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"Maybe this is a trend!" One can hope. A more likely scenario is that illegal narcotics will be "found" in such a fashion that a given range, singly or collectively owned, could be seized under the various state and federal anti-drug laws. Then, said range continues in operation for state...

In all firness, the electorate never got a chance to give their opinion on the subject. This went through the state legislature and the Govenators office. Same result, though. (Which reminds me, doesn't someone here have the .sig "rope, lampost, and politician: some assembly required"? As...

Last I heard, Mission Armory had closed it's doors, and not too long after Rick Johnson closed his doors (in California, at least). Beware Discount Gun Mart. I tried ordering a Uberti rolling block from them when I was back in San Diego long enough for it to matter. Those people took my...

I have always thought this would be a wounderful way of getting rid of a weapon with a "tainted past", shall we say. There are few enough upsides to this sort of thing, but here's another downside. The last time the US invaded Panama, in 1990, the occupation troops were ordered to run a gun...

...that were ripped apart and the occupants dragged out by their seatbelt." It didn't help matters a bit that the seatbelts were attached to the *door*, not the *car*. Yes, wearing a seatbelt in a crash can kill you, but with a relatively modern design and implementation (say, 1980 or later...

Just remember, .22 don't count, while .45-70's are worth triple.

So much for there being a dearth of SF readers on this board, classic or otherwise...Now all we need is a few gratuitous Jack Vance or Alfred Bester quotes. (Speaking of which, a powergun would be a nifty thing to have around. I'd like to know how it'd work against a dark matter creature, but...

Zwilniks are one thing, but it's the Eich you need to worry about. This is why members of Civilization are armed. (Erisians are out of the question until you get your Lens, and then the scale of armaments get a little more...interesting.)

I was plinking in the back yard with my mail-order semi-automatic 50BMG revolver, and accidentally shot through a couple cop cars and a elementary school for disabled children a mile off. Woulda gone further if I'd been using my home-load scramjet high explosive squash head rounds that you can...

I think someone's over estimating the wound channel potential of .22LR, but still...

I suppose a mad-scientist-researching-things-man-was-not-meant-to-know quality Tesla coil could count as a taser, but that sort of toy isn't exactly portable. Bears have so much greater mass, and respond to stimuli so differently than do Homo Sapien that you'd need to hit the bear with so much...

The 4-barrel I saw would have been in the San Diego area some years back. Back when one could buy a rifle at a gunshow in California and expect to take it home that day.... As for exceedingly large bore rifles, there was a two-part article on an English shooter, posessing more money than...

"I am not talking about conquest here on Earth, but of colonizing other worlds." Glad to know I'm not the only space cadet here. But, of course, it is the only way for the US to continue to expand. Americans have always been an expansionist people, and we've been going nuts for the last few...

"Like calling in an air strike on a cockroach." Yes, but if it results in a noticeable absence of cockroach... A few years ago, there was a gent wandering around a gunshow with a two trigger 12ga 4-barrel. I wasnt interested in buying (an SVT40 had consumed my budget), but asked him a...

The evil K-31. Now that Wolf is making the ammo, it could replace the Mosin -Nagant as the low-cost & cheap-to-shoot milsurp rifle, except that K-31's are graceful to the eye and disturbingly accurate. Maybe it's time to get another one. Just as a backup, you know....

I don't know either, but it's something that I am maybe definatly not directly opposed to. Or for.

I should clarify. Barnett seem to think that other countries will continue to buy American debt because what they are really buying is American military power. They would rather pay Americans to do it because of social-technological issues at home, and Barnett is assuming that those...

...for US military power. The US, in his perfect little world, would become a nation of mercenaries at worst, a new Rome (on the Imperial model) at *best*. And he says this is a good thing. There are a number of other "little" problems. He thinks the US is immune from historical precedent...

I wonder if any of these "doctors" saw the move version of "I, Robot". They probably believed the Will Smith character to have been the villain for having destroyed the benevolent tyranny of the Computer. (20 point to the first person who make a Paranoia refrence.)

...where COPS is one of the original programs, this might not fly too well.) That, and the point that only rarely in any given scene is someone *not* armed might rankle a bit. Course the drug smuggling episode, Ariel, when the good guys boosted expensive pharmaceuticals from a state...