The Blog of Record

It’s Christmas Eve, and a guy can dream.

Those days are never coming back.

Source.

The exchange between the car dealer and the CNN anchorwoman is hilarious. They seem like they are from different planets – or, rather, from different Americas.

A ”semi-assault weapon”, eh? You need to see her face when she utters these words.

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From Shorpy. This comment suggests the team was good enough to defeated a picked sharpshooter squad of Philadelphia police in a match. They lost to this team, though.

(Via Southern Appeal.)

When I was watching this guy draw and shoot, I thought, “I’ll believe it when I see it in slow motion”. Well, they have that at the end. He talks a lot, though, so you may have to skip forward a few times.

It’s called Palm Pistol and it’s specially designed for elderly and disabled people, who may be able to get it on prescription. The FDA has certified it as a Class I Medical Device, and the manufacturer is already taking deposits.

The fact that it’s single-shot makes it “less likely to be banned outright by anti-gun states” (.pdf file).

I hope as many old people as possible get one of those. If criminals will know the old lady may be packing a 9 mm point-and-shoot, this alone can prevent many violent crimes.

More here.

Who did it belong to – Charlton Heston? NRA board member Bruce Stern? Whoever owned it was a happy guy. (Click the photo to enlarge.)