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Today is a special day. June 4th 2019 marks the 15th anniversary of the Killdozer’s rampage through Granby Colorado.

Sit down kids and let me tell you a tale, about a reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things.

Marvin Heemeyer was a man who owned a muffler shop in Granby Colorado. The city council ordained to approve the construction of a concrete factory in the lot across from Marvin’s shop. In the process this blocked the only access road to the muffler shop. Marvin petitioned to stop the construction to no avail. Petitioned to construct a new access road, and even bought the heavy machinery to do so himself. Denied.

The concrete factory went up in disregard to the ramifications on Marvin’s business. To add insult to injury, the factory construction disconnected the muffler shop from the city sewage lines. An indifferent city government then chose to fine Marvin for this.

His business and livelihood were in ruin. Rather than lie down and die, Marvin chose to fight back. Over the course of a year and a half Marvin secretly outfitted the bulldozer he bought to save his business with three foot thick steel and concrete armor, camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass.

On June 4th 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand.

He burst fourth from the walls of his muffler shop and straight into the concrete factory that ruined his business. Over the course of the next several hours Marvin drove his Killdozer through 13 buildings owned by those officials that had wronged him, including the city council building itself.

Swat teams swarmed the dozer, but it proved immune to small arms fire and even explosives. Another piece of heavy machinery was even brought out to fight the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers righteous fury.

In the end, Marvin’s Killdozer became trapped in one of the buildings it was built to destroy. Marvin chose to take his life, the only life he took that day.

Today we celebrate Killdozer day and Marvin Heemeyer, the last great American folk hero. A man driven to the brink who chose to fight back against an indifferent system.

From notes left behind after his passing:

“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

HAPPY KILLDOZER DAY EVERYONE.

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The actors playing the Colonial Marines in Aliens were required to read the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers as part of their preparations prior to filming, and also took part in a training boot camp run by the SAS (Special Air Service), the UK’s elite special forces regiment, to help them effectively portray military combat personnel on screen. During this time the actors each personalized the armor worn by their characters. The notable exception being Michael Biehn who inherited his armor from the actor he replaced (and also subsequently missing the boot camp).

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#gunblr #in case of emergency #glock #nfa #guns #9mm #45acp #wwrgd?

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Mac, I don’t care. I love it.

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This lower will most likely sit in a safe for years, but one day I’d love to build a Travis Haley Najaf DMR clone out of it.

#gunblr #guns #travis haley #blackwater #project #5.56x45mm

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#gunblr #guns #day off #kalashlife #zastava #5.56x45 #nfa

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The absolute madlads actually did it

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A weaver rail section, some nuts & bolts, and a whole lot of loctite!

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Worth every penny. Shoutout to PSD for the extras.

Now I just need to figure out what to build it into.

#gunblr #guns #carnikcon #dugan ashley #ar15 #merica #ryan gosling #palmetto state defense

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I’m sure most of you have seen the news about Dugan by now, if anyone wants another way to support him and get a Carnik Con receiver in the process as well please check out PSD:

https://www.psdmfg.com/product/special-edition-carnik-con-matching-lower-upper-set/?fbclid=IwAR051MbwaXcRy83woxqVQi7N-UgzM4DeeVumatdQhU6NZzkUbfgggLnvl50

If you haven’t seen his fundraiser yet:

https://gofund.me/2befc8ed

#gunblr #guns #carnikcon #dugan ashley #signal boost #carnik con

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Copped some goods from IWA International, now need time to go try one out at the range for shits.

#gunblr #iwa international #bangers and smokes #random #heckler & koch #usp #Ammo #swag

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What managing a gun shop is really like - sometimes you get to help a client assemble a .50cal, sometimes the boss lets his freezer get out of control and you have to go full ham on it with a breacher bar.

#gunblr #guns #gunshop funshop #work #random #.50 cal #ar 15

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Big Irons.

I REALLY wish I could afford that Anaconda.

#gunblr #guns #gunshop funshop #work #not dead yet just not posting much #colt #smith & wesson

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Reddit speak

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“Come back with your shields, or on them”

- Me trying to motivate the crew for tomorrow’s shift.

Also “initial” doesn’t make the future sound promising.

#gunblr #guns #work #gun shop #gunshop funshop

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At heart I’m a basic, practical, polymer-framed striker fired 9mm type of guy. That being said when I was a teenager I had a poster of a Nighthawk 1911 taped to the wall next to my PC because I thought they were the coolest thing out there back then.

As I got more into shooting as an adult I realized 1911s weren’t the most modern or practical setup but I always kept a soft spot for them. Owning a high end one like a Nighthawk became a daydream, but then a curveball happened.

A long time client of ours is selling off his entire collection due to health complications. Over the last ~6 years he’s been the nicest customer, has had excellent taste in firearms, and always been an absolute joy to work with. Even when he first started shopping with us he warned us that eventually we would have to help his estate move along his firearms collection but we’d all hoped that wouldn’t be for a very long time. I’d told myself that when it did eventually come to pass I was going to pick up one of his firearms to enjoy and hang onto.

Sadly that time is coming faster than anyone had anticipated, and yesterday he gave me the opportunity to buy his barely used Warhawk-T for a deal I couldn’t possibly refuse.

My inner teenager can’t believe I finally own that gun that I had the poster of on my wall, the sentimental side of me is so happy to own one of this guy’s very nice handguns, and the practical side of me is chuckling for spending so much on what will essentially be a range toy/safe queen I’ll never carry.

But overall I’m so happy and have zero regrets, I fully intend to keep this one for the rest of my life.

#gunblr #guns #work #1911 #.45 acp #nighthawk custom

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#booze #night off #scotch #whiskey #bourbon