Great Video on a Stupid Topic

Brilliant commentary from brilliant guys.

What’s the take away? We REALLY need to end the NFA. Or at least end the tax stamp side of it. I’d be willing to compromise and let the ATF maintain their registry of all NFA items (for this political move the Huges Amendment would also remain intact) but dump the silly tax stamp, and let people buy/build whatever the hell they want, and let the ATF know to make sure any of this stupidness doesn’t bite them in the ass.

But really this whole talk really shows how stupid the NFA is. In the end we’re talking about the same gun that shoots the same cartridge, but quibbling over what it’s called, and that’s simply pedantic and has no bearing on real life.

You want a tiny gun that shoots .308, or a big gun that shoots 9x19mm I really don’t see what that has to do with the price of tea in China.

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For Those Who Use Stitcher

The Squirrel Report is now on Stitcher

Gunblog Variety Cast is also there.

So yeah, if you listen to podcasts on Stitcher you probably already knew about it, but if you didn’t, there you are!

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Dropped Gun Discharge

The video is a bit graphic, so watch at your own discretion. Still it’s just a bit of blood, so it isn’t really gross.

Now of course the general rule is when you hear a story about a dropped gun that “Just Went Off” is to be skeptical. Almost all guns out there are drop safe, and the technology is fairly old, so dropping a gun generally won’t cause it to discharge. Of course nothing is perfect, say you have a Springfield 1911 that is a drop-safe pistol due to a light firing pin, and a heavy firing pin spring. If you drop this gun while loaded and the safety off it still may discharge due to the shock of the impact causing the trigger to recoil in it’s channel and trip the sear. Still the lighter the trigger (like the common skeletonized or cross-drilled aluminum one, or the even lighter polymer triggers) it make take quite the drop to still touch off the gun.

Still not all guns are drop-safe. Let’s look at what we know from this case. It was a .32 Revolver, and the gentleman jokes that he’s 28 years old because he is MUCH older. While there are still revolvers being made in .32 chamberings, the most common being .32 H&R Magnum and .327 Federal Magnum, I suspect this might be an older gun in the plethora of old .32 Chamberings.

If it was a double-action gun it very well might not have had the common transfer bar safety or hammer block safety like we see. It could have also been a single-action gun, which generally don’t have a drop safety of any kind, and people aware of this only load 5 rounds in a 6-shot gun, with the hammer over the empty chamber.

In either cases if the firing pin was resting on the primer, it doesn’t take much force to touch-off that round:

Also another interesting thing is the angle of the wound. Given that he was getting into a car, either his leg was at an angle, or the gun landed on the door sill or some other angled protrusion, and since it doesn’t take that much force to pop a primer, so really many angles are possible.

Last there is some talk about if he had accidentally had the revolver cocked, but as you see in the video (I also pulled out my Colt with a transfer bar, and one of my Smiths with the hammer block, and confirmed this) if you drop a drop-safe revolver with the hammer cocked the force of the impact might cause the trigger to recoil hard enough to trip the sear, but the drop safeties will engage as the trigger returns causing the hammer to impact the block or the frame before it can deliver it’s energy to the primer.

I personally have a few guns in my collection that are NOT drop safe due to them being older guns. These are NOT my carry guns, and they are not guns I teach new shooters with. Likely if you don’t have any guns older than you are, you probably don’t have any guns that aren’t drop safe, but you should be aware of how your gun works.

Also remember NEVER try to catch a falling gun, as it is a very real possibility that you may catch the trigger and all bets are off. It’s up to you, but even with my non drop-safe guns, it might even be a smarter move and take your chances with the gun falling than risk pulling the trigger. Some guns need to fall on the hammer to accidentally discharge, with a gun like the M1911 pattern that was not made with a drop-safety of some sort it needs to fall directly on the muzzle.

Be safe out there.

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History

Just doing some reading on the SIG P210.

I wanted to see what short-recoil action it was using, and I dug up this video:

Look at that! Remember this photo?

Kahr Parts

I noted in the review of my PM45 that that kidney-shaped recoil cam was first seen in the CZ-75, I guess I was wrong, as it appears that SIG was likely the first on this action.

Stuff like that is interesting to me!

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“Gun Death” New Year’s Stampeed

In China!

A stampede killed at least 35 people and injured 43 during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, on the city’s famed waterfront tourist strip known as the Bund, authorities said.

The Shanghai government said that large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before midnight, with authorities working to rescue and aid the wounded.

Thankfully China has banned guns!

H/T Roadkill

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Play Me Out: Kaleigh Baker

For those who aren’t familiar with the original here it is:

Since the original is essentially the artist singing into the mic, I was hoping Kaleigh would bring out her amazing pipes in this one. Oh well.

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I’ve Said It Before

But Jeff Says it with a better accent!

here here!

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Quote of the Day: Joan Peterson

Joan takes a break from her normal crowing to tell us that warm stinky fluid running down our backs is rain!

First of all, “anti-gun groups”? No. Not true. We are anti gun violence. We are not pushing legislation that will infringe on gun rights. That is just nonsense. At some level I believe the NRA even knows this. But they continue their nonsensical statements in the face of tragedies.

Let that one sink in for a second. No the organizations that Joan is either a part of, or politically aligned with are NOT Anti-gun! They are NOT infringing on our rights!

Would confiscating lawfully held guns not be either “anti-gun” or infringing on our rights? Joan is openly for that!

Heck I did a whole podcast segment on this tactic! If you didn’t listen to that episode, give it a listen, and if you just want a refresher my segment starts at the 45min mark. Also have a look at my show notes in the link for the extent of this tactic. She is OPENLY anti-gun and anti-freedom, but is not against blatantly lying about her motives.

