Spree for thee, not for me

| November 21, 2008

There is much chatter the past week or so about the run on gun stores — people buying up weapons and ammunition which is thought likely to be banned or made prohibitively expensive under an Obama administration. The website for Classic Arms — one of my favorite purveyors of fine shootin’ iron — tells the […]

Of boom sticks and banjos

| November 19, 2008

I’ve owned and/or fired one version or another of every rifle that has been standard issue for the US Army since the 1870s. Of all this wide variety of rifles, without a doubt my favorite has been the M1A, the civilian version of the Army’s venerable M14 which, as you may already know, was replaced […]