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I shot the postal match last night with my Smith &Wesson 686 and brought my score up to a 90 from last week's 65. The postal match ends Monday, November 21.

For your weekly roundups, Jeff has the latest check on the bias,
Gullyborg has the Carnival of Cordite, and Alston has the (all new!) Everything you needed to know about guns this week.

James Rummel, who does a lot of work with the Pink Pistols, wonders why so many gays are anti-gun. Jeff - a self-described "gay gun nut from Vermont" - thinks his conclusion is right, namely, that gays mostly identify as liberal Democrats and have swallowed their platform whole. My possibly related thoughts on Democrats and blacks, women, and teachers here.

Lots of Smith &Wesson blogging this week. Xavier posts on the retro Model 24 22. Meanwhile, Tamara isn't happy with S&W using a classic name on their new plastic gun.

Xavier posted an email from one of his readers on a mistake he made that will cost him some function in his hand. Now in addition to Glock leg we see Glock arm: shooting your offhand when disassembing a Glock (which requires pulling the trigger holding the slide with one hand and puling the trigger with another).

There are some great things about Glock pistols from a technical point of view, but from a human factors perspective they've got problems. If you're aware of the problems they're manageable, but Glocks aren't the gun I'd recommend to a new shooter.

Today is National Ammo Day and the end of National Ammo Week.