These days, gun control advocates promote “gun violence prevention.” But they still call civilian disarmament “common sense.” Confiscate firearms from people who’ve been accused — but not convicted — of domestic violence . . .
Why that’s common sense! Pay no attention to the Fourth Amendment behind that curtain. Ban “weapons of war” from civilian possession? Common sense! Limit ammunition capacity to 10 rounds? Common sense!
In other words, don’t trouble yourself with firearms-related facts or analysis. Just shut off your mind and use “common sense.”
Scarily enough, that’s the way most Americans think. I mean, don’t think. Fortunately enough, firearms freedom is based on actual common sense.
Here are a few “common sense” statements underpinning of Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
Guns are safe – Tens of millions of gun owners keep and bear arms without injury to themselves or others. Every single day, for their entire life.
A gun is the best tool for self-defense – Guns are easy to operate, and they’re more effective for preventing or ending an attack than any other commonly available weapon.
“Gun free zones” encourage criminals – Criminals are more likely to rob, rape or kill in an area where they know their victims are disarmed.
Gun control doesn’t work – Criminals don’t obey gun laws.
Your turn!
If I was the Russians…I wouldn’t want to be our friends…Thanks DNC for ruining a good relationship with our previous allies….Back to cold war status after Regan worked so hard to breakdown the Combloc iron curtain…Thanks again. Dumbo-Crate…..
23% of Dems see it as politically motivated? i had no idea so many Dems had such clarity of thought.
“Criminals are more likely to rob, rape or kill in an area where they know their victims are disarmed.”
That’s an assumption, no more scientifically proven than the gun controller’s “common sense” statements. I would think it would probably be pretty entertaining to do a survey of criminals and ask the if they know where “gun free zones” are. I bet you a cool fifty cents that you wouldn’t get one out of a hundred who could tell you where the gun-free zones are.
Using both hands.
You beat me to it.
I touched on this the other day in terms of how our brain likes to find patterns, even if they’re not there, and how this is related to our brain being overly cautious… and how this is related to millions of years of evolution. Our brain really isn’t good with abstract thought, like rational statistical analysis, when it comes to this kind of thing.
I don’t really feel like getting into it again but I’ll say this: Much of this, including the knee-jerk reactions can be countered with a quality educational system. Something we most certainly do NOT have at this point.
Common sense: Read the 2nd Amendment. No more, no less. Simple English.
It’s this simple. Don’t give guns to criminals… That’s common sense to me…
“Common Sense” on guns to me means only police, military, government, and security services are allowed to own and use firearms.
Because those groups never, ever, ever use their guns inappropriately, right?
So long as they aren’t White men, have studied social justice, and have proper diversity training.
You mean like this guy?
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/killed-on-camera-alvin-weems-michael-pleasance/Content?oid=1264452
Ask Colin Kaepernick.
So, you’re saying “common sense” means to start another Revolutionary War?
“We ARE the Government. It’s the only thing to which we all belong.” – Barack H. Obama
I think that the most basic ” common sense” thing we can do is accept reality. Gun exist, evil exists, I don’t want guaranteed safety but I’ll take a fighting chance. Which is what a C.H.L. is.
Most murders are committed by blacks. The Czech Republic and San Marino have lots of guns, but have very few blacks and few (or no) murders. Therefore blacks are more likely to be the problem than guns.
I can do that with my Gen1 Colt DE in its stock form…
Deceit
“Common sense” is largely relative and cultural which means there’s no such thing.
One mans “common sense” is another’s absurdity.
I remember hearing a Clint Eastwood quote that sums it up; ‘I believe in gun control. If there’s a gun in the room, I want to be in control of it.’
If that aitn’t commonsense I don’t know what is.
This article was incredible! So very well written and so informative. I worked for a short time in a shop near Middletown, NY polishing and bluing guns. We did the right thing by Pythons. I think we polished them better than Colt to be honest. Anyway…I have a deep love for those old I frame Colts. Nice comments too!!!
John from Wallkill, NY
Do want.
If you happen to be in Vermont in early spring you could use it to tap the Maple trees for collecting sap.
that statement makes no sense unless you are a racist like him. he is OBVIOUSLY insinuating that ALL mass shooters and victims are white. what else could he mean by “looks like you”? this guy is a total dipshit and not worth the time you have given him.
California will soon follow.
Their “common sense” is my infringement.
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
Keys.
RIGHT!?
It’s as if these guys never drive anywhere…
Phone, wallet, gun, City Slicker coin purse, keys, knife… bare minimum. Might also have my walking stick and speedloaders but not always – just usually. If all that isn’t on me, it’s because I haven’t left the house yet.
🤠
[checks pockets]
Ok… I am WAY over the three item limit. There’s an upside to wearing cargo pants on a daily basis.
