Well, I found some Alliant Unique.
One e-tailer that I've found shows stock. I've had an 8-lb. keg on order with my local Merchant O'Death since I got back from last year's Gun Blogger Rendezvous. No word on when I might ever see it. Every other source I've checked shows no stock - Midway, Powder Valley, Natchez, Cabela's, etc. etc. etc.
Except this one. A couple of days ago, they showed that they had one (1) 8-lb. keg left in stock. Today they show they have only three 1-lb. bottles.
The keg was $299. The one-pounders are $42.49 each. That's right at double what Unique cost a year ago. (Plus, of course, the $28.50 HazMat charge and shipping costs.)
People call this "gouging." I call it "Economics 101 - supply and demand." Had this e-tailer offered their stock at "normal" prices, they'd be out of stock just like everyone else. By elevating the price, they still have some - for whoever is willing to pay.
I'm not their guy. More power to you if you are.
The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand
Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama
I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit
The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David
The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish
All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck
I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit
The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David
The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish
All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck
Monday, June 30, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Quote of the Day - Iowahawk Edition
Apparently, the leading cause of hard drive failures is subpoenas. - David Burge
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Mike Ramirez NAILS IT
This would have made his former paymasters at the Los Angeles Times apoplectic:
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But it's absolutely bang-on-the-money accurate.
Labels:
media,
politics,
snark,
what agenda?
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
"America Has Ceased to Exist"
Worth fifteen minutes of your time.
Labels:
Economics,
politics,
QotD,
Tough History Coming
Monday, June 23, 2014
Rendezvous!
Here's another video, this one from the 2011 GBR VI:
Still working on getting registration set up, but soon!!
Still working on getting registration set up, but soon!!
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Rendezvous
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Quote of the Day - Cultural Conflict Edition
In response to this question over at Quora.com:
How many victims of a mass shooting would there have to be before an actual discussion of gun laws would be an appropriate reaction?Comes this answer I wish I'd written myself:
When the number of gun deaths approaches the number of deaths by abortion, then gun owners will take anti-gun people as seriously as pro-choice people take pro-life people. Which is to say, not much.
Labels:
gun control,
QotD
Friday, June 20, 2014
Quote of the Day
DemProgs and conservatives alike share the same concerns: they don’t want killers to have guns. It’s just that DemProgs haven’t quite figured out who the real killers are. Their obsessive focus is on individuals and corporations. -- Bookworm’s 5-Point Gun Manifesto; or why I believe in gun rights
RTWT. It bears repeating.
(h/t to reader Scott who sent me a link via email.)
Labels:
Awakenings,
gun control,
QotD
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
This is Why We Live in a Constitutional Republic
So Hillary comes out and says:
Why do we have a Constitution and Bill of Rights?
TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL - the smallest minority there is.
...we cannot let a minority of people -- and that's what it is, it is a minority of people -- hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.She's speaking about the right to arms, but it really doesn't matter.
Why do we have a Constitution and Bill of Rights?
TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL - the smallest minority there is.
The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. -- Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789.We already knew that Hillary was a collectivist, but this is just the cherry on top.
--
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. - West Virginia v Barnette (1943)
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
"The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;"
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.
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miscellaneous
Thursday, June 12, 2014
And THIS is Why We're Winning
With all the kerfuffle over the OCT guys toting long guns into Chipotle, etc., I humbly submit that they've lost track of the goal. The idea is to make people COMFORTABLE around firearms, and you don't do that by waving them in their faces. As other people have noted, this:
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and this:
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share a common meme - "We're not going away, get used to us!" But waving guns in the face of the public really isn't any more effective than waving genitalia. However, as Teresa Nielson Hayden put it so well several years ago,
It's "The Smile." You ALWAYS get The Smile.
Scares the hell out of the anti-gunners, that does.
and this:
share a common meme - "We're not going away, get used to us!" But waving guns in the face of the public really isn't any more effective than waving genitalia. However, as Teresa Nielson Hayden put it so well several years ago,
Basically, I figure guns are like gays: They seem a lot more sinister and threatening until you get to know a few; and once you have one in the house, you can get downright defensive about them.It's that "getting to know a few" that we need to keep concentrating on. THIS is how we keep winning:
It's "The Smile." You ALWAYS get The Smile.
Scares the hell out of the anti-gunners, that does.
Labels:
Awakenings,
gun control
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Monday, June 09, 2014
Quote of the Day - Caleb Giddings Edition
I now know what it must feel like to be a moderate, peaceful Muslim whenever some clown yells Allah Snackbar and blows up a bus. KNOCK IT OFF, ASSHOLESOver on Facebook in response to yesterday's shootings in Las Vegas.
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QotD
Friday, June 06, 2014
Thursday, June 05, 2014
Bill Whittle is On a Roll
His latest Firewall:
And his latest Afterburner:
Just another service of TSM.
And his latest Afterburner:
Just another service of TSM.
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Bill Whittle
Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Haven't Done THAT in a While
So, back when I posted about my semi-retirement from blogging, one of the reasons I gave was "I've got a stack of books that need reading."
I just blew through fifteen volumes of The Dresden Files in fifteen days. I guess I need to get the book of short stories next.
Good stuff. If you're into "urban fantasy," Jim Butcher does it very, very well. And I like his main character, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Reminds me a lot of Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Who wouldn't like a wisecracking wizard Private Investigator with a gun?
I just blew through fifteen volumes of The Dresden Files in fifteen days. I guess I need to get the book of short stories next.
Good stuff. If you're into "urban fantasy," Jim Butcher does it very, very well. And I like his main character, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Reminds me a lot of Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Who wouldn't like a wisecracking wizard Private Investigator with a gun?
Labels:
books
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