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.
CARRYING A GUN AT HOME?
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Ever leave home on an impulse or for a quick errand and realize you didn’t
have your wallet, your house key, or your phone? I avoid that by keeping
wallet...
TFB Review: The Daniel Defense M4A1 FSB Upper
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When it comes to AR15s, the market is absolutely flooded with options and
variations that are so overwhelming, it can sometimes make your head spin.
One ...
Attending Salar’s April Wine Dinner
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I tend to write about restaurants I like, so it’s funny to me that I have
never written about my actual favorite restaurant. It’s a Peruvian
restaurant in ...
Staying Earthbound
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Sometimes you think you can fly, only to be destined to drown.
And so we stay earthbound. "Should have". "Would have". Those are words in
all of our he...
Dad Joke
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Since my offspring refused to appreciate it, I will share here for even
more mockery :D See, there's this grumpy woman who lives on the edge of the
city. S...
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...
Train with Taurus and Caleb
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Yes, I fully realize that it’s been over 3 years since I updated here, but
one of my resolutions is to start writing more, better content. So here we
are...
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.