I used to have a Beretta folding single shot in 20 Ga. Nice little gun, paid 25 bucks for it at Montgomery ward, and, it had a walnut stock!
For those of you in the North West, BiMart has “Pardner” pump action shotguns on sale for $129. 12 Ga. with 3″ chamber.
I may get one, Iv’e been looking for a cheap trunk gun, that won’t make me cry too much if it’s stolen out of my car.
The Midland folding shotgun looks pretty neat. It would be great for the purpose listed, but not so much for self defense. Single shot doesn’t cut it!
Personally I’ve gone complete anarchist about guns, thanks to decades of lies from the government and media about guns and their use in America.
This is because both the media and government lie about the real causes of gun crime in the US: which is rampant crime in 5 democrat gun cities. Cities with general crime and murder rates that are so bad they throws the national statics off.
A wad of cash.
The anti’s are crazier than I gave them credit for! They are officially the lunatic fringe!
Common sense dictates that all Americans should be trained in firearms in High School and issued a gun on graduation.
Hasn’t been a good old fashioned battle rifle war around here lately. I owned a FAL awhile back, but sold it. It was one of those century arms ones, so it wasn’t that great. Same with the G3 century arms clone. I owned both and got rid of them both. I think I’m going to eventually get a PTR-91 to satisfy my battle rifle urges.
Let’s see here–
You pass a lot of laws for “gun safety”.
People feel safer.
All the experts agree that there aren’t any laws that have been passed that will increase “gun safety”.
People still feel safer, because they don’t hear the above, and since they feel safer, they make no provisions for their own security.
So, yeah — every politician who votes for a gun law that accomplishes nothing in reality, is guilty of the deaths of those killed.
Hmmm…. common sense regarding guns. I’ll give it a try. How about:
“Guns. The more, the merrier.”
Or,
“There’s no substitute for cubic inches.” Or is that for trucks? If you squint a little, it works for guns too, I think.
Photo voter ID is also common sense…since you also need ID to buy a gun… another enumerated right…
If voter ID is racist, does that not mean that requiring ID to purchase firearms is also racist?
I use that on intransigent lefties all the time.
Looking at a used EMP 40 at my LGS. Like new condition with 5 mags and an additional IWB holster. On sale for $675. I really like the looks and it has a very sweet trigger. At this price, looks like a reasonable gamble. What say you?
Keys
Knife
Wallet
Phone
Snuff
LCP
No need to chose…easy to have all these in anything i would wear.
Reducing anything would mean i was in a shithole country or state i had to fly to.
Yes, please.
Ain’t the free-market grand? Competition is the mother of invention.
Bob Brownell’s, we having found this firm an excellent supplier to Dad and me beginning back just after WWII. J. A. “Red” Wyatt, Wyatt-Power Custom Rifles, Remington Recommended Gunsmith, Kosciusko, Mississippi USA!
BROWNELL’S: Reliability in an age of UNReliability!!!!!!!
Not particularly faithful for a “faithful” recreation. The front sight post is the biggest offender, but that furniture is a long shot from Bakelite, too.
That said, still cool there’s a bit of a retro renaissance. I may have to look into their receiver sets.
Five bucks a round for all brass in 12?
If reloading, how many times can you top re-crimp brass 12 ga? The brass only gonna handle so many re-foldings…
I owned an original FN/FAL that I carried into some bad places, got in and out OK so I developed an affinity for it but eventually sold it when I stopped going in harm’s way. Later purchased a LaRue Tactical PredatAR 7.62 which I have to admit is a more accurate and technological improved rifle.
Listed as a murder rather than a justifiable incident of self defense, Is there any doubt that the Liberals rule the roost when it comes to gun use statistics?
Israeli battle dressing. Don’t want to win the fight only to bleed out. Poor form, poor tactics, poor training and hesitation have killed more people than any knife, bullet, bludgeon or bomb ever made. Eaglescoutactual out. 30.
“Faithful as in period correct in every detail.”
Another blog writer who knows nothing about what he us talking about.
With regard to the Cimarron’s Pocket Navy Conversion Revolver in .380ACP, I’ve been waiting for years for a replica manufacturer to come out with a small conversion pocket gun. They certainly had them in the Old West. For this one, I wish the manufacturer had manufactured them in the original .38 S&W caliber, and that they had put a shell ejector rod on the barrel. Without that, shooters are going to have to disassemble the pistol to knock out the fired cartridge cases. I may still have a gunsmith make me a custom 1862 conversion, although at my age that is not high on my bucket list.
Meh, stuff happens. I can see how Officer Lockman kept his focus on the suspect — rightly so I might add — and then forgot about the rifle when things calmed down 5 or 10 minutes later.
