The antis constantly harp on “The Cops are Well Trained”, and Gunnies look at the quals and say “That isn’t very hard”. Well Barron and Joe put there money where their mouths are.
BTW the person who was beating the LAPD drum was Joe’s troll Ubu52. Guess who has NOTHING to say about all this effort? This is why they are trolls, not “reasonable arguments from the other side”.
Its not much of a crime for Ubu, as it looks like everybody had a good time, and of course this video is invaluable for future arguments (especially with the added honesty of A) Showing the gentleman who had some difficulty with his new retention holster, and B) Pointing out that they had to make the course HARDER to adhere to the rules)
Still I think back to my days arguing with various trolls, by digging up unbiased sources and court law, only to have your work either deleted in “Comment Moderation” or simply ignored.
They have nothing, and we have EVERYTHING, can they please save us some time and run up the white flag and leave the battlefield…and maybe the country?
Russian investigators say a woman in East Siberia has strangled an elderly neighbor to death with her bra….Investigators say the woman was drunk on a July evening when she and her boyfriend called on their 65-year-old neighbor for money to buy drinks. Angry that he refused to lend them money, the woman punched him in the face and tried to strangle him with her hands, before taking off her bra and strangling him with it, they say.
WOW! I think a ban is in order!!!
Barron, Mike W., and Phyphor. Is it a wonder I received so many submissions on this one?
The embattled federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, still reeling from the botched gun-trafficking scandal that allowed 2,000 guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, is in the middle of yet another ugly dispute.
The ATF’s Reno office has been all-but shut down for nearly a year because U.S. prosecutors said they would no longer accept cases submitted by the office, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported after a months-long investigation.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee which oversees the ATF, said the dispute has forced the transfer of four full-time agents from the Reno outpost, which once housed six investigators. He said a Sept. 29, 2011, directive from Nevada federal prosecutors, informing the ATF that “we are not accepting any cases submitted by your office” has left the office adrift.
The two remaining agents have been attempting to assist state prosecutors because their federal counterparts have shut them out, Grassley said.
So we’re still paying them, but not using them? Also gotta love the misuse of the term “Botched”. I mean if you GIVE guns to known Mexican criminals, and then make ZERO attempts to track the rifles as they leave the country, did you really “Botch” tracking the rifles as they left the country?
A Seattle couple living in a lakeside mansion will now make their home behind prison bars after being sentenced to 18 months each for welfare fraud.
Chiropractor David Silverstein, 60, and Lyudmila Shimonova, 53, were given the maximum sentence during Friday’s court appearance. The pair had previously pleaded guilty to related offenses.
The couple was living in a million dollar home, complete with boat dock, as they collected $1,200 each month in housing assistance, prosecutors said.
The program has a long waiting list, KING-TV reported.
During the long-running fraud, the duo received $261,703 in improper rent subsidies, food stamps and medical benefits, the federal complaint said.
They carried out the scam by painting Shimonova as a low-income mother paying rent to landlord Silverstein.
Over 10 years, Shimonova received more than $100,000 in state and Social Security benefits while owning a $12,500 platinum and diamond ring and $17,000 diamond earrings.
The couple drove a Jaguar.
A classic example of the fallacy of the welfare state was ODB at the MTV Movie Awards.
There’s lots of local stories of drug dealers being busted and the courts discussing that they were getting paid by the system while making vast sums of money dealing illegal drugs. And of course public housing project parking lots aren’t exactly filled with lousy cars.
Nah, those cases will go untouched…these people got pinched because they got cocky.
Before I got into shooting, I LOVED bullpup rifles. Balance, more efficient use of space in the rifle, ability to make a non SBR rifle the size of an SBR.
Then I shot one, and I didn’t like it. Still this is a rebuttal to yet another Idiotic video from James “Buck” Yeager.
I still don’t think I much care for them, and I think his “solution” to mag changes is still a bit elaborate. Still there are CERTAINLY places for bullpups in this world.
