Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says Clint Fiore: It’s easy to watch the hot story of any particular moment of whichever tragedy has captured the media’s spotlight and be misguided into out of proportion emotional responses. 42 People are murdered, each day 6 People are murdered by illegal immigrants, each day 0.29 People are murdered each day in ‘mass shootings’ [...]

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The media has fallen over themselves saying that Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner obtained his Glock 19 legally, so therefore to make sure this doesn’t happen again we need more laws. The assumption is that criminals actually obey laws. But before anyone can legally purchase a firearm you must fill out and sign a sworn document [...]

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Last Saturday there was a shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), and a federal judge that left six dead, including the judge, and 14 wounded. The shooter was a lunatic named Jared Loughner. Within hours of the shooting several media outlets and liberal elites are bemoaning the Glock 19, the firearm used in the shooting, [...]

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Today’s date is 1/9/11. There is a historic pistol called the “1911“. The M1911 is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, and recoil-operated handgun chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. John M. Browning designed the firearm which was the standard-issue side arm for the United States armed forces from 1911 to 1985. The M1911 is still carried [...]

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Via American Institute for Economic Research: The purchasing power of the dollar in 1913, when the chart above begins, was close to what it was in the 1830s. As long as we were still on a gold standard (up to 1933), it was almost as though an external force was drawing the value of the [...]

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The number of currency bills in circulation is skyrocketing, yet based on nothing more than the “full faith and credit of the US Government”. What happens when the illusion ends and people around the world deem our currency worthless? Spread The Word:

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Michael Bane says that Ruger had a recent sit-down with the folks at Gunsite over Col. Jeff Cooper‘s Scout Rifle concept, a handy, light instrument “that will do a great many things equally well…” Developed in conjunction with Gunsite instructor Ed Head, the Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle is a new platform in the Ruger M77® [...]

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