Fun and Games

I had good intentions of announcing the winner of last weekend's contest on Monday. Unfortunately, that was the day of the great comment system conflagration so I got a little sidetracked. I know, excuses,...

To honor the start of the President's second and final term---not to mention yesterday's  AWB unveiling---this week's photo caption contest is an actual, you know, contest. With a prize and everything. The commenter contributing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvYcXqsQb4 Honestly, I'm just testing some new settings on the site. But, as an added bonus, you guys get a peek inside my "happy place." And for some reason it involves a man wearing pink...

Kenda Lenseigne is a world-champion mounted shooter. This isn't a crucial military skill anymore (not since the Crimean War, at least) but it's still really hard. Or so I've been told; I don't dare...

I like Magpul. They've got an attitude, and this (sadly not for sale) up-armed Blitzwagen puts it right out front and up top. If there were more cars like this in Boulder, I might move back.

Taking its design cues from the HALO franchise of video games, Patriot3's new portable ballistic shelter (price: don't ask) is bullet-resistant against just about anything but Explosively Formed Projectiles. And it rolls. And with...

http://ActionAmerica.org/flash/gsdCount.swf I saw this on a website recently and thought it was a pretty nifty idea. Have an instant comparison of firearms related deaths to other comparable mechanisms of injury, and BAM! Right there at...

A week from now, we'll be walking ourselves ragged in the cavernous Sands Expo Center and blogging until our eyes glaze over. Dan, Nick, Robert, Joe and I fully appreciate what lucky bastards we...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSBhZUeADRs We've already had our hands on this system and tested it out, as you can read in our TrackingPoint article. But since they just released a new and quite frankly awesome video, I figured...

The hardscrabble journalists who keep America informed by producing The Today Show -- after what must have been an exhaustive search -- found a couple of mothers who, in the aftermath of Newtown, decided they...