The Truth About Guns

“Anti-gunners will never be as committed as NRA members because they really have nothing at stake. With homicides running under 10,000 per year out of a population of more than 300 million people, it is very unlikely that any anti-gunner will be killed by a gun. But if you are a law-abiding gun owner, the possibility of legislation restricting your right is much more likely to affect you.” – Commentator Rimfire underneath Can Michael Bloomberg really build a gun-control lobby bigger than the NRA? [via washingtonpost.com]

A professor at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey was suspended after some idiots in the college administration wildly misinterpreted a photo on Google+ of the professor’s 7-year-old daughter. [People use Google+ ?] The girl [not shown] was wearing a tshirt that said “I will take what is mine with fire and blood,” and some idiot saw it as a possible threat against a dean at the school. That slogan, for those unaware, is a quote from Daenerys Targaryen in season 2 of Game of Thrones on HBO. This is just the latest step in a convoluted situation involving contract disputes and allegations of retaliation, and the professor was reinstated with back pay, but you’re reading about it here because in the mind of at least one school official . . .

By Sam A.

Submit your [Zhivago] doctored image to guntruth@me.com with the word DA! (all caps) in the subject field. The winner gets a brick (500 rounds) of Thunderbolt .22LR.

The whole point of the MP5 is to have a small, easily concealable, maneuverable weapon. And while H&K’s design is pretty good, it can be so much better. Lighter magazines that don’t jam. Controls like the common AR-15, not a completely new platform that soldiers need to familiarize themselves with and train for. Mission configurable in the field. Easy to disassemble. And, most important, actually making the damn things accurate. If memory serves, the acceptance test for an MP5SD was a mean radius of 8 inches at 100 yards for the shot pattern, which is nowhere near the accuracy you’d want. The MPX fixes all of these things, and looks awesome doing it. We’ll have a review when they finally hit the civilian shelves, but for now enjoy the full auto goodness.

This week’s caption contest affords you the chance to put a little more safety in your life. Thanks to Chamber-View, if you’re cleverer than the average bear and enter your work in the comments before midnight Sunday, you’ll win a .223/5.56-sized Chamber-View safety block for your AR. Never again will those around you at the range wonder if your rifle is truly open and clear. Now get to it and dazzle us with your wit.

Those of you keeping score at home, get out your No. 2 pencils. Shirtless wanna-be white rapper? Check. Flat-billed cocked baseball cap? Right. Totally street ink? Fer sher. Unintelligible (other than the cursing) lyrics? Yep. Casually waved nickel plated nine? Uh huh. Add that all up using the current cultural calculus and you come up with…hold on…carry the seven…got it — insufferable douchebag. While it looks genuine enough, according to theblaze.com, there’s some debate as to whether it’s real or Memorex. If it actually happened, we hope he didn’t plug his mommy through the wall in the next room. And if Mr. All Laws will send us his address (guntruth@me.com), we’ll be more than happy to send him the IGOTD trophy he so richly deserves.   [h/t DrVino]

ShootingTheBull410′s quest for the best-performing defensive ammo for a 9mm pocket pistol rolls on with a test of the Barnes TAC-XPD. It comes in a shiny black box with a high-tech clear window, and even the bullets themselves are black…perhaps invoking the old “Black Talons”?  But the Barnes solid copper bullet has already been tested and found to be a superb performer when it was loaded in the Cor-Bon DPX round. The Cor-Bons, though, are less expensive, come in a plainer box and are loaded to a higher velocity. How will the same bullet do in Barnes’ own shiny black version? Check out the vid to find out.

Yes, these Downfall takeoffs have been done to death. But every once in a while, someone comes up with a particularly well done version. I laughed, I cried. Seriously, I had tears in my eyes by the end, but that last mental image requires liberal amounts of brain bleach. Just so you know.

“New Jersey’s justifiable need standard is a longstanding, presumptively lawful regulation that operates as an exception to the Second Amendment.” – John J. Hoffman, acting attorney general of New Jersey, quoted in Supreme Court weighs appeal to concealed-carry gun laws [via washingtontimes.com]

By Mike

Submit your [Zhivago] doctored image to guntruth@me.com with the word DA! (all caps) in the subject field. The winner gets a brick (500 rounds) of Thunderbolt .22LR.