Oooooh I like this kind of retail sales news:
July 2024 was the 60th consecutive month of more than one million background checks for gun sales at retail.
Now that’s my idea of a Five-Year Plan.
Author: Kim du Toit
Wood & Blued Steel
Reader Mike L. stumbled on an excellent post at Reddit which featured this vision of gunny loveliness:
If that doesn’t make your morning, let me tell you: it sure did mine.
The guy’s thoughts are pretty much mine as well:
While there’s nothing wrong with ARs (I own a few myself) I’ve always been intrigued by the sheer variety of firearms and am way more attracted to fine walnut and blued steel then most “tactical” arms.
The guns pictured are a newly-acquired Ruger No 1 338 Win Mag I found for stupid cheap and an old Smith and Wesson 19-3.
I dunno about the .338 Win Mag — it’s not my favorite large caliber, and that might have stopped me from getting this particular No. 1 — but as it’s not going to be a gun that I would shoot often, that’s probably not important. (Now had it been chambered in .300 Win Mag, .300 H&H Mag or .375 H&H Mag…)
Right-click to embiggen. It makes a nice wallpaper pic.
Quote Of The Day
From a Reader who was once in law enforcement:
“When I was a cadet at FLETC back in ’83 we were told (off the record): ‘Never join any team or Task Force set up by the FBI. They either want some information you have and they don’t or they want someone to blame when they fuck up.’
“Forty-one years later and it has become a nation-wide mantra.”
Indeed it has, and they deserve all the scorn and shunning they get.
News Roundup
And on we go, with our ten shots of bad news…
...that’s only because these snowflakes haven’t been exposed to actual violence. I have some ideas that could fix that. A cricket bat may be involved.
And speaking of freedom of speech, we have some Mostly Peaceful News:
...you see, if you’re going to stage a mostly-peaceful riot in Britishland, you can only do it if you’re doing the pro-Palestinian/anti-Semitic, Green or LGBTOSTFU thing, where the cops look on benignly. If you’re protesting government immigration policy, though, the rozzers will stomp you.
And:
...and there ya go.
From the Dumbass Chronicles:
...trying to help a rattlesnake = trying to help a Communist; you’re gonna get bitten.
...and the best posting for this clueless moron would be to Australia, so as to raise the average IQ in both the US and Oz. (Also filed under “Nepo/DEI Promotion”.)
Some more Political News:
...an excellent point. The answer of “how?” is contained in the words “the media”.
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...and in the absence of fraudulent ballots, she’d be lucky to get as much as that. Hence:
Some Sporting News:
...and why not? It’s just archery without bows, after all.
In The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:
…
Finally, it wouldn’t be a Roundup without an obligatory Everybody Panic!!! entry:
...just another example of all the good that Africa brings to the world.
And in the tangle of 
...from Christian mom to OnlyFans houri, in other words:
And that’s it for the news.
That’s Impossible, They Said
A schoolboy has been charged with a string of knife and sex offences including attempted rape.
The 13-year-old is accused of carrying out a three-week long campaign in the Newfoundpool area of Leicester.
He allegedly attempted oral rape on a woman while in possession of a knife in Ruby Street on July 10.
The boy is also accused of affray with intent to commit a sexual offence on a woman while in possession of a knife in Stephenson Drive on July 29.
He also allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in Rowan Street on July 31.
Police charged him with a fourth offence of possessing a knife in Fosse Road North on August 1.
Busy lil’ fucker [sic], isn’t he?
I was reminded of a pre-law lecture I once attended back in the early 1970s, during an ill-considered attempt to get a law degree.
The lecturer, a rather pretty blond professor, stated that under South African law, a boy under the age of 14 was considered incapable of rape.
There was a long silence after she said that; then came a heartfelt groan from the back of the class: “Now they tell us.”
Even the professor laughed.
It was one of my shining moments, but I still failed the course.
Today’s Earworm
Rene — from the same album as the LAST earworm, FFS.
For the time, the Small Faces were one of the heaviest-sounding bands in the world.
Ya think? Try Song Of A Baker.