One more thing...

About this California Douchebag...  (I can't think of a better name for him.  But that's it, right?  It seems to describe him)

[and stupid lack of fodder after a weekend away...]

There is one thing about this case...  The Anti-Gun people piped up right away in their usual way.  And their way hasn't worked for over two decades except against them.  And it pushes those idiot few OC guys in Texas off the front page that was hurting us good guys a little.  And we are deep into election season with the bad guys reminding the world who they are.

So let them step on their own toes over a murdering fellow traveler in one of the most banny states in the country for a little while.  Go ahead, leftists.  Run on a gun ban in 14 and 16.

And hopefully I won't have to mention CD anymore.

outhouse 2

And now I find out it wasn't even a shooting spree.  Murder spree.

Well it proves that nothing will stop a determined murderer who springs a surprise out of  left field on the world.

Outhouse Rat...

... goes on a shooting spree.

I go out of town for just a few days and THIS happens?  Sheesh.

I haven't checked the details.  Are all the checkboxes filled in?  Liberal politics?  'Smart'?  Bullied?  Fancy suicide where he is the center of attention?

i think

I will go to a parade.

Extra

Here's a repeat from years ago I posted on the blog because I have been catching Magnum on the TV of late.



Plus a snoring hedghog.

Gone Fishin'

Out of pocket, but wanted to post sumthin.  Maybe Wednesday? 

Glowball Warmening

Sorry for the non gun content but I am away from my computer today and low on fodder earlier last week when I need to post ahead.

Catastrophic Anthropogenic Greenhouse Climate Change.

So I am stepping on Borepatch's toes, this is more his balliwick.

If we are wrong on Climate change, what's the worst that can happen?

-John 'Lurch' Kerry, Sec. State

Well, John, we could have megadeaths.  Not from the weather, but from our own governments.

All this global warming baloney, since the beginning, back in the 80s, never passed my smell test.  It was a solution (Worldwide Socialism) in search of a problem.  And they picked Global Warming when the coming Ice Age they were predicting 20 years prior proved to be a bit of a bust.

If someone came up with a liberty reinforcing and free market solution to counter any CO2 temperature forcings, the Leftists would drop the Global Warming cause like a hot lava hacky-sack. 

But we have actual real world evidence of what happens when you increase socialism...  DEATH.

Duece Duece

So, I am getting reports that the ammo section at the local Wally World is stocked again, according to my contact.  But this person is a casual observer.  He saw boxes.  He didn't know the crucial detail, the bellwether...

What of .22lr availability?

Wal Mart hasn't penetrated down to my neck of the woods because I am too close to DC and Democrats hate it when their constituents save a buck on household purchases or have a good source of jobs, so it is hard to check myself, but...  Lessee what online sources say.  I haven't checked there in a while...

Well, yes, a plethora of varieties are indeed available.  A little on the pricey side, still.  Like double.  So half the equation is solved.

Celebrity

I saw this guy, Jim, at the NRAAM, but didn't know his name.


See?  I may swim in the same stream but I am still highly ignorant of a lot of parts of the gunosphere.  I am only in this world since 2007.  I'm lucky I know as much as I do. 

So, his name is... Jim something. With the voice.

Hollywood

Hollywood get's a lotta gun details wrong.  No news there.  But one detail is particularly pernicious.  The easy removal or replacement of the firing pin.  Two times this happened with a Browning designs.

Bullet to the Head and A-Team.  In Bullet to the head, Sly Stallone's partner takes the pin out of a Hi-Power to keep him from murdering someone.  In A-Team, Hannibal Smith uses the already removed firing pin to pick a handcuff lock, then quickly shoves it into place in his 1911 in time to shoot 2 attack dogs.  Well, to be fair, it is a Para double stack, but still 1911 enough...

Puh-lease.

Now sure, removing the pin on a 1911 is pretty simple, quick and easy.  Just not THAT simple quick and easy.  You gotta get the slide off the frames, you need something just a bit stouter than a toothpick, and you need to not lose the two fiddly bits (that firing pin can sproing away... and the firing pin stop is small and you gotta get it in the slot juuuust right...).

Now, I am totally unfamiliar with the Hi-Power, but the safe way to bet is...  just as fiddly to get the firing pin out.  Or am I wrong?  Based on parts diagrams, I'd say they are pretty close.

