“I believe in people’s right to bear arms. I have a concealed carry permit myself. But, you know, on our properties, we want to maintain a safe environment, and we don’t need guests bringing weapons on site. We really don’t want that kind of surprise.” – Westgate Resort COO Mark Waltrip in The Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out of Its Casino [via wired.com]
Have any of you seen the “Palm Pistol?” https://newatlas.com/single-shot-palm-pistol/18278/
I was asked if I would test and review one of the originals back in 2013. I declined, since I could see only real problems with this thing. I may have been too hasty.
Seems they’ve kept at it, and improved it. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/09/gao-palm-pistol-by-constitution-arms/
I still don’t see any real advantage to this myself. But maybe I’m wrong?
The pictured wheelchair holster looks like much more of a problem to me. Any holster off body is unacceptable, far as I’m concerned. And retention in such a rig would be difficult.
That’s cool, I had a horrible time in Vegas anyways. I’ll keep my nickels in the change jar from now on, thanks. Microwaves? Really?
why is that state still part of this country? we need to kick them the F out. i am so tired of hearing about all the inane bullshit those citizens have to put up with.
UGH, sucks no one is in Arkansas, ever. and sucks that i’m poor.
Too bad these systems are easily spoofed and no gun signs do not carry the force of law in NV.
This is a puff piece that is trying to apologize for the non-release of information relating to the Mandalay Bay shooting.
I see a prime opportunity for someone to market holsters (and luggage) with embedded Faraday cages.
I also see potential lawsuits for invasion of privacy. The hotel has zero right to know about the myriad, lawful yet discrete things that guests bring into the hotel.
Already exists. RFID blocking luggage and bags are for sale everywhere. You don’t need a faraday cage.
That’s how RFID blocking luggage and wallets work. They use a Faraday cage. A bag lined with metal foil is a Faraday cage as much as the copper wire mesh “hide-out” you’ll see in the spy movies. Now some designs are better than other yes, but the principle is the same.
My first thought on seeing this: cyclists. I could see this attached to a mountain bike… ????
Expect USPS to adopt this technology soon, if it hasn’t already.
guess you got to prove your bonifidies multiple times, then once more when you receive it!
guess these Pistols are so Militarized and deadly that only 50 hoops, with multiple background checks have too be utilized. So why would I want one when I can go too gun shop buy a weapon with out the lottery angle and get my choice! Democrats have taken over the CMP so screw em.
liberal double-speak; “I believe in the second amendment” (NO you DON’T ass hole)
“I have a concealed carry permit myself. But, you know, on our properties, we want to maintain a safe environment, and we don’t need guests bringing weapons on site. We really don’t want that kind of surprise.” Armed Protection for MEEEEEEEEE!!!, None for YOU, Deplorable Serf!!!
F**K you hypocritical S#!T bag
https://youtu.be/TLfmEZYdtrY
Birds.
Birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs right? And what do we do with Birds?
We hunt them. Domesticate them. Keep them in the yard and watch them scratch. Put small ones in cages for our amusement and teach them to say naughty words. And best of all, we EAT them.
It might not make for very entertaining viewing at a theater, but tell me y’all wouldn’t like to see a world where we humans use dinosaurs the same way we do their feathered decendants.
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The last time I went to a casino, I put $25 on 00 and prayed to Jesus for 00. Jesus listened to my prayer and let me win. With the $875, I was able to buy my first concealed handgun, a Glock 43. This is divine proof that Jesus loves concealed handguns, and casinos are wrong.
So there are starving kids in Africa, drinking out of mud puddles, children with cancer that won’t see their 5th Birthday, and yet Jesus is with you in a casino helping you win roulette? Haha thanks for the laugh this morning!
So, 73% of the population still aren’t complete pussies, that’s encouraging I guess.
