Notes From HPS
BY Herschel Smith
9 years ago
While massive spending appears to have paid off against Parrish, but not against Sturtevant, Republicans holding on to all of their seats in the Senate is a major disappointment for both Bloomberg, who saw that out-of-state money isn’t everything, and McAuliffe, who will not be able to establish a “progressive” legacy in Old Dominion much beyond the destruction he’s already done there. But there are also lessons to be learned for Republicans in general and gun owners in particular …
Read the rest of David’s analysis. Clever and well-researched, concerning who won and who lost, and what role gun rights played. As a sidebar comment, I know good folks from Virginia, and their only answer to Terry McAuliffe is that it was those folks from Northern Virginia who elected him to begin with. If Virginia doesn’t watch it, you’re in danger of becoming too bifurcated to continue when the times get rough, as they doubtless will in the future. How can two men walk together unless they are agreed? (Amos 3:3)
Via Mike Vanderboegh, an interesting history of the M1 Carbine.
“It was an easier gun to carry than the Garand,” Wicklund said. “It was shorter, it was lighter, it was reliable, it was easier to shoot and easier to clean and it had a 15-round magazine. It was easy to tape two magazines together and get 30 rounds to fire. Stopping power was not there with the carbine, but you could fire it more times.”
Well, I’ve got mine. If you don’t have one, you should get one – soon. But I will offer the caveat that the reliability is a function of the ammunition you feed it. Feed it crappy ammunition, you get crappy performance. Feed it good ammunition, it’ll function as long as you can. Of course, it’s like that for all guns isn’t it?
Mike also notices this: “Of course this got a top-of-the-page link on Drudge. Now I am the leader of an “anti-Muslim militia” and my rhetoric “overlaps” with “white supremacist groups” that I have fought all my life.”
Hey, it’s from rawstory.com. What do you expect from a gaggle of gargoyles? I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Attention is good, and those who spend ten minutes trying to understand any of this will know the truth much better than explained by Raw Story.
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On November 6, 2015 at 6:36 pm, Joe said:
Yep…Good ammo is a must for reliable function with the M1 carbine. The CMP has a stickie which talks about the variability of commonly seen 30 carbine ammo (among other topics) and notes up to 200 FPS differences between manufacturers. I’ve had best results with Lake City 30 carbine ammo circa early 1970s but its right around fifty cents per round. Here’s the link to the CMP stickie — http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=2967