NRA Statement on Open Rifle Carry at Chipotle

NRA-ILA | Long gun Open Carriers Havent Learned From Past Mistakes



the cached version that disappeared... Uncle noticed the oddity about it going away.

In caseeven the CACHE disappears, the body of the article on NRA/ILA read:

"Two long-gun open carriers in Dallas put Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle in a no-win situation this past weekend, resulting in the chain deciding Monday to follow Starbucks’ lead in asking gun owners to leave their guns at home."

metro v zed

The Metrocons are FINALLY taking an issue I hold dear, seriously.  They are commenting about prudent Pentagon plans to combat the Zombie Apocalypse.  Well, on-books Zombie prep.  Plenty of stuff in the black budget.  I have an op planned for the coming holiday weekend with RoMERO.  Relax, it's overseas.

Better than them dang radical domestic home-schooling terrists that they have been planning to combat.  Also the threat from Gadsden Flag flyers.  And the IRS has the dastardly Tea Party in check.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Anti-gun strengths:

• While on parity now, money wise, they have the potential of pumping in HUGE quantities of cash from deep pockets
• The Mainstream Media is liberal and in the tank for them.
• Appeals to emotion.

Anti-gun weaknesses:

• They are astroturf.  If you stop paying their spokespeople you'd never hear from them.
• Their 'conventions' and gatherings are no fun at all.
• ONLY appeals to emotion.
• Luckily, few regular people care.  Most side against them if they do care.
• When the Revolution comes...  they aren't armed.

 ----

Pro-gun strengths:

• We are right and in the right, and the Bill of Rights is on our side.
• The statistics are on our side.  We haven't absolutely proved that 'more guns means less crime' but the correlation is tremendous and we have definitely proved that 'more guns does not mean more crime/'
• We have more money on our side in small donations.  
• We are grassroots.
• We are popularly supported because no American of any stripe likes to be told what to do. 
• Gun ownership is widespread.

Pro-gun weaknesses:

• We sometimes eat our young.  (See OC drama llamas and folks that are in the game for the money causing more problems than they are fixing.)
• Overcoming hostile media propaganda and reach low-info voters is very difficult.
• Both sides have crazies, but ours can be scarier because they are armed.

grand slam

Challenge Coin

This is OldNFO's challenge coin.  It's a custom poker chip!  Neato.

I thought I had lost it, and there was no way I was going to admit that and ask for another one.  It was on my typewrite this whole time.  Along with 2 dollars.  Win.

Hey, 'Fo!  Where did you get this thing?  What's the outfit? 

On the obverse is his name and the fact he is retired Navy and left as a Lieutenant.  That means he is prior service.  A Mustang.  A sailor that joined the officer ranks.  It's a complicated ceremony involving blindfolds and paddles and lots of candles.  It's not easy turning a regular salt into a Gentleman.  It requires some magic.  The Darker Arts.

Or, he went in as an officer and somehow managed to stay in for 20+ years only get promoted twice.  Which in itself is a pretty neat trick.  To be that kind of a foul up and not get kicked out for that long. I tried that and the Navy noticed and sent me packing.  Two years. 

OldNFO is SO old that his phone number only has 6 digits.  Another neat trick.

I love this concept

And this quote.  Elegant in it's specificity and truth.  From Joe Huffman's blog, where I first saw it.

This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed.

By Chief Justice Morrison Waite in 1875.

 If the 2nd Amendment is somehow repealed, and repealed unanimously, that does not mean you no longer have a right to keep and bear arms.  The right transcends the Constitution and Bill of Rights.  It is Universal.  You have always had it and always well, unjust laws to the contrary be damned.  Just because a British citizen has been proscribed by law from owning and bearing a pistol in a lawful manner by the law of his nation that doesn't mean he has no right to.  He is just allowing the law to trample upon his rights. 

When we settle the issue once and for all, here, in the U.S. we need to push the issue to be recognized in the UN Charter so all humans rights to defend themselves are recognized.

I've talked on this before, but it never hurts to reinforce it.

Archie

If you want to know what my beer nights with Archie were like before his mind started going a couple years ago, they sounded like this.




Similar voice and accent. But Archie was car bodies, and WWII, and dealerships, and Archery, and NW DC, and boating. Not Baltimore, and writing, and publishing, and whatnot.

CCW Fashion Trends

First folks started to find that Kydex wasn't the devil and started accepting hybrid holster instead of all leather.  The was years ago.

