In the wake of the accidental shooting of a 9-year-old by his 14-year-old brother last Friday, Boston is planning to start a gun buy-up program. [ChiTrib scrubbed original story, so that’s a cached copy. The internet never forgets.] The new initiative was announced Saturday by Mayor Marty Walsh (above), who took office last month, and joined MAIG last week. “It’s a short-term solution. We need help from the community, we need help from these people to let us know where these guns are, who has these guns, so we can get them off the street,” said Walsh. “We also know that buy-ups . . .
let us look like we’re doing something productive, and are great press.” OK, he didn’t say that last part, but despite all the fanfare, critics say that buy-ups have no discernible impact on crime rates. Police Commissioner William B. Evans said the buy-up will only be a part of the overall gun strategy. Other facets include an anonymous tip line for people to report guns (See Something, Say Something), and plans for installing kiosks at police stations, where residents can drop off weapons, no questions asked. I am not making that up.
Surprising no one, a pair of Republican backed bills to repeal the high-capacity magazine sales ban in Colorado failed last week. Democrats control both chambers of the Colorado legislature meaning they also hold majorities on all the committees. The House bill was rejected by committee Monday on a 7-4 party-line vote. The Senate bill, which had identical language to the House bill, was “postponed indefinitely” on Wednesday, also in a 3-2 party-line vote. As noted, this came as no surprise, but the gun rights side sees it as a necessary step, and valuable ammunition for use in the upcoming election cycle.
A domestic violence-related gun control bill passed out of the Washington state House this week. HB 1840 would require some gun owners with a restraining or protective order against them to temporarily surrender their firearms while the order is in effect. This bill died in the state Senate last year, but the revised version passed the House 97-0 this week after compromise language was added that adds more judicial oversight. The new language prevents the surrender of guns unless the order is accompanied by an additional finding that the subject constitutes a “credible threat.” Unlike last year, the new version with the new language is supported by the NRA as a way to protect domestic violence victims.
A 46-year-old Hanover, Maryland man is in hot water after threatening a 21-year-old woman and her dog with a handgun Saturday night. The woman was walking her dog and came across the man, who was also walking his dog. As she approached, she saw him pointing the gun at her dog and in her general direction. They exchanged brief words and left the area. Police later located a man matching the victim’s description, and he was found to have a loaded, unfired Ruger .22 caliber handgun and a set of nunchucks. Police said he faces charges of first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and “several handgun charges.”
An off-duty Miami-Dade corrections officer experienced a negligent discharge outside a Fort Lauderdale restaurant Saturday night. He was reaching into his pocket for a valet ticket when he “accidentally triggered his concealed handgun,” firing a round into the ground and spattering a half-dozen nearby people with shrapnel. To his credit, he immediately called his supervisor and stayed on scene at the restaurant where he was interviewed by Miami-Dade internal affairs. Police deemed the incident accidental.
Here’s Eric from Moss Pawn & Gun with a video comparing the IWI Tavor TAR-21 with an AR-15. Most of you are probably at least passingly familiar with the Tavor, and this puts it side-by-side with the intimately familiar AR platform to give a better frame of reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMXShdrQ0I
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And the Freedom Group hemorrhaging continues…
this off-duty officer in Miami further proves that the liberals are correct in saying only trained professionals should be able to carry a gun. oh wait no it doesn’t… well then the liberal media will just have to cover up that story.
Good for him, I suppose.
Ok, so you dont like the pistol. May I ask what your experience is with it, other than testing it at the range? Because trust me, it works like a champ in the real world. Also, if you cant handle 11 lbs of firepower, then you have more problems than this weapon.
Hey if you want to act like The gestapo , people gonna hate you.
At least he said buy-up instead of buy-back. It’s at least accurate.
What a turd.
I pulled a gun on a pit-bull once. He didn’t seem to notice the gun–just kept circling trying to get behind us. His owner came running up, though, and grabbed his dog by the collar. None of us said anything, but the next time I saw him he had his dog on a leash.
“Police later located a man matching the victim’s description, and he was found to have a loaded, unfired Ruger .22 caliber handgun and a set of nunchucks.”
Mall ninja in training.
Increased judicial oversite? You mean there has to be something resembling due process before guns can be seized? Shenanigans I say!
I’m sure the lobbying firm that paid for this video backs a bunch humanitarians who want to change their country for the better.
New boss is always the same as the old boss. Usually worse.
Im curious as to how they know the Ruger pistol was unfired. My Rugers don’t look unfired now but when they were new and I bothered to clean them up they looked unfired. Or are they trying to say his pistol was a virgin?
As my name implies, I love my 66. I was searching for a SP101 and happened to finda ‘rare’ 3 inch 66-3. Excellent conditionand ONLY $400! (it was mislabeled and the retail staff were clueless.)
My revolver is 20 years old and I’m only 31…so its a classic to me. I love shooting it, my friends love shooting it, and maybe some day my kids will too.If you’ve never handled one, seek out one. I’m curious about the new ones…but a bit skeptical.
I enjoyed pitting lego pirates with muzzle loaders against ORANGE TRANSPARENT CHAINSAWS
Is there footage of our death rays in action, yet? I’d like to see just what kind of upgrade we payed for, here.
Arabic translation: “may Allah send you directly to hell”
most likely talking about the recently deceased and not the defender
I have a 24/7C that I’ve put over 800 rounds thru. Using Federal, Remmington, and several off brand FMJ’s I’ve had only 2 jams. Both from other shooters “limp wristing” when they shoot. I’d say that’s pretty awesome. Took the gun down for cleaning the other day to find a broken recoil spring pin. I’ll have to wait and see how they handle the warranty work before I have an opinion there, but based on reviews, I’m not expecting much. All in all I’m pretty impressed with the gun.
The people of the gun aren’t so forgiving in most cases and TR should realize that. This seems (cause I haven’t read all the material and seen the video) like an overreaction, and even if they won their case, TR has lost a great deal of future customers as long as people remember this and remind others in the future when they go around asking how TR rifles are.
There’s been a lot of cases wherein someone has been sued over what they wrote on a forum. Some win, some lose. The basics always come down to ‘was it true’ and ‘was it true from their perspective’. I think, but I’m not sure, that Tactical Operations also had something like this happen (where someone called one of his rifles garbage, or on par with garbage) but I don’t know how it was addressed and resolved because I don’t frequent those types of forums these days. I would explain why, but anyone who has visited either ‘Hide’ or ‘Central’ knows what I am talking about.
The american way sue instead of fix
Ex wife claimed all kinds of crap about me. Thank God she’s a lunatic & no one believes her. Yeah I live in Illinois. Everyone here knows it sucks to live here.
I’d have to disagree.
ALL the rules are necessary. If a shooter doesn’t follow all of them , I don’t take them to the range.Reason being that someone new to guns won’t know what a “safe direction” really means. They aim a gun in the air and whoopsie, hit the bang switch. Safe direction, right?
Not as far as the farmer a mile downrange over the berm is concerned.
All four rules are equally important. If a person cannot recall all of them, they shouldn’t be shooting.As the many cases of negligent LEOs prove, firearms are a horrible thing to trust to a duffer.
I usually let new shooters know that if they point a gun at me during our range session, I will assume that they want to be in a gunbattle and I will respond accordingly.
Never had a problem once that sinks in.