Archive for August, 2010

August 12, 2010

It’s an AK, it will still suck

Don’t bother decking it out. It will still feel like a clunky baseball bat no matter what you put on it. And it still won’t look right. It’s an AK. I don’t care for them even though I should.

However, if you want to put a sight on it, get a rail from Ultimak. Then you can co-witness with an Aimpoint, if you get Ultimak’s low rings. But leave the wood on it. Other stocks suck more.

no smoking

and unintended consequences:

Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail.

Overreach: what government does best.

Quote of the Day

Truth:

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.

NRA v. Garden and Guns

NRA apparently did a piece on how the magazine Garden and Guns didn’t take their ad. G&G doesn’t take political ads, apparently. But it is interesting to me that the article mentions Jim Zumbo as some sort of measure of the NRA’s success in firing up the base and all of that. Seems to be taken as fact by non gunnies that NRA cut loose and did Zumbo in. And that is totally false. Blogs and message boards did Zumbo in. NRA didn’t even issue a press release until three days after Zumbo quit.

Astroturf

Oh look. Another anti-gun shill site.

The only compelling case I’ve seen for iPhone over Droid

iPhone owners get more.

Acceptable Combat Accuracy

Or as I like to call it, Minute of Asshole.

Gun Porn

Thompson to be auctioned.

Photos from the Florida Defensive Carbine Club.

August 11, 2010

Dear spammers

I don’t think anyone really believes your name is Maxine Fleshlight.

Not just morally?

Morning cheer:

Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.

What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be redesigned to achieve their legitimate purposes at much lower cost and, in the process, revitalize the economy.

And:

closing the fiscal gap requires a permanent annual fiscal adjustment equal to about 14 percent of U.S. GDP.

But I want my free shit! And that requires doubling income taxes?

Via pdb.

Oil Filters Soon To Be Regulated

The $55 silencer:

This is a legal and registered silencer that is patent pending. It is an adapter that uses a disposable expansion chamber aka a car oil filter. You will get hundreds of shots untill it starts to get loud again. Then all you have to do is throw away the used can and thread another on our adapter.

So, you register the adapter. And replace oil filters. Actually sounds like they’re doing it lawfully. I imagine ATF will not let this stand long.

Discussion at subguns.

Well, it is in the title of the agency

Darn revenuers.

Paul Helmke is upset ATF is going after more T than F. Apparently, they’re cracking down on cigarette smuggling from low tax states to high tax states.

Quote of the Day

David Hardy:

Someday historians may correlate that with changes in public opinion poll results, the near collapse of antigun legislative efforts, and even the judicial recognition of the right to arms. Americans historically loved firearms. US presidents were NRA members, government programs recruited and armed competitive shooters. Then in the 1960s that changed; the media in particular pushed the idea that gun owners were a dangerous, selfish, rather oafish lot. Perhaps fifty years later we’ve hit the end of that cycle?

Tactical Beer Holder

A 12 pack bandoleer.

Via John.

Mayors Against Guns

Bloomberg pulls gun permits of disabled cops.

Gun Porn

S&W Bone Collector

Hi-point 45 acp carbine

A Soltis custom, that you can win.

Sitting there

The graveyard of google streetview photo mobiles.

Glock Girls

Pics from facebook.

Pricing folks out

$250 for a Chicago handgun license? Cheaper than New York.

August 10, 2010

OMG!!!11eleven THE BACON

Pork bellies at all time high.

Hating the first and second amendments

In Frisco, transit authority bans advertisements with guns.

Glock Photo Contest

Caleb notes they’re having one. I kinda laugh because their facebook page keeps mentioning you make sure to send photos that are safe. You know, follow the rules.

More 380 blogging

In my bleg about 380 yesterday where you told me to carry a 45 or 38*, CTone notes a discussion about Hornady Critical Defense at arfcom.

And ericire12 links to 380 gel tests that have the benefit of being done with a Kel-Tec, which I carry. Probably gonna go with Corbon.

* Yay for staying on topic and I do carry 45s. But not always realistic. If I could carry whatever, I’d walk around with a fucking carbine but that’s just not socially acceptable.

About that shooting

From Guav: Police fired 46 shots at a crowded block party, in addition to shooting another officer, they hit the man they were shooting at TWENTY TIMES—but he’ll probably live since they managed to miss every major organ.

Trap Range

In The City (My The City), the sheriff partners to build a trap range. Could have saves some money by opening your range to the public as is required by law. That aside, our sheriff is good on guns.

Gun Porn

Restoring an old shotgun

Rock Island Army Officers Model review

.50 AE and .45-70 Enfield chambered rifles

Homemade suppressor

High power team matches

August 09, 2010

Bleg: 380 Ammo

I prefer to carry a 45. But, fact is, I spend a lot of time pocket carrying a 380. So, lets talk 380 ammo. I carry the 102g Remington Golden Sabers.

What do you carry?

Threats

Whenever gun nuts and libertarians are getting all gun nutty and, err, libertarian-y, someone usually pipes up to put them in their place by saying something to the effect of the government is not the biggest threat to your freedom. And I respond with Well, what is? And that usually throws them. And they go on about keeping me safe from terrorists. Yawn.

Honestly, they expect me to believe that some third-world cave-dwellers are a bigger threat to my freedom than the folks who shut down little kids lemonade stands, send people to jail for putting lobsters in bags and not boxes, or arrest you for being a jerk.

I’m not the only one who thinks like that.

Stupid

Groom firing into the air in celebration kills three relatives. Press calls it an accident. I’d call it negligent.

Thought Police

A crime to be an asshole:

Connecticut police say they arrested a man at a management company after he mentioned the shooting rampage across the state that killed nine people and said he understood the killer’s mindset.

I hope he has a good lawyer.

Via Radley.

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