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Pray for Xavier and his kid.
Being a father is one of the toughest things you’ll ever have to do. I wouldn’t have it any other way, but, man… it can be hard at times.

Volume 268, 9/22/07
FANTASYLAND! BY JOHN FARNAMOn the folly of carrying an unloaded (empty chamber) pistolhttp://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/tactics/fantasyland-by-john-farnam/
SUNDAY AFTERNOON ARTBeautifully engraved Infinity 1911 and knifehttp://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/09/sunday-afternoon-art.html
CHOOSING A 1911 FOR DUTY USEhttp://www.10-8performance.com/id8.html
THIN IS INWalther, in concert with S&W, has produced a sleek, slick and stylish 9mmhttp://tinyurl.com/2ktmab
SIG P220 SAO“A Single Action Dream Come True” [AFAIC, that’s […]

A crawdad or “cray fish” (if you’re a Yankee) is a small crustacean resembling a lobster that escapes from trouble by moving backwards rapidly. Rudy Giuliani is looking more like a crawdad every day.
Rudy tells NRA that 9/11 altered his gun views
Rudy Giuliani told the National Rifle Association Friday that his own views on gun […]

But I’ll never forget that day. I’ll never forget how helpless I felt – how demeaned and beaten my parents looked. And I’ll never forget that rifle in my face. At that point, someone had complete power over me and over those I loved. At that moment, we were helpless, disarmed and undefended.

Read the whole […]

19 Sept 07
Fantasyland! This from one of our instructors, a gun retailer in OK:
I had a curious conversation yesterday with a young couple in our store. He has purchased several pistols from us and has a state CCW permit. She ‘doesn’t believe in guns.’ Both were in the shop.
He confessed that he carries his concealed pistol (S&W […]

I’ll tell you what, when you get a link from Alphecca and Say Uncle on the same day, you get some traffic. Thanks guys. Both of you are on my every day read list.

England and, in fact, most of Europe have strict gun control laws and some European elites sneer when they think of the primitive pistol-packing Americans across the pond.
However, England now has three times the amount of violent crime that America has and a doubling of handgun crime during the past decade, even though – […]

Lessons from Beslan
By John Giduck
America is a nation at war, and some of the battles in that war will be fought on American soil. Thus, it is incumbent upon every American to not only educate themselves, but prepare for the types of attacks we are likely to see. But it’s difficult to prepare when one […]

News from The Sight M1911Volume 267, 9/15/07
THE BEST KIND OF GUN CONTROLhttp://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/07/231736.php
THE SMITH & WESSON MODEL 15http://tinyurl.com/yrlfmo
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN JEFFA Look back at some of the best Cooperism’s from the past 45 years.http://tinyurl.com/32avjt
JOHN FARNAM ON EXIGENT GUN MAINTENANCEhttp://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/
A WINNING HANDWhen it comes to defensive pistol shooting, the author says one […]

…nothing will. Gun Control doesn’t work:
Fourfold rise in gun crime since Dunblane
Firearms injuries have quadrupled in less than a decade, according to research into gun crime (Sean O’Neill writes). The Policy Exchange think-tank studied trends in Home Office statistics since the passage of the Firearms Act 1997 after the Dunblane massacre.
Despite policies to […]