Kydex coasters.

Tam has a look at the device.

Panola Regional Weekend

Antique cane gun.

I’ve known Bob on the internet for years, from his days at Confederate Yankee and Bearing Arms. I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with him a handful of times. The first time was at the Lucky Gunner machine gun shoot, where he and I were neighbors during a class given by Tom Givens. I’d also run into him at the NRA annual meetings. At the meeting in Nashville, Bob’s picture of my gun in its holster lead to the NY Times issuing a retraction to a story about how guns weren’t allowed at the meeting.

Bob was always funny, witty, and laid back. He was always smiling. He’d wander around the NRA floor or to a Moms Demand protest and get off a blog post. And I wasn’t sure how he was able to it so fast. He had a great sense of humor too.

Bob is no longer with us. He apparently shot himself after leaving a chilling message on facebook. He never struck me as the suicidal sort. I’m shocked and saddened.

If you’d like to help his family, there is a fundraiser set up for that and you can donate here.

But it makes sense: THE PROBLEM WITH HANDLOADS FOR DEFENSE

Bloomberg’s $20M mistake

Though it is lacking the actual trigger pull, if this could be done correctly, I’d buy some. Drop in a dedicated magazine and no need to rack your slide for dry fire practice.

A middle schooler was suspended for liking a photo of an airsoft gun on Instagram.

Police: 2 dead, 8 hurt in shooting at Brighton Park memorial for earlier rifle slaying

Let’s take the ergonomics of an AK and add them to an AR:

Also, it seems that in the fire position, it interferes with the trigger finger.

Dirty Harrys .44 Magnum

Hand engraved Glocks. I don’t see the point.

Right here. Mostly handguns. And, apparently, quite a few people lose suppressors.

Handgun sales are up 53%

Kit Up:

The U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps all intend to replace the M9 9mm pistol with the Armys new Modular Handgun System, service officials said today.

I don’t think giving the police the power to shut down people’s phones without cause is a good idea.

In effect

Size comparison

Heres all of the guns the ATF took from Pasadena Police lieutenants Sierra Madre home

It has passed the House and the Senate. Tennessee law now is basically a duplication of federal NFA laws. So, the state bans suppressors. However, it is an affirmative defense to prosecution that you jumped through all the federal hoops and have a tax stamp. So, if the national Hearing Protection Act passes, Tennessee should be good.

Lock your damn doors.

My kids always, in an annoyed tone, ask: Why do you always lock the doors? And I respond with So I don’t have to shoot anyone. I also lock my truck doors. Just the other week, someone broke into several vehicles around here. Just the unlocked ones. I have video of the perp trying to open my truck, realizing they were locked, and leaving. It works.

So reports Spiegel Online. You’ll have to translate it to English. But basically, they’re spending $23M on their first factory abroad. And they like Trump’s trade policies.

The Firearm Blog turns 10

Stacy Washington was fired because she supports a civil rights organization.

Slim line nines

Star Z-63 Submachine Gun

After the Gun Salesman of the Century left office, folks thought gun sales would drop. However, they continue to remain near record levels.

Pete Brownell has been elected President of the NRA.

From their webpage:

The Second Amendment Foundation, joined by several other groups and individuals, today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in California, challenging that states law prohibiting the possession, use or acquisition of so-called large capacity magazines, calling the ban hopelessly vague and ambiguous.

Joining SAF are the Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation and six individuals including one retired California peace officer. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

The complaint is a constitutional challenge to California Penal Code 32310, as recently amended by Senate Bill 1446 and Proposition 63, and Penal Code 32390 (the Large-Capacity Magazine Ban). The lawsuit alleges that if these measures are enforced as applied, they would individually and collectively prohibit law-abiding citizens from continuing to possess, use, or acquire lawfully-owned firearms, in common use for lawful purposes such as self-defense (inside and outside the home), competition, sport, and hunting.

This one seems a bit risky to me. But, historically, SAF has been pretty good at these sorts of things.

Gun Privileges suspended in Venezuela.

That’s pretty cool.

Hudson H9

Beretta AR-70

The NRA has decided to get in on the self defense insurance game, much like the USCCA. NRA even uninvited USCCA from the annual meeting. I’m not really sold on the concept no matter the provider. Aside from that, a couple of people have made some decent points on why this could be a bad idea:

What if George Zimmerman had Carry Guard?

And now you have the NRA saying that liability insurance for gun owners is a good thing. And anti-gun politicians have been trying to make that required by law for a while.

I wasn’t there this year, a bit busy. But others were.

Bitter has the NRA board of directors vote totals. The bylaw changes were approved overwhelmingly. I’m rather surprised at how few people, as a percentage, vote in the election. I suppose that may be because it’s life members and annual members with 5 years that vote?

Rare Guns At NRA Annual Meetings

Some cool gear pics over at Shooting Illustrated.