Ideology. Pragmatism. Logic. Which one of these doesn’t fit? OK, yes, ideology can fit in the mix—if it’s aligned with the other two. For example, disarming American civilians on ideological grounds is A) impractical and B) illogical. There are over a 300m guns in the Land of the Free. Civilian disarmament does nothing to increase the sum of human happiness (if you think about it). Dammit Spock! I’m a progressive not a liberty loving freak like you! It’s funny (peculiar) that Magpul’s decision to leave Colorado if the legislature bans possession of 30-round mags is the one thing that grabbed Gov. Hickenlooper’s attention. The same cannot be said for Dan Malloy. Connecticut’s anti-gun Governor hasn’t said a dickie-bird about legislation-related firearms-industry job losses. Then again, Remington. I guess we can add backbone (or lack thereof) to the list above.
Hate to break it to you, but anything that invokes jack-booted thugs is the kind of thing that tends to turn off the fence straddlers.
Whenever confronted with the insignificant impact gun control has on crime, the answer is, “The numbers don’t matter, if it saves just one life, it’s worth it.” But as soon as a gun could have saved that one life statistics suddenly matter, and that “One life” crap goes out the window, or maybe the “One life,” they care about in this situation is the rapists.
Greetings from downunder. They haven’t disarmed us completely but things in NSW aren’t too good with the recent passing of an ammunition supply bill that requires licensed shooters to present not only their license, but the registration papers for the firearm in that caliber as well when buying ammunition. The dealer also notes your name, address, and license and registration numbers. You can understand that many shooters are very angry (other descriptions would probably run foul of censors) that our information is now held in an unsecured manner. And this is supposed to stop drive-by shootings done by criminals with unlicensed handguns. But, in the haste and ignorance of the bill, reloading components were completely overlooked.
Getting back on topic, for competition shooting, I am dependent on handloads in my primary target rifle. The rifle is an ersatz creation of a No4 Lee-Enfield reworked to fire .223 Remington and is fitted with a 1-in-9″ pitch barrel and 1/2 minute target back sight. Externally the rifle is stock because of the service rifle competition.
I use two primary handloads. A budget load costing less than 20 cents per round. The projectile is surplus SS109 62g bullets which I have batched into 1-grain lots. I use 25 grains of AR2206H powder. I use Winchester commercial cases and primers. I find the Norinco cases aren’t quite as good. This load is normally used at 100 metres. I’ve used the load at 200 and 300 metres, but I know this load isn’t up to par. I think this load is good for scores of the mid-to-high-80s at 300 metres. Occasionally I can get scores in the 90s at 300 metres but some luck is involved.
If I want accuracy for the important matches at 200 and 300 metres, I use 69g Sierra Match Kings. The load is about 23.5 grains of Benchmark 2 powder, but this powder is expensive so I’ll start testing with 24.5 grains of AR2206H to see if I can cut costs. Currently this load costs about 50 cents per round, and the projectile is almost two-thirds of this. The case and primer are the same as before. I can count on this load to make sub-MOA groups off the rest and 300 metre scores average in the mid-90s if I do my job properly.
So budget ammo can cost you performance. However, I would still use my budget load over any cheap factory fodder.
That woman is one of the most cold-hearted, disgusting and reprehensible individuals I’ve ever seen.
To be able to look a rape victim in the eyes and tell her in so many words what she endured means zip is inhuman. Senator Hudak’s despicable reaction is a shining example of how little a tragedy that doesn’t fit their agenda means to an anti-gunner.