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From the latest Commentaries: We emphasize again that freedom and liberty are not interchangeable ideas. Freedom basically denotes the elimination of restraint – the breaking of shackles. It was used as a conspicuously successful morale builder for galley slaves, among others. It was promised to the slaves on the Christian side at the critical battle […]

Richard Mann on the trend among newer serious shooters to poo poo Jeff Cooper: Heres the other thing, and Im paraphrasing Robbie Barrkman (ROBAR) here, just about everything related to handguns today, can directly be traced to Jeff Cooper. Cooper started the defensive handgun movement that continues today, and his 1972 book, The Principles of […]

Every where around the world. They’re coming to America. So, a bit back, Beretta “expanded” to TN. Now, they announced that they’re moving all MD manufacturing to TN: Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Accokeek, Maryland, announced today that it has decided to move its manufacturing capabilities from its existing location to a new production facility […]

A deputy teaching a concealed carry permit class negligently shot one of his students: Jeff Cooper’s gun rules are for your safety and for that of your team. They are not flexible. You don’t get a pass simply because you’re experienced or an instructor. Either obey them or you are history. Is that clear? Yup.

For gunsmiths: “1911s are the perfect storm. They are expensive and need a lot of gun smithing to sort out their bugs.” He continued, “The design is a hundred years old, we learned a lot in that hundred years. The mag design alone is awful. Even Jeff Cooper would bitch about their capacity and reliability […]

Now, I know Jeff Cooper was kinda the man when it came to guns and tactics and such. But I never got the concept of the scout rifle. It does every thing OK but nothing great. Seems you would be better served with, say, an AK. Dropping the caliber to 5.56 just screams that you […]

JT Bolt: Why do gun manufacturers monkey around with the trigger style? Do they sit around a big boardroom table smoking cigars lit with $100 bills saying, “how can we ruin the trigger on the NEXT product we release, gentlemen?” No. They have some reason. That reason may be dubious, as Jeff Cooper would say, […]

A 1911 based on Jeff Cooper’s personal notes.

Jeff Cooper is viewed as, basically, the gunnie guru, the father of modern firearms technique, and a host of other things. But he occasionally got it wrong. I submit as evidence the concept of the scout rifle. Seriously, that rifle does nothing great and only does some things OK. He also got Glocks wrong. I […]

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Win stupid prizes: Investigators say Jeffrey Stiles, 45, of Muskegon was attending a Halloween party and decided to step outside to try and scare drivers with his zombie costume. While in the road, he was hit by a car. The driver of the car did not stop and was last seen going north on Main.

Names changed to protect the, well, fine people In the early 1990s, I knew this girl who we’ll call Allison. Two things about Allison were that she was 1) smoking hot and 2) queer as a football bat. Seriously, we’d go to the mall and ogle chicks together. She was very nice, smart, fun to […]

At the HuffPo. No, not from a blogger there but from the commentators who are addressing Hemke’s usual litany of lies and misrepresentations about guns in America. Some snippets: The reason gun owners resist these “common sense” proposals stem from two sources: 1.Common Sense – how do otherwise intelligent people not understand that the vast […]

The Carnival of Cordite is up! So is the Second Amendent Carnival! And RINO Sightings, for your non-gun-blogging needs.

Here’s a summary: House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner said Tuesday he will summon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller before his panel to explain their decision to raid a lawmaker’s office for the first time in history. “I want to have Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller up here to […]

First Cooper said it, and now, according to Virginia Postrel, David Hackett Fischer is saying it: Fischer turns to etymology, establishing a contrast between liberty, whose Latin roots suggest release from bondage, and freedom, which shares Northern European origins with friend. ”The original meanings of freedom and liberty,” he writes, ”were not merely different but […]

When I first heard about this, I dismissed it as some insane babblings by some idiots and thought it would never happen. I was wrong. I’m talking about this: Election monitors that normally would be expected to observe elections in fledgling democracies like Azerbaijan and Moldova are scheduled to watch the vote in a more […]