San Francisco is often touted as a tolerant city.   It’s tolerant alright, as long as you’re only engaging in activities the leftist elite that run the city approve of.  Naked bike ride day?   Just fine.  Have a gun show?  Oh no!  Not that!

“It needs to be shut down, and we’re going to do our best to do that,” Newsom said.

I’m also amused that this article provides me with this quote:

Newsom signed gun-control legislation in an effort to reduce illegal gun activity.

So we’re passing more legislation to combat “illegal gun activity”.  Umm…. maybe I’m dense here, but if the activity is already illegal, and people are doing it anyway, isn’t passing more laws kind of, well, useless?   Wouldn’t it make more sense to lock up the criminals committing the illegal act?

Well, in Mayor Newsom’s defense, locking up criminals is hard.  Passing more gun control is easy.  Gun control: it’s what you do instead of something.

Working my rifles through the cleaning rack one by one. Seems like every gun I have is dirty: both ARs- I shot the newest barrel (R11) for bullseye in the Presidents 100, EIC, Hearst Doubles, National Team Trophy. The other rifle (Betsy) with a 3+ throat was my Infantry Trophy gun. The Garand and the 1903 both needed work on the barrels. (The M1A belonged to someone else and he must be cleaning it.)

Betsy is named after Crocketts rifle. R11 is named for a painted “11” on the handguards. Every night at Perry I pulled the bolt, cleaned and lubed it then ran a snake through the barrel. You don’t want to really clean a barrel during competiton. Makes the first shot go low. No sighters at Camp Perry during CMP week.

In the debacle of six-man team shooting I saved a round when R11 stovepiped in the 300 rapid. I raised my hand and didn’t touch it for the first stovepipe. The second stovepipe, in the alibi string, came on the last shot. I ran out of time because I “fired” that shot, then noticed and cleared the stovepipe. I had a mag ready but by the time I was on the trigger the target was going down. Saved a round and threw away ten points. I just now replaced the whole bolt in the bolt carrier as a fix. Have to have Rick Crawford cut the ejection post spring down so it just flips the brass clear to the 2:00 front. Everything is worn on the old bolt. I’m not going to try postmortem the failure. No symptoms before the jams. First replacement bolt on R11. Betsy had one a year ago.

R11 is the number one gun right now because it was rebarreled last. I’ve never really warmed up to that gun. Seems like Betsy is luckier or smoother somehow. That’s kind of odd because I have shot some good scores with R11: 490 in a LEG match this year, Won two NRA Regional medals and the Texas Highpower Rifle Championship (Ike Lee Trophy) with it. I’m going to have Betsy rebarrelled after the Texas Service Rifle Championship in Oct.

They probably look like any ordinary ARs to anyone else, but I could find them in a pile like a penguin finds its chick.

I’ve had more fun and learned more about shooting in Highpower Rifle with these ARs than I could have imagined. Be glad when everything is clean.

Best thing I’ve ever seen on Newsweek.

A photo-audio visit to gun-owners in their homes to ask them why they have guns.

Some good gun-porn there, and some surprises too!

Nashville was Talking is also blogging at Blogmagazine, and I’m all out of smart ass nicknames.

On the Kwan case (background here):

Friday the Judge in US v. Kwan set aside the verdict on the Short Barreled Rifle. There will be a hearing in three weeks to determine if US attorney wants to retry or make motion to dismiss.

Seems the ATF mis-represented some facts

David notes:

The Judge set aside the Jury’s verdict, and granted motion for re-trial. He stated reasons that the ATF/US attorney mis-stated the facts. The Judge gave the US Attorney three weeks to consider dismissing the charge, appeal his decision, or get ready for a new trial. I will let you know how the next hearing goes in a couple of weeks. This good news for all the 9th circuit…

Oops.

Prior missteps by ATF:

Bullying bloggers

Lying (or time-traveling) to make a case that one of their auditees is harassing them.

A circuit court smacks them down for their ruling on model rockets;

An agent testified under oath that the NFRTR (the NFA weapons database) was corrupt;

Having budget issues due to mismanagement;

Being investigated for breaking he law at Virginia gun shows.

And they’ve had funds cut for some of their rather, err, dubious programs.

The ATF Director has resigned over excessive and lavish spending.

The now former head of the ATF ordered staff to do his nephew’s homework.