Police said a Donelson man was found dead overnight in his apartment with his head partially severed, days after he was killed….The man’s brother, Charles Masters, 33, was at the apartment when police arrived and made several unsolicited statements saying he was responsible for killing his brother.
“Among the utterances that Charles Masters made was something to the affect of, that he had been laying in the apartment with his brothers body for the past several days and Charles Masters was hoping that he would wake up and everything would be ok, but that he knew that everything would not be ok,” said Don Aaron of the Metro police department.
Jordan Master’s body also had multiple lacerations apparently inflicted by a sword, which was recovered from the apartment.
Police said Charles Masters also kept some sort of log or diary which is helping investigators determine a sequence of events. It has now been collected as evidence.
A sad story, but a sword is not a gun, so this is not a “Gun Death” so….
I currently live in a rail-free house. Not by choice, just so happens that all my guns just don’t have rails. That being said my next rifle will have a railed forend, and these magpul grips are the bee’s knees to me!
I call them “Pie Wedges”, just because I think its a better name, and who doesn’t like pie?
I don’t much care for vertical foregrips, as they feel unnatural to me, and they add a good deal to the overall profile of the rifle. These grips give you a firmer hold than just grabbing the forearm of the rifle, but don’t add much to the profile of the gun. They’re neat!
I must say that I’ve been intrigued by this gun since I first heard about it. Its a neat design, and has a lot of cool features, and .22 WMR is a neat round that doesn’t cost an arm-and-a-leg, nor is it hard to come by. And all at a reasonable MSRP.
Of course Kel-Tec firearms are not “Safe” for Massachusetts sale, and under no circumstances can non-law enforcement own post 94 magazines that hold more than 10 rounds…and the PMR holds, as its name states, 30 rounds.
Still on her target she had some keyholing issues. This is when the bullet isn’t properly stabilized by the rifling, causing the round to start tumbling (as the base of the bullet has more mass than the tip…so the base will want to go first if not spinning properly) and sometimes leaving holes from the SIDE of the bullet, which look a little like a keyhole.
Turns out its an ammo issue, not the gun. Go have a read, and look at the comments. McThag notes that it doesn’t appear to be a bullet weight issue, so its probably velocity differences between the rounds.
He also notes that once this gun (and potential copycats) hit the market, I suspect ammo will be made specifically for these pistols, much like the specialty .410 ammo made for the Taurus Judge and other .410 revolvers.
I really love this angle. It really should be burned into all of our brains that the bumper-sticker slogan “Gun Control is Less About Guns, and More About Control”. These people are against freedom of any sort at its core. Also this is a good comeback from the people who get pissy when you note that Candidate X should not be supported because they are anti-gun. You see it doesn’t matter if you own guns, or want to own guns, or carry or whatever. If a candidate is against lawful citizens keeping and bearing arms, they are most likely against any other bit of individual liberty you might hold dear.
Its not just about guns, or carry, or self defense, its a litmus test for freedom.
So on to Joan Peterson. (Again, note that Joan is an open representative of the Brady Campaign, and draws a paycheck from the Joyce Foundation. Given her association, and the openness of her remarks, her views are indeed THEIR views)
She leads with this video:
Its mostly sniveling crap about campaign finance. That point is moot because the people bitching about it A) Are Partisan hacks who don’t care when THEIR guy makes a mint in a fundraiser, or has a PAC in their team, and B) Somehow think that people are so stupid that they will do whatever a TV, Radio, or Internet Ad tells them to do….which is kinda silly, given that if there was no campaign finance, then there would be NO ads, and those dumb zombie voters simply wouldn’t show up…or something.
Still I think the big reason for me imbedding the above video is something he doesn’t take much time to explore. The shooting fundraiser is putting campaign donors on a firing line with loaded guns and live ammo with elected officials. I thought guns made it “too easy” to commit murder, so wouldn’t such fundraisers (which are held all over the nation) be rife with political assassination???
