Tired

I am tired of reading the same thing over and over, again. Unlike The Honeymooners or I Love Lucy, reading the same articles over and over is not even better with each viewing. Whether it's Handguns, Guns and Ammo, Guns, Shotgun News, Gun Tests, or even Gunblast.com, and dozens of other magazines and gun websites and they all have the exact same reviews on the same guns.

The new"IT" gun is the Ruger LCP. There is nothing innovative or great about this pistol. It's a near copy of Kel-Tec's P3AT that has been around, for, ohhh, about 4 years. But, wait...the Kel Tecs a little smaller and 2 ounces lighter. Every review has pointed to the similarities between these two guns and except for the "hold open" that seems to be missing from the Ruger, all the reviews love the "new" and "innovative" Ruger. Yet, just 4 years ago in September 2004's Guns and Ammo, Wiley Clapp said, "Ingenuity is often nothing more than a combination of existing principles applied in unique ways. Kel-Tec's new P-3AT has no single feature that is not established in modern pistol design, yet it has no competition in its niche."

Ruger's only majesty in all this attention is that this is their first pocket auto-pistol. OOHH, AHHH...so what? It's already been the subject of a recall for some of its earliest pistols....

Good Job, Gun Writers... Good Job. How about spending more time and effort on a weapon that shows real ingenuity, real invention, real promise, or even real new and stop wasting page space on a copy and a fairly bad one at that.

The worst weapon ever

Away from my more serious posts, for just a moment:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26877682/

Guy was charged with battery...should have been Ass-ault!!

Bloomberg, again !

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_July_2/ai_n27879116

LOL

HAHA

Sorry, can't type more..still laughing.

Finland Shooting

I am amazed at the media coverage a recent shooting in Finland has produced here in the U.S.
http://news.aol.com/article/9-killed-in-finland-school-shooting/184482

Recent coverage has stated that most of his victims were women and that this guy idolized the Columbine freaks. This kid has long had deviant tendencies. In fact, he was brought into Finish police for questioning the day prior to the shooting. This follows another shooting almost a year earlier in Finland.

I listened to a radio new person make his comments about guns being bad. There are almost 2million guns in Finland and 5 million people. If guns were bad, then why aren't the other 1.7 million guns causing death and destruction? It's because guns are a tool and the person with the tool is either good or evil.

Hell, are cars bad? They must be since a Palestinian drove his car into a crowd of dozens of people in Israel earlier this week. Ban all cars, I say. Ban them all !!! If evil cars weren't on the road then people could not kill other people with them and there would be no such thing as drunk driving. Ban them all.

Another great one

Karel Krnka is a name almost no one mentions. He's a virtual unknown these days, but 100 years ago, he was as creative as Borchardt, Browning, or Maxim. Karel Krnka designed many items, including weapons. His handgun designs were prominently used in the Austrio-Hungarian Empire.

Krnka was born in Vienna, Austria. According to Ian Hogg in his book Pistols of the World, Krnka's start with guns came about due to the fact that his father was also a well known gun designer. Krnka is often associated with Bohemia, which is part of the Czech Republic today, bordering Germany. Krnka had first hand gun training and experience; he was in the Austrio-Hungary Army infantry. Krnka developed a series a rifles prior to becoming the Chief Designer for the Gatling Arms and Ammunition Company then Manager of the Roth Cartridge Company. Roth was a major player in the small arms market in the early part of the 20th Century.

Krnka also worked for Austrian cartridge company Hirtenburg before joining CZ (Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka). He worked for, with, and allied himself with such early luminaries of the early gun designing world as Roth, Sauer, Frommer, and Steyr.

One of Krnka's early "trademarks" was the long recoil action in pistols. Per Iam Hogg, "The barrel and bolt recoiled together across the top of the magazine; the bolt then opened by rotation and held while the barrel ran forward alone. The bolt released as the barrel came to rest, running forward to chamber a fresh round and then rotated into its locked position." Krnka's designed usually incorporated a built in magazine which was non-removable and was fed by a charger through an open bolt. This is similar to Mannlicher style rifles.

