There’s an old saying (especially true for gun control advocates) that it’s better for people to think you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. A certain elected official neglected to heed this advice and made what might possibly be the dumbest string of statements since Carolyn McCarthy spoke about the “shoulder thing that goes up.” In response, AeroPrecision has designed and started selling a special “Ghost Gun” edition receiver, with markings such as the notation used for Democrats as the “safe” position, “.30 Caliber Clip” for “fire,” and “half second” for full auto. While the “ghost gun” described by the California politician is technically a completed 80% receiver, the AeroPrecision firearms are serialized and complete receivers that need to ship to an FFL. But you can buy one for $105 and laugh maniacally as you imagine the stream of tears flowing from gun control advocates’ faces as you take ‘er to the range.
Kinda funny, but would have been much better if it were an actual 80% receiver. Or full rifle with the shoulder thing that goes up!
Yes! It defeats the whole point to have a serial number on it. If it was a real 80%, I’d buy one in a hearbeat.
Yes, and even BETTER if they knew the difference between a Clip” and a “Magazine”… Oh, wait. The poly-ticians do not know the difference either—forgot about that….
IMHO, this and other gun blogs are trying way too hard to legitimize the entirely made-up, nonsense term “ghost gun”.
Because making fun of something stupid is completely legitimizing it.
I swear theres a group of people who read TTAG that just HAVE to bitch about SOMETHING.
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Does it come with a bottle of Liberal Tears oil?
This is why I read TTAG.
Excellent job.
The more pro-gun legislation the better. Anyone else think some of these lockdowns are over the top ignorance?
I’m really not much of a Tacticool Mattel Toy fan… but I just might have to add one of these to the collection… just for the lulz.
Didn’t the Ghost Busters have a ghost gun thingie…never mind
But does it come with ghost-goggles?
A cocktail party? Well, la dee da
If it was half the price it would be shipping to the ffl. That is DAMN funny though!
$150 isn’t bad for a fully machined lower. I’ve seen them go for a lot more than that.
Very cool; I’ll have to get me two of those – one for daily wear, and one for my loonnngggg gun.
60-degree bolt throw a functional liability? You have never used a Lee-Enfield SMLE or No4 in a 5 or 10 rounds rapid course. They are so much faster than a Mauser type action it is a competitive advantage.
I think you misread the post.
My eyes have gotten to the point where I can focus on the front sight, the rear sight or the target but not more than two. I have transitioned all my rifles to scopes. The only open sighted long gun I use is my shotgun. For some reason I can still hit the target at 100 yards with the rifled barrel.
This should have been made out of plastic from a 3-D printer.
That simply isn’t true, on the one hand because it rarely made sense to have slavery or serfdom anyway, even in the days before guns (which is why those things vanished from western Europe well before then), and on the other hand because, when it did make sense to have them, those very democratised forms of violence were put to work enforcing those things anyway. You know, like the way democratised Colt guns played such a large part in bringing slavery to parts of Mexico. (You did know that legalising slavery was a large part of why settlers in Texas revolted, right?)
As for the rest…
True but irrelevant. Prior to the invention of firearms, for centuries the strongest form of combat was the Swiss update of the phalanx; that used pikes rather than edged weapons, and needed little training (what there was could be acquired in the field, and in fact the system relied on only having trained men in certain positions). ‘A state could always conscript “spear fodder”, but they were generally not worth their feeding…’ is, bluntly, wrong. C.W.C.Oman described the Swiss system well in his The Art of War.
Wrong. The hoplite class was like that, but it was more of an elite than that, and much less democratic. The democratic and less elite parts, up to and including mere free yeomen, only had to be ready to serve as rowers in the navy; they needed to be fit and co-ordinated, and to bring their own sliding cushions, but no more.
The former is false, unless you restrict that to mean in ordinary combat; otherwise, simple ambushes can do it every time. The latter is false, in that it ignores the usual successful case: when the mob serves to extend the application of an outnumbered elite group, e.g. the way the French could never have defeated the British in 1781 if the rabble in arms hadn’t tied the British up too much.
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Absolutely beautiful. I am a complete rifle loony and these qualify as serious wood. Yeah, I said it. I would love a metric set of these: 6.5×55, 7×57, 8×57, and 9.3×62. Why? Because I can.
New TTAG award. Mount on a plaque and award for uttering something stupid about guns.
A single round… in the middle of the hallway…
Clear evidence of an assault rifle skulking around, looking to eat children.
Seriously, its pathetic that the schools don’t realize that the students are taking advantage of them, specifically in high schools.
