Random gun stuff Uncle’s Carnival
I think I’ll just start calling this the Carnival of Uncle, bet it gets more links that way:
Head has everything you ever wanted to know about the CETME.
Head also gives advice on AK-47s to a denizen (no, I am not making this up) of Democratic Underground.
In an earlier decision, a court ruled that adding a secondary pistol grip to an otherwise legal pistol does not constitute making an Any Other Weapon. Someone should tell the ATF because they apparently still think that is the case. The ATF has pretty much adopted the rule that an AOW is any thing that it can’t classify as something else, even though that is not coded into law.
Gun laws are a bitch. They’re arbitrary and often pointless (such as AOW laws). I think Huffman’s rule is appropriate:
Firearms law are so complex, victimless, and nonsensical that almost every firearms owner breaks multiple laws without knowing it. A general rule to compute the earned prison time for crimes committed is to multiply the number of years of activity in the shooting sports by five.
As someone who goes out of his way not to violate gun laws (because it’s so easy to do unintentionally), I can concur. Denise has much more on random gun laws.
A Zogby poll says 75% of Americans don’t think gun bans reduce the threat of terrorism. Duh. Deb has more.
The NRA says the 50 caliber ban is the tip of the agenda of anti-gun groups plan to ban all rifles. That should probably read all gun ownership. What I found funny was that the rifles the VPC wants to ban under the guise that they are sniper rifles, defined as:
a bolt action or semi-automatic
having a two-stage trigger
having a free-floated barrel
having a”bull” or “target” barrel
having a fluted barrel
That’s pretty much most rifles.
Spoons is gun blogging. We need more of that and he needs a rifle. His post was for Pejman Yousefzadeh, who is looking for advice on guns. My advice, get something simple (like a revolver or a Glock). If you get a revolver, the .38 and .357 are fine rounds. If you opt for the semi-auto, get any .4X caliber.
Michael Bane on the realpoliticks of shooting:
The biggest point is what I’d call the “hang together or hang separately” issue, i.e., antigun forces stand to benefit from any schism between hunters and non-hunting shooters. That’s certainly a fair point. However, I don’t think there needs to be a break between the two groups. It would not take much for the hunting side of the industry to accept and acknowledge that the shooting sports represent 1) a viable alternative to field sports and 2) an alternative marketing resource for the hunting industry.
Ayup.
Via Jed, we find that (yet again) newspapers merely repeat anti-gun propaganda.
Florida will soon abolished the duty to retreat requirement of self-defense and replaced it with reasonable belief they are in danger of death or great bodily harm.
