PDB talks about his decision to take a defensive carbine class:
My pistols and shotguns are for the defense of family and home. My rifle is for my country.
Read the whole thing.
Month: September 2008
Finding Dad’s M1 Garand
This is a great story of a son who found the M1 his dad carried around with him in Korea. Read this and remember that Congressmen Patrick Murphy, Joe Sestak, and Allyson Schwartz all have signed on to make sure this can never happen again. They should be forced to explain themselves for this.
Valley Forge Gun Show
We had a good deal of success at the Valley Forge Gun Show handing out literature, bumper stickers, and talking to folks. For the first half of the show, we worked the NRA Volunteer Table. We managed to get a few names of people for various other EVCs, but no one from my own district, sadly. Hopefully we’ll have better luck in Allentown.
One thing about the Valley Forge Gun Show — don’t eat the hot dogs. I had one around noon, along with some relish whose color I can only describe as glow in the dark green. After that we went to man the Montgomery County GOP Victory table, where I started feeling progressively worse, wondering if maybe someone poisoned the relish with polonium, perhaps explaining the unnatural green color. A few antacids when I got home was enough to calm my stomach, but I felt bad that we had to leave early due to the radioactive relish. We were handing out a lot of McCain stuff. Everyone wanted McCain/Palin stuff, but those items are in short supply. I think Palin has literally changed everything for McCain. Evidence is gun owners are now on board with him, and are motivated for him. I suspect this will have influence on the NRA when it comes to endorsements. It should.
We’ve gotten some ideas to use for the next show, which will be Allentown. My friend Jason has agreed to lend us an LCD touch display so we can try to set up the O-Match Obama applet that PVF created in order to attract people to the table. I also had the idea of using Digital Picture Frames to display NRA material, and also help attract people to the table. Granted, there’s a lot of choir preaching going on at these things, but getting the material and bumper stickers out there is worthwhile, just for the buzz factor. And every once in a while you sign someone up for your volunteer list.
Is It True Love?
This is a rather amusing publication from NRA’s Political Victory Fund. I found it a gunbanobama.com:
Maybe DiFi’s Pissed …
… because the DC gun law reform bill didn’t include a provision to let her carry concealed.
Troopergate
I can remember back when Troopergate meant officers in the Arkansas State Patrol cruising around looking for women to perform sex acts on the Governor. Now apparently it means the Dems sticking up for wife beaters.
Manion Running Last Year’s Issue
Bucks Right has a very insightful post on Congressional Candidate Tom Manion’s latest ad that’s running on the Iraq War. I agree with him. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be supporting Manion in the election, but I worry if his campaign is spending its very limited cash resources running ads that aren’t going to win him the election. No doubt the GOP fronted Manion because he could go toe to toe with Murphy on the Iraq issue, but that’s fallen from the front of people’s minds this election, and he’s going to need to distinguish himself on other issues if he wants to win.
Last Weekend for Rifle Match
This will be the last weekend to shoot the Gun Blog Rifle Match. Don’t worry if you’re last minute, I’m going to be shooting this weekend too. Entries are due by midnight on the 21st, but I’ll make you all a deal — as long as you get me your entries before I post the results (which will take a week or so), I will continue to count them.
For the fall match, I’m thinking of doing a three position Kalashnikov match at 50 yards, in addition to bringing the smallbore match in to 25 yards this fall to bring in some more shooters to that category. But before I decide to do a Kalashnikov match, I thought I’d check with folks to make sure enough of you actually own one. Any Kalashnikov will do. Any AK-47, AK-74, PSL, or RPK variants you want to shoot are fine. We’ll be able to use standard steel cased ammo, so no one has to reload if they don’t want to.
New York Times Not Happy
Perhaps it’s high time they realized that in the rest of the country outside the immediate area of New York City, people actually do believe the Second Amendment means what it says:
In all, 85 Democrats joined with a nearly unanimous block of Republican lawmakers to pass the dangerous measure 266 to 152, a reminder that catering to the gun lobby during election season is a bipartisan affliction. The bill was pushed by the National Rifle Association and opposed by the District Police Department.
At some point the New York Times, and a lot of other papers, need to face up to the fact that they lost. Sorry, but you guys lost. New York City’s gun laws will be next, once we skewer Mayor Daley’s Chicago on the foil of the Second Amendment.
Spread The Lightworker’s Word!
Barack Obama is telling his supporters to spread the word that he supports the Second Amendment. We’ll have to see if I run into any light bringers when Bitter and I work the Valley Forge Gun Show tomorrow to make sure everyone there knows about Obama’s record on the Second Amendment. Hopefully we’ll get a few more volunteers out of this effort too.