This is why all people need to have a reasonable, healthy respect — not hysterical PHOBIA — for firearms. If I had been strolling down the sidewalk and saw that rifle sitting there, I would have calmly and casually secured it while considering what to do next, which would have probably been calmly and casually calling the local police department.
What I just described in the previous paragraph is an excellent example of “common sense gun control” that everyone will support, even ardent Second Amendment enthusiasts.
BLOOD IN THE STREETS!!! Oh wait, that didn’t happen.
I wonder what the rookie’s punishment will be.
When I was working in Iraq I saw a young Corporal carrying an M107 in the DFAC. I looked at it and said, “That’s something you don’t in the dining hall every day.”
“No, Sir, you don’t. Remember when we had incoming yesterday?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I was overseeing a crew of guys who were filling sand bags when we had the incoming. We all dove for the bunker like we are supposed to, and after the all clear I told everyone to get inside for a head count. I left my M4 laying on the berm where we were filling the bags and my Lieutenant walked by and saw it. He got the Sgt. Major to find out who’s weapon it was. Sgt. Major said if I couldn’t keep up with that little M4, that maybe I needed something bigger.”
“How long do you…”
“Two weeks, Sir.”
30lbs of fun.
Wow this is awesome stuff! Learned a lot about self-defense. Thanks for sharing!
John Reese
Founder http://www.bestbikepicks.com/6-things-you-should-avoid-when-buying-a-new-mountain-bike/
380 ACP SAAMI pressure spec: 21,500 psi. That must be the highest pressure cartridge adapted to an open-top revolver yet!
The lack of a loading gate may cause problems unforseen in original cartidge conversions. Most original gateless conversions were chambered for cartridges that used externally lubed bullets. These usually prevented a cartridge from backing out and jamming the revolver during cylinder advance.
When my brother committed suicide he walked off the Golden Gate Bridge.
While guns are convenient for suicide, and sure, they make up 60% of “gun violence deaths”, they are again just another tool that sick people use and are symptoms of a larger problem, rather than the problem itself.
I don’t rally behind people who want to put up fences and nets around the Golden Gate Bridge and I don’t want any more gun control.
I want to help sick people get the support and therapy they need. Unfortunately, that is a more liberal/socialist political position and is going to be rejected by the right, which generally includes most gun owners.
Good for Proof, I’m glad to see they are doing well. Their factory is about 5 miles from where I sit right now.
Hahahaha. I’m not going backwards. Those have buyers remorse written all over them.
Is that pistol the new lowest-bore axis champ?
To anyone who is against high fence…imagine this. You work your whole life and save all your money in hopes of buying your own place one day. That day finally comes and you find the perfect (low fence) place in South Texas to spend your life savings on. After purchasing your own hunting land in hopes of growing nice deer you then plant food plots, place protein feeders, dig a well, and dig a pond. After your second year you are now spending nearly $800 a month on supplemental feed when your neighbor leases their place out to “less fortunate working men” who are paying $1,000 per gun for the year and put blinds right on your fence line. The first and second year you passed on deer with great potential in hopes of harvesting once they reached maturity. Your 3rd season starts where now you should start to reap some of the benefits and everyday it sounds like WW3, gun shots every morning and evening from your less fortunate neighbors. You see them pulling out of their place one day and stop to talk, they point to the back of the truck showing off their 3 juvenile bucks. You see I am a fortunate working man that this has happened to and I’m not going to let my $1,000 per gun neighbors take away my dream. I’ve hunted low fence my whole life but also hunted some large high fence places, I’ve stalked for miles, rattled, and slept in the field. I can assure you nobody on here is more of a “real hunter” than me. I don’t care what anyone says, because until you’ve sank your whole life savings into a hunting property only for someone to come along and shoot anything that walks at your expense you have no idea what you would really do. I see now why lots of people high fence and mine will be going up soon thanks to my less fortunate neighbors. Call me or it what you want I don’t really care, I will manage my deer and know when I pass on a deer I don’t have to worry if he’ll make it to 3 years old.
I can think of a few places where banning guns would qualify as common sense….. The production floor of a fireworks factory for example. The chance of a negligent discharge is incredibly small but the consequences incredibly high.
Anywhere near MRI machines is another place. That has less to do with the firearms and more to do with the metal but the common sense would still apply.
Wow!! Relax people!! People do still make mistakes? The rifle never started shooting at people. Nobody picked it up?? It never fell over? No child got near it? The pit bull next door never bit the trigger and fired it?? JESUS!!!
Really disappointing that the mags aren’t compatible – one way comatibility makes no sense. Can’t understand why companies have to redesign magazines with every new gun. That is the main reason I go Glock. There a alot of good guns out there and I would be interested in buying but right now i can buy affordable 9mm mags that will fit in most of the handguns I own.
