Ordering A Wedding Cake At A Muslim Bakery...

...,would probably not be all that difficult to do, that is unless of course you want a gay wedding cake (or would that be a cake for a gay wedding).

Watch the video, it will, or at least should, clue in some folks as to the right to religious freedom and maybe some other things like arsehat leftist policies, Sharia Law (because the Muslim baker surely isn't following US law is he - or is he?), us losing our rights one step at a time at yada, yada, yada.

The bottom line, the opponents of the religious freedom type laws are total leftist loons.

All the best,
GB

I'd Like To Say I Met My Wife his Way...

...but I met her in just as good a way - she was a barmaid at the bar where I hung out. Too bad she hated it there (the job did not last long) and was not a gun lover either. Oh well, she is still the classiest babe I know.

All the best,
Glenn B

Not A Bad Thing To Believe

 

Later for another beer for me, the gout is killing me right now, but it's really not a bad belief at all and I am sure I'll have another beer sooner or later.

 

All the best,

GB

If This Doesn't Make You Wonder...

...at least one or more of these:
 
Does he live near you?

What the fuck is wrong with this guy?

How much did he get paid to pose like that?

Should you call 911 or handle him yourself?

Which caliber would take him out the quickest?

How high he was, and on what, when this shot was taken.

What you would do to him if you saw him, in that get-up, wading toward your (or anyone's) kids in a pool.

And if instead you think even one of the following thoughts:

He looks cute.

Is he available?

I wonder where he got his outfit?

At which Walmart does he shop because you'd like to shop there too.

Which delightful torture devices he on his nipples under those pails and on his slong under the monkey covering?
 
Then there is little hope for you ever being a conservative let alone a functional member of humanity and you will remain either a liberal leftist loon, or a flat out pervert (of any political leaning), forever.
 
All the best,
GB

With Bald's Leechbook To The Rescue - Who Needs Antibiotics?

Got the supergerm - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - and antibiotics have not worked to cure it. There may be hope yet and it is not in the form of an antibiotic but more so along the lines of:

"Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.."

From Macbeth, Act IV,  by William Shakespeare

Really, I mean it - no bullshit intended because, as you will see, that while the requirements to make the concoction do not call for any amphibian parts, they do call for a weird mixture of readily available and apparently very effective ingredients (at least when combined and prepared as they did in the Dark Ages) including oxgall. The recipe calls for two types of allium (allium is the family of onions, garlic, leeks), wine (yummy) and oxgall (yuck) which is the bile from oxen. Now, you can't go and just mix those things together and get a miracle cure. What you have to do is follow a specific set of incantations recipe that calls for combining the proper amounts of each, then brewing them in a brass container, then straining the resultant concoction, and then allowing it all to sit for nine days before using it.

Supposedly, a modern day witch doctor who was researching Bald's Leechbook (one of the earliest medical texts) decided to test an eye salve recorded in that tome. She tested the mixture on styes and found it cured them. Researchers then tried the mixture on mice with MRSA infections and it killed about 999 out of 1,000 of the MRSA germs. Doctors and scientists have no clue as to why it is effective against MRSA and other infections but have concluded that no single ingredient has the curative properties to defeat MRSA. Thus, they believe it must be due to the actual concocted mixture and how it is brewed. I would not be surprised to discover that the combination of allium species (long know to contain substances that have germ defeating properties), along with copper that my have leeched from the brass, due to the alcohol or bile, during the  brewing process, may have combined as an effective treatment. Copper has long been used to fight water borne infections in tropical fish in aquaria. As for the zinc (in the brass), the wine and oxgall - who knows what curative properties they might contribute to the brew but you can bet that scientists will be looking through that medical text for more surprising cures. I pity the frog and newt populations of the world should any such concoctions call for their eyes and toes.

Speaking of eyes, for treatment of a sty, I'm none to sure I'd let them put that stuff in or around my eyes. On the other hand, if I had a MRSA infection and nothing else was working, I'd let them go right at it since curing MRSA is all too often virtually hopeless without amputations. Now, if only the book also contains an effective cure for the gout, I would be as happy as a toad on a toadstool.

Read more about it here at the source.

