Buy a gun or ammo today!

UPDATE:  I ordered two boxes each of #000 buckshot in .410 and 20 gauge from Cheaper Than Dirt.  I needed an excuse to get back on their mailing list, anyway.  For more reports on ammo purchases, see August 28 Ammo Buy at The War On Guns.

UPDATE 2:  From JPFO.

Today in 25 cities, shameless self-promoter Jesse Jackson is staging a gun-store protest. Jackson said the nationwide rallies would represent a grassroots effort to press state and federal legislators into passing “common sense” legislation to stem the flow of handguns and military-style automatic weapons.

Apparently Jackson is unfamiliar with the old saying, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

Since 1792, "gun control" laws were designed to keep black people disarmed and helpless. Black persons, whether slave or free, had to have a license or a judge’s permission before they could carry a firearm in Florida and Delaware. For black people, guns were banned entirely in several states. Florida laws empowered white "citizen patrols" to invade and search blacks’ homes for guns or other weapons. None of these policies applied, of course, to white people.

This is the vision Jessie Jackson has for the future? This is the government he trusts to protect him?

In response to his short-sighted and indeed, suicidal, belief that "only the government should have firearms," we offer our latest "Repudiate and Humiliate" handbill below [click to see the image --ed.]: www.jpfo.org/handbill-jackson.jpg

In closing, we would like to point out another quote to Rev. Jackson: "It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." - Malcolm X

Tomorrow is the day to buy ammo.  I have no confidence that it will send a message to the Bradys and their sycophants because hard, bitter truth hasn't gotten through them to so far.

This morning after I was up but before I left for work, a car pulled into our driveway and got about halfway to the house before they stopped.  We live out in the country, about 2 miles off the nearest farm road, and about 1/4 mile from the end of a dead-end county road.  We don't get strange traffic here.  Unfamiliar cars cruising down the road sends up red flags, and not just for me, but for all of the neighbors.

Our house is about 50 yards away from the road, so someone pulling halfway down the driveway at 5:00 AM did a lot more than send up red flags.  It sent me into full ballistic alert.

They sat in the driveway about 25 yards from the house for a few minutes while the dogs when apesh*t and I stood in the shadows and waited for movement with some reassurance in my hand.  They finally backed out and went farther down toward the dead end.  Since they didn't come back out for the next 40 minutes or so, I think they were there legitimately, but were not familiar with the road and had pulled into the wrong driveway.

However, the experience has helped me decide what to buy tomorrow.

Buckshot.

I don't know why, but today I got to semi-remembering the clothespin gun that I and a few of my friends played with when we were kids.  I can't remember how to construct it, so I Googled it.  I found Clothespin Match Gun.

A useful site, to be sure.  However, the ones we made didn't require a rubber band, and certainly didn't require as much modification.  Also the leftover piece was not discarded, it was used to cock the gun.  So I guess I'll have to keep looking.

We only fired big gooey spitballs with ours.  If my dad had caught me shooting flaming matches, he'd have tanned my hide.

Oh yeah, my dad showed me how to make one in the first place.  But it's been a while, he probably doesn't remember how either.

Hell in a Handbasket has posted a very simple description of Point Shooting.

A great post for newbie handgunners, I think.  So if you're interested, go take a look.  It could save your life.