When Hobbies Collide

This weekend I went to a PEZ convention with my wife. Yes, that's right, I said PEZ convention.

She collects PEZ, I collect guns. She supports me, I support her. She has like a thousand of the things.

Anyway, a weekend in a resort hotel, on the beach, with my wife. Nuff said.

There was lot's of people there selling and trading PEZ items.

We were visiting seller after seller. It's a very social hobby. That's when I saw the PEZ handgun. I shit you not. A toy that was designed for kids to shoot themselves IN THE MOUTH.

Imagine all the executions that were played out! The firing squads! The pretend suicides! Fun Fun Fun!

I actually bought a functioning orange one. They even have magazines you load with PEZ for rapid fire action. I wanted the black one, but new in the package they were going for like $300!

"Ready - Aim - Fire!"


--My favorite ammo is Grape.

Quotes of the Week

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

– James Madison


"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?"

– Paul Harvey 

"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."

– William S. Burroughs

Second Amendment in Motion

--I love people with hobbies.

Travel Day

No blogging time today.

There is one thing I did see yeaterday. I happened to notice that the Ruger SP101 is now available in .22 rimfire!

Hmmmmmm...

--More later!!

Canada Scraps the Long Gun Registry

Statistics Canada released a report on Oct. 26, 2011, on homicides in Canada in 2010. That year, there were 170 shooting homicides. Down from about 250.

"The cost of establishing the registry was more than $1 billion. The Harper government campaigned on getting rid of the long-gun registry and now it says it also intends to destroy all the information about long-gun owners that has been collected."

Gun registry information is used by police across Canada more than 17,000 times per day. The $1 billion figure doesn't include all the time the police used for the bureaucracy of it all.

--What if the would have spent $1 billion on safer highway intersections? Ever drive in Canada?

MOVIE: Halloween

Donald Pleasence - Halloween, 1978

Tis the season for some of my favorite fright films. As always I keep my eyes open for gun action and I realized while watching tonight that Halloween actually hand a gun!

"Halloween is a 1978 horror film directed by John Carpenter and featured a breakout performance by Jamie Lee Curtis. The film would spawn 7 sequels as well as the 2007 remake and 2009's H2, both directed and written by Rob Zombie."

"Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) in his pursuit of Michael Myers uses a Smith & Wesson Model 15. This was the weapon used in firing the infamous six shots into Michael Myers' chest in the final scene of the film. This particular weapon was fitted with target stocks, instead of the more common slimline Magna stocks of the same era." 

--This is just as good now as it was in 1978!

Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act

They are moving in the right direction.

"U.S Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) have introduced the Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act. The bill allows for the interstate sale of firearms and removes several antiquated and unnecessary restrictions imposed on interstate firearms transactions"

I have seen this floating around the web for several days now. Even if it does not get signed into law it will now be in the lexicon. Waiting for the right person to sign.

Soon.

--This would solve the issues with DC and residents getting firearms.

Gaddafi’s Gun

This is the gun they took off Gaddafi when he was captured.

What is it about Middle East dictators and gold plated pimping of firearms? Total 4 rules violations!

Hat tip to Traction Control.

--I wonder who has this piece now?

Quotes of the Week

Occupy vs Tea Party "How does one start from the same basic objection and reach the polar opposite prescription? The answer is a lack of maturity."

--Pajamas Media

‎"Bullshit. War ain't over till people stop shooting. You can't say you're done taking a crap if shit's still coming out of your ass."

--ShitMyDadSays, on FB

Everyone has to have Rules

I have posted about my Rules before. Here are some in order of importance:

• Don't Panic.
• Be prepared.
• Keep an escape route open.
• Don't lie to yourself.
• Keep your overhead low.
• Don't procrastinate.
• Be decisive. Even if it means you'll be wrong sometimes.
• Keep secrets.
• Never cut what can be untied.
• Be organized.
• Say what you mean and mean what you say.
• Make long and short term goals.
• Consider the worst case scenario now and then and prepare for it.
• Give people a second chance, but not a third.
• Keep it simple.
• Act as though it were impossible to fail.

