Things like this will continue to happen as long as you willingly give your content to someone else for free: YouTube Gun Channels In Danger Of Disappearing Forever

The Captain on the economic reality of such things: You Will No Longer Be Able to Make a Living Off of YouTube or Amazon Affiliate

Blogging went the same way. Up until about 2012 or so, this blog made a decent chunk of money. I mean, not like I could live off of it with a family or anything. But enough to support my shooting and technology habits while making a profit. Social media became a thing and website reading, in general, went the way of clickbait and listicles to draw eyeballs from social media. And that was that. Blogging declined, except for those who adapted to the new way or those who already had a very large audience. I’m guessing the number of new blog readers is barely a blip these days. The difference between the social media folks and bloggers is the latter owned their content and delivery system. The social media types don’t own and are dependent on the delivery system someone else owns. And it’s their house and their rules.

Life in the future.

Texans love their firearms, more than any other state

Robert from Blackfork has returned. I’ve always enjoyed his photographs. Welcome back.

Handgun Roundup: the Full-Size Beretta 92s

The ATF had a little love fest for Jeff Sessions saying it was going to do whatever it could to help reduce crime. Aren’t you guys supposed to be, essentially, tax collectors, inspectors and paper pushers*? But in the day where everyone gets a SWAT team, I suppose they feel the need to branch out:

Brandon’s prepared remarks said ATF urged the prosecution of thousands of people last year, and is prepared to do more this year.

“We focus our resources on the worst of the worst violent offenders,” he said. “In fiscal year 2016, ATF recommended more than 14,000 individual subjects for prosecution; on average, those subjects had 8.5 prior arrests and 2.2 prior convictions.”

“Many of ATF’s prosecution referrals involve gangs and other violent criminal organizations, and we work closely with our State, local and Federal partners to disrupt and dismantle these organizations,” he added.

Interesting to me is the use of the words “recommended”, “urged”, and “referrals”. So, are you guys not actually arresting and prosecuting people?

* Given the backlog for NFA transfers, you should probably focus more resources and attention on the paper pushers.

Get off my team

Suarez International is offering a course on, and I am not making this up, KILLING WITHIN THE LAW. What in the actual fuck? No pretense of self defense just right to giving wannabe operators turgid little nubbins.

Do the lessons include how to drag the body inside the house and planting weapons on dead bodies?

Heh:

Dialogue is meh. But the gun fights are hysterical and true to the actual movie.

Tennessee senate panel kills another pro-gun bill.

Mentioned before how The Slingshot Channel had a video taken down because the DailyMail misrepresented the video but they used a lot of scary appeals to emotion. Well, JoergSprave was victorious:

He also has a hilarious bit on the DailyMail’s reporting here.

Thanks to the folks who commented on this!

TN Representative Mike Stewart, D-Ranged, doesn’t like lawful commerce. So, he decided to set up a stand to sell lemonade, cookies, and an AK47 to show how easy it is to sell guns. As to his bill, I’m no sure what it does since the reporting on it is lacking:

Rep. Stewart is presenting bill HB1319, which is designed to restrict the sale or transfer to a federally licensed gun dealer, before a subcommittee vote Wednesday morning.

I’d have walked up and bought it.

We don’t make sense but we sure like pizza

ATF’s Associate Deputy Director wrote a white paper on removing suppressors from the NFA and other pro-gun reforms. He appeared before congress to answer questions about what he wrote. And this happened:

Do you represent the NRA? asked Representative Gerald Connelly, a Virginia Democrat, his voice rising. Or do you represent the American people at the ATF?

Turk began to answer, but Connelly cut him off.

I represent victims from Virginia Tech, Connelly said, referencing a 2007 mass shooting at the university. We buried 6 young people. And I couldnt explain to them why an ATF representative might think that legalizing silencers might be a good idea.

What does anything in that word salad have to do with anything else in that word salad?

of low expectations. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

10/22s dressed as Krinks. I’m trying to figure out how that magazine works, exactly.

High Standard T3 Prototype

Bob:

The Founders Couldnt Have Imagined Assault Rifles, She Blogged

That’s funny right there.

NICS checks increased a bit over March of last year, reports NSSF, marking the first month of 2017 where that has happened.

Sen. Rand Paul Wants to Use Fight over Trump Snooping to Pass Surveillance Reforms

Right here

They have a history of it.

In New Jersey:

The New Jersey Legislature has sued to try to roll back a new rule by Gov. Christies administration making it easier to qualify for a permit to carry a handgun.

NSSF: AR-15 Used in Oklahoma Home Defense; Same Rifle 4th Circuit Court Says Americans Should Not Have

Remember that kid who tried to steal a gun from a gun show and was stopped by people at the show? That apparently counts as gun violence.

State laws are usually interesting. Tam has a bit on Indiana’s. Tennessee’s are all kinds of messed up.

You can buy beer. In some counties. On a Sunday, in some of those some counties. You can get it at the grocery store, even on Sundays in some counties. And some counties where you can’t buy beer on Sunday, you can buy beer by the drink at restaurant.

You can buy liquor. In some counties. But never on a Sunday. Unless it’s in a drink at a restaurant. But none that you can take home. You cannot get it in a grocery store ever. Only a liquor store.

You can buy wine. In some counties. You can buy it in a grocery store. On a Sunday, you can’t buy it anywhere. And I laugh when I’m at the grocer on a Sunday and all the lights on the wine aisle are turned off but the beer right next to it is for sale.

Liquor stores used to not be able to sell any beer unless it was above a certain alcohol content. And they could not sell food, mixers, or any product that didn’t contain some percentage of alcohol. Now, they can.

Our alcoholic beverage laws are among the dumbest, most illogical around.

The SEAX. The device, for a Glock 19, allows the gun to stay in battery when pressed up against something. I’d imagine that finding holsters for that thing would be difficult.

As Tom Givens illustrates in the video below, it doesn’t take much to make an auto pistol malfunction:

Just stupid people.

Editorial: How many guns do you need?

None of your God damned business.

A bolt action AR?

AAC had teased us with the Honey Badger, a PDW with a suppressor in the handguard. Looks like someone else has come up with one. The Honey Badger by Q:

And you can pre order now.

Last week, I mentioned a report showing that ATF did a poor and dangerous job of tracking its informants. Well, congress noticed and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on the issue this month.

JoergSprave makes youtube videos that show sling shots and various launchers. He also posted a video showing how stab proof vests could be defeated. The bedwetters at The Daily Mail subsequently lost any awareness of hyperbole:

Google blood money: Web giant cashes in on vile seven-minute video showing knife expert penetrating a stab vest like the one worn by murdered Westminster PC

German weapons ‘expert’ uploaded ‘sickening how-to-stab’ video on YouTube

Jorg Sprave given award by social media giant for getting 1million subscribers

But he shows people how to plunge a knife through protective body armour

Video was online for six months despite warnings jihadis use it for ‘training’

YouTube has yanked the video. And they may shut down his channel. If you watch the video, you’ll learn that he made a particular knife just for the task. And their claim about Jihadis using his channel is ridiculous.

So, a guy goes to a Tennessee gun show and attempts to steal a handgun. It went about as well as you would think. And he was apparently open carrying an XD. No word on if it was in a nylon holster or not.

And there’s herpa derp. That may be the dumbest gun thing I’ve seen in a while.

A while back, I noted that a 19 year old had killed three robbers with an AR-15. Well, the grandfather of one of the little angels says it was unfair that the guy had an AR and the thugs only had brass knuckles. There were three of them. So, it’s better for the innocent party hereto have been beaten by three men with brass knuckles? No way.

Good shoot.