Double barreled revolver in 22 magnum. No, really.

On January 1, I became a criminal in my hometown of Boulder

Someone new to guns will usually ask me how often I clean my various guns. For most guns, that answer is “whenever it stops working”. The exceptions to that are carry and home defense guns. They see an adequate amount of cleaning and, more importantly, lubing.

Tam discusses that and the 2K round challenge.

Someone sent a FOIA request to ATF on the database that tracks machineguns and got this:

Pre 86 (transferables): 175,977
Sales Samples (pre May keepers): 17,020
Restricted 922(o) (posties): 297,667

A good read.

Sebastian: In my mind gun people are suffering from a number of maladies

Zev has released a new gun that takes Glock magazines. It seems similar to the Sig 250s in that it has a receiver that everything connects to.

Pump Action Adaptation of the South African Galil

Gun Owners Are Being Othered, And Were Letting It Happen.

In comments, OtherSteve schooled me on passwords and how I was doing them wrong:

Youre fundamentally wrong.

Im try and keep it short but if you are complaining about password requirements youre doing everything wrong. Every website password you have should be at least 16 chars random values.

If you arent using a password manager right now you are a fool and behind the curve.

Get LastPass, there are other options but LP is really hard to mess up. Install the extension into your browser, get the app for your phone. Set up account and add EVERYTHING to it. Get your spouse and employees to do the same if you share passwords with them.

LastPass never has your passwords they can see on their server, locally decrypted only. They never have your master password to open the vault. You will turn 2FA : multifactor on so that when accessing LastPass you need your phone and master pass every 30 days, meaning if someone stole your master password they would need to steal your phone to access also. You can make a OTP (one time password) sheet and put it in the safe so your spouse or kids can access your vault if you ever need them to.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to be complaining about password requirements right now. That is a symptom not of bass web policy, but of your bad practices.

I think bad practices is a chicken and egg thing. Do we have bad practices because of dumb password policies? Or do we have dumb password policies due to bad practices? But he’s right. LastPass makes everything work better and more securely. Thanks for the help. And I do recommend it.

The category of prohibited persons that is greatest is illegal immigrants.

Gun-owner rights bill becomes Ohio law after legislature overrode Kasich veto. Has Kasich ever been a friend to liberty?

Man arrested for allegedly throwing ham at woman in argument over Christmas dinner

Summed up

GAO Report Shows Govt. Agencies Like IRS and NIH Are Heavily Armed, WHY?.

A running theme here a bit back was Everybody has a SWAT team.

Albuquerque mayor signs bill into law wearing a Pantera sweater. I didn’t know those were a thing but it is.

The Terminal-Performance Triangle: Measuring Ammo Effectiveness

As a gun owner: Student Deluged With Doxxing and Death Threats After Pro-Gun Graduation Photos

They’ll sell a ton of these. Basically, ten round, single stack compact guns in the right caliber.

AUG + M203

FK Brno Field Pistol in 7.5 FK

Hope you had a fun and safe one. Blogging to resume at some point.

Though today is technically festivus. I’ll begin the airing of grievances with overly complicated and useless password requirements.

Light blogging during the holidays. Ya’ll be safe and enjoy the time off.

Right here:

Some have used our October 2017 statement to claim that NRA supports ATFs final rule, but as NRA-ILAs Executive Director Chris Cox noted only days after our statement was issued, We dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything.

We also made this clear in our comments to ATF on the proposed rule earlier this year. In our comments, we further advised that ATF should at a minimum make an amnesty period available to deal with the fundamental inequity imposed on law-abiding gun owners who purchased their bump fire stocks in good faith reliance on prior ATF determinations. We continue to pursue the availability of a period of amnesty with the administration.

Police in Vermont stopped a school shooting. Sounds good, right? Except:

After confirming the whereabouts and establishing short-term plans for both young suspects, police turned their attention to securing their alleged source of guns.

We executed what is called an extreme risk order (Monday) night at a relatives house who had all these firearms, Hanley said. They were locked up (in the home), but one of these kids said he had access to them and could get them. So we took advantage of that extreme risk order statute that was passed. We needed to separate the person from their ability to do this.

Hanley on Tuesday morning wasnt sure of the exact inventory of the more than 10 confiscated weapons, but said they largely consisted of hunting rifles and handguns. He doesnt believe any semi-automatic assault rifles or shotguns were among the bunch.

A relative, not involved in the potential shooting in any way, had their guns confiscated? Wouldn’t just arresting the suspects kind of take care of that?

Heh: Tragic: Every Single Bump Stock In Nation Suddenly Lost In Boating Accident

This is one of the oddest accidental discharges I’ve seen:

Gun owners aren’t turning over their recently banned magazines in New Jersey.

Fake news: Politicians, lawyers, telemarketers, and journalists sit at the low end of a new survey asking which profession has the highest ethics and honesty.

New York Court Order Concludes Gun Permit Insufficient Cause for Car Search

There has already been a lawsuit filed against the ban:

Today, attorneys for an owner of a bump-stock device and three constitutional rights advocacy organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administrations new confiscatory ban on firearm parts, additionally challenging Matthew Whitakers legal authority to serve as Acting Attorney General and issue rules without being nominated to the role and confirmed by the Senate or by operation of law. A copy of the court filings can be viewed at www.bumpstockcase.com.

The plaintiffs also filed a motion seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the Trump Administration from implementing and enforcing the new regulation. The lawsuit, captioned as Guedes, et al. v. BATFE, et al., is backed by Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), and Madison Society Foundation (MSF), also institutional plaintiffs in the case.

Meanwhile, the NRA is disappointed.

And if you need instructions on how to properly destroy your bump stock, that you may have lost in a boating accident, the ATF has instructions.

While we gun nuts no that this a stupid ruling with no basis in the law, I doubt that we will win this issue due to public perception and the general ignorance about firearms most people have.

She’s awesome:

One woman shows us the 9MM she is turning in for the Baltimore City Gun Buy Back program. But she says she is using the cash to get a bigger weapon! Story on FOX45 at 4pm. pic.twitter.com/LlmCbezpU7

— Kathleen Cairns (@CairnsKcairns) December 17, 2018