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Way too much navel-gazing nonsense for me.
Thousands of criminologists painstakingly gather the data that we use to refute anti-gun folks. Then, one guy drives around contemplating his toenails, writes a book, and he gets all the press. I heard him interviewed and have read some of his articles. He sure as hell doesn’t speak for this “liberal” gun owner.
Twenty three years ago (or so) Kansas City, MO police were walking through an apartment complex, looking for a suspicious person who had been reported. A police officer noticed a door was slightly ajar (closed but not quite latched). He entered the apartment without any verbal notice and no warrant. He proceeded to the back of the two bedroom apartment and was standing in the hall between the two bedroom doors. An unarmed resident, clad only in his briefs, opened his bedroom door and got blown away by the cop. A judge dismissed charges against the cop. The suspicious walker was never found, if indeed he existed.
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I never thought I’d be jealous of my more southerly neighbors, but this makes it a pretty close call.
I’m guessing Dan Baum’s Jewish (by birth, that is, not by religious practice), and that gives him 4:1 odds of being lefty. It’s not his fault, really, even if it’s still highly regrettable. Leftism is probably the (secular) religion of his family. If he had been raised in an orthodox Jewish household, he’d have had a better chance of being conservative, or at least not-lefty. As a Jewish fellow myself – of the politically conservative variety – I am pleased to see a Jewish lefty taking gun owners seriously and beginning the process of extricating himself from the materialism and neo-communism he was likely taught from childhood.
We just want sensible controls on salt. No more black salt shakers with more than 7 holes in the top. Well, you can have 10 holes, but only hold the salt shaker at less than a 35° angle. Unless you’re a cook at the Capitol cafeteria. The sea-water loophole will have to be closed, just as effectively as the British did in India. (/wiki/Salt_March) Random checkpoints will be established only to check for illegal salt shakers. We still respect your right to cook as you want.
1 in 10 U.S. Deaths Blamed on Salt | ABC News
If there’s just one life we can save, we have an obligation to try. #SaltControl
I’m sure more than a few children accounted for some of those numbers. “If only saves one child”, well.. legal gun ownership does that. My children are defended.
…those that play in a rigged game get stupid.
Baum knows the words, but he’ll never know the music. Never. As a gun owner, he’s a caricature of the old left Eastern European socialist.
The problem is not the responsible users but the irresponsible ones. Guns like cars need responsible people to use them, and as such there need to be laws in place so that peoples unfit to bear the responsibility, or those that have proven to be irresponsible, don’t have access. The current laws don’t allow for this to happen. May be you should consider helping those in charge write better legislature. No drunk person should be allowed behind the wheels, and no unstable person behind a gun. We all also have the right to own and drive a car! 🙂
Tj15, hammer forged barrels usually have a spiral pattern on the outside of the barrel. A barrel blank is placed over a mandrel and forging hammers compress the metal leaving the rifling pattern basically embossed. I suspect very early T&E 716 had hammer forged barrels. These have much slimmer barrels that looked almost stepped down after the gas block. IMO hammer forged is superior. I am sure sig made the change to reduce cost. One would think on a rifle costing 2-3k they wouldn’t cut such cost.
I just sent mine back to Sign for inspection. It would not group and every case had screaches on the neck and strange dents on the shoulders. I ran a fiber optic camera into the chamber and found what appears to be corrosion . I also noticed some type of corrosion on the sear. My gun was NIB and manufactured Dec. 2012.
I also experienced one split case at the neck on round #20. Using new Federal gold metal match 168gr BTHP.
I did not experience any malfunctions.
I do commend Sign on their customer service… it is unequalled. Even though my rifle had some issues, Sig sent me prepaid fedex the next day, the representative personally called me twice. When is the last time you got service like that?
I am not going to make an opinion on the gun until I get the gun back and shoot it. Yes it was a bit inconvenient, but I want to give Sign a chancy to correct the problem.
Looks like the guy holding the shotgun is wearing a juggernaut suit. Minus the helmet. (Eye protection)
Sorry about the typos and spelling. My spell checker is a Democrat, it rarely works and when it does, it’s wrong.
Was looking at the CATO website and see since Sept 14, 2012 that the only ones are averaging 59 incidents of complaints of crimes against them per week, 1,180 total up to 3/20/2013. That would make a good comparison against all those people who defended themselves.
If the 50% tax on ammo passes, all ammo manufacturers should lower the price to 1¢ per box. Attached to each box should be a “donation” form already filled in with appropriate amount to be “donated” to the manufacturer.
The Eotech is on correctly. It’s the rifle that’s backwards.
A cop who endorses or supports gun grabbing is a traitorous, filthy pig.
If they gots guns, we gots guns.
What the actual fvck are you talkin bout Willis? Fascination with death? Dude, you need drugs, and a fvckin hug or something.
I believe in gun rights because I don’t want anyone to have absolute control over me, or anyone else. Bureaucrat, criminal, or both. Communitarianism, utilitarianism, the “greater good”, the “good of society” *spit*. A pox on all their houses. There is nothing more important than the individual and the individual right. You cannot claim to be a defender of the little guy; of the minority, if you are not a defender of the individual. The individual is the smallest minority there is.
I LIKE guns because I’m not a bloomin idiot. I’m well aware that life is not an action movie. I’m not going to get jumped for my wallet by three guys, get the sh!t kicked out of me, and be just fine. My aging mother is not going to be better of pepper spray than a 9mm. My 115# little sister is not going to get into a fistfight with a 220# rapist and pull off a perfect triangle choke or manage to hip toss him through a window. As others have said, guns are equalizers. They’re force multipliers. The small, the weak, the elderly, the infirm; they’re now on the same playing field as the 250# thug who’s been hitting the weights in the pen for the last five years.
There’s a very large and important difference between a gun guy and gun rights guy. Dan Baum is a gun guy, Bruce Krafft is a gun rights guy.
Bruce Krafft is a libertarian who happens to like guns. Dan Baum is a statist who happens to like guns.
Dan Baum is not our friend.
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“…they will have to wait for someone openly holding a gun to commit a crime before they can confront them.”
Well braid by beard and call my Anders! You mean you won’t be able to stop and harass just anyone you want? This is an outrage! An outrage I say!
You do realize that there are other weapons in the world, right?
One big benefit to come out of this fight is that the enemies of freedom turned the spotlight onto themselves. We now know who they are and where they are. The other big one is that these folk now realize how strong we are when we get together and fight back,
Our strongest weapons are our wallets and our votes, in that order. De-funded states and politicians wither on the vine, and do so quickly.
“Bare” means unclothed.