A coupla years back, I notice SayUncle, and then others, go from calibers that began with a .4 to 9mm.  The idea was more is better than less ammo in a gun fight.  And 2 hits with a 9mm is better than 1 hit with a .45.  And you might as well, post 2004, when magazine size limitations were in the rear view mirror.  If you aren't restricted to 10 or less, might as well go for quantity and it is easier to get quantity with 9mm than .45.  Plus, pistols are pistols.  If you want a qauntum increase in round effectiveness, switch to a rifle.  9mm is also easier to control, obviously, so shot placement is better for shot #2.

Anyhoo, 1911s in leather IWB holsters give way to M&P 9mm in kydex IWB holsters.

Now, the SayUncle bellweather has notice a new fashion trend.  Appendix carry.  With it's pluses and minuses.  It's faster, but there is a risk to the femoral artery.  Maybe this will stick, too.

And this doesn't count 'fashion' trends in history.  Like the 'Wonder 9' trend of the 80s that went away and then came back.  The .45 trend already mentioned.  6 o'clock IWB for a time, I believe, was a 'thing.' (Thank you Eddie Murphy's 'Axel Foley') The .380 pocket auto was huge for a while.  The post Miami shootout that got 10mm popular for a time, and then .40, and from that .357 Sig, and all 4 are fading now.  CCW doesn't go very far back beyond that, but I am sure there were other trends for various firearm and firearm accoutrement selection decisions before CCW was a thing.  Shoulder holster carry, I guess.

There were reasons, of course, for each trend swing, but not really HUGE ones.  It's just 'cuz,' kinda, really.  It's all in pursuit of making oneself a more effective shottist, but it's also splitting hairs to the point of being similar to the clothes fashion world.  I mean if the trend were to go back to 1911s folks wouldn't really be handicapping themselves.  Or even back to revolvers.  It just seems sort of fickle. 

Not a criticism, just an observation.

But I wonder what the next trend will be?

So, the well is dry

Got a lotta mileage out of the NRAAM for blog fodder.  It was a good time.  But I went in with easy to achieve goals.  Walk the floor once, meet new people.  Done and done.

If I go to one of these again I'm going to try to concentrate more on seminars. 

But now, I am bupkis again. 

An idea has been rolling around in my head.  But it hasn't fully gelled, and it's probably mere fantasy and totally an unworkable non-starter.

Democrats tend to be Leftist.  They are anti-gun.  They want to ban and confiscate firearms from a sizable proportion of the US public.  To ban guns they want a registry list.  There are a LOT of them.  And that pesky 2nd Amendment keeps getting in their way.

Also, heinous headline making mass shootings lately, while initially 'appearing' to the news media talking heads to be 'obviously' the work of a 'right-wing nutjob', after a little digging, if anything, the murderer tends to have leftist connections.

And, statistically speaking, very little of the shooting out there is right-wing on left-wing.  The majority of the killing is done by the left.  Statistically speaking.  Blue State on Blue State violence is the norm, sadly.

So...  My odd idea...  To make the perma-outrage left half of the country happy...  Amend the 2nd Amendment making it not apply to those murderous Leftists.  We already have registry lists of Democrat voters.  Order all of them to turn their guns in.  Or any other left of center political party. 

MILLIONS fewer gun owners!  Just like they want.   By their calculations, crime would go down, and it might.  If a Democrat needs protection they can always dial 911.  The freedom loving side of America will have a glut of surplus guns and ammo to perhaps buy up if they want.  It's win win!

If the Leftists then decide they made a horrible mistake, well, they can repeal the ban laws if they want.  It's just laws.  Not like it's a right that require Constitutional means to re-restore to them anymore.  At least for them it's not a right.  Right?

And if they decide that the ban on themselves worked so great that maybe now they can change things and make it apply to the right of center liberty loving half of the country and get a bun ban on them?  Come take those guns?  Well, they can certainly try to come and take them...

Lefty 1911

1911's are already left handed.  The mag release is perfect placed for the social finger, and the slide release is perfect for the index finger of you strong hand.

You don't to make em special at all. Except for that little nub of the slide release that sticks out for my other strong hand's index finger to hit in a thumbs forward grip.  Oh, and the thumb safety is on the wrong side.  But that's it!

If I got one of these fancy lefty 1911s I'd have to relearn everything.  Locking the slide back would be easier, empty, with no mag in place, but I'm never in a hurry doing that.