It made the news a few years back that Advanced Munitions was going to drop half a billion on a HQ and plant here. Looks like that’s not gonna happen.

Well, OK:

Taking concealed carry to the next level. #sp5k #hecklerandkoch @sb.tactical #mp5 #

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Review: Kimber K6s .357 Mag. Revolver

The ultimate AR15

Rested up a little and seem to be OK. Will resume shortly.

This shirt made me laugh and laugh. Too bad they didn’t have one in my size:

It will be my new meme for libertarian v. libertarian arguments.

Lately, I’ve been cutting a lot of things for work. Roll matting, felt, other stuff. This wears on the blades of my nicer knives and made sharpening more frequent. So, I snagged up one of these Razor Lite knives. Do recommend. Each blade is as sharp as a razor. Literally. And the blades are disposable and replaced in seconds. If you cut a lot of things and don’t want to wear out your expensive knives, these things are a good alternative. And cheap.

The Brady Campaign is suing the ATF. Seems the Brady bunch filed a Freedom of Information Act request and ATF didn’t respond.

Chuck Schumer (whose autocorrect suggestion is “scummier”, fitting) is telling the Democrats not to tie gun control to the budget debate:

Schumer, focused on next years midterm elections, thinks it is smarter to focus on economics specifically President Trumps tax plan, which Democrats say is a giveaway to corporations and the rich, and GOP proposals to cut Medicare and Medicaid.

Maybe some good guys can toss some pro gun bills into the mix?

The Sandy Hook families’ suit is going to the state supreme court.

The ATF will not reclassify bump stocks.

Had a minor procedure done today. Not sure exactly the technical term for it but I call it taint surgery. You can figure it out. In a bit of pain. Sitting, walking and kneeling is tough.

Owie.

Evolution of the Sturmgewehr

Jacob Sullum points out that the NRA is playing a dangerous game on this bumpstock business:

The NRA opposes a legislative ban on bump stocks but wants the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to reconsider the question of whether they are legal. The administrative approach favored by the NRA invites unelected bureaucrats to rewrite a statute for political purposes, undermining the rule of law and the separation of powers.

*snip*

The NRA has tried to divert that response by urging the ATF to “immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law.” On Face the Nation last week, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre noted that “it’s illegal to convert a semiautomatic to a fully automatic,” adding, “We think ATF ought to do its job, look at this, and draw a bright line.”

As a wookie-suiter myself, I agree with his point. However, I think NRA’s motivation is more political. And brilliant. They throw the blame at the Obama administration. Take the popular view on bumpstocks. And get in a jab at ATF. And it panders to the Trump base.

The conspiratorial side of me can’t rule out they took this position because they don’t want to put it to a congressional that vote they’d later have to grade.

Another gun control group has changed its name. How many different names did the Brady Campaign have before it became irrelevant.

Nifty:

Behold the hysterics in this report entitled: GOP candidate for governor: Bump stock ‘prevented more casualties in Las Vegas

I mean, I get the guy’s point and all but that would depend on the level of training a person had. And in a crowd of people who are close to one another, spray and pray would probably work just fine. But the “reporting” on this incident is full of the dumbs:

In the latest on a long list of attempts to grab attention, state Sen. Mike Williams of Cumming has developed a unique defense for the bump stocks used by the Las Vegas shooter to turn his single-shot arsenal into a cache of nine-rounds-a-second Gatling guns.

What an idiot.

Ok:

Researchers have discovered a serious security flaw with a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug that allows hackers to remotely take control of the vibrating sex toy.

The future is stupid.

Four-Barrel Flintlock Pistol

Rare and unusual firearms and ammo.

M1918 BAR: Americas Walking Fire Assault Rifle

Bump stocks do not convert semiautomatics into machine guns.

The fallout and eventual attempt to legislate these away (which seems to be ATF’s goal, as opposed to NRA who thinks ATF should reevaluate their ruling) will be interesting. If legislated away, what happens to those already in possession? I mean, you cannot add new machine guns to the registry. And you can’t have an ex post facto law banning these things, I would think. I’m not a lawyer. But I recall when ATF changed its mind on the Akins Accelerator. People got to keep the stocks but had to turn in the springs.

The Trace is getting their listicle on: These Six Barely Legal Gun Products Are Still Widely Available

I do have to give props to the Trace for one thing. Prior gun control groups never really bothered to learn gun laws or understand them. They’d just rant hysterically or make really stupid claims. You remember the shoulder thing that goes up and the thirty clip magazine? At least the Trace has made it a point to actually understand the laws. Sure, they’re doing it for dumb reasons. But they are doing it. Maybe they’ll understand one day how dumb a lot of federal gun laws and regulations are.

Some bonehead thinks limiting Americans to two guns would be groovy. The idea is stupid as Hell. But if you could only own two, what would they be? My answer is, obviously, an AR-15 and a black plastic people popper of the Glock or M&P variety.

An interesting, but unsurprising, graph

Except when they do.

And release the POWs.

14-Year Trend of Rising Opioid Deaths Reversed in Colorado After Marijuana Legalization. Yeah, correlation and all that. But this wouldn’t surprise me.

Scale model Barrett rifle. If only it fired tiny bullets.

ACCURACY TESTING VINTAGE COLT SP-1 AR15 RIFLE

New Kalashnikov rifles.

Smith & Wesson M&P Shield M2.0

In the early days of blogging, it was an effective counter to bias and misinformation. I’m convinced that the internet is why the gun control debate took a shift in the direction of the good guys in the early aughts and early teens. I think the internet in those days also was the reason for gay marriage succeeding in the courts. And there are several other issues early blogging kind of helped to spearhead.

But now the internet is basically social media for most people. And you have youtube censoring content they don’t like. Twitter is suspending people’s accounts of people who accuse Weinstein. And not running ads for politicians they don’t like.

In the future, the googles, the facebooks, the twitters, the youtubes and all these new social media apps that my kids have started to use can just not let you see something. Sort of like the press does. I think it will come full circle. Only with new gatekeepers.

Feinstein: No law would have stopped Las Vegas gunman

Why gun experts dont support banning or buying bump stocks

That’s from the Christian Science Monitor. They used to be one of the more anti-gun papers out there. Now, they seem pro gun. Why the change?

They still support the ban likely because it’s just not a good political hill to die on. But they are right to oppose the current atrocious version of the bill.