And employees are coming forward with allegations of mismanagement.

And getting smacked down for disregarding the law.

It’s amazing, the things one can find on the intarwebs.

Behold Albert’s Helmet-Mounted Pistol !

You can’t make this stuff up….

The Texicans have moved their blog digs.

Instead of actually, you know, dealing with their own problems, Mayor Newsom is trying to legislate other cities.

A city hit hard by gun violence should not have gun sales at its back door, said Mayor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to announce today that The City is seeking state legislation to end gun shows at the Cow Palace.

The Cow Palace is in Daly City. The back door to San Fran? Does that make Oakland the front door? I’d lock and bar the front door first.

Although the gun shows are legal, Newsom said numerous illegal gun transactions occur in the parking lot during the show, which will take place Saturday and Sunday. Another gun show is scheduled in November.

I have never seen an illegal transaction at Cow Palace gun shows. Anywhere. I have also never seen Newsom at a gun show there. But what do I know, I only, you know, actually attend them.

While the exhibition hall is technically located in Daly City, it is just blocks away from San Francisco’s Sunnydale Housing Project, one of many neighborhoods in The City plagued by gun violence.

Technically in another city. Also physically, legally, geographically, morally, universally and actually.

While county ordinances banning firearms on government property continue to proliferate in the nine-county Bay Area, gun owners continue to fight what they call an attack on the law-abiding gun culture. […] “These local governments are taking advantage of a signal, although I think it is the wrong signal, that it’s deuces wild when it comes to passing gun law,” said Donald Kilmer, the attorney representing the gun show promoters challenging Alameda County. “Once we win against Alameda, we’ll challenge the other ordinances.”

I eagerly await the coming War on Fat People, where Frisco tries to ban spoons and dinner plates in Chicago.

Take a gander over back at my home site for a good introduction by the Marines to the Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber sniper rifle, without all the pants shitting hysterics we keep hearing from the anti-gun crowd about how the rifle is great for blowing up schools buses, setting fire to entire villages, or is responsible for causing widespread famine in Africa.

My wife sends me the weather forecast for our secure undisclosed location and it shows thunderstorms all week. I send back that I hope our condo is comfy. She replies with:

If not, I am sure the couches at the outlets are.

The NYT goes one step further in its mission to help terrorists by helping them plan a series of sniper attacks across the county.

The basic idea is to arm 20 terrorists with rifles and cars, and arrange to have them begin shooting randomly at pre-set times all across the country. Big cities, little cities, suburbs, etc. Have them move around a lot. No one will know when and where the next attack will be. The chaos would be unbelievable, especially considering how few resources it would require of the terrorists. It would also be extremely hard to catch these guys.

An unintended consequence may well be the increased incidence of concealed carry among the general population but any terrorist plan of this sort, let alone action, would certainly put more pressure on the ownership of hunting sniper rifles. It would certainly show the population at large that they are responsible for their own safety and the gov can’t protect everyone, everywhere, all the time.

Like printing names of CPL holders in the press, having an idea does not automatically make it a good idea to publish it publically. 

I know it’s not much compared to what anybody else here has, but here’s my piece:

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It’s amazing, but the ATF has figured out how to do that:

In order for any of these factors to have affected their decision to terminate the audit, they would literally have had to been able to travel back in time.

Con Source:

Top Supreme Court Law Firm Uses New Online Constitutional Source Library to Prep for Gun Law Cert Petition

Online Resource Saves Law Firm Time, Money

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a leading law firm, is using the collection of founding documents compiled on ConSource, the first comprehensive online collection of Constitution-related source materials, to research and present the District of Columbia’s position that the District’s handgun ban withstands Constitutional scrutiny. These documents will play an important role in the petition for certiorari presented to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the March 9 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit holding that the District’s law violates the Second Amendment.

“This case has great implications for gun laws across the country,” said Tom Goldstein, the head of Akin Gump’s Supreme Court practice. “It is extremely important that we get the constitutional history right. With the help of ConSource, we will be able to access the full documentary record of the Second Amendment in presenting the case to the Supreme Court.”

Through ConSource, Akin Gump has access to digitized collections relating to the Second Amendment: the Anti-Federalist Papers, the state ratification debates for seven states, and the legislative history of the Bill of Rights. Online access to these documents will drastically cut the research time necessary to research the case.

