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I guess a rubber band attached to a pen tube w/ the ink cartridge as a missile is about the same thing as a gun really.
Its single shot so I guess Biden would be okay with that.
For now
so long as it doesn’t have some sort of pistol grip to keep your fingers out of the way of the rubber band!
I agree with the post. Having been in the military, civilian police and now Federal, I can tell you that some people change and some do not. More often than not the ones who make the positive change, change for good (i.e., they’ve learned their lesson). It’s pretty obvious from viewig a person’s rap sheet who has not, nor ever will make the change. It should take a judge about 5 minutes to interview and review the person’s history to make an appeal decision, and be pretty confident in it.
We all did stupid stuff when we were teenagers, most of us don’t get caught because we weren’t serious criminals. Just kids having fun and were not old enough to realize that were are accountable for our actions. That’s why the juvi system was created, to seal your deeds when you’re 17 and under and give you a fresh start when you finally realize that this shit is for real. That’s why things like murder, rape, robbery, etc can be waived for juveniles because in the end, somethings are not forgivable. The rest is all about growing up, making mistakes, learning from them and entering adulthood.
A-holes like this are the reason Colorado’s gone WAY beyond any hope of redemption. Thinking of moving to Colorado for the legal marijuana, like someone dear to me? DON’T DO IT. Give it the WIDEST berth possible.
It’s GONE. DEAD. FINIS. How truly sad and depressing.
Crike!
Someone please explain how universal background checks and mandatory reporting of a lost weapon are “rights impinging.”
Background checks are a Good Thing. The right to bear arms can be stripped from certain individuals, and rightly so. So can the right of free travel, and under some scenarios, even the right to breathe.
Hence, background checks, even universal, while they might pose an inconvenience to people, would not deprive them of anything other than a little time. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about minimal purchase delays or short lines at he checkout counter.
I LIKE the idea that the paroled rapist who just moved into the neighborhood can’t come up to me and by one o’ Mosins.
And as to reporting – if I lose a gun, or have one stolen, do any of you out there really WANT it to go unreported?
“Hell, just let a kid find it or the punk who stole it use it at a 7/11. Not my problem.”
Not me, thank you.
And while we’re at it, not everyone who looks askance at the notion that a Kalashnikov can be reasonably described as a hunting rifle is part of the Evil Civilian Disarmament Conspiracy. Mommy! Pwease make the bad Democwat go away!
Grow up.
Russ, curmudgeon of the plains
The 7.62 x 39 is about as powerful as Winchester 30-30 round so yeah you can use it to hunt deer. Some people do. However, the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting. On the other hand the AR-15 is an excellent varmint gun. In my opinion that is it’s best use. The 5.56/223 is an inadequate military round.
So my guess is you are just posing as a pro-firearms citizen sent here to troll by some Soros funded organization.
The biggest issue that people against universal background checks is that there is no way to enforce it, unless you register all guns.
If I sold you a rifle and did not do a background check, the only way for the gvmt to prove it is to have a record that I owned it prior to you, i.e. a registry.
And the problem that people have with a gun registry is that it gives a tool for the government to confiscate weapons in the future. (Or “mandatory buybacks” even).
Since gungrabbers whine about our side being unwilling to compromise, I would propose that a compromise would be voluntary registration & voluntary background checks in exchange for tax deductible gun purchases + tax credits for every gun registered. Voluntary background checks should be able to be done over the phone for free.
So now I have to choose between al Qaeda and Russ Bixby?
I gotta think about this.
Russ, baby,
When I read your comment I was instantly hurled into that quote about he who gives up freedom for security deserves and obtains neither. (Please forgive my butchering of the quote.) You’ve taken one too many sips of the cherry colored koolaid that the anti’s said would sooth your nerves. Time to go cold turkey man!
I think he should lead by example, all his security where he is spewing this crap should be armed with pens and not guns.
> Who needs to defend their home and family with firearms
The police.
So when a couple thugs break into my house I should wait until they empty their magazines at me and my family and then charge them with a ball point pen?
offer to write a book about their life story that lead them into your home
Can’t wait to vote these clowns out of office.
There was no pen, three people who decided to act versus run like sheep stopped the shooter. If it was as easy as a pen, I am sure those school shootings could have all pretty easily been stopped, since if there is at least one place that will have a pen, it will be a school.
This is just typical of the mindset. So devoid of logic I am amazed they can brush their teeth in the morning
Correct. There were no pens, but he was hit in the back of the head with a folding chair. Perhaps we should all be carrying those. The only reason they were able to stop him is due to the fact that he DROPPED his second mag when he tried to reload and someone picked it up.
