Two Japanese tourists, in the country for the World Cup soccer tournament, visited a Bass Pro Shop. Somehow they found their way to the firearms department. They could not buh-leeeeve all that magnificent firepower on sale to the general public. The Japanese guys asked if they could touch the guns and as you can see they got the full enjoyment out of handling them.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Video: Japanese guys handling guns in a Bass Pro Shop (this is what America is all about!)
Two Japanese tourists, in the country for the World Cup soccer tournament, visited a Bass Pro Shop. Somehow they found their way to the firearms department. They could not buh-leeeeve all that magnificent firepower on sale to the general public. The Japanese guys asked if they could touch the guns and as you can see they got the full enjoyment out of handling them.
Friday, August 09, 2024
Little girls... with GUNS!
Is this a trend? If it is then I hope it's a growing one!
In the past few months I've found a number of young ladies - these are girls under twelve - who are not only gun enthusiasts but are also very adept with firearms. In every way pertaining to guns, from responsible gun handling to describing various ammo, each of these girls possesses more knowledge and expertise with firearms than most adults.
Here are a couple of examples. And as you can tell, these ladies also command extremely authoritative and articulate voices. No doubt a result of the confidence that they have gained from their gun ownership and use.
This first young woman, I discovered on Facebook from the ads for her father's VERY clever invention StopBox (note: I do not own a StopBox, but I do think it's pretty cool). Meet Emma Ervin, from the state of Washington. Current age: ten. Emma has been owning and using guns for most of her life. When she was seven she saved her allowance up to buy her first rifle. She has since gone on to be a much admired and respected competitive shooter. Emma is well versed in pistols (she currently packs a Glock as her gun of choice), rifles, carbines... pretty much anything short of a bazooka. Emma has a page devoted to her life and shooting career at the official StopBox site and her dad maintains an Instagram page with more videos of Emma in action.Wait, did we say videos? Here is one of Emma, circa 7-8, explaining the four rules of handling guns safely:
Thank you for being you Emma!
Autumn, when the zombie apocalypse happens, I want to be wherever you and your family are.
And to the families of Emma and Autumn and every other young girl being taught to use firearms respectfully and responsibly: this blogger salutes you. You aren't only showing your little ladies how to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their property. You are raising them up to have confidence and consideration. These girls are going to go far in life, and their parents have every right to be supremely proud of them.
Y'all know of any other girls with guns? E-mail me at theknightshift@gmail.com and I'll post about them too!
Thursday, May 26, 2022
On Manhood and School Massacres
I notice that all of the school shooters have been male. Never female.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
A proposal for armed teachers in the classroom
The discussion in class one day turned to student discipline and keeping order in the classroom. Naturally it went on a tangent about school shootings. And I suggested arming the teachers with taser weapons.
It's a wonder I didn't get banished from Elon University right then and there, the notion was so radical and attacked. But this was before Columbine. Now? The thought of a non-lethal stun device seems almost quaint.
So... what is to be done? Because advertising that a school is a "gun-free zone" does not work, has not worked and will never work to deter a bad guy from storming the premises with a firearm and the intent to hurt and kill others.
Here, then, is my proposal:
- Give those teachers who opt to be armed the right to do so, provided that they pass extensive background check and pass a mandatory training program tailored to address school violence and the responsibilities that will come with having a loaded weapon on standby in the classroom.
- Install a lockbox in each classroom. Secured with a real key, not a combination lock. Only the teacher of that room and the principal will have a copy of the key, with another copy kept at the main office and retrievable by authorized personnel or law enforcement requesting the key through proper channels.
- Teachers who choose to bring their firearms to school will be required to check them in at the office every morning, retrieve the key for their classroom's lockbox, and upon arrival at their classroom will immediately secure the gun in the lockbox.
- At the end of the day each teacher opting to have a firearm available will remove the gun from the lockbox, sign the gun out at the office, and return the key.
- The gun is kept out of ready reach but in a worst case scenario will still be within immediate grasp of the teacher. There is also a log kept of which members of the faculty are armed for that particular day.
