Chronicling the depravities of the State.
A funny story from Says Uncle. A moron in Jacksonville, Florida entered a bar waiving around a nail gun. The bar tender took this act as a robbery attempt and responded in kind. The nail gun wielding individual received rounds from a real gun and died on the spot.
Remember when it’s a battle between a nail gun and a real gun the real gun will always win unless there is some fluke.
There is a great write up over at the Firearms Blog detailing the weapons of District 9. Like everything else District 9 actually got the weapons right as well, using proper firearms for the area (South Africa). They also use the weapons in the proper ways. Head over there and take a read, and don’t worry if you haven’t seen the movie the article doesn’t contain any spoilers other than the weapons use.
Seriously this movie has done so much right. It’s truly one of the great science fiction movies of the decade.
People who are against citizens carrying firearms always like to point that the police will protect us. They said only law enforcement should have guns because they are the only ones trained properly. Well thanks to Says Uncle I can point at another story where the police don’t seem to be very good shots.
Police in London shot at a robbery suspect 19 times without hitting him even once. That’s a lot of rounds flying around. In fact that’s very irresponsible in my opinion. Each one of those bullets could have hit an innocent bystander which the police are supposed to be trained not to do (that’s what the anti-gunners say). And how far away was he? Well:
O’Connell estimated he was less than 10 metres and possibly as few as six metres away when the officer opened fire.
That’s somewhere between roughly 20 and 33 feet. If you can’t hit a man at that range you probably shouldn’t be carrying a gun on your person. Just remember police officers aren’t better shots than other civilians, that badge does not give +1 to accuracy.
The things you find on the NRA ILA news site. Louisiana is having it’s annual Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday from September 4th to the 6th. What is this holiday?
Well it’s a holiday where the purchase of firearms, ammunition, and hunting supplies are exempt from local and state sales and use taxes. I hope Minnesota tries this out, I certainly wouldn’t mind purchasing a firearm without having to pay for part of a Twins Stadium that I’m never going to use (nor get free admission to if I did use it).
User Bubafat on the Gun Rights Radio Network forums posted the following video. It demonstrates the proper use of an iPhone application to relieve stress. By the way there is some not safe for work fucking language in it:
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Good news courtesy of The Firearms Blog…
http://vltor.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/but-i-read-it-on-the-internet/
For those of you out of the loop Vltor has been working on a project they dubbed the Fortis Pistol. This was a recreation of the Bren Ten which was a pistol made for the newly introduced 10mm cartridge. Many companies have tried to bring back the Bren Ten and because of these failures there is a joke about the curse of the Bren Ten.
I’ll be honest here I’ve been watching the Bren Ten because I watched way too much Miami Vice back in the day. The Bren Ten was the gun carried by Sonny Crocket in the first few seasons (actually it was a modified Bren Ten). Anyways it looks like Vltor is taking this project very seriously which is good to see.
Source: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/07/28/baby-the-bren-ten-is-back/
A couple weeks ago I came into possession of a Ruger LCP. Most of you have seen these by now it’s a tiny .380 automatic that holds 6+1 rounds. I finally found the casings and bullets to reload for it and will have a pocket holster here in a bit. But coming from a man who normally carries a Springfield XD Compact in .45 automatic I’ve been asked what I want with a mouse gun.
There are a couple reasons. The first and foremost is to have a back up gun. Most people have mentioned to me that a back up gun should be a snubby since they have a very low rate of failures. In general I agree with this idea. Snub nose revolvers are very light, small, and reliable. But they are also fatter than a semi-automatic pistol due to the cylinder. And this is where my problem with carrying a snubby resides, I can’t conceal it very well. I wanted my back up to fit into my pants pocket and not print. The LCP does this well. Furthermore the LCP is shaped in such a way that I can easily extract it from my pocket without it snagging on anything.
There is another advantage to having a gun that fits flawlessly in a pocket. If somebody wants my wallet and I happen to have my shirt tucked in over my in waste band holster I first have to pull my shirt up to gain access to my gun. This of course takes time, time which can cost me my life. Meanwhile reaching into my pocket seems like a natural motion since I could be getting my wallet. By the time it turns out I was getting my LCP the guy hopefully already had a couple rounds in him. This is a great advantage in my opinion since the chance of being mugged in a large city is pretty good.
Another advantage to semi-automatic pistols in my opinion is the profile of their reloading apparatus known as a magazine. While revolver speed loaders are cylindrical magazines are rectangular. Rectangular objects are easier to hide on your person since they present a flat side which doesn’t really print to anything noticeable. If somebody sees something cylindrical in your pocket they may think revolver while seeing something rectangular could be anything from a cellular phone to a wallet.
Finally I wanted a mouse gun so I had something to conceal at times when concealing a full sized pistol isn’t doable. For instance on a hot summer day it’s likely I’ll be in shorts and a t-shirt. Although I can conceal my full sized pistol in my normal shorts it certainly prints against my swim trunks. Meanwhile the little LCP drops right into the side pockets without any issue. Furthermore I don’t have as larger of a holster pressing against my skin making me sweat bullets.
Either way I love how the LCP fits my pocket and hand. Now that I have some ammunition components I can test it out this weekend and see how it shoots.
For those of you having a hard time finding bullets for reloading (as I have been) take a look at Montana Gold…
http://www.montanagoldbullet.com/
I first heard of them because one of my local reloading supply stores started stocking them. Their bullets are reasonably priced and the .45 auto FMJ (the only ones I’ve shot of theirs so far) work perfectly well.
I just order 1,000 .380 bullets for my Ruger LCP which I can’t find ammunition for. The box arrived and the rounds look good. But most importantly you can actually get bullets from these guys. There was no back order for the .380s which surprised me greatly. The only bummer for many is that you have to order quantities of 1,000 or more.
OK I’m a huge fan of the .45 automatic cartridge. Both of my primary carry guns are .45 and I have a Beretta CX4 in .45 auto plus a Tommy Gun. It’s a good cartridge in my opinion but finding a good carbine hasn’t been easy. Well in my tireless quest for a good .45 auto carbine I came across the Kriss Super V…
http://www.kriss-tdi.com/products/kriss-crbso-45-acp/overviewcrbso.html
Now my Tommy Gun is cool but far too heavy for practical defense and the CX4 only has 8 round magazines with larger ones looking to never appear. The Kriss Super V seems to solve both those problems by being light weight and has extended magazines.
The main problem is it’s expensive. In fact it’s far more expensive than anything I’m willing to pay for a .45 carbine at the moment. The only real advantage of a .45 carbine is it would use a common ammo supply with my pistols. On the other hand an M14 is very well suited at stopping bad guys so I think I’ll continue using it.
So the girlfriend and me went to the Wisconsin Dells this weekend. It was fun but I must say not being able to have your gun on your sure is a change from the normal.
It really irritates me that crossing the boarder from Minnesota to Wisconsin also means I go from being a lawful armed citizen to a defenseless sheep. While at the Dells I noted how screwed everybody would be if a bad guy with a gun showed up and started letting rounds fly. Somehow the government of Wisconsin thinks its citizens are safer without being able to legally carry a concealed weapon (and harassed if they legally open carry a gun). I just don’t get it.