Many of Georg Roth's famous pistols were desinged by Krnka. The Roth-Steyr, for example, was the main sidearm of the Austrio-Hungarian empire and ended up as an official sidearm of the Italian Army until World War 2. This pistol was the first automatic pistol adopted by a major military.

He designed revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, single shot rifles, bolt action rifles, and even automatic rifles. Krnka left is mark on the early arms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his work has been used in later designs and some of that work lives on in today's arm, in spite of the fact that his name has been almost forgotten.

Dumb Cops

http://copshop.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/18/phoenix-police-shoot-man-who-detained-burglar/

Seems to me the cop needs to get some prison time for this mess up. He shot the hero (homeowner). Dumbass !

D.C. Yeah !

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423962,00.html

Well, it appears that Congress is forcing D.C. to actually obey the Laws of the Land, specifically the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Even after the Supreme Court gave it's decision, D.C. rewrote it's laws to barely allow gun ownership, violating the 2nd Amendment and the Supreme Courts decision.

Finally, Congress has done something correct.

When I stop laughing

http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080917/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/lost_weapons

When I stop laughing...i mean Coca Cola shooting from my nose, tears streaming from my eyes laughing, I will make some comments on the ineptitude of the BATF...Yes the same BATF that goes after people and gun stores for not properly tracking weapons via paperwork or losing them outright losing dozens upon dozens of guns !!!

Let's raid the BATF like they raid law abiding businesses. Well, that's what we get for having created an unsupervised government bureaucracy.

If You Pass This Bill, More Presidents Will Die

http://reason.com/blog/show/128765.html

This blog shows the idiocy and scare tactics of the Anti's.

It makes one with common sense shake their head in wonder....

Gun Shows

I think gun shows are going to be a thing of the past within a years. Well, not altogether gone, but much smaller and less frequent then they are now or have been. No, it's not the Anti-gun laws that may be coming, or closing of any so called loopholes, it's the prices.

It costs 5 to 8 dollars to park at some of the shows and anywhere from $5 to $10 to get in the door. So, basically, it's $10 to $18, plus gas and time and you still haven't purchased a product, yet.

My question is, unless I am buying a lot of things, where is the incentive to go to the gun show over buying over the internet. Many places offer discounted shipping on larger orders or free shipping. When you go to a gun show, you have to carry everything you buy all around the show and then back to your car. Well, hell, Fedex or UPS can do that for me.

If anyone talks about how great the gun show conversations are, they are stoned and not sharing with the rest of us. You get either people too into your space or rude/arrogant sales people. Occasionally, you get into a good conversation with someone, but it is rare.

Prices at the gun shows can..can..can be decent, but usually no better then you will find on the internet or your local gun store that carries surplus stuff. You get it at the stores with no parking or entrance fees. Trading guns, well, let the buyer beware.

So..no savings in cost and in fact costs more to get in, you have to hike your purchases through the place that is unusually exceptionally crowded..sounds like a species that will be extinct soon.

Do you believe

Do you believe this?

http://www.sportsmenforobama.org/

September 5, 2008, 2:38 pm
Obama: ‘I’m Not Going to Take Your Guns Away’
Christopher Cooper reports from Duryea, Pa., on the presidential race.
The Obama campaign talks a lot about new ideas and expanding the political map, but in the swing state of Pennsylvania, which the campaign has focused on almost exclusively since the Democratic convention, old-school issues still rise to the fore.
The latest example came Friday during a small political event at SCHOTT North America Inc., a glass factory in Duryea, Pa., where even a hand-picked crowd threw Barack Obama a curve ball.
A woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.”
“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.
So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’
I guess that he would take them away if he could get the votes.....Yup, and he thinks the Second Amendment is an individual right. Right.

--Me neither. His record speaks for itself

Clean your gun

Went shooting with a friend today. She's a great shot, fun shooting partner and really challenges me to keep up on my skills. Unless I really pay attention and concentrate on shooting, front site, trigger control, and breathing she can kick my ass all over the target. I have been shooting for 20 years. She's been shooting for 6 months.

