Lots of links at The Liberty Sphere today.

Joe’s Crabby Shack is closing up shop:

After years of badgering, watchdogging, and challenging the state’s political leaders, they have called my bluff.

I can’t get into the details, but I have accepted a position that will allow me to carry on the effort to protect Nebraskan’s legal ability to own and carry firearms on the insider level. I’m going to work for the G (state-level G, anyway).

Good luck, Joe.

Nate in Utah is looking for a special 22LR Stevens Favorite rifle:

The rifle is unique and if anyone has ever seen it, they would recognize that the collectors value today has been ruined because the frame has been nickel plated. My Grandfather had to take the gun for a while during my ownership to make a new firing pin for it and while he had it, he talked somebody in the plating shop where he worked to nickel plate the frame and the lever. It’s not polished like chrome but is a very nice shiny matte silver. I don’t believe any of the other parts were plated. It also has an ivory dot tipped front sight which I now know was not the typical Stevens Favorite front sight. I believe my rifle was a takedown model.

More info here. If you know anything about this rifle, the previous owner wants you to get in touch with him.

Check it out at Mann’s place.

Due to a problem this weekend, Murdoc is unable to access any of his email accounts. Hopefully this will be resolved tomorrow when people return to their labor.

Murdoc is traveling and posting will be a bit hit and miss for the next week or so. I’ll be posting, but probably not as often as usual and possibly at odd times during the day. Or night.

Is Murdoc the only one who can never get into the forums at OpenCarry.org?

I don’t know that I’ve ever been able to get beyond the index page.

GunPundit is getting hit with a ton of traffic from folks looking for info on the state trooper who stopped that ambulance. Hit so hard that Murdoc’s host pulled the plug on GunPundit for a while.

I think things are worked out now. A few things have been disabled to reduce the load during this spike, so a few things might look a bit weird. I don’t think anything serious will be missed. Once things die back down I’ll get all the furniture put back where it belongs.

My apologies for the interruption.

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