Barrel Length, The Long And The Short Of It
BY Herschel Smith
Of course, I agree with one fellow in the comments. Firearms are only as good as the person who owns them. If they’re never intended to be used as a guarantee against tyranny, you may as well not have them.
ARFCOM: He missed the boat on N.C. pistol repeal bill, which has already been vetoed by the Goober of N.C., Roy Cooper.
This goes along with an article I read a day or two ago (via WiscoDave).
The man selling me the pistol puts his finger on a number in a box in the top upper left corner. That number is 2,657. It is 12:30 PM on a Tuesday.
“That’s the number of pistols sold and sent for background checks so far today in California.”
“Two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven guns sold today in California? Really?”
“It’ll be at least 5,000 by midnight tonight.”
“Really?”
“Really. We’ve been seeing between 5,000 and 6,000 a day since January. In California. Seven days a week.”
Ponder that one again. 5000 guns per day in California. Tens or hundreds of thousands more across this land. The gun control horse left the barn a very long time ago. They’ll never get it back in.
I found this to be a useful and very practical video.
The gun of an Alaska state trooper shot while trying to serve an arrest warrant malfunctioned during the encounter, charging documents said.
The trooper underwent several surgeries after Monday’s shooting, according to an affidavit signed by an investigator for the agency, Timothy Cronin, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Wednesday.
The shooting happened outside of a general store in Anchor Point when trooper Bruce Brueggeman attempted to serve an arrest warrant to Bret Herrick, 60.
Herrick was arrested a day later near his home. He has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault in the shooting, and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
Alaska State Troopers are issued Glock 22s. Too bad he wasn’t using a 1911. My 1911s have never failed to function, not even once in thousands and thousands of rounds.
I know. 8 + 1. Well, his Glock 22 gave him 0 + 0.
My purpose here is not to argue about the merits or dangers of the “treatment”—my own position is that I have seen enough credible evidence of serious risks to make me realize I am not qualified to give my informed consent to receive the shot(s), however many those turn out to be. But that’s not what I want to talk about. We’re here to look at threats to our right to keep and bear arms, and Austin’s mandate creates a huge one.
By now I presume most AmmoLand readers have seen attorney and author Evan Nappen’s analysis of how not being “vaccinated” could land someone on the “No Fly” list, and how Democrats (and some idiot Republicans) have been pushing for “No Fly/No Buy” for years.
Leave it to gun-grabbers to figure out a way to exploit the health hysteria to advance citizen disarmament. That, along with Sec. Austin’s total order raises a serious question.
“If they are tried and convicted in the appeals court, the case reaches the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. If a service member is convicted in this court, they would likely receive a dishonorable discharge, a bad-conduct discharge, or, in the case of an officer, a dismissal.”
Yes, that had occurred to me, but I thought the specific question on Form 4473 had to do with “other than honorable discharge.” Either way, that box would have to be checked, and no sales transaction would take place. For the rest of their lives.
This is a serious situation for Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. But the trouble doesn’t stop there.
Simple. Force unvaccinated individuals on the no-fly list, and then they are entered into the NICS database.
The fun never stops does it?
He raises a very interesting question at the end of the video that had not occurred to me when I first saw the stupid report. Point: virtually everything you see is staged propaganda, or has the high probability of being so.
We surely don’t want these weapons of war coming across the ocean like the disposed Afghans surely will and through the porous border. We need gun control – now!
Maybe this was all planned. Maybe somebody is trying to cover their tracks by handing over weapons technology that ultimately ends up in the hands of Iran, Pakistan and China.
Maybe.
Some of you will say “I told you so” concerning the brilliance of the 6.5 Grendel when we’ve discussed this in the past. But one nice thing about this cartridge is that an upper swap combined with another magazine gives you another rifle. Buying a 6.5 Creedmoor rifle, for example, means switching to a completely different rifle, i.e., an AR-10 rather than an AR-15, with all of its recoil, weight and nonstandard parts lists.
There is this recent article from Recoil. Here is a fairly recent video. AR15.com does a gell test with the 6.5 Grendel.
And finally, near the end of last year, Ryan Muckenhirn did a very good discussion of the cartridge.
Anyway, it seems like a good upper to have, as well as a legitimate White Tail cartridge. It didn’t seem to catch on as fast as the 6.5 Creedmoor, but it wasn’t a “flash in the pan” either.