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It’s Time To Help Out One Of Our Own

November 11, 2012 by 2 Comments

I’m a little late getting this up but I hope you will respond generously. If you read gun blogs for more than a day, you know Tam of The View From The Porch blog. She is, as JayG called her recently, the Snark Mistress.

She is all that and more. She also, as she revealed on Friday, has cancer. Tam has a basal cell carcinoma on her nose that will need to be removed. Fortunately, it is very treatable. The downside is that Tam does not have health insurance. I don’t care what form of cancer you have but when the docs utter the “C word” the price just went up.

You can help Tam out by making a donation to the tip jar on her blog. I really hope you will be generous.

To help encourage you to make a donation, a number of bloggers have come together to organize raffles to benefit Tam.

 OldNFO has donated a Colt Diamondback in .38 Special that has just been worked over by Cylinder & Slide as a prize. Michael Hast of The Holster Site will be donating a custom holster of your choice to go with it. You can enter that raffle by following the instructions at the link.

Dennis from DragonWorks leather is having another raffle for Tam and the prize is one of his Viper Holsters.

JayG of MArooned is coordinating links to all the raffles and Jennifer is acting as the raffle coordinator. If you have something you might want to donate to the raffle, contact JayG at the link to his blog.

I would again urge you to be generous. Regardless of the form, cancer is a nasty thing.

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BalloonGoesUp Link

November 11, 2012 by

I have just added a link on the right sidebar to Ron Larimer’s When The Balloon Goes Up. In addition to his excellent blog, he is now running a shop that offers preparedness gear, EDC stuff, and range and gun gear.

If you go to his store through my blog and purchase stuff, I will be earning a commission as an affiliate. Just like with my link to LuckyGunner.com, all commissions earned are donated to the Second Amendment Foundation.

Ron carries such brands as CompTac, Aimpoint, Crimson Trace, Streamlight, Surfire, and Warren sights. In other words, the good stuff.

Give him a try the next time you are looking for a knife, a flashlight, a mag for your Glock, or anything else.

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It’s Bush’s Fault

November 9, 2012 by 1 Comment

Police in Manhattan Beach, CA are investigating a pig’s head wrapped in a Romney T-shirt left at a local GOP headquarters as an “illegal dumping of an animal carcass”.

You know in your heart of hearts that if that pig’s head was left at a Demcratic Party officer or an Obama for America headquarters that the Party of Tolerance™ would be screaming about a “hate crime”. The Secret Service would be involved and there would be a joint press conference with representatives from the LAPD, the FBI, and the LA District Attorney’s Office promising to track down the miscreant.

Go figure.

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Sportsman’s Guide Returns To American Ownership

November 9, 2012 by 2 Comments

If you are like most of us, you either get the Sportsman’s Guide catalog or you used to get it. It is full of stuff from military surplus to ammo to some really weird trinkets. I know I’ve ordered everything from shoes to surplus to ammo from them and their prices tend to be pretty decent.

What most people don’t know is that they have been owned by the French catalog company Redcats. No longer.

According to a story published yesterday in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, the South St. Paul based Sportsman’s Guide is being sold by Redcats to Northern Tool + Equipment Co. along with the Golf Warehouse for $215 million.


Pending regulatory approvals, the acquisitions will give Northern Tool approximately $1.5 billion in annual sales.

Northern Tool said both companies will be integrated into its
existing operations to take advantage of economies of scale, but they
will continue to operate as stand-alone brands to “take advantage of
their considerable brand equity.”

Northern Tool does not plan to cut any jobs at those businesses, and it may add positions as the operations merge.

“We are very bullish about this milestone acquisition — it builds on
our operational strength and synergies,”Northern Tool President Chuck Albrecht said in a statement. “Furthermore, we were drawn to both companies being family-run institutions with strong management.”

I’m glad to see Sportsman’s Guide be American-owned again. I just hope they still will have all the interesting European military surplus. I mean where else can you find both East German splinter camo coats and Czech-made glass urinals for field hospital use (among other things).

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Crimson Trace Announces 5 New Green Laser Grips

November 9, 2012 by 3 Comments

Crimson Trace plans to release five new green Lasergrips in December. They will be for the 1911, the Glock, and Smith & Wesson J-Frames.


Crimson Trace’s Revolutionary Green Lasergrips® Coming Soon

(Wilsonville, OR) Crimson Trace will launch five new Lasergrips which feature the industry’s smallest green diode before the end of the year. This groundbreaking technology raises the bar when it comes to size, battery life, temperature stability and visibility in all levels of lighting conditions.

Utilizing the company’s patented Instinctive Activation™, models will be available for 1911 full size and compact frames, Glock full size and compact frames and the Smith & Wesson J-Frame revolver. All five of these models will be available in December through normal distribution and from www.crimsontrace.com, starting at $299.

Although the human eye perceives green lasers as being brighter, until now they have had several drawbacks when it came to power consumption, performance in cold weather and overall size. Crimson Trace has solved all of these by developing an entirely new laser package, no larger than the tried and tested red version currently used in its award-winning Lasergrips. “We have been anticipating and perfecting this line of green Lasergrips over this past year,” explained Kent Thomas, Director of Marketing for Crimson Trace. “Our goal was to deliver the most visible and consistent green laser available on the market in our flagship platform and we’re proud to have accomplished everything we set out to do.” Finding holsters to accommodate firearms equipped with these green Lasergrips is simple as the grips do not interfere with most standard holster options.

All Lasergrips models are pre sighted from the factory at 50’ and are fully adjustable by the user to fine tune it to their chosen self defense ammunition. Featuring the most powerful laser allowable by law, the units offer an industry leading 2 hour run time on two, easily replaced #2032 batteries.

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Concealed Carry Considerations

November 9, 2012 by

In another of the excellent short training videos from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Charlie McNeese of Gunsite Training Academy discusses various carry options for carrying concealed. Among them are pocket carry, ankle carry, and using a waist pack. The one thing he emphasizes about any of the methods is that they should be accessible whether standing or sitting.

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Interesting Location Holder Chose To Speculate On Future

November 9, 2012 by 1 Comment

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to law students today at the University of Baltimore Law School and revealed he isn’t sure about staying on as Attorney General.

Of course, while I suppose it would be possible to replace him with someone worse, it would be tough. The blog of LegalTimes.com says some potential candidates would be Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and S. District of NY US Attorney Preet Brahara.

What I found most interesting is that Holder chose the University of Baltimore Law School to make these sentiments known given its dean is Ronald Weich. Weich, you may recall, was the smarmy representative of the Justice Department who appeared many times before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearings on Project Gunwalker.  I wonder if this was a sort of payback for Weich for taking so much heat and lying so artfully before the Committee.

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Dave Kopel on Second Amendment Election Results

November 8, 2012 by

Ginny Simone of NRA News interviewed attorney Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute regarding how the 2012 elections impacted the Second Amendment and gun rights. It fleshes out his column from the Volokh Conspiracy and gives more detail.

It will be interesting to see if the Louisiana amendment setting strict scrutiny as the standard is exported to other states. I’d love to see something like that in North Carolina.