This one slipped through the cracks for a few days, but Kansas legislators passed a bill last Saturday that would seem to encourage the practice of open carry in that state. Open carry is already legal in Kansas, but HB 2578 reinforces that with a state level preemption, saying that cities and counties are prohibited from adopting or enforcing regulations regarding firearms, and further prohibits any regulations relating to federal firearms licensees that are more restrictive than similar regulations regarding the sale of any other commercial goods. The new law specifically and categorically nullifies any ordinances, resolutions or regulations already in place prior to the effective date of the bill. Read on for one of the more ridiculous Lockdowns in recent memory . . .
Your Lockdown of the Day™ comes from Norwell, Massachusetts. School staff at South Shore Charter Public School called police at 8:28 a.m. Monday morning to report that a single empty bullet casing [sic] was found in the lobby of the school. One single case. (Our tipster said it was a .22 case, but I was unable to confirm that.) The school was locked down at that time, and according to Norwell Deputy Police Chief Carol A. Brzuszek, police and a ballistics team (including at least one K-9) from the regional Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council made “a comprehensive search” of the school, and found no ammunition or firearms. The lockdown was lifted and classes and normal activities resumed at noon. At noon. Three and a half hours of lockdown for a single bullet casing. I have no words…
If you’ve sent in submissions within the last couple weeks and not heard anything (especially if they were directly to me), please accept my apologies. I just discovered that several of our regular contributors’ emails were going straight to the Spam folder for no reason I can discern. I’ve rescued all of them (I think), but it’s going to take me a little while to look through them, as there are several dozen.
More firearm FUD from the ignorant media. An article about a house fire in Niles, Michigan leads with the statement that the 5,000 rounds of ammunition made fighting the fire more “difficult and dangerous.” But when you read the actual quotes from the Fire Chief, he doesn’t even mention the ammo. Instead, he says what made it difficult was a lack of manpower due to many of the area fire companies being all-volunteer, and what made it dangerous was that the basement was fully engulfed, leading to concerns that the structure might collapse into the basement. But none of that was sexy enough to get the headline, so instead, “ammunition is dangerous.”
This month’s Field & Stream online edition has a brief piece about a visit to Federal Cartridge Company’s gun room, where they keep the more than 3700 firearms they use for testing ammunition. Highlighted in the piece is Federal’s first test gun, a Model 12 Winchester purchased on August 28, 1937. It’s been in use for 76 years, but an employee of the gun room recently realized its history and pulled it from circulation for possible display in the future. To me, that seems a little sad. The gun has done precisely what it’s designed to do for 76 years, and if the plans hold, it’ll probably never be fired again, or only very rarely. I don’t see hanging it on the wall as honoring its history, but rather, keep using it until something major breaks, and then hang it up, as a testament to how long it went. Maybe that’ll be another 76 years.
I don’t have any guns in need of this treatment, but I’m saving this for later…
I keep a couple of “emergency $50s” folded up in the back of my wallet. I suppose that’s the modern version of keeping “burying money” in your revolver.
By the way, I’m curious how many of you keep an “emergency stash” in your wallet. I’ve had people look at me like I’m crazy for doing it, but I learned it from my dad, and I’ve been doing it for more than 20 years now.
@Actually:
I can’t recall a single bolt action rifle being designed to be drop safe.
But I’ve owned and became familiar with the Mosin, the Mauser, the Lee Enfield, the Savage 110, and other designs, and I’m NOT afraid that the gun would go off if I dropped it. I am afraid of scratching the finish however.
Most gun designs are safely designed enough to not need to be drop safe. If the Russians could do it with Mosins in the middle of WW2, Remington has no excuse in my book.
My only contact with Remington was when my (700 BDL action) suffered a failure. I sent the rifle back along with a blank check as post-failure investigation revealed an overpressure cause due to neck wall swell. In due course I received a barreled action via return post, (which tells how long ago this was), the old barrel and the check ! And the “new” rifle shot better than the old one dropped into the same stock with the same accessories !
Yes I “learned my lesson” and have a couple of chamber casts of this rifle and all hand loads specs have to comply with those dimensions. But I won’t -ever- utter a nasty word about the fine folks at Ilion ! I know from years’ personal experience with an OEM Remington’s chief engineering honcho’s days are filled with resolving conflicts among engineering, production, QA/QC, marketing and the company legal advisors. Not all such compromises prove effective !
