From reading around, it seems that if you want steel targets to handle an AR-15, you should get AR500 steel that is 3/8″ thick. Here’s a silhouette I found. And here’s a gong.

So, the questions is, using regular (i.e., not frangible) ammo, what are safe distances one should be from the target to avoid ricochets and putting holes in things you’d rather not have holes in for the following calibers:

22LR
9mm
45ACP
5.56
300BLK

Anyone have guidance? Thanks.

CNN actually has a piece about the bullshit stat that Shannon Watts is peddling about how 74 school shootings have occurred since Newtown in which they correct the Mayors of Everytown:

CNN determined that 15 of the incidents Everytown included were situations similar to the violence in Oregon — a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school. That works out to about one shooting every five weeks.

I’m surprised since CNN usually just parrots whatever gun control groups tell them. Actually, they did parrot them but then went and checked this time. Baby steps.

Or, in other news, what I read when feedly goes tango uniform.

The open carry guy from Texas tells people they shouldn’t get a Sig SB-15 brace because it might draw attention to bad gun laws.

Tam:

Would .357SIG really be that much faster than the hot nine? Or was it just 9mm +P++, like some people (including me) kept insisting?

We must ban facebook:

We’ve noted before that most murder victims in the United States are often demographically-related to their murderers, but did you know that they would also appear to be even more closely linked on their social networks?

Facebook leads to gun violence.

I’m all out. My internets are broken.

Yesterday, I got wind that my excellent RSS reader Feedly was under a DOS attack. And, today, I can’t access feedly again. And, sure enough, feedly is under attack again. So, all my gun porn is stored there.

Season 2 finale of Lilyhammer scene with the theme song from Sopranos.

NRA’s Dom and Jerry are cool with it. I hope this isn’t some sort of policy statement from NRA because this militarization of the cops is dangerous.

School resource officers confronted the shooter in less than a minute and prevented more carnage.

Add it to the list.

A list. Don’t see 9/11 or OKC bombing there.

If a teenager shoots another, it’s not news. Unless it’s at school. And when a teenager shoots another and both are black and in Chicago, still not news. Chicago having a mass shooting over the weekend is also not news because there were multiple shooters.

Someone tell him we already have those. There’s a government agency and everything.

Cuomo’s SAFE Act Has Led to Crime Rise

Too bad they didn’t kill both of the invaders.

Over their arbitrary requirement that handguns have load indicators. The law doesn’t define them and MA has turned down Glocks that have them.

Yeah, that number is bullshit. And more details on the bullshit.

Glenn:

WELL, TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: Hillary Can’t Name Top Accomplishment As Secretary of State.

Well, I’ve said before she has no legacy other than showing up.

HK SBR

DPMS AR15 pistol with SB15 brace

Fred Lucas:

The president’s goal is to look for opportunities to act administratively, unilaterally using his executive authority to try to make our communities safer

For the lulz and the umbrella:

AP says, in a stunning upset, the establishment guy lost to a tea party challenger. Cantor is A rated by NRA. Looks like Cantor probably lost due to push back on his support for the immigration bill.

Cantor’s internal polling had him at a 34 point lead.

Let’s see what establishment Washington does.

The Corner:

Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said, well, that’s it, we’re not doing, we’re not seeing that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven’t had a mass shooting since.

Our levels of gun violence are off the charts. There’s no advanced, developed country that would put up with this.

Yup, he just praised a forced disarmament of civilians.

keepin’ up with the Bob Joneses.

Let me try: a couple of socialists go nuts and we must tread on insurrectionists?

See, that’s easy.

The SAFE act was supposed to make it safe:

Since January, there has been an overall 13.2 percent increase in shooting victims, while 10.2 percent fewer guns have been recovered compared to 2013 …”

Rand Paul: People are Calling for a “Libertarian Moment”

IRS violated federal law.

More women in TN getting permits. And I helped.

Given, never earned

More like this please:

I’m done with no-knock warrants.

If there’s not a hostage involved, we do it by the numbers, serving a felony warrant. We knock on the door, LOUDLY, and announce, LOUDLY AND CLEARLY, that we are the police. We explain that they have an extremely short time to open the door, or we will open it for them. We make clear that we are the police, serving a lawful order.

Thank you, Matt!

Rock Island’s Holy Grail of Colts

Opening fireball, again.

Gun deductions