Texas Wrangler Miranda Lambert Has a Feisty Side That Others
Won't Want to Cross as She Shoots for the Top of Her Field  By
J. Freedom du Lac Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 15,
2007   Miranda Lambert is the most dangerous-sounding woman in
country music. She's also No. 1 with a bullet. So you have to
ask: Miranda, are you packing heat?  "Can't tell you," Lambert
twangs. "That's why it's called a concealed weapon. How about
you just be nice?"  Asking Lambert about her armament is a
legitimate question. The country starlet's new album, "Crazy Ex-
Girlfriend," opens with the raging "Gunpowder & Lead," in which
she sings of delivering shotgun-pellet payback to an abusive
man. She wrote the chorus's kicker -- "I'm gonna show him what a
little girl's made of / Gunpowder and lead" -- during a
concealed handgun class back home in East Texas.  "Miranda has
lived in gun culture all her life," explains her father, Rick, a
retired cop and private investigator. "I'm a firearms collector
and hunter. She was taugh