Old Tom named April the cruelest month of all. We don’t know if that had anything to do with kicking things off with April Fools Day hijinks or not. Actually, it was probably more the vernal emergence of lilacs and other flora stirring up a combination of memory and desire that got him so exercised. Whatever, the label’s pretty much stuck and we’re more than willing to attribute it, at least in part, to the perpetual yuckfest that takes place on the first of the month. Practical jokes are almost invariably neither. Not that we’re above them ourselves on occasion. Still, fans of the boyz at Defense Distributed and their new(ish) site, defcad.org have been burning up the intertubes (and our inboxes) today with news of the government crackdown they just knew was coming all along. Relax. Glance at a calendar. And get the hell off of our lawn.
A bit cruel, even for an April Fool’s prank. lol.
Lesson I learned from the last shortage. Set a ammo budget and buy ammo in normal times whether you need it or not until you reach your desired inventory. Once you reach your goal just replace what you use. You will never run short. Iif everybody did that then there would never be a general shortage caused by panic buying.
At least they (and we) have a sense of humor.
Could you immagine the uproar over an April fools prank being played amongst the snooty gun control crowd; they’d be beside themselves with indignation!
I couldn’t get over the S.A.D. mounting system. How he kept a straight face while this monster is flopping around on the end of the barrel is beyond me.
I had a Keltec P11. I got rid of it after the internal trigger workings broke twice.
I took a chance with the smaller PF-9. So far no problems with the trigger. I do occasionally have feed or ejection problems. It might be the cheap ammo I use… but my glock, beretta, XD eat it. I should have bought a Ruger LC9 instead.
CNN just reported this as breaking news.
Still nothing on their (CNN’s) website.
Where the heck did you get 500 rounds of 9mm?
I had to pass a background check to rent an apartment, ergo people should have to pass a background check to have free speech. Is that about right?
..and because handguns are used in 90% + crimes, and these ‘scary lookin’ rifles’ are used in < 1%, we all know that Cuomo 'Tardo' picked the right gun to attack law abiding citizens with…..
So what, at one time, the Army permitted enlistees with a “felony waiver,” and that was a step forward from, “What’s it gonna be son, jail or the military?” Just another troll, shilling for the man.
If, and I mean with a qualified “IF” there were to be any acceptance for background checks to purchase, that there be no tie-in between the individual buying/selling a firearm, and the firearm purchased. The buyer and seller could have a separate form, acknowledging the transfer of the firearm between them. Oh yeah, and let’s call it something simple like, “A Bill of Sale”.
Subsonic 9mm (147/158 gr) and 22LR are seeing the absolute worst of it. 22LR are obviously being hoarded, so at least some stocks are trickling through. But the heavy 9mm are just literally nowhere to be found.
I have one question to ask these folks: “Would universal background checks have stopped the Sandy Hook tragedy?” The correct answer would be “No”. My next question would be: “Why?”. The correct answer would be: “Well, maybe because Lanza killed the owner of the firearms he stole them from. So he has already broken two laws, Murder and theft. He then proceeded transport firearms onto school grounds (crime), break into and enter the school (crime), shoot 20 children and 6 adults (major crimes) and then commit suicide.” Laws were not going to stop Lanza. During those 5 minutes there was only one thing that could have stopped Lanza but, if Lanza had been shot, whoever shot him would have been placed on a pedestal by the community and the media and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
During the discussion, it is mentioned that if Obama had immediately pushed too hard, he would have been accused of pushing an agenda on the coffins of 20 children. To those of us watching, that is exactly what he IS doing. You might have noticed, he’s not talking at all about the adult school teachers and administrators who were murdered…just the children. So, he IS using the children to push his well-known agenda. He is also continuing to use the 40% figure which is at best bad science and has been de-bunked, yet he continues to perpetuate the lie. Recent surveys, put that figure at closer to the 15%-20% range. He also does not mention the fact that rifles are used by criminals in about 3% of murders.
The BCA statistics for Minnesota for the last ten years of available figures puts the murder rate for rifles of all kinds at just over 3% and the BCA statistics DO NOT break out the type of rifle used so they cannot say they were any type of semi-auto or whether they were “military style” rifles. The MN BCA statistics also indicate you have nearly a 5X greater chance of being murdered with a “knife/sharp object” than you do with a rifle of any type. To be fair, handguns were used in about 50% of the murders but, again, they do not break out the numbers of revolvers vs pistols, so one cannot make a case for semi-automatics being the “favorite” for criminal use. There is nothing to support the claims made by the anti-gun crowd. You can check the BCA statistics from your own state on-line and probably find the same type of information. Personally, I compiled the info on an Xcel worksheet and sent it to my-email list and also copied it to my local state representative with good results.