The Truth About Guns

If you’re planning to attend the open carry rally at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX tomorrow, some tips for your protection and safety have been published over at Sipsey Street Irregulars (and another longer set here). Among the instructions are to avoid individual movement, and probably most importantly, leave your lock-blade knives at home. San Antonio has a prohibition on lock-blade knives, and also fixed-blade knives over 5.5 inches, so don’t make yourself a target for police attention. . .

Reader Elliotte writes:

I wanted to pass along some more details that I’ve learned while reading the briefs in the Abramski case. I first heard about it on my local gun forum, www.mdshooters.com, (there’s a group that regularly posts briefs from and discusses 2A cases).  When I first read through the plaintiff brief and the amicus briefs I realized this case has the potential to have a much bigger impact than just clarifying the resale of guns to non-prohibited persons. Abramski’s lawyers and the amicus briefs are challenging the ATF’s regulation writing when it came up with the “straw purchase” questions on the 4473 . . .

The GCA law that set up the background checks was only intended to keep firearms out of the hands of prohibited persons. However, in 1995, the ATF rewrote the 4473 form to make it a c

Ruger’s SR-556 rifle has been a massive success. The piston-driven rifle from the well-known rifle maker has been flying off the shelves, and for good reason. We haven’t had a chance to do a proper review of the rifle ourselves, but I spent a week out at Gunsite in Arizona shooting and carrying the gun and I have nothing but good things to say about it — the thing kept ticking despite basting in the fine Arizona dust, and not being cleaned all week long. Now, news comes that Ruger has released a 7.62×51 / .308 Winchester version of the gun dubbed the SR-762. Just in time for hunting season, the heavy-hitting piston gun with a two stage trigger sounds like a hog hunter’s dream. Needless to say, we’ve already asked for one to review. In the meantime, make the jump for the presser . . .

OK, we’re going to re-run the StealthGear USA ONYX holster giveaway. This time, I’ll state up front that if you enter a bogus email address (as our winner did the first time we ran the contest for the ONYX), you’re disqualified. No matter how funny you are. So once again, you have until midnight Sunday to come up with something witty. We’ll announce the winner some time on Monday.

This following press release from Business Control Systems Corporation (BCSC)—of New Jersey no less—hit the inbox today. In it we learn that the Virginia gun dealer who sold spree killer Aaron Alexis a shotgun (legally) had the killer’s info stored electronically with the company’s OneStep digital gun logging system. His photo and particulars were all on the dealer’s database. While BCSC celebrates this fact, it’s more than slightly worrying for those of us who think that gun dealers’ bound book (recording all firearms sales and transfers) is de facto gun registration. Storing the info electronically mak

As a volunteer lunch lady at my daughter’s elementary school, I’ve had a good look at the security arrangements. Simply put, I’m not comfortable with the level of active shooter prevention. I’m taking a softly softly approach, waiting until I’ve established credibility with the principal before raising the subject. Meanwhile, my daughter and I have discussed her options during an active shooter scenario and let’s just say Sandy Hook proved that “shelter in place” has its limits. For our reproductive or adoptive readers, what’s the active shooter security situation at your sprog’s school? Have you discussed prevention or response with the school, other parents and/or your kids? How did you broach the subject?

Yeah, you know it’s coming. The “A” word. “Police say a student drove to his Franklin County school with an arsenal of weapons, but he is not facing any criminal charges,” wcax.com reports. “The 17-year-old had guns, knives and ammunition in his car, but police say they have no proof that he had any intentions to cause harm. The weapons were discovered when the Northwest Technical Center student brought his car in to be worked on by other students there. Police sa

Tiger McKee of tacticalwire.com writes:

For the first AR I built, back in the mid 80′s, I used a mil-type barrel wrench, torque wrench, and some old punches and hammer. This can be done, but to get it “right” – assembling a reliable, accurate, and long lasting rifle – requires knowledge and specific tools. There are books on building AR’s, or videos for the visually oriented; Brownells carries good ones. Having the p

Comedian Ricky Gervais demonstrates just how popular the pompous CNN demagogue still is with most of his former countrymen. Assuming Ricky’s cockatiel cage is already well covered and depending on the funnyman’s diet and fiber intake, those 337 pages of daft dreck should keep him from having to make a TP run for quite some time. If you’re the unfortunate one in the office who snags one of these works of fiction from your secret Santa this year, what will you do with it?

There are guns, and then there are grenade launchers. Technically the same concepts apply, but one is exponentially more awesome than the other. So when Kevin pulled a pair of M79 grenade launchers and a case of practice grenades from his stockpile and declared that we were going to have a grenade lobbing contest, I knew the day was going to be epic. . .

In the beginning, there was the rifle grenade. The idea was simple: take a grenade, strap it to the end of a rifle, and then fire a blank. The force of the gasses from the blank round would send the grenade flying, much further than any soldier could lob it. It was the poor man’s mortar, but it had issues. It took time to swap from a live round to a blank, still more time to place the grenade on the gun, and even then it was notoriously inaccurate. And God forbid you forgot to change from a live round to a blank cartridge, your day would get pretty shitty in a hurry. The armed forces used this pro

We’ve reported on the Remington 2020 line before. Apparently, Remington decided to post the website weeks in advance on the down low, planning to write the press release later — which they have now done [see: below]. We reported on it when that happened, and we were even the first on the net to have a confirmed price point for the guns. But that still doesn’t answer the big question. Aesthetics aside—and I mean WAY aside—the question becomes why? Why spend five-and-a-half grand for this collaboration bet

Apparently not [make the jump for a shot of the whole bike sans shotguns]:

WEAPONS SYSTEMS: 

PLEASE NOTE: Although the flamethrowers and cannons are in a fully authentic & operable state as pictured, the cannon trigger breach blocks and flamethrower pressure release valves are NOT INCLUDED as part of this sale listing. Without

“In all the years since the shooting, I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me. But, I do not want to kill him, nor do I want to see him die.” – Larry Flynt, Don’t Execute the Man Who Paralyzed Me [at hollywoodreporter.com]

Ithaca Gun Company, currently located in Ohio, has announced they will be expanding to a new facility in Horry County, SC (near Myrtle Beach) in the next few months. The new factory will create 120 new jobs, and will nearly double Ithaca’s production capacity. The Cool Springs Business Park that they’re building in will also shortly be home to PTR Industries, when they’re done remodeling their new home, and Stag Arms is currently deciding whether to relocate from their current home in Connecticut to either Horry County or Houston, TX. . .

A New Hampshire gas station clerk has been fired from his job of 10 years