All the best,
Glenn B

Epsilon Morons Employed By Brave New World Colleges

I work, part-time, for a company that is contracted by the U.S. government. The government required a full field background investigation of me. I was notified today, that finally, after about 7 months, the investigation was completed. I was also notified that I stand to be found unsuitable for the position because the college I attended, and from which I received my Bachelor of Science degree, says it has no record of me receiving a BS degree from it.

I am going to the college tomorrow to look into this and to obtain an official copy (or three) of my transcript, and maybe have them send one directly to the investigator. Not all that long ago, around the time I was applying for my current job, I recall getting an official copy and submitting it to whomever it was that requested it. The thing is, I cannot recall if it was for my current job or for another job for which I applied around the same time. Of course, I do not have a copy of the official transcript because they gave it to me in a sealed envelope. Should I have opened it to make a copy for myself, my opening the envelope would have destroyed the integrity of the official transcript.

I sent the investigator a copy of a 'student copy' of my transcript. That may or may not suffice for the investigation; however, even if it is good enough, I still have to go into the college to straighten out why they told the investigator there is no record of my undergraduate degree. You may find it hard to believe that the registrar's office, of a well respected college (at least it used to be), could not find it. I do not find it difficult to believe at all; I have prior experience with them doing the same thing before. They had some difficulty finding it when I went there in person to pick it up last year and at first they told me there was no such transcript and I did not receive a BS degree from them. I do not recall the exact problem they had but definitely remember the only reason there had been a problem was because someone who must have graduated college as Summa Cum Laude after majoring in the science of being an Epsilon Moron was the person looking for it. I hope someone with at least half a brain searches for it tomorrow when I get there, that should make it so much easier all around. If not, they may get to see a savage side (a real person, read the book)that they usually hope to avoid in folks with whom they deal.

All the best,
Glenn B

Something About Women With Their Fingers On The Triggers...

...of guns at inappropriate times just seems to pique my interest. Maybe you can look at these images and tell me why that is so. I know, and you should know, that one of the cardinal rules of firearms safety is that you never put your finger on the trigger unless ready to shoot, with some exceptions, but these gals don't seem to be in any of those excepted situations. I guess it just irks me enough, to see these shots of them with their fingers on those triggers, at inappropriate times, that I needed to share the photos with you to help educate or remind you about firearms safety.

 

 

 

 

 

All the best,
GB

Today In History - "Honey, I Forgot To Duck"...

...were the words spoken by a real man, to his wife, to reassure her after he had been shot in the chest with a 22 caliber bullet. That same man walked, under his own power, into the hospital emergency room from the vehicle that brought him there regardless of the fact that his left lung had collapsed. In words and in deeds he was a real man among real men. Once inside the hospital, as he was undergoing initial treatment and being prepped for emergency surgery, this man of steel turned to his doctors an said: "Please tell me you're Republicans".

Besides being a manly man, he was a jokester and also a 
politician, In fact, he was the president of the United States of America. No, he definitely was not Barack H. Obama, nor George W. Bush, nor William J. Clinton, nor George H.W. Bush. He was much more a conservative, even a libertarian, man than any of them. He also was the best president of all those and better than many others before them by far. He was Ronald W. Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan and succeeded in wounding the president and three others in his entourage (source).

It was a lucky day for Reagan and a lucky one for America. Reagan was undoubtedly, at least in my mind, the best president of my lifetime by a longshot and we were lucky he survived back then. Today, we could use the likes of him to get us out from under the boot heels of the tyranny that now threatens our way of existence and our rights as guaranteed by our Constitution.

All the best,
Glenn B

Something Every Freedom Loving Citizen May Want To Know...

...is how to escape from incarceration when wrongfully held captive. Some examples of that could be: you have been kidnapped and bound and thrown in a vehicle's trunk, you have been bound by someone during a home invasion or bank robbery, your kinky lover tied you up and forgot all about you (had to throw that one in there), you have been arrested unlawfully, you have been lawfully arrested (the cop somehow has been rendered unconscious for and you hands are turning blue because the restraints are too tight) - or whatever. Now, I am not Houdini nor am I an expert on escapes but I have found some information on one of the blogs to which I link that possibly could be useful in such situations. A blog post over at The Art of Manliness gives a few examples of how to defeat nylon zip ties when used as restraints.

