Excuse me if the leftmost photo conjures up a certain former shipmate residing in California, who drinks his coffee black and takes his target practice very, very seriously. I will not tell you who he is - that would be obvious from his own frequent and numerous postings of both proficiently used targets and enviable firearms. My guess is either that he was using a 9mm at 75 yards, without his new eyeglasses, or he was shooting at a moving cursor -- otherwise, the shot pattern would have been much tighter.

We both support the right of U.S. citizens (who have not forfeited their rights by convictions in courts of law) to keep and bear arms. By all appearances, the ex-submariner I have in mind, is also a tidy environmentalist. I am sure that he must take care in appropriately disposing spent ammo and obsolete electronic equipment. (Doubly so, if he is married to a wife like mine).

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Finally, here is a rather fitting tribute to one John Charles Carter, aka the late, great Charlton Heston.