Jason Kilgore of Cesefire Oregon has another meaningless guest post.
Hello, my name is Joseph B. Jaskolka, and I am a gun-violence survivor….As the clock struck midnight, and as normal people do in our “civilized” nation, my parents rang in the New Year by banging on pots and pans. I had no idea that people would be firing their guns into the midnight sky, but that is the often painful re-occurrence that people partake in doing….I got maybe a half-block away from my Grandmother’s home before a “Celebratory bullet” pierced my skull. Better yet, when my cousin Jeff ran back in the house to report to an adult to call 911, “Joe’s just lying on the ground, everyone must have thought I was joking”
First up, I’m saddened that this happened, Disgusted by those who fired in the air, and I’m happy that Mr. Jaskolka is doing OK now. Still he is not a “Violence Survivor”. Webster’s defines violence as: “exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse”. This wasn’t a violent act any more than the car accidents I’ve been in were violent. This was a careless act that resulted in personal injury.
Further I’m curious what the Joyce shills expect to push with this. Police attempted to find and charge the shooters, but because of the range and the random nature they didn’t find them. Still firing a gun in the air IS A CRIME! It also doesn’t matter if it hits anybody or not, tho injury charges can trump things up.
Mr. Jaskolka is being used to push an agenda that has nothing to do with him or his story. This is a classic example of anti-rights blood-dancing.
The fact that they have no issue with it show exactly what is wrong with them as people!
Found this clip yesterday. I played Tuba from middle school to college (unlike Tom, I started on the Trombone because my uncle had an old one in my Grandmother’s attic I had discovered the year prior to band sign-up, and I thought that was a good a choice as any…but I lacked the dexterity to work the slide with any grace, and my band directer both needed tuba players and needed to stop hearing me butcher trombone parts and talked me into it) Funny that despite a generation between my band career and Tom’s how close the jokes are!
Sometimes “Gun Death” does society a favor.
A man was recently killed by way of falling onto a fence and impaling himself after he touched a live wire while at work on a construction site. Disturbing, right? Well, get this: That man, Cesar Osuna, also happened to be wanted for beating a 2-year-old boy to death. Even more disturbing.
He didn’t use a gun to kill the child…and a gun didn’t kill him. No candles needed for this asshole. Of course no candles will be lit for the dead boy either, because only “Gun Deaths” count!
h/t Maddmedic
So you’re into guns for self defense. You’ve spent some time at the range, you know how to shoot. You don’t need me to tell you that long-guns can get lead on target with much more ease, and more power than a handgun can. The old saying is “You only use your pistol to fight your way to your long gun!”. I carry a handgun when I’m not expecting to use it, if I ever think I will NEED a gun, I’m bringing a long-gun.
Now here comes the big rub. We talked about rifles vs. Shotguns here, I stated I wasn’t in love with my shotgun as much as my rifles. There weren’t many arguments about that tactically, but there were some financial arguments. A good auto-loaded rifle is EXPENSIVE! You’re probably looking at between $800 and $2000 for many fairly modest auto-loading rifles like AR-15, FALs, M1A, etc. Even bone-stock Mini-14s are going for over $600 these days! A LOT of people don’t have that kind of scratch to drop on ONE gun, especially when they’ll likely be buying accessories, magazines, and ammo for them.
Meanwhile the ubiquitous pump shotgun can be found at any gun shop, and it doesn’t take much looking to find a gently used model for VERY short money. There are lots of great choices out there, but the most common guns of good quality are the Remington 870 and the Mossberg 500. They’re about equal in quality and price, and its up to the user to decide what’s best for them. I’m in the Mossberg camp because of the safety location, the slide-lock location, and the fact that the loading gate is wide open when the action is closed, but again both guns are great choices for short money, and can be had for REALLY cheap if bought used.
Of course for a defensive gun best to shy away from the long hunting barrels, and get something in the vicinity of 20″. Longer magazine tubes are nice too, but aren’t necessary. Just remember to practice reloading your shotgun, because even those 8-round extended magazines run dry QUICK!
Still I prefer rifles, so let’s look a little bit at cheap options. I’m going to stay away from bolt-action guns. They work, and can be deployed effectively, but I think it takes a LOT of skill to run a bolt quickly. Still if you want a bolt-action gun for cheap there are lots of nifty military surplus guns that might be deployed for self-defense, and there are many inexpensive hunting guns you could have shortened or modified for a handy defensive rifle….but that’s up to you.
Its worth a mention to the SKS rifle, they aren’t amazing, but they’re 7.62×39 which is cheap and effective, and they feed very quickly from stripper clips. They used to be scary cheap, but the price has gone WAYY up over the years. Still they’re worth a look to see if you can find one in your price range.
Also not my bag, but lever carbines have been the “Stealth Assault Rifle” for decades now. It doesn’t take much work to get scary fast at working the leaver, they come in a HUGE variety of calibers, and they essentially reload similar to a shotgun. Marlin seems to make the best quality-to-price guns in this range.