“Akin Gump is using this resource in one of many ways we envisioned this project could be used,” said Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director of The Constitutional Sources Project, which is creating ConSource. “Attorneys and practice groups are able to easily find prominent and obscure historical documents relating to different provisions in the Constitution via ConSource, and will soon be able to create their own collections, post briefs, and publish or block access to their practice groups’ work product.”

Part of it’s already done for you.

1 – Note to self: Self, when your car has been in the 102º degree heat for about six hours, the ChapStick in your console will become roughly the same temperature as napalm. Fortunately, ChapStick can be kinda soothing on the burn it just gave you.

2 – Blogging from me will be light. Gotta do all that crap that’s gotta be done prior to vacation. So, guest bloggers can run amok.

3 – Will the asshole that runs this site please stop pinging my site. And something goofy is going on. I keep telling wordpress and SK2 to ban the URL and it still gets through. Feh.

PGP is taking an anti-gunner shooting. I’ve offered a few times to take some antis. They typically decline. I’m surprised (and glad) this person agreed.

Seen at Deb’s.

Squeaky has decided.

Given their premise that Google searches = study, here’s a handy VPC study generator. Heh.

What is reasoned discourse with the anti-gun establishment?  Paul Helmke certainly says he wants more of it, so he closed down comments on Brady’s blog.   Bryan Miller, President of CeaseFire PA and NJ, has this to say about us in the comments:

As I’ve said previously, I have neither time nor inclination to respond to all of your picayune, silly, arrogant and incredibly self-righteous comments. I will, no doubt, touch on all of the issues you raise (except Libertarianism, which is beyond my brief) over time in my blog.

I’d admonish you to be patient, but I’m glad you’re compelled to comment ad nauseum, it shows normal folks how dangerously extreme many of you are. Thanks for that.

Emphasis mine.  Can you feel the reasoned discorse yet?

Last night’s Colbert:

For those of you who don’t know what a “blogger” is, it’s someone with a laptop, an axe to grind, and their virginity.

Heh.

I ordered an antique curio and relic tool and arcane ammo from MidwayUSA late Monday. The whole order shipped Tuesday, they included tracking information via UPS and tossed in a free catalog. They do the NRA round up to a buck thing if your so inclined. Last year MidwayUSA threw some support to the Gun Bloggers Rendezvous. I’ll review the goodies either here or at my place when it arrives. I don’t expect any surprises.

On these long, hot, steamy summer evenings a young girl’s thoughts turn to romance.

But I’m not young and not a girl, so my thoughts are turning to the next addition to the family arsenal.

Three things springfield to mind, the first being an upgrade to the sad little Mossberg Plinkster .22 cal rifle that I picked up on a whim for $90 new at Gander Mountain.

Not that there is anything wrong with it, but it just doesn’t give that pride of ownership and it certainly lacks the quality and solidity to do anything fun with. As far as I can see, during several frustrating attempts to clean the darn thing, the entire action relies upon a little ledge of aluminum on the inside of the receiver to function. Just doesn’t seem right. The replacement I have in mind? Probably a bull-barreled .22 Savage with some nice glass on top. I’ve taken a liking to the accutrigger after buying a Savage 10FP-LE2 in .308.

The second want / need is a 9mm carbine, such as the Bobcat – I’ve watched these in action at my IDPA matches and they look like an awful lot of fun.

Lastly, and most confusingly, I really want a 1.4 caliber handgun. Yes, a 1.4 caliber – or maybe a 1.5 (That’s a 45 all right, a 45mm) if I am lucky. Of course these things are not easy to come by, but I maybe have a plan. I have access to machining equipment and think it would be a cool winter project to put together a non-firing, display piece to put on the living room wall. Maybe in a glass case, along with half a dozen inert rounds made especially from shiny brass rod. A huge, honking 30lb lump of steel, with a swing out chamber, like a revolver, but for one huge cartridge. Blued and polished, with “Pelosi Tactical Firearm Company, CA, USA” stamped on the frame. Am I completely mad? Probably.

Under Federal and state rules it seems to be easier to make a real, working pistol and get it registered than it is to make an imitation. It seems that the powers that be (TPTB) are convinced anyone making anything remotely like a firearm must be either selling them to children to play with or ready to point it at plod. The 1988 Federal Toy Gun Law dictates a blaze orange barrel plug inset no less than six mm. That makes it hard to produce a convincing non-firing curio that even looks nothing like anything ever made before.

