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I just entered the shadowy world of small bore silhouette rifle shooting the hard way. I’m a relative newbie to shooting sports, having started shooting about 15 years ago. I was crazed enough to raise my hand when 4H asked for volunteers to start a new archery club in my county. I’ve coached...

Here's this morning's story about theft of guns from vehicles https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/717178960/more-guns-in-cars-mean-more-guns-stolen-from-cars

I have wondered if I was crazy or if it was just me... but there are guns that I love. Now, the word “love” gets bandied around a good bit, but I’m talking about a deep connection where the lines and curves, the feel and balance in your hand, the shape, proportions, history, legacy, and design...

My son an I went out into a clear cut in the county forest just outside of Coos Bay to set up an improvised range to practice 3-P small bore rifle for his 4H club. He was in full shooting coat regalia and doing kneeling position when the Sheriffs deputies rolled up. They were patrolling logging...

I've admired the double locking lug/bar design of the Winchester 92 and its clones. Its an elegant. smooth, efficient action for cycling pistol caliber rounds. My vexing questions is this: Why, why, WHY would manufacturers continue to build this rifle today with a crescent steel buttstock? I...

I’m going to take another stab at it. Non-gun people like to demonize guns because guns cause death and non-gun people have no use for them. As long as the discussion is framed this way, guns become demons and are subject to the all too human zeal to ban things we don’t like. When death and...

Considering the urban-rural divide, I was just wondering to myself about personal responsibility and the use of hand held devices. Some people have great concern about deaths caused by firearms (around 30k per year). Many are unconcerned about deaths caused by cell phones (considerably north of...

I've been working on a response to the favorite liberal question, "What do you need that for" when asking about a firearm. The question contains the seed of condescension and the dismissal of the legitimacy of the firearm from the intellectual perspective of the enlightened pacifist. Its a...

I can't be on the mall in D.C. this morning. Gun rights supporters have their work cut out for them against the photogenic and earnest kids being manipulated to unwittingly attack their own rights. May I offer a chant for the demonstration: "Gun rights, criminal wrongs, Put the blame where it...

Surprising that NPR would even do a story on Biathlon. Too bad they ended it with a reference to the concept of criminal mass shooting. The text story is better than the edited audio version that aired...

The talk out there about trying to get the CDC or other research organizations to study "gunviolence" from an epidemiological perspective is really bugging me. The implications are myriad. The idea that guns or gun owners are like parasites or disease that can be eradicated is chilling. It seems...

I'm an Oregon resident with a CCL and will be travelling across the country to Minnesota. I've checked reciprocity in the states I will be travelling through and its a checkerboard. Idaho=yes, Wyoming=no, South Dakota=yes, Minnesota=no. I understand this part of the game. My question concerns...

I just about can't help myself. When I get a new gun, or one that's new to me, I invariably change something on it. Changing sights, grips, dehorning the sharp edges and pointy ends. It got really bad (or really good, depending on how you view these things) with my last acquisition. I picked up...

I can't help but notice that the usual demonization of the weapon used in the crime is missing in this case. If it were a semi-auto handgun with higher-than-comfort-level capacity magazines or a semi-auto rifle of a certain design type, that would be the lead sentence in the coverage. In this...

As heard on NPR. At least they call us "super owners" http://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494765559/nearly-half-of-guns-in-u-s-owned-by-3-percent-of-population-study-finds

On NPR's All Things Considered tonight, a piece was done on the lawsuit against the City of Ferguson, MO brought by the Dept. of Justice.... At the very end of the report, host Ari Shapiro quotes a DOJ letter to Ferguson that states, " ....as has long been established under law...

I just heard some banging in the clothes dryer and went in to fish out some loose change. But I do remember one day in the not-too-distant-past when I fished some loose rounds of 38 special out of the dryer. OMG! This comes under the heading of forehead-slap stoopid, but in the Christmas...

In the propaganda war, we are often at a disadvantage when our opponents use terms like assault rifle to characterize an AR15. As soon as the label assault rifle is associated with the platform, we are arguing from a position of disadvantage. They ask what you need an assault rifle for, and you...

I've wondered if there's a correlation between recruits who grew up learning to shoot and better performance as as riflemen in the military? If "a well regulated militia" carries the meaning of individual citizens practiced in the art of the rifle (forgive me Jeff Cooper), is the infantry made...

Mods, please move this if I'm posting in the wrong place. I took on this Oregon bill's sponsor in an editorial Pro/Con duel today: http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/32962717-78/gun-control-burdensome-legislation-wont-stop-criminals-from-getting-guns.html.csp Its a liberal newspaper...