I am not endorsing those methods, nor even saying they have a chance of working, but they look to me as if they maybe are plausible means of defeating nylon zip ties. If these methods work, I may practice them now and again because they could be a lifesaver. If they don't work, or I cannot get them to work for me, then I will forget them. Best of all, if I can do it, I will avoid being restrained in the first place; although, that may be harder said than done if someone wants to harm me badly enough. Anyway, if I ever find myself with my hands, and maybe also my feet, bound by zip ties and I am in danger and need to escape, I think it sure would be nice to know how to do it.

I am not recommending that anyone else try this. You trying it is up to you and me saying I will try it should have no sway with your decision to try it or not. I will say though, that if and when I try these methods, I will have another responsible adult in attendance who can cut the zip ties off of me if those methods don't work. Kids should definitely NOT try this unless under the supervision of a responsible parent or guardian. I am not saying kids should never try this but must have responsible and knowledgeable adult supervision if doing so. I would think that if the methods work, parents might even want to teach their kids how to do them but the parents must be thoroughly familiar with these methods beforehand. Placing zip ties on wrists (or on any limbs) can be extremely dangerous and could result in the amputation of one or more body parts or possibly even result in death. Then again, being
restrained by a crazed criminal can also be extremely detrimental to your health and or result in death.

After writing the above, I did a bit of searching on YouTube and came up with a video on how to potentially defeat not only zip ties but handcuffs and duct tape as well. I have long known some methods of defeating handcuffs, as should every law enforcement officer, but figured that the general public may not be aware of how to do so. Again, I am not endorsing any of these methods but am sharing the video so you can determine if the escape methods might work for you. All of the same warnings that I made above about the potential dangers of zip ties as restraints also apply to duct tape and handcuffs. Kids, again I tell you, do not try any of this unless under the supervision of a responsible parent or guardian and adults should only do this with another responsible and knowledgeable adult present. DON'T EVER TRY ANY OF THIS AFTER TAKING ANY MIND OR MOOD ALTERING DRUGS - INCLUDING ALCOHOL.



All the best,
GB
 

New Blog On The Blog Roll...

...under Bloggers Whom I Have Met: http://www.weerdworld.com/

All the best,
GB

We Had A Great Time In NH

Brendan and I go home about 4 this afternoon from our NH trip. We had a great time but I forgot to take pics for the most part. We got a few, on his phone, at the range and at the Budweiser Brewery, and if he emails them to me I will post them.

On Friday night, Brendan hit the hay almost as soon as we got to the hotel. I went out for a short walk and discovered the Tilted Kilt Pub. They had scantily clad barmaids (click to see their photo gallery) and a good sized selection of beers and ales, I was in heaven until closing but only had a couple IPA pints and a large dollop of whiskey, and  do mean that the barmaid was quite generous in the pouring of the 12 year old Jameson's that I ordered.

On Saturday we made it to the Manchester Firing Line Range.We signed in and were advised we'd have to wait about an hour for a point to share between us. A single point was okay with me, I had not planned on shooting much, I wanted Brendan to shoot to his heart's content. After about a half hour of admiring the wide variety of guns they had hung on the walls, we were called to go shoot. We only shot for an hour and Brendan mostly shot the two 45s - the Remington R1 1911 and the Taurus PT145 Millennium Pro. He also shot a Beretta FS and Glock 26 both 9mms, the Ortgies 32, and I think that was it. He didn't want to shoot any of the 22s I had along, I guess not manly enough for a young buck like him. I was also quite surprised he did not want to rent any of the full auto guns they had available, like a Thompson's Sub-gun. I think he may have thought it cost prohibitive and while I paid for the range time, I told him he'd have to pay for any rentals and ammo (you had to use the range's ammo in their rental guns). He opted not to and had enough fun with my pistols.

I have to comment on the range, the rate was $16 per hour for each shooter and active law enforcement could shoot for $13 per hour (no price break for retirees). Memberships are available but I don't know the rate. The personnel were all very courteous and attentive even if one or two were not as knowledgeable about firearms as one might think they should be if so employed. One such example was one guy behind the counter not having a clue as to what "select-fire" meant when my son asked him about renting a select-fire HK UMP in .45 (a gun they sort of advertised on their website as available, as seen in the price list, but did not have "because they fall apart to easily").

