A great post over on the N.U.G.U.N. blog…
http://nugun.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/how-to-disarm-a-populace/
He defines a six step process used to disarm a populace. I think Britain may sue for copyright infringement.
Month: June 2009
Another Anti-Gunner Doesn’t Understand the Definition of Militia
Remember that blurb about how the anti-gunners should stop using the argument that guns are only for the militia?
Well it looks like somebody didn’t get the memo defining what the militia even is. This was found through Sharp as a Marble…
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090602/VOICES05/906020316/1052/OPINION01
From the woefully ignorant article…
The purpose of the Second Amendment, as affirmed by federal courts, was to make sure there were adequate arms available to the “well-regulated militia.” Since the various National Guard units now are armed by the federal government, the “right to keep and bear arms” argument has been rendered moot.
As I discussed in my previous post pretty much all capable citizens are part of the militia. Let us revisit that important excerpt from the United States code dealing with the militia…
(b) The classes of the militia are –
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard
and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of
the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the
Naval Militia.
Oh Fuck two strikes against that morons argument. First the National Guard is considered an independent entity of the militia, not a replacement. Second that pesky part about the unorganized militia which is composed of the citizens of the United States. Once again an anti-gunner has shown us the fact that they don’t understand the concept of logic.
I also have to point out this line from the article…
The Founding Fathers understood the rules of English grammar.
It’s a good thing they did because the person who penned (typed) this article sure doesn’t.
Source: http://blog.robballen.com/2009/06/02/p3455-not-just-any-psh.post
The SPAS 12
A couple of weeks back I finally obtained the gun I’ve been after since I first saw Jurassic Park, a SPAS 12. Here she is…
As you can see I also obtained a full set of choke tubes for it. As far as I know these are all the choke tubes that were produced for the SPAS 12. They are in order from left to right…
- Improved Cylinder
- Skeet
- Improved Modified
- Modified
- Full
- Extra Full
SPAS stands for Sporting Purpose Automatic Shotgun, although automatic really means semi-automatic. In actuality it’s a military shotgun now a sporting shotgun but the marketing people at Franchi probably didn’t think they would sell nearly as well with a name like MPAS.
The SPAS 12 is an interesting gun to say the least. It’s one of the few shotguns I’m aware of that can be used both as a semi-automatic and pump action shotgun. There is a button under the fore grip of the gun. Press it in and push the fore grip slightly forward and it goes into semi-automatic mode. Press the button and pull the grip back and it goes into pump action mode. This might seem like a strange idea until you realize some of the intended uses of this shotgun. Most non-lethal shotgun round, like beanbags and plastic slugs, lack the required pressure to cycle the gun in semi-automatic mode. Because of this the capability to manually cycle the gun was desired.
Another feature to facilitate using specialty rounds is the magazine cut off. On the right side of the gun is a small button near the magazine. Once pressed in the magazine is cut off so when the gun cycles next a new round won’t be automatically fed. So if you needed to use a slug but you only had shot loaded in the magazine you could hit the cut off, eject the currently chambered shot shell, and insert a slug. Once the slug is chambered the magazine cut off disengages automatically so the gun will function normally after the newly chambered shell is fired.
There are two safeties on the SPAS 12. The first being the quick action safety on the left side of the gun. When it is clicked back towards the user the trigger is disengaged. When you click it forward with a simple forward movement of your trigger finger the trigger is reengaged.
The second safety is located on the right side of the gun. There are two different setups for this safety. On older guns there is a large lever that really doesn’t have a save position which I’ll explain in a second. The second type is a crossbar safety which is a button similar to safeties on most modern shotguns. The reason I say the lever safety doesn’t really have a safe position is because it had a defect. Turning the safety from fire to safe could discharge the gun. This is why it was recalled and the new cross bar safety was used. Lucky me my gun has a level safety, but I’m not one to use manual safeties so it didn’t concern me much. The once nice thing about the large lever safety is it can be easily manipulated with gloves on, which was the original intent.
The final thing I’ll talk about in this post is the sights. Unlike most of the shotguns I’ve used the SPAS 12 doesn’t have a simple bead sight. Instead it has a nice ghost ring rear sight and a blade front sight. The ring has a notch cut out of the button. When using slugs you place the front blade into that notch, otherwise you center the front sight in the ring of the rear sight. It’s a very nice sight setup I will say.
I’ve had this gun out to the range twice so far and absolutely love it. I’ll be posting articles from time to time on interesting things I find with the SPAS as well as applications I’ve successfully used it for (I’m going to try trap shooting with it one of these days).
FBI to Join in Metro Gang Task Force Investigation
Funny how little things like large sums of money and cars missing can start up an investigation of a police task force. That’s what’s happening in the Twin Cities area. And now the FBI are joining in the investigation…
I guess questions are asked when $18,000 of money goes missing and important documents mysteriously get shredded. Who would have guessed?
Greenpeace Being Morons Again
Man I hate these guys…
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08460718-4e0f-11de-a0a1-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
So the road to blame all meat eating people for the world’s problems is being further paved. Now us omnivores and carnivores are being blamed for the destruction of the rain forest.
The sum of it is since we eat meat and potentially use leather products we make a demand for cattle. The demand for cattle requires Brazilian farmers to burn down more rain forest to create more pasture. I have a better idea, maybe we should blame those farmers burning down rain forest to create pasture land.
I’m getting damned sick and tired of this attitude of people who eat meat are villainous. This is like the letter to the editor some lady sent into to The Red Star (I mean the Star Tribune) saying people who eat meat are immoral because they support the killing of animals. Well I have news for all you meat haters, animals have been killing each other for sustenance well before we came around. Instead of taking the moral high ground why don’t you just eat your non-animal products and be happy and quiet about it.
Gun Documentation
I just finished up doing a project that’s been on the back burner for far too long, gun documentation.
Gun documentation is simple, you document all the guns you have. I know that a lot of people scream that this is a bad idea and only facilitates helping the ATF when they come to steal your guns. That’s why you keep this documentation private.
Why would you want to do this? Simple so you have proof of the firearms you own. Should the worst happen and your guns get stolen you can provide the documentation for the stolen guns to the police. This is so they know what they are looking for. It also allows them to report the guns to any gun stores or pawn shops so they know if somebody tries to sell them the gun they can report the person. This is actually a good idea to do with an expensive property which you lack a deed for.
The documentation is pretty simple. For the basics you really only need the following…
- Photographs of each side of the gun
- Photograph of the serial number
That’s it really. Now you can just write down the serial number if your camera isn’t capable of getting the serial number. I prefer a photograph because of two reasons. First you won’t run the possibility of incorrectly recording it. Second it shows the serial number of the gun you photographed which proves the gun was in your possession at some point in time.
Make sure you keep a copy of this information offsite as well. Of course that rule applies to all documentation information.