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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Tuesday, March 19, 2002

The Washington Post on Guns
Except this is one article I was able to read all the way through without rolling my eyes and muttering dirty words. WaPo's Stephen Hunter on the National Rifle Association's National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, in particular a new exhibit "Real Guns of Reel Heroes."

Mr. Hunter throws a bone to all of us hog leg lovers:

A true Hollywood favorite has been the Colt .45 automatic, beloved companion of GIs in two world wars -- "old slab-sides," someone has called it. Hollywood has fetishized it even more than has its most acrimonious advocate, Jeff Cooper, and in the catalogue I count eight of them -- including Sam Elliott's from "We Were Soldiers," John Travolta's (!) from "Pulp Fiction" and Steve McQueen's from "The Getaway" -- as well as a faux .45. This would be the .45 that William Holden carried in "The Wild Bunch," that encomium to John M. Browning's genius at designing a service pistol.

If only all Post stories could be like this...


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