But merely announcing that a school doesn't allow guns, with nice neat placards announcing as much to visitors entering the building, isn't going to save lives. Not from a lunatic whose only thought is to wipe out as many innocent lives as possible before the cops or deputies finally arrive. In this imperfect world, seconds count when help is still minutes away.
And people like David Hogg (whose fifteen minutes of fame are WAY past finished) need to recognize the reality of the situation. If they want completely safe schools, then "good feelings" aren't going to accomplish anything. Knowing that there are armed teachers and other staff on campus, who will fire back with deadly force if absolutely need be...
The psychological value alone in that merits considering arming teachers with appropriate weaponry, to be used as a last resort.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Pistol-packin' President: Reagan had a .38
I don't care what your political persuasion, you gotta admit: that is severely hardcore.
The New York Daily News has an eye-opening story revealing something that until now only members of the Secret Service were aware of: that Ronald Reagan not only believed in the Second Amendment, he actively practiced it. Specifically, he had a .38 pistol nearby as a personal firearm during his time as President of the United States. He especially hid it in a briefcase as he traveled on Air Force One.The article by Brad Meltzer goes into detail about what other presidents have carried with them. George H.W. Bush toted his driver's license around, and Clinton had a photo of Hillary and Chelsea (no comment). Obama carries a Blackberry but no wallet and no money which is why he's sometimes asked to borrow some (again, no comment).
But no one among the occupants of the White House during the past thirty years or so has done it as bad-a$$ as Reagan did.
Anyhoo, it's a very neat article if you're at all interested in presidential history. Kinda makes you wonder what else is still out there waiting to be discovered.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
The latest from the wonderful world of 3D printing
3D printing is now capable of producing replacement bones using living cells.
Desktop-produced firearms continues to be developed and refined, beyond the control of any government.
Laser-guided 3D printing can now produce metal objects with high precision. You will soon be taking your car into a garage and have a new custom part created in-house.
High-capacity lithium-ion batteries smaller than the size of a grain of sand have been created in the laboratory and it's thought that they could eventually be used to power ridiculously tiny gadgets, including next-generation medical devices like pacemakers.
And then there's this: 4D printing! Objects which are manufactured in 3D "folded-up", then are allowed to self-assemble themselves. One possible use mentioned is being able to buy furniture packed-flat from a store, bring it home and then take it out of the box and watch it put itself together. More serious applications could be for building construction in hazardous situations.No doubt parents across the country will be happy to know about 4D printing. It will potentially bring an end to those most dreaded of words found on just about every toy or game box: "some assembly required"!
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Department of Defense has 3D printed gun yanked... but I got it anyway (and so can you!)
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| The Liberator: Coming soon to a desktop near you! |
The thing is, politicos like Schumer can't figure out how to pull that off. 3D printing will soon be a household implement and if it can be drawn up on a computer, anyone will be able to produce a fully-functioning model right on their desktop. The computer doesn't care if it's a replacement part for a kitchen appliance or an action figure or a real working handgun. The barn door has been thrown wide open and there's no getting that horse back inside.
Never let something like common sense stop the government from trying. Earlier today the Department of Defense requested that Defense Distributed remove all its 3D weapons-related files from its website. Defense Distributed's founder Cody Wilson is laying the blame on the doorstep of Secretary of State John Kerry.
As of this writing, Defense Distributed's site has "gone dark".
But less than five minutes after reading about the government having the Liberator pulled from the web, I had downloaded the gun. And not once, but twice.
Here's how I did it, and how anybody else can as well:
Download µTorrent if you don't have it already (it's a free download) and run the install. Any other torrent client should work too. I found the Liberator files on The Pirate Bay. There are two torrents for it so far: here's #1 and here's #2. If either of those can't be found just do a search for "liberator" and "gun": I got those two results at once. The file size is 2.02 megabytes (such a tiny thing for something so much fuss about).
And then... just download your Liberator files! If you possess a 3D printer you can start making your Liberator pistol immediately.
