Monthly Archives: January 2012

I was sitting across from a Marine tonight and the subject of the TSA came up.  He had this to say.

Nothing confused me or pissed me off more when flying home and we switched to a commercial charter flight off of a military transport.  They went through and made all of us throw away our lighters.  We still had our M16’s and bayonets, but those lighters were mighty dangerous, especially since we could use them to take over the plane.

The saddest thing was, he was dead serious.  Flying back they made everyone toss their lighters for “security reasons”.

TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.

Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

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The alternative post title is “In Which I Don’t Think Things Completely Through”. 

Saturday I went out with Joe and did some Boomerite testing to try and get to the root of a detonation problem.  Here’s the video from the testing.  I was slightly mistaken in that there was one other target that kind of popped, but it was still nothing like we normally see.

Yes, I do something not so bright, but not nearly a full Ry.  Joe and Ry did some work the other night and it in fact does appear there is a size difference.  It hasn’t been determined to be the cause.  It would explain half the targets from 2011 not working as well.

TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.

Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

www.the-minuteman.org

You, all by yourself matter. You don’t need a single person to validate your worth, but if you are still working your way to that truth, think about someone, anyone, in your life who would miss you if you decided not to fight.

A Girl and Her Gun – Just In Case

[It is yet another nugget of gold out of this wonderful woman.  As I said before she has a point of view that not all of us do have.  She went through the transformation from one side to the other.

Personally I cannot fathom or even begin to comprehend how someone would not be willing to fight for their life.  To not fight for the most precious gift of all, the gift, that once it’s gone you don’t get another one; just does not compute.

There is no question I would fight, I cannot and will not strand my wife or my mother.  My mother most importantly does not in anyway shape or form deserve to have to bear that grief because a  criminal decided they were going to try and make me a victim.  She has already lost my father and damn near lost my sister and I both, all within 2 years.

If someone brings a fight to my door by god I’m leaving with my boots on.   Myself as a person as well as preventing the grief of my family is worth it.  Robb asked today about plans for after action.  In it he pointed out some family members may not be supportive of your defensive gun use.  If this is the case, they may be family by blood, but that is it.  True family would be overwhelmingly happy that you fought to remain with them for longer.  If all else fails, you can seek solace in your non-blood family, that understands why you fought.  I want my fellow law abiding gunnies to remain around for a long time. -B]

TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.

Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

www.the-minuteman.org

The Minutewoman and I finally upgraded our phones yesterday. I found a post editor and figured is I’d give it a try.

Sadly I am not seeing an immediate way to upload pics from the phone app. 

Still this is a further push down the road.

Update: The app was a flop.  I can do some posting through the WYSIWYG editor and the mobile browser.  I think the problem is because I’m using WLW which has a special plugin.  So overall my phones a WiFi hotspot so if all else fails by god I’ll just use my phone with my laptop!

TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.

Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

www.the-minuteman.org