Tam:
Personally, I think the MHS contest could have been as satisfactorily resolved by throwing a P320, an M&P, and a Glock 17 into a sack, spinning it around a few times, and reaching in and pulling one out. They all work fine, and if there’s a less crucial weapon in modern warfare than the pistol, it probably attaches to bayonet lugs.
Yup.
A piece by Glenn Reynolds over at USA Today: There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government.
This is the Kind of Person “Reasonable Regulation” Would Disarm. The guy had a felony conviction but a judge vacated the judgement.
Apparently, an AI created at Carnegie Mellon with the help of some poker professionals is beating poker players in a tournament. According to wikipedia, the AI only plays heads up poker so it’s not quite as impressive to me.
And you’re not too bright. It appears someone thought the stand your ground law change to mean it was okey dokey to shoot people who are fleeing:
Henson told police “the only reason I thought it was OK to shoot at him while he was running away was because of what happened with the new year on the law change.”
I wonder where he’d have gotten that idea? Oh, yeah.
The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today scored a victory when Congress agreed to review, and likely revoke, a final rule by the Obama administration that would blindly strip law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
Congress’s decision to review the Obama administration’s back-door gun grab is a significant step forward in protecting a fundamental constitutional right for law-abiding gun owners, said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA. “The NRA has been fighting this unconstitutional government overreach since it was first discussed and we look forward to swift congressional action.”
Last year, the Social Security Administration finalized a proposed rule to ban certain recipients who use a representative payee from owning firearms. This ill-conceived action affected the most vulnerable in America and stripped them of their right to keep and bear arms without due process.
In two threads at AR15.com (here and here), a commenter says the ATF ruled that his 80% lower receiver with a sear pin engraving is a machine gun. And it must be turned in for destruction.
The gun was cosmetically altered to look like a full auto but the hole for the pin can’t be used. I guess they can ban any receiver that has “auto” engraved on it too?
ETA: I suppose the logic in such a ban is that the hole is there and can be drilled making it readily convertible. I don’t know that is the case. But we’ll see.
I’m not a lawyer. But in a case at the fourth circuit, it was ruled that the police can search anyone with a gun, lawful or otherwise:
In sum, individuals who carry firearms lawfully or unlawfully pose a risk of danger to themselves, law enforcement officers, and the public at large. Accordingly, law enforcement officers may frisk lawfully stopped individuals whom the officers reasonably suspect are carrying a firearm because a detainees possession of a firearm poses a categorical danger to the officers.
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I see no basis nor does the majority opinion provide any for limiting our conclusion that individuals who choose to carry firearms are categorically dangerous to the Terry frisk inquiry. Accordingly, the majority decision today necessarily leads to the conclusion that individuals who elect to carry firearms forego other constitutional rights, like the Fourth Amendment right to have law enforcement officers knock-and-announce before forcibly entering homes. . . . Likewise, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that individuals who choose to carry firearms necessarily face greater restriction on their concurrent exercise of other constitutional rights, like those protected by the First Amendment.
So, if the police are coming to your house to investigate something and find that you have a gun permit, they can bust in your door, toss in some flashbangs, and get their ninja on. This is dangerous.
The US Army will be getting their Sig P320s for the price of $207 per gun.
Michael Bane shares his thoughts on the Sig P320.
The NRA is going after the MA assault weapons ban, which you may remember was completely altered with no input from the legislature by the state attorney general.
Heard on the news today that Trump was planning on repealing hella federal regulations. Particularly arbitrary environmental laws that were described as “no one knew about”. I don’t have a problem with this.
We’re in American’s second civil war? I don’t think so. Maybe a civil cold war.
Of course, one side turning the term “white” into a pejorative is how we got Trump.
C-More Sights M26 Shotgun. Yo, dawg, I heard you liked tax stamps. So we put a tax stamp on your tax stamp.
I caught bits and pieces throughout the day of the White House press conference. And I can say this with certainty: In Sean Spicer, the press got exactly the press secretary it deserves.
They’re doing their jobs again.
It’s the running gag on the internet that gun discussions usually start or end saying something like that. Some folks got their dander up when I said avoid XDs. I went googling for PDBs blog post on why the XD was not a very good pistol to discover his site is completely gone. But I found a version of parts of it over at Bearing Arms. There are legitimate concerns about the XD. It’s wasn’t meant to be flippant or casual. That was written in 2012. Maybe they’ve changed.
Herschel, who may actually be holding it wrong*, says he’d rather have an XD or a 1911. The 1911 is right out due to capacity. He says he can hit an XD with a hammer and it will work fine. It’s a good thing. Because he might have to.
NJT doesn’t appreciate me bashing his gun. Or his car.
* I kid. But he’s got better eyes than I do if he can tell from a picture the difference in bore axis on a Sig compared to the XD.
He found a bullet and hit it with a hammer. To protect his kids. It would have been safer to toss it in trash.
It’s that time again for some one to try to pass it. And it will, again, go down due to Doug Overbey.
But the name, I’m indifferent on. OSHA, for instance, regulates the exposure of employees to certain decibel levels for certain amounts of time. And we muffle cars. Industrial machinery is some times muffled. Protecting hearing is important and I don’t mind emphasizing that.
Or police ignorance. Some rapper I’ve never heard of had his house raided by the police. And they found something:
Rapper Soulja Boy was charged on Monday with possessing an assault weapon and receiving stolen property following a December raid at his Hollywood home by police, Los Angeles prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors say Way was arrested at his home on Dec. 15 after police found him in possession of a Mini Draco AR-15 assault weapon and a Glock handgun.
The mini Draco is an AK.
Yesterday, we knew it was a Sig. I speculated it would be a P320. Turns out, it is a 320, with a manual safety. An unnecessary but not horrible addition. Over at TFB, a bit on how they should have picked the Glock. I can’t disagree.
Of course, I also don’t disagree with picking the Sig. Or if they’d have picked the M&P. So long as they went with a striker-fired, polymer-framed gun that holds a lot of bullets. And isn’t an XD or Taurus.
This will, and fairly quickly, bring the Sig to the forefront of the plastic gun market for civilians, I would think. So, it’s good for them.
More proof he’s ultimately an enemy of freedom:
A ban on lead ammunition on federal land. I’m sure that includes Army bases, right?
And a ban on 3 way light bulbs. Is there anything this administration won’t shit up?
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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