Welcome, and Molon Labe

Welcome. My name's Steve and I'm a car nut and a firearm enthusiast. Other than my fiance, the three loves of my life are cars, firearms, and politics. You'll also notice, hopefully, a respect for the English grammar conventions and a certain amount of attention paid to spelling. I intend to make this as easy-to-read as possible, lest you go all cross-eyed on me.

I'm young (21) and currently in college pursuing a marketing degree, but that may change to a degree in criminal justice. Right now, I'm just not sure.

I own one of those loud, low, stiff import cars that everyone gets all bent out of shape about. It's a '92 Nissan 240SX and you'll be hearing quite a bit about it as time goes on. It has no power but is all about momentum preservation. No, I don't drift. I've replaced literally everything in the suspension and removed hundreds of pounds from the original curb weight.

You're also going to read about (and hopefully respond to) my beliefs on American drivers and American vehicle code. You can probably guess that I'm not enthusiastic toward either.

I also own a Kalifornia-legal Bushmaster Carbon-15 top-loading rifle, or TLR for short. Oh yes, it's going to be modified with a Bullet Button, some quality time with a Dremel, and some C Products 10/30 mags. Why buy an OLL when you can just make your own? I only have 296 rounds for it at this time, and with .223 going up in price and the fact that I'm going to have to use all of that to break the gun in, I'm definitely going to have to buy more at the February Crossroads of the West gun show.

Will that be my only AR? Not bloody likely. I plan on an aluminum black gun as well, something with a foward assist just in case there's another fire here and I'm forced to move into home defense against looters. I trust the strength of the carbon composite, I just don't like the lack of a forward assist.

I'm also into open carry, gun safety, and target shooting bolt-action rifles such as my father's 22-250 Remington 700.

As far as politics are concerned, I'm a classical liberal/strict constructionist/fiscal conservative. According to both the left and the right, I'm both baby-killing and heartless, so it's win/win.

I like Ron Paul. He seems to be honest and his voting record is pro-freedom and pro-2A. I also have yet to see him muzzlesweep a crowd or put his finger on the trigger of a gun he wasn't about to fire.

I will be wearing an empty holster to school as often as possible to protest the campus kill zones the idiot bureaucrats implement.

That'll start it off, methinks.