The Year in Review: 2012

2012 was a big year in my life. Not in a good way. I will be glad to see it over.

The most notable event was the death of my closest brother. He was 54. He liked to go shooting with me but he was the worse shot I ever saw.

In 2012 I did 381 posts and got about 300,000 hits. My goal was to average about a post a day and I managed a bit better than that. The blog flowed easily this year.

I added a few items to my collection. First was a JR Carbine that uses Glock .45 mags. I also had it threaded so it could share the Gemtech suppressor I bought for my Glock 21. I finally got the paperwork back on the suppressor.

The Axe

I also inherited a Remington Vantage 1200 .177 and a Henry AR-7 from my brother. 

In addition I bought another AR-15. This one has a 7 inch barrel and is currently configured as a pistol until the SBR ATF paperwork is back. I plan on getting a suppressor for it in 2013.

I got lots of accessories like a hot green LASER, Slim Grips for my 1911,  scopes, Another EOTech, Grips and stocks and slings.

I finally got the parts and repaired my TEC-22.

I got two deer this hunting season and an awesome smoker to cook them in!

I attended multiple blog shoots, drank many beers with fellow bloggers, ruined my back and fixed my teeth. 

My daughter left for college. 

The Election: I was on the losing side but still think it was the right side.

Quotes of the Week

Have you ever tried to reason with a child in the middle of a full-blown, red in the face, snot coming out of their nose, gasping for air, crying fit?

Yeah? Well, welcome to the national conversation on gun control.

--Breda

"How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No-Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You cannot stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims." 

-- Alan Gottlieb

Zombie Survival Gear

Time to Write, Email and Call

If every person that ran out and bought a Sport Utility Rifle or bought mags for their AR15 were to contact their representative it would be a flood. Even if you didn't run out and buy in panic you should write. This is not the time for Apathy.

Do it. Don't wait.

Here is where you can find your Representatives.

Here is where you can find your Senators.

--I may write them every week.

The New Smoker

My favorite gift this season is an electric smoker!

My favorite effort so far was the venison tenderloin.

I brined the venison in apple cider and soaked the apple wood chips in cider as well.

I rubbed the tenderloins with seasoned sea salt, pepper and minced roasted garlic.

After placing the tenderloins in the smoker, I placed a pound of fatty bacon on the upper deck in the smoker so it would drip directly onto meats.

Oh. My. God...

--The whole family, including my daughter, said, "Best. Venison. Ever..."

Murry Christmas!

Quotes of the Week

"Okay, from this point forward I'm going to assume that anyone who suggests gun control as a viable solution is a non-serious person, prone to magical thinking and a willful ignorance of the facts."

--Breda

"It's better to have a knife and not need one than to need a knife and NOT have one"

--My Dad (I feel the same about guns)

“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”

--JFK

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

--Thomas Jefferson

Sandy Hook Facts

There is a good set of facts regarding what happened at Sandy Hook in, of all places, Wikipedia.

The fidelity gets better as more facts are revealed.

--This is the kind of facts that the media use to give.

An Opinion on Gun Control

Larry Correia over at Monster Hunter Nation took the time to write a really good essay on Gun Control.

Go read it.

The Mag Hunt

So I decided to try to hop on the bandwagon and invest in another 10 Magpul PMAGs for my AR15s. None of the local gunshops have any now. Actually had a guy laugh on the phone because they had a pool going on the number of phone requests. They were up to 267.

The Web is not much help either:

 

 

 --How high will the price be when once again available?

Placebo Laws

--The Ruger Mini-14 is a great rifle. Politicians know when they make placebo laws to keep the sheep quiet...

Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens

Here is a great list of mass killings stopped by armed citizens that is quoted from: GUN WATCH

There are several documented cases where armed citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen. Let me list a few: 

Pearl High School Link

Appalacian Law School Link

Muskegon Shooting Link

New Life Church Link

Santa Clara Gunshop Link

Aniston Shoney's Shooting Link

Golden Food Market Shooting Link

AT&T store Link

College Park Link

Trolley Square Shooting Link

Winnemuca Shooting Link

Parker Middle School Dance Shooting LinK

Destiny Christian Center Shooting LinK

Tyler Courthouse Shooting Link

 Posted by Dean Weingarten  at  12/16/2012 04:12:00 AM on GUN WATCH 

Head over there to see the full detailed list instead of jut the links.

--Let me know if you can think of more! 

Gun-Control Ignorance

From the National Review:

"How many times do the same arguments need to be refuted?"
...
"Guns are not the problem. People are the problem — including people who are determined to push gun-control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts."
 ...
"There is innocent ignorance and there is invincible, dogmatic, and self-righteous ignorance. Every tragic mass shooting seems to bring out examples of both among gun-control advocates."

 --I will be keeping this URL handy in the coming weeks.

Let's start with some easy things

From Facebook

Anti-gun opportunists are running full throttle on this mass murder. We need to rally again because this administration will begin taking action on gun control while emotions are high.

Here are a few simple things that I believe would actually help prevent this kind of murder in the future:

• We need to admit that the Gun Free Zone placebo experiment has failed. In the end it has become a crime magnet, making them far less safe . I do not support requiring teachers and administrators to have guns but don't stop them if they want.

• Install steel fire doors for classrooms. They should also have "Lock Down" bolts on the crash bar inside. Like fire exit crash bars, a lock down alarm will sound if the bolt is thrown and authorities will be automatically summoned (like fire alarms). The bolt, bars the door from the inside, making it impossible to kick in or breach with a gun. Run "Lock Down" drills like fire drills or the old "Duck and Cover" Civil Defense drills I did as a kid.

• Create Administrative Office air locks for ALL school visitors. At my kids schools I can just walk in. Combined this with REAL lock down procedures.

• Hit every media outlet with heavy fines that mentions the mass killers name. Not just the first, every one. Procedes should go to the victims families. These mass killings are done so they will be famous. Fuck that. The name when referencing these assholes should simply be "The Coward".

--That was just a quick list off the top of my head. What else can you add?

Bug Out Vehicle BOV

Just in time for the pending Zombie Apocalypse!

The Mercedes Benz Unimog

Just squish your way through the Zombie hoards.

It has a nice camper and is the closest to a half track you might get for crushing Zombie heads!

--I'll take two please. (after I win the Lotto)