Shotguns are incredibly versatile firearms, excellent for hunting, self-defense, planting seeds and reducing the number of unwed mothers. We can now add opening a beer to that list. Or not. Yeah, let’s go with not. Putting your hand anywhere near the end of a shotgun as bits of lead exit the barrel at 1100 to 1200 feet per second may not be the stupidest thing you can do, but it’s close. Damn close. Close enough to make Elvis’ infamous ballistic reaction to Robert Goulet’s TV performance seem sensible. And earn our unidentified suds quaffer IGOTD hardware. Let’s hope he doesn’t drink to that. [h/t Tyler Kee]
I so want. That said I don’t think it will replace my favorite of all time EDC, the Al Mar Falcon Ultralight with the Talon blade. Incredibly sharp Japanese steel. It’s also incredibly light because it is liner less. So much so that you never feel it’s there with you so you have to be careful it does not go into the washing machine with your pants.
The Al Mar website:
http://www.almarknives.com/product/ultralight/
And the street price:
http://www.knifeworks.com/almarfalconultralighttalonblade3125inplain.aspx
I used to love the AZCentral comments section for articles like this. Of course, now you have to pay a subscription for web access and to comment. No thanks. Very rarely do I even go there to read articles anymore as there are free online sources of local news.
Is there anything Arizona HASNT done right?
Gun laws
Minimum wage raise.
Awesome place to live by default.
I mean…DAMN!
Raise “min wage” = idiotic as “common sense gun control”.
1. If the individual’s labor per hour is not = in value to the min wage he will not be hired
If his currently at 48/hr and the gov’t says now must be paid $10/hr, how much will you pay the guy currently receiving $10/hr? Both will be satisfied with $10/hr even though one is worth $8/hr our and the other is more valuable? NO the 2nd will get a MINIMUM of $12.10 (+25%). The guy formerly receiving $15.hr will now $18.75 and on up the skill, qualification, wage scale. All wages rise and in parallel so does the cost of living. Very short order in relative terms all workers are right back where they all started. For medium term leaves behind the SS/welfare/99wk unemployment crowd. Fed will take care of their “workers” and union retirees etc can count on that.
2. Where does numbskull $10.10/hr come from? Not an even # so obviously derived from great minds doing great research? BS Obuma pull out of butt. IF so great why not make it $20.20/hr, $30.30. And cut hours to 30hr/week with 12weeks of vacation per yr (full on French).
3. Why does Obuma/dems like this. Nothing do do with “help” the poor. They WANT inflation. Makes every $ he/they have borrowed/spent less expensive to repay. That is, in theory, easier to repay. Not that they will or intend to repay jus that they can keep on spending/buying votes (until it ALL crashes).
Econ is not that hard if you throw out the university eggheads (as Obuma) and use “Commonsense”.
Confiscation? Then, knock knock, oink oink, bang bang. Dead bacon.
The questions above in the original post were raised by me. After discussing with friends, gun club members and two local LEOs, I can offer the following:
– I have met no one who has admitted in public that they have intentionally NOT registered/declared what they have in CT = no one has admitted nor bragged about non-compliance to me.
– I do know more than a few people who have moved some of their stuff out of state but not to many who would have suggested they have moved all or most of their stuff out of CT.
– Personally, I have moved a number of 10+ round pistol mags given the limitations on grandfathered LCMs and I have bought two 10-round mags for each carry pistol so as to never have an issue of a LCM as the second mag carried.
– I know NO ONE who has admitted selling anything prior to Dec 31st to avoid having to register/declare.
– I have been told by two LEOs in two CT towns that they know “many” and “more than a few” officers who have not registered/declared their personal weapons nor mags. The thinking among this group is that they are exempt and do not need to, even if the rifles involved are never used on duty.
– Some of us are beginning to question whether the 2011 OLR report with the estimates of 370,000 LCM-capable rifles and 2.4mm or more LMCs was correct. In 2011, the state’s largest anti-gun group was trying to get LCMs banned and their friends in Hartford ordered up that report. Maybe it was spiked to show higher numbers.
In the end, the number of LCMs being lower than the number of “assault weapons” is just crazy. Forgetting pistol mags for a moment, I would guess, 3-4 10+ round rifle mags per rifle which would suggest 150-200,000 mags.
Something is wrong in the Constitution State.
That’s PWS video was the best piece of firearms advertising I’ve ever seen.
Too bad this really hasn’t been covered in the MSM , but that is not what they want the folks here to know how these people are fighting tyranny with guns , because it would not look good if the agenda that they are pushing is the same type of agenda that has been going on in Mexico for decades . I wish these patriots well , they have learned that it takes blood from the tree of liberty to get things right , I hope they end up with a better government and rid themselves of the drug cartels . Be prepared and ready.Keep your powder dry.
My choices of suppressors is getting short.
Hark back to 1775, It was a decision made by a WHOLE populace. Today, we have the main stream media and a government that is dividing us up .. ie divide and conquer.
It is up to US to train our children well, continue to give every spare dollar we have to the NRA and NAGR type organizations, and go from there.
It will likely be a band of brothers in some oddball place that will kick it off, after 40 states fold up like a fart in a tornado.
In Tiananmen Square , a single man stopped a tank, because the operators of the tank didn’t really want to kill their own countrymen for no real reason. Hopefully the same may have hope to happen here.
