Psychologists claim experiences are more important that things. Don’t buy your kids expensive stuff; do something with them they’ll remember forever. Fair enough — for children. For adults, it’s a false dilemma. For example, this is the year I bought a Theater of Magic pinball machine and a Wilson Combat EDC X9. The first . . .
is a toy that delivers thousands of hours of fun. The second is also a toy that delivers thousands of hours of fun.
WHAT? A gun is not a toy! They are tools to be respected! If you want to praise a handgun, laud its efficiency, accuracy and reliability. Talk about its value for personal defense. Do not recommend it for its ability to plaster a smile on your face.
So should I feel guilty for all the pleasure I get from carrying and shooting the EDC X9 (more than I feel guilty about everything else, being Jewish and all)? I think not! Anyway, the first time I shot the Wilson at steel targets at Best of the West Shooting Sports was my gun-related highlight of the year. What was yours?
Could I shoot an elephant? Yes.
Do I want to? Not really.
Will I ever? Most likely not.
Lifetime supply for every gun, for every child, grandchild, hoped for grandchild plus one and each of their four children……….and still working on their children.
Not hearing the President push for banning “assault weapons” and “weapons of war” after every mass shooting. No he hasn’t been perfect on guns but still a refreshing change from past years.
In all seriousness, it depends on jurisdiction where the incident took place.
Self-defence in New York city, with New York City prosecutorial attitudes, potential problem.
Me, in Polk county, Florida, where my sheriff is Grady (Because they ran out of bullets) Judd? Likely no problem at all.
What is your local DA’s attitude on guns will likely predict if you will have a problem or not.
That being said, you may want to think twice about the wisdom of pushing your luck…
Your evidence ? Talk to a trial lawyer or better, an honest prosecutor ! And you can bluff your way with your spooky signs all ya want but it can be inferred that a sign like that is posted by a person who kinda, maybe, sort of wanted a fight !
Getting the stamp on my first SBR.
Got my first SPR stamp early this year too. Spend the rest of the year feeling like a dang fool consideing the diversity of LEAGAL pistol “braces” that have become available. Now, I kinda of think that ATF couldn’t care less about enforcing SBR laws.
The Ruger PC Carbine announcement, I want that.
On the waiting list for one.
Should be a fun plinker.
If you expect to go into socialist territory either hide your firearms well, or leave them at home. Better yet, stay out of socialist territory. Your rights do not mean what you think they mean.
This paper and its editorial staff have a history of being anti-gun and rabidly so. In 2008 they got caught trying to lead a FOIL campaign to get the names and addresses of all the pistol permit holders in the three counties of their readership so that they could publish them in an online database. Outrage from the local public and law enforcement forced them to quit, but not before issuing a half hearted explanation.
http://poststar.com/news/latest/the-post-star-addresses-pistol-permit-controversy/article_1ba7c108-8116-5940-8139-d4ec01e5d55e.html
Used (barely) Beretta 682 Gold found at a gun shop last January. Stock already modified with adjustable butt and cheek plates, recoil reducer and a release trigger which I have grown to love.
I’m fairly tall and shotguns don’t fit me well without some custom fitting. To buy this shotgun new and pay for all the mods myself would have been beyond my budget. But this was under $2K and shooting trap has become so much more enjoyable!
These aren’t $99 anymore. While +100 on cool factor, I think I’d invest that kind of cash in a Savage or Remington.
So much interweb gun historian here…who to believe? Methinks no one.
As I open my 12th beer and fondle my firearm…….
The day that some 350 million people did not shoot anyone.
Cheater… That was EVERY day.
Should be a quiet New Year’s Eve. Too cold to be outside. Even our dogs are speeding peeing, not looking for that “ perfect spot”
What a Crock!
Purchasing my first AR.
Plenty of places are no gun zones. HR38 still allows GFZ to exist.
I’m going to assume that stir-fry was heavily seasoned.
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! To be fair, I’ve never eaten that type of predator meat but ‘ve heard enough about it and smelled it to not even consider eating it.
Buying a Mossberg Shockwave and putting a Streamlight TLR2 HL G Laser light on it.
Piss on Sprinfield Armory. My memory isnt that short.
Ending the year on a really high note…
Getting a S&W Model 10-7 snub as a present.
Complete surprise that rocked my world.
My second best group of highlights were the peeps that I turned on to guns for the first time this year. I will forever remember the ear to ear grins and can die knowing that i did good in the world.
No Springfield for me either, ever…
I’ve had quite a few highlights this year, but I would say the big one was, after almost a decade of rabid collecting, I have pretty much filled my safe with my must have guns. I have a few kits to build, but nothing except for a Trapdoor springfield or a M1D Garand are on my serious want list right now.
Take the trigger group [mechanism not necessarily “trigger housing”] completely out of (nearly) any semi-automatic firearm, and stick/jam/glue/weld the firing pin in its forward most possible position and you will have [ILLEGALLY, except with a few exceptions] made a mag-dumping (unable to stop until the mag is empty) ‘full-auto’ slam-fire weapon.
On some weapons you can fashion an external ‘interrupter’ to stop the weapon ‘mid-stream’ by stopping the action in its most ‘open battery’ position.
If the government bans semi-auto because of this, people will resort to bombs. You can make a wickedly simple fuel-air bomb with a small humidifier and a 5 gallon bucket of gas. If you’re lazy, you can just use a 5 gallon bucket of gas pressurized with a small propane cylinder.
Banning transfers and ownership of full-auto firearms (in the U.S.) is only about banning those who uphold the law anyway [AND THOSE UPHOLDERS ARE THE ONLY FING REASON THAT LAWS, WHATSOEVER, HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON IN THE FIRST PLACE] from having them, and to cause some ‘oooohs’ and ‘aahhhhs’, here.
I
AM
ONE
OF
THOSE.
It’s safer to assume (for your own personal safety) that the only one without full-auto weapons
IS
YOU .