Why am I not surprised that at least a few of the same anti law & order cop haters drawn to TTAG have no difficulty rationalizing why it’s perfectly acceptable for a resident of Arizona to lie and cheat to bad a trophy ram in Utah?
ya just look at Ruby Ridge and Waco, both were about Guns! One was a premeditated set up and deliberate ploy too get a snitch by encouraging a person to commit a crime and them make a snitch out of him to make the crime go away, the other was a ploy to make a Documentary about how good the ATF was in enforcing Gun laws for funding in the Corrupt Clinton Justice Department. Federal Baby Incinerators murdered 80 children in their quest for Justice.
Police state is already starting, special ID to fly, need a passport to go to Canada or Mexico (unless you are a radical and or an illegal Alien then they give you a free pass and welfare with free health care) got to get scanned and groped at the airport, cant have a gun in a school or area, have to get permission from mommy to buy a gun, Veterans get a double Whammy, they teach you how too use a gun then declare you defective when you get out, and won’t let you in too the system
Seattle. The City that forced all the gun stores to move outside the City limits with their $25 gun tax.
Assisted suicide was legalized in California.
How do supporters of assisted suicide feel about this bill?
Cutaway guns that are one-to-one in dimensions and are created from “real” firearms are still considered firearms under federal law, and require the same procedures for acquisition as “operational” firearms, even though they are non-operational.
I laughed out loud after looking at the photo.
It looks like the dood has a “rape whistle” on his neck lanyard.
Wow! What a history for these weapons. I just bought one from a police auction here in San Antonio (TX). I knew it was “special” just by viewing the posted pictures for the auction. I prefer my “wheel guns” and bought my first one, a S&W Model 10-5 w/2″ barrel in 1967 (still have it, in almost 100% condition). This new addition is as pictured in your original picture, is a 38 S&W Special ctg stamp and has serial #V716,XXX. Have you any information as to its possible production date and where it may have been originally sold? (No! It will never be for sale.)
TTAG. Please reconsider whether you want to be just another one of those internet sites that houses crap commentary on libs vs conservatives that brings out this kind garbage commentary. This movie is hardly the battleground of libs vs conservatives, and really TTAG should stick with guns.
These guys here will just as easily go off on Jews like Robert F, as they would on former US Marines like myself that happen to be Muslim. They have no conscious and are emboldened to spew hate from behind their anonymous keyboards
I think (some) credit is due here and wish them well. One of the constraints on civil use of lasers has been eye safe power levels. Past attempts to compensate like the LaserLyte Laser Sight Center Mass just changed the nature of the problem since you now see several dots but still have to stare for a while to figure out which one is centered. This laser array with all lasers parallel and no beam dispersal like the LaserLyte is a huge improvement even if gimmicky. My personal preference would be for an array of more closely spaced green lasers without the reflex.
The other angle to consider is that it looks like they may have expressly built it as a rule beater and have a fine line to walk. Several years ago when shower head flow rates became regulated chromed multi shower head manifolds suddenly appeared on the market.
Edit: Upon Viewing their website I see I was wrong. The beams diverge and they have made an inferior knockoff of the LaserLyte Center Mass system.
“It’s true. But your facts hurt our feeling so your facts are now banned. Reeeeeeeeeee”
A leftist
Congratulations to Weatherby for their decision and announcement to move out of California and setting up shop in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Both sides WERE NOT armed with “automatic weapons”. Only government agents had automatic weapons. In fact, when ATF agents first stormed the building, as soon as two agents entered through the window, the agents behind them started firing and throwing grenades into the very spot where the first agents entered. These incompetent ATF f#cks killed their own people.
Previous to the siege and murder of innocents at Mt. Carmel, Koresh himself INVITED government agents to inspect the premises, which they REFUSED. You see, they WANTED a confrontation.
This whole thing started when a UPS driver broke open a box which had “dummy grenades” in it. Dummy grenades are not illegal to possess or purchase. Supposedly, that was the pretext for the siege…
I’ve got a SHE52 in 7.62 x 45.
Fun rifle to shoot.
The most obscure calibers I’ve had would be 6.5×55 Swede or 7.5 Swiss. I have been giving some of CZ’s bolt guns in 6.5 Swede a pretty hard look.
When Trump was talking about not letting people from sh**holes into America, he was talking about Baltimore…
Hey Baltimore, how’s that liberal gun control working out for ya? About like a 3rd world country, right?
The entire state of Maryland is one big disaster, kept afloat by Annapolis and also the counties that provide bedroom communities for people that work in DC. If it wasn’t for trillions of taxpayer dollars being siphoned from the rest of the country into DC over the decades, Maryland would be like West Virginia’s poorer cousin with ghettos.