New Year, New Sear

I am a machinist. I have been many things for hire since I've come of age. Since well before I came of age even. I've passed out fliers door to door to drum up work for my best friend's father's construction and siding company as a teenager. I've sold computers. I've worked fast food. I've worked regular food. I've repaired computers. I've found individuals that people who specialize in doing exactly that couldn't or wouldn't. I've served said people papers. I've investigated people, companies, and criminals. I've tracked down sexual predators for bounty.

Those last four required a gun on my hip in order to safely perform my duties. And that's what this blog is going to be about. Not the gun itself per se. The gun's existence. I am a certified gunsmith on top of all the rest and not from a correspondence school. I went to the most respected school in the country for that particular trade. I build guns from scratch. Not from parts, scratch. Square and round pieces of inanimate steel. That's just a hobby though. If you have bought a handgun that has come off the line within the past year I had a hand in it's existence coming to be. If you have bought a rifle in that same time frame there's an off chance I had something to do with it.

Every job has a name for it's specialty. Every trade has it's different flavors. Just as there are cabinetry, framing, flooring, and other flavors of carpenters there are many flavors of machinist. That's not the profound thing about my work. The profound thing is the status of this particular industry. It is called apex manufacturing; I have a job taking other machinists' work away from them.

As a self proclaimed intellectual there are many things that I have learned and come to realize by taking the term "all things considered" seriously. When others like to read, or play video games, or pool, or poker, I tinker and think. Thinking and theorizing about things requires insight, insight requires access. On the subject of guns I have more insight than practically any man can have.

This blog is primarily going to focus on three things. Guns, apex manufacturing, and "all things considered."

Stay tuned.