Christmas Story and Vintage Christmas Gun Advertisements

I already wrote about remember when toy guns where a good Christmas present. .  I have bought my son two real guns over the past two Christmases and he surprised me last year with a gun, but it wasn’t just any gun.

After all the giving of the presents was over last year, my son pulls out a package.   It is rifle shaped.  I open it and it is my father-in-law’s M1A. It was my favorite gun of his. It is the original  SpringField Armory National Match and is one of the early ones, It has a 4 digital serial number 52xx.  My son had bought it from his grandfather for $100 and was giving it to me for Christmas. (His grandfather was getting rid of his guns..He is now unfortunately in a full time care facility and can no longer shoot or even possess his guns)

My 16 year old took it upon himself to convince his grandfather to sell him the gun, paid him $100 of his own money, and then hid the rifle in the trunk of my borrowed car, and drove it home. (Luckily he was not stopped, that could have been a bad incident)

Words failed me. I was so amazed at getting this gun from my son.  Here is the gun:

It is the best gift I have ever received.

Now here are some vintage advertisements about giving a gun for Christmas

Here are some advertisements from the past suggesting that guns are a good president for Christmas. And they are a very nice for Christmas.

 

Ok this last one is not about guns.. It is just interesting

Actual Microsoft Video for upgrading to MS DOS 5

Any one the computer business, will be amazed at this actual video produced by Microsoft to encourage MS-DOS 4 owners to upgrade to MS-DOS 5

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone from Chuck Norris

Shooting with Google Glasses Looks like a video game

Here’s what it looks like to fire a weapon. Oh? You’re not impressed? Right. I understand. Because every first person shooter video game that kids play these days looks exactly like this. Hell, to be honest, the video games might look even more realistic than real life (if that makes any sense).

YouTube user cheekflapperer took Google Glass to the gun range and showed it firing various weapons. It’s frightening (and totally unsurprising) how much it looks like a video game.

Freddy’s Note: I have some glasses on order. I will start making videos with them when they arrive.

Related articles

• Google Glass and guns: The movie (news.cnet.com)
• Life Is A First-Person Shooter With Google Glass (kotaku.com)

Ohio Court of Appeals throws out conviction of a man who was searched during a traffic stop because he was too polite.

This story is really good for two reasons.  1) Police just can’t make up stuff in order to search someone’s car.  2) I am in Ohio this week.

A Conservative Edge

Ohio Court: Polite Drivers Are Not Suspicious.

he second highest in Ohio decided on Wednesday that police have no business searching a motorist during a routine traffic stop for being too polite. The Court of Appeals suppressed the evidence that allowed police to seize a .40 caliber Sig Sauer and a small bag of marijuana from Joshua A. Fontaine at 2:27 am on December 12, 2012.

On that day, Ohio State Highway patrolman Jared Haslar was running a speed trap on Pearl Road in Strongsville, where the speed limit is 35 MPH. Patrolman Haslar claims his radar gun clocked Fontaine at 45 MPH, so he pulled him over. In the course of the stop, Fontaine cheerfully handed over his license, proof of insurance, and registration. This caused the officer to suspect criminal activity.

“While speaking to Mr. Fontaine I felt that his body language and his behavior was a little…

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Black Friday Weekend Post

I am traveling to Ohio on Sunday to spend 5 days working.

I stayed away from stores during the weekend, to avoid having to draw on angry/crazy shoppers invading my space.

But I had to post this picture from Walmart, where they had holiday specials for their Jewish Customers.

In case you don’t get the humor here, Jews are not allowed to ever touch pigs or eat their meat.  I will be working in the hotel this week at night, to finish the Building the Uzi series.