“Notice there were quite a few revolver introductions this year?” Mark Keefe [not shown] asks over at americanrifleman.com. “There’s a reason for that.” That would be the Golden State’s microstamping law, which affects semi-automatic pistols (which spit out shell casings) but not revolvers (which don’t). Non-microstamping firearms are dropping off the approved handgun list like lemmings jumping into the sea (e.g. all new and slightly improved Rugers and Smith & Wessons). Mr. Keefe reckons that . . .
gunmakers are responding to the (anticipated?) demand for revolvers by producing…more revolvers.
“It looks like California will become ‘The Revolver State.’ I predict more revolver models (and perhaps even makers) are coming, and many will no doubt be heading for ‘Revolvifornia.'”
No industry confirmation and there’s a court case against the restriction but I bet Massad Ayoob will be well pleased and David Kenick will have a DVD ready to go.
Those Taurus 8-round .357’s will be starting to look much better to Californians in the coming weeks/months/years.
http://www.taurususa.com/product-details.cfm?id=249&category=Revolver&toggle=tr&breadcrumbseries=LF2
Did he seriously put that “period” in there? As in “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance. Period.” ?? Heck, you know he’s lying when he says that…
“When dealing with guns, the citizen acts at his peril.”
-State v. Pelleteri, 294 N.J. Super. 330, 683 A2d 555
The loophole that excludes revolvers is only temporary, trust me. I bought a revolver in Marylandstan and they require a spent shell casing for their
55gal drum at MSP HQballistic fingerprinting.I’m sure CA will getting around to closing the loophole that exempts revolvers. Right about now, some words about logic and reason are about to escape your lips. Hush, baby, Mommas against guns say its For The Children ™
I wish I were kidding.
why would a spent casing be useful? no ballistic marks, I guess if your fire pin micro-stamps the primer but once the micro-stamp wears off from use, again it’s worthless. They should have you shoot into ballistic gel to get the rifled slug if they want to compare it against future crimes…………crazy what they think of.
Except for the fact that NYC kept spent millions of dollars keeping spent shell casings–and finally cancelled the program as an abject failure when it failed to solve a single crime. So I wouldn’t worry about that too much. Even if they find a match, they still have to prove that you still have (had ) the gun and that you fired it–which the shell casing alone can never do.
I am optimistic that the tragicomically misnamed ‘not unsafe handgun’ roster will be history before too long. After all, if the 9th can make us a ‘shall issue’ state, surely they can see that we are being disbarred from owning weapons in common usage.
Y’know, judge Henry Green [R] of Leavenworth KS has gone on record saying that permitting homosexuality to exist in any public form, however limited, will invariably lead to the extinction of the human race.
Apparently, so many will be enticed into “deviance” that insufficient numbers will remain to reproduce and the race will die of plummeting numbers of replacement two-leggers.
I’m certain that most Grabbers would be equally horrified and amused by this asinine assertion, but would deny that their logic is identical.
However:
“One cannot permit unfettered access to weapons, else everyone will want them and will then proceed to kill one another, either accidentally or with untrammeled abandon…”
By and large, we won’t win ’til they die off and aren’t replaced for at least a generation.
If your six year old kid is mentally tortured from pictures of guns, your parenting skills suck. At six I shot BB guns, found cool squirt guns that looked sort of real and was given cap guns for my birthday. I made fake machine guns out of pipes and wood. My dad brought home a beaver chewed log from work that looked like a bazooka when I was maybe a little older than six. I liked guns as a kid and had a healthy respect for them taught to me by my dad and Grandpa. I turned out just fine.
I had a plastic Luger, and found a piece of plastic that was a ringer for a “silencer”, and glued it on. I was 11 or 12. I was a big fan of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn still does TV commercials for a local Richmond law firm.
Every time I see it, I think about Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kullyakin (David McCallum).
Dude would probably have a heart attack knowing my son, since age 4, could safely handle and clean his. 22 Cricket. Good Father/Son time. A few years later, he can now field strip an AR and 1911 while naming the parts. He will be a Citizen when he reaches the age of majority.
Hmmm… Think I’ll go make me a web site advertising polishing and
micro-stampimperfection removal services…Bruce is back!
Good reason to carry a 7 shot Rem 870, just like VP Joe says
BRD!
When you buy it, you will build it.
Seriously, what scares them so much is versatility and interchangeability.
If the SHTF scenario occurs, and they are using the same weapons, we can easily adapt their FA lowers onto our rifles quickly in the heat of battle. Their ammo, all useable, their magazines all useable, their uppers all useable.
That is, in my opinion, why the push for a different “military” rifle. Not because something may be better or more reliable.
Every Gun owner should, in my view, sell atleast one Bolt-gun they own, even if the only one, and ammo-up to an AR. It is the Modern Day Musket!
In the Revolutionary war we were able to use the British weapons just the same as our own. They were the same.