Anywho, after shooting today I asked her about cleaning and she said she hadn't in a while. I told her I would clean it. The last time I saw a gun that dirty was about $15 years ago when my buddy and I blew 250+ Chinese surplus rounds in an afternoon through my SKS. The surplus ammo is some nasty, dirty stuff. It's also "mildly" corrosive. It took me a couple dozen of patches to get the barrel, chrome lined mind you, clean.

This Glock 19 was that bad. The barrel alone took about 20 patches. The frame took 15 more. The slide was another 20. The slides first 6 patches were completely black from powder and gunk. It was nasty. The moral of this story...clean your gun !! And the 2nd moral...damn Glocks are reliable.

Another D.C.

This has the potential to be a great thing for gun rights. If Congress overrides the nonsensical bullshit that D.C. lawmakers have been spewing all these years, maybe we will start seeing real rights flow back into our countries Capital.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/08/ST2008090802613.html

Another shooting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_re_us/shooting_rampage

It's been a while since a crazy person has gone on a shooting person. While I feel for the families of all the victims, I still have problems understanding the mentality of people who do this sort of thing. What makes a person decide to "go out on a blaze" of gore. Why not just take your own life and spare dozens of people heartache and pain?

D.C. FFL Dealer

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/washington/01guns.html?ex=1378008000&en=4e8944461ae72a9a&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

September 1, 2008Washington Gun Ownership to Go Through One Man By WILL BARDENWERPERWASHINGTON — Residents here who buy a gun to keep legally at home, now that the Supreme Court has overturned the city’s ban on handguns, will find that a bureaucratic maze leads them to an unmarked door on Good Hope Road Southeast where Charles W. Sykes Jr. does business.Mr. Sykes does not sell guns, but on Tuesday he is expected to become the only federally licensed dealer in Washington to serve as the transfer agent for the carefully controlled transactions that will put guns in the hands of district residents.There are no gun stores here, and a resident who buys a gun elsewhere must have the weapon shipped to a licensed dealer in the district. Mr. Sykes’s permit will allow him to receive the weapon and, for a transaction fee of $125, he will ensure that the requisite paperwork is prepared for approval by federal and district officials before handing over the weapon to its new owner. Mr. Sykes has been handling this kind of transaction since 1994 for security firms, police officers and the like. His enterprise, CS Exchange Limited and located in the southeast Washington neighborhood of Anacostia, is not listed in the telephone book, and he does not advertise. But his name is commonly known in local gun circles, and he can be found on the Internet.Mr. Sykes said his firearms work was a sideline — he would not name his full-time employer — and he had no thoughts of selling guns. “I don’t know of any firearms dealer in the greater metropolitan area that hasn’t been broken into,” he said. “I don’t want the headache of having to secure a stockpile of weapons.”There may be a few other holders of federal firearms licenses in the city, but according to the police, he will soon be the only one to offer this service. There was a surge of people contacting him after the Supreme Court’s ruling, but Mr. Sykes said some people had lost interest upon learning how long it was taking him to receive the necessary approval. As of Tuesday, however, if all goes according to plan, a resident of the District of Columbia who purchases a gun should expect to receive the weapon within three weeks of purchase. Mr. Sykes relocated his business in February; the new location was certified by the federal firearms agency in July. He applied for an annual license from the District Police Department, and that is the license he should receive Tuesday, said Traci Hughes, a police spokeswoman. At that point, prospective new gun owners will for the first time be able to obtain weapons from out of state and have them duly licensed in the district.Mr. Sykes said that so far only about 10 district residents had approached him for the transfer of newly purchased weapons. Still, there are indications that business may pick up eventually.Dale Metta, the manager of Atlantic Guns in nearby Silver Spring, Md., said he had received “lots of interest from D.C. residents, but the problem has been that Mr. Sykes was not yet ready for business.” Mr. Metta said in the weeks after the Supreme Court’s ruling he received at least 10 visits a day from Washington residents interested in buying a gun.Also, the District Police Department has provided 412 firearms applications to the public, Ms. Hughes said. Mr. Sykes, meanwhile, is counseling patience. “You’ve waited for 33 years,” he said. “What is another month or two?”