Getting the Mag-Shotgun Right

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Now I prefer pistols and rifles to self-defense, over shotguns. Still the big issues I have with shotgun is ammo capacity, reloading, and how to store it for home defense.

With a standard tube-fed shotgun you either need to store it with the tube full and the chamber empty, or the gun completely empty (or fully loaded in a safe). If you tuck a shotgun under the bed or in the closet, that seems a bit easy for somebody to accidentally chamber a round and get the gun to fire.

With pistols and rifles you can keep the gun empty, but a full magazine nearby for quick loading. Most of the box-fed shotguns have other issues…this one solves most of them:

Love the safety and the new magazine well! You can top that gun off really quick and without error. Also a bolt hold-open is really a must, and its a shame some gun makers don’t bother with them.

They’re probably hard to find these days, but it would be worth looking into if you want a home-defense scatter-gun without a tube-mag!

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Tis the Season!

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Going to be up with my Family for a few days for Christmas.

Hope you all have a happy season and have good times!

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“Gun Death” Gas Explosion

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Remember that Gas Explosion in ‘Nap-Town a while back? They’re saying murder!

Prosecutors have charged a homeowner, her boyfriend and his brother with murder after causing a massive house explosion last month that killed an Indianapolis couple and decimated their neighborhood….Authorities have said they believed the explosion was intentional and caused by natural gas.

Remember, its “Assault Weapons” that are the really dangerous things!
no candle for you

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Dave Grossman Interview

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Did a little search and found this great interview.

My review on Lt. Col Grossman’s book is here

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ALL THE DUCKS!!!

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

So I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Felt crappy and grouchy, so I flipped on the TV/Computer in the bedroom and did what any good man would do.

Go to Youtube and search for “Ducks”.

I found this vid:

The resulting dialog went like this:

Me: SQUEEEEE!!! ALL THE DUCKS!!!!!!!!

Mrs. Weer’d: OMG they are SO LOUD! That would drive me crazy if I had to listen to that all day long!

Me: ITS THE SOUND OF HAPPINESS!!!!!

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The Gulf

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I’m really thinking I’m onto something when I mentioned after the election that we are not a nation of Moderates, but a nation of Extremists on both sides, with apathy and vacancy in between.

Have a look at this Huff-Po article on old Gun Ads.

Now I’ll admit that letting your little girl sleep with an Iver Johnson, or having a lady holding a shotgun pimping beer is in poor taste. Also some of the adds probably run a tad chauvinistic, but I’ll give that a pass as times were VERY different back then. I mean all Doctors were men, and most women didn’t work at all, and the stories you hear at your workplace sexual harassment training ACTUALLY happened with regularity.

Still they link the Savage 1907 .32 add which pushed their lovely little 10-shot pistol as a woman’s defensive arm. What’s the problem with that?

Still most of the ads are people hunting and target shooting, and kids using .22 and BB guns! They find these ads shocking? There is a huge cultural difference here.

And there’s this video:


I don’t much care for the Bushmaster ad, and all I could think is “This is what you get when you sell your company to a non-gun holding corp!” But I was upset that a gun company would so blatantly exclude women!

And they blame MEN as a GROUP for the mass shootings in this country???? WOW! Honestly the trend for males as the mass-shooters strikes me more to have in common with serial killer profiles, than “Men with weapons!”

Oh and just because, I’ll close with this video.

He knows nothing about guns or gun laws…but boy we need to ban them!

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Sharpton Doing What He Does Best

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Saying Stupid Things

Sharpton said he will organize a protest against the NRA and gun manufacturers that will kick off with a rally at the influential lobbying group’s Washington headquarters next month.

“We need to get a real movement against those who get rich off the perpetuation of killing,” said the civil rights leader.

“The only purpose of assault weapons is for war,” Sharpton continued. “You don’t hunt with assault weapons. Nobody shoots down prey with so many bullets you couldn’t eat the prey.”

Of course these days when an anti-rights activist like Sharpton says “Assault Weapon” who knows what he’s talking about. Is he talking about Assault Rifles? Yeah well select fire guns are the most heavily regulated guns in America, and there hasn’t been a recorded criminal act with one in decades. Guns described in the 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban” are such “Weapons of War” that no military that I can think of issues a gun that meets that description.

And you don’t hunt with “Assault Weapons”? That’s odd, given that they’re rapidly becoming the most-used hunting rifle in America. They’re light, handy, available in a huge variety of calibers, and accurate to ranges most people hunt at.

Still, Rev, what does the 2nd Amendment say about hunting?

Of course Rev wants to take away our guns because some nuts abuse their rights harming others…kinda like a public speaker inciting a riot that killed 7 people.

Al Sharpton’s microphone, and TV show are weapons of war, and Reverend Al is getting rich off then killing!

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App For Breaking the Law

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Heard an ad for this App on the radio:

MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey today announced a new smart phone app that provides real time travel conditions along the Interstate 93 corridor in Massachusetts.

The Real Time Travel App, “RTTM”, displays color-coded, current travel times on I-93 to and from Boston in real time. Boston-based transportation IT service company, KCUS Inc., developed the app, which follows the real-time travel message board traffic management system installed along I-93 earlier this year. The data displayed by the app is the same information displayed on the I-93 travel time message boards.

Also in the article:

As always, MassDOT reminds drivers to avoid using their smart phones while driving and check travel conditions before they drive.

From the Law:

Section 13B. (a) No operator of a motor vehicle shall use a mobile telephone, or any handheld device capable of accessing the internet, to manually compose, send or read an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle. For the purposes of this section, an operator shall not be considered to be operating a motor vehicle if the vehicle is stationary and not located in a part of the public way intended for travel.

Wicked useful app!

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“Gun Death” More Monsters

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Monsters!

A 9-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a toddler in a St. Louis suburb….Defense attorney Bill Walker said the boy’s mother and grandmother both died years ago and that the other adults in his life were detained after being charged with child endangerment. The Belleville News Democrat reports that prosecutors alleged those three adults left the toddler unsupervised with four other children.

Even unsupervised, what brings a child to murder another child? There are just some bad seeds about, and guns have nothing to do with it. Maybe this was just a fluke, but this 9 year old will be released at the latest on his 21st Birthday, after spending much of his childhood around other youthful violent criminals.

What scares you more? Meeting up with your standard CCW holder with a loaded gun in a dark alley, or bouncing into a bad seed like this with something as simple as a pocket knife or a pipe wrench?

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Huh?

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Weerd Beard

From this Article

Guns are not like alcohol and drugs, both of which we have tried unsuccessfully to prohibit. Many people have an intense desire for alcohol or drugs that is independent of what other people may do. But the need for a gun for self-defense depends on whether other people have them and how effective the protection and deterrence provided by the state are. Thus, in other Western countries in which there are fewer guns, there are correspondingly fewer instances in which people need guns for effective self-defense.

He should Fly over to the UK and talk to the families of all the victims of violent crime and murder. UK has an abysmal violent crime rate, but they don’t shoot each-other much…so they don’t need guns, right?

Also I suspect the people of Rwanda would have loved to have even a shitty Hi-Point rather than die by the stoke of a Machete.

They’re all heart!

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