The photo above is a high speed photo of a new muzzle device called the Ferfrans CQB Modular Muzzle Brake System. (Click to embiggen.) The idea behind it is to allow the recoil reduction of an aggressive muzzle brake while modulating the backblast that would normally assault anyone nearby. The photo was taken by Herra Kuulapaa, whose photos have been featured in this space in the past. There’s more (much more) at his site, http://kuulapaa.com/home/highspeed.html. Read on . . .
An 11-year-old girl, Shelby White, killed her first cougar on her grandfather’s ranch in Twisp, Washington, last week. The Daily Mail reports that the female cougar had been seen lurking around the family home twice in the days prior to the shooting. The cat was four years old, and approximately 50 lbs, which is about half what she should have weighed at that age. Residents of the area have been reporting quite a few cat encounters recently as deer herds have been thinner than the norm this winter. Shelby’s brother Cody, 9, shot a 125-pound cougar earlier this month, and her older brother Tanner, 13, shot another one on the ranch around the same time. Of note are two comments under the Daily Mail’s article, one from an American who asked why they couldn’t just “GO INSIDE” (because running away fixes everything) and one from a Brit who advocated a “warning shot” instead of killing the cat. That mindset… it’s a disease.
It’s just that easy, with the stroke of a pen… Reader CV writes: “The Canadian NFA (National Firearms Association, equivalent to the NRA) announced on their Facebook page today that the RCMP have chosen to reclassify the Swiss Arms Classic Green (A SIG 540 variant) to prohibited status, and will be confiscating them without compensation.” [Update: Added to the NFA’s website here.]Canada has three classes of firearms: unrestricted, restricted, and prohibited. Most of the rifles in question were previously “unrestricted,” with a few being “restricted” due to barrel length. Overnight, all of them have moved all the way to “prohibited” status. Here’s the relevant page of the updated Firearms Reference Table. CV continues, “I would like to call it unprecedented, but unfortunately it is not, though it is the first on this scale as it is estimated that there are as many as 1800 of the $4k rifles in Canada.” Sun News network has a news story confirming the change, turning people into “paper criminals” overnight.
From Richard Ryan’s new YouTube channel “Guns,” two short videos from the HK rep at SHOT Show giving a brief history of the MP5. He doesn’t seem like he hates us at all.
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Hi Tyler, thank you for the FNS-9 review. I carried the FN Hi-Power for 40 years of military service and the FN FAL L1A1 (inch version) for the first ten year – they make wonderful firearms. The FNS-9 is very much like the Glock configuration, however the FNS schematic seems a little more complex than Glock. One question, why did FN stick a G17 length grip on a G19 length slide? Miss-matched sights should not detract for the FNS-9 rating. I would like to help out with your G19; please post it to me in northern Thailand and I will love and care for it in my retirement. Your Glock 19 would be the 10th Glock I have owned (17, 19 (2), 22, 23, 26, 27, 35 (2)), loved and cared for. Thanks, Greg
> confiscating them without compensation
They shouldn’t be confiscating them at all. In the US, The Takings Clause of the United States Constitution states the state cannot deprive citizens of property without just compensation. An attorney is suing New York under this for the SAFE Act. He estimates that if NY were forced to compensate every gun-owner for all the guns and magazines they made illegal, it would cost four billion dollars and bankrupt the state, and that’s what he trying to do. That’s why NY is trying to make people give them up (sell them, etc.) voluntarily, so they don’t have to confiscate them and pay for them.
That is a serious amount of cougars in a small area.
“Good shootin’ kids, now can dad get a shot at one”?
I would be interested in an MP-5 solely as a collector’s item.
If I could grab an SMG, it’d be a KRISS. In 10MM. (Although I have to guess that their previously announced plans to eventually release their TDI in alternate calibers effectively fizzled out, apparently.)
I expect 1800 tragic boating accidents to occur in Canada.
I live in a free state. Terrifying to think that my favorite toys, guns I’ve shared with state lawmakers at the range, are being confiscated 2 hours north. Like living west of the iron curtain. Come Canadians! Escape and be free! But keep the metric system…
Be adaptable: learn both systems of measurement. =P
Also, the American/Imperial/Stupid system of measurement is stupid. SO NYEH.
YOUR FACE IS AN INDICTMENT OF…wait…what was I saying?
Shelby White shot the cougar because she had he last remaining cougar tag in the house. Dad gave her the rifle and told her to take the shot because he and Shelby’s sibs had already filled their tags.
The cat was way underweight and was not healthy. She did the cat and her brother a solid by putting the cougar down.
At least they are squeaking in Canada:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gun-debate-reignites-with-rumoured-ban-of-classic-green-rifle-1.2554372
The recent NYC confiscation seems to have produced nary a blip, so the residents of that city must be better trained to STFU than the Canadians.
