Back in stock at Amazon today, and with a discount (for some reason) though I’ll still steer you toward Uncle Hugos just because he’s independant.  I believe he’s got some in stock. That’s like somebody referring someone to Sportsman’s Wharehouse instead of FBMG, if you know what I mean.  Sometimes the big stores have more stuff, but us little guys are way the hell cooler.

Copies of the 1st edition are still being printed, as I haven’t actually signed the contract yet. 

MHI:2 is coming along nicely.  I think you guys will like it. 

Found this on Gun Free Zone:  http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/?p=30 (which I found because the author read MHI, and posted a positive review, man, I need to update my blog roll!)

Basically, Oklahoma legislators decided that their college students, even the ones that are veterans, are too stupid to carry guns on campus. 

Allow me to pick on one line of the article:

University of Oklahoma President David Boren had argued the bill would hurt recruitment of students and faculty. It also would pose a dilemma for police trying to determine whether a person wielding a weapon was a “deranged gunman or someone who thinks he is doing good vigilante work.”

This is priceless stuff here.  Because not only are Oklahoma’s students too dumb to carry guns, their cops are too dumb to assess a dynamic situation.  See, apparently it is better for a gunman to come in, and shoot everybody, than to have somebody shoot the gunman, and then have the good guy get accidently plugged by the responding officers.  Well, Mr. Boren, you dumb son of a bitch, if I’m about to get murdered by a crazed gunman, getting shot by the responding officers is a concern that I’ll address later. 

Let me break it down for the really dumb readers (like state legislators), if I’m about to get murdered, I would much rather take the asshole doing the murdering with me and get shot by the cops afterward.  Either way, I’m dead, but at least I get to accomplish something useful in the process.  (accomplishing something useful, yet another concept alien to politicians)

Idiot politicians like this are the reason that I started teaching CCW for free to college students and anyone that works at a Utah school.  See, here in Utah, we can carry guns in school.  It was a huge battle to get, but we won, the anti-gun forces lost.  In the process I testified before the state legislature on this issue, and that experience, and listening to worst-case scenario logic like the above, pissed me off so badly that I basically said “screw it” and started spending my own time and money to get more guns in school.

So far, I figure that I’ve personally waived over $10,000 worth of instructional fees in the last year.  And I plan on continuing to do this indefinately.  Because it’s worth ten K of lost income to tick off politicians.

I keep trying to get the word out about that, but in the last year I’ve got taught about 250 college students for their CCWs for free.  This doesn’t count educators or employees of schools.  Hell, I don’t care if you’re the janitor, I’ll teach you for free.  I also teach military (active, reserve, or guard) for free too, but that’s just personal. 

So if you’re in Utah, spread the word.  Your class is on FBMG. I want as many guns in school as possible.  I want the next psycho that attempts to shoot up a school in Utah to get Swiss-cheesed. 

And if you work at one of my kid’s schools, I’ll get you friggin’ SWAT training…

If your local politicians tell you that your students and faculty are too stupid to prevent another Virginia Tech or Columbine, ask them sincerely why Utah loves it’s children more than your state does. 

http://thenewspaper.com/news/23/2302.asp  Okay, let’s apply some critical thinking to this one.  Police surround this place, cut off all the exits, do a massive warrantless search, and shake down a bunch of people… because they MIGHT do something wrong.   

“If you’re not into street racing, why would you need that?” Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. “Why would you want more power going to your car?”

What kind of idiotic question is that?  “Uh… because I friggin’ can?  Because I’m an American?  Because I don’t live in Cuba or China?”  I hate that kind of reasoning from people in authority.  Though I usually get some variation of “why do you need a gun that powerful?  why do you need a machine gun? baaa…. chews cud.  Only criminals need AK47s.” and other assorted bunches of crap like that. 

I’m not excusing illegal street racing, but shouldn’t you actually punish people for doing the illegal thing, instead of people that were PARKED?   Read the link.  This wasn’t about public safety.  This was all about revenue generation. 

100 police officer raids, for revenue generation?

I’m a California refugee.  My wife’s a California refugee.  We’re glad to be in a place where the authority (though it too is bossy, annoying, and petty, like most authority) is a mere shadow of California’s.   Our bureacrats stand in awe of California. 

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who has a really good paying job in LA.  He’s moving out here as soon as possible, and taking a massive pay cut in the process.  He’s tired of living in a place where an illegal alien gang banger (who’s been arrested 10 times, but never deported) can walk up to an innocent kid on the street, and just murder them, and then have locals start making excuses for the criminal.