Where is it written, or is it even written, that I can not have a gun rack in the back window of my truck, 1950’s & 60’s style? (with a rifle or shot gun on it).
A gun rack for the living room wall was always a popular high school wood shop project.
I’ll just use the pen to “write them off” har har I keel me…
Ralph, there have been such films, and if people want to make them again, I think they should. Just like the 2A, the 1A was intended to be limitless and sacred. Moviegoers have a choice of which movies to see and which not to; violence in movies isn’t forced on anyone.
I personally believe there is the added aspect of deterrence. Those who are turned on by movie brutality and learn new sadistic technique from film already want to commit atrocities; sociopaths are a lost cause. But many people, who might otherwise consider murderous violence (especially the perceived quick, clean kill of a gunshot), might be dissuaded by seeing how messy, noisy, and terrifying violent human death is.
Maybe if fewer people died instantly and painlessly of gunshots in movies, fewer people would die of gunshots in real life. I don’t know, but I know that seeing the stark reality of things I thought I wanted has dissuaded me many a time.
I thought we we’re supposed to be be using scissors (good god don’t run with them tho)
Glad I kept the wood stock for my mini. I put an ATI tactical, which required a “bullet button” in CA. I’ve sent the same question to Leland Yee the CA state gun grabbing senator.
What the world needs is a caseless 14 caliber garden gun for the backyard. 10 grain bullet at 800 fps. Or better, or a spring pellet gun that will compress a big ball of air before you pull the trigger so the firing is instant rather than the lag spring guns have now. And give it a 20 caliber pellet shaped like a bullet, and a long slow twist. Like the 300 aac. 800 fps 20 grains, streamlined, it would be death on starlings in the cty.
Nick thank you for the info and just in time. To bad I can’t find either bullets or rifles in ether caliber.
In before a BAN on assault pens.
And the SEALs are now using ball point pens, I’ll sell you a HK Ballpoint for $799.
Wow, is anyone really following these fools?
Unfortunately HK pens are too dangerous for civilians to own.
Yes!!! Thank you Spike’s!!!!
i use that probable vs possible analogy all the time.
i don’t buy an earthquake kit hoping the big one hits.
i don’t stock up a rainy day fund hoping i’d lose my job or a bigger recession comes
i don’t get a gun hoping some jackass is going to invade my house.
Man I gatta sue all of my instructors for aiding me in mal-practice. All these years I have been treating 19 year olds as adults, Im screwed. No wonder the big people hospitals get mad when I wheel 19 year olds in.
We are writing today as pediatric emergency and trauma physicians to share our concern about the epidemic of gun violence that threatens the safety, health, and well-being of our children in St. Louis and in the United States . . .
Yup, having over a 50% decrease in murders over a 20 year time period and having our lowest murder rate in 50 years is a serious epidemic. Something needs to be done about this decreasing murder rate! If we don’t have as many people being attacked, how am I going to keep making $400,000 a year in the ER?!?!
Once he arms his personal security with ballpoint pens, maybe I’ll follow suit.
As to “how much pressure is too much pressure?”
Depends on the gun and cartridge involved, of course, but the SAAMI “rule of thumb” is that modern brass rifle cartridges are designed to contain up to 70,000 PSI reliably – once. That does not mean that a cartridge case that held the dragon in check at 70K PSI is fit to do it again. I, personally, don’t like to push my brass that hard and try to keep my loads down under 60K PSI in non-magnum cartridges so I can reload it. YMMV.
Being over 60K PSI isn’t a cause for concern – some modern magnum rifle cartridges are over 60K and some are upwards of 65K, so if you have NATO-spec ammo that’s nearing 60K, it’s not an exceptionally high pressure. To give a comparison, older cartridges (eg, the .30-06) used to fall in the 54 to 56K PSI range, and even older cartridges left very generous safety margins – eg, the 7×57 Mauser is down around 48K PSI, as originally loaded.
That said, WRT the original question about 5.56 vs. 223 Remington pressures: I wouldn’t expect a factory-new 5.56 loaded into a .223 chamber to cause catastrophic failure as pictured above. The pressure excursion if the bullet is seated into the lands would certainly leave some signs on the brass, but I’d expect a less-than-catastrophic indication. I’m not saying it can’t happen, I’m saying that, given my experience, I wouldn’t expect it to happen.