I downloaded the file from each of those two torrents. It is on my hard drive. It is also on at least two USB drives that I've copied it too. I can e-mail the file to anyone, anywhere in the world. I could even set up a torrent on my own and allow people to download it from me directly.
In fact, it is happening right now. Not by me, but by other people. Lots and lots of other people.
Shutting down the Defense Distributed website was just about the worst thing that the United States federal government could have done, if it didn't want the Liberator to get into the wild. By trying to outlaw it, the feds have made it so that practically everyone can want it. Defense Distributed could not have asked for better publicity for and dissemination of its product!
Anyhoo... "Annie get your gun!" :-)
Zero-tolerance out of control: Pencil leads to boy's suspension, while Eagle Scout hit with felony
They're not here yet. But I already love them too much than to subject them to the insanity of a modern public school. And few things exemplify that madness more than do zero-tolerance policies.
(Hey, I ran for school board once. It can't be said that I never tried to make the public schools better. But things won't going to get better until more people get up the gumption to tell the bureaucrats "ENOUGH!")
Two stories demonstrating my point. The first is about seven-year old Christopher Marshall of Suffolk, Virginia. He was suspended from his elementary school last week per a policy of "zero tolerance".
What was his crime? Pointing a pencil as if were a gun at another student and making "bang! bang!" noises with it.
Yeah, you read that right. That's all that little Christopher was doing.
From the story at WAVY.com...
Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing with another student in class Friday, when the teacher at Driver Elementary asked them to stop pointing pencils at each other.And then there is the tale of Eagle Scout, honor student, devout Christian and model young man Cole Withrow from Princeton, a small town near Raleigh here in North Carolina. Cole had been skeet shooting and accidentally left his shotgun in his vehicle when he came to school late last month. Cole realized his error and sought to do the right thing: he went to the office and called his mom to come and take the gun out and away from the campus. Unfortunately one of the staff at Princeton High School overheard the call and alerted the police.
"When I asked him about it, he said, 'Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,'" said Paul Marshall, the boy's father. "It's as simple as that."
Christopher's father was a Marine for many years. He thinks school leaders overreacted.
"A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made," said Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools.
The Suffolk school system has a "zero tolerance policy" when it comes to weapons. And, Bradshaw admits, that policy has tightened up in recent years because of widely publicized school shootings.
"Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community," said Bradshaw. "Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day."
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| Cole Withrow with his sister Hannah Walker |
Cole will be allowed to graduate, just not from his own school. His family is fighting for Cole's right to be with his classmates.
But at least his troubles caught the attention of Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University. Cole Withrow has been offered a scholarship to attend the college. Harding University has also extended a similar offer to Cole.
Is it paranoia? Is it laziness? Is it intentional conditioning of the kids on the part of the public school educators and administrators? For whatever reason it is, this kind of thing has gone on... and continues to go on... for far too long.
"Zero-tolerance"? More like "zero common sense".
Saturday, April 06, 2013
"Senator" Feinstein wants violent video game control
Having failed in her bid to ban "assault weapons" (there is no such thing, incidentally) Demented Dianne has now decided that violent video games must be controlled and regulated by act of Congress.
From the article at VentureBeat...
Speaking to an audience of 500 people in her hometown of San Francisco, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that game publishers need to make voluntary actions to avoid glorifying guns and violence following the Newtown elementary school massacre in December.
She noted that Congress would take action if the industry didn’t do something, according to the Associated Press.
“If Sandy Hook doesn’t [make game publishers change] … then maybe we have to proceed, but that is in the future,” said Feinstein.
She went on to claim that video games play “a very negative role for young people, and the industry ought to take note of that.”Uhhhhh... somebody should inform Senator Feinstein that ever since the introduction of first-person shooters and other violent video games in the early Nineties, mass killings HAVE BECOME MUCH LESS COMMON! There is no correlation at all... none... between the pervasiveness of violent games and increase in crime. If there is any relation between them at all, it could in fact be argued that such games have decreased crime, not intensified it.
