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Gun Tweet of the Day: Anti-Gunners Buy Guns Edition

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ProgressVA tweets VA Tech victim Colin Goddard on their gun purchase (courtesy twitter.com)

 

As a former mental health professional I approve this message. By literally coming to grips with the firearm used against him by Seung-Hui Cho during the Virginia Tech massacre, Colin Goddard made an important leap of logic: the gun wasn’t responsible for the carnage. Goddard realized that a GLOCK is an inanimate object; the person who holds the gun determines its use or misuse. He forced himself to face the fact that if he’d had a GLOCK in that classroom on that fateful spring day he would been able to save innocent life. Or die trying. Holding the GLOCK, Goddard suddenly understood what Jews mean when they say “never again.” Goddard determined that he would carry a gun. And that all good men and women should be able to do so as well. Easily. Only that’s not what happened. Shame.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. Day 3: The missing link has yet to be found.
    Day 5: We have lost half of our men, he is still out there and hunting
    Day 6: Repeated airstrikes have been unsuccessful. We have resorted to using napalm.

    Day 17: I’m all that’s left, I know he’s still on the prowl.
    Day 19: He got me, my strength fades as I write, tell my family I love them. Mission aborte….

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  2. yall need to take this down before Dirk Diggler sees… He’ll lose it all over his computer if he sees Mrs. Watts aiming a rifle.

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  3. [mumbling] Guerrilla Warfare?…. Guerrilla Warfare!… No man….. you’ve got it aaaallllll wrong man…. You’ll see! Yoooouuuull see!

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  4. If you guys have a problem with the way Law Enforcement is being conducted in America why dont you do something about it? Instead of sitting on your lazy asses and bitching about it on the internet.

    Call/E-mail your congressmen, go to city council meetings, write a letter to the local newspaper, make a youtube video about it. Do something other than get tough anonymously with your keyboard. Cop bashing does nothing but widen the gap between police and “civilians” it creates an us vs them mentality and solves nothing.

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  5. OK, O/U and double guns. Why do they do what they do, why do they carry the prices they do, why do clay competitors use them and other various issues.

    First, with regards to the above specifications:

    – mechanical trigger: This means that the trigger shifts from the first to the second barrel without a recoil impulse. Merely pulling the trigger on the first barrel sets the trigger to trip the second hammer.

    – rebounding hammers: A feature that brings the hammers back off the strikers (or firing pins, however they’re named) after the hammers have gone forward to hit the strikers.

    – cold hammer forged barrels: The barrels are hammered down onto a mandrel, rather than boring out the barrels to the profile desired. This is used on lots of lower-cost, mass-production barrels now.

    – two inch forcing cones: OK, on shotguns you’ll have a chamber just as you’d have on a rifle. However, on a shotgun, there has been a change in how loads are constructed over the years.

    In the old days (before, oh, the 60’s), shotgun loads had a felt wad over the powder charge and below the shot. When the shell was ignited, the wad would take the pressure of the powder and push the shot out the front of the shell. When the shot would clear the shell and start down the barrel, the wad would be following. In order to keep the pressure behind the wad, the wad had to create a relatively tight seal behind the shot – and this was the job of the forcing cone. The forcing cone would suddenly reduce the diameter of the bore, causing the wad to “grab up” onto the sides of the barrel and seal more tightly, allowing the gas pressure to stay behind the wad and accelerate the shot down the barrel. Old-time forcing cones had a fairly abrupt angle to them, and took only, oh, 3/8ths to 1/2 inch of length in the barrel.

    These abrupt forcing cones aren’t really necessary any longer, now that most shotgun loads are using the one-piece buffer/wad/shot cup. So to allow the shotgun to use the modern technology better, achieve more velocity and reduce felt recoil, the forcing cones are made longer, with a shallower angle.

    It is a pretty common gunsmithing job on older shotguns to bore out the old abrupt cones and lengthen them. The barrels should be checked for adequate wall thickness in the forcing cone area being available before this job is attempted.

    – back-bored barrels: OK, the “standard” bore for a 12 gauge is 0.729″, plus or minus. On older shotguns, you could see bores in the middle of the barrel as tight as 0.724.

    With a modern integrated shot-cup/buffer/wad setup, the base of this integrated plastic piece has “fins” that can expand to a diameter wider than 0.729″. To reduce the friction of the buffer/cup/wad, newer shotguns are bored to over-size (oh, 0.734 to 0.735″) and this increases the velocity and reduces barrel heating due to friction.

    That’s “back boring.”

    The other stuff is pretty straightforward.

    Next post will be what makes doubles or O/U’s cost more – altho this Red Label is a very, very modestly priced O/U shotgun.

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  6. I went to gunfreeseattle.org, and was surprised by the number of bars on the list. It’s already illegal to carry in bars in Washington, so what’s the point of putting up a gun free zone sign?

    Edit: rosignol beat me to the punch…

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    • It’s one thing for a bar to put up a sign warning CCWers that they would be breaking the law by entering with a gun. That’s customer service. But, to put up a sign from an anti-gunowner group is like giving the finger to CCWers.

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  7. Switched to left front for wallet about 10 years ago. Now 5/8 x 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 instead of the brick that was in the right rear. 10 – 12 credit card sized documents, slot for cash, better pick-pocket protection, reduced back pain.

    Nix the badge.

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  8. Also, don’t flash that shiny “concealed carry badge” you bought online, either. Kinda goes hand-in-hand with the STFU part. 😉

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  9. I like the idea.

    It’d work well for .38 and .357 since there is usually so much room left in the case when using modern powders.

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