Gun Nuts Media

I’m going to be out of town next week, and I’ve asked Breda to fly solo on Gun Nuts.  She has not agreed yet, but she’s soliciting potential topics for her to talk about.  Go give her your feedback.

Personally, I think she should talk about hats.  Awesome hats.  😉

A friend of mine recently asked me why I bought my ammo at Gander Mountain, instead of going to Wal-Mart or Meier where I would pay $2-4 less per box than I pay at Gander Mountain.

It’s actually a pretty straightforward decision for me – I know that Gander Mountain supports my right to keep and bear arms from both a financial and political standpoint.  The same goes for Cabelas and MidwayUSA – two more places where I pay more for ammo than I would at WallyWorld.

Wal-Mart (as an example)  has gotten into bed with Mayor Bloomberg of New York, doing that meant that they lost my sporting dollars forever.  Meier I have no specific beef with, but I don’t know what their stance on the 2nd Amendment is, so why risk it?  I’d rather that money go somewhere I know it will support the shooting sports than take a chance that I’m just lining the pockets of some anti-gun executive.

Voting with your dollars is a key part of being a gun owner and sportsman.  The firearms industry generates more annual revenue that the golf industry; literally billions of dollars are spent every year on guns, ammo, and accessories.  When you take those billions of dollars and push them to companies like Gander Mountain or MidwayUSA, you know that your money isn’t going to wind up in Mayor Bloomberg’s hands.

This is getting ridiculous.  Is there a single place where these ACORN guys worked that didn’t have serious acts of voter fraud committed?

More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.

Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.

A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February.

I should write a song called “victory at all cost” or something, because I honestly don’t know how to respond to this sort of thing any more.  Mrs. Ahab and I were talking about it yesterday on the drive home, and the only conclusion we can come to is that the people doing all this honestly believe that they know what’s best for us, and so that justifies (in their minds) breaking the law so that their guy can win.  It’s actually terrifying when I think about it; because it matches a level of zeal and fervor that I had only previously encountered in religious fanatics.

For all my readers who have coats that are “kind of a brownish color”.

My favorite part of this second video is the “Willpower” slide.

Of course, the problem with watching Firefly/Serenity fan videos is that the really good ones make me sad, because there is no new Firefly.

NRA unveils new anti-Obama ad in USA Today.

I love that the add starts with “Hillary was right” – talk about hitting where it hurts.

Presser from NRA-PVF here.

John McCain voted for the landmark Firearms Owners Protection Act and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, opposed the failed Clinton Gun Ban, and voted against mandatory waiting periods, national gun registration, and bans on hunting ammunition. He also signed the historic congressional amicus brief in the case of Heller v. District of Columbia, holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms — a brief that Senator Obama refused to sign.