I’ve been waiting quite some time for Caracal to replace my carry gun. Regular readers will recall that I had a whole “Caracal C Held Hostage” thing going on. I’m pleased to announce that the series pegged-out at exactly 200 days. As of this morning, my Caracal C is free! Well, headed back to meet its maker, leaving behind its box-fresh brother. To make sure that the United Arab Emirates gunmaker’s trigger fix hadn’t ruined the 9mm’s sublime go-pedal, I asked Caracal to let me keep the old gun for a side-by-side comparo . . .
No problemo, as they say in Dubai. If anything the new gun’s trigger is a tiny bit crisper than the one that made me cray-cray in a good way. I’m just getting used to it again, but stacking three rounds on top of each other at five yards is pretty good shooting for Coke bottle bottom boy.
It’s official: you may send your C back with confidence. Or buy one warily when they become available again in stores. That is all.
“But a big thing is to change social norms. We’ve already had some of those successes. When I was a kid drinking and driving was fine……”
Here we go again, sigh…..
No, it was not “fine” you imbecile. Drinking and driving was as illegal then as it is now, as early as 1910 in New York, BTW. It was just that the laws were not enforced as much before the 1970’s and penalties were not as severe.
And guess what? it still goes on today in spades because even with excellent enforcement people still break the law. Get off your utopian cloud, take off your rose colored glasses and go out to some bars on a Friday night and take a LOOK AROUND.
“…..and so I’d like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss…..”
Tell that to the criminal pointing a gun at your face and see what happens. The stupidity of that statement is not only laughable, it will get you dead.
“….They’re somebody to look down at because they couldn’t defend themselves or couldn’t protect others without using a gun…..”
So screw women then? Tell that to your 120 pound wife when she is confronted by a 250 pound rapist or two you fool.
Lying to yourself by dreaming such impotent, utopian dreams of “manly” non-resistance vanquishing criminal violence is the sweetest form of mental masturbation. Writing about them so that intelligent people can see how you tick makes you a fool. Who is the real “wuss” dreamer?
A lot of people more Arab than me would be livid at being compared to black people.
I feel as if I walked into a room right after someone farted real loud. If you’re going to delete the racist comment, you should probably delete all the responses and references to it, so those that come along later aren’t confused. None of the responses have any Caracal related comments in them, so you won’t lose anything by memory-holing them all.
Glad you finally got your gun back from purgatory.
Was reading about the guitar case for guns. I have a bad back and can’t really lift all my gun gear when I go to the range, so I started using my old roll around computer case with retractable handle. . It has a lot of compartments and a padded section the computer went in that holds my .38 snubbie and 9mm XD very comfortably. Also holds 200 rounds of each cal. And i dont have to lug it to the range, I just pull it on its wheels. Just a thought. Maybe some of the manufacturers can “steal” an idea. :).
I have it on good authority of Harvard Dr. David Hemenway that carrying a gun makes you a wuss. You should be using your superior intelligence to overcome the force of your attacker. Or alternatively just lie back an enjoy it.
“under their plan all transactions through gun stores, on line or at gun shows would be required to pass through the NICS system. Sales between individuals, though, would remain off the books . . .”
The two quoted sentences are at odds with each other. What about private sales between individuals at gun shows? How will the additional FBI NICS calls be funded? It’s already overwhelmed.
Proof is in the pudding, or in this case the hot steaming pile of congressional scat….
It’s pretty funny that the former slave states (excepting Maryland) haver better gun laws than their Northern counterparts.
So if i advertise online (arms list or similar website) would i have to go through an ffl even if sold in my state.
I do like these positive changes to the current laws. Is there anything negative in these changes?
– Fixes interstate travel laws for sportsmen who transport their firearms across state lines in a responsible manner. The term “transport” includes staying in temporary lodging overnight, stopping for food, buying fuel, vehicle maintenance, and medical treatment.
– Authorizes use of a state concealed carry permit instead of a background check when purchasing a firearm from a dealer.
– Permits interstate handgun sales from dealers.
– Family transfers and some private sales (friends, neighbors, other individuals) are exempt from background checks
Here’s how you win at this.
