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Two Japanese tourists, in the country for the World Cup soccer tournament, visited a Bass Pro Shop.  Somehow they found their way to the firearms department.  They could not buh-leeeeve all that magnificent firepower on sale to the general public.  The Japanese guys asked if they could touch the guns and as you can see they got the full enjoyment out of handling them.

Oh yeah, and notice that they are wearing Buc-ee’s hats.
This has to be the greatest video I’ve seen in awhile.  The look on the Japanese duo’s faces as they heft aloft various handguns, rifles and shotguns.  Doing something that is definitely not allowed in most of the world (but it should be allowed, that’s what truly free countries do).
I’ve heard lots of stories about how foreign guests here for the World Cup have been discovering the real America and being impressed by all
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 Is this a trend?  If it is then I hope it’s a growing one!

In the past few months I’ve found a number of young ladies – these are girls under twelve – who are not only gun enthusiasts but are also very adept with firearms.  In every way pertaining to guns, from responsible gun handling to describing various ammo, each of these girls possesses more knowledge and expertise with firearms than most adults.

Here are a couple of examples.  And as you can tell, these ladies also command extremely authoritative and articulate voices.  No doubt a result of the confidence that they have gained from their gun ownership and use.

This first young woman, I discovered on Facebook from the ads for her father’s VERY clever invention StopBox (note: I do not own a StopBox, but I do think it’s pretty cool).  Meet Emma Ervin, from the state ...

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I notice that all of the school shooters have been male.  Never female.

Two things I can take away from this.  The first is that based on this pattern it can be deduced that indeed there are drastic differences between men and women.
 
The second thing I take from this, is that there is something TERRIBLY wrong with how our society handles its young men.
 

The average boy once had a father, or at least a father figure, to look up to and learn values from.  Values came from a lot of sources actually.  The Boy Scouts, religious institutions, even teachers and principals.  There was some authority figure who young men learned from. Learning everything from simple decency, to how to accord one’s self in honorable fashion with the opposite sex.

 
And then there is the basic psychological needs of young men.  Needs to compete, to “prove
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Several years ago as a college student, I was minoring in secondary education.  The intended plan was since I couldn’t hack it in computer programming (with visions of being a millionaire like the guys who made Doom in my head) that I should focus on something I was actually good at: history, and teaching it.

The discussion in class one day turned to student discipline and keeping order in the classroom.  Naturally it went on a tangent about school shootings.  And I suggested arming the teachers with taser weapons.

It’s a wonder I didn’t get banished from Elon University right then and there, the notion was so radical and attacked.  But this was before Columbine.  Now?  The thought of a non-lethal stun device seems almost quaint.

Under no circumstance is the Second Amendment to be violated.  Some may not like it, but the right to keep and bear arms is ...

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The greatest president of the past half-century – at least – and he kept a sidearm during his time in the Oval Office.

I don’t care what your political persuasion, you gotta admit: that is severely hardcore.

The New York Daily News has an eye-opening story revealing something that until now only members of the Secret Service were aware of: that Ronald Reagan not only believed in the Second Amendment, he actively practiced it.  Specifically, he had a .38 pistol nearby as a personal firearm during his time as President of the United States.  He especially hid it in a briefcase as he traveled on Air Force One.

The article by Brad Meltzer goes into detail about what other presidents have carried with them.  George H.W. Bush toted his driver’s license around, and Clinton had a photo of Hillary and Chelsea (no comment).  Obama carries a Blackberry but no wallet ...

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This is easily the technology that I’m keenly following more than any other right now.  And for plenty of good reasons…

3D printing is now capable of producing replacement bones using living cells.

Desktop-produced firearms continues to be developed and refined, beyond the control of any government.

Laser-guided 3D printing can now produce metal objects with high precision.  You will soon be taking your car into a garage and have a new custom part created in-house.

High-capacity lithium-ion batteries smaller than the size of a grain of sand have been created in the laboratory and it’s thought that they could eventually be used to power ridiculously tiny gadgets, including next-generation medical devices like pacemakers.

And then there’s this: 4D printing!  Objects which are manufactured in 3D “folded-up”, then are allowed to self-assemble themselves.  One possible use mentioned is being able to buy furniture packed-flat from ...

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Liberator, Defense Distributed, 3D printing, gun, firearms, Second Amendment, First Amendment
The Liberator: Coming soon to
a desktop near you!

Defense Distributed has made a lot of headlines lately about the Liberator: a firearm which is completely fabricated by “3D printing”, apart from the firing pin.  I think the success of this gun already is that it’s got politicians like Charles Schumer and Steve Israel all steamed-up about it.  Schumer wants 3D printed guns to be outlawed completely.

The thing is, politicos like Schumer can’t figure out how to pull that off.  3D printing will soon be a household implement and if it can be drawn up on a computer, anyone will be able to produce a fully-functioning model right on their desktop.  The computer doesn’t care if it’s a replacement part for a kitchen appliance or an action figure or a real working handgun.  The barn door has been thrown wide open and there’s no getting that horse back ...

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I’ll be damned if (Lord willing) I get blessed with children and I put them in a government-run school.

They’re not here yet.  But I already love them too much than to subject them to the insanity of a modern public school.  And few things exemplify that madness more than do zero-tolerance policies.

(Hey, I ran for school board once.  It can’t be said that I never tried to make the public schools better.  But things won’t going to get better until more people get up the gumption to tell the bureaucrats “ENOUGH!“)

Two stories demonstrating my point.  The first is about seven-year old Christopher Marshall of Suffolk, Virginia.  He was suspended from his elementary school last week per a policy of “zero tolerance”.

What was his crime?  Pointing a pencil as if were a gun at another student and making “bang! bang!” noises with it.

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Somebody educate me: how do people like Dianne Feinstein get elected to anything whatsoever? Feinstein shouldn’t be trusted with city sanitation manager, much less United States Senator.

Having failed in her bid to ban “assault weapons” (there is no such thing, incidentally) Demented Dianne has now decided that violent video games must be controlled and regulated by act of Congress.

From the article at VentureBeat…

Speaking to an audience of 500 people in her hometown of San Francisco, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that game publishers need to make voluntary actions to avoid glorifying guns and violence following the Newtown elementary school massacre in December.

She noted that Congress would take action if the industry didn’t do something, according to the Associated Press.

“If Sandy Hook doesn’t [make game publishers change] … then maybe we have to proceed, but that is in the future,” said Feinstein.

She went

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DEFCAD, 3D printing, 3D prototyping, 22 pistolIn two months’ time DEFCAD has garnered more than three thousand visits an hour and nearly a quarter-million downloads.  What makes up the bulk of that traffic?

Guns, guns, guns.  Parts for guns.  Accessories like suppressors.  Ammo casings for NATO and Warsaw Pact small arms and rifles.  Even combat munitions like hand grenades.

And they all work too.

Provided you’ve a 3D printer, the right materials and a few other items that can be bought at most any hardware store, you or anybody else can spend a nice relaxing evening or weekend putting together a small arsenal in your home office.

Sorta brings whole new meaning to desktop publishing a magazine, huh?

I just downloaded a .22 single-shot pistol from DEFCAD, designed by a user named “caboose”.  The entire ZIPped-up file was over half a megabyte.  I don’t possess a 3D printing setup but in the future, that will ...

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