Canadian shooters don’t exactly live in a gun-owner’s paradise. Still, the news isn’t all bad up there. That image isn’t Photoshopped: it’s the Dominion Arms ‘Grizzly’ 8.5″ shotgun. It holds five shots and for our friends in the Great White North it’s in stock now for just $449 Canadian. But only for Canadians. Importation of individual firearms into the US is . . .
a bureaucratic nightmare, and good old-fashioned NFA transfers are hardly any better. Despite the hiring of extra paper-pushers at the ATF’s NFA Branch last year, my LGS tells me that suppressor customers are still looking at about a 12-month wait before they can take their cans home.
The price of NFA transfers doesn’t bother me. Okay, that’s not totally correct, they do bother me, but I can deal with an extra $200 as the price of doing business. But I’m too impatient and too frugal (not to mention too outraged by the ATF’s bureaucratic inertia) to spend almost $1,000 for something I won’t get to use for a whole year.
This is exactly the same “training” the entire DoD gets for “workplace violence/active shooter” response. When I voice the fact that the instructions should be “return fire”, my chain-of-command gets slightly cross-eyed…..
Damn…looks like gunkid is back again, he finally dumped that silly assault wheelbarrow for something more practical.
After a surprising turn of event Pres. O, unilaterally overturned all prior gun control legislation enabling ALL US citizens to Constitutionally carry. Here we see average California citizens legally carrying legal arms in full compliance with the US Constitution.
I want to give kudos to the Maricopa County SD. The school district might be full of fail but at least the sheriffs department knows the different between a toy and a weapon.
The more that school faculty and administration want to make a criminal case out of what are hardly even worthy of calling childhood foibles or at worst minor disobedience issues in the face of incomprehensible, counter-intuitive and draconian rules, the more I want to see minors protected under the full weight of the BoR when facing criminal charges originated by school personnel. I realize the massive pitfalls and the unworkable nature of the suggestion, its just that thinking about teachers and administrators in some of these misguided districts having to deal with students who enjoy the protection of the 1st, 4th, 5th and 14th amendments. Let them sweat over due process and the right to representation, security from unwarranted search and seizure and the like until they beg for a little ‘common sense’ in dealing with childhood indiscretions. Then, once they admit that is what these cases are we can educate them regarding what is a common sense approach to gun shaped pastries, pointed fingers, drawings of guns and the like; ignoring them.
Most of the most compelling arguments against extending the BoR (minus the 2A which has physical safety ramifications) to minors stem in some fashion from the twin ideas that children seldom have ‘criminal’ intent or clearly understand the ramifications of their actions and that adults can and will sort out innocent transgressions by well meaning children as teaching opportunities rather than deserving of punishment. Most also rely on some form of the often unspoken idea that adults want what is best for children and know better than children what is best for them.
I submit that it is impossible to reconcile a suspension over a vaguely gun shaped pastry or calling the police over plastic toys with either the concept that these adults know what is best or that they have the child’s best interests in mind.
Of course there is another way to protect children from irresponsible, ill-informed, immature and arguably despotic faculty and administration, in fact it’s far more logical that an extension of the protection of the BoR to minors: One could attempt to correct the educators who behave in such a way until they are in alignment with the children’s best interests, or else replace them if that proves unworkable. A fantastical and revolutionary idea I know, this ‘remove employees who are ill suited to the tasks for which they were hired’ stuff. My god what would follow? Would you next expect them to perform to some objective standard?
For so long as teachers unions prop them up as inviolate little bureaucrats of their own, insulated from behaving responsibly, demonstrating good judgment or even performing to an acceptable standard this madness will continue.
As an aside, I once managed a large number of employees in a corporation that had more rules than any school ever thought of. However, I was expected to apply policy evenly and in a manner that was proportional and demonstrated good judgment and grasp of the policies intent. Thus immediately terminating an employee who was smoking pot on the job would be a good call while terminating one who had a marijuana leaf pin on his lapel would be an enormous over reach and considered a very bad call, one that would have me being ‘coached’ about proportionality of response and exercise of good judgment. Remember that these were adults, and fully capable of reasoning for themselves what sort of manager I was. I wasn’t apt to change what sort of people they were, only their behavior while under my supervision. Had they been children my ability to be just and proportional in my response to their behavior very well would shape how they would come to see the world and the people they would be as adults.
How is it that we consider it acceptable to have children treated in an unjust and reactively overreaching way when we would condemn such treatment for adults? What sort of adults will these children come to be?
I was working with my FFL for about a month trying to do the transfer via e-file but the ATF’s servers were constantly down for maintenance. This is the same government that wants to control your healthcare too! So I just gave up and filed the old fashioned way. Oh well.
Y’know, I’d not thought about it in a long time, but I saw something like this once in Barstow back in the seventies.
This Morongo couple were in a convenience store and a slime made a pass at the wife, behaving as if the husband was beneath notice.
When the husband told him to back the hell off, the little pr¡ck poked him in the chest – not exactly a blow, but close enough.
The husband then knocked dudester down – three times. The third time the growled warning to stay down took, and down dudester stayed ’til the couple left.
I have to wonder if this might not be something similar, only the skeze was armed?
Oh look at that, a broken clock (i.e. Nancy Grace) just hit 11:36 AM Eastern time. That must mean it’s actually right about something for once.