Dive in boys http://www.ar15.com
As part of the, self proclaimed, Armed Intelegencia, Farago and his fellow writers should be acknowledging this fact and jump on the band wagon of the military keeping it as the primary arm.
Therefore, not letting his love for the SCAR obscure an objective and subjective perspective of reality.
If you can shoot a S&W 629 like this dude, what does it matter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W-5QE3jzw
In addition, this published, and misleading, number does not include the number of millions of lowers manufactured at home….Arms they have no way of tracking nor confiscating.
“Ghost-Guns” as the Californication bearers call them.
Chamber indicator(“Geladen)” was an old Luger feature. That California gun looks like a restyled Sigma.
I find it immensely satisfying to see how the antis are flailing desperately. Given the constant bombardment of “guns are bad” by the MSM, such huge victories for our side are refreshing indeed. And the rage of the antis (who seem to genuinely want murder rates to increase; I refuse to believe that the prominent ones in the gov’t are stupid enough to think gun control will actually reduce crime) at having their horrific agendas thwarted is an excellent bonus.
I have had mine for a couple years now and am still loving it in fact so dose everyone else in the family so i am looking into picking up another to keep their grubby hands off mine lol.I really can not think of any down side to this rifle i added the XS rail system and can switch it up from a hunting setup to a tacticool zombie killer configuration in no time at all…that would be going from a Leupold 3x9x40 to an Eotech 517 .
Next up on the docket, HB345, the California Colon Carry Bill.
This thing is a ripoff. It is no different than a match trigger that purposely introduces trigger slap. It is nothing like full auto and you can fire almost as fast with a milspec trigger and faster with a Timney or Giessel. The reps that are shooting are just very practiced at bump firing. Plus the trigger causes hammer follows… you really want that in a rifle you may need to use other than the range one day, no. Save your money and buy a match trigger. If you want to emulate full auto get a bump fire stock. The cycle rates between a bump fire stock and this silly trigger even with someone practiced with it are night and day. I can’t believe how naive people are and how quickly a company can make millions with a gimmick. This will be interesting once the returns start flooding in when people see what they paid $500, lol. I have seen it and you’re buying a mediocre match trigger that has toggle that turns trigger slap on and off, lol (the “third mode”, lmao).
This is basically the pet rock for guns. You’ll be embarrassed to let people know you bought the thing for $500 in a year, trust me. If it were $100, maybe it would be a novel purchase just because the regular trigger function would be an upgrade at that price, but $500 bahahaha.
Considering the number of death threats against him I would consider him woefully under-armed.
That’s all he’s got? With all the people threatening his life, I figured he’d have a bit more hardware and much more than “dozens of rounds” of ammo.
That isn’t even enough for a good trip to the range.
Something is fishy…..no 22’s?
Just wanted to say thanks for linking to the review. I’m in no position to buy a new handgun right now, but I had about decided that I had to have a Glock when I did get one. Now I may just save myself a couple hundred bucks. Always kind of liked the “utilitarian” look of the Sigmas and SDVE’s anyway.
“There but for the grace of God…” If many of us were involved in such a high profile shooting, we would be plucked and cooked before our trial. This is a weapons cache, mine would be an arsenal at the very least. On top of that would be thousands of rounds of ammo and an “ammunition manufacturing facility” in the basement.
On the other hand, I am in SD where I am considered an enthusiast rather than a threat.
That’s it when they said he had a arsenal I was thinking he had thousands of guns were I live that’s a good start.
Dozens of rounds of ammunition? That’s all? Some of us here have enough to start a small Central American war.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/february-cable-news-numbers-fnc-logs-146th-consecutive-win-cnn-tumbles-msnbc-hangs-on/
Air Force got rid of their glowbelts.
http://www.brokenandunreadable.com/broken%20and%20unreadable%20336.jpg
“It’s a 28-mm. He had it made special. It shoots through schools.” (Johnny Dangerously)
You have the right, but.
sounds like someone needs to create highly secure out of state gun storage solutions for those in need…then Colorado like political repercussions need to take place against the unconstitutional legislators of their states.
Basically they’re exploiting the list of gun owners who attempted to comply but failed due to a variety of reasons. That list identifies the individual, where they live, and what they own that is in violation and that’s who is basically receiving the notices. Funny that it’s almost the exact same letter that folks in NYC received. Question is where do they in CT go from there? Home to home door-knocks demanding search? It is unlikely there will be some violent standoff but it defiantly sets a tense standoff. Here’s an excerpt from my article…
“So earlier I wrote how Connecticut was considering its alternatives following the abysmal turnout to its gun and high-capacity magazine registration effective 1 January 2014. But it appears that lawmakers in Connecticut are doubling down and willing to make an example of a small minority within the gun community in the hopes it will intimidate the rest to follow-thru with the state’s gun registration laws. The law itself is but one of several examples into the anti-gun lobby’s larger efforts of state implemented registration and the ultimate goal of confiscation…”