. . . as a result of the Remington semi-automatic shotguns, which the USA made and exported to us here in Australia, with the resulting massacre of Australians at Bondi Beach, which was a holiday haven. THIS POST is an advisory to persons who encounter my blog and wonder why it has only FOUR posts. It is NOT an invitation for readers to post their opinions and all such will be removed. If you think what happened at Bondi looks like a first-person shooter video game, you'd b

I now repost my famous Unsafe at any Speed headline while noting that their copy of the Bucheimer-Clark holster will finally be in Holstory's third edition -- in the form of a consumer warning. I would have taken it down long ago but the maker refuses to update his holster. It just doesn't get any better for Ardolino's "dealer" (I used the term advisedly because she is his grand daughter Mary). Here's her feedbacks through today, reflecting her efforts to sell the should

Below, 'what is a spring': "something that is not inside a Lawman shoulder holster" Cancel culture, anyone? Below, Lawman Leather's 'dealer' (actually the grand-daughter of the founder) CANCELLED my order for a second Dirty Harry Shoulder Holster! AND HERE'S THE LATEST ON EBAY FEEDBACK FOR LAWMAN'S 'EBAY DEALER' WHO IS, INSTEAD, ARDOLINO'S GRAND-DAUGHTER! That final one is from me, you'll notice, and her other buyers have treated her no better: Below is a page destined for

Those words were first written by a young woman who asked around the Lawman Leather shop, assuming that my missive to her father's company was from some no-account 'captive' gun writer for the industry press; an enthusiast who din't kno 'nothin'. I had mentioned I was the producer of "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century. Not good enough! It seemed. "Never heard of you", she said. Which puts me in mind of this terrific scene from "Some Like It Hot" , a 1959 fi