A “ghost gun” is a firearm that isn’t registered with the government. Especially and specifically modern sporting rifles made from so-called “80 percent lower receivers”: parts that do NOT have to be registered as firearms with the ATF. Federal law says you can sell them, but not if your intent is to make money (go figure).
State law says . . . different things in different places. [Click here for a quick trip down the ATF rabbit hole on 80 percent guns.] California’s civilian disarmament extremists (a redundant term, but there it is) are looking to close this freedom loophole with SB 808, which would force “ghost guns” into their regulatory maw. Or, if you prefer, to turn their legal owners into criminals.
Gun rights advocates are organizing opposition but how do you defend “untraceable guns”? By saying that guns shouldn’t be traceable, to guard against government tyranny. Good luck with that.
[h/t DrVino]
This will be very difficult to fight. If an established case gets a foothold kiss 80% complete receivers goodbye in 3, 2, 1….
I’ll feel better about CC out there in March when I head to Surprise for spring training. Desert heat in winter, good sense on gun matters… what’s not to like. Oh, right. Scorpions.
This will undoubtedly pass through The Lost State’s utterly disconnected legislature, and Gooberner Brown Nose will invariably sign it with glee in heart and a smile on his stupid face.
I have non convulsive seizures. I fall down and get right back up, atonic seizures. Would I be DQ if competed?
On the other hand, they’ve been preaching a sort of shamanism where guns are possessed by evil spirits for years. Believing they’re ghosts is the next theological step
I was told 90 more days and guns should be in country. They are already being sold in Canada (the Canada rep was laughing that they beat the USA to the punch on something for once). The *only* thing these guns have in common with Glock is employment of plastic frame material and the 9mm cartridge. This is a whole different generation of self loading pistol. Retail should be about $800 for polymer and aluminum frame will be about $3000 (yes, many fun colors, but black is optional in Al too). If the Strizh is good enough for the Russian military, the Strike One is good enough for me. Guns shown at SHOT were mostly “Gen 0”, and a one “Gen 0.5”. The 1st Gen guns will have a separate dovetail rear site and a small triangular protrusion on the web area…and possibly the front slide serrations moved back a bit. I will be a “early adopter”… cheers to Streshinskiy, Bandini and Tangfoglio for stepping outside the box on this one.
I’m sure that the Good Samaritan in AZ has nothing to worry about. He won’t be charged and even if he is, I’m sure that the people he was trying to help will pay his legal fees and visit him every other weekend.
The non-SHOT Show clip was shot in CA, right? That was a parody, right? Exactly how high was that clown when he started running his mouth? I started twitching when he made a mistake; his ignorance of the subject matter was amazing. I must have looked like I was having a seizure. At one point he seemed mystified by the gun before he clumsily picked it up – I guess he was afraid it would shoot him. Then he nonchalantly waves the muzzle at the cop behind him. Just incredible. [Shakes head in amazement]
I’d rather be an enemy of the state than a slave to it…
I thought Texas was a gun friendly state.
Does that not include Houston?
Or is this the beginning of antigun infestation metastasizing to Texas?
So much for we in CA and other “slave states” being able to retreat to a reliably “free state”.
And Wendy Davis poses no threat to gun rights…right?
The 2A anti gun rights effort is a cancer that is spreading everywhere; some just can’t see it yet because the cancer is insidious and only becomes apparent after it becomes well established and starts eating its host territory.
Wowie. Seriously, I don’t know how he got his hair to look that natural, what with the special helmet he has to wear and all.
Dat eyeroll tho- priceless.
Ok, the cutaway rifle? That tickles me in all the right places. Mechanical things in motion? Fascinating. Guess thats why im an engineer.
Yes. It was also like a good movie. It ended too fast. I wanted more close ups of the bolt interacting with live and dead shells.
That was cool.
I have been thinking of getting an 80% lower specifically because of this nonsense–it is the only way to have an unregistered long arm (other than having purchased it prior to Jan 1). The only thing holding me back is the cost of the custom features I would include. I could get the lower for $50, but by the time I add in a good trigger( $150 plus), tube and stock, etc. I am looking at close to $300–without an upper. and the uppers I like or could build run $600 and up. Pricey. I may just by a lower and build it out so I never have to worry about getting a serial number.
So glad to be traveling to Mexico in two weeks for work. Thrilled.
I guess it is time to take down the tree.
I wonder what kind of bullet stops the Houston PD use?
“Shortly after classes began, students discovered an undisclosed quantity of .22 caliber ammunition in a school hallway. Multiple agencies responded and swept the campus, searching students, lockers, and vehicles for .22 LR ammunition which they had hoped to add to their personal stashes, before finally lifting the lockdown around noon.”
There, fixed that for them.
Who ya gonna call… Ghostbusters.
Don’t cross the beams, that would be bad.
I still don’t understand the dedire tobkill an animal you’re not going to eat, but at leadt the money does more good than the hoards of idiots whining about it ever will.
Who says this won’t be eaten? I’m thinking someone will eat the meat, maybe not the hunter but the bushmen.
Do life-long California people even realize that most other states don’t even bring up this kind of foolishness for discussion? Conservatives need to vote with their feet, leave California and let them drown in their own foolish left-wing philosophy.
Isn’t 18 inches short for .300 Winmag?
Though I am interested in the first one, is the 39 decibel reduction with subsonic ammo or regular.
About the children drawing, having toys, and using fingers as weapons. My daughter attends headstart and they give out a few Christmas presents every year to each child. Well guess what the boys got the boys got this year, AR-15’s! Toys of course, but still the same. Our government at work!
Good shoot, no doubt.
Had the officer tried to leave, the bad guy could have decided to charge him-and that would still require deadly force to resolve.
Given the realities of the Tueller drill, the officer waited as long as he could before pulling the trigger.
BTW: this video is why I think the prevalence of recording devices is a bad thing.People who weren’t there and with no understanding on self defense get to play God and say “LO! He did evil, for he could have executed a hard to calculate under stress manouver and avoided shooting that man.To the stockade with ye!”
And this:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/please-be-alert-and-aware-of-your-surroundings/?src=rechp
I don’t think this cop really wanted to shoot him, but he had that choice taken away from him when the guy didn’t decent.
I feel sorry for all involved.
So what is the status of this lawsuit?
Membership is down due to members being arrested for illegal use of guns. It could never be to hide their membership in an election year. I am sure they are above that. (did that sound sincere)
Had I been faced with a man with 2 knives who was acting out I would have dumped the whole mag into him. So I’m not going to fault the cop for doing what I would have done.
As for not calling the cops on your mentally ill family member, don’t. When the neighbors call to report you crawling, blood soaked, towards the street and begging for mercy from your family member they can call the cops. The outcome will be almost the same. Your family member killed by police followed closely by you dying from the wounds he inflicted on you.
One from my locality. Teen brandishing a lookalike toy gun at an officer called to scene for person waving a gun around.
Sooner or later, an able bodied individual is going to take out a spree shooter at a school. By “take out”, I don’t mean talk down or restrain. Instead, I mean do sufficient damage hand to hand that the shooter is incapable of continuing. Then, I expect he will be pilloried for his “brutal overreaction”.
He’s one of the first people to be loaded into the box cars.