Bath Salt Zombies

Those crazy kidz and their Bath Salts Goofballs.  The kookie new drug makes its way to New York City, and a particularly potent version of the drug turns them even more murderous and hungry.  #OWS types take it on the chin.



I can't wait until this is released at my local Cineplex Odeon.  It's got blockbuster written all over it.

Emergency Broadcast Network

Speaking of Ass

Why do they keep saying?

Why do they keep saying, "I'm a gun-owner butt..." ?  I don't understand.

They are @ssh0les, because the next thing out of their mouths is often proposals to abrogate the constitution, be tyranical, and cause me and other gun owners no end of face-palming over their civil rights violation proposals. "Hey, let's confiscate all the boomsticks AND bring back separate drinking fountains, that would be great, yuck yuck... Vote Democrat!" 

Are they just cleaning up their language for broadcast radio and TeeVee? 

Is it because opinions are like butts and they all stink but espeically ther irrational one they are just about to spout?

Is it because they don't really have any firearms but are a pain-in-the-butt to actual gun owners?

Are they talking out of their butt, best personified by that washed up anti-vaccine actor that talks out of his butt, literally and figuratively?

But yes.  You are a Gun-Owner Butt, Mr. Gun-Banner.

I don't know which is better...

Beer made civilization

Whiskey made civilization bearable.

One was invented by the Germans, the other by the Irish.

You heard me!  Don't contradict.

Criminals

Conservatives and even non-ornery Libertarian Conservatives are Law and Order types.  They aren't scofflaws.  So successful gun restrictions are effective in disarming them.

Liberals lean Socialist and even Communist.  Commies have been getting away with murder, literally for decades.  No Crimes against Humanity trials for them, even with similar body counts racked up that would make a Nazi jealous.  Cambodian gummint murderers are sorta facing the music, but the process is so long the genocidal bastards are dying in their sleep.  Stalin and Mao died in bed, not at the end of a rope.  So... Lefties are criminal.

Lefties are also BIG into breaking taboos.  Now, they are borderline criminals already for working toward a Dialectic Materialism Utopia, and disregard law and order...   Lefties coddle criminal, thus hardened criminals tend to be Liberal in outlook out of self interest.  If there is a total gun ban only Liberals would have guns!  Disregard of law and order, desire to break taboos, a large cohort of actual bad guys.

Charlton Heston was right.  Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns.

Another plus for leftists?  They HATE to be held accountable.  So the outlaw thing dovetails with that. 

Heh.  I know that if there was a draconian ban a lot of erstwhile law and order conservative types will get their civil disobedians on, and be ornery, so any unconscious effort to target infringe on law and order types by Lefties will be for naught.  But that speaks to another habit of them types.  An inability to forsee unintended consequences and a tendency to Stage One thinking.

One Good Thing

One good thing about all this anti-gun legislation in Colorado, Maryland, and New York.  If things work out at the ballot box in 2014 like it did in 1994, there is no way Hickenlooper, O'Malley, or Cuomo have a chance with their presidential aspirations.  Cuomo, even now, is beclowing himself with a mulligan on his 7 round magazine requirement.

Provided the GOP doesn't renominate McCain or something.  And I don't put it past them idjits.  (Ya know, GOP, if only the 9 million Republicans {like me} that didn't vote for either Obama or Romney had voted for Romney...)

Gun Culture

You want more gun safety, Bloomberg?  You need to get some of the Liberal gun owners to join the gun culture.  And these non-liberal new gun owners that are buying up guns in record numbers lately.

The so called Gun Culture is obsessed, often annoyingly (but appropriately) so with the four rules of gun safety. 

Those isolated from the gun culture do not know this.

If your gun ad gun-banner guy was a real gunnie with even the most cursory association with the Gun Culture, he'd know that Rule 3 governs where his trigger finger should and should not be...  And that muzzling is bad.  My guess is the guy in the ad is a neckbeard #OWS hipster type that is just an actor.


Does he really have his finger on the trigger, or is he palming it and getting all the fingers around and through the trigger guard?  Doesn't matter.  Dude like this at the next lane at the skeet range holding his shottie like that?  Sorta thing gives me the heebie jeebies.

If your true mission in life was to improve gun safety you would try to bolster and support the Gun Culture.  And the NRA's Eddie Eagle child safety efforts to spread gun safety information.  But that's not your true mission in life, is it, Mayor Bloomberg, founder of Illegal Mayors Against Guns?

Commander and Snub

Besides being a recent purchase, those words have a ring to them.  Like a 1970s cop show.

"Commander and Snub, they fight crime."

Feels like a Streets of San Francisco vibe.  The grizzle veteran detective played by a Mauldin type would be nicknamed Commander.  His short, young, brash partner would be called Snub.   He may be short, but he's a firecracker.

To put a twist on it, Commnder would carry a small revolver and Snub would carry the .45...

Finally

I put in the paperwork at the FFL on the 4th of February.  FINALLY able to take these home.

So what are they?  Well, one is none and two is one these are two's.  I will be setting them up like my other Commander and Snubbie.