Heh, moving on:
First of all, people shouldn’t be allowed to bring their guns into places that serve alcohol, period. Secondly then, why would anyone sanction that and add to the appeal? In Powder Springs, Ga, money has trumped public safety. The irony here is that if someone orders a drink at the bar/restaurant and is carrying a gun, that’s perfectly O.K. But that same person won’t be allowed to re-enter the firing range. Why is that? For the safety of the folks inside the firing range? What about the safety of the folks in the bar? Sure, a permit holder is not supposed to be drinking and carrying but bartenders don’t ask people if they have a gun tucked away before serving them a beer. Er uh, in this case, will everyone who is served a drink at this bar be carrying? That should be interesting. How about an ounce of prevention? I am betting that this Mayor knows better than this but he is under the influence of the gun culture….Really, Mayor? So drinking is part of our society. Guns are part of our society. We know the dangers of too much drinking. We know the dangers of too many guns in too many public places. Those things are unfortunate. And it’s truly unfortunate that the Mayor convinced the City Council to combine these two activities in a business venture and make some money by encouraging people to engage in risky behavior.
Ahh, Joan isn’t just a gun banner, but one of those nosy spinsters from the Women’s Temperance Union! Not only is she beating her same little drum about guns being dangerous, but also talking about the dangers of drinking.
She really has quite the tin ear, who’s she attempting to sway? Seems like this technique would work well for grade school students who have no experience with guns or alcohol. Let’s face it, most adults in America have had a drink or two (even Mitt Romney admits to have snuck a beer in his younger days, despite his Church’s stance against drugs and alcohol), and most people have busted a primer on SOMETHING in their life. Sure there are mass shootings, and there are degenerate drunks….but I think even the dumbest adult can quickly figure out that there is some other factor in those, rather than just combining the elements and bracing for disaster.
Hell Joan is almost pretending there are no places in America where somebody with a lawfully held gun can’t belly up to a bar and blow the suds off a beer, or sip a cocktail. Its really no difference from somebody driving to a bar or restaurant, enjoy a beverage, then drive home.
We have laws against drunk driving, as well as drunk operation of weapons. These laws work, but Joan wants more. Why? Because she hates freedom, and could give a shit about actual public safety!
Once Georgia passed a law allowing guns in places that serve alcohol, they had to find another way to ramp up gun sales and encourage people to carry their guns in these places. What’s next? This is the ubiquitous slippery slope. Our elected officials should be pressed to talk about the issue of gun deaths and injuries and be asked what they intend to do about an important national health and safety problem that is being largely ignored.
Who’s ignoring what, Joan? Several states have recently passed laws ending the prohibition of lawful carry in places that serve alcohol. Also lots of states never have been concerned about this issue in the first place.
Why not? Well where are the stories of drunken gun fights in the taprooms and streets? Great anti-rights misdirection! She talks about people ignoring her cause, and somehow claiming its because of the “Evil Gun Lobby”….meanwhile Joan is in fact a member of an anti-gun lobby group, and is pushing a non-issue, and fabricating evidence to “Support” it. Who’s the evil one?
Given these ideas, there is a clear choice in this election. Should we elect politicians who believe that, against all odds and all evidence to the contrary, more guns in the hands of more people in more public places make us safer? Should we elect politicians who support the idea that gun owners should form their own militia groups and own their own arsenals in case they need to fight against terrorism or tyranny?
Hmmm, is Joan not only speaking out against individual rights, but the anti-gun fabrication of a “Collective Right”? Yeah, they don’t do much to hide that….
Yep, they’re simply against freedom! She’s talking about the “dangers” of carrying guns juxtaposed with the “Dangers” of drinking beer. Anti-Freedom, not anti-gun. The politician who wants to take your gun, is the same person who wants to take the beer out of your hand, or the light bulb out of your lamp, or the car out of your driveway.
