U.S. Customs and Border Protection (when did they stop calling it Border “Patrol?”) arrested a man on Monday afternoon headed into Mexico with “17 high-powered rifle parts,” seven “high-capacity” magazines, and about 2400 rounds of ammunition. The ammunition was packed inside the battery case of a motorized wheelchair, while the gun parts and magazines were secreted throughout the vehicle. The 17 parts were 3 lowers, 5 uppers, 4 stocks, 3 pistol grips, and 2 forearms. The man was a 52-year-old Mexican citizen and lawful permanent resident of the U.S., and was last heard telling police to “call Mr. Holder and he’ll clear this up.”
Your Lockdown of the Day™ isn’t actually a lockdown, and is brought to you from Wilson, New York. At Wilson Middle and High Schools, classes started two hours late last Friday due to a “gun threat.” The principal of the middle school received calls late Thursday night about a student who came to an after-school event with a gun in a backpack. Administrators contacted law enforcement and searched the middle/high school building, finding nothing. At 5 a.m., the student had not returned home, so they searched the school again, and decided to delay classes. Shortly thereafter, the student was found asleep at a home in town (not his), and his backpack was retrieved and searched by deputies while the kid slept. No firearm was found in the bag, but there was an “aerosol bottle that could make a clicking noise.” The student was not charged, but “the investigation will continue.”
An Indiana lawmaker is proposing a law that would let licensed gun owners store firearms on school property if they leave them locked and out of sight in their vehicles. Republican state Rep. Jim Lucas said “I want to decriminalize self-defense.” Lucas is pitching House Bill 1048 as a convenience for parents and teachers, who might legally have guns in their cars but can’t park at school with them. Licensed owners have to be at least 18, which could include some students.
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In an effort to enforce the laws already on the books, Virginia State Police have been tracking gun show transactions since 2011, and the percentage of people arrested after being denied permission to buy a firearm at Virginia gun shows has been steadily on the rise. In 2011, 10.6 percent of the people who were denied permission to buy guns that year were charged with an offense related to being someone legally prohibited from possessing a firearm. That increased to 12.4 percent in 2012 and to 27 percent last year. For purposes of comparison, last year there were 43,497 gun show transactions, of which 263 were declined. That means approximately 70 people were prosecuted last year for gun possession related offenses from this program.
The Georgia Governor’s Office announced Thursday that gun manufacturer Daniel Defense will expand their plant in Black Creek, Bryant County, and add 120 new jobs. The expansion is expected to cost DD about $20 million. They say their goal is to employ 284 Georgians by 2018.
Not a gun to be seen in this video, but it’s pretty awesome just the same. It’s from a couple years ago in Afghanistan, and it’s U.S. Marines using an Assault Breacher Vehicle to clear mines with rocket-propelled line charges. As Leeloo would say, “Big Bada Boom.”
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I’m wondering if the gun parts were going in to help the resistance movement.
Well Im a Dem and I would never condone some idiot fed/state weenie spending tax dollars on a sign thats BS and is only there because they have a personal problem with something that’s out of their control and can find no other way to cope with that insecurity.
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Sorry, but I’d never vote for somebody that thinks that collective bargaining is fascism, compromise is something losers do, it’s everybodys’ business what I do in my bedroom, and charity is for commies (or jesus).
Oh, and I’ve got more guns than all the Republicans I know. 😀
People over here in The Colonies refer to “almost successfully” as “epic fail.”
Did I read somewhere that the UK has higher per capita violent crime rates than the US?
Also I occasionally peruse the British news and see that they are aghast about knife crime. Seems to prove that it’s not the tool but the contents of a person’s heart.
The EF88 sounds like a nice upgrade to the AUG with all the right improvements. Detailed info at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/02/15/australias-next-gen-rifle-the-ef-88/
What’s the point in running BOTH a silencer AND a grenade launcher?
Come visit Free America. Here in Vermont we enjoy Constitutional Carry. No permits, no license, no database. Residents and non-residents alike can lawfully conceal or open carry a firearm on their person without a permission slip from the nanny state/King/Dictator. Ahhhh… Freedom!
Well that gave me a good laugh.
Why blow the mines up? Why not defuse/disarm them?
I can imagine my explosives disposal friends (is that what you call them?) going: “Tsk, tsk, so unproffesional”.
People who lay mines, as opposed to simply planting IEDs, are also professionals, even in Afghanistan. Mines have been used extensively world-wide for about a century and there is no shortage of instructional materials on their most effective use. Also, not every mine, especially anti-personnel mines, contains enough metal to be easily located by metal detectors.
