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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Watch all of this video (it’s long) or my comments will make no sense at all.
Allow me to weigh in a bit. I’ve never seen or heard of this guy (“Caleb” from Gun Nuts Media – I have no idea if that’s his real name or a nom de guerre). I have visited his site once as you’ll see below, and I’ll never visit again.
He impresses me as a spoiled little boy, a narcissist, a child who was never spanked, a liar, and a drama queen who writes click bait for his web site and soap operas for his YouTube channel. He’s much too emotional for my tastes.
If he was never spanked as a child, he certainly was by Paul in this video. He deserved it. I agree with everything Paul said, but even if I had not, there’s a moral issue at stake here. It comes from Leviticus 19:32. “Caleb,” if you need help with exegesis of that, write me a note.
On the issue of revolvers and “hitting” or slapping the ejector rod, I’ve done that as long as I’ve been shooting revolvers. I’ve never had a problem. The only problem I’ve ever had was with a S&W R8 revolver.
It’s tolerances are tight, and it’s very accurate. I’m sure those are related things. I could have taken the time to ream the cylinder a bit and gotten better performance, but there would still be the issue of the forcing cone being so tight against the cylinder.
Within 50 rounds without fail, shooting high power .357 magnum ammunition which of course runs very hot, the metal would expand and cause either (a) the brass to fail to come out of the cylinder (which necessitated me striking the ejector rod pretty hard), or (b) the cylinder seizing against the forcing cone until the gun cooled down.
I dumped the gun. It was a wonderful gun, but I just wanted to shoot more than it would allow without heating up too much. Every other wheel gun I’ve ever shot only had that problem to a much less degree, this one to a much greater degree.
Basically, it’s 2019, and if you aren’t shooting 9mm as a primary pistol cartridge, you need to re-evaluate your life choices. It’s now an undisptued fact that modern 9mm ammo can give ballistic performance on par with 40 S&W, 45 Auto, and pretty much every other handgun cartridge.
“Re-evaluate your life choices.” Being a bit dramatic, are we? If you shoot anything other than 9mm you need to “re-evaluate your life choices.”
Okay, first of all, it’s simply not true. Oh, it may be close for two-legged threats, but it’s certainly not true for four-legged threats. Moreover, if someone happens to shoot .45 ACP or .40 S&W better than 9mm, or .38 Spl better, they should be allowed to shoot whatever works for them without internet know-it-alls telling them not to. Some rounds push, some rounds snap and cause more pronounced muzzle flip.
Either way, I don’t think there’s a nickel’s worth of difference between someone telling you that you shouldn’t be allowed to have such-and-such gun, and someone telling you that you should shoot such-and-such a gun because I say so. Each is a different form of collectivism. I can’t stand collectivists. Mind your own business.
And “Caleb,” grow up, little boy, and quit being a drama queen. Maybe when you do, you can be like Paul.
As of March 2020, we have found 20 more handgun cases, for a total of 93 cases, with three failures, for a success rate of 97%.
In addition to the handgun defenses, there are four more instances where handguns were used in combination with long guns, bringing the total to eight; one where a pistol was used on an aggressive bear hit by a vehicle, two examples where pistols were present but not used, one indeterminate case, and two examples of unconfirmed incidents. All of these additional incidents are referenced but are not included in the 93 cases or the 97% success rate.
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The handgun calibers, when known, range from .22 rimfire to .460 Smith & Wesson Magnum. The most common are .44 magnums with 28 cases, all successful. There were 2 combinations of .44 magnum and .357 magnum cases. Six of the combination handgun and long gun cases involved .44 magnum revolvers.
For this update, we found another .22 rimfire case, two additional 9mm cases, another .38 special case, three additional .357 magnum cases, another 10mm case, five additional .44 magnum cases (included in the 28 total .44 magnum number), another .45 ACP case, another .454 Casull case, four more cases where the caliber was unknown, and one more case where both .357 and .44 magnum revolvers were used. All 93 cases are referenced below, as well as the combination cases and examples of incidents that were not included, in the interest of transparency and completeness.
And he lists the cases for any detractors, stating that they can be independently verified.
Once again, congratulations to Dean on outstanding research. Lesson: In the bush, carry means of self defense. I prefer a larger bore bullet, specifically, 45 SMC.
What would TheAlaskan think about carrying a .22LR for self defense in the Alaskan bush? I think I’ll take a pass on that.