For the record, the bill received no support and was put in the suspense file… then a few minutes later, they passed SB808 substituting the roll call vote from SB199.
Edit: Ghost voting on ghost guns!
I have to give it up to the cops that were on that stage behind him, they kept their faces completely straight when I’m sure they wanted to scream,”NOOOOOOO!”
I would like to know who they were and ask them why they let this guy destroy their credibility by not correcting him. Standing there silently was an endorsement.
I live in Germany and have a Jagdschein (hunting license) I am not sure what restrictive laws TTAC refers to, but when it comes to rifles here in Germany if you are a hunter you may own as many as you want. We are restricted to 2 handguns (for more you need a sport shooters license) but if you want to but 100 rifles it is not an issue. .22 kits are very popular for semi-auto handguns as they do not count as an extra handgun.
Having said that, many of my friends have Blaser R98/93 with the interchangeable barrels. They look cool but cost a fortune and the extra barels cost more than say a nice Browing X Bolt. THe other thing no one ever mentions is the absolutely insane prices of things like scope mount. For most Blasers you are looking at $600-$1000. A Mauser M03 only takes their scope mount and it costs around $600 USD here.
Explosive collar with a 60 delay. Give the bastard 1 minute of terror for his victims… Then BOOM!
Have you never heard of a trapdoor Springfield? Those were the rifle between the muzzle loaders and the Krag and there were plenty of trapdoors in Cuba!
Name the court case between Mauser and the US govt… Tired of looking yet? That’s because there never was one, the author just repeats wrong information. http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=15846
As mentioned above, the sling is attached to the stacking swivel, the proper sling swivel is missing. I guess they did that to keep the upper band from falling off since it’s retaining screw is missing.
For many years I had a Marlin 336C in 35 Rem. – Great rifle. It dissapeared a few years ago… I found out the story of where it went after my dad passed away last year. In the end I replaced the 336C with a R92 in 357 mag. Never scoped either and although the Marlin had more power I had never taken a shot over 75 or 80 yards – the 357 mag. with a 16″ barrel has proven to be quite effective.
My group just finished a demo at the stock show and my rifle failed. This is an older custom piece that will take some time to have repaired. I’ve got a few weeks before a show in Wyoming and need some suggestions. Will the loop on this Rossi allow the gun to be swung in a circle in front of you and also back cocked (swung down & then back up)? This is all imatating Chuck and John, but that is what the crowd loves. I do some fast hip shooting too, but it is with special loads, short distances, large targets, etc. I’m stuck here without my smith and will have to work it out on my own. Thanks in advance for any good advice you can offer.
First time I ever had to call 911 I was put on hold, that was a huge eye opener for me, I don’t even live in the [D]’s Utopias such as Chicago or NYC.
Anyone seen this, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOTOLlMTQ4
Don’t give the popo shyte for being late to the party, they might slap you and haul you off to jail.
So is this THAT much better than a nice loaded Springfield? Really?
I thought you’d have taught your wife the 4 rules before buying her a gun. Hope in one hand…
Price point and UTILITY My 500 came with 2 barrels for $320.00 I got a Hogue tamer pistol grip for $21.00 and change and a 18″ security barrel for $55.00. All parts new and have gone through about 1000 rounds without any more than a sore shoulder. A very sore shoulder. 😛
To me it seems like they are holding this couple up as an example of something strange and alien to polite culture. Or they just made a commercial for the M&P.
Ahhh, why feed the Dead Tree Troll?
For decades these yellow rags have touted the endless stream of “VS” to justify their existence, if not relevance
My LGS already has one…
I love my Mossberg but it is a jiggly wiggly thing… shot many 25 straights with it for 10+ years but I recently acquired a 58′ Winchester model 12 pigeon grade that was never fired and in comparison, the mossy feels like a nerf toy. Have to love old model 12s
Yeah… this here paper signed by BHO will protect me more than the 1911 he don’t want me owning. So stop right there you dirty little sexual deviant.
We know what “having your back” means to barack, just ask George Z how the prez was there for him. Even though this wasn’t sexual assault it shows the caliber of the clown. It’s just 2014 political theater, Randy
Most hunting is done at distances where this would be no help. At < 100 yards, this would probably cost you more shots than it helped you with as you fiddled with extra steps. My 300 winmag is basically a point blank gun out to 300 yards. I have never hunted out west, but from what I gather while you might see distances where this would help, you are also going to be doing a lot more hiking and the extra weight of a system like this will be a problem. As far as hunting goes, this looks like a solution to a problem that does not exist.