Back in 1982, the City Council in Kennesaw Georgia didn’t like the news from up north. Up in the Land of Lincoln, the Morton Grove Illinois City Council passed an ordinance outlawing firearms within city limits. (Since struck down by the Supreme Court’s McDonald decision). In response, Kennesaw famously passed a city ordinance mandating gun ownership for its residents, exempting anyone who couldn’t or wouldn’t comply. At the time the ordinance was considered political thee-ater. Over time, the academics looked closer . . .
Despite dire warnings that the ordinance would result in blood running in the streets, Kennesaw’s crime rate decreased by more than 50 percent between 1982 and 2005. It now has one of the lowest crime rates in the Atlanta metropolitan area. In 2007, Family Circle magazine selected Kennsaw as one of the nation’s “10 best towns for families.”
wsbtv.com reports that Nelson, Georgia is similarly P.O.ed at the current push for civilian disarmament. Some 31 years later, Nelson wants to get some of that pro-gun sugar.
Council members in Nelson, a city of about 1,300 residents that’s located 50 miles north of Atlanta, voted unanimously to approve the Family Protection Ordinance. The measure requires every head of household to own a gun and ammunition to “provide for the emergency management of the city” and to “provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants.” . . .
Councilman Duane Cronic, who sponsored the measure, said he knows the ordinance won’t be enforced but he still believes it will make the town safer.
“I likened it to a security sign that people put up in their front yards. Some people have security systems, some people don’t, but they put those signs up,” he said. “I really felt like this ordinance was a security sign for our city. Basically it was a deterrent ordinance to tell potential criminals they might want to go on down the road a little bit.”
I’m sure the residents of Dawsonville, Jasper, Canton and Holly Springs like the sound of that. Or not. Anyway, just how much crime could there be in this town of 1,300 nestled in the foothills of the Appalachians?
Not much, admits Police Chief Heath Mitchell, the town’s only full-time police officer. It’s been five years since they had a homicide and there may be a minor break-in every few months. But backers wanted to make a statement about gun rights and basically fart in the gun grabbers’ collective faces. Mission accomplished.
Sure, blame the gun for your failure to adapt. Grip angle is an excuse; you override grip angle every time you line up the sights. If you blame grip angle for poor recovery, then you are failing to address the problem with your grip technique for recoil management. Learn to recalibrate your brain to any gun by mixing up the guns you shoot–revolvers, small semi autos, Glock, 1911’s, SIGs and so forth. If you cannot recalibrate in a magazine or two, then you have one or more problems in your technique that should be addressed through professional instruction.
As for boring practice: stop your whining!! A bad day on the range is better than a great day at work. Get off your butt and DRY FIRE a variety guns every night for one hour total. Put in the time or continue to suck at shooting in silence.
A warning to my brothers and sisters in gun-friendly states. I live in New York. Please don’t let what happened to us happen to you. All it took was one high-profile mass shooting and my rights to buy another modern sporting rifle (which were already limited) are gone. The AR I do own has to be registered. No more internet ammo sales after Jan 14, 2014. No mags with a cap higher than 10, and we’re only allowed to load 7.
Be vigilant. Write your reps constantly and oppose any attempts at any gun control. Join the NRA, GOA, NAGR, SAF, JPFO or whatever other gun-rights advocacy group floats your boat. VOTE! In every election state and local. I hate to get partisan, but probably a good idea not to vote for any Democrats. I knwo there are pro-gun Democrats out there, and it is pro-gun Deomcrat Senators who will ultimately kibosh Federal gun grabs, but there is always the risk they will cave. Do not vote for any Democrat unless you are sure he or she is an ardent supporter of the 2nd Amendment who will not bend to pressure.
You must fight. The blue states are lost, though us Blue-staters who can’t move at the moment will battle on. If we lose the red states, it’s all over.
I’m so sick and tired of the left and their misrepresentation of everyone who doesn’t think like them.
If we want legal immigration, they say we hate brown people.
If we want marriage to remain defined as it has been for 2000 years, they say we want to lynch homosexuals.
If we want abortion made rare they say we hate woman.
If we say give schools the choice to tool up against would be mass murderers they say we want to turn our schools into prisons and on and on…
GFY you leftist scumbags! Do they ever stop to think for a moment how vulnerable our children are at school? Have they completely forgotten what happened in Beslan Chechnya? Fools.
Keep suing your state and we’ll keep sending your organizations money to do so.
Meanwhile as criminals continue to do whatever our complaint will be vindicated and as police victimize the everyman people will see who occupies the ethical ground.
There is no implementation and enforcement of these gun controls that won’t look like (and be) a militarized state committing human rights violations.
There is a show on Animal Planet about a gun store. They usually just build high quality hunting rifles, cowboy action shooting guns, and occasionally gun smithing. Though they have some cool stuff. First episode I watched one guy traded in like 30 or 40 junked guns and a part of the junk guns were 4 12 guage shotguns designed to be fired from the wings of an airplane. The guys got them fixed and attached them to an ATV which was pretty cool in my opinion.
They’re mad because they thought this was their woodstock. They thought they were gonna get a bunch of lemmings lining up to turn in their guns and what happened? The only bills passed in the states so far were in NY where they did a late night backroom deal that never would’ve passed if there was publicity and Colorado where the Dems are gonna be destroyed in 2014 for it. Plus a benefit of all these state bills is that they will all be challenged in multiple district courts which will mean they’ll go to the SCOTUS faster and when they’re all struck down, it’ll be the greatest political backfiring and over-extenstion probably in history.
So much FAIL compressed into so little time.
Akdal has a next generation model, the Akdal MKA-1919 XN. According to RAAC, the differences are:
* XN has a commonized magazine that fits both size shells, 2 3/4 and 3 inch;
* XN has a reverse thread locking nut on the op rod to keep the barrel tight. Early guns have the tendency to work loose after firing;
* XN shotguns have a gas system that has been reworked to give about 30% more power coming out of the barrel. This helps on break in for those of us that try to break the shotgun in with low power shells;
* XN shotguns also have a metal trigger;
I thought the readers would be interested in the latest and greatest.