Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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The millions of law-abiding Americans who have chosen to carry a concealed firearm are putting “everyone involved at risk,” the ATF announced this week in a tweet on X.
“Take a look into our world. This is a scenario @ATFWasington frequently faces when combatting violent crime and maintaining public safety. Many people attempt to conceal firearms on their person or belongings which puts everyone involved at risk. #MakeDCSafeAgain #ATF,” the ATF tweeted on X.
As you can imagine, ATF’s message received hundreds of overwhelmingly negative responses including many that are not fit to reprint.
I’m sure they did – and I’m sure they deserved them all.
This is the first video I’ve seen that frankly admits that it takes too much time, too many resources, and too much manpower to catch hogs in traps. And the first to admit that hunting has the most immediate and dramatic impact on the population.
There is one issue I have with the video. He says, “When you shoot one the rest won’t come back.” Hogwash. I’ve seen it happen within 15 minutes.
By the way, you see that shot at 13:13 of the video? That’s how you take hogs (direct hit to the head or just behind the ear) with smaller caliber rifles. With big bore guns you aren’t so limited.
Houston police — the real ones — are investigating a lethal home defense shooting that took place late Friday night in the southeast part of the city. Two men knocked on a homeowner’s door claiming they were police officers and were there to serve a warrant. To his credit, the homeowner didn’t just open the door. As KHOU reports . . .
“[The homeowner] became suspicious, because, you know, they have a ring camera too, and the suspects were saying they had a warrant, but it was just two people and they’re masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that,” said Lt. Khan with HPD.
At some point, police said the men shot at the homeowner through the door, prompting the homeowner to return fire.
This is yet another instance of criminals posing as cops doing a no-knock SWAT raid. I’ve cataloged other such instances over these pages.
And once again to the cops reading these pages, this is why we can’t just roll over and beg for our lives because you stand at the door cursing at us and beating on the door, or because you don’t do that and you just bust in the door and point guns at us.
We MUST assume that this is a gang of criminals intent on harming our family. If you have any sense at all, you’ll understand my point.
Military, police, and private gun users have seen problems with the Sig P320 series — which includes M18s — for years now, Laramie-based gunsmith Brian Dimoff told Cowboy State Daily in a July interview.
Dimoff did not immediately respond to a Monday morning voicemail request for a follow-up interview.
Dimoff said last month that he believes the issue is that Sig Sauer tried to design its striker system without infringing Glock’s patent of that same system, and so made an ill-fitting design that may slip over time.
The internal pieces are under spring pressure and a block keeps the firing action at bay. If the pieces don’t fit together well, they’ll loosen over time and be prone to jolts.
“If one part begins to slip off another part, it’s a matter of time before it moves all the way down and you’re going to have a striker hit the primer,” Dimoff said.
As for Dimoff, he owns a P320 and says it’s a “great gun,” but he’s had it both customized and tested to the point of comfort.
It’s difficult for me to see how any striker fired gun can be “great,” but I’ll leave it at that.
This is an interesting hypothesis. I’ve always thought (and have said so over these pages) that the problem stemmed from tolerance stacks and parts wear. He’s adding to it by saying the specific design was to prevent patent infringement.
I’ve also read that the project began as a hammer fired gun (they should have left it at that) and evolved to a striker fired gun. Because big army: “We want a striker. Give us a striker.”
First, I don’t agree with him that bolt action rifles are old and passé. Most sniper rifles in use in militaries around the world are still bolt action rifles (for tolerance issues, seating near the lands, etc., things that a semiautomatic doesn’t do as well).
Second, I like wheel guns for the same reason I like walnut furniture on rifles and lever action guns. The elegance and beauty of the thing, as well as the tip of the hat to older times. There’s just something about being connected to your heritage.
Third, I still think wheel guns are a valid and viable carry firearm. Semiautomatics haven’t replaced wheel guns, just supplemented them.
The late Queen refused to open an airport terminal after a relative on his way to see her at Balmoral was stopped from boarding a plane with his guns, he has claimed.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, revealed he was prevented from taking his shotguns on a flight from Bristol to Aberdeen.
He told Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast how a “sweet check-in lady” told him the hold was accessible from the cabin so they would not be secure, despite him telling a manager: “The Queen’s sending me a car and she’s expecting me for tea.”
In the end, his guns were left in the police armory at the airport and Lord Ivar took the flight to Scotland to join the Queen for the shooting weekend in the Highlands.
Later that day at Balmoral, when he recounted the tale to the Queen, it led to her “getting rather irritated” and dispatching her equerry to arrange transportation of the guns, Lord Ivar said.
The aristocrat, who is also Elizabeth II’s distant cousin, told Brandreth: “She said…’I would like Lord Ivar’s guns to be up here tomorrow morning. Please see to it’.
“Whereupon she turns back to me and she looks at me over her glasses with a glint in her eye and she says ‘They want me to open their new terminal’. She says ‘I don’t think I will now’.”
Lord Ivar added: “So every time I go back to Bristol Airport now, it was opened by the Princess Royal, I have a quiet laugh to myself.”
Anne first opened a terminal building at Bristol Airport in 2000, and later opened a terminal extension in 2015.
Lord Ivar, whose great-uncle was Earl Mountbatten, this year appeared in the third season of the reality show The Traitors US.
I don’t call any man Lord. The British peasants would want those firearms today. Yes they would.
If you’re unarmed, it’s not a revolution. I’m sorry, but while “footballers” were fighting over something silly like teams, the globalists were very busy. They have the arms, so at the moment they have the upper hand.
He makes good points, but unsaid is the difference between static lines of conflict versus fire and maneuver warfare, and especially expeditionary warfare (US Marines).
Ammunition and weight matter more than anything else.
First, Tim Sundles explains how to chamber a round. And then next, why chambering the same round over and over again can shorten the cartridge. I found this to be very educational.
Next up, the Sig P320 absolutely, positively, without any shadow of a doubt cannot discharge a round without a complete pull of the trigger. And it certainly can’t do it twice. Understand that, boys and girls? Got it?
On the lighter side, if you want a multifaceted gun that can do other things by itself, keep watching.
Next up, Ben Stoeger has some not so kind things to say about the CZ Shadow 2. For the record, I love the CZ Shadow 2. His preferred gun over the Shadow 2? The Atlas 2011, a $6000+ gun. LOL. I think I’ll stick with the Shadow 2.
