Neanderpundit

Multiple sources state the Nazareth, PA plant of C.F. Martin, which also uses the woods in question, has not been raided.

Coincidentally, Chris Martin IV, president of Martin, is a large Democrat supporter.

I’m sure that’s merely a coincidence.

that the weather stations have to have reporters standing out in the tempest?

Yeah, I guess they don’t get much excitement otherwise. But really: It’s a hurricane. Its bad, we get it. You don’t need to have a guy showing us how miserable it is. Really.

Of course it could be that I’m jealous, because I love to be out in a storm. You’d think I’d be more careful, I’m the only member of my family not to get hit by lightning. yet.

On the other hand, I’m amazed at the sound quality. It sounds like they’re in studios, and while i know the micrtophone tech has improved, I understand that a lot of it is electronic noise filtration- but the old NSC Dynamic Noise system was never anything like this.

Get back to the damned studios, guys.

I’m often asked by friends and co-workers ‘What should be my first gun?” a co-worker asked me this yesterday, and I know that he will predominantly use it for hunting, so I told him:

Buy a Mossberg 500 “Kit”. you can get ’em at Walmart for around three hundred bucks, sometimes less. You get a well made Mossberg pump, a vent rib barrel, and a rifled slug barrel. Add a scope and you’re good to go on pretty much all midwestern game. Plus a remarkable and practically unlimited amount of accessories are available for them, you can easily turn it into a riot gun, a turkey gun, or go back to shooting Bambi, by loosening a few screws.

Buy a Ruger 10-22. Like the Mossberg it’s a chameleon, you can change it from a light sporting rifle to a heavy barrelled squirrel sniper, and everyone makes a stock or barrel or extended magazine or some accessory for it. You can also make a 10/22 into a 17hm2 rifle in a few minutes by changing nothing other than the barrel.

Buy a Ruger MKIII. Or if you can a good condition MKII. It’s a simple firearm, as reliable as a brick, and it’s a good place to start shooting. Upgraded trigger kits for them improve them a great deal, and if you can follow instructions, the disassembly reassembly reallly isn’t that hard.

Buy a Glock, like a 17 or a 22. A glock is a big enough gun for everyone to hang on to and for the occasional shooter will go bang every time you pull the trigger. It’s easy to clean and service, and ugly. Also, lots of accessories available. Pick the one that fits your hand best. Stay away from the “Compact” guns for a “first” gun.

This is the minimum gun cabinet, I feel. Shit, a man should be issued this when he turns 21.