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.
Go Back!
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You know that the whole "internet of things" has gone too far when AWS
cloud services goes down and it bricks your $2700 bed.
Look, of all the things I don...
The Big Idea: J. R. Blanes
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While some ideas get shelved entirely, some ideas are merely on the back
burner for a while before becoming fully realized ideas and narratives.
Such was t...
AI LLM poisoning attacks are trivially easy
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This doesn't seem good:
Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an
Anthropic study is anything to go on.
Researchers at the ...
CALIFORNIA’S GLOCK BAN
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Last month I taught a MAG-40 class in the San Diego area with one of my 9mm
Glock 26 subcompact pistols. This month Governor Newsom signed into law a
bill ...
The Scent of Memory
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*I **choose many things by the scent of them*. Scent is the key part of
taste. People that lose their sense of smell often lose their enjoyment of
food. Sm...
Tech: Hollow Knight: Silksong
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I enjoyed the original *Hollow Knight* even though I never got around to
finishing the game, so like millions of other people, I picked up the
hotly-anti...
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...
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...
Light blogging
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Minor medical condition taken care of. Nothing to worry about. But requires
a lot of couch time. Back later. Kamagra Ohne Rezept Kaufen
I'm not dead
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I've been meaning to post here, but, life happens. I've been way too busy
at work, haven't done much gun stuff, and am pretty much burnt out on news
/ pol...
Down Range Radio #621: The Winchester .350 Legend
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This week Michael talks about taking weight off his Sweetie’s 3-Gun rifle,
the antecedents of the Winchester .350 Legend and an "unfortunate" period
in his...
Eighteen Years Ago Today...
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Eighteen years ago today, my son was born. TheBoy entered the collective
conscious, bringing "father" to the list of names I proudly wear. He's off
to the ...
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...
Sponsor Spotlight - Cabela's
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The folks at Cabela's in Reno have long been backers of the Gun Blogger
Rendezvous and this year (GBR XI) is no different.
Jaime and the crew at the Reno C...
Oh. My. God - That is Some Ammo Data.
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Well, that's about 2 hours of my life that I won't get back.
But wow.
Lucky Gunner just ran a massive test on handgun ammo. Looks like they
covered 380 AC...
Flight Risk
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Prior to 9/11 a person could fly with a pocket knife. In most airport
arenas this constituted a blade of 4 inches or less, and it was generally
recogniz...
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...
Gun Show "Loophole" Bills Update
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As Sebastian notes, a measure to close the "gun show loophole" failed in
the House Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee. Though this was
not the ...
15 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.