Oh well, the guy was nice enough anyway and was very professional too, as was everyone we talked to therein. The range had about 8-10 shooting points on the enclosed non-members' side and about the same on the enclosed members' side. They had a lot of guns apparently for sale and a good number of full auto long arms and pistols for rent. Again the thing about renting anything was that it was an additional expense up to $75 per hour for a historic submachine gun and $150 for a belt fed machine gun and rentals meant you had to buy ammo from the range for them I did not bother to ask how much they charged for ammo). Since we did not rent anything, we were free to use whatever pistol ammo we brought along; although, ours was all factory fresh so I am not sure if they allow you to shoot reloads.They allow pistol and rifle shooting but no shotguns because for some reason the wads screw up their backstop / bullet trap cleaning system. Let me reiterate, we had an excellent time there, the place was great. If we attend this summer's bloggershoot up in NH at the super-zeKrit location (and it sounds like there will be one), I am going to shoot one of those Thompsons at that range.

As for me, while at the range, I shot all those guns that Brendan shot and added my High Standard Duramatic M101 and the S&W 22a-1 both in 22LR. In all, am guessing we shot up about 250 rounds of 45 and about 200-250 of 9mm and me a few mags full of 22LR and a mag each of 32 Auto. We each spent a good deal of our hour loading magazines for one another. I brought along nine or ten 45 mags for the Remington, had two for the Taurus, 10 for the Beretta and four for the Glock and had multiple mags for almost every other magazine fed pistol we had along. The only of my semi-auto pistols, for which I have merely a single magazine, is my High Standard Duramatic. (That needs to be remedied - anyone have an original for sale or trade?)

Later, that same day, we headed over to the Budwiper Budweiser Brewery in Merrimack. That was pretty interesting and enjoyable. Brendan had five free 6 ounce samples of different beers, one at the start of the tour and four more at the end. They only gave each person two each at the end but I gave Brendan mine since I was driving and was still a bit hung-over from Friday night at the Tilted Kilt. Tour over, we stopped by the stables to admire the Clydesdales; they certainly are some magnificent beasts. After that it was back to the hotel in Nashua to clean up before heading out to the dinner with the NE Bloggershoot clan (coined as a clan by Jack DoubleTrouble). Dinner was at the Outback Steakhouse in Bedford and we all had a good time there what with good eats and better company. Sadly Jay G was with us only in spirit since his move to VA makes it pretty difficult for him to travel that far for weekend festivities.

This morning, after breakfast at the hotel (I usually do not turn down free breakfasts and did not do it today nor yesterday), we headed back up to Manchester to the New England Reptile Show. We didn't buy any animals but I did pick up a few things for my herps an for our latest addition - a hedgehog, that someone gave my wife over the weekend. I saw some rally nice Kaiser's Newts but declined because I know of a source with a much better price.

Then we hit the road and headed home with a quick stop for lunch and a gas fill-up along he way. Traffic was better coming home than when we headed north on Friday night and we were home in about 4 hours and a few minutes or so from Nashua, which was where we stopped for lunch and gas. That was excellent time.

I'll post some of the few pics we took, that is if Brendan sends em to me.

All the best,
GB

Praise The Fates And Pass The Ammo...

...that rotten bastard is finally retiring. Harry Reid has announced that he will not run for reelection in 2016 and all I can say is that it makes me a happy man. One must have hope that Nevadans will come to their senses and elect someone from the other side, as his replacement, due to his nature as a leftist tyrant.

See more here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/27/senate-democratic-leader-reid-announces-retirement/

All the best,
Glenn B

North By Northeast

The son and I will be north by northeast bound shortly after he gets home from work today. We are headed to NH to meet up with some of the other folks who have attended Northeast Blogger Shoots in the past. We will be enjoying a nice dinner with them tomorrow night.

While we are up that way, Brendan will be able to get in some pistol shooting at a local range, something he is forbidden by law to do in NY State because he does not have a pistol license. We should be able to squeeze that in either Saturday or Sunday. I think that he ought to have some fun being that I'll be bringing along pistols in 45 ACP, 9mms, 32 auto, and 22LR. I don't know how much ammo should be enough but I am hoping that 350 rounds of 45, 300 of 9mm, and a few hundred 22 rounds should give him at least a couple to few hours of fun.

