Peruse them as you wish. I’ll make several remarks.
First, I’m not a fan of the skeletonized stocks. I think they look strange and incomplete, and they’re simply not something I consider to be heirloom quality firearms.
Second, I and readers have remarks before on how the transition away from fine Walnut stocks has change the face of long guns, and not for the better.
Finally, I’m astounded at some of the prices. And you can’t convince me that these prices are necessary for the gun to shoot 1 MOA or better, even much better.
PIQUA — Three Piqua police officers were hospitalized and later treated and released after a gun unintentionally fired inside the police station Tuesday afternoon.
The incident involved officers who had returned to the police station after a day of shooting range training. The officers involved were in the process of cleaning their weapons after the range training when a pistol unintentionally discharged, sending a single bullet into a concrete floor, Piqua police Deputy Chief Martin Grove said in a statement to News Center 7.
Funny, that. If someone other than a cop has a negligent discharge, using the defense in court that the pistol “unintentionally discharged” wouldn’t work.
You know that this phrasing is being fed to the reporters for rote repeating. And you also know that most reporters are too stupid to know better.
“Donald Trump Jr. launches gun rights group, vows to fight Democratic gun control proposals,” Fox News reports. “The Second Amendment Task Force plans to build its operation around Trump’s high social media visibility and following, as well as his national media appearances.”
“The Second Amendment Task Force is the first advocacy group that Trump has launched and been directly involved with,” the report elaborates. “The group plans to make a push in the upcoming midterm elections this year, especially in the voter registration sphere.”
Except it’s not the first. Remember that “Second Amendment Coalition” his father announced and made him chairman of back in 2016? The one he co-chaired with fired NRA-ILA honcho and bump stock “regulator” Chris Cox? If you don’t recall that group, it’s probably because it didn’t actually do much of anything and the webpage was taken down a half-a-year later.
As for “plans to make a push,” it’s fair to ask for whom. His father’s Mehmet Oz pick comes to mind. Are there any other candidates gun owners may have concerns about?
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It would be greater to see him using his New York City concealed carry permit as a springboard to highlight how unjust and un-American it is to limit such permits to the sell-connected elites and to lead the charge for demanding change. For someone presuming to be a leadership voice for gun owners, it would be not just appropriate, but crucial for Trump Jr. to also explain in principle and detail:
If he agrees his father has been flat-out wrong on bump stocks;
How he differs from his father’s White House position on where the right to bear arms comes from (see photo, above).
David goes on to say, “The object here is not to attack him or start a feud with dad.”
I don’t mind doing so. Trump will always trumpet his permit as something glorious, when the rest of the peasants who can’t afford highly paid lawyers in NY are left with nothing.
He should be ashamed at heralding his permit as something to be proud of rather than an example of something that should be changed. Far from being a sign of support for gun rights, it’s a sign that he has no idea what gun rights means.
I don’t mind saying it at all. I don’t trust anything Trump is involved with pertaining to 2A rights.
He does a rundown of Maryland’s argument on why the Supreme Court should not take up this case, but rather, allow the ban to stay in place.
Frankly, I’m tired of hearing the so-called “common use” argument. That has nothing to do with anything and certainly wasn’t in the minds of the founder when they told the FedGov to stay out of the business of regulating weapons. Common use is entirely a fabricated phrase to assist the controllers.
Second, I’m tired to death of hearing the phrase “assault weapons” (which is also a fabricated phrase) and the routine response by gun rights advocates that “assault weapons” don’t meet the three rules for considering them an “assault rifle” (which based on DoD definition, includes (1) intermediate cartridge, (2) select fire capable, and (3) mild recoil).
It doesn’t matter since in order to make that argument, gun rights advocates stipulate up front that civilians have no right to own such a firearm (e.g., select fire). In other words, it makes no sense to contrast “assault weapon” and the formal definition of “assault rifle” unless you admit at the outset that the very difference itself is justification for being able to own a semi-automatic version of the same weapon, which in fact, I don’t admit at all and thus do not use that argument.
Eh, whatever. I really don’t care whether the SCOTUS takes this case up or not. If they do and come to a good decision, states like Maryland and New York will have to allow the firearms to be owned, but it won’t change the fundamental nature of the state. If they SCOTUS makes a bad decision, it won’t change the fact that these weapons will still be legal in S.C., N.C., Ga., Miss., La, Tenn, W.V., and on and on the list could go.
In other words, this is all a continuation of the Balkanization of America, with some states racing left, while others pass constitutional carry.
It isn’t policy on firearms that is ripping America apart at the seams. Firearms is just a symptom, not the cause.
Yes, our nation experienced massive shortages during the Great Depression; however, they were not predicted nor announced BEFORE the problem. It was only after the stock market crashed that they followed.
Here, we have a different scenario. A sitting US President has information considered so reliable that the population deserves to be ‘warned’ of dwindling food supplies. Wouldn’t that be the information one would keep classified, as we wouldn’t want the public to panic or begin hoarding? Journalist Mike Gonzales wrote about purported ‘food shortages’ being used as a weapon by the Left to promote the expansion of the Welfare State.
My recent post discussed a patient’s observation that the government was encouraging farmers and ranchers not to produce and destroy their crops and cattle. While I could not confirm this, we now have other disturbing information that suggests it may be true. There may be a plan by our government afoot to create a food shortage.
