The Real Real ID Issue...

 ...is that people are idiots. First off is the fact that you need real ID. That was another 9/11 knee jerk reaction by the very liberal RINO George W. Bush and his administration. It was just like getting rid of the INS and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a total screw-up. Then there are the politicians and bureaucrats who did virtually nothing in their states to insure compliance with the law, in fact all many did was bitch and moan that getting the little star on a driver's license was some terrible form of discrimination or a horrendous inconvenience and invasion of privacy. 

 

Many of those government types who complained were apparently the same ones who think, like I do, that voter ID should be required. Somehow, though, differently than me, they see a big difference in one being a major violation of rights and the other as A-okay. 

 

Personally, while I would rather we not be required to have it to travel, I think real ID only is a minor inconvenience to obtain for air travel. It would be better, since we soon have to have it regardless of whatvanyone thinks about it, if it also would be used as proof of citizenship for voter ID. That way it it would serve at least one good purpose.

 

 Anyway, folks have had several years to get it. I got mine last year. It was no big deal, and took only a short amount of time at the place wherein I got my original AR driver's license. Now folks in at least a few states are wailing about long lines and delays in getting real ID. If you do not need it, don't get it;  however, if air travel is in your future, why in Hades have you not gotten it already! Don't piss and moan about delayed travel if you don't have yours because you failed to get it, in all the years you had to acquire one before the deadline, that is on you.

 

 All the best,

Glenn B

So I Am Sitting Here At A Local Gun Show...

 ...sadly not selling very much but there has been a lot of interest in a Llama Especial (aka. Llama 22 small frame) that I am offering for sale. The interest probably generated by the asking price of $125.00. The price is that low because it is being sold as a "parts gun". I would have thought almost anyone at a gun show would know the meaning of "parts gun" but much to my surprise at least a few folks have been clueless. 

 

One guy looked it over for a good few minutes, seemingly understood the term,  before asking what was missing. So, I wrote a new tag adding "no extractor" and at least a couple of guys were evidently ignorant of that nomenclature, yep they had zero knowledge of the part called an extractor. I also decided to add "no magazine" after a few folks essentially asked where was it. 

 

Another guy just stopped at my table and asked if it had a mag even though the tag said no extractor and no magazine. I told him the mag and extractor were missing and he was quite surprised. He actually had looked at the tag as if reading it. He then said thanks, put it down quickly like it had the plague and scurried away. 

 

I guess asking questions and paying attention to the answers you receive is how you learn. It certainly is better that folks ask me rather than someone who is clueless buying it, then trying to return it telling me I sold them a defectice gun.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

To All Who Celebrate Easter..

 ...I hope yours will be  a very happy one. To all who celebrated Passover, I hope it was likewise.

 

 All the best,

Glenn B

Soon To Be The Latest Roscoe Added To The Arsenal

Well, I am sure that liberals would classify my modest accumulation of firearms as an arsenal but I would not nor would anyone with any knowledge of being a firearms enthusiast. Regardless of what folks think, here is the latest revolver that will soon find itself within the grip of my hands. It is a Charter Arms Pathfinder in 22 LR. This will be the third I have owned as best I recall. One when I was in the Border Patrol in the early 1980's; disposed of decades ago in an unremembered sale as best, though only vaguely, recall. Another that I sold within the last year or two; I was not pleased with the performance of that one - failures to fire on one or two chambers all too often possibly due to light hits. The there will soon be this one, had the high bid on it at a Hessney.com auction last weekend; paid for shipping today, should be shipped soon.

 

It sure looks nice in the auction photos; I hope that is the case and that it works as nicely as it looks. This one appears to have been well cared for; so, that alone has me hopeful that it will function at 100 percent.

 

 

 

This could be a fun gun - one (as in me, myself &  I) can hope.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

I Am Gobsmacked Over The Price Of Gun Oil Cans

  Today, there was a Sportsman auction at Hessney.com, it is ongoing as I write. My son got in touch with me to tell me what each of four lots sold for. Those lots each consisted of a single Ithaca Gun Oil can. EACH one sold for $1,050.00, that is not a misprint. 

From this day forward, I will be eyes open wide at gun shows, estate sales and tag shows. I know I have seen them for sale before but not at prices anywhere near today's high bids.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

 

What A Storm

I am alive and well after what was probably, luckily for me, the worst days long storm I can recall that I have lived through since Super Storm Sandy damaged the roof of my home in NY years ago.

 

I have never seen it rain as much, I think, in my lifetime as it poured down in the storm that just passed. I have seen it rain harder, that was just north of Binghamton, NY a couple of times during summertime cloudbursts but never have I seen a truly terrible torrential downpour that lasted for as long as was this one.

 

Luckily, I did not lose power here; as far as I know only traffic lights lost it early on in the storm on day one when almost no rain had fallen as of then. Texarkana was lucky overall, I do not think there were any fatalities here but I would bet there were arsehats out driving for no good reasons. Other places not so lucky. I know my son, who lives north of Little Rock, AR, lost power in his house for over a day and that at least one person died in Little Rock reportedly due to the storm. 

 

I read today that 17 people died, so far overall, due to the storm - most in TN. I am guessing most were out driving in it and got washed away. One, a nine year old boy somewhere (not sure which state), who supposedly had been walking to his school bus stop, was reportedly swept away and perished. Damn the schools if they stayed open that day but not for Covid or for an inch of snow. Then again, how his parents let him out in that is beyond me; they will probably suffer anguish, for their eternities, if they loved him at all. What a crying shame. Here in Texarkana, the weather service (National I think), sent out at least seven or eight severe storm warnings in text messages telling folks to stay inside a strong structure and not to attempt to travel through any flooded areas. They woke me up several times that night accompanied by the sound of the rain pounding on my building.

 

One gal I know had the misfortune of her apartment complex flooding. In her apartment, the water rose up to or just over her knees. That apparently from a creek that runs next to it that must have crested at least about 20 feet above normal to flood her apartment that badly. Today, when I walked Skye (my mongrel), the water level was only a few inches above average. That gal, her fiancē and pooch were rescued by boat; thank goodness and thank her rescuers. Most folks who lived in the complex wound up in a homeless shelter for the night. She, her fiancē and pooch were lucky to be able to go to her mom's house. I think that, most insurance policies do not cover flooding, I am guessing they are screwed on losses of personal effects. Of course, the government may help if their insurer's do not or if they did not have insurance.

 

I hope all of you are safe and well. I can actually begin to imagine what it must have been like if the biblical account of Noah's ark is true. By my guess, it would not have had to rain for 40 days & nights here to be just as bad - considering how badly it came down here in this one.

 

All the best,

Glenn B