Don’t forget all the state level groups. They do great work.
Cool, maybe I can pick up one of those “crappy” M&P’s real cheap. I can always use another one or two.
Money in your wallet? HA! I can tell YOU don’t have any kids! I got so used to not having any money in my wallet that it is still empty most of the time even now that the kids are gone.
Like I said above, your wallet is the wrong place for extra cash. In your case I’d suggest a bank safe deposit box you wife and kids have no knowledge of.
In 2004, a few live .22 rounds were found in my middle school’s science and math wing. They were thrown away by a teacher and nobody cared a whole lot past that. Honest mistake by someone. 10 Years later this is grounds for a full blown evac.
Then again, this was rural Maine, not Mass.
The only “zero tolerance” I like are the ZT knives.
money is in a money clip not the wallet, just in case I lose my wallet
also keep significant cash in the gun safe (along with passport) . . . . just in case
Used to be a 20 stashed in the wallet. Then it was a couple of them. Then it was a Benjamin.
Now it’s a bit more. You never know when you need to buy something.
my recommendation is to put a jewel or Timmy trigger in it.they put in their reports that the gun discharge during dropping however I saw one go of bumping against a tree and that was in no way a hard enough for rifle the discharge.
Both my wife and I keep an extra hundred handy for emergencies.
Additionally, we use cash for most purchases, it makes running the weekly budget a lot easier when you see exactly how much cash you have available at any point.
Seriously. When I was in high school, .22 was about $10 a brick. If only we’d known, we could’ve taken the semester off!
I keep a couple 20s in my medic bag. At home, I try to keep mostly silver coins. Spends like money, only better.
Just picked up my new 700 today, and “Your rifle is subject to the recall.” FML.
In the first photo can anyone name the magazine he is using?
As an after thought it kicks less than my 12 gauge Mossberg.very nice.
I was reading some of the posts just before my last… 150 bucks at Cabelas… Here’s the deal, they were 130 before the holidays. Straight up 130. I got mine in early November. After the holidays, I got an ad saying they were 150….used to be 200. “On sale” which is marketing BS. Thank you WalMart. If you’re worried 150 is too much, shop around. Call gun shops in your area for their prices. But I will say for what you’re getting at 150. Its still cheap. Anything more modern will run 2 or 3 times that. If they are in fact destroying 4 million mosins….BUY THE ONE FOR 150.
I met an old rabbi once and during the course of the discussion he gave me the advice that most people on this Earth have never seen a $100 bill in person, let alone touched one. If I were to keep one in my wallet I’d always feel fortunate. Ever since then I have, and I do.
True story.
Papa Doc Obama needs his own Waco to keep up with Clintons legacy as a butcher. This ranchers only “crime” is he produces beef for people to eat. God forbid if Harry Reids brown shirted BLM goons were doing something productive, like protect the border from cartel drug gangs.
The NRA is a convenient villain for their low intelligence constituency. No more. No less.
Working towards a non-violent society and being armed are contradictory only if you make them be so.
Why not focus on the causes that make people want to be armed, instead of decrying the fact that they’re choosing to be so for quite good reasons?
I think we should rewrite the 2nd Amendment…
” The right of the people to keep, bear, and use arms shall not be infringed. Any law or laws attempting to regulate the type of arms, capacity of operation, or manner of carry shall be null and void. No form of government will pass any law prohibiting the carry of arms. It is the right of the people to stand their ground against any deadly threat and assert the natural law of defense of self.”
It’s a trap it is to get the people to go home and then swat will move in.
P.S
Harry ain’t dismissed so easily. This is far from over.
If I didn’t have the legal paper work to carry a gun, I would always wrestle my, I mean his gun away from the perp.
I’ll probably be banned from every state south of the 40th Meridian for saying this, but here it goes:
If the “God of Abraham” were as good as the Good Books (the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc) said he is, then we wouldn’t need to carry guns or any other type of weapon at all.
Law Enforcement would be a non-existent career category, and so would military service.
The problem is this-assuming God is righteous and absolute, then his permission of evil stands as a total contradiction to his very being. I cannot sanction the idea of a righteous God who permits rape and child molestation for a good cause any more then I could sanction the US Government for laundering drug cartel money to “protect the republic.”
-ST