1911s for under $550.

9mms for under $400.

They were for it before they were against it.

A DIY Magazine Lipper.

MCSA has a detailed look.

NRA has a bit on understanding the polls conducted by Bloomberg’s anti-gun group. The questions the poll asked do not indicate support for the laws the group claims:

The poll also asked if participants agreed that “The federal government should not restrict the police’s ability to access, use, and share data that helps them enforce federal, state and local gun laws,” when in fact the Tiahrt Amendment fully allows access to trace information, as long as it’s related to crimes that they’re actually investigating.

The media didn’t seem to notice the rebuttal.

An official DoD designation. Will this restart the caliber wars? No. Because they never end.

And rules for breaking the rules. Wait, what?

Vltor to debut the Fortis at SHOT?

AR7

Bersa BP9 and BP40

The shooter got all gangsta and tried to shoot the gun sideways. The police say that this caused the gun to malfunction. My first thought was that it malfunctioned because it was a MAC and, well, that’s what they do. I’m not the only one who thought that. Interesting thought: Should we encourage criminals to get crappy guns?

The data was waterboarded.

Of toy guns. In NY, of course.

A stroller for gunnies.

In China.

Wooden gun carved by Dillinger brings $19K.

The AP says you can walk into a gun shop and buy a machine pistol.

Cool art

Pretty cool one here

Malone:

the nation’s newspapers, having already lost their editorial dominance to cable news and the Web, their sports coverage to fan sites, their classifieds to Craigslist, and their editorial pages to the blogosphere, are now under heavy assault on their last profitable redoubt: the obituary page.

A lot of other bloggers do something to close out Friday. I never have because, while blogging is light on the weekends, I do blog some. Most bloggers seem to do some musical number. So, I will stick with that. As folks may or may not know, I like music that’s heavy. And I mean heavy. Whatever you think you listen to that’s heavy, it ain’t. But I hate death metal. My problem with death metal is that there are lots of complex heavy parts. And each individual part is technically good. But the sum isn’t. It’s like a gestalt of suck where the sum sucks and the parts don’t. And the vocals suck. So, while death metal is heavy, it sucks. I do like hardcore, metalcore, and heavy metal. But I even dig The Captain and Tennille so what do I know. Anyhoo, here’s Bury Your Dead’s The Color of Money. The lead singer is now a public school teacher in Massachusetts. I note with irony that the non-singing musicians in this band also play in some death metal bands but probably realized that death metal sucks and doesn’t pay. And their drummer is a bad ass:

Next week, we’ll do kid songs.

Heh

The NRA corrects some lies printed by the Herald Times.

Gun control doesn’t work. According to the FBI

Via Reason, I’m a cyborg. With an exobrain.

We, generally, have access to information at all times. Instantly. Within a few clicks of a mouse or buttons on your smart phone, you can convert gallons to M³, find a recipe for goulash, do algebra, calculate adjustments for windage, learn first aid, confirm that Johnny Galecki was actually Rusty in Christmas Vacation, and anything you want or need. You don’t have to commit a lot to memory because you can look it up. In other words, you have a hard drive.

This is interesting to me. See, as a financial guy, I’ve spent a lot of time learning and retaining lots of information. I mean, other than dick jokes and song lyrics. Information that I and anyone else can look up instantly online. That wasn’t always the case but it is now. Seems the future will belong to those who learn to quickly look stuff up.

One of these days my kids will say something like I don’t need to know that 2.2 kg equals a pound 2.2 pounds equals a kilogram* or how to solve quadratic equations. And they’ll be right. What they will need to know is how to use information.

The future is thinking not knowing.

* ETA: LOL. From memory, I got it wrong. Shoulda googled it.

I’ve been pondering getting one of the Advantage Arms 22LR conversions for my Glock. There are rumors Glock will make a 22 circling the internet but who knows how long that will be. A couple of reviews here and here.

All reviews I’ve read seem favorable. The barrel locks in place so it should work with my suppressor too. Anyone have any experience suppressing one of these?

Say a couple of college kids go out into the mountains and get lost for a day or so. It’s national news blared 24 hours a day. 25-30 hunters still stranded in snowstorm, not so much.

The anti-gunners and the press (but I repeat myself) are trying to say that allowing you to transport firearms in checked bags on Amtrak trains (just like you can do on a plane) will lead to attacks like the Madrid train attacks.

Sebastian: The issue with the SniperBabes poor gun handling is not that they violated a technical rule, it’s that they violated it for no good reason

In Cali. Fresno, even.

Odd AK magazines.