I am hoping to squeeze in a trip to the Budweiser brewery in Merrimack too. They offer guided tours and I am thinking that would be interesting for the boy (now young man) and for the old man (me) too. I hardly ever drink Budwiper, and then only out of desperation or to be courteous to someone who hands me one, so if they offer it for free as part of the tour I may try just one sip to be courteous. Brendan is a fan of Bud Light, and only he knows why, I cannot figure why he and his friends would even consider dinking it. Anyway, the brewery tour should be fun and maybe we will get a chance to see some Clydesdales; that would be excellent, they are truly spectacular beasts.

On Sunday, one thing I want to do for sure is stop by the New England Reptile Show in Manchester. One of my passions is keeping reptiles and amphibians. Been doing that since I was 8 or 9. I gotta thank my uncle Ken for that, he bought me and my brother two red eared sliders (water turtles) all those years ago and I have been a reptile junky ever since.

I guess I had best check that I have all the right ammo, pistols and respective magazines and I should pack whatever else I need. One way for me to start this trip on a bad foot would for me not to be ready when Brendan gets home from work today. Taking a 4 to 7 hours drive (depending on traffic) to get to our motel is probably not on his list of fun things to do on a Friday after work so, I may as well make it as enjoyable as possible for him and me being ready when he is ready would be a good start. I suppose that means, that before he gets home, I should go fill up the tank with gas and get some new wiper blades too (it promises to rain for the whole drive) since the old ones are fairly crappy and really annoyingly squeaky.

With all that to do, perhaps I should finish up this post and get my arse in gear. Light blogging for the next couple of days.

All the best,
GB

 

Well, I Guess Jay Is Ruled Out As A Suspect...

...in rigging a light switch, in a MA house, to trigger an explosion. An electrician working on a recently vacated house came across suspicious wiring that was found to go to a spark creating device attached to a container of accelerant. The device was hidden behind a newly plastered wall. Had the power in the home been on (it was not due to code violations) and the switch been flipped, the device would have caused an explosion that the police chief there said would have caused "significant destruction" (source). Luckily though, as I said above - Jay G has been ruled out as a suspect because the real suspects, allegedly who were the previous tenants of the house, moved out a week ago and Jay has been in VA for way longer than a week. Anyway, guns & ammo were not involved and that was more than enough hint that neither was our favorite formerly of MA blogger.

All the best,
GB

Should I Call Him The Assistant Dean of ISIS Support...

...or should I just call him a treasonous leftist piece of shaite! Can this seemingly arrogant and pompous piece of trash at Cornell University truly be that anti-American as to say, in essence, that a major U.S. university would fully support programs to support ISIS and would allow ISIS to train students on campus? It appears so, at least if the below video is on the level.

He could not possibly be an assistant dean, at an ivy league college (is Cornell now considered ivy league), and be so ignorant as not know to what the person, to whom he is talking, is referring when he repeatedly mentions the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - can he???  Then to say that it would be permissible at Cornell, to allow a freedom fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to start a training camp for students on the campus and that students at Cornell routinely assist ISIS is beyond belief, at least in my mind. 

How this guy is still working at Cornell and not under arrest for conspiring to give aid and comfort to our enemy is beyond my understanding. But lest I sway you to my mindset on this, why not watch the video and make up your own mind. Just make sure to watch it all because if you just watch the first part you may wind up thinking he was never told the organization being talked about was in fact ISIS.

 

All the best,
Glenn B

What Was It Kim Kardashian Balanced On Her Butt...

...a glass of champagne or something like that. I much prefer a woman who can lay a 12 gauge across the top of her butt and let me do pulls ups with it. I need the exercise and if that's not incentive, nothing is!

All the best,
GB

All The Nuns I Ever Knew...

...were as crazy as bat shit on a merry-go-round going backwards. What else could one expect from a sexually frustrated bride of the lord who had to deal with everyone else's little brats in grammar school. Heaven knows what would have happened if they had had access to guns when I was in the fifth grade. I figure I'd probably be on the receiving end of this:

All the best,
GB

He Is A Fuck And Proud Of It...