Anyone out there ever tried anything like this? It seems a pity to compromise on what is basically a large steel ornament with a 45mm bright orange plug welded into the end of the barrel.

American politics and civil life may be in the toilet but by golly at least dogs are evolving. Go to youtube and do a search for “Skateboarding Bulldogs” and have your conciousness expanded without using the clutch.

And while you are there you might as well catch: OK GO on treadmills.

Although it’s not the kind I wanted to do. If you’re going to have guns, for the love of Pete, keep ’em away from your kids!

Here’s hoping the kid makes a full recovery.

Sebastian here.   I’ll also be filling in for Uncle when I can.  Seems to be kind of slow on the gun issue this week, so hopefully I’ll be able to find interesting things to talk about while Unc is on vacation.

Friday at Camp Perry I shot the 1903 Springfield Match. The 1903 and the Vintage Military Firearm match were run concurrently and the competitors mixed on the firing lines. I was in the late afternoon 9th relay because I shot Infantry Team Trophy in the morning. I got to my firing point and found two great guys, from Tulsa, shooting K31s in the Vintage match.

Did I mention I shot a doe dead as Jimmy Hoffa’s wingtips with a K31 and Swiss GP11 ammo last year? No? How about that I won the Texas Vintage Military Rifle Championship with the same rifle and ammo last Oct? I love K31s.

The guy next point over was shooting a beautiful Schmidt Rubin 1911 rifle. On the other side was a P17 Enfield. Up and down the line you could see mausers, Swedes, K31s, Enfield #4s all placking away at the 200 yard target centers.

My guys were a plumber and an architect from Tulsa. They had driven up just to shoot this match, the Garand match and maybe the M1A. The folks that shoot this match are more recreational than the team shooters. The team shooters all have carts, jackets, gloves, scopes, sight black, snacks, sunblock, mats, et, et. And slings.

My guys weren’t using their slings shooting prone. They also weren’t shooting really badly, but weren’t shooting that well either. I think they shot a 241 and a 151 out of 300.

I unlimbered my 1903 sling with the clip at the back. I unclipped the back. I pulled a loop out of the sling where it passes through the middle of the buckle. I turned it OUT and put my arm through the sling all the way up past my bicept, with the buckle toward the outside of my arm. I wound my hand out OVER the sling and then under it at the front swivel. When I rolled into prone I was locked in. The rifle was as steady as shooting off a sandbag. I relaxed my front arm and just used it as a rest. I had a shooting mitt on to relieve pressure on my hand at the swivel. Since the 1903A3 doesn’t have a floated barrel, I didn’t have tons of pressure on the rifle, just enough to steady it out.

Nearly won the dang match. 285X6. We were shooting Greek 30-06 issued by the CMP. It wasn’t too bad.

I taught the army to shoot for a bit at Ft Hood. The army folks put “carry straps” on their M16s. Admitedly, mostly thats what you do- carry a rifle, but you would think they could teach at least a hasty sling technique.

If you don’t know how to sling up and shoot, I’m sure you can find a better teacher than me on the internets somewhere. You oughtta. Everyone ought to know how to shoot from a sling. I’ve got a leather Turner sling on both my match ARs and Garand. All my deer rifles are slung for carrying and shooting. Slinging up isn’t a mystery that can’t be easily learned. The Tulsa guys could have bought themselves a lot of points shooting prone with a sling.

1903 green web slings are cheap. The cotton ones grip better than the later nylons. 15 bucks max. Turner makes a good sling along with Les Tam. Uncle Mike makes a lousy leather sling. Turners are about 48 bucks. Worth every cent.

It seems Uncle really wants to screw with his readership. Now he’s inviting the Nanny State Lib’ruls to post in his absence.

Don’t worry, though, I promise some gun pr0n next week…

Just to round out the posse, here we have your token Canadian.  I haven’t been active much as of late.  You know how that life thing just gets in the way of gun goodness.  But I’m willing to step up, take a swing and try to keep you entertained.  No one has ever complained about gun porn.

Looking forward to helping out.

Uncle loaned me the keys to this thing. Let’s see what she can do.

But first, where would he stash his handcannon? For that matter, where is the glove box?