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News of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand hit me in a different manner than most other mass shootings have. Part of that is because I've been to Christchurch and found it absolutely idyllic. The other part is because one of the first things I saw was that video had been livestreamed by at least one of the shooters. I was immediately reminded of the murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, the two Virginia journalists murdered by a former coworker who streamed his attack on the internet. I… Read More

I was walking through downtown Seoul when I heard that Mattis would be resigning as Secretary of Defense. My first thought was that the next loud noise I heard would be incoming North Korean rocket artillery, but it turned out to just be a garbage truck. As I compose these words, I'm sitting at the Killing Fields - rather, the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center in Cambodia. It is one of the hundreds of places where the Khmer Rouge executed people, and where you can find a tall ceremonial "stupa" with… Read More

In mid-January, YouTube released guidance regarding the requirements to remain a “YouTube Partner.” In mid-March, YouTube released new guidelines for videos containing or related to firearms. YouTube is free to set its own rules for the content it hosts. I do not challenge the notion that they should have the right to determine what they allow on their servers. I do challenge their recent actions to clamp down on certain forms of speech, however, on a philosophical basis. Put simply: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. It’s important… Read More

As I have been quite busy lately, I failed to notice that my hosting account had expired...then I took so long to pay for it that GoDaddy had removed the data and wanted another sum of money to restore it. I finally gave in and paid the ransom, but then it took several more calls to their customer service folks before the site was actually restored. The blog will now go back to its usual blistering publication rate of at least two articles per decade.

Two nights ago I saw the movie Thank You For Your Service - not out of a burning desire to see the movie, but because we'd driven quite a ways to the theater and it was the only movie showing that night with decent seats available. The movie follows three soldiers upon their return from Iraq in 2007, and it's based on a book written by David Finkel. I have not read his book, but my understanding is that the movie follows real-life soldiers Finkel knew and wrote about after… Read More

I apologize for a lack of updates to the blog. I have been working feverishly for Omaha Outdoors writing product descriptions and creating video reviews. As a result of one of those reviews, we discovered that the Sig P320 would fire when dropped at certain angles on the rear of the slide. At almost exactly the same time, a lawsuit was filed against Sig Sauer by a police officer who was injured when his holstered Sig P320 fell from the rear of his vehicle and discharged a round upon impact… Read More

I firmly believe that law abiding individuals have a right to carry concealed firearms for self-defense. The passage of constitutional carry in Arizona, an effort of the Arizona Citizens Defense League, was hailed by many as a step forward in this regard, but I found it objectionable for two reasons. One was practical, in that it, at least for a time, limited the number of states which recognized my Arizona concealed handgun permit, thus actually reducing my ability to legally defend myself. The other was theoretical, in that people without… Read More

As with my previous articles discussing what's missing from the latest Fireclean lawsuit, this one draws entirely upon Fireclean's motions and other court filings in their lawsuit against George Fennell, as well as their lawsuits against me. In other words, don't take my word for it - take theirs. Please download the linked documents and draw your own conclusions based on Fireclean's statements. At the end of this article, I will leave you with a few questions. According to their lawsuit, Fireclean submitted samples of their product to various laboratories for… Read More

As voluminous as the latest Fireclean lawsuit is at 50 pages of complaint and 200 pages of exhibits, what's most notable is not what is in the suit, but what is not in the suit. Put more precisely, what is no longer in the suit is what really caught my attention. On March 17, 2016, Fireclean filed a lawsuit against me. On page 6 of that lawsuit was the line "The product itself is specially formulated so that it will not "gum," or leave behind a solid residue from its use." Elsewhere on this page,… Read More

Fireclean has filed a motion to strike (https://vuurwapenblog.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34-Motion-to-Strike.pdf) portions of my Reply in Support of the Motion to Dismiss (https://vuurwapenblog.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/06/33-Reply-ISO-MTD.pdf) their latest lawsuit against me.  Their motion is based on the claim that the Reply introduced concepts which were not introduced in the Motion to Dismiss, which they contend is unfair. To be clear, not introducing things in a motion and then introducing them in a reply is not okay under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so if they had a solid basis for this motion then there would… Read More