I was poking around the internet this morning, reading some blogs that I've not visited in a while. Ryan @ TSLRF has a post up reviewing his goals for the year, and the progress made so far. It made me stop and take stock.

We've had a lot going on this year, with the baby transitioning to a toddler, selling a house, packing a house, buying a house, moving between houses, and subsequently taking care of all of the things that go with moving into a new house - painting, fencing, new schools, new doctors, setting up utilities, acquiring things we were lacking to maintain the new place, et cetera, ad nauseum.... It made me realize that I've been in a whirlwind phase, working with a very vague plan of things that need to be completed. Fortunately, I can see an end to the whirlwind.

What I need to do now is get my ducks in a row - establish a list of tasks to complete and get cracking. I can get back on track here, I think...

Ruling on McDonald v. Chicago, SCOTUS incorporated the Second amendment under the 14th. Good news for gunnies! Full opinion is here.

I recently sent an AR-15 receiver out to Orion Arms to be engraved with SBR markings. I was very happy with the results, the price was excellent, and the turn around was very fast - just 9 days door to door. I highly recommend them, and will use them again in the future.

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As a rather funny aside, when I shipped the receiver, I wanted to make sure that I didn't need to make any special declarations. I approached the woman behind the UPS counter, handed her a box about the size of a paperback book, and asked if I needed to do anything special to ship a rifle to a manufacturer. She looked at the box, looked at me like I had 3 heads, and asked "This is a rifle?". I went through the whole spiel: non-functional, just the regulated part, shipping to a manufacturer. She said, "So there's a rifle in this box?". I found it funny. At any rate, no ammo so no declarations & no problems!