Magpul announces a move to Texas and Wyoming. The corporate HQ will be in TX, and manufacturing Wyoming. A lot of people have been upset with Magpul for not moving fast enough, but anyone who’s ever been involved in a corporate move knows that you can’t pick a company up and move it on a dime. I expect it’ll take another year or so before they execute on their decision. The left has made it abundantly clear they are more concerned about fighting cultural crusades than keeping jobs in the states they control.
Year: 2014
Legal Victory Celebrations for Anti-Gunners
I had to take a look at the list of 13 “Victories” for the Brady Campaign of 2013, and I do find their standards of declaring victory to be somewhat entertaining.
In one case, they celebrate not being forced to own guns. In another situation, victory is filing a lawsuit. In several cited cases, it’s they didn’t file anything other an amicus brief. In another, they call a case they lost a victory because they are trying appeal.
While I won’t pretend that all of their victories aren’t actually victories for their cause, I will say that I hope we can make their 14 victories in 2014 look a little more like the examples I highlighted. “We showed up for work – Victory!” “The computer to type the fundraising email still works – Victory!” “We lost a case that can scare our supporters into giving money – Victory!”
2013 Year in Review
It was good to end the year 2013 in better shape than we came into it. This time last year we were all still waiting in dread for the hammer to fall, as the unscrupulous tried to pin the actions of a madman on  the whole of our armed citizenry, and tried to ride the hobby horse all the way to every restriction they ever wanted. I think one of the bigger news stories of the year is that Mike Bloomberg leaves office, and with it MAIG is seemingly going poof, and merging with Moms Demand Action. I haven’t even completely thought through what this means, but I think it likely means a few things. For one, this was about Bloomberg’s ego. He’s not a Mayor anymore so what point does MAIG serve? For two, I think it has to be at least a tacit admission that the MAIG approach has been a failure. Overall, I don’t think much changes for us, because the real threat from Bloomberg was always his money, and now Shannon Watts gets to be the face of the movement backed by his money. The upside, as I see it, is that Shannon Watts is a radical. She’s chocked full of nonsense that’ll play well in terms of mobilizing our people.
But enough about that. I’ll follow Thirdpower’s example in looking at the past year’s stats.
Top Five Referrers of 2013 (That Aren’t Search Engines or Social Media)
Top Five Posts of 2013