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That headline is not a joke.  At Edwards Air Force base, 20 minutes from where I grew up, the Air Force has test fired their anti-missile chemical laser.

The test of the high-energy chemical laser was conducted Sunday by the contractors and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the company said.

“The program remains on track to reach the missile shoot-down demonstration planned for 2009,” said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems.

I’ve known about the Air Force laser program for a while now, but the fact that they’re actually testing it and firing the laser pretty much makes my day.  We’re still a long way off from X-Wings, but for some reason the concept of actually mounting functional laser weapons on aircraft makes me all tingly.

I wrote this post a year ago – and I think it’s an ideal time to resurrect it.  June of ’07, Purdue University released a study which was the combined results of the collaboration of the best and the brightest in the engineering fields at Purdue.  The result of this study was essentially a “STFU” to the 9-11 truthers, who are assholes anyway.

My post was called Purdue University Sticks it to 9-11 Truthers.  Sadly, it’s just as relevant today, because there are still people who cling to the delusion that the twin towers were brought down by a controlled detonation.  You can read the entire original post by clicking the link, and I’ve also included the original text below the jump.

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I want to say thanks to my readers who have pointed out some solid information about Mec-Gar magazines which makes me much more comfortable ordering them.  As of right now, I have three factory mags from Para (one 10-round magazine and two 16-round mags), and on order I have 1 10-round Pro-Mag, 1-16 round MecGar magazine, and one 18-round MecGar magazine.

I’m eagerly looking forward to them showing up at my house so I can burn up some more .40 S&W ammo.

Thanks again to everyone who pointed out that I was on crack about not trusting MecGar.

Man, I cannot resist throwing in a Terminator reference at 0900.

Last night’s show was a little bittersweet for a lot of us, since it was Bonnie’s last show for a while.  We talked a lot of different topics, things she’d learned from the show, her favorite show, a little Sarah Palin, and then eventually we were rescued by Stanger73, one of our regular listeners, who called in to ask about Glocks and 1911s.

You can listen to the archive of the show here, or by clicking on the player below, or by downloading the .mp3 file.

Bonnie will be missed – she added something different to the show, something not quite as gun-nutty as me, which created a good balance for the topics.

As a promo for next week’s show, I want to remind everyone that we’re going to be moving to a 9pm Eastern time slot – no more 11pm shows for me, thank god. Starting this upcoming Tuesday the 16th, we’ll be moving to 9pm. For our first 9pm show, we’ll be featuring an interview with Dan Smith, the VP of Operations for International Cartridge Corporation. Dan will be talking to us about developments in frangible ammunition technology for training, law enforcement and self defense. This is a real “Gun Nuts” kind of show – if you don’t tune in you’ll miss out.

Remember, the new time slot is 9pm Eastern, but we’re at the same address: www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts. See you next week!