… Assemblyman David Chiu, resurrected a gun-grabber dream list priority, microstamping, a requirement for firearms to mark an identifier on ammunition casings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Disregard for a moment that professional reporter Alexei Koseff and his editors seem confused at times and tell readers the “unique imprint [will be left on] on bullets that are fired.”
It seems to be happening with regularity in places that aren’t otherwise amenable to God-given rights of self defense. Concern for Coronavirus patients isn’t his primary concern. Control of people is.
I’ve said it before, the desire to control others is the signal sociopathology of the wicked. And I hate to say it again, but if you waited until now to get your firearms and ammunition, you waited too late.
From reading reddit/firearms and other sites, it’s obvious that run-of-the-mill progs (i.e., the ones not in charge) who are hunting for weapons at the moment, first of all seem to have given up on their anti-gun fetish (it only takes a pandemic to jettison foolish ideas).
Second, they are finding that it isn’t as easy to get them as they had been told, are having to wait, and are paying higher prices than if they had jettisoned those beliefs long ago. Finally, they’re finding that there is no ammunition.
1X magnification, of course, obviously meant for a MSR. Decent price point: $365. Auto dot shutdown upon no movement for five minutes, total of 1000 hours on middle setting.
While the news is filled with gloom and doom over Coronavirus scares, some good news came out of the West Virginia earlier today. WV Governor Jim Justice signed a bill that reinforces the state’s preemption law. Senate Bill 96 is part of a concerted effort by pro-gun politicians in WV to prevent anti-gun municipalities from passing anti-gun local ordinances that could restrict the rights of WV citizens.
The wording of Senate Bill 96 is very encompassing and deliberate. This is ideal for any legislation dealing with fundamental human rights as it helps prevent future politicians from resticting those rights by playing on the ambiguity them.
Well good. But we’re not finished yet. Not even nearly.
As best as I can ascertain, the special agent was investigating corruption in the Franklin County Sheriff’s department. It appears that the deputy in question wrote a ticket, and then rescinded it because the person to whom the ticket was issued was politically powerful, wealthy, or otherwise connected.
The FBI was investigating that (I would surmise, among other things). He called the deputy’s cell phone and chose a time and place to avoid letting the Sheriff’s office know about the investigation. Makes sense to me.
In what the Dallas Police Department is calling an expansion of alternate reporting methods, they are amending their response protocols to limit officer contact with the public for non-emergency and property-related offenses. They say that this will not affect their responses to crimes against persons and other “High Priority Calls”.
Instead of officer responses, victims are being asked to use the Dallas Online Reporting System and click on the “File a Police Report Online” tab. The Dept says that an investigation will be conducted just as if an officer had taken the report at the scene.
Among the low-level crimes affected are Burglary of a Motor Vehicle, Criminal Mischief, Reckless Damage, Shoplifting, Property Theft (Auto Accessories), and similar.
As a reminder to regular readers, and a brief primer for new readers, the police are under no legal obligation to protect anyone.
I was shocked to see this post over at Say Uncle. I’m so very sorry to him, and words cannot possibly convey my heartfelt sympathy or the pain and grief he is bearing right now.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Office will suspend pistol and concealed-carry permit applications until April 30 as demand surges amid the coronavirus outbreak, Sheriff Gerald Baker announced Tuesday.
Applications that have already been submitted will continue to be processed, Baker said during a press briefing.
Pistol permit applications last week averaged 290 per day, or more than three times the roughly 90 applications per day during the same time period a year ago, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Baker said his office needs time to manage the backlog.
“This decision does not limit anyone’s right to purchase a handgun,” he said in a news release.
Of course, that’s a lie and he knows it.
All permitting schemes are an infringement upon God-given rights, including the one in North Carolina. If the Sheriff had said that he was stopping the processing of concealed handgun permits only, then he might have been correct, but since North Carolina has a permitting scheme for BOTH pistol purchases and concealed handgun carry, that means if someone wanted to go purchase a handgun tomorrow, he would be unable to if he lived in Wake County.
About 300,000 people hold licenses for guns in each of the Czech Republic and Hungary, both with about 10 million inhabitants. Licenses are not mandatory for some light arms.
“We are selling five times as much as in a normal March,” said Gabor Vass, who runs three gun shops in the Hungarian capital including the one where Rostas bought his gas pistol.
“We could sell 15 times more if we had any more rubber bullet weapons, but we ran out.”
The shop, little bigger than a phone booth and tucked inside a suburban shopping center on the edge of Budapest, was hardly designed for an onrush of customers. But last week brought a heavy stream, people from all walks of life.
