Oleg tells you how.

Robb takes his little girl shooting.

RMR-30 Prototype, kel-tec’s rifle.

Best gun for women: magazine fed, semi-auto shotgun.

600 Nitro Express

Three gun setups

Les: Oh, you got some Peltors.

Me: Yes.

Les: You know, they work better if you put the microphone toward the front. You have them on backwards.

Me: Well, you know, I don’t like people sneaking up behind me.

Les: I won’t blog this.

Bonus: Pic of a the Zel Custom going off, fired by one of the guys at LuckyGunner:

From Lucky Gunner Shoot

Pics and more later.

Had a great time. And greater chili. Seriously, MJM makes awesome chili with beans. Pics later

Since October is apparently blogger shoot month (there’s been one scheduled every weekend somewhere), I’m heading to the local one here in a few.

We’ll get to shoot this Zel Custom:

From Gun Porn

This quote of the day from Joe and subsequent links got me to thinking. Go read and come back. There simply cannot be peace between our people and it’s entirely because of different mentalities, world views and ways of thinking. And that quote is one example of this substantial difference in thinking and cognition.

The other difference I find in dealing with folks with whom I mostly disagree politically is the concept of need. Why do you need a 50 caliber? Why do you need a car that gets to 60 in under 5 seconds and gets shitty gas mileage? Why do you need this or that? And my response is always the same: What’s need got to do with it?

And this throws them for a loop. Literally. They feel the need to justify their desires, wants, views and goals so that they’re palatable to other people. They expect you to do the same. I have no such predilection toward that. I do things because I want to. And when I explain to them that my supposed need has fuck all to do with anything, I can literally watch their eyes glaze over in what I presume is disbelief. I think it’s hard on them to be told that they don’t have a say. And I’m not justifying any thing to them.

ETA: And I think their amazement comes from being told their whole life that feelings matter and are the most important things on earth. Which is, mostly, patently false. So being told your feelings don’t actually matter and you don’t get a say can be a hard kick in the reality.

Seen at reason:

“CVS did not set out to be part of the meth trafficking trade but they made a poor decision,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Shana Mintz. “Rather than choosing to over-comply like their competitors did, they knowingly under-complied with the law.”

They either broke the law or did not. Under-complied sounds dumb. Seems they weren’t in the habit of harassing their customers who had colds enough for the government.

Mentioned it yesterday but Geekologie has a look. Could be faked since the spinning bullet looks to be in real good shape for something just launched from a barrel.

The paper of making up the record:

Afterward, officers of the Organized Crime Control Bureau were given tactical training in the use of heavy weapons, including automatic and semiautomatic machine guns, to spell the Emergency Service Unit in such an eventuality.

Cracks me up. You see, whenever I’m critical of GOA, I’m an NRA apologist. And they can do no wrong. Because I’ve never criticized them for things like taking credit for the SAF’s work or their lame fundraising attempts or other things.

But it is a fair point that, by virtue of voting party line 97% of the time, maybe gun rights aren’t that well served.

Mosque defaced with bacon. One, that’s a dickheaded thing to do. Two, it’s a waste of bacon.

Via the Duck.

CTD has a look. Once Kel-Tec came out with the P3AT, everyone else decided to play along. Last year, pocket pistols were the rage and you couldn’t find ammo for them.

I’ve said before I don’t get the Taurus Judge. And it jumped the shark when they made a tactical one. It’s not practical. .410 sucks from that barrel. And it’s roughly the size of a Buick.

Tam doesn’t get it either, neither does Caleb. PDB tells you why it sucks.

This started as a comment but wordpress thinks I am spam. The situation where the fire department let a house burn because the owner didn’t pay is the perfect bogeyman for every ideology. We can blame libertarians! We can blame lack of lefty sensibilities*. We can blame the homeowner for not paying his fees. We can blame the county government for setting up such an arrangement. We can blame rich people. We can blame the city government for policies that require these guys to stand around while a house burns.

It’s a perfect storm of fucked.

* seriously, someone actually thinks there’s a social contract? That’s fucking funny, right there.

Proof God wants you to have a suppressor.

Suppressed Sub2000

Happiness is a belt-fed weapon.

A holster that looks like a smart phone case.

I’m pretty sure if a white, GOP adviser referred to being gay as a lifestyle choice, there would be a lot of protesting and taking to the streets. Very colorful protesting, of course.

Judge rules state concealed carry ban unconstitutional stating the law is overly broad and violates both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

A civil rights victory.

The SAF:

Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record.

The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia. SAF and co-plaintiff Jefferson Wayne Schrader of Cleveland, GA are represented by attorney Alan Gura, who successfully argued both the Heller and McDonald cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bill for that bowl of Froot Loops came in at just over $1,500.

Video from Knob Creek. Watch moron in bottom right of screen about half way through:

Bad words. Our kids are learning them. Fortunately, they’re limited to words that, while bad for kids, aren’t really all that bad. I mean, they could use words like I do and that would be (and has been) bad. But the kids, and especially my four-year-old son, just sort of arbitrarily blurt out words like butt, poop, and some words that, to me, make no sense but given the context I can figure out what they mean. Like tee-tee. And it’s weird to me because he doesn’t always really use the words in context or a sentence. He’s just kinda sitting there and then says fart and laughs. It’s not like he farted or anyone else did. He just felt like saying fart.

Anyway, I’ve told the kids to watch their mouths. I told Junior she needed to get her language under control or she would get in trouble. She says to me What if I accidentally say a bad word?. And I ask her how she could possibly say a bad word accidentally. She says Well, if I say shampoo, then I’ve said poo.

I guess you can’t argue with that.

Here. You may be familiar with his ammo.

This comes out every so often. But, while your average household underperformed the market by 1.4%, your average senator beat the market by 12%. Such a spread would indicate they were privy to inside information.

I guess it stands for GOP Owners of America!!!111eleven

Non-gun votes affect their grading system. Seems they dinged Halvorson over her votes on Obamacare, stimulus, and DISCLOSE. None of those are related to gun rights.

Compared to NRA’s grading system, both have their problems. NRA focuses on gun votes. This means things tangentially related to what your typical gun owner values can slip threw the cracks if they’re not gun-related. Neither system is perfect.

The city is defending it’s semi-auto ban and registration requirements. Looks like a preemption challenge to me.

Fobus now offering commemorative pink holsters.

PF9

Pictures like this always bring a smile to my face.

Couple converts Mazda pick up into giant red wagon.

This is the way you do it. I still disagree but at least it’s a rational argument. One quibble:

While stationed on the Nimitz, a guy in my department was taken off the ship, not because he was gay, but because he was caught with another guy in a sexual act in the showers during a power outage.

Uhm, I have news for you . . . totally gay.