Whenever one gets a new lot of NATO-spec ammo, especially from off-shore, one should fire a few rounds and examine the brass closely. This is where I think the lack of reloading knowledge is hurting many modern shooters – because they don’t reload, they don’t know how to “read” a cartridge case for signs of excessive pressure. There are several signs you typically observe before case failure that tell you your pressure is “too high:” Primers walking out of their pockets, flattened primers, primers that walked back so hard that you can see transference of machining marks off the bolt face onto the primer cup, hard extraction, bright rings around the case, split case necks, case head flow into machining marks on the bolt face, etc… all are warning you that you have excessive pressure. Pick up some of your brass occasionally and look closely at the case heads and interpret what you’re seeing. If your rifle “sounded funny,” stop and examine the brass and check the bore. If you see signs of excessive pressure, heed these signs and start investigation of the reason(s) why you’re seeing them.
A catastrophic failure such as the above is usually the result of a squib load lodging a pill in the bore, followed by a non-squib load which caused the barrel and action to come apart. Another cause is some sort of obstruction – eg, a cleaning patch left in the bore, etc. The case has to find a way to vent, and the M-16/AR-16 bolt will tend to channel gas flow down the firing pin hole, which then:
a) blow off the extractor (as you see above), leaving behind the roll pin that held the extractor in place, which will
b) blow the right side of the upper outwards as the gas then tries to blow out the side of the bolt, but it will encounter resistance (at least until the aluminum on the upper is pushed out of the way) so the gas pressure then will try to exit around the cam pin… but that’s a limited path, so the pressure…
c) will continue down the FP channel, exiting the rear of the bolt, where it will both
d) run up into the gas key, and blowing the gas tube out of the front of the key, which results in more pressure being dumped into the front of the upper (which isn’t vented well) and
e) dump out the rear of the bolt, down into the lower action, where it has few escape paths without destroying stuff in the way, like blowing out the bottom of the mag, blowing through the trigger/sear area, etc.
Modern rifles, especially semi-autos, have little to no provision for case failure. eg, Compared to the care with which Mauser designed the Mauser 98 to handle case failures, the M-16/AR-15 makes no real provision for case ruptures or failures. If you have a case failure, your rifle will look very similar to that one pictured above.
Summary: Learn to read brass.
Question of the Day: Are Gun Grabbers Giving Adam Lanza Exactly What He Wanted?
I think you meant to type this …
Question of the Day: Did Adam Lanza Give Gun Grabbers Exactly What They Wanted?
There. Fixed that for you.
I read something much simpler. One news report said that the mother was finally going to have her son institutionalized (don’t know for how long). He learned about it in the car and threatened to jump out. She calmed him down and a few days later, he killed her for that reason. At least, that’t the theory.
What everybody is failing to recognize is that there is still no improvements to the terrible state of mental health in this country. We are doing everything possible to regulate weapons, but failing so many people by not diagnosing and treating their mental issues effectively.
Lanza needed professional help. His mother may have been in denial, ignorant of the fact, or determined to help him herself. Ultimately, we (society) failed to help Lanza when he needed our assistance and innocent victims suffered for it.
And in no way was this the fault of an AR-15, high capacity magazines, or violent videogames.
:You could add a Magazine Rack to the bottom that holds 20+ Playboy’s.
Or a 6-D Cell maglight, that could be used as a club, (like the Police do)
If you put a role of Toilet Paper on the stock “It could be a Foldable BUT Stock”
Adding a PAIR OF CHOPSTICKS to the barrel would be a Bi-Pod.
“Antidepressants have been recognized as potential inducers of mania and psychosis since their introduction in the 1950s. Klein and Fink1 described psychosis as an adverse effect of the older tricyclic antidepressant imipramine. Since the introduction of Prozac in December, 1987, there has been a massive increase in the number of people taking antidepressants. Preda and Bowers2 reported that over 200,000 people a year in the U.S. enter a hospital with antidepressant-associated mania and/or psychosis. The subsequent harm from this prescribing can be seen in these 4,800+ stories.”
“Before the introduction of Prozac in Dec. 1987, less than one percent of the population in the U.S. was diagnosed with bipolar disorder – also known as manic depression. Now, with the widespread prescribing of antidepressants, the percent of the population in the United States that is diagnosed with bipolar disorder (swing from depression to mania or vice versa) has risen to 4.4%3 . This is almost one out of every 23 people in the U.S.” http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school
I’ve always thought they needed a pump gun in their stable. But what do I know.
Too funny! In “under the dome”, the bad guys confiscate all the weapons and unleash a reign of terror!
Viva la resistance!
FYI: Magpul’s facebook contradicts the “moving to Nevada” part of the story.
https://www.facebook.com/magpul
“We are well familiar with the fact that most rifles serving Police Officers are purchased by the officers themselves, and that they shouldn’t be punished for the actions of their political elite.”
Unacceptable.
Do not double-speak a distinction between the police force under a political elite and the citizen under that same political elite.
They sound like liberals.
Again, unacceptable.