So if I’m reading this right, the right one is safe, the left one is full auto, and straight up is …
Oh, hell, let’s just not go there.
It looks better on you than Weerd, we’ll just leave it at that.
LOL! Well pop over here to judge for yourself, but I think we can all say that Breda is prettier than I by a long shot!
BTW even if the right one is safe, treat all nipples as if they were loaded! 😉
Remember this story? Or This One? This one sounds very similar.
MINNEAPOLIS – Four people were stabbed and one killed early Tuesday morning in a fight at a home in northeast Minneapolis. Police said a woman with stab wounds walked into the 2nd Precinct station around 2:15 a.m. and said there was another victim inside the home at 1016 Lowry Ave. NE.
En route to the Lowry Avenue home, officers found two men with stab wounds. Once officers arrived on Lowry they found another man dead from an apparent stabbing.
But I’ll note that unlike New York City, and the UK, Minnesota is not a victim disarmament zone, and all it would have taken was ONE armed victim, or an armed bystander to stop this. You never know when things like this are going to happen, so carry your damn guns, people!
And remember “Gun Death” is bullshit, even a creep with a knife can kill you just as dead as a thug with a .44 Magnum.
h/t Maddmedic
So the Ruger SR1911 is the new kid on the block for 1911s. Two things I REALLY like about this gun. #1. They did it 100% right by my tastes. If I had this gun I’d take it out of the box and shoot it. PERIOD! Compare that to my 5′ Stainless S&W1911 I had to dump the full-length guide rod because it does nothing good to the gun, but does make it a pain in the ass to strip, or to clear problematic malfunctions. The only thing else would be the grips which is just for personal taste. I’m more functional than looks, so I wouldn’t bother unless something really peachy showed up.
But yeah, grips, sights, controls, all are how I like them. I kinda like forward slide serrations when doing a press-check, but that’s nothing necessary, you can press-back from under and forward on the smooth steel without much issue, and of course you can always draw back the slide from the rear as JMB intended.
#2. PRICE! That Ruger retails for about what I paid for my S&W USED!
I got a chance to handle one at the NRA convention, and they feel like really solid 1911s. Of course the M1911 pattern gun was designed to be hand-fitted, and made from forged and machined steel. The SR1911 is a cast gun, made 100% here in the United States.
So the question is “Is it any good?” and frankly how can we figure it out? The #1 test is high round counts. Seems these days any potmetal gun maker can make a gun that will run like a top for 300-500 rounds before its cut corners begin to digest it.
Who do we know who shoots the bejesus out of guns?
Note the part where he bought the gun from Ruger. That’s a damn glowing review.
I’d say if you’re looking for a good 1911 that’s set up in what should be called “Modern Stock”, as “Semi-custom” doesn’t seem to say much when EVERYBODY has 3-dot sights, a light trigger, and a swept beavertail with “Speed bump”, but again the sticker price of a Colt, or a Springfield loaded, or a S&W1911 just makes you weak in the knees, have a peek at this gun.
OK we all know that the whole “Collective Right” argument about the 2nd Amendment is bullshit. First just the THEORY of a “Collective Right” makes about as much sense as an MC Escher painting. Of course if you want an expert legal analysis you can read one here, don’t go looking at the biologist for that stuff.
Still the gut-wrenching stories from this post bring to mind the cries of the antis during the height of that “Collective Right” period.
“Well if you want to have guns, join the army!”
That’s the core of the “Collective Rights” argument. “A Well Regulated Militia…” means to them “A Heavily Restricted Army”.
But of course if the members of the US Armed Forces are the only ones with a 2nd Amendment right, then why is it they spend so little time actually keeping and bearing arms?
Yeah.
Gotta drop a warning on this one, its BAD!
A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say.
The boy, Johnathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy’s dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.
Brutal! Dehydration is a HORRIBLE and very painful way to die, and over wetting the bed? Bed wetting isn’t even a conscious act. If anybody can remember that childhood horror, and the shame and embarrassment, there is nobody who will say that bed wetting is intentional.
The murder of this child WAS intentional, and the fact that no gun was used doesn’t make it any less brutal. I’ll dare to say that these monsters would be hard pressed to top their brutality with a gun.
Remember that next time somebody uses the metric of “Gun Death”.
h/t Jake
So you might have seen this shirt here, that’s the Endo Apparel line of shirts from Everyday No Days Off
I got one too!
I also picked the fire selector shirt, because A) It was Cool, and B) We don’t see much of the California Flag on the East coast.
I dig the design as any gunnie will recognize the image, but most antis will probably be totally baffled.
The Shirt is lightweight, and as others have said VERY soft. Also its a nice fit. Mine is an XL and it fits perfectly and runs a little long in the waist which is better than a little short. Sofar I love it!
Also, it has a neat little tag on the hemline:
Cool stuff!
Wow this comment from TinCan Assassin really struck me to my core:
And it was AFTER deployment, AFTER all this {The Ft. Hood Shooting} had happened, KNOWING what can happen to unarmed soldiers that my 1SG decided that my carrying made me more like MAJ Hasan than someone who wanted to defend against him. THAT still burns, too.