35,000 gun deaths (60% suicides) versus 600,000 abortions every year…hmmm
one is a MUCH larger number…and mostly voluntary…just sayin’…
I am pro-choice AND pro 2A…just like to point out the figures for comparison
Every male child aborted by a Democrat means one less violent felon on the streets 15-20yrs from now.. We should aggressively encourage Democrats to abort their children; for society’s sake…
Regarding the sign in one photo:
Sensible gun laws? You mean like sensible voting laws like voter photo ID? LMAO
Or sensible employment regulations like eVerify?
Or sensible immigration laws like making it a FELONY to illegally enter the country?
I read the article elsewhere. Essentially, they admit that if people knew they installed this system, the customers would complain profusely, so they claim the beauty of this is that they don’t have to inform their customers. They also say that is has a false positive rate of nearly 7%. This means that 1 in 15 customers will be confronted by security….or should I say former customers. I would bet that they will turn off the systems and rip them out as soon as the first multi-million dollar lawsuit makes it through the courts. I would also expect that their chief of security would get the boot for being an idiot.
I see the machine is located at the check in desk. Just don’t wear it to the desk, bring it in later. Unless they have the machines at all the doorways with guards to stop you it’ll be easy to defeat their measures.
You didn’t read the article, did you?
First installation will be at the employees’ entrance. In the doorway.
In rolling installations, they will put them in places the guests must pass.
Not just the check-in, which won’t even be the first installation.
A gun poll by a left-wing anti-gun news media organization? Somehow I’m not surprised by the results. Lies, damned lies and poll results!
As to the anti-gun idealistic SJWs running for office, well, as somebody else has said, they’re soon going to learn how dirty politics can be in order to try to get what they want. Something about the law and sausage being made. But seeing as how they’re socialist progressives whose motto is “The end justifies the means at any cost,” they will probably get it once the shock wears off. The tough part (for them) is that they’re just one cog in a large machine.
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Frozen chokes? buy a liter of diesel fuel and put the muzzel end of the gun in, and laeved there for a few days
the chokes come out aesely ,ore not .
Even though the Las Vegas shooting was done by a murderer who deliberately stocked his well positioned room with rifles and tripods and executed a planned attack, this particular bit of security theater is aimed at most likely lawful concealed carriers, rather than vicious attackers intent on doing harm.
I think the whole philosophical mindset is wrong. The assumption seems to be all people are basically good, guns are bad. If a person carries a gun, especially a loaded gun, they can’t be trusted. Most likely the gun will go off and shoot someone, and so shouldn’t be allowed. If not, the formerly good person will be corrupted by the negative influence of the gun, and wander around and decide, hmm, dinner, play slots, go walk the strip, or…. Wait, that’s right, there is a pistol in my pocket, perhaps shooting up there casino would be a fun way to end the evening?
With hotel parking lot break ins I sure wouldn’t want to leave a gun in the car, of course I would want it on my person or to bring it into my room.
It’s always been fascinating to me how leftists operate on the belief that all people are basically good, right up until they have a gun, at which point they’re potential crazies who could “snap” and start killing.
Since TTAG doesn’t seem to want to cover it I’ll give you the link for GOA
https://gunowners.org/alert12112017.htm
How about one of those aluminum briefcases? Block the microwave?
So, even with their biased pole, they could only get 32% to agree. Winning.
If they want to redistribute their wealth to former customers, who are we to say no?
What’s up, every time i used to check blog posts here early in the break of
day, because i love to learn more and more.
FFS, I played with toy guns (real guns too) all through the 80’s. I’ve never murdered anyone. I was watching violent R-Rated movies before I was 10. Maybe the problem is a subset of society that places no value on human life?
> Gun-heavy TV shows are, in the main, lessons in Judeo-Christian morality.
What?
Just a note….
“Tougher sentences on criminals” is only one-third of the formula. The other two: highly increased certainty of detection/arrest; highly increased certainty of conviction.
Pull any leg from the three-legged stool….
I am impressed with this web site, rattling I am a big fan.
