Greater Charlotte NC Suburban SC, North Carolina - South Carolina border, United States
formerly known as the pseudonymous 4B from the suburbanpreparedness blog and tens or dozens of comments on other blogs, Brian has re-branded himself as himself in an attempt to promote transparency in the gunblogging community and possibly obtain a small amount of credibility.
Climate data is just made up
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I've posted many times about how the temperature data is modified after its
initial collection, but this takes the cake. One third of UK weather
station...
Lawsuit Challenges Maine's 72-Hour Waiting Period
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Only a few weeks back, in early August of 2024, we told you about Maine’s
new 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases. Now we’re seeing our first
lawsuit ...
Damn It, Who Keeps Sending Me Guitars
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Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a
tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I
nee...
Grist Mill Adventures
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During the summer and fall, we drive to a Historic Grist mill a couple of
miles from our house. After biking or walking the trails along the river,
we pi...
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
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On my lovely bride The Evil Princess’s side of our blended family is our
youngest great-grand-daughter Paisley, who is already well on her way as a
profess...
TV: Ranma ½ (2024 series)
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*Ranma ½* is both the first manga I ever read and the first anime my sister
and I watched together, so it has always been a sentimental favorite of
mine,...
Gratitude and Perspectives
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Sometimes people suck. They annoy you. Do something irritating, or worse
antagonistic. We're all quick vent about it, often for days. Sometimes -
more ofte...
The 3 Best 22 LR Rifles for Home Defense
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In some states, including my former home state of Washington, 22 LR rifles
are exempt from “assault weapons” provisions. In other states, restrictions
on...
THE OPPOSITE of conservative...
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"Look at how many conservatives LOVE Donald Trump"
Conservatives? None.
Reactionary right populists (and faux-populists) who call themselves
conservativ...
Getting Inside a Glock Magazine
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I became involved in the shooting sports way, way back in 1980 or so. (Old
fart alert!) Money was always in short supply, so I usually opted for
surplus/us...
Bendigo Strange
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I'm often reminded of Kevin Costner's character John Dunbar in Dances with
Wolves when I come here. In both the book and the movie, there comes the
point ...
The Ultimate Guide To Online Dating
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The app Hornet, which caters to the gay male community, has seen a
30-percent increase in social feed engagement since social distancing
measures began i...
Tactical lighting....
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Funny how these things work sometimes.I was headed to the range today to
sight in the house gun with it's new Streamlight tactical light and laser,
and pl...
For A Friend...
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Folks, I'm breaking my over-a-year-long streak of not posting because I
have some sad news. Someone that I consider a good friend, Chance over at
SayUncle,...
Finn
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It's nice having a dog again, even if I do miss my old guy. I'm not so
sure that I have any idea what I'm doing.
I do occasionally find myself wondering i...
why #stopdownloadableguns has already failed
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Ok, on this, the day of one of my favorite things ever –
the democratization of technology – let us have a serious, sober-ish
conversation about this
whol...
Enemies Within?
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I’ve hardly seen anything more over the top than Adam Kraut’s campaign for
the NRA Board, and some Board members response to it. Marion isn’t the only
one ...
A little note (and maybe some hope?)
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I just moved my internet connections, web servers, etc. Found a great way
to keep the blog up & running without incurring the cost of having fixed
IPs. ...
Adjust contrast of a pdf free
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Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite
literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are
saving. the proce...
Notes for Saturday – April 08, 2017
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April 8th is the birthday of the late Ian Smith, Prime Minister of
Rhodesia, (born 1919, died November 20, 2007). o o o SafeCastle is offering
a free membe...
GBR XI - Quick Recap
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Thank you to everyone who made the trip to Reno this year!
I hope you had a great time as we shot through thousands of rounds of ammo
and raised just shy o...
Smokeless Powder versus Smokeless Powder
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I've never been much for reloading and I'm struggling a little bit to
understand the differences. There's no time like the present to learn,
right?
Please...
It's really very simple
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[Note: I am pushing this article live two days early because ZeroHedge
somehow managed to get a hold of it and post it before I did. Needless to
say, I do...
American Sniper
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*Warning!: Spoilers*
*This is a quick review on the movie American Sniper. I have not read the
book (yet) but I am aware of the Chris Kyle story, as are...
taking a break
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To my dear and faithful readers: I have been really busy getting the new
blog up and running with an attached facebook page. This stuff doesn’t come
easily...
Going Nokia 920
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It's official, I'm tossing my stupid iPhone, abandoning Android, and going
Windows Phone 8 via the Nokia 920. iTunes has aggravated me from the
beginning, ...
loading up the digital u-haul.
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I finally made the move to a self-hosted WordPress blog. Come check out the
new digs! Until I figure out how to import all my old stuff into the new
blog (...
Back in the World
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* Back in the world after a 13 month deployment. Looks like I picked a good
time to get out of Afghanistan. Things seems to be going downhill, and
picking...
my work here is done
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Every woman in my life now either has or is considering a gun for
self-defense. Many of them have gone on to get their CCW, including my mom.
I'm satisfied.
I've Moved
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I've taken the plunge: come visit at my new WordPress site:
Musings of a Dinosaur
(For those who are cut-and-paste-challenged, all you have to do is change...
Virginia Church Carry Ban
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One of the proposed bills (HB 106) in the Virginia legislature repeals both
the restaurant carry ban and the ban on carrying a concealed handgun at a
house...
14 years ago
We’ve moved!
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Please continue to follow the SnubTraining blog at blog.snubtraining.com.
(Please remember to update your bookmarks as well.)
Appleseed FAQ
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What is Project Appleseed? It's a program designed to train people in basic
rifle marksmanship using rack grade rifles and surplus ball ammo; as well
as a ...
Obviously none of those utopian planners tried hard enough. ;)
ReplyDeleteThankfully no.
ReplyDeleteThey do keep on trying though.