“A formulation made from corn sweeteners may soon be the U.S. military’s bio-renewable solution for gun lubrication and protection,” agweb.com reports. “The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has teamed up with QMaxx Products Group in Fenton, MO to submit a new corn-based gun oil to the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). According to NCGA, the new oil would ‘reduce soldiers’ exposure to some harmful components.'” Wait. Is QMaxx saying . . .
that their rust-proofing oil has ‘harmful components’? No sir, they’re not. But I reckon they’re hungry for a big fat government contract; adding corn syrup to their formulation gives them political juice in Washington. Or is that me just being cynical?
“It’s exciting to think a product I used almost daily in the Army, soon may contain the corn I produce every year on the farm.” Said Larry Hoffmann, chairman of NCGA’s Corn Productivity and Action Team and a former U.S. Army officer. “While we project only a modest increase in additional corn demand from QMaxx’s CLP product there are other potential applications of this same corn-derived chemical that have significant market potential.”
Given that existing gun lubes aren’t making soldiers sick, the advantages here are [perhaps] environmental and economic. Is that enough to justify a switch? Big Corn, big con? We report, you deride.
Have a Gen 3 22C I bought several years ago. Very accurate. Have shot it at night several times. Have never noticed any “fireballs”, “blindness”, etc. The one thing I DO notice is that it has a lot less muzzle flip than the standard 22, or my G23 Gen4. My .357 revolver puts out a hell of a lot more flash than the 22C, and I never really notice that, either.
Vegetable oil as a gun lubricant?
Whooda thunk? I don’t think that’s ever been tried before!
FireClean hardest hit.
If they add the scent of butter and salt I might be interested… rattle off a couple of mags and I might start craving popcorn.
Nevermind me, I’ll just be at the crafting station building EMP grenades.
Shit, does anyone have a shipment of copper I can borrow?
I do not give one single solitary damn about the opinion of a service member on this issue. Current or former. It doesn’t concern you. It has nothing to do with you. Shut your mouth and speak up only when you have something productive to say. You’re not being insulted. No one asked for your service. Stop inserting yourself into every single goddamn conversation as if your service makes you an all knowing arbiter for all matters social and political.
I repair commercial restaurant equipment. Kitchen workers are always spraying or lubing the equipment with vegetable oils. And it just gums everything up like a glue. It destroys slicers. Not for me. I’ll stick with traditional petroleum based products, thank you.
Yep.
I’ve trained years in various martial arts, so Weaver is where I tend to go naturally
This guy is a Christian zealot, again some things are more dangerous and important than just gun rights. You can’t really expect intelligence out of Alabama though. This guy and Sessions need to drive into the ocean and vanish forever.
NFA Repeal should be the big question for 2018 Republican primaries.
Jim wrote: “some things are more dangerous and important than just gun rights”
A man’s position on gun rights speaks volumes for his positions on freedom, liberty and responsibility.
it’s fun to lean a pair of nickels in the slide slots and try to hit them in the air after they launch from the first shot.
i have a ported .44mag revolver. i don’t really notice the “v” flame unless someone else is firing it. very pleasant after dusk. not sure about recoil, but porting tames the jump some.
Ugh, can Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan just go away already? I’m so sick of them. They would trade their own mothers for a federal kickback to their district and a campaign contribution. Sickening.
Too old for run and gun. I shoot a rifle mostly off the bench with a front rest and rear bag. Concentrate on breathing and trigger pull with the ultimate goal of either shooting bug holes at 100yds or ringing steel at 1000yds. Aim small miss small. Just getting back into pistol shooting and have not developed a regimine yet for that but leaning toward multiple target engagement utilizing boarding house rules and DVC.
Yo bro, hold it a sec I gotta pack this powder
If this is such a problem I’m sure the Brady Bunch won’t mind providing us with evidence of modern day criminals using blackpowder non-regulated firearms in their criminal enterprises. I’d love to see how Chicago and Baltimore street gangs are arming themselves with percussion cap revolvers ordered from Cabalas and shooting it out in their local neighborhoods.
Democracy is a messy thing.
All those who are getting their pretty pastel panties in a bunch over Moore’s public expression(s) of Christianity fail to realize that the alternative for the GOP primary voters was a man who has more than a mere whiff of quid-pro-quo corruption coming off of him. Can we prove that Strange dropping the investigation was the price for the appointment to Senate? Not easily.
But Occam’s razor tells us that it is, in fact, the simplest explanation. When Occam’s razor intersects with a politician up for an election… it’s merely natural for the voters to say “Yea, um, no…” and vote for “the other guy,” regardless of whether he might be a little too public in the practice of his faith, if he’s cleaner than the guy with the corruption wafting off of him.
Add in how PO’ed the GOP base is at Vichy Mitchy, and the public could well have voted for a FLDS polygamist instead.
The very picture of irony is that Media Matters holds itself out as dedicated to “correcting” misinformation misinformation in conservative media — particularly Fox News — but also runs such initiates as this boot camp that provides activists with training on how to use the media to advance progressive ideas. I don’t think Fox News does that.
Who’s committed to neutrality in journalism again?
Progressive Talent Initiative
Media Matters hosts an annual media boot camp for mid-career liberal activists known as the “Progressive Talent Initiative.” Participants include think tank directors, Capitol Hill staffers, campaign aides and others. They receive intensive training on how to articulate progressive ideas via radio and television. By 2011 the program had trained more than 100 pundits who appeared on various news programs over 800 times.[2]
Well guns are growing in popularity among varying cultural groups, but the NRA tends to be on the wrong side of a lot “culture war” issues that have nothing to do with guns. They should stick to firearms rights, stop the fear mongering, and definitely stop dabbling in other social/political issues that could alienate people from shooting sports and self-defense.
Been able to strip my XDm without a trigger pull for a long time, glock.