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This will post just after I load up in my truck and depart for St. Maries for the Worlds White Water Jet Boat Races.

What this means for you.  Blogging will be much lighter than usual, almost non-existent.  I wasn’t able to queue up some state sponsored criminals like I had hoped so that will be on hold unless I stumble across some (or people send me them).

I will have my laptop with me and my phone is my internet connection.  It won’t be blazing fast where I’m going but I should hopefully be able to get some posts written up each day on what’s going on.

If you’re at the NRAAM have fun, one of these years I might make it, there’s a list of bloggers I’d really like to meet.  If you’re coming to Boomershoot I’ll see you there.  Depending on what happens and who all is there we might create a mini blogger meet Friday night since I know some are showing up Friday.  We’ll just have to play it by ear and see what happens.  The next two and a half weeks will be quite interesting though.

-AG7FO Mobile

Let me count the ways.  Seriously I thought this was a joke until my coworker said he was serious:

Deputies say that Des Voigne sleeps with a .357 revolver
in his bed for protection. Sometime during the night he woke up after
rolling over on the firearm and then placed it in his hands on his chest
and went back to sleep.

While he was sleeping he apparently squeezed the trigger shooting himself in the shoulder with a .357 hollowpoint round.

OK now here comes the confusion on my part.  If it’s a grazing wound with powder burns I can believe this.  If he’s drilled through like a piece of wood on a drill press, not so much. 

Now for the rant.  Seriously you went to sleep with the gun on your chest?  There’s these small wooden tables, they’re about bed height, they’re designed to hold things while you sleep.  I believe they’re called night stands!  Barring that, at least throw the thing in a holster, yeah you have to remove but you know what, it’s better than say, shooting yourself in the chest.

Some how you managed to hook your booger hook on to the bang switch and pull the trigger on a double action revolver. There’s a rule 3 violation.

Some how you allowed the muzzle to cross your shoulder.  That’s a rule two violation.

It requires two of the four rules to be violated for someone to injure themselves or another.  While sleeping, if you have a gun in the manner described you can not obey rule two.  The gun is going to move as you sleep.  If you have it out of a holster you cannot obey rule 3.  You can inadvertently touch the trigger.  So I would say that over all this is a rule 1 violation as well because it is something you shouldn’t do with a loaded gun and all guns are always loaded right?  So you shouldn’t be doing that!

I would suggest learning from Darius Des Voigne’s Cletus’s mistake.  If for some crazy reason you were doing the same as him, let this be a lesson to stop doing it.  Less you do the same to yourself at which point we will all laugh at you and when we’re done laughing we’re going to be pissed for providing more ammunition to the enemy about gun owners being irresponsible.

Accidents do happen and the four rules prevent it.  Obey them and drill them till you can do them in your sleep.

Via Kevin (Baker not Bacon) comes this awesome heartwarming story.

In this day where over zealous bureaucrats have largely outlawed lemonade stands it’s nice to see at least one kid who has figure out how to flip the bird to “The Man”.  He doesn’t have to worry about being busted on a technicality of a food handlers permit and it’s in his dads business.

Not to mention that kid’s creativity and ingenuity is just down right impressive and awesome.  As they started talking about the claw machine and how he made one from the limited materials he had on hand I realized something.  This kid has “The Knack” and I just hope he continues to foster and grow it.  For those of you who do not know what the knack is I give you Dilbert.

That kid has a fantastic ability to use the material he has on hand to make something that works.  I’m glad he was able to run his arcade for a full and eagerly awaiting crowd and I hope it inspires him to keep working.  Besides the video director was right, who wouldn’t buy a fun pass?  I normally have that kicking around my wallet and would buy one just as an A for effort!

It is also a strong reminder that while new technology, like any other tool, can be used for bad, it can also do some very awesome things that previously would not have been possible.

A big Bravo Zulu to Caine, don’t quit and keep it up.  I expect at some point in the future to hear about some whacky engineer someone works with that claims he made an arcade out of cardboard when he was growing up.  Not only that, but he actually had a large number of people show up to play.  Best part is though, Caine has the video to prove he did it!