Archive for 2011

May 17, 2011

Fun way to turn money into noise

Video: The SlideFire AR-15 Stock

Smith and Wesson M&P9 Review

A good review and pics by Richard. I’ve partaken of that Kool-Aid myself and, have to admit, I really like it. I still carry my Glock 30 mostly but, once I get a few hundred more rounds down range with the M&P, I may carry it more. I know the Glock goes bang every time and, so far, my M&P has too. But I’ve only put 200 rounds through it. I’ll probably try to run it in the handgun course at the Lucky Gunner event.

Note to self, get to the range more.

Building a replica SKS carbine

A guest post at The Firearm Blog.

Things I’m a fan of

Pocket guns with lasers. Though I’ll pass on pocket carrying a P238.

Philly OC event makes the news rounds

And what a little effective protesting can do.

Layers of editorial oversight

The no-questions-asked program yielded more than 200 nonworking guns, 170 rifles, 219 handguns and even a 12-gauge “street sweeper” assault rifle.

How to win a bowling pin patch

Heh.

Gun Porn

50 cal

Kahrs

Pics from the Panola NRA Regional.

Tactical Blunderbuss

KSG Bullpup Shotty

May 16, 2011

Quote of the day

Perry de Havilland:

So is it hard to believe that someone whose entire world view is based on using force to take what is private without prior consent might have used force to take what they wanted from a woman?

Not at all.

We can’t tell you that, it might upset you

That’s one of the reasons the FBI doesn’t want to comply with information requests.

Open Season

Police Chief Tim Dolan uses all the hysterical rhetoric on the castle doctrine bill. The usual shoot first, guns don’t make you safer, quoting a long debunked study, and that you citizens just aren’t trained well enough. This laws keep passing despite the screeching and hysterics. Yet, an amazing thing happens. Nothing.

SEALs seem annoyed

At all the discussion of them and their tactics, since they like that stuff kept secret.

A contest

Brownells wants to see your 1911.

A few reasons

Why would anyone need a gun in a restaurant?

ATF Shotgun Study

The ‘study’s’ list of responses is full of spam and other oddities.

Publishing the names, email addresses and phone numbers of those who responded.

Pistol to carbine conversions

The cool factor

In Illinois

First, SAF challenges their carry ban. And now, NRA is moving with a suit too:

The National Rifle Association is funding and supporting a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Illinois’ complete and total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home. The case, filed today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, is Shepard v. Madigan.

Barnes v. Indiana

More on the case of resisting unlawful entry from Kevin.

AR-15 and black powder

Someone tried it.

Suppressed Revolver

1895 Nagant

Cooking with nerds

The R2D2 smoker

How to deal with TSA

By stingray:

And as soon as you fucking little thieving perverts decide whether or not something shiny in my wife’s carry-on is banned all of a sudden or not, I’ll be on my way. Now either get a real cop and charge me with something or go fuck yourself you petty little shit.

Congrats

To Kevin, whose blog is now middle aged.

Gun Porn

Guns of Modern Warfare 3

Beretta and Stoeger

Mark 3

Every day carry kit

New gun owner

May 13, 2011

Sharia don’t like it

AP has a bit on the porn found at the Bin Laden compound.

SAF on the move

In Illinois, Moore v. Madigan:

Illinois’s ban on carrying handguns violates the U.S. Constitution, the Second Amendment Foundation Inc., an advocacy group, said in a federal court lawsuit.

“Illinois is currently the only state in the country that imposes a complete prohibition on the carrying of firearms for personal protection by its citizens,” foundation Vice President Alan Gottlieb said today in a press statement announcing yesterday’s filing in Springfield, the state capital.

Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, the Bellevue, Washington-based group seeks a court order declaring two challenged state statutes invalid to the extent they prohibit people who are otherwise qualified from carrying handguns for self defense.

That’s a law?

Headline says out of town gold buyer charged with not following. You have to go to the fifth paragraph to see what the charges are:

He is accused of leaving town without keeping the items he purchased in Oak Ridge in a safe on the hotel premises for 30 days as required by state law.

Dennis is also charged with not submitting to police a detailed list of gold and other items he bought on his last day in Oak Ridge.

Those are some pretty stupid laws. But, hey, someone stepped up to defend them:

Officials said the laws governing gold purchases are an effort to help law-enforcement investigations in instances where gold and other precious items have been stolen.

Which officials? We need to know who the dumb ones are.

Your castle

Court says the cops can come into your house even if it’s unlawful:

Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.

“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.

This is patently wrong and an affront to liberty. I would defend my home from unlawful entry not matter what the court says.

Via Alan, who says it’s time for tar and feathers.

Update: More from Orin Kerr

Sig 1911 in 22LR

From John over at The Gun Shots.

Popularity contest

There’s a gun blog popularity contest. I’m not shilling for votes because these things don’t matter much to me. But, really, I’m not nominated in the news category? But relegated to politics and entertainment?

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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