“But I’m too impatient and too frugal (not to mention too outraged by the ATF’s bureaucratic inertia) to spend almost $1,000 for something I won’t get to use for a whole year.”
This is precisely why I don’t have any NFA items yet (though I’m getting closer, with the recent accelerated pace of the e-Forms). I just can’t stomach the idea of tying up that much cash for that long with nothing to show for it.
It’s unjustified but having just a week ago gotten my last can from exactly a year ago…it adds some variety and fun that you’ll have for the rest of your life to any range trip you choose given the durability of this good and ability to be hosted across models usually.
Looks like a well made piece, but in the end, what do you have? An exceptionally loud pistol that never gets a chance to fully utilize the charge or the projectile that come in the 223/5.56 format. Now, if someone happened to do reloads with a lesser amount of a faster burning powder, perhaps we might be off on the right foot, but by doing so, one would be eliminating one of the strongpoints of having a piece such as this and that would be interchangeability of magazines/ammo with fellow compatriots in the field.
You NEVER EVER want to discharge this thing indoors or in a closed space when you don’t have hearing protection. If you do, you’ll destroy your hearing; period. One of these going off out in the open is bad enough to convince you to never forget your mouse ears or plugs again, but who is doing to want to fumble for hearing protection when noises are heard at 3:00 am?
I have the KelTec PLR16 and have gotten the thing hot with no problems at all. For the money, it’s a far better buy and it doesn’t have (nor need) the rear protruding buffer tube. With a muzzle break, muzzle climb is barely noticeable. Still, in order to make this functionally useable in clearing a house, you’d have to customize your reloads, but then, as I said, you couldn’t trade mags with anyone having a traditional AR platform.
Interesting toy.
Absolutely HATE Nancy Grace. This changes nothing.
What is the actual max effective range of both being able to hit the target and lethality?
BR549 (HeeHaw) although I am definitely no expert on this I wouldn’t load a faster burning powder into the ammo. The increased chamber pressure would probably destroy the weapon and you. Even in 20 inch barrels there is unburned powder coming out of the barrel. I’ve wondered myself if so much of the powder is getting burned outside of the weapon why isn’t ammo and rifles being redesigned to have reduced powder loads (necessitating shorter brass) to operate more efficiently. The 7.62 x 51 is an example of that concept. Its just a shortened case 30-06. Lots of empty space inside of an 06.
Can anyone out the with knowledge on this subject educate me on it?
I’ve often wondered why no one makes a primer that extends almost to the base of the bullet and spews sideways at the tip.
If the charge burns from front to rear, things are far more efficient. That’s why the pinfired shells worked so well.
Ah, well…
Now for a Kalashnikov version…
Держи меня за бутылку водки и смотреть это!
In an unrelated note, can anyone else picture “got fireball? ” becoming a slogan on a LARP t-shirt?
Modern statism is more like religion than political science, and our boy Zack Beauchamp clearly is a fundamentalist. He probably bows down to Washington five times a day.
And yet, if the White House was under the control of the Republicans rather than Zach’s current demigod, I do not believe his worship of state power would be unaffected.
In short, Zach is a useful idiot indeed.
I second Ralph.
It’s good to have a Romulan on our side.
I guess fit is more important than I once thought. My Model 51 was purchased from a pawn shop circa 1964 in near new condition. My hands are smaller than usual for a man so I never had a problem with the 51. It fit my hand nicely and was comfortable to shoot.
Since the major use is for an off duty or concealed carry weapon, I would accept the problems he related in exchange for the easy conceal-ability of the R51 even if the pistol was not all that good a fit.
No gunsmith need ever fear me as a competitor, even so, I never had a problem tearing down my 51 or reassembling it either. It has never misfed or failed me in any way.
Based upon my very pleasant experience with the old 51, I can hardly wait to get my hands on the new R51.
So…did they actually do anything to their product to “introduce it to the tactical market”, or did they just issue a differently worded press release?
Ya ,you ever hear of armor piercing, takes out troops and tanks,I’m just sayin if they have it we have it.Your student was right and you are not right.Citizens do not require universal background checks. AAAHHHH CHECK THE CONSTITUTION,it’s in there.And militia’s would form and the M1 would be dusted in gorilla warfare .So do your homework Mr. Politician.
Why bother?
Just get a Glock or HK and you’re good.
Before my spinal cord injury got too bad, I ran a small business producing kydex gear. If you form a holster to the exact form of the weapon, you will cause wear. To prevent wear, you have to relieve areas of the holster that would drag the weapon during the draw. The biggest culprit of this is the ejection port – you MUST block out the ejection port when forming the kydex, or you’ll cause giant streaks of wear down the slide of the weapon.
You have to build clearance channels for any protrusions, and block out any areas that sink in to the geometry of the gun, such as slide serrations. It’s actually a lot of work, and if you were just to set up your form to make a single holster, you’d spend more time mocking up the gun than you would on the entire rest of the process.
Here’s an example: my M&P Shield holster. I’ve been carrying this for about a year, and it has at least one holster/unholster a day, plus dry fire practice every week or so, and maybe a dozen range trips. The only wear on the weapon itself after all of this is some areas on the plastic frame that have gotten a little glossy. There are no streaks on the slide or anything like that that you see out of most kydex holster carried handguns, it’s practically like the day I got it, though a little dusty.
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Good news until we find him working for Obama next.