I wonder how small slivers of glass feel when you try to pass them? Actually, I don’t want to know.
Better to be thought of as an idiot than to post a video to LiveLeak to remove all doubt.
Now we know exactly how many, and how fast, and what they’ll bring to the party…
As usual, a simple donut tactic would be disasterous for them. So overconfident, and all it took was a car to bait them all in… If the cameras could get into position on the snipers… Uh… How easy would it be to put a dozen snipers around the area, bait these fools in with what could be an unmanned car, and then pick off almost all of them before they even knew what happened?
They always assume that they can surround the one ‘bad guy’ with overwhelming force… But what if it isn’t just that one bad guy? Their actions prove that they never even think about it. It is these very same arrogant tactics that will make them almost entirely useless, and also the very first casualties, when the hammer drops.
I love it when the enemy shows it’s hand…
Y’know, the conservatives want all kinds of laws to control and shelter all us “born sinners” for our “own good.”
The liberals want all sorts of laws to protect us “irresponsible” people from the Big Bad World, for our “own good.”
While the left at least does not make policy based on the hope that the world will end before we run out of oil, that’s just not enough of a plus to offset the minuses.
I do wish that both wings would go take a steam bath in a cyclotron and let the other eighty percent choose our own financial, medical, nutritional and religious/moral paths.
Well, and that we’d give New York back to the Dutch.
Im probably way too young for the elvis ref, and had to look it up ha. I dont understand how this guy thinks he cleanly opened the bottle, slivers of glass are no fun.
I liked the opening-beer-bottle-with-Mosin trick better. How stupid do you have to be to shoot something that close to your hand?
What happened to bottleopeners?
It’s just someone getting in part of the recommended daily allowance of vitamins A, T, F, & E. 😀
This takes “hold my beer, I’m gonna try something” to a whole new level.
I s’pose if he left the bottom inch or so undrunk, he might be O.K; glass is heavier than beer, after all.
However, effervescence might well float some smaller bits into the upper portion of the brew.
Y’know, this just ain’t someone with whom I’ve any desire to party. None whatsoever. No siree.
‘Course, after passing that glass he’ll no longer be a perfect a$$hole…
This is the face of the modern Liberal Democrat Party: angry, intolerant, bigoted, self righteous. It’s scary that Cuomo is actually considered a contender for the Democrat Presidential nomination. But, he’s the face of about half the country now.
During the days of the old Soviet Union they put political dissenters into mental institutions. Anyone who disagreed with Communism, or the Communist Party, HAD to be crazy – right? Likewise, a demagog like Cuomo believes that only he, or people like himself, are the true arbiters of what is correct and right; and people who disagree with him are either stupid, mentally incompetent, or criminal and should be treated as such.
But for all the brave talk on the Internet about how we need another Revolution, or how you’re going to give the authorities your ammunition one round at a time at 2400 fps, the vast majority of the people in this country won’t support you. Leading up to the American Revolution large groups of colonists formed Committees of Safety, and of Correspondence, led by reputable men who wielded influence in their localities. Towns had well established Militias and militia duty was recognized in the law. None of those conditions exist today. Unlike then, 1/3 of the country doesn’t feel so aggrieved that they’re willing to sanction boycotts and armed insurrection. Our present government – at all levels, and unlike the old colonial administrations – is vastly powerful and its intelligence capabilities are such that it can quash dissenters before they become too much of a threat.
Unfortunately, Cuomo and the core of the Democrat Party are ruthless and are supported by a vast bureaucracy and media. They are control freaks who are driven by a religious belief in their mission to change this country into one that conforms to their vision. They don’t care about the Constitution if what it says disagrees with their ideas and they don’t recognize any limits on what they can do. And they have spent the last 40 years using the schools, the media, and popular culture to change the way young people (who grow up to be voters) think about what it means to be an American. We now have several generations of citizens who have been taught to believe that we have been given our “rights” by a benevolent government which can and should limit them for our own good. Individualism and self reliance are bad, and communalism and conformity are good. Because Liberals are driven by envy and jealousy, anyone who works hard and becomes successful is evil. Because it’s only “fair” that we all be the same, mediocrity is the new standard.
I’m very pessimistic about the future of the United States. It certainly feels as though the Country I grew up in and served in uniform – is dead.
Crappy states will do crappy things, but I doubt it will ever go nationwide. Besides, there are more gun owners than police officers, and more retired veterans than national guardsmen. We will not be herded into boxcars.
Guess he didn’t have a saber handy.
It appears to me that no part of his right hand is in front of the muzzle, so that’s not a huge deal, IMO. But the problem of glass in my beer is something quite different.
However, I seriously doubt if he drank any of that beer, beyond that first (and last) sip. It’s not smart, I agree, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of danger involved in what he did.
But I wouldn’t try it.
I love the XDm but if I had to choose another this would be at the top of my list. Great shooter, fits my hands, and fits the XDm holsters.
Cool! A gun I could afford.
I found a guy who has a bag full of original 213a mags I just got a few and they are the real mags. I bought them so I could save my matching serial number mag for the collectability of a matching numbers gun. 3 digit serial number gun.
Isn’t this good news? The population has finally reached its boiling point.
I know many innocents will die and that is obviously not good. But would it be worth it if they could start again, with a functional government?