Well of course. She, the AG, did what any good communist would do…
The plain facts are that guns are fun and represent the truth that the only way that the armed party may be compelled to do something is by reason, and never force. Hence, anti-gunners need the guns removed from the equation before a citizen (or subject, rather) can be told what is good for them.
Also, they hate fun and want to take it away from anyone who has the slightest bit of it.
My understanding from reading the Calguns posts is that this is NOT an appeal, exactly. It is a request to DO an appeal to en banc despite her lack of standing, and it will be heard by the same three judges that did Peruta.
In other words, it is purely a symbolic/PR move.
HOWEVER, it will perhaps have an impact where it matters: it may be enough to convince one of the more radically anti-RKBA judges of the 9th Circuit to call for en banc before the 7th of next month.
So…it could still screw us.
The good news is, very likely the US Supremes will decide whether or not to hear Drake before any decision is made to take Peruta en banc or not. The Supremes really should take Drake en banc as the odds of Peruta being appealed to the Supreme Court appear very low since San Diego didn’t even want to appeal it en banc. That means if the circuit split doesn’t get resolved via Drake, the issue of carry rights cannot be resolved for years, not until or unless an appeal rises out of the 1st Circuit (and the state of Mass. where there’s a may-issue system) or DC (where there’s zero-issue).
And those appeals are not guaranteed either, at least not all the way to the Supremes.
Peruta makes the issue ripe for Drake. Everybody’s cards are on the table, we are “all in” on both sides, now is the time.
Can’t have the peasants protecting themselves now, can we?
PS: point number one, if summarized correctly by Mark N ( I am too lazy to go look at the filing) is flat out wrong.
You can’t OPEN CARRY in SD County, or the rest of the state, by law,
EXCEPT if you are hunting, with a license, on public land that is open to hunting, with a license and a tag, during the hunting season. And if you read the confusing statutes, that is also quite restrictive, for OC for hunting is
superceded by County rules that say if
EXCEPT if the municipality, agency, etc rules prohibits it, you cant,
or if you are on private land, and you dont have written permission, you cant,
or if you are on a county hiking or biking trail, you cant,
or if you are on a public road, you cant….
So, pretty much YOU CANT…Open Carry.
Period.
I’d take her over Shannon Watts.
Win or lose, they want to draw out the status quo as much as possible.
“…law enforcement must be able to use their discretion to determine who can carry…”
Extrapolating to a general statement: “[government] must be able to use their discretion to determine who can [exercise the Constitutional right].”
In the meantime, I can’t stop but wonder if her husband or his wife have seen that picture. Among those of us who aren’t celebrity-politicians, a photo with such expressions taken by a PI could lead to an ugly court case. But then, I keep forgetting that some animals claim to be more equal than others.
I heard the guy had “verbal permission” to own three extra rounds.
“Local law enforcement must be able to use their discretion to determine who can carry a concealed weapon.”
How can anybody, with even a minimal amount of sense, see that as reasonable? Some dipshit cop gets to decide whether you or I should be allowed to exercise a constitutional right? I suppose when they refuse to issue, they’ll tell us, “well it could have been worse. We could have gang raped you.”
There has been a lot of talk about the upcoming cheap steel-cased Russian manufactured 6.5 Grendel ammo. If and when that happens, it would have a chance at becoming a very popular round (and maybe even surpassing .300 BLK).
However, the talk about that has been going for 3.5 years now, and it’s always a year away…
I know my local police department was saying that they were waiting for their legal team to review the Peruta decision before adjusting any of their ccw policies. The officer in charge of the application process said to call back in a couple of weeks. I wonder how much longer this will set things back?
a terrorist not must be a moeslim
Why are we complaining? Don’t we want this case in our pocket as well for a SCOTUS challenge?
I don’t understand why the AG is asking to intervene. It seems to me like asking to be invited to a party the day after it’s over.
hmm. They have no standing, so this feels like a Hail Mary to influence the panel to go en-banc.
Oh you guys. “Don’t worry the courts will save us from the politicians we have elected”!!!! This is what happens when democrats hold power. Since Sandy hook, every single piece of anti-gun legislation that has been enacted has occurred in blue states. Without exception. I realize this is an appeal of the 9th circuit ruling, but my point stands. The courts will not save us. When anti-gun politicians(democrats) are elected or appointed this is what they do. The best defense is to make sure they never hold office. In California, sad to say, a tipping point was reached years ago. You my friends are behind enemy lines.
My father, in WW-2, carried a small bible (a gift from my mother) with steel covers.
I think open carry for the anti-gun folks is more about how the presence of open carry firearms will calm the people who question it and that it will deter crime and make a difference and become a acceptable practice. It has nothing to do with the children, as a matter of fact arguing against open carry is almost anti-children. Some gungrabbers may hold higher degrees and hold positions of power but they all seem to lack basic common sense.
“Local law enforcement must be able to use their discretion to determine who can PERFORM A LAWFUL ACTIVITY,” California Attorney General Kamala Harris said earlier today.
Fixed that for you, Kamala. Hugs.