P226 25TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE

Smith & Wesson Pro Series Revolvers

1874 Mt. Roughrider Rifle in .45/70 Gov

Fear and loading.

MD has a look

Brigid: Tactical is better.

The list of Mayors Against Guns mayors who are looking at or received criminal charges has grown so much that someone as a web page tracking it. And for comparison:

Comparatively speaking, Mayors Against Illegal Guns members are almost eight times more likely to be convicted of crimes than Florida concealed firearm license holders – but that number is based off 23 years of licenses versus four years of MAIG. Assuming the mayors had as much history as the licenses, and assuming the same trend (11 mayors convicted in four years – a sizeable assumption, but it is all the data we have to operate on), you are looking at MAIG members being over 45 times more likely to be convicted of crimes than Florida concealed firearm license holders.

Clearly, we should ban mayors.

Not if work is playing professional baseball.

AZ Central:

Cavalry Arms Corp. says on its Web site that it has been “engaged in an ongoing dispute” with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, for two years over “regulatory and compliance mistakes.”

But in federal court last week, owner Shawn Nealon admitted that he and his company illegally sold as many as 40 weapons to an out-of state buyer, and he voluntarily surrendered his federal firearms licenses, meaning Cavalry will no longer be able to import, manufacture or deal in weapons or ammunition.

“This is not some individual setting up a stand at a gun show,” U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke said Friday. “These are the preliminary steps that individuals take to get around federal laws in order to traffic in illegal firearms.”

And:

Vincent said as much as 90 percent of the government’s original case against Cavalry was dismissed, leaving his client pleading guilty to selling to an out-of-state buyer.

National PSH Day!

Tom Palmer is suing to carry in DC.

For the first time I can recall, an overwhelming majority and I share the same political opinion:

Americans overwhelmingly think that the government in this country is broken, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Sunday morning, also indicates that the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what’s broken can be fixed.

Eighty-six percent of people questioned in the poll say that our system of government is broken, with 14 percent saying no. Of that 86 percent, 81 percent say that the government can be fixed, with 5 percent saying it’s beyond repair.

National Park carry goes into effect today.

Buckeye Firearms has a shotty you can win.

Via the duck.

My new AR-15 has a flat dark earth theme:

From Bison Armory

Barrel, grip, stock, and rail covers are earth friendly. It’s a Bison Armory (full disclosure: I’m part owner of Bison) 6.8 with an 18 inch barrel. It has a Vortex Flash hider and the Yankee Hill Diamond forearm, both can be seen here:

From Bison Armory

And the YM Chrome bolt/carrier:

From Bison Armory

Now, I need to decide what sort of optic set up I want. I’m building this one to be a good medium range rifle. Suggestions?

Tennessee gun permits up 23% last year

Highest concentration in Knoxville, which coincidentally:

community registered 25 killings last year — 21 in the city and four in the county, according to police statistics. That compares with 38 killings reported in 2008, which included high-profile, public shootings at a high school, a mall and a church sanctuary.

Heh.

Using social media sites to determine when people are home or not: PleaseRobMe.

Careful what you post out there. The internet is watching.

Orville A. Bierkle’s Revolver

From 1911 Pistol Grips. Bonus: They’re Watchmen grips.

Anton Chigurh’s suppressed shotgun.

An AR you can carry in your brief case.

David Hardy: the worse your Brady grade, the lower your homicide rate.

The language of losing: common sense measures.

Meanwhile, climategate is the big story everywhere but here.

Over at Rusty’s. With the warm weather, it’s getting to be the season.

A year membership at Coal Creek Armory. Via Les.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is all about re-writing history. I guess they need to appear moderate since they keep losing.

One of these:

From Bison Armory

More later.

GFZ:

Let it be the Ruger LCP, a snubbie, a Seacamp or any of the old and new subcompacts out there, let us dispense with the bullshit from the get go: They are carried out of laziness by 90% of their owners.

Maybe. For me, they’re the guns I carry when I can’t carry a gun.

Pics of scary short barrel AR-15, sawed off shotguns, and such. The caption says:

Weapons such as these were confiscated as a result of “Operation Smoking Gun,” a yearlong investigation aimed at combating guns and gangs in Broward County. (Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel / February 19, 2010)

Odd wording. Are those the actual guns or not? Doesn’t matter, really. But I am curious.

And don’t take live ammo to a classroom.

I’m trying to put some on a handguard and it’s about impossible. Any tips?

Update: Ok, got it. Use pliers to loosen them up a bit.

I like to do the occasional flashlight blogging. Via email, a TK Monster 15K lumen flashlight exploded. It took out a sliding glass door. Ouch.

To packs of smokes to allegedly circumvent the law? Where have I heard that bogus argument before? Oh yeah.