Well, Our Idiot Government has done it again. Replica and imitation firearms - which is to say, non-firing ones: toys and costume accessories, that sort of thing - now have to be registered as if they were the type of firearm they pretend to beUp until... well, just now, it was the case that if the type of firearm that a re-enactor needed to ( Read more... )

After a thoroughly unpleasant few weeks, this looks positively cathartic. (link goes to a fairly large video, but it's well worth it if you like things that go BOOM)

Update: Our resident Household Weapons Expert cheerfully cries "bullshit" for the video. "Their heart's in the right place" he says, but he notes that (a) the guy in the video ( Read more... )

Someone asked on alt.poly just now if anyone had any good stuff to share, and I wrote the following post in response. Seems to me that it'd do just as well as a post to lj, so here it is ( Read more... )

Over the last year or so I've gotten involved with the Antique and Historical Arms Association (or Hystericals for short). I started by tagging along with Artyem and his father when they attended the monthly meetings because Artyem had mentioned it a number of times and it sounded vaguely interesting. I knew sod-all about antique arms but figured ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that a large part of the reason why I've not been posting much lately is a sense that possibly the stuff that is interesting me most at present is unlikely to be terribly interesting to my readers. I mean, there's only so much one can say about the knitting of a scarf, no matter how absorbing I may be finding the process myself. But ( Read more... )

When most people think of lovers gifts, they think of things like flowers, chocolates, diamond rings, that sort of thing. Not Artyem. He's just given me a pretty Spanish shotgun. Isn't he sweet ( Read more... )

Sorry I've taken so long to follow up on the last few posts (both the update stuff and the memes). This last week or so has been a bit topsy-turvy, what with various stuff happening (such as trips down to Customs, and kreggan visiting from the US) and a particularly nasty three-day migraine that I've just emerged from. But here I am with the updatey stuff ( Read more... )

You recall how I was grumbling the other day about the hassles I and a group of friends had experienced in our efforts to import a bunch of historical firearms from the US? Well, fresh new difficulties continue to pile on top of the old ones ( Read more... )

Whee, two updates in two weeks? Is that some kind of record? I guess I should be studying, but why start now? *laugh* Writing an update sounds to be vastly more fun at present, especially since Wendy the Supervisor is on holiday until the end of next week and I'm kinda Stuck anyway. Plus I'm a bit vague and fuzzyheaded from a pre-migraine (ie a ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a fairly interesting week or so. Which is no bad thing, in the great scheme of things. I was worried that I might spend this week worrying and fretting about my upcoming surgery (being the good little surgery-phobe that I am) but such has not been the case. I'm not sure how much that has had to do with the fact that it's been a ( Read more... )