For levity's sake, here is that pic of Feinstein in place of Doom's Marine guy from that Photoshop job I made of Obama two months ago...
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| DOOM 2013: Where the insanest place is behind a Senator from California. |
I would also be remiss in my duty as a blogger if it were not noted that earlier this year Feinstein expressed a desire to deprive the American citizenry of all their guns except for her own and those of other government officials (and yes, she owns a gun folks).
I am going to posit something: that the Founding Fathers had exceedingly prescient foresight when they wrote the Second Amendment. If nothing else it is a last resort deterrent against the machinations of the power mad and the direly insane. The latter of which is represented by Dianne Feinstein and too many others in the halls of Congress.
No, I'm not suggesting anything. Just stating that We The People are our own best scare tactic that should give pause to the truly evil.
EDIT 11:35 p.m. EST: It's not about Dianne Feinstein per se, but Kotaku has posted a terrific and timely piece by Christian Allen. Allen has worked on the Ghost Recon franchise as well as Halo: Reach and many other successful video game projects. Titled "I'm a Game Designer. I'm a Gun Owner. It's Time To End All This 'Us vs. Them'", his essay delves into his life-long experience with firearms and his involvement with producing many violent video games. There's some harsh language so be warned. Interestingly, much of it is aimed (no pun intended) at the National Rifle Association...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I just downloaded a functional .22 pistol
In two months' time DEFCAD has garnered more than three thousand visits an hour and nearly a quarter-million downloads. What makes up the bulk of that traffic?Guns, guns, guns. Parts for guns. Accessories like suppressors. Ammo casings for NATO and Warsaw Pact small arms and rifles. Even combat munitions like hand grenades.
And they all work too.
Provided you've a 3D printer, the right materials and a few other items that can be bought at most any hardware store, you or anybody else can spend a nice relaxing evening or weekend putting together a small arsenal in your home office.
Sorta brings whole new meaning to desktop publishing a magazine, huh?
I just downloaded a .22 single-shot pistol from DEFCAD, designed by a user named "caboose". The entire ZIPped-up file was over half a megabyte. I don't possess a 3D printing setup but in the future, that will probably be a standard appliance in many homes. I may take a stab at it then, if not sooner.
There's an intriguing article at Venture Beat about DEFCAD, including an interview with site founder Cody Wilson. Among other things he notes that DEFCAD is getting lots of visits from foreign countries. Might we speculate that at least some of that is from places with stringent gun control?
Why smuggle in weapons for your revolution when you can just get it off the Internet?
'Course, this will probably mean that 3D printers are soon to become a restricted technology. But hey, "when 3D prototyping is outlawed..."
Friday, February 01, 2013
Homeland Security sez: Fight mass shooters with scissors!
Just when you'd think that the Department of Homeland Security could not possibly prove it's the most useless U.S. government agency in the history of anything... they release this:
So if a carbine-wielding madman bursts into your office or school and starts shooting up the place, fend him off with a pair of scissors! Unless he also has a rock because, you know, rock beats scissors.
Taking this video to its logical extreme, the safest elementary school in America is whichever one gets to have this guy as its School Resource Officer...
No mention in the video about protecting yourself against a gunman with, y'know, a gun.
The New York Post has a great write-up about this latest waste of taxpayer money.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Gun control lunacy: Feinstein would take YOUR weapon but keep hers, and the modern cost of saving a life
So lemme get this straight: Feinstein, who owns a pistol or two herself, wants legislation that will prohibit the "little people" from having guns but also wants to keep her own.
I am trying to be a man of polite society so I will refrain from using the word that many will be tempted to use in describing Feinstein. I can at least say with no small degree of accuracy "rank hypocrisy".
And then from the D.C. area there is the story of a man who several days ago came across a pack of pit bulls trying to maul a little boy to death.
The man fired his handgun at the dogs, saving his young neighbor's life.
And for his valiant act of courage the man is now facing an "illegal weapon" charge because of Washington D.C.'s insane gun control laws. He faces a year in prison and $1000 in fines.
