NRA Membership Specials

On January 5, 2013January 8, 2013 By Tom LindsayIn Gun Rights, NRA

I have received a special incentive from the NRA that I want to pass along to my readers.

From now until Mid February I can offer regular membership for $20 and Life membership for $300. Normal cost for these are $35 and $1000 respectively, so they are both a great deal.

Here’s what you get as a member.

For details on how to take advantage of these, go here and fill out the form, and I’ll send you information.

If we are to stand firm against the assaults on our freedom that lies ahead, we must band together. The NRA is among the best at this.

Join me today!

A Metaphor for Mendacity

On January 3, 2013January 3, 2013 By Tom LindsayIn Gun Rights, NRA, RKBA, Safety

Since the Newtown school shootings last month, the anti-gun factions in this country have tried to change the vocabulary they use. No longer are there calls for “more gun control,” or even “common sense gun control.” The call now is for “gun safety.”

Yet, when I asked these two for clarification of what safety measures they would like to see in new laws, they came back with the same tired gun control mantras like “no automatic weapons in society.”

Be not fooled. The left will talk about safety, but the only safety that would satisfy them would be total confiscation. Nothing has changed.

Just The Thing For Those Resolutions

On January 2, 2013January 3, 2013 By Tom LindsayIn Targets, Training

It is the time of year when we all vow to shoot more and get better, before the competition season returns.

Walt White, competitive shooter and blogger at Walt in PA, is also a whiz when it comes to Computer Aided Drafting using AutoCAD. (Raise your hand if you took drafting before there were Computer Aided Drafting programs. . . )

In any case, Walt has used the mashup of his talents, as it were, to produce some targets that you can download and print at home. One of them is a one-third scale target. One-third scale targets have the interesting property that when they are placed at a distance of a set number of feet, they appear to be the same size as a full size target at the same distance in yards.

This makes them extremely effective for those of us who practice indoors, because it means you can put two targets on a stand, and practice target transitions and multiple shots.

I also found a number of targets at BAM Airsoft, including some color one-third scale targets that have no-shoot and hard target markings on them. Again, the better to practice with.

Check them out.

Happy Anniversary

On December 28, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn Bruce, Glock

Exactly twenty years ago today, on December 28, 1992, I went back to the pawn shop in a small town in Alabama, laid down four portraits of Benjamin Franklin, and left the proud owner of a Gen 2 Glock 17 pistol, which I named Bruce.

It took me a few weeks to decide what pistol to buy, then to find this one. Thanks to the Brady law, I had to wait at least five days to pick it up, after filling out the background check paperwork.

My next stop was the shooting range, where I got the break of a lifetime.

I’ve written about this purchase before, and I’ve reviewed it here, and told of its extended life here.

It’s on my hip right now.

Happy Anniversary, Bruce!