Several simple techniques come to mind: Place an anti-tank mine on top of an anti-personnel mine so that when it is defused and lifted the mine below detonates. Alternatively, rig all the mines so that if any one is lifted it triggers the entire field (Nazi trick). Fire one or all of the mines by remote detonation when personnel or vehicles are in the kill zone. The list of nefarious tricks goes on, and on, and on…
Why in the world would you risk a highly trained man, or squad, laboriously traversing an area under enemy observation and possible direct or indirect fire, when a nearly impervious M1 Abrams with a breaching charge can detonate all those mines at the same time with almost zero risk?
By the way, in basic training (1980) they taught us the “probe with a bayonet” technique for locating buried mines. A mistake set of an artillery simulator. Not one person in our company “survived” the exercise.
I own a Mossberg and a Benelli Super Nova. I would like a Remington next. I think they are all excellent, just depends which fits you the best.
I would like to see a test of Top of the line products to inexpensive ones (not cheap Chinese S**t). Do we need a $3000 AR or does a $800 work just as good? Same with optics.
Any takers?
I had this two GI Joe figures when I was a kid.
But I only have 12 rounds and there are 30 squirrels!
I have a ‘test’ case, at least for the M500. I have a 20 year old example that has spent the better part of it’s life in the trunk of a car or back of an SUV. It is filthy since it is occasionally fired but never cleaned properly (it does sometimes get a hit of WD-40 or whatever is at hand if it’s getting gritty). It was the cheapest iteration of either of the 2 shotguns, a Maverick 88, all synthetic 20″ cylinder bore, 8 shot tube. It is now rusty in patches, scarred and just generally abused but even though it sits through heat and freeze and dust and neglect it still cycles and shoots every single time I take it out.
I’m not saying that the Mossy is better than an 870, rather that pump shotguns are so dead simple and robust that it’s really hard to stop one short of actually damaging it somehow.
My example patterns horribly if you’re chasing bird with it and has about a 15″ spread at 25 yards with quality 00 buck. I suppose it’s about the worst patterning shotgun I’ve used if tighter is better but for what I use it for (defense, finishing off a wounded animal on the road, ect) it’s great. The pattern is so wide open that it almost is the magical Hollywood shotgun that doesn’t require any aiming to hit with but still delivers slugs to 75 yards with minute of bad guy accuracy.
I think the problem of the 870 Vs M500 is just as someone above said; it’s like ford Vs Chevy, either is a flawlessly reliable reasonably accurate shotgun that is very difficult to destroy unintentionally.
On a side note, I prefer the 500 for a reason that I didn’t see anyone else comment on: I highly dislike the feed gate on the 870. It bites my nail beds, smashes fingers and generally makes reloading the shotgun while shouldering it more difficult. It also has an annoying habit of allowing poorly inserted shells to pop back out above the gate which requires the gun to be turned and shaken until the shell falls out the ejection port, something that is impossible with the 500s design. I don’t believe I’ve ever engaged the safety on my 500 since I only chamber a round when I intend to shoot and empty the chamber as soon as I decide not to shoot so the safety location is irrelevant to me, obviously to a hunter it would be a much bigger deal. Thus, with all else being equal the feed system is the primary factor that keeps me away from 870s.
I had examined a Taurus 9mm revolver before and found it lacking with respect to good cylinder lockup so I am somewhat leery of their products, but this one, from a design perspective, does make some sense. Many people prefer the revolver due to the perception that it has fewer modes of failure than a semi-auto but the choices available seem to be me too copies of one another where all are pretty similar in weight and size. This one seems to at least break some new ground in both size (smaller handle and barrel) and definitely weight. I could care less about the transparent side plate, it seems gimmicky, but for sure it helps cut the weight of the gun as does the one inch barrel. Many people will end up carrying a gun for years or decades and never need it anyway and might look back and wish that they had lugged less weight around but still had a minimally acceptable caliber in their pocket. And some folks will give up on carry because all the choices are too heavy and bulky. This gun is a step in the right direction in that sense, and I hope Taurus goes even further and develops a smaller version in .32acp or .32H&R Mag, or even .380 with the hope of getting a smaller cylinder — either shorter or thinner — and a smaller frame. I will definitely check one out next time I see them available.
There are maybe 50,000 licensed handgun owners in New York City which has a population of well over eight million people. A permit that is valid in any New York county outside of New York City is NOT valid within the city, i.e. you need a second NYC permit to even possess a handgun within the city limits. As long as the crime statistics in Manhattan are going down we will never see any change. The outer boroughs where more of the lower income families (read brown peoples) reside are seeing increased crime, but as long as the tourist and wealthy sections are fine the city government isn’t going to change a thing.
I think those others are just impressed that BO can sign his own name. BTW, he never legally changed his adopted name, so he really is BS. At least he didn’t sign off on his parents’ and grandparents’ credo, which is “Property is theft”. Not long to go…
The cops used non-lethal rounds. He didn’t die.