Hell just before she she claimed to not be anti-gun she said this in the above linked post:

If all of the 80 shooting incidents ( homicides, suicides and accidental discharges) got the attention the mass shootings or other high profile shootings got, I believe we would be doing something differently today. The fact that we have done nothing different since the Brady background check bill was enacted in 1994 and the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to lapse in 2004 says something very important about us.

We can argue about how much the Brady Bill infringes on our rights, of course it would be tough to claim it has done ANYTHING to curb gun violence, heck Joan’s groups are trying to expand what the Brady Bill does to EVERY gun transfer BECAUSE it doesn’t work. Still can ANYBODY say that the 1994 “Assault Weapon” ban wasn’t both anti-gun and anti-rights? It denied what guns could be sold to citizens, meanwhile still allowing police to have these vary guns, not because there was any sort of an “Arms Race” between cops and criminals, but because they’re the best tools for the job. It was so anti-freedom the country rejected the law and allowed it to sunset in 2004!

Also the idea that these groups are “Anti-gun violence” is laughable. Well maybe more sneer-worthy as they are perfectly content to have high violent crime, so long as we have low “Gun Death”. When it comes to public safety the antis are unconcerned. Actually given how low the violent crime rate has been over the last few years, coupled with the number of lawful gun owners and concealed carry holders, the antis have been doing EVERYTHING they can to trumping up violent crime stories to give the illusion that things are getting worse out there. They’re succeeding at that!

Why would Joan be an “anti Gun-violence” advocate, but not be concerned with the reality of public safety in America?

Yeah because her and her groups aren’t concerned about violence, they’re concerned about banning guns, and infringing on the 2nd Amendment.

That isn’t rain running down our backs, Joan….

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“Gun Death” Family Strangling

Another sick one:

A Dallas teen strangled his 5-year-old cousin Sunday, then dumped her body in a vacant apartment unit near his own, police said.

No motive given…and of course this has NOTHING to do with anything:

Authorities believe the murder suspect came into the country illegally about a year ago and have issued an immigration hold, along with a charge of capital murder of a person under 6 years old.

Doesn’t care about the sanctity of the United States borders, and oddly also doesn’t seem to care about killing a little girl…

Hey but not a “gun Death” so lighten up, y’all!

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New Year’s Anti-Gun Fisk

So this is a pretty amusing anti-gun article. Let’s fisk it!

New Year’s Resolutions for the NRA

1. We will stop referring to ourselves as a “civil rights” organization that defends “human rights.” It is a sacrilege to people actually killed or harmed by civil and human rights abuses.

Sorry but the Right To Keep and Bear Arms is a civil right. The NRA is a Civil Rights group. Still let’s play a little game. Let’s look at the quintessential 20th Century civil rights group: The NAACP. What have they said about the violent riots in Ferguson, or really other places like LA that were almost exclusively perpetrated by blacks? How about the anti-police violent protests that have happened in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, and the execution of two police officers in New York? How about the HUGE issue of black-on-black crime in our inner cities.

Yeah, go fuck yourself!

We will stop pointing at Chicago and saying gun laws don’t work. We will admit the majority of Chicago crime guns are trafficked from states and counties with loose laws.

Ok so trafficked from other states? NOPE! Illinois crime guns are coming from Illinois, and the time-to-crime time is over 10 years. This isn’t trafficking. Also what counties in Illinois have “loose laws”? Sorry, but that’s like saying my relatively permissive town in Mass has “loose laws”. Yes the local police don’t treat me like shit because I’m a gun owner, but there’s only so much they can do for me and my right to keep and bear arms.

We will stop saying “the government is going to take your guns” to block federal laws. The confiscation we announced 7 years ago never happened.

But you, and other anti-gunners WANT to confiscate all lawfully held guns. Sorry, you aren’t putting my concerns at ease….

We will stop blaming “mental health” problems for U.S. gun violence. We admit every country in the world has mental health problems but they don’t have Newtowns and Virginia Techs.

No, they have WORSE!

We admit fighting universal background checks arms criminals and that armed criminals sells more guns to “good guys.” Ka-ching.

Yeah, see Illinois, and Massachusetts. Criminals break the law, so adding one more law, while ignoring enforcement with existing laws which are more than adequate is letting your partisan flag show!

We acknowledge that “outlaws” don’t have guns in the 28 EU countries, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other countries with strict gun regulations. We also admit, grudgingly, they are not “tyrannies.”

BULLSHIT! Any research will show the criminal elements in EVERY country are armed. In countries with HEAVY restrictions on guns, the criminals smuggle MILITARY hardware rather than bother with stolen civilian guns.

We will stop our insulting comparison of guns to knives, hammers, cars and swimming pools–none of which kill when used as directed. On the same day as the Sandy Hook massacre, 20 Chinese school children were attacked with a knife and none died.

Yet there have been many more school stabbings that have killed MORE than Sandy Hook, and pools and hammers still kill more people than guns, so your point is shallow and smug.

We accept responsibility for the armed vigilante movement popularized by George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. We admit “concealed carry” laws are the biggest revenue infusion since “Obama is going to take your guns.”

You are a lunatic!

We will stop defending sales to civilians of non-defensive weapons like TrackingPoint’s “can’t miss” sniper rifle. We admit they are ready-made for insurrectionists, terrorists and hate groups.

Yep, because there have been so many problems with this rifle….lunatic!

We regret our work to help suspected domestic abusers keep their guns while under orders of protection. We admit this costs many women’s lives and that our sleazy sales pitch to tell women to arm themselves too just makes things worse.

Ungh….man you think a LOT of yourself…..

And then there’s this:

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Anti-gunners are ALL the same!

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