Let's get this straight: the D.C. prosecutors would rather this guy not have a gun at the cost of a dead eleven-year old. Am I getting that right?
If a jury convicts this dude, I will have lost most of the hope that's still there for America.
But not all hope, if more local sheriffs vow to refuse to comply with federal gun laws that would deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights. Read the new piece by Chuck Baldwin at the link for the encouraging words from people across the fruited plain to those inside the Beltway.
And the words are: "Hell no."
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
When firearm magazines are outlawed...
So I can't help but think: a magazine isn't much more than a metal box with a spring. Come to think of it, that's all a magazine is. I could very easily manufacture a rough but working magazine - holding as much ammo as I wish - in a machine shop. Apart from the spring, EVERYTHING that I'd need to produce a magazine in an hour or so's time is within ready reach of me.
Hey, I've made knives. Making parts for guns would be the next logical step. And there are many with far greater skills who could produce not just the magazines but full-working guns, and possibly mass-produce them at that.
Not to mention that rapid-prototyping - AKA "3D printing" - is already allowing for production of magazines and other gun parts on your desktop. Before very long if you want a gun, you'll be able to download one from the Internet. Literally.
I'm guessing that if government restrictions are placed on firearms and magazines, that there will be a vast underground market for those produced in home shops etc. And every one of them will be unregistered and untraceable.
I'm just sayin', is all...
Friday, August 03, 2012
Latest 3-D Printing news: Action figures and functional firearms
Ooh-boy...
From computer scientists at Harvard University comes some new software that will let you print highly-detailed and fully-ARTICULATED action figures! And it's pretty insane how the software does it too: it takes an animated 3-D character and automatically figures out where all the movable joints will be, and figures-in how to manufacture those joints in a real-world model. In other words you could take a picture of Shrek and turn him into a fully poseable toy. Or print your own Star Wars: Clone Wars action figures. Which no doubt Lucasfilm's licensing department would have something to say about that (and you thought Games Workshop's lawyers were bad...). But all the same, the Harvard thinkin' dudes are planning to make their software available commercially. Eventually. Click on the link above for some groovy pics and video of the process in action.
And then there's this lil' application of 3-D printing that's sure to put gun control nuts into conniption fits: The world's first 3-D printed gun.Yes, it really works too.
Apart from the chamber (which remains solid metal), this .22-caliber pistol is entirely printed plastic. It fires 200 rounds with no apparent wear or damage to the weapon. It was manufactured with an older 3-D printer and about $30 of resin, but its gunsmith - who goes by the Internet nom de plume "HaveBlue" - reckons that it could be made for as little as ten bucks.
So in the very near future, it may not be that big of a hassle to go out and buy a guy at all. Just download the 3-D model from a website like The Pirate Bay or Demonoid and in a few hours time you'll have a fully-functional firearm to defend your home and loved ones with. And with the cost of 3-D printers dropping to the point where one can be sitting in your living room...
I can already envision some politicians are going to hear about this and decide "something must be done about it, think of the childrun...!"
When 3-D printers are outlawed, only outlaws will have 3-D printers :-P
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
You are your own best protection
I did not know the family, but I know lots of people who do. I have heard nothing but very good things about Doug and Ladonna French. They leave behind two children, including one who was at home during the robbery and barely escaped. As of this writing, no one has been arrested.
In light of this, I'm feeling led to say something that really shouldn't have to be said...
You really are your own best protection. No offense to the men and women serving in law enforcement, but in the real world they can't possibly be a 100% effective safeguard against criminal wrongdoing. Call 911 and it's going to be at least 5 minutes, in the vast majority of situations, before a sheriff's deputy or police officer can arrive at your house. A lot can happen in that time. A lot of bad. Happening toward you.
A person who is breaking into your house will not care about legal niceties. A person breaking into your house will not care about how much money it will cost you to defend yourself in court. A person breaking into your house will not care how many attorneys you will have to hire. A person breaking into your house will not care that you might get arrested for a firearms charge. A person breaking into your house will not care that you might be in jail for a day or so.
