Sometimes men need adult supervision.

Hey, don’t you guys in the press confuse my shameless pandering to gun rights advocates with, you know, actually making gun rights a priority.

It’s interesting what catches the internet’s attention. Yesterday, I linked up the video on carving a pumpkin with a Glock. At that point, I was (per youtube) one of the first 100 or so people to see it. Now, it’s at just over 90K views. And it keeps showing up wherever I look.

Because guns are cool.

I received the following email and have to say I find it intriguing:

Uncle–
My name’s Ryan Crompton; I’ve been reading your site for years and have commented a few times (usually under the alias “RC”, though it looks like another commenter uses that handle as well).

As I’m sure you’ve heard, the Browning mansion in Ogden Utah is currently for sale (and has been for well over a year, as a matter of fact). A small group of family members and myself are looking to convert it to a bed-and-breakfast, catering to the Ogden / Salt Lake area as well as any gunnies who may happen to be visiting Utah. At this point in time, we’ve raised about a third of the necessary funds to acquire and complete renovations on the property (currently on the market for about 375k; realistically, we could obtain it for about 350k when we have the necessary funds in place).

Rather than pursuing traditional bank loans, we’re looking to see if there would be any interest in the firearms community at large to turn this into a community venture. Browning is revered by many who would potentially be customers of the B&B, and I’d like to ensure I get things done right.

Thus, I’m looking to using a community model to obtain the balance of financing. Unfortunately for me, I’m not particularly widely known in the gunny blogosphere. I’d like to ask if you’d be willing to place a post on your blog inquiring whether anybody would be willing to help finance the necessary work on the Browning mansion in exchange for a stake in the B&B operation once it’s running. I’m not asking for any money at this point– I just want to determine if the community financing option is feasible. Stakeholders would, in turn, be apprised of progress as the renovations progress and monthly financials once we’re operational.

I have a complete business plan available, and would be happy to present my credentials and experience to anyone who’s interested. Any thoughts, feedback, or further questions are welcome.

-Ryan Crompton
ryandc at gmail dot com
801-318-1491

Minigun mounted to a wheelchair?

Some off-kilter, easily-influenced person is convinced to engage in some sort of violent action by federal agents. Person sort of acts on it and the feds swoop in and arrest the poor schmuck who probably never would have come up with that idea on his own. The .gov calls it a success. A decade or so back, it was happening to militia wannabes. Now, it’s happening to Jihadi wannabes.

You know, NRA has said they’re not endorsing Reid, right?

Wendi C. Thomas writes for the Commercial Squeal. She also has a blog. On that blog, she tells us why she hates and doesn’t read comments posted at the site of the paper she writes for:

Really, I do. I rarely, rarely read them and NEVER on my stories. Why? Because 95 percent of the people who post are losers. OK, I have no way of knowing that. But based on the back-and-forth pissing matches they get into and how far afield they go and how everything descends into race in a matter of seconds, you’ll forgive me if I don’t think highly of the majority of people who use The Commercial Appeal’s comments as their personal port-a-potty.

There’s a saying – if all you have is a hammer, then everything is a nail. For a writer, this basically translates into – don’t be hollering and screaming and moaning about ish all the time, because people get tired of that, so mix it up already. I DELIBERATELY try to do that. I mean, I have a list of things I think I might want to write about, and I look at the mix.

Gee, Wendi, I’m guessing you get so many unpleasant comments because you say so much stupid shit. Just a thought. You know, from a loser.

Via Michael.

They note that Bill Haslam is coming down on the side of civil rights and are none too happy about it. I’m sure they’ll just mobilize their Tennessee legislative office, get some of their lobbyists down to the capitol, and mobilize their grassroots support. Oh, wait.

Great pun: The Boy Who Cried “Wolf Extinction” Too Often

It’s not. But neither are the words the right of idiots to spew idiocy.

Rossi Ranch Hand in 44 Mag.

G36K

Tam:

So, where do I go vote… for whoever’s gonna fire you?

You know it’s bad when Europe is telling you to stop

Superman gets hipster makeover? Guess it could have been emo superman.

They only oppose big government when the other guy is in charge.

A new holster from Michael.

Here’s 106 of them.

The Tennessean: Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith leads fight against guns-in-bars law

Leads it where? It’s still the law and will be for a while. He does seem ambitious though:

Smith’s goal is an ambitious one — to be the attorney who argues the deciding case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court about where handguns should be reasonably prohibited.

In OK, a ballot measure says courts can’t use international law or sharia law.

But you can’t take the California out of the hipster-doofus:

Sports editor Josh Briggs wrote earlier this month that “hunting deer for sport is no different than hunting people.”

Caught The Daily Show interview with Ted Kaufman, who took Biden’s senate seat after the ascension. You can see the interview here. It’s another case of same planet, different worlds. I watch these two yammer on and on about how the problem with the system in this country is that the senate keeps killing bills. And bills die in the senate. Really? Because if there’s one thing we have in this country, it’s a shortage of laws.

Also, Kaufman says this congress passed more laws than any other since FDR. I think I see the problem.

Switch from little .380s to little 9mms?

Speaking of, more photos and specs of the new Sig290 are here.

Calls in the car should be banned. Totally. Unless you’re a supercitizen with special training on operating a motor vehicle and your phone.

Man shoots self while sleepwalking.

Yup.

It’s happened before.

Looks like Bloomy is trying to avoid being the next to get sued. It is telling that councilman calls the fees for permits fines. At least he’s honest. The new rules go too far in restricting gun ownership. You can be denied a permit for being a bad driver or being in debt.

Boy expelled for toy gun last year can return to school. And it won’t go on his “permanent record”.

Meet Ivan Chesnokov.

Who was mentioned here.

You can’t carry a gun there:

An off-duty police officer who got into a shootout with an armed robber as the officer was getting her hair done in a beauty salon in Brooklyn on Saturday night shot the gunman’s revolver out of his hands, police officials said on Monday.