Via bearingarms.com: What’s wrong with this picture? (click to embiggen) “Mr. Polen exited the passenger-side rear seat, and pointed an AK-47, which is very similar to this weapon here, at the officer…” Answers after the jump . . .
A M1 Carbine underfolder (.30 Carbine or 7.62x33mm) with an AKM magazine (7.62x39mm) and what appear to be 5.56mm rounds, plus a random unexplained pistol caliber cartridge. Original story (with video) at palmbeachpost.com.
Over the weekend I noted the story of the Raleigh, NC Parks Department dragging their feet on removing the outdated “no-guns” signs around town, citing expense as the primary reason. Now comes news that in response to a lawsuit threat by gun rights group Grass Roots North Carolina, the signs will be coming down. In a statement sent out Tuesday, Parks Dept Director Diane Sauer said, “By the end of the business day tomorrow – October 30 – all individual signs that bear language prohibiting concealed handguns will have been removed from City parks.” The multi-rule signs will remain for now, but the word “firearms” will be removed (possibly with some black duct tape).
The strategists behind the successful Colorado recalls are bringing their tactics to California, in response to the measures passed by the legislature earlier this year. Under the gun are five Democratic incumbents — Assembly Speaker John Perez, Assemblywomen Lorena Gonzalez and Sharon Quirk-Silva, and state Sens. Ben Hueso and Norma Torres. The number of signatures necessary to meet the 12% requirement to get the measure on the ballot range from nearly 16,000 for Quirk-Silva to as little as 3,000 in the case of Gonzalez. If the recall measures make the ballot, it will still be an uphill battle, but the fight to retain (or regain) our freedoms goes on.
There’s a pilot program being launched in Los Angeles to have reports of ammunition sales be sent electronically to the LAPD. Ammo sellers already have to keep records, but they’re on paper, and LAPD has to physically go look at them if they have questions. The new electronic logs would be transmitted to LAPD on a weekly basis. Officials say the logs have paid off, as in one recent instance, police were able to find 14 people buying ammunition who had been prohibited from owning weapons. And?
I saved my two favorite pumpkin destruction videos for last. Richard Ryan brings the pain at 30,000 frames per second. First up, a little det cord and C4 action.
Death Star Pumpkin v. Rebel .50 cal at 30k and 100,000(!) frames per second (0:21 Twin suns!)
I promise, no more pumpkins for a while.
Reading-all-the-way-to-the-end bonus: As of this writing (1930 ET), MidwayUSA has 1400 round buckets of Remington Golden Bullet available for backorder for $59.99 + shipping. Limit 1. Expected delivery date is 12/31. My shipped price worked out to 5.4 cts/round. http://goo.gl/ZNFT6n
.30 carbine with an ak mag. Did they throw in a hollow point .45 with a nickel case fro dramatic points?
The LA program is an offshoot of a (failed) bill to require statewide reporting of ammo sales to the DOJ. I assume that this pilot program is intended to demonstrate the potential of such a (massively expensive and complicated) program. Big Brother is watching.
No Halloween sightings of Shannon Watts(TM) in costume?? Damn.
Same stuff as 9-11 different POTUS.
The Bucket o’ Bullets is a pretty decent deal. If I owned a .22, I’d be all over that.
Call me cold, but I want the pictures released. I want it all released. I want to know the position of every single shell casing that was fired and located after the fact. I want to know the position of every body, and every bullet hole and what caliber killed them.
I want to show the world what a “Gun-Free School Zone” looks like, and what happens to the disarmed.
It doesn’t matter to me if it was a crazy lone gunman, or a group of special forces operators at the tip of the conspiracy-spear who killed those teachers and their students.
In either case, they were unarmed, left without a fighting chance, and slaughtered like sheep.
Probably wasn’t SF operators most of them are over 30 with kids the age of most of the Sandy Hook victims. They wouldn’t do that even if ordered to. Oh and the SF doesn’t specialize in direct action operations mostly they teach foreign forces interact with the locals win hearts and minds and gather intel. A Sandy Hook raid would fall to SEALS or Rangers and neither of those would touch it either… so military involvement is well a very bad hypothesis.
It would probably be useful in situations like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nlcmmt8X0
Look at the top states, I wonder what they all have in common.