--What Rules do you have?

Bacon Marmalade

It’s meaty/tangy/sweet/spicy fantastically delicious.

Hat tip to Chef J. Looney! It’s meaty/tangy/sweet/spicy fantastically delicious, and here’s how I am gonna make it: 

Bacon Marmalade

7 lbs thick-cut bacon
2 cups red onion, diced
5 large cloves of garlic, minced
2 cups dark brown sugar, packed
2 cups raw apple cider vinegar
4 shots espresso
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

"Cut the bacon into small pieces. You’ll need a really big skillet to do this in one batch, or you can use two large skillets side by side. However you do it, 7 pounds is a lot of bacon, and you want to cook it evenly, so dumping it all into a huge roaster or saucepan just won’t do the trick.

Cook the bacon over medium-high heat until it’s good and crispy. Drain the grease off and put the bacon aside for a few minutes. Reduce the heat to medium. Add the onion and garlic to the pan and cook just until it’s clear, add the vinegar to deglaze the pan, using a wooden spoon to scrape all the meaty brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Add the brown sugar, cayenne and espresso, and simmer for 2-3 minutes until everything has incorporated. Add the bacon, and simmer over medium heat until thick and syrupy. Don’t cook it too long or you’ll end up with a dry, crusty hard-candy mess. You want it kind of soupy and loose at this point, especially if you’re not going to eat it all right away (and no matter how much you love bacon, you’re not going to eat it all right away – it’s 7 pounds of bacon).

Put the whole mixture into a food processor and pulse gently 3-4 times until it starts to come together, then turn it on and let it blend until it’s the consistency you like. Less time = chunkier marmalade, more time = smoother marmalade. I like mine somewhere in the middle.

There you have it, bacon marmalade. This recipe makes about 2 quarts. It’ll keep in the fridge for 2-3 weeks. I usually heat mine up before eating, but it’s perfectly good right out of the fridge as well."

--That's right: 7 pounds of bacon AND 4 shots of espresso! I am so doing this! For my next trip to the range!

Occupy This

She is cute and correct!! And yes, is that an AK in the background!?



--Hat tip to Andy over at The Tempestuous Sea

Embarrassed?

Los Angeles police are 'embarrassed' after a huge gun cache was stolen?

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police officials searched on Monday for a stolen cache of submachine guns and semi-automatic handguns that disappeared from a SWAT training facility, and said they were embarrassed by the loss.More than 30 Heckler & 

Koch MP5 submachine guns and M1911 pistols that had been stored at the training facility were stolen, Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rayner said.

As I was reading this article I could not help but wonder what this story had been if this had been a private collection.

"Once in a while we'll have a police car get stolen. That's certainly embarrassing, and any time we lose any of our property it's embarrassing and we want to get it back."

--I can see them blushing from here.

My First Car

So it goes around like wildfire. I will jump on this bandwagon.

My first car was a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger.

I loved that car. I paid $400 for it. I put another 60,000 miles on it and sold it for $400. The best car deal I ever had. The seats in it were like sofas. Excellent car for teenage making out.

I bought the car from a woman that could not drive anymore because she discovered she had Narcolepsy. The sleep seizure disorder. Very scary thing if it were to happen while driving.

I have often thought I would find and restore one again. It had a straight six motor that only had like six parts.

--Even I could work on that car!

Flea Market Goodness

I went to a Flea market with my wife last weekend. It was your typical flea market. There were occasional items of interest.

I saw several knives that would have been worth having but they were a bit over priced. Even some swords and Tomahawks.

I actually found a box of trapping gear. Large and small animal leg traps. Compound bows and arrows.

Lots of camo, boots, blaze orange and other hunting gear.

But the best thing was a hug box of used holsters!

I selected three from the bin and paid the man $21 total.

Two of them are Uncle Mikes and one is a Bianchi!

--I am very pleased!