Actually, when finished with customizing them to my preferences, these two might become the primaries.  They feel better dry firing right from the git go.

They came with nice extras.  A galco pocket holsters, a gun rug, the case, and an extra McCormick magazine.  What did I pay for them offa that auction site?  I got a decent deal on the revolver and was taken to the cleaners on the Colt.  But isn't that the way of the world?  It was a semi-panic buy, as I didn't know how the whole MD gun law would shake out.  Still don't know that, but I have a better idea.  This also hits the reset button on the one-gun-a-month deal we have and I can start looking for a stripped lower here in a month.  These were always on my List, but the purchase schedule got pushed way up.


So what changes do I contemplate?  I like XS sights.  Probably go with the little front sight on both.  The bigger sight might be TOO big.  Also, I have a Crimson Trace that the snubbie will wear.  VZ grip for the 1911.  I already swapped out the slide release.  The one that came with gun was one of those huge extended models that lefties do not need.  I'll need to get the ambi safety, too.  Probably leave the grip safety alone.  I have a spare flat mainspring housing I can swap in, too.  I'll need a gunsmith to install the sights on the 1911.  Probably the snubbie too.  Expensive... 

Putpockets

I thought of a great new scheme for our side.

We all know Cuomo wants people to snitch out New Yorkers who keep some of the now contraband "EVIL BOOMSTICK THINGIES" or whatever those bedwetters call their new law.   He is even offering a $500 bounty if you turn in some scofflaw that has a stripped lower and nothing else in the back of a sock drawer. 

Here is what we do.  We buy a crapload of 10 round mags in say, Maryland, (oops, unless Cuomo makes a correction, then you'd have to get 12 rounders in PA...) and go up to New York.  Then we scout out liberals hoplophobes with casual conversation. Then instead of acting as pickpockets, we are putpockets.  We secrete the illegal mag into a purse, bag, or pocket.  We enter their homes under some pretense and hide a magazine in there.  We get invited to their parties, drink their white wine spritzers, and leave mag in some inconspicuous place.   Then, we go to the cops and finger those bastards! 

It's anonymous, so it won't get back to us.  We get 500 clams to live off of.  THEY get a felony rap and are out of circulation for a time and after lose their franchise.  If we do this enough the civil rights lovers of New York State that respect the Bill of Rights will eventually gain an electoral majority and can rescind the silly gun ban in the legislature.  It's win win all around!

Who Has Heard...

Of Pulse O2DA Firearms Training Incorporated?

There are a lot of press releases at the top of search engine searches, but precious little real information.

This again...

The SAS is thinking on switching to the 7.62 from the 5.56 round.

If only some 6.5mm-ish round was adopted one of the dozen times they tried in the past 80 years...

I'm beginning to think 6.5mm stuff is the 16 gauge of the military rifle centerfire ammunition world.  Both are ideal theoretically, both have a limited number of HUGE fans, yet the popularity never seems to break through to widespread use for many sundry reasons.

From my Governor

In an email.

"We are so close to passing legislation that will reduce gun violence and make our families, schools, and communities safer.

But according to recent news reports, some members of the Maryland House of Delegates are trying to water down the ban on assault weapons; they want to continue allowing the sale of weapons like the Bushmaster M-4 Carbine and the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle in Maryland. These weapons are similar to the ones that were used in the mass shootings in Newtown and Aurora, and by the Beltway Sniper.

We need this common sense ban. Please call your Delegate and urge him or her to SUPPORT the Assault Weapons Ban in the Firearms Safety Act of 2013."

You go to hell, you perverted Leprechaun.  You give Irish Americans a bad name.

I think I can _transport_

Looks like they expanded the wording in Maryland's Senate Bill 281 from merely 'possess' a registered assault weapon (like a stripped AR lower) to possess and transport.  They were still hashing out the House Bill 294 vis SB281 when I wrote this, but the wording of the HB was the same as the original Senate Bill. 

So, worst case scenario, for me personally, I can no longer buy an AR lower, M1A, etc. after December 2013.  I don't have to 'register' any I have before that date because they already were when purchased.  I can no longer buy 20 round mags in Maryland, but there is nothing against me possessing or transporting 11, or 20, or 30, or 50+ round magazines in this state, and can still buy that stuff at a Virginia gun show and take them home.  I don't have to get a special gun-purchase license because I am a military veteran honorably discharged.

There was a worry in the original verbiage that I'd have burdens in those matters. 

So I can live it. Hell no!  That doesn't mean I am not wholly opposed to this law.  What if I want to buy something ELSE in the future?  Definitely need to get one more stripped lower before the end of the year.

I did send another note to my Delegate this week.  He's probably getting sick of me. Coincidentally a couple hours before THIS came over the wire.

