FBMG is proud to announce that we’re raffling a gun to benefit breast cancer research.   All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society.  The winner will be announced at our 3rd Annual fun shoot on October 4th. 

Tickets are $5 each.  They can be ordered in person at FBMG, online at http://www.fbmginc.com/Breast-Cancer-Raffle-AR-15_p_1-8969.html , paypal at slg2qcorreia@yahoo.com, or over the phone at (801) 571-1160.  Tickets will be on sale until October 4th. 

All federal, state, and local laws apply.  If the winner is not a Utah resident, then it is the winner’s responsibility to find an FFL for us to transfer the gun to.  The winner is responsible for all local transfer fees.  If the winner is a resident of a state with sucky gun laws, we’ll do what we can to make the gun compliant, but if you’re a resident of California or someplace equivelent, we can sell it for you and send you a check. 

FBMG has donated a Stag 15 rifle.  Our gunsmith, www.gundoctor.wordpress.com has done a custom pink Duracoat paint job.  The pictures above are not the finished product, as he still needs to touch it up and apply the final clear coat.  Once that is done we’ll do up some glamour shots, but the reaction was so great to the original posting that we had to hurry and put this up.

To all the gunbloggers who have linked to this, thank you.  This is for a great cause, and we’re looking forward to raising a bunch for charity.

We came up with this idea a little while ago.  My mother-in-law had just got done with chemotherapy, and we were talking about it at the shop.  Plus we’ve got our big event coming up on October 4th, and had been talking about doing some sort of charity to go along with that.

So we decided to take a Stag 15 and paint it pink, then raffle it off for Breast Cancer Research.  I took the gun back to my smith ( www.gundoctor.wordpress.com ) and told him what we were doing. He volunteered to do the Duracoating, but said that if he was going to do it, he was going to make it nice.  Turns out Joe’s family has been through this too. 

This is what we’ve got so far.  The camera wasn’t very good, and the job isn’t done yet.  He still needs to touch up and clear coat. We’ll post final pictures when I put up the raffle details probably first part of next week.

We’ll be raffling off tickets at $5 each.  Anybody can enter.  The winner will be announced at the October 4th Mega Fun Shoot.  All proceeds go to charity. I’ll post up the charity details when we put up the offical raffle next week.   All federal, state, and local laws apply.  I’ll also be begging other gunbloggers to post it.

UPDATE:  http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/the-pink-camo-breast-cancer-charity-gun-post/

I’ve got a counter on the right side, and I usually just kind of forget about it.  But today I noticed I’ve broken 200,000 hits.  Not bad for having started in September.  That’s 8 months.  That’s kind of nuts. 

I do check my stats all the time, but mostly because I always think it’s fun to see where people are coming from.  Plus I’m a self promoting son of a gun, and I’m always looking to see if anybody’s talking about Monster Hunter anywhere.

Check out this link:  http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-talks-about-lifting-child-in.html

Basically, Obama gave a talk about how we need to reach out to the children of Bangladesh and other typical feel-good claptrap.  (let me translate, I’m gonna take your money, and give it to the UN to send to 3rd world dictators).  In typical liberal fasion, Obama’s full of ideas of what everybody else should do. 

Turns out McCain has actually done something about that.  His wife saved a Bangladashi kid’s life and then adopted her.  No hype.  Did it back in the 90s.  He’s running for president, and you won’t get anything like that in the news.

Now if this was a story about the Obamamessiah, it would be a puff piece in every single newspaper and a special report on 20/20.  “Look how much he CARES!”  However, it was done by a Republican, so you’ll only hear about something like that on the blogosphere.  If Obama stops to pick up a piece of litter (or has one of his aides do it) then it will get 24 hour media coverage about how awesome he is to save the Earth.

I’m not a fan of McCain as a politician.  I hate most of his politics.  I think he’s a RINO of the 1st degree.  But when it comes down to the wire, McCain is a better man than Obama.  Cindy McCain is a better human being that Michelle Obama.

This slavish media worship of Obama does give me hope on one front.  Obama is basically the Boy Band of politics.  He’s got no experience, no talent, looks pretty, and only exists as a viable entity because he’s a media fabrication.  Just like your average boy band.  And just like boy bands, eventually they fall out of style because Americans tend to get tired of being told by the media and teenage girls how awesome they are. 

I just hope we can get 51% of the voters to pay attention to what this inexperienced “community-activist” is actually shoveling between now and November.

If anybody is in the Utah area, I’m teaching a pistol class on August 8th-9th at the FARM.  Cost is $135.  If you’re interested, let me know.  I still have space.

Also, we’ve got a Tactical Carbine class the weekend after that.  This one is going to be a pretty dang cool class. The instructor is an SF vet who’s been to every war we’ve had since Vietnam.  He’s spent over 25 years teaching, including at Ft. Bragg, and the Army Sniper School.  He’s an excellent instructor.  If you have a carbine, and you want to learn to use it for serious business, I really recommend this class.