California keeps passing more and more idiotic laws banning everything pointy, sharp, fast, or with a carbon footprint larger than a milk-cow, while half the state has turned into a 3rd world nation, your governator commutes in a jet, and people making $120,000 a year can’t afford to buy a tin shack under an overpass. 

You’ve got Berkley.  Enough said.   

California’s just plain broken. 

And Californians, don’t get your feelings hurt, and come back and tell me how the weather’s nice, or you’re the 7th Biggest Economy in the World (well, whoop de’ freaking do), your state still sucks.  I lived there for most of my life, and every time I go back to visit relatives, it just pisses me off even more. 

Let me address that whole 7th largest economy BS for a second.  Everytime I’ve ever made fun of California online (usually because of their gun laws) I get fed that line.  Okay, you’re one of the biggest states, in the most prosperous country the world has ever seen, you’ve got abundant natural resources, the world’s most fertile farm land, and you take up most of the west coast (and all the resources and shipping ability) of the most prosperous nation ever, I would be shocked if you didn’t make lots of money.  But your broken down shell of a fascist state (but the weather’s nice!) is a shadow of what California should, or could be. 

Don’t feed me that 7th biggest line and expect me to go… oohh you’re so awesome.  California’s blessed because of the luck of geography, circumstances, and the work of the people that came before you.  California’s on a slide into asinine oblivion and irrevelancy.

Then I get that whole- “Well, whatever way California goes, the rest of the nation goes to!” 

Not if us poor hicks out here in red state country can help it.  California’s no longer a leader to the rest of us. California is amusing.  California is only a leader to people who’re insane, buy into hype easily, or belive that government can solve everything. 

To those few of you that have stayed in the Golden State to fight the good fight, God bless you.  You’ve done your best.  But you’re hopelessly outnumbered by stupid people.  You’ve been outmaneuvered by a superior force.  Good luck. 

“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

Wow.  Just… wow.  This guy really sucks.  I mean, he really really sucks.  My personal political leanings are pretty darn obvious to anybody that reads this (I own a machine gun store, not a lot of Democrats in that line of work) so you can be relatively certain that I don’t like Barack Obama, but I think I actually hate him.

Well, I suppose somebody could say that by saying that, I’m racist or something, but hell, I’m blacker than Barack Obama.  My Mom’s from Africa and I at least grew up poor.  Let me see, how many times have I gone windsurfing on Maui… uh… NONE, but I have witnessed a crack dealer in Birmingham beat a man with a baseball bat and push him off a 2nd story balcony, so maybe Barack can educate me on the “Black Experience”.

No, I hate him because he’s a socialist idiot pretty-boy waste of precious oxygen.   

Here is a man that hates America.  He goes to a church that hates America and preaches that the CIA invented AIDS and crack to keep the black man down.   I don’t know about you guys, but if I was an evil mastermind intent on destroying a people, I would have to be pretty friggin’ clever to do it using drugs (that the victims have to actually purchase) or diseases you probably aren’t going to get unless you do a lot of really stupid shit. 

His wife, who makes $300,000 a year, lives in a mansion, and went to an Ivy Legue school talks about how America sucks and keeps the black man down.   I make like 15% of what she does, grew up in the sticks, went to a school where only half of us spoke English, and the half that spoke English, the other half could read, and put myself through a land grant university by working full time and taking 18 credits a semester, only to claw and scramble my way to some small form of success… but apparently I only made it that far because I’m like one shade lighter than her idiotic husband, because you know, America’s a bunch of rednecks intent on keepin’ her man down.

He bowled a 37.  A friggin’ 37?  My 7 year old can bowl a 37.  She’s 3 feet tall! 

Why are Democrats eunuchs?  John Kerry belly crawling after deer and Obama tossing efeminate gutter balls… The only Democrat that’s a man is Hillary, but she’s too busy dodging sniper fire.

Oh, this election has got me just filled with warm fuzzies.  John McCain sucks, but he’s like the 2nd coming compared to the other side’s twin sacks of crap. 

This was just brought to my attention that Uncle Hugos ships books too, and they have some of the soon-to-be-discontinued version of MHI on hand.   

Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore
Uncle Edgar’s Mystery Bookstore
2864 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55407
Phone: 612- 824-6347 Fax: 612-827-6394
E-mail: UncleHugo@aol.com
Hours
M – F 10am – 8pm
Sat. 10am – 6pm
Sun. noon – 5pm

I also just found out that I was #3 on their best seller list last month.  The list is going to appear in Entertainment Weekly sometime soon, so be on the look out for it.