Also... M1A and others might be kosher if they are modified so they don't have some features.  The big one on a plain service type M1A is the flash hider.  And they must come with 10 round magazines.  But what if I bought a flash hider and screwed it on myself?  Nothing at all about user modification for a so called assault long gun, that I can see.  It's law, it's confusing.  But I am pretty sure that buy a stripped AR lower or an M1A (for example) is right out.  But if someone beside Springfield makes a clone of the M1A...  and puts it in a standard stock with no flashhider... 

It's even more confusing.  Say you move here from Texas with an AR.  You might be able to just register it with the state and still be able to possess and transport thereafter.  That one is a bit more iffy...  Good luck getting them to accept your registration.

"But I live in Northern Virginia, T-Bolt, and I want to go to a blog shoot in south central Pennsylvania, what happens if I drive that little 6 mile length of I81 on my way there with an AR in my Pick-em-up truck?  It's not registered in Maryland, perfectly alright in VA and PA, and I'm only transporting it through MD.  I may stop for gas..."

Well... I recommend not getting pulled over.  Failing that, hopefully FOPA has your back.  Sorta like going from Vermont to New Hampshire and passing through a sliver of Massachusetts.  Technically you are ok, but, I wouldn't push it.

4th Circuit

The Court of Appeals ruled against the Woollard Maryland CCW case, saying they prefer to rule by intermediate scrutiny and the case doesn't prove the the law in question violates that scrutiny.

What next?  Alan Gura appeals.  It either goes En Banc at the 4th or they refuse to hear it and the law stands and then it goes to the US Supreme Court. 

It would have been nice if it ruled in our favor, as the Kachalsky ruling was also against us and this would mean a splite circuit and be a motivator for SCOTUS to hear it.

[update:  is there a split decision with some other court of appeals or not?]

What Makes a 1911 Jam?

Operator error.  In a new mid-level 1911 right out of the box, my guess is any jams you may experience are operator errors.

Ok, no selecting and using decent magazines is a big 'operator error' that isn't really operator error, but work with me on this.

Limp wristing is an operator error.

Overloading a magazine is an operator error.

For some 1911s, not giving the rails an occasional lube is an operator error.  I haven't really noticed this, but I've never tested it with 1000 rounds between cleaning.

Selecting crappy ammo is operator error.

Selecting a $200 1911 and having high hopes for it's reliability is operator error.

Lately I've been letting the thumb that rides on the safety rub the slide.  If Glocks had a thumb rest in the same place you'd hear about a lot more Glock jams.  And I've seen someone handling one of OldNFO's 1911s get a weird double tape for another odd grip configuration they did.  (I like to borrow a guy's Glock after he brags it never ever jams and grip it just the right way to make it jam 3 times with one magazine, and then point out my 1911 didn't jam once with a whole box of ammo.  I show him what I did, after, of course.  They always guess I limp wristed it, but that isn't the case.)

Then, because of all these operator errors, taking a dremel to your heater to 'improve' it and for some reason it doesn't get better (because you are still using crappy mags or a screwy) so they improve it some more and then get frustrated and sell it to the used market.  BIG operator error, there, an no mistake. 

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That said, large volume training classes report issues with 1911s.  I'd love to know the reasons.  I like it when I see rare stories of trainers eschewing their $500 plastic gun and running a $900 1911 and have little or no issue on that single occasion... just to see.

Now that $400 price differential is still a HUGE advantage, and one I can't argue with.  Also, capacity.  Both serious considerations before making the old 45 your go-to preference, sure. 

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I need to go back to the range.  Burn off some of this extra .45, and tamp down the operator issues more.  Hope the range is starting to thin out.  45 minute waits are not what I am looking when I want a .45 workout.

The H Word

A metrocon uses it.  Hoplophobe.  Good for him.

DiFi Foiled?

They aren't going to let her bill come to the floor of the Senate in the larger Senate Gun-Ban bill.

Good News?  Sorta.  Maybe.

I think if her stuff was included there then the whole bill had a greater chance of being filibustered, and Harry Reid knew it.  I think Harry wants to vote on SOMETHING, and thinks a more tamped down bill has a chance of a floor vote and maybe passage to be sent to the House.  And Harry wants to not embarrass Obama but not have anything go through to a vote, and there is the chance of less backlash for pro gun dems in 2014 with a milder bill, and there is the chance wobbly Republicans will actually send some lesser, but still bad, bill to the president to sign. 

Yeah, it's political baloney slicing.

I want all gun control bills to fail, with plenty of people on record voting FOR the bill anyway that can then be targeted for defeat in 2014.  And then defeated.  But first, I want any new restrictions, NOW, to fail.

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And there's the rub... let's see what the Feds do with background checks for everything and a backdoor illegal gun registration.

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But this does mean that at least 16 democrats in the Senate don't want the exposure of this bill with their vote on record either way.  16 of 55.   Only 39 or less would vote to bring it to the floor.  I hope my statehouse is paying attention.  The proportion of Dems in this state, total, isn't much higher than it is in the US Senate.

! Attention Marylanders !

Alert from Maryland Shall Issue.

Like, now.

Things are moving in Annapolis.  Won't be long now.  Oppose any new MD gun control and let your Delegate know how you feel.

I did today, already.