http://www.theshootist.net/

Gordon Hutchinson is the guy that wrote The Great New Orleans Gun Grab. Check it out. This should be good stuff.

http://2cents.dailyreckoning.com/viewtopic.php?t=40142

My favorite part is how “FBMG are a bunch of mormon racist ****ing assholes. **** them. I hope Obama sends them to the welfare line.”

Groovy. I wasn’t aware of my racist tendancies. My immediate family that checks the “Other” box on all of our government forms is going to be surprised by this development.  Only 1/3 of the current ownership of FBMG is actually “white”. (which is an idiotic term perpetuated by liberals to keep themselves important, really it is more of an off pink, and I’m all about the light-brown power) My heritage is “questionable” and we’ve got a hispanic. (and for the record, less than half of the people that work here are Mormon, and for some of those, the term can only be used in the loosest sense)

I think that this is an example of one of those classical things where if you disagree with somebody on the internet, then you must be racist or a nazi. I managed to get both of those assigned to me in that thread in a matter of seconds. Good old liberal champions of free speech. The only time I have any nazi tendancies is when I play Call Of Duty 5, because the FG42 friggin’ rocks and I kick butt with it. 

If you’re going to try and make fun of somebody, at least put some effort into it, you lazy bastards.

By the way, our Saiga .308 mags are the ones that work just fine. The Gen One mags were too tight, but we bumped them out on the next gen and turned the springs pressure up 15% and haven’t had one fail for a long time. 

Yeah, us poor loony storm-trooper gun nuts… (and why the hate for storm troopers? I see the 501st at all the sci-fi conventions, and they’re a perfectly nice bunch)

I don’t know why in the world we could possibly assume that Barack Obama will do anything negative to the gun industry, despite the fact that the new attorney general was the #2 to the woman that waged non-stop war on the gun business for eight years, congress is run by a lunatic that wants to ban guns, Barack has said he wants to bring back the federal assault weapons ban, you can read the text of HR 1022 that didn’t get out of committee to see exactly what the democrat wishlist is, and the vice-president is the man that actually wrote the last ban…

Yeah… we’re just paranoids.  Silly, silly gun nuts.

But I do have some news for the people that take issue with me. I’m not just selling guns to racist stormtrooper hillbillies. I’m selling guns to everybody. My customer base looks more like America than Barack Obama’s cabinet. I’ve sold guns to people who don’t speak English. I’ve sold guns to Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Arabs, Mormons, Catholics, Muslims, Buddists, Wiccans, Lesbians, a Democrat state legislator, the head of a union that supported Obama, and your momma. 

Self defense is a human right.  Ironically it is the so-called champions of freedom and diversity and acceptance that want all of us to be defensless and dependant on the teat of government to protect our sorry asses.  It isn’t just people like me that are worried about having guns banned. I’ve sold piles of guns to brand new people recently. People who have never in their life thought about it, but are worried now. I’ve sold guns in the last month to HIPPIES. I didn’t even know we had those anymore!  

Everybody needs guns. 

You got a problem with that?

Too damn bad. Because we’re going to keep selling them as long as we can.

As many of you already know, I’ll be leaving FBMG sometime soon.  

I love what I do, I love the company that I helped build. Unfortunatly when you run your own business, it pretty much consumes your entire life.  At the same time I’ve been trying to make it as a writer, which also takes a lot of time. I’m going to be leaving the gun business in order to have more time to write. If I don’t do this, and push when I’ve got the chance, then I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. 

I’ve been with FBMG for almost 4 years now. We started out as a tiny little 2 man shop. We’ve moved into a giant building and are in the process of building an indoor range. We went from a little hole in the wall shop to the coolest gun store in the state. 

I’m going to miss the guys that I work with. My crew is absolutely amazing. The Minions rock. My partners are like my brothers. I’m leaving FBMG in good hands. 

I’m still going to work there, just not nearly as much. I’m basically selling out as an owner and becoming a Minion myself. I’ll still be coming in to help with paperwork and to teach CCW and pistol. I love teaching, I just won’t be doing it quite so often. There have been months in the past where I taught six different nights and two weekends, in addition to the regular job.  That kicks your butt.

I will be getting another job, but just a normal, human, 40 hour a week type job. I thought I had something lined up, but that is looking doubtful now since that company took a massive hit in the recent financial turmoil.  With my usual cunning, I arranged to get out of the gun business back during the summer when the gun business was really hurting and the regular economy was doing okay, and now I’m getting out when the gun business is booming and the regular economy is imploding. Basically if you want to invest, just check with me, and do the opposite of whatever it is I’m doing.

I’m not that worried about it yet. Financially, the Correias are debt free except for our mortgage, and I’ll have enough in the bank from selling out to live for several months as an unemployed writer/bum.  In a few months though, if anybody needs a window squegee guy or hired muscle, give me a call.

I’ll still be around the shop for a bit. I would have been gone awhile ago, but it has been crazy busy around the store, so I’ve stuck around. I’ll probably be out sometime in the beginning of the new year.

I posted last night that Monster Hunter International is now available for preorder on Amazon.

Right now I’m #12,373 on the bestseller list. Not bad for one day! I’m already ranked higher than a bunch of other preorder books from much more famous authors. I want to get this Baen version ranked higher than the POD version was before it is even released.

Thanks for spreading the word guys. It is much appreciated.

EDIT: #9,331 on 12/1/08 in the morning.  Getting closer.

EDIT AGAIN: #6,498 on 12/1/08 after lunch.

EDIT HOLY CRAP! 12/3/08 12:00

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,642 in Books

That is now higher than the POD version achieved.

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/1439132852/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228018880&sr=8-3

The Baen version of MHI is now available for preorder on Amazon. The book will not be available until Summer of 2009, but now is your chance to get in line.

I’m really hoping to get the stats up for MHI:1. The better MHI:1 sells, the more likely I am to get a contract for MHI:2. The more copies I can presell, the better my stats will look.  So if you’re an Monster Hunter fan, and you’ve been planning on getting another copy, why wait until July? You might as well order it now, that way publishers will be all like “Wow, that Larry Correia gets on best seller lists before the book is even released! I need to buy all his books! He’s the bestest author ever!” Or something like that.

So start ordering!

Tell your friends. Spread the word. Tired of people bugging you for your $200 original copy of MHI? Tell them to get their own! If you’ve got a blog, please let people know. Owen Zastava Pitt needs your help. All of those monsters aren’t going to kill themselves. Every day that you don’t order a copy of the Baen version of MHI, transdimensional sky-squids will eat a sack of puppies… and that just ain’t cool.