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Social Distance Learning – Shotgun Wads & The Environment by the Surfrider Foundation
Get a grip. Or make one.
A couple of weeks ago I posted about finishing a Liegi Derringer kit, then doing the laser work to customize the grips. It turned out well enough, so I decided to finish and laser a second kit, to use as a door prize for a black powder workshop I’m doing at the annual meeting of […]
Lookin’ Sharp(s).
As anyone who has read much of this blog probably knows, I (and the other BBTI guys) like weird guns. Anything that is innovative, or unusual, or uses a transitional technology, is likely to catch my eye. One of those I got to try this past weekend is a reproduction Sharps Pepperbox. It was designed […]
That takes balls, Part 2: rebound!
Last week I posted about a little Liegi derringer that I finished and did a laser design on. Well, over the weekend I got together with the BBTI gang and, among other things, had a chance to shoot and chrono the little gun. Here’s a short slo-mo vid of shooting the Liegi: As expected, shooting […]
That takes balls.
I recently picked up a little Pedersoli Liegi Derriger kit. One of the other BBTI guys has one of these things, and I’ve always considered it a cool little piece of firearms history. Cap & ball firearms technology came along in the early part of the 1800s, supplanting flintlocks and earlier ignition systems. The Liegi […]
That takes balls.
I recently picked up a little Pedersoli Liegi Derriger kit. One of the other BBTI guys has one of these things, and I’ve always considered it a cool little piece of firearms history. Cap & ball firearms technology came along in the early part of the 1800s, supplanting flintlocks and earlier ignition systems. The Liegi […]
California Gun Owners “Data Breach”
Over the last couple of days, the state AG made a database that was supposed to be only open to researchers, instead was made open to the public online. This database contained the personally-identifying information in it for EVERY concealed carry permit-holder in the...
Biden Signs the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Into Law
On June 25th, President Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety package into law. This bill is the first since the Brady bill to pass both chambers, and was written in response to the recent shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. What does this legislation...
Roe v. Wade
We fully support the right to bodily autonomy, and the way this ruling and the ruling on NYSRPA (regardless of whether we "won" a particular case) were done is complicated at best. They seem to have established an entirely new legal precedent for these things to be...