And neither should you.
You can always replace money. You can never replace a loved one. You can never replace your own life either.
It sounds cliche, but it's true: an armed society is a polite society. It's a documented fact that places with higher gun ownership by those with property enjoy statistically and considerably lower crime rates.
If anyone breaks into my house, I will defend myself and my loved ones, with deadly force. And I don't give a flying rat's ass how much it will personally cost me.
Remember folks: it is better to be judged by twelve than to be carried out by six.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Government redefined reality: Pizza is vegetable, Brillo pads are illegal gun silencers
Now the squabbling between the Obama Administration and the Republican-held Congress has made it so that pizza is to be classified as a vegetable. The article is nigh worth reading, if only because it is the first (and I pray last time) that this blogger has ever agreed with the food Nazis at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (hey, a stopped clock is right twice a day...)
But that's not the most ridiculous act of federal gubmint to come across this desk today, folks. No, that dubious honor belongs to the assorted thugs and goons at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which has now declared it illegal to possess Brillo pads, Chore Boy Pot Scrubber and similar cookware scouring/cleaning material, depending on how it is construed. From the article...
"[S]ound/gas absorbing materials manufactured from Chore Boy copper cleaning pads, along with fiberglass insulation, constitute a silencer.The article further states that "The original letter included a question about the owner of a legally owned silencer having a reserve of such pads. In case, you know, they needed to clean something. According to the ATF that would be considered a "stockpile" and considered an illegal act."Therefore, it is illegal for an individual to replace deteriorated material within an already- registered suppressor without an approved ATF Form 1, 'Application to Make and Register a Firearm,'" along with a "$200.00 making tax" and "a 'no-marking' variance...since there is no viable area in which to apply a serial number to the sound-absorbing material."
So in the BATF's eyes, there is an illegal stockpile of munitions, ohhh... inside the cabinet beneath every kitchen sink in America.
I wouldn't put it past the BATF to seek warrants to invade private property on those measly grounds.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Bev Perdue - AKA "Worst Governor EVER" - suspends gun rights STATEWIDE ahead of Hurrican Earl (what the?!?)
Here's what really raised my eyebrows: this is apparently a STATEWIDE suspension, and not merely along the North Carolina coast. In other words, folks around Sylva, Waynesville and other fine places waaay out in the North Carolina mountains are also affected by the gun rights suspension... even though it's extremely doubtful that they will be affected by Earl in the least bit.
What the hell is Governor Perdue thinking?!
I would like for someone to show me where this is just a matter for the coastal areas. But even if that were the case, it does not make me feel the least bit comfortable that Perdue has taken it upon herself to say that the Second Amendment no longer applies, regardless of how big or small an area is affected by Earl.
And then the woman has the gall to say that those who decide to ride it out are "on your own". So what are they supposed to use to defend themselves against potential looters? Like the guy in Aliens suggested: "harsh language"?
This woman hasn't a clue. Like too damn many other elected officials in this country.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Dude gets shot in head... and doesn't find out 'til 5 years later!
So his physician took some x-rays of Chojecki's head... and found a bullet nestled between his skin and his skull.
It had been there for five years. At the time Chojecki, now 35, thought that he had either bumped his head or been hit by a firecracker during a New Years celebration. But apparently the 22-caliber bullet came from a bullet that had been fired during the same festivities (note to self: stop firing guns at parties).
Read more about the heady case of Robert Chojecki here, including video depicting the x-rays and the bullet!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Bang? Multi-flavored popsicles look like real handguns!
(These guys should bring their product to market here in the states. I bet they'd be a huge hit at pro-Second Amendment events!)
Hit the link above for more photos of these tasty trigger-happy treats.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Supreme Court rules on what most of us already knew...
Glad to see the Supremes finally nodding toward something that's been public knowledge only since the Bill of Rights was ratified.
But in any case, this is a major victory for gun rights. Perhaps the tide is turning after all in this land.

















