- I took a female friend shooting yesterday at the Burnsville Pistol Range. We shot a Smith & Wesson Model 41 which seemed like a pretty good choice. The grip was maybe a little big for her hand, the guy next to us with a .357 was making loud noises that startled her initially, and after we shot through a few hundred rounds, her arms got tired, but overall, a good time was had. She did great, shooting better than me on a few of the targets, and this was her first time ever firing a handgun. Total cost for the outing? $15 for range fees and targets, and under $5 for ammo. I really like how cheap it is to fire a .22LR. And I bet next time we go, she’ll have talked one of her friends into joining us.
- Kim du Toit is building a list of people who will volunteer to teach the basics of handgun shooting [update here]. I’m not sure whether I should add my name to Kim’s list or not, but if you’re a regular reader who’s interested in heading to the range… [endwar]
- I’ve had a few people ask my why I think gun ownership (and the associated being able to carry your guns around) is a good thing. Well, the US has between 83 and 96 guns for every hundred people (we’re not quite there to one-per-person), and it has the highest standard of living in the world. I wonder if maybe they’re related.
Especially when you have to try to explain why it is that the most heavily armed nation in the world is also the richest, most powerful and the one where “human development” is greatest and civil liberties of the citizens are least in peril.
- Speaking of guns, Challenges to state’s handgun law spreading, as more cities and the University of MN ban guns in their buildings. Churches are trying to get the posting requirements changed, too.
- Finally, in some site-news, I’ve actually set a font in the CSS for the site. After much noodling around, I decided I like Gill Sans enough to use it for the default font here. It’ll fall back to Trebuchet MS or whatever sans-serif font you want if you don’t have that. I think I like the look better, and Gill Sans is one of the fonts built into Mac OS X, so some of my readers will already have it.
