Recent content by oldfart

I live in Oregon too and I doubt you could get a definitive answer form any single source. Most police would say it's verbotten and some criminal defense attorneys would say "maybe" while the real answer would probably have to come form a court decision after you've been charged. To me...

Here in Oregon we have a major range in serious trouble for - among other things - lead in the ground which is supposed to contaminate the groundwater. Five or six years ago I read of a range back east that had been investigated by a local university to see just how much lead was in the...

" I say If federal agents arrested him, they probably had a real good reason." Somehow, when I hear words like those, the names "Randy Weaver" and "David Koresh" pop into my mind. Of course there were others whose names I don't remember, like the guy who owned the property near Los Angeles...

I remember once telling a cop that I'd rather all my daughters were whores than one of them a cop. He then proceeded to reinforce my opinion by lying his a$$ off to the court. While I know there are good, honest ones on every force I also know there are guys like him and they all look alike to...

We're all riding a "high" brought on by Heller, so it's natural for us to want to go on to greater and even more glorious victories. They will come but not all of them will be wrapped in fancy paper and delivered by the SCOTUS. For now, let's let Daley eat a little crow. Bloomberg, Newsom...

I understand all the concern about appearances but occasionally we have to be practical too. My wife simply cannot use a normal belt holster. First, she's left-handed so I had to conquer that disability before we even recognised the other one. She's ... Well, she's... Okay, she has big...

I don't think I'd be so ticked off at the NRA if they'd be just a little bit more honest. We all know that in the early days of "Parker" the NRA was afraid of the outcome and tried to scuttle the case. What they feared is open to conjecture, whether it was the possibility of total failure or -...

Wasn't there a case where an ex-con was under attack by some bad guys and he picked up a gun to defend himself? If my memory serves me, the court held that what he did was perfectly proper and no-billed him. Anybody?

Perhaps we have allowed ourselves to become too "politically-correctified" to properly address the "reasonable restrictions" issue. There was a time not too long ago, when anyone, man, woman or child could walk into the local Ace Hardware and lay his/her money down and walk out with any gun on...

Considering the government's track record with respect to that sort of thing, do you really want to give Big Brother any more access to our personal business? Rather than tacking something onto the NCIS process, we should be eliminating the damned thing. As has been said many times though...

Several years ago I had a lady and three kids living next door. The lady was always fighting/arguing with her older daughter and on one night the daughter decided to come stay with my daughter to avoid an altercation. The lady called the police, telling them her daughter had "run away" and...

We had squirrels in the attic awhile back. I shot two of them with Super Colibre ammo and sealed up their entry holes before I found out there were more of the little bast__s. So I bought a bunch of D-Con rat poison. That just dries them into little mummies that don't stink. A week or so...

"Any sort of swaggering and threatening talk of CW2 is silly, ineffective, and could even be counterproductive." Yeah, but if we don't say it once in awhile they'll think we've forgotten about it. Worse, we might forget about it.

There is one other thing: Outraged gun owners weren't required to do much to sink Zumbo's ship except perhaps type an e-mail or two. In most other cases they're expected to show up, demonstrate and type e-mails. We're basically a pretty lazy lot and more than a bit willing to let "the other...

I remember shooting BARs, 1919 A4s and 3.5" Rocket Launchers (Bazookas) with no hearing protection at all. It all comes back to me especially well when I sit on a quiet evening and listen to the bells... that aren't there.