...and who shouldn't be proud of their family name even if it is Fuck! Such is the case of the Canadian basketball player who, for years, was prohibited from having his last named emblazoned across the back of his jersey. He apparently kept up the good fight though and has been granted permission to have his last name appear on the back of his jersey just as all players have their own last names on their jerseys. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

Carrying Under LEOSA While En Route Interstate

Reader Old 1811 commented on my post yesterday about my LEOSA (Law Enforcement Officers' Safety Act) qualification and in the comment asked a asked a question that should be on every persons mind who carries under the conditions of the Law Enforcement Officers' Safety Act. Here is that comment/question:

"I, too, am a LEOSA subject (retired ICE), and I have to drive through NY and NJ to visit family. I'm very leery of driving through either place (especially NJ) as I've heard horror stories of LEOSA carriers being arrested and charged just to get them into court so the charges can be dropped AFTER the perfectly-legal carrier has an arrest record and has paid big bucks to a lawyer.
Any tips on how to avoid that, other than not visiting my relatives?"

I will answer that question to the best of my ability. Please bear in mind, I am not a legislator, bureaucrat, prosecutor, lawyer, or LEO. While I am a retired LEO, what I am about to say about the law is based only my limited understanding of the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, the Firearms Owners Protection Act and the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990 as a private citizen. To the best of my knowledge, everything I say is based upon those laws as amended and current but remember laws can change overnight as we witnessed in NY state with the passage of the NY SAFE Act under cover of darkness in the wee hours of the morning. In other words, the following is my opinion on all this and should be taken as just that - my opinion - and nothing more. My opinion holds little to no legal weight. If you want to understand how any jurisdiction will interpret these laws or enforce them then ask a politician, bureaucrat, prosecutor, or chief LEO but be ready for at least a few different answers from among them, maybe some or all agreeing, or maybe some or all disagreeing, with what I am about to say.

I am making a guess here but an educated one and am pretty sure that one way to avoid the hassles would be to lock the unloaded gun in a gun case (just the gun, no ammo), put the locked case
in your locked trunk. Keep any ammo in another locked box, also in the trunk of your vehicle. If your vehicle does not have a trunk, then keep the locked cases as far from you as possible in the vehicle. Bear in mind you may also want to keep any magazines in the locked box with the ammo, not with the gun and make sure they are unloaded too. Its my understanding that having the firearm(s) locked in a case in the trunk, as long as you are traveling from a place where it was legal for you to possess and going to a place where it is legal to possess, is covered under the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act but you have to do it the way it tells you to do it in the law. I strongly recommend going to the above link to read up on it.

Locking your firearm in a case in your trunk does reduce your chances of defending yourself while traveling but that is something you have to weigh against the chances of being stopped and arrested by overzealous police in a gun unfriendly state or locality. Sure, law enforcement can still hassle you and can still arrest you even if it is locked in the trunk but I think it much less likely if you transport it that way. The Firearms Owners Protection Act is questioned by LE much less often, than is carry on your person under LEOSA, as far as I am aware.

If you carry a firearm on your person (or in your vehicle) and pass through a school zone (see paragraph 25), which means within 1,000 of a primary or secondary school, you are violating federal law if you do not have a permit/license from the state in which you are doing so or do not follow some other exemptions under that statute. While traveling through school zones, as defined under that law, the way around that is to not have it on your person and to have it in a locked case in the vehicle and it has to be unloaded. Bear in mind that some jurisdictions, like NY City, consider a firearm loaded even if there is a magazine with ammo in the same case even though the firearm is not actually loaded.

There have been prosecutions of retired LEOs, who thought themselves to have been legally carrying under LEOSA, for violating that federal law because they were within 1,000 feet of a school. Think about driving through a big city like NY or LA or Chicago - where could you possibly be without being within 1,000 feet of a school! I wish I could find the link to the map I once saw of a large city showing how it was virtually impossible to pass through the city without going through a school zone within the definition of a school zone under that law.

I strongly recommend taking a course on LEOSA like the one offered by the Sheepdog Academy. I think it will give you a lot of info you probably did not have before. Sadly, it also leaves a lot of new questions too but at least you would be able to consider things you likely did not before taking such a course.

All the best,
Glenn B

Westley Richards, What An Amazing Company

I was browsing the Internet, looking for images of gorillas with guns (don't ask why) and I came across this photo of a gorilla engraved onto a gun.

It was pretty stunning and I decided to click on the website associated with it. I was brought right to the "Engravings" page for the Westley Richards site. All I can say is that, if you want to see some exceptionally fine looking masterpieces as far as engraved guns are concerned, click on that link.

