class to order at 9 am, expected them to listen to lectures during lunch, sometimes didn’t let them off the range before 6 or 7 pm – and still expected them to study in the evening. A new student, I found the schedule grueling, and said so. He smiled at me with some concern, and said, “People work so hard to get to these classes and they should have full value for it. I want to be sure everyone gets more than they expected.”

That right there makes me want to take his class.