Another option that I don’t shy away from are pistol carbines. The coolest IMHO is the Kel-tec Sub2000
The hard part about this gun is there are LOTS of variations on it, specifically on what pistol magazines they take, and if its in .40 S&W or 9×19, and Kel-Tec is REALLY lousy about keeping the market satisfied with stock, so you may not be able to actually FIND one. Its a shame. There are also lots of discontinued carbines that might still sell for cheap.
Pistol rounds are pistol rounds, but they don’t make a lot of noise or recoil, the longer barrel and shoulder stock give it more power and accuracy, and you can have quick mag changes, often with high capacity, so there’s a lot to love.
So anybody got some other cheap go-to long guns out there?
Wallphone brings us this amazing story!
The sound of a .45- caliber pistol fired by a stranded, injured hiker in Olympic National Park alerted searchers to his location in a canyon clearing hidden by trees, park officials and the hiker said Thursday.
Tim Bailey, 32, of Mountlake Terrace said he fired his pistol intermittently from Monday until he was found Wednesday and hoisted out of the ravine by helicopter.
He started with 14 rounds.
“I have five left,” Bailey said in a telephone interview as he and his wife, Whitney, 31, drove home Thursday.
Bailey, who was reported overdue Sunday, was found at the bottom of a ravine near the North Fork of the Sol Duc River suffering from a broken ankle that he splinted with foam from his backpack and strips of fabric from his tent.
An experienced hiker, he was on a three-day hike when he tried to traverse the wall of a drainage ravine late Saturday afternoon, slipped on loose dirt, and tumbled 150 feet down the ravine, landing in a small clearing near a creek.
This reminds me of stories from the old West. You always see the Cowboys with their six guns strapped to their hips, and Hollywood of course overplays the events of gunfights in those days, but in reality the guns were there for defense from deadly critters, ending the suffering of sick and injured livestock, the potential for Indian attacks, and probably most used for signalling across long distances from before the day.
The signaling purposes is also a good reason for large capacity magazines, as you can easily have many rounds at your disposal. Also for signalling, .22 out of a pistol is loud enough to ring your ears, but not loud enough to carry much further than shouting, so center-fire is a MUST!
Glad he was found and is OK!
I missed this post because I was out of the country when he posted it. But go read this posts and watch these videos aggregated by The Jack.
The Democrat party is the anti-freedom party!
I wish I could have said it better here….Mike at ENDO really sums it up!
Colin Goddard Is Like The White 50Cent….Except he’s incredibly boring, has a dead end career, and only got shot 4 times.
That is some sharp-tongue wit right there!!!! I think I’ll be using “The White 50Cent” as often as I can!
Yep that’s what they’re doing!
The New York State Bar Association devoted the summer 2012 issue of its Government, Law and Policy Journal to an in-depth discussion of gun laws, public health, and public safety, and invited the Law Center, as well as other gun violence prevention organizations, public health experts, elected officials, and scholars, to contribute to the conversation. We are pleased to share our contribution, which analyzes the current laws on the books in New York.
Our article, entitled “Regulating Guns in New York: Existing State Laws and How They Could Be Strengthened,” focuses on six key legislative approaches to preventing gun violence that New York should adopt. For each approach, the article details New York’s existing law, or lack thereof, recommends how the law should be changed, and presents examples of relevant existing laws in other states and New York City.
Yep the Joyce-Funded LCPGV admits that New York City has some of the most stringent gun control laws, and yet is still a dangerous place. Of course their solution presented is:
-Gun Ownership Permits
-State Harrassment of FFLs
-Microstamping
-One-Gun-A-Month
-“Safe Storage” Laws
With the exception of Microstamping that is both proven not to work even when used ad advertised (Not to mention degraded by legal use of the firearm) but can be easily removed from any firearm in a few moments with simple household tools, all of these actions have been tried before. As a matter-of-fact ALL of them with the exception of One-gun-month, are currently active in Massachuetts. One of them that is currently law here, “Safe Storage”, was ruled unconstitutional by Heller v. DC and McDondald v. City of Chicago. Virginia recently scrapped their one-gun-a-month law.
Why? Well because all of these initiatives have been proven not to work. Just like how New York City’s unique set of laws haven’t worked.
Good Job Joyce shills, the first step to recovery is to admit you made a huge mistake. I won’t hold my breath when it comes to demanding we repeal these laws that don’t work. I mean they don’t work, but why chance individual liberty?
Anti-freedom, not Anti-Gun!
We First Saw it Here. I talked about it here. Well looks like he exceeded his expectations BIG TIME! The Bug-A-Salt Site is now saying orders have been shipped, and new units are currently back ordered for mid-October. He’s posted a follow-up video here:
So now that they’re shipped, I gotta ask: Did anybody order one? Did you get it, or know when you’re going to get it? If you have one in-hand how’s the quality and performance?
I still want one (tho now New England Bug Season is fleeting…maybe I’ll have to wait until spring because otherwise I’ll just be making a mess), so why not see what you Beta testers found before I and others commit my money?