I also took a look at the 'The Company' section of their site and have to say that the company has a pretty interesting history. I am not a big buff when it comes to checking out firearms companies but must say this one had some surprising facts listed on that page. Perhaps the one that was most amazing to me was that Westley Richards (the second owner, his father William Westley Richards started it all) was awarded £48,000 in royalties by the British government for patent infringement, of his patent of a hinged falling block breechloader, after the Brits adopted the falling block Martini rifle. Yet, I had never heard of him before.

Anyway, it looks to be an interesting firearms site with a lot more to see, so I figured I would share it with my readers. There home page is at: http://www.westleyrichards.com/ 

I sure would love to visit, and get a guided tour of, their facility in England. I think that would be a truly excellent trip.


All the best,
Glenn  B

I Could Appreciate A Woman...

...with a mindset like this one, well maybe without all that live, laugh, love stuff and especially without the dance shit:

All the best,
Glenn B

A Small Ray Of Hope Within Islam...

...could be seen recently in the form of a protest over the brutal and fatal beating and burning of a woman who was falsely accused of burning the Q'ran. Thousands of Afghans supposedly participated in the protest of something that not too long ago would have been ignored as just another day of being Muslim. Maybe there is hope yet but we, or should I say they, have a long way to go. More here.

All the best,
GB

It's Nice When The Range Officer Says...

..."Ballseye (although he used my real name) - good shooting". Once again, I am qualified under HR218; I shot a 250/250. I will admit, I had one flier that was almost outside the scoring area, it just broke the edge, but the rest of them were right in there. Still, it wasn't a really tight group and as far I am concerned, as compared to my shooting just a few years ago, it was not all that great. Anyway, as far as the HR218 course of fire went, it was perfect. That made me a happy camper and I am good to go for another year of carry, virtually anywhere in the USA and its possessions, under LEOSA.

I know, it's ridiculous, maybe even criminal, that such is the law set by tyrants, when in fact the law of the land clearly states that we all have the right to be armed. Yet, I would be a moron not to take advantage of the provisions of LEOSA. Anyway, I try my best to get the laws changed making it par for the course that any law abiding citizen or legal resident alien could carry anywhere at any time.

All the best,
Glenn B

Springtime Gun Cleaning Ritual Day

Brendan and I are heading up to NH this weekend for a get together, for dinner, with attendees of past NE Bloggershoots. I, and I guess I should say we, are not about to drive several hours to somewhere just for dinner no matter how good the company without having something else to do when we get there. Brendan gets zero chances to shoot my pistols here in the Commie Socialista Rebooblik of NY, so I figure on bringing most of them with us to NH to enjoy some time at a range up there. With that in mind, I pulled out all of them this afternoon and gave them a cleaning - a long overdue cleaning for three of them by the way as three of my dozen were dirty as all hell. The rest of them were nice and clean but I gave them a good cleaning anyway for my ritualistic spring gun cleaning. With the warmer weather that is almost certainly soon to come, so too comes higher humidity, so I usually clean and lube all my guns in the springtime as regular maintenance whether or not they need it. My rifles and shotguns can wait until Easter weekend.

I was pretty surprised to find my Glock 26, one of my my daily carry guns, was foul as in dirty disgusting fouled with carbon crud. I guess I forgot to clean it after a range trip not too long ago. Shame on me for carrying it in that condition. My Ortgies 32 was also a foul mess and my S&W 22A was in need of some cleaning too. All the others were nice and clean but got a good once over anyway for maintenance.

Now, it's off to the range for me for my annual LEOSA (HR218) qualification (so I guess there will be yet another gun cleaning session later tonight).

All the best,
Glenn B

"Law Enforcement Is More Dangerous Than Concealed Weapons Carriers"

The quote in the title of this post is in part based on the fact that law enforcement officers are more likely to be arrested for a crime involving a firearm than handgun permit holders. That information came out of the mouth of the man who used to be the commander of the Maryland State Police Licensing Division (as in pistol licensing). He goes on to explain why he was wrong in his former beliefs that giving people handgun licenses would lead to rampant gun crime on their part.

 

Hat tip to New Jovian Thunderbolt for this one where I first saw the video.

All the best,
Glenn B