Progun folks don’t fund research. We fund lobbyists. If we funded science instead of buying votes we would whip the crap out of the antigun folks. Meanwhile, flawed science beats no science.
I read some fluff piece earlier this week where the author wrote that terrorist acts are more of a nuisance than a crises. Now this is also stupid as well. I can’t believe people actually have time to answer phone inquiries, albeit while I type a response to the inquiry, hahahahahah. Seriously though, where is this country headed? I’m worried.
Apparently baby sitting pays better than I remember
Honestly if I could choose any gun in the world for a bump in the night room broom it would be a Thompson. But, I can wish in one hand and shit in the other.
Some of u guys are full of crap. I own a Fieldcraft and it is as close to perfect as u can get. Some of u complained and had never seen one, much less handled one.
Anyway ur ignorance is evident.
Wow!
Greg
In the first incarnation, weren’t there also little adhesive dots of various diameter (caliber) that reloaders could stick onto the rear ends of bullets?
Some ideas keep coming back – classics never come back because they never left…
Governor? Really? The Judge and Governor are silly gimmicks. Virtually any quality revolver or pistol the size of the Governor will be more effective.
I also don’t know what makes the Bersa, the Ruger P series or the CZ 75 — or heck, even the Glock, Beretta or Sig — stand out from the many other fine guns in their classes.
I note that in other cases, you kept it generic “.357 revolver” “12 gauge pump shotgun” and “AR-15.” That’s probably a better way to go.
This is breathtakingly innovative.
Thanks Ruger!
Sandy HOAX !
It would be nice if Ruger made more 10/22s with the techsights with rail and threaded barrel from the 50th anniversary model.
Where’s the shockwave???
Re: S&W Governor – the best home defense weapon you can get. Relibality of a revolver with the power of a shotgun, also comes with night sights factory. Mine shoots .41 cal hollowpoint w/ two .30 buckshot per pull. So every pull is a “burst”, use the Federal handgun 00 and you can put 4 out per pull. Move to #2 buck and so on………. Anybody that comes in is DRT.
Let me guess. The news reporter must me a a Democrat or liberal that does not like firearms to make a comment a joker put a half pound trigger on the gun is a horrible way to make an assumption, people want to know why the gun was not cleared of a bullet first before working on it how do we know that there wasn’t a bullet that was lodged in the barrel stuck, it’s a tragedy no matter how we look at it but it’s even worse that the news media has to blow things out of proportion when they have no idea about the real gun world because they’re told not to like guns.
I, for one, look forward to the press releases from “Protect Yourself and Others” policy orgs that arose, informed by the shooting that included Ms. Giffords.
Oh, wait. Those orgs existed n had it right all along.
Anybody seen announcements of when Bloomie will get on board with what works, n start funding gun orgs named for the people killed when Giffords was shot? … by her long-known crazy stalker? … at a public event without armed guards?
There may be a practical problem parading around dead guys as figureheads for those other orgs. Standards n the ick factor obviously don’t apply, as Bloomie n company are happy to exploit a horiffically brain-injured woman for their current agitprop. Apparantly nice work if you can stomach it.
It’s not like their “activism” is doing any good. Apparantly, agitprop is fun n they don’t care what it takes. For the LULz. (What’s Bloomie’s 4chan handle, again?) In case anyone was unclear that these people will do absolutely anything in their “cause.”
Yeah you can get in a heap of trouble setting up boobytraps. A massive lawsuit and/or an overzealous prosecutor could wreck your life. Better to just shoot the felonious little cretin????
Don’t use social media, don’t associate with lefties; problem solved.
I’m sad. There was nothing in the video to make him say “fitty”.
These seem to get a lot of hate, but I have to say they are pretty well done.
If you don’t agree with his list – make your own video……so we can make fun of you.
I guess they are going on MSRP so no Ruger or S&W ARs. That would be my choice cause I’m lazy and like a ready-to-go rifle (with sights).
Wrong question. Why does the Government fear gun owners?