Michael Z. Williamson sent us a link to an article on how “gun control” laws are working in the UK. The following is a quote from the article: “A widow who lives alone in a Wiltshire farmhouse has taken to sleeping with a Smith & Wesson Saturday Night Special under her pillow. It belonged to her husband and is more than capable of stopping an intruder, of which she has had three in the last two years.
When she goes shopping in Swindon, she slips a can of Mace into her handbag in case of assault. “Bought it at the ironmongers in Bergerac,” she says. “Much more effective than an ASBO.”
A senior civil servant, now retired and living in a remote house near Losthwithiel in Cornwall, believes in the efficacy of a small-calibre .22 pistol. It was easy to buy without a licence or proof of identity in rural France, where they are used to kill vermin. The .22 is also an assassin’s weapon – once the round has entered the cranium, it will ricochet about as it looks for an exit.”
(Mike calls “bull” on that last part)
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Frequent content contributor Hawaiian K. sent us this one: Vehicle that runs on road and rail has trial trip in Shizuoka
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John The Bowhunter sent us a link to a newspaper story from California: Home Losses Loom.This hardly comes as a surprise to us. This is the “ARM-twisting” that I predicted, many months ago.