I heard the same logic from my formerly anti-gun mom. “I’d rather die than have to kill someone.” When my mentally unstable brother attempted to poison my parents she locked herself in their room and took my giant maglite for “protection”. Her being kidnapped later on totally changed both my parent’s perspective on self defense with a firearm. Nothing like a good dose of reality to encourage some real common sense.
My bullying experiences mostly revolved around the fact that as a child, according to the school, I had no rights, one of my principals actually flat out told this to me. Although I was teased, and regularly told teachers about it I usually found myself treated as the guilty one just by being associated with any “disruption” to the schools “perfect utopia.” I often felt that it was easier for them to just punish me than actually deal with the problem.
I had numerous bullies, and tried to physically fight back on multiple occasions, but the big reason I didn’t was so that I could actually stay in the school as my grades were very important to me. It didn’t help that I was, and still am, not a very big guy, so I was often forced to not fight back because I knew I couldn’t stop them that way. Make no mistake, I really wanted to beat the living shit out of them.
I don’t even know anymore how many times I was threatened with expulsion, and somehow I still managed to get through just a smidgen under the A honor roll. It honestly bothers me when someone tries to pass off bullying as some sort of natural dominance thing, or even as a BS excuse, there are too many factors to make such sweeping generalizations.
If you wanna change bullying, your gonna be disappointed, cause it would take a miracle from on high to get everything necessary to happen. The school system is almost completely inept, filled with junk policies and system that I could see were bullshit when I was still eight years old, but the few good people that are still left legally have their hands tied and can’t do anything about it.
Then there are the parents, the products of an ever increasing selfish and rude society, the same type of people who will take legal action over spilled hot coffee. Practically still children themselves, they now either choose to not discipline their kids, or simply don’t care and are too distracted by their “busy” lives to remember they have miniature versions of themselves running around.
I could go on, but my post is long enough as it is, but defeating bullying is more likely to come as a result to defeating our degrading society, and I don’t foresee that happening very soon.
This claim is based on a correlation between owning a gun and a higher risk of death. The correlation is real, but the direction of causation is entirely Sugarmann’s own invention. Using the same logic as Sugarmann, you could claim that getting a restraining order dramatically increases a woman’s chance of being murdered by a domestic partner. Or, for that matter, that wearing a heavy coat makes it snow.
Woohoo. The California DOJ set up a whole statewide database system with its own staff that found over 20,000 armed people who were prohibited from owning weapons, mostly for criminal reasons. Last year they did something about approximately 1,000 of them.
If you first make laws so that it’s virtually impossible to avoid breaking them, then install reporting and surveillance systems so that most of the time a law is broken you’ll know about it, eventually you’ll have evidence of everyone breaking the law. You don’t HAVE to arrest them, but you always CAN arrest them, you know, like when they do things you don’t like that aren’t quite illegal yet?
Now you’re thinking.
Mr. Kozak, make mine a 12 ga with a 357 chaser. But, I have two mouseguns, Beretta 21 in .22 and Beretta Tomcat .32. They conceal in pockets holsters, with a tuckable IWB holster, my wifes purse and my laptop case without anyone knowing it is there. I even found a cell phone holder for my belt that holds the .22. This thing hides in plain sight. When away from home or the car the mighty mouse is the most frequently present weapon. When my 357’s are not handy, and my 380’s are too indiscreet; I will take my Beretta 21 in .22 over an empty fist. Besides, my wife loves ’em.
Too much caliber in too small a weapon is too difficult for some ladies to shoot confidently. No practice, no confidence, no good. My wife is very confident and skilled with her Sig 380’s. Who am I to tell her it is not good enough? Just be happy she likes to shoot, and does it well.
My child attends an elementary in a fairly upscale district, with double the enrollment of Sandy Hook. Two years ago the original buildings were razed and a new, modern facility built. The cost for destruction and construction was less than $20 million. I have to wonder what could account for this type of expense; what would an audit show on payments to expenses outside of the actual physical project?
Although I will, and have, called the police to report suspicious activity, I refuse to join a neighborhood watch group. Prowling around late at night looking for criminal activity is a good way to get yourself hurt. Criminals, especially gangbangers, resent interference. Disarming yourself in order to go on patrol makes as much sense as removing your insulated mitts before taking a hot dish out of the oven.