Just AMAZING that after a crazed Terrorist massacred well-trained soldiers, and succeeded ONLY because they were disarmed, and after spending time in a War Zone, such hoplophobia can still exist?
those who have not swords can still die upon them.
-JRR Tolkien “Lord of the Rings”
How does disarming good people do any good? Also how does a gun suddenly turn somebody from harmless to a danger with the introduction of a gun? Especially when said person is physically fit enough to be on active duty.
These foolish rules and mindsets should be changed!
And for those of you not so restricted, carry your damn guns!
TinCan Assassin has a post up about his anger that the slain National Guardsmen at the Carson City iHop were unarmed, and it appears were targeted by this nut.
I can’t even list all the stupid stories I’ve heard of our men and women in uniform while on base or stateside were disarmed or issued weaponry that was absolutely silly. I know Kurt Hoffman once told me about a guard duty he was posted on where he wasn’t even issued a full magazine. This is stupidity on the lines of Barny Fife, and the single .38 special round he was allowed to carry, and never in the gun, only in his shirt pocket, lest he hurt himself.
REALLY? What are we saying? Are our armed forces as incompetent as Barny? If so why issue them weapons in-country? Seriously! A close friend of mine did a tour in Iraq and he sent me a home video of him talking to people on base, and shopping in the local Bazaars…all with an M16 strapped to his back or chest. I assume the gun was loaded, I suspect he would have told me. But those kids selling him bootleg CDs and knock-off rolex watches don’t deserve to die…why let an armed imbecile near them? (Of course this guy went to school with me from K-12, and then 4 years of College…no shit! And I think in every one of those 16 years he kicked my ass in grades…and I’m trusted to carry a cocked-and-locked 1911, and I haven’t shot anybody)
Also the world is NOT Mayberry! To quote TinCan Assassin:
But I’m just being fucking paranoid. According to Fox News: “This happens in third-world countries, not here,” Swagler said. Bullshit. It happens here often enough for me to want to do something about it if it happens in my general vicinity.
He’s right. The Fort Hood shooting got HUGE media coverage, tho I’m horribly unsatisfied at the lack of outrage that the insane Islamic Doctor was shooting UNARMED SOLDIERS! Yeah everybody he shot was trained and qualified in at LEAST the M16 rifle, if not other weapons, and they were sitting ducks for one idiot with an underpowered pistol.
What got almost NO play was the Little Rock Recruiting Office where another violent Muslim targeted US Service members for murder. Again they were unarmed and unable to fight back.
How sick is this? Its not like US Armed forces are bombs or bio-weapons. We train them not only how to shoot, when to shoot, and how to make their shots count, but when NOT to shoot. If they can be trusted to kill enemy forces overseas, while not butchering civilians indiscriminately, then we can trust them to be armed while home or on base…at the VERY least with the M9 pistol.
This also brought up my thinking of my teen years when my school engaged in the DARE program (I won’t argue the validity or value of this program at the time, maybe we’ll save it for another day). From skimming the linked wiki article it appears that all the classes are taught by local Law Enforcement, and our class was no different. What ties this together was our officer taught the class in her town police uniform, but she drove to-and-from the class in her private car, and she would put on a DARE varsity-style jacket when she left the class. She told us once that she wore the jacket because while she was DRESSED as a cop, she wasn’t allowed to wear her body armor, or her sidearm while teaching the class. She had the outward appearance of a cop but none of the protections. She was concerned that somebody who may be targeting a cop might do just that, and she wouldn’t be able to defend herself.
Dunno how valid that was in our quiet home town, but you obviously never know, and such behavior DOES exist. Certainly I took this class in the days when everybody was talking about Ice-T’s song “Cop Killer”, so true or not, it was in the air those days).
Needless to say the rationale of a cop wearing a badge and a uniform wouldn’t also have their gun and handcuffs et al, just because they were teaching a class. Certainly she was one-and-the-same cops we used to waive to as they drove by in the cruisers as we played in the park or were out riding our bikes, and we were all thrilled when they’d waive back.
Obviously the gun isn’t the entirety of either military service or Law Enforcement. Most cops never fire their weapons outside of their qualification exam, and maybe if they are allowed, in private practice. I know many US Military members who never discharged a weapon, even while serving in a military campaign.
The gun is but one of their tools and skills, but just like many skills, when you need that one skill, you’re glad to have it. These instances these service members NEEDED their weapons training as they were being engaged by hostile forces, but through pure foolishness they were disarmed.
That should make us all FURIOUS.
So a power line went down and there was an electrical fire up the street. No idea what caused it as there is only light rain and no wind.
Our lab is dark. We got stuff that needs power on generator (mostly, the hurricane showed us some flaws in our emergency system) but most of the lab equipment is out.
Sure those old science pioneers made do without alternating current, but us in the 21st century are SOL. Hopefully the lights come on soon, I got shit to do!
Just all the Daft Punk talk around here I thought I’d post this. Love the song, and I’m very impressed with the innovation of the guy in the video:
I have a few versions of this song, but this is my favorite thanks the to Vocoder solo. Gots me a raging hardon for Vocoder and other similar voice distortion!
Enjoy!