First, a Maricopa County, Arizona, food bank recently and mysteriously caught fire which destroyed some 50,000 pounds of food. The timing was also suspicious for arson as it occurred just 15 minutes after the Maricopa Food Pantry closed on a Monday morning.
Dr. Benjamin Braddock reported on Twitter a number of these unusual food-related fires. There was a massive fire at a Salinas food processing plant. The facility produces for Taylor Farms.
Dr. Ben Braddock reports on at least a dozen more suspicious fires targeting similar facilities – Smithfield Foods, Deli Star Meat, Hot Pockets, Tyson Poultry, Bonanza Meat, Mair-Rite Steak, JBS Beef, McCrum Potato, Kellogg’s, and Cargill-Nutrena.
This has been an obvious train wreck for a very long time. Famines generally come in slow motion. (Sometimes not, but usually, they are slow motion. Hongerwinter 1944-45 was fast motion). This is very slow motion but colossal. The most incredible PanFaWar in human history is unfolding.
My estimate: this will not be a two-year famine. Most famines go for roughly two years. The Great PanFaWar is shaping up to be a long hauler. Sometime in 2022, the famines will become obvious. By end of 2023, colossal. These will create enormous HOP: Human Osmotic Pressure to migrate. OGUS — the Occupying Government of United States — is expanding the Darien Pipeline through Darien Gap which can and likely will facilitate millions of Asians, Africans, and South Americans into United States. Europe did similar and suffers for it greatly now. Wrecking entire areas of Europe and causing Europeans to change their way of life. Watching their women get raped. Mass terror attacks. Priest decapitated in church. That sort of thing. Just reality. My currency is reality.
While our economy and food supply collapses, OGUS has opened the floodgates to anyone. Many of these people come from highly predatory cultures. I’ve lived around the world. Spent more than half my life in more than 80 other countries. Some cultures are HIGHLY PREDATORY. I see many representatives of these cultures flooding into our country. They will be hungry on our streets. Many will rape our women and boys. These are just facts. I see it all the time downrange.
You cannot run far enough away from this. We will fight, or we will lose. Those are our choices.
Choose to prepare now, not later.
Remember, droughts are natural. Famines are always man-made.
I have a rifle in which I installed a Radian Raptor charging handle and a Battle Arms Development BCG. The two used together makes the action like glass. I have no comment on which charging handle you choose – but I do recommend one of the models as you see fit.
Michigan Live reports a 31-year-old alleged intruder broke into the home and was confronted by the homeowner.
The homeowner then shot the intruder, killing him.
ABC 12 notes the homeowner was released after being taken into custody.
An investigation into the incident continues.
On March 29, 2022, Breitbart News reported on a 74-year-old Akron, Ohio, homeowner who shot and wounded an alleged intruder.
The intruder lived, prompting the 74-year-old homeowner to note that he will use a bigger gun next time.
Wait. Something must be wrong with this report.
I thought guns magically turned and killed the owners rather than home invaders? I thought that no one except the “only ones” (LEOs) were able to use weapons for self defense? I thought that fine motor skills totally collapse when confronted by danger? I thought that people had to go through tacticool training with former JSOC guys to be able to defend their life? I thought you were supposed to “run, hide and fight?” I thought that you were supposed to call 911, lay on the floor and grovel, and wait for help to arrive after they got through eating their sandwich? I thought only former military understood enough about firearms to use them? I hear that all the time when I read articles that begin with “I’m pro-2A and I shot guns in the military, but … blah, blah, blah, you’re not good enough … blah, blah, blah … I know what I’m talking about because I was in the military or a LEO, you’re in danger, don’t buy a gun … blah, blah, blah.”
I guess we’re all going to have to recalibrate after this.
Zero with the best ammunition you will shoot, and use that for self defense. Otherwise, I agree with him. Buy what you want, but don’t expect the same performance.
This is also a reminder that shortened barrel lengths (seemingly all the rage now) create this same problem.
The Left has been floating the idea that mere possession of a weapon is a provocation. They contend the sight of someone in possession of a weapon is sufficient provocation for a person to attack the person who possesses the weapon.
This creates a bizarre world where mere open possession of a weapon is sufficient to justify a deadly attack on the possessor.
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In a sane world, carrying a weapon is not a provocation to be attacked. The Left has worked hard to make it a provocation, in law.
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The concept that an openly armed person is a provocation to attack appears to flow from a simple premise on the left: A person doing something a leftist does not like is a provocation to attack them. It is part of the broader philosophical abandonment of the rule of law.
Evidence for this theory exists in the left’s theory of speech from any opponent. Speech from an opponent is considered to be violent, and worthy of attack. Violence, from the left, on the other hand, is considered to be speech.
When leftists surround a car and beat on it; that is not provocation; when leftists shoot at people; it is not provocation; when people the left does not agree with, display weapons; that is considered a provocation by the left.
This is a retreat to tribalism by the Left: Those who agree with us are people; those who disagree with us are the enemy.
A person who is driving a vehicle is behind the wheel of a weapon of mass destruction. Therefore, you are justified in killing them.
It sounds stupid, doesn’t it?
That’s because it is stupid.
In the comments on person writes “I don’t believe in open carry” because it might tempt a bold criminal to snatch your piece.
There is nothing to believe or disbelieve. It’s a practice, not a proposition. It would have been correct to say he doesn’t practice it. To which we might respond, so be it. We won’t require it. Do as you wish.
And he should respond, “It’s a free country, and you do as you wish too.”
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