Vintage racegun?

Shooting the breeze

Chiappa 9mm Kalashnikov Pistol

Right here, from wikileaks. Via Schneier, with some commentary.

So, basically the .gov can hack in to any of your devices, including TeeVees, and listen to you. And, apparently, they have software that makes their hacks look like the Russians did the hacking.

The bypassed encryption on several messaging apps as well.

The CIA has a covert base in Germany. I’m sure Merkel is happy about it.

And the government paid to have software left intentionally unsafe.

Also, hacking into cars. Well, that’d be a good way to get rid of someone and make it look like an accident.

That’s right, in NJ

NRA ILA:

Yesterday, Governor Chris Christie announced that his administration has formally adopted the police rules introduced in 2016 which more clearly define the state’s “justifiable need” standard for issuance of concealed carry permits. For years, the state’s unreasonable standard has been used to reject the overwhelming majority of applications for concealed carry permits. While citizens in 43 states are able to exercise a basic, fundamental right under permissive carry laws, New Jersey issues virtually no permits.

I’m not familiar enough with the legal machinations of NJ to know if this is a big deal or not. But I like seeing Christie take a step toward looking out for gun rights.

Just kidding. They want to use those supposedly onerous burdens to voting, add an additional fee, and apply it to gun permits. You gotta have money to get a gun in CT.

Obama was first. But if you read the press you’d think liberals were arming themselves in droves because of Trump. Which they may be. Good for them. But I’ve seen this story now about four different times.

So, a former sheriff, and stalwart defender of civil asset forfeiture, is being investigated for using the property for personal and professional expenses.

A seafood company was convicted of animal cruelty for killing lobsters. In Australia, boiling them alive is A-OK but don’t butcher them with knives and saws while they’re still alive. And if you read the rest on various animal cruelty laws around the world, you’ll realize just how arbitrary such laws are. And octopus is an “honorary vertebrate” in Europe because reasons.

The future is stupid.

The smile maker.

The list of mayors belonging to Bloomberg’s anti-gun group going to jail keeps growing:

Adding to a long list of mayors supporting Michael Bloombergs citizen disarmament agenda who have been arrested for criminal activities, former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport Sunday, KCRA News and other outlets are reporting.

According to jail records, Silva was booked into San Joaquin County Jail on felony charges of money laundering, embezzlement by a public officer, grand theft and embezzlement worth more than $400, the report notes. His bail is set at $1 million.

And this is another reason why: Clarence Thomas Condemns Civil Asset Forfeiture, Points to ‘Egregious and Well-Chronicled Abuses’

Sebastian: You Know What Makes Guns Get Left in Cars? Gun Free Zones

The fraud of gun buybacks.

SAME NY Times Reporter Said Trump Team Was Wiretapped In Jan., But Said TRUMP Lacked Evidence In March

Joe Huffman will be doing an “ask me anything” on reddit.

TSA found 21 guns at US airports. In one day.

DoubleStar PhD 1911 Pistol

Do it right or do it again.

You Cant Use Your Sights in a Gunfight: Another Myth That Just Wont Die

Also, watch both videos. The first for it’s rather impressive shooting skills. And the second to see how people were taught to shoot in the past. We have:

It’s kind of amazing to think that modern shooting evolved from that, if you ask me.

The NRA.

A gun control group and some millenials are butthurt that the NRA can actually by ads:

Leaked Snapchat emails: Gun safety charity told to pay or NRA ads may appear on videos

But that’s not what seems to have happened. SnapChat sells ads. Obviously, they want ad money. Makes perfect sense to reach out to those on either side of the issue. Letting one side know that was possible while trying to sell them ads is a sales technique.

Secretary of the Interior Zinke overturned it. Good.

A new electronic gizmo that counts how many shots you’ve fired or how many you’ve got left. Unfortunately, it seems to get in the way of all the other useful things one could do instead.

Mannlicher 1901 & 1905 Pistols

This is actually quite a good video:

Reasonable discussion of the limitations of revolvers and just how fun they are to shoot. I concur.

Raven Concealment has introduced a clear version of their Eidolon holster:

Pretty neat. They, of course, don’t make it for anything that’s not a 9mm Glock.

The only GOP person of prominence I hear making noises about repealing Obamacare, a promise made by Trump and a lot of GOP congressweasels, Rand Paul. And he’s not too happy:

I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 2, 2017

I guess you have to pass the bill so you can see what’s in it?

Seriously, GOP, you ran on this, now do something about it. Looks Paul is just about the only one trying. And apparently it gets worse:

Sen. Rand Paul physically denied House GOP Obamacare bill

American Institutional Collapse:

Our elites cant manage any of their jobs. Hollywood cant even put on a simple awards show, much less make a movie worth watching. PewDiePie does a better job of entertaining teenagers than Hollywood can manage. Our political pundits missed both the major stories of the year Brexit and the frigging presidential election, not just blowing both calls but assuring us that it would absolutely go the other way. Since then, theyve continued to blow every major call, like Paul Krugman claiming that the market had no direction but down after the election while it has rallied like never before since then.

The press and pundits have been wrong for years, mostly due to narrative, politics, and spin. But really miscalling two major elections, that’s just a failure to do their jobs right.

Six Suppressor-Ready Pistols

Some plastic guns and gun learnin’

I picked up a Shivworks Clinch Pick:

Your eyes do not deceive you. The sharpened part of the blade is on the “wrong” side. That’s because the knife is designed to be used for pulling, thereby ripping muscles and skin. It fits on the belt horizontal to the ground and is very concealable.

This is not a utility type knife. So, you don’t cut boxes with it or anything like that. I like the idea of having a knife specifically for self-defense. And I’ll keep the Spyderco Endura Wave for actually doing day to day stuff. Here’s why the wave is cool.

I’ll be carrying it to see how I like it.

Well, that is pretty cool.

This is a good thing. I like how CNN spins it:

President Donald Trump Tuesday signed a measure nixing a regulation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of some severely mentally ill people.

Except that is not what the bill did. Nope, no bias there.

The ones that are trending blue will be a problem for gun rights. This is why some gun groups are trying to federalize CCW.