Lyle looks at a 5.56 wound. If you click his link, it’s pretty gory. You’ve been warned.

Thompson girl

Vaquero

Scorpion. And I’m digging Oleg’s new model.

Instructor pistol

Apparently, I’m a genius or a thumbsucker living in his mom’s basement judging from email. YMMV. Regardless, that was the first time I’ve had fun writing a post in a while what with all the doom and gloom and calling people out and stuff I usually do. I should do that more.

Oh and the comments are great. Thanks!

Or Uncle does a flame-bait post just before stepping away from the internets.

Look, I like you people. I really do. But you say some really dumb things some times. Or at least things you’ve not thought through. I do it too. There are only about two handfuls of people whose opinions on guns I take seriously. Odds are, you’re not one of them. Too many years reading arfcom, I guess. This is not a complete list.

See, you tell me things like In a gun fight, having a laser or light on your gun is going to give away your position. I’m not a tacticool operator covertly operating in operations in some place ending in -stan. So if I’m in a gun fight, I’m not worried about giving away my position because I’m in a fucking gun fight. On the off chance I’m in a gun fight, my enemies will know my position since it will be the place the bullets are coming from.

Guns break. Guns malfunction. It’s how it is. I have had malfunctions out of every gun I own except one. And that is the M&P9. It’s only not malfunctioned because I haven’t shot it enough. I will note that after many thousands of rounds, I can no longer say my Glock 30 hasn’t had any malfunctions. Had it’s first in August when it struck a primer too light. It was when I had a visitor.

And stop about magazine springs and keeping them loaded. Compression cycles do more to damage springs than keeping them compressed. I’ve never had a magazine that I’ve stored loaded go Tango Uniform because the spring wore out. I view magazines as perishable/disposable items anyway. And springs are cheap. If it makes you feel better, buy springs in bulk and change them every couple years.

I know pocket carry sucks. But it’s how you carry a gun when you can’t carry a gun.

Unless you’re willing to shoot yourself to prove the point, please stop telling me the 9mm/.380/5.56/40/SacredCow sucks. I don’t want to get shot with any of them. And you don’t either. We carry handguns because they’re easier to lug around than something effective at stopping people, like rifles or pet rhinos.

Guns are personal things. And I’m happy you like your 1911/Glock/Sig/S&W. But that doesn’t mean my 1911/Glock/Sig/S&W sucks. If you want to say one is better, great. But realize it’s likely preference that decides what you carry anyway.

Despite the last paragraph, some guns do actually suck. And despite what you read in a magazine that gets ad revenue, not every gun is the greatest thing ever.

Yeah, I know a silencer doesn’t completely silence a gun. But the guy who invented the things called them silencers. He gets dibs. And you don’t.

No matter how awesome you tell me gun classes with “Big Boy” rules are, I’ll never set foot in one. I like to start and end days with the same number of holes in me as I started with.

No, I don’t really think there’s going to come a time when we have to go into the woods with our guns and gear and MREs and fight zombies. But anyone who didn’t learn a thing or two from Katrina won’t be ready when a flood hits. This whole zombie apocalypse, face-eating monkeys, robot Joe Biden army nonsense is a euphemism for general preparedness. And if you’re ready for the zombie apocalypse, a hurricane is just a storm.

And I don’t mean you, I mean the other guy.

Happy Friday.

Update: Oh and, thank you, I know my proofreading sucks. Because I don’t do any.

Deal alert:

Maxpedition Jumbo Versipak $69

Fat boy for $59.

Society elevates certain people to an almost god-like status because they’re pretty, can recite lines, align politically with some group, or are good at moving some sort of object from one side of a field to the other. The trouble with institutions that are deified is that they are treated differently. And when we find out our demi-gods are human or, in the PennState case, they are sub-human, die-hards are not equipped to deal with that. People like their hand-egg so much that they took to the streets and rioted to save the job of a man who didn’t follow up when one of his employees was accused of raping a boy.

I like and watch college football. But it’s just a game, people.

Oh and if you are ever asked Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?, you answer No.

We all have to do that. Some smart cracker reviews three bags: day to day, bugging out and bugging in.

NRA pushing a couple of bills. One would prohibit the Justice Department from banning import of supposedly ‘non-sporting’ shotguns. You may recall that being an issue recently.

The police show up with a tank.

I wasn’t paying attention to the Republican presidential race. I mean really, who was? Have you seen these bozos? The race has boiled down Mitt Romney v. whoever is not Mitt Romney this week. But I was surprised that in the latest poll Newt Gingrich came out on top.

If you are making a right hand turn, it makes sense to swing a bit left to ensure proper clearance if you’re driving a tractor trailer. A Honda Civic, not so much.

New NFA laws went into effect. Seems a local sheriff and the AG think that acquiring NFA items via a trust is illegal. But they won’t prosecute. Interesting. Most states ban NFA items and say that having them registered through the NFA process is a defense.

Ten years of sucking. No doubt will celebrate not stopping a single terrorists attack.

Update: 25,000 security breaches.

And second get a new dog. Lady thwarts home invasion with CCTV camera:

Permanent base in Australia?

And get a decent holster.

Joe Biden’s meeting on transparency done behind closed doors.

CNC to make an AR-15 lower

Tam and Joe recall gun control silliness from gun control’s short lived golden age.

Someone walked right by a college’s no gun sign and robbed someone.

A leisurely bike ride with your machine gun.

M&P 45. M&P keeps showing up on gun blogs.

Another 300BLK gun, this one from Sig.

Early Christmas

Matech rear

Not gonna happen

Sebastian:

During the floor speeches, a few legislators so mentioned that something like 15 states participated in a “Joint Concealed Carry Database.” This is the first I had ever heard of this.

I’m gonna guess that, even if there’s not an official one, that one could be cobbled together from the various databases that newspapers have put on line when they want to be edgy and generate controversy.

And writes a rant about it.

The NRA is 140 today.

Once every few months or so, I get an email from some person who did something stupid, I saw it on the internet, linked to it, and used their name in my post. The email then goes on to tell me that they’re having trouble finding work, getting a date, or whatever because people google up their name and see the stupid thing they did. Typically, if someone asks nicely and their act of stupid wasn’t criminal, I’ll go to the post and delete the name. Not a big deal to me. However, when you email me saying that I have some deadline by which I must take it down or you will sue me, I’ll tell you to fuck right off. And I’ll tell you that you have a stupid lawyer. And if you keep it up, I’ll publish the post again.

Take a Sig P226 and engrave an anchor on it.

For the record, yeah it’s more than that. But that anchor is what people seem to want.

Tam brings a reminder:

If you had showed up in that gun store of 1995 and told everybody that you were a time traveler from a 2011 where the AWB had sunset, ‘Vermont-style’ carry was now ‘Vermont/Alaska/Arizona/Wyoming-style’, and that the House of Representatives had just passed, by a hefty margin, a national CCW reciprocity bill, and there was a shooting-based game show on prime-time national TV, the people in the gun shop would have laughed in your face and told you to stop telling tall tales. And not about the ‘time travel’ part, either

How progressive.

Today’s news of most lasting significance:

Once a year, the J.P. Van Winkle and Son company releases the precious allotment of their heavenly elixirs to retailers and restaurants, and liquor sales reps’ phones begin to go crazy with people clamoring to get their hands on a bottle.

It’s good stuff, if you can find it.