Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Our New Gun Store

trader.jpgWhile we were visiting Wickenburg, we stopped in the small town’s only gun store, The Gun Trader. List of services:

  • BUY—SELL—TRADE
  • Shotguns
  • New and Used
  • Good variety of Accessories
  • Rifles
  • Handguns
  • A large selection of AMMUNITION
  • We sell Hunting & Fishing Licenses

I introduced myself to “Roger,” the proprietor, and took a look around the shop. There were a lot of long guns, both rifles and shotguns. The ammo shelves were very well stocked.

There are a couple of photos of the interior of the shop here.

The Gun Trader isn’t the only store in town that carries ammo. We found some for sale in the local hardware store although the selection was sparse – sort of like it is everywhere.

We are glad that there is a local outlet for firearms. We will be making the occasional trip down to Cabela’s in Glendale, about 45 miles, but we’re happy they aren’t the closest dealer to our new place.

24 May 2010 by Arizona Firearms Travel

360° View of the New Arizona Property

360-view

While we were in Arizona earlier this month, Damsel and I went to take some photos of the new property. I took a series of images and stitched them into a 360° panoramic view of the lot and the neighborhood. In the thumbnail above, Damsel is standing on the pad where the new house will stand sometime this fall.

Click on the thumbnail and use the scrollbars on your browser to view the entire panorama.

23 May 2010 by Arizona Home & Garden Panorama

Reading the Arizona Immigration Law

azjobs150px.jpgI read the entire Arizona Immigration Law, SB 1070, today. Throughout the entire bill, there is language invoking the laws of the United States as a guideline for the law. In other words, they are NOT inventing any new or bizarre anti-immigration laws – they’re just requiring that the Federal Laws be followed under the new Arizona statute.

As for racial profiling, the language below appears in every major subsection of the new law. President Obama, his cabinet members, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, most major media and all the Democrats are lying to you when they say the new law targets a specific race or creed.

A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY NOT CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ARIZONA CONSTITUTION.

Go ahead – READ IT and see.

21 May 2010 by Arizona Law and Order

State Line Panorama

Damsel snapped a photo of the Colorado River just as we crossed into Arizona on I-10 at the beginning of our recent vacation. I cropped it into a panoramic view of the river, both states and a suspension pipeline crossing the river just south of the interstate bridge. Click the image for the full panorama.

state-line.jpg

20 May 2010 by Arizona California Panorama Travel

Cut L.A. Off

Via Fox News: Arizona can play the game too . . .

Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott

skyline.jpgIf Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight.

That’s the message from a member of Arizona’s top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city’s power supply as retribution.

Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote the letter in response to the Los Angeles City Council’s decision last week to boycott the Grand Canyon State — in protest of its immigration law — by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses.

Read the rest.

Payback is a bitch, Angelinos. I hope that San Fran, Austin, San Diego and Seattle get the message. Arizona will not be intimidated.

19 May 2010 by Arizona Law and Order

The End of the Specter Dynasty

Buh-bye Arlen . . . sixth term, my @$$.

The AP posted some raw video of the two Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. In it, you can clearly see character strengths and flaws between the two candidates, Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak. After all the kabuki dancing Specter did when he saw that he would lose to Pat Toomey, he suddenly switched from R to D. James Taranto who posts the daily WSJ column, would often mention Specter thus: Arlen Specter (R2D2 – PA).

We’re on record for strongly disapproving career politicians and are, frankly, glad to see Specter lose in tonight’s PA Democratic primary election. Given the charisma that Joe Sestak seems to evoke, we’re a bit worried that Pat Toomey may not win in November. I hope we’re wrong.

18 May 2010 by Beltway Kabuki Politics

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