“Don’t taze me bro!” is all over the internet! Say Uncle claims you can get 1000 extra visitors to your blog if you use the phrase … well, I am trying it out!
A university student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
More here.
From Ace of Spades:
Hat tip: Say Uncle
Kahr Arms is more than just the manufacturer of some of the smallest and most lethal weapons on earth (including the tommy gun, made
famous by Al Capone). It is run and mostly owned by a son of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the billionaire and self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church and controls a sprawl of businesses presumably intended to sustain and defend his followers when the world as we know it ends. The gun business, along with food companies, real estate, and other holdings, will serve to protect the fortress and keep sinners at bay, according to former members, as well as supply necessary provisions after the arrival of the new world order.
Not much is known about Moon’s 37-year-old son, Justin, or how Kahr Arms fits into the church’s teachings and the reverend’s plans for world domination. People who know Justin say he travels a lot, has a penchant for fast cars and big-caliber pistols, and spends stretches of time at various family and church mansions around the globe. He is also vigorously business-minded and has personally designed most of his company’s guns. He has grown Kahr Arms into one of America’s top privately owned handgun manufacturers, with sales of around $20 million a year and climbing at an annual rate of 30 percent. More here.
This comic strip by Reason Magazine is brilliant. Well worth a read.
Read the whole strip here.
Who doesn’t like looking at guns 
While I would not call this beautiful I would call it sexy!
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Hat Tip: kcub @ The Gun Network Forum
(This gun is for sale. I have absolutely no connection to the seller)
New Jovian Thunderbolt has written about his experiences at a Maryland Hunter Education course.
The course is held at an Isaak Walton League chapter and conducted by members of the local club. The instructors were stereotypical hunting types. Clearly not city bred, middle-aged men that look like they’ve been hunting since they were 8 years old, and probably were. They had an obvious happy enthusiasm for hunting and the outdoors and appeared genuinely pleased to impart their knowledge and positive experience on to others.
Part one is here.
Part two is here.
UPDATE: Part three is here.
David has written a post about Safari Outfitters Ltd. who produce left hand custom big bore rifles.
Safari Outfitters Ltd. Is a high-end gun store in Salt Point, NY, that is owned by Niles Wheeler. Niles is one of the finest human beings in the world, shoots left-handed, and has a soft spot for the directionally challenged. There are almost always a couple of nifty left-handed rifles (and sometimes even shotguns) in the racks, and since he knows a lot of sinistral shooters, he can often get hold of something left-handed when others can’t.
Below is a photo of the custom .416 Taylor rifle he is referring to in his post.
Read more here.
A member of The Guns Network forum received these strange emails. Why would CZ want to buy AK’s from a Texan:
From: Ciencialova Lucyna Ing.
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:14 PMSubject: Demand – machine rifle AK 47
Dear Madam / Sir,
I am writing to you from the Ceska zbrojovka company.
I´m interested in new produced MACHINE RIFLE AK 47.
I would like to ask if you can send me some information how many pcs you can sell us, price list, delivery terms, year of produce etc.
I hope to hear from you soon.
With best regards
Ing. Lucyna Ciencialova
Product Manager
Ceska zbrojovka a.s.
Svat. Cecha 1283
688 27 Uhersky Brod
Czech Republic
tel. +420 737 226 082
e-mail: ciencialova@czub.cz
www.czub.cz
Very werid!
Read the whole thread here.
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in southern China has jailed a 21-year-old man who used a toy gun to steal a backpack containing HK$1.7 million ($218,000) for 19 years, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
Xie Wei held the toy gun to a man’s head in a bank carpark in Guangzhou, capital of coastal Guangdong province, and fled with the victim’s backpack, the agency said.
More here.
Famous Guns has nice write up a about the french assault rifle, the FAMAS (Fusil Automatique, Manufacture d’Armes de St. Etienne), and it’s
history.
Development of this rifle began in 1967, under the leadership of the Paul Tellie, a French arms designer. This new rifle was intended to replace in service the MAS Mle.49/56 semi-automatic rifles, MAT-49 submachine guns and some MAC Mle.1929 light machine guns. First FAMAS prototype had been built in 1971. French military began to test this rifle in 1972-73, but, in the meantime, France adopted a Swiss-designed SIG SG-540 5.56mm assault rifle as an intermediate solution. FAMAS rifle was adopted by the French in 1978 and since then became a standard French Army shoulder fired small arm.
More here.
(Photo from wikipedia.org)