1. DON’T shoot at it. That is the way to lose the PR battle. It’s a waste of a great opportunity.
2. Figure out what brand they are using, they will be using off the shelf control stuff on an unlicensed frequency. Because that’s what this stuff uses (and there’s nothing wrong with these “drones” or “fpv airplanes” either, it’s just that some small groups are abusing them). There are devices you can buy off the interwebs that will jam wide swaths of the 900mhz, 2.4ghz, etc, spectrum. Normally not something you’d want to use. But out in middle of nowhere, no one is going to mind. The range they have is not far. Don’t worry about them buying a drone big enough to put a huge tele lens on, and using it to fly far up–drones required to lift and stabilize those for any length of time are pretty pricey and if they fly high enough they’ll fly foul of legal regulations anyway.
3. Use your jammer, optionally with a directional antenna (may be needed to stay under power limits). It’s not going to fry the drone’s electronics or anything nutty like that–you don’t want to do that, anyway. It will be enough to shut down their control of the drone, though.
4. Wait till the drone’s batteries get low and it falls from the sky (or some will auto land if they lose control/get low battery).
5. Take the INTACT & UNDAMAGED drone to the Police and turn it in. Let them know it was harassing you, a legal and licensed hunter, and was harassing wildlife.
At that point, you’ve done nothing illegal, interfering with the controls of an RC drone is, from what I can tell, not illegal (might be in some places, and might be regulated at some point, but from what I can tell it isn’t now–this applies to things that are out in an unlicensed spectrum where you aren’t interfering with someone’s communications, but I’m not a lawyer so your mileage my vary). You’ve done nothing violent. Guns won’t factor into it. You can say their drone was disturbing the environment and scaring off birds and wildlife, too, for bonus points. NO ONE likes peta. Not even the “liberal media”. You can bet the police can’t stand them either. Instead of the headline being “gun owner shoots legal drone” it will be “tech-saavy citizen stops privacy invasion!”.
PS: you can jam cell phones easily, as well (not legal). The equipment is about $30 and will fit in your pocket.
Okay, look. I’ve been eyeing a puchase of either a Remington 870 or Mossberg 590 … One of them maintains a manufacturing presence in New York, and the other, its headquarters in Connecticut. So, now which one do I get? I cannot boycott everything. Are people going to boycott all the Remington 700-based rifles out there too?
All a mistake. And when they storm the wrong house and kill your husband and dog you can always get new ones. No hard feelings, right?
Douchebag.
Still waiting for him to start worrying about the 3,000 babies dying each day in their mothers wombs. He can’t even get concerned for the 10,000 per year done late term.
I really don’t understand all of the frothing at the mouth for magazine capacity limits. All of the information I have read, which came from the DOJ after a study of the original AWB, and the current letter to the Obama administration, it stated that magazine capacity limits will not have a statistically significant effect in shooting deaths.
I want to know what metric these people used to arrive at the conclusion that 10 rounds is the right amount and 30 rounds it too much for the average American to own. They have not proven that magazine capacity limits will change anything. Anecdotal evidence of a few instances is not enough to make sweeping changes across the country to infringe on the good people of the country.
I do not buy into the fact that if people have fewer rounds in a mass shooting that more lives will be saved. What we have seen is that many of these shootings they will plan around the limitations of their weapon systems. They instead bring multiple weapons to the shooting (Shotgun back up by a rifle and handgun(s), perform New York reloads, 10×10 round magazines, crowd suppressant gas etc). In order to prevent all situations, the government would have to play whack a mole every time some idiot went on a shooting rampage to make new laws to try and prevent the last mass shooting.
I also do not believe that there are very many instances where the shooter having to reload gave anyone a chance to charge or tackle the shooter to stop them. You would have to determine if the shooter was actively reloading or just moving to the next target rich area. This means you have to move from cover. If you choose the wrong moment, you get shot. If you choose right moment, you still have to close the distance in less than 3 seconds. Part of those few seconds will be assessing whether the shooter is reloading or not so unless you are next to the shooter it will leave almost no time to close the distance. Then there is the issue of wrestling with the gunman. If they are physically large than you, then that will probably not end very well. In essence, it is a fantasy.
What this all boils down to is it infringes on the good people and really does nothing to stop mass murdering psychos who may plan their attack for weeks or months. The laws do no solve the problem which is the mass murderer.