http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXUBKjhaOxI#t=24
As everydaynodaysoff.com points out, the gun lover above is about as emo as you can get without listening to My Chemical Romance. But I share the bullet maker’s philosophical approach to firearms. For me, shooting is about mastering that sometimes infinite space between firing and not firing. The moment between the bullet laying in the gun, inert, and the moment the bullet flies out of the gun at superhuman speeds. In terms of self-defense, I’m fascinated by the leap from life before you pull the trigger to life after you pull the trigger. As for firearms themselves, I never get tired of coming to grips with the transformative power of their highly evolved, continually evolving forms. I love guns not as a lover loves a lover. I love guns as a man who savors the incredible lightness of being. And I like to shoot holes in stuff. Why do you love guns?
Loves me some BAR! Have had 3 different OOW repros in my hands as well as couple of original full-autos and a Monitor. This new iteration is fugly. We like fugly. Not to wild about all the surface striations on the main body, do like the non-reflective finish.
The magazine rework is an idea that I really like, interchangeability is always a good thing.
Price tag? Wow. It will probably drop a bit if they do well, not much though. These are a collector sort of item, so they will stay relatively high.
Gang violence. Philadelphia and Camden, NJ are loaded with it. Now it’s the Second Amendment’s fault that gang shootings are happening.
Why yes, yes I do.
Nothing better than hot coffee, and the smell of gun powder in the morning.
Because, one day, my generation(or our immediate descendants) will piss on our nation by voting to ban them.
I’m 27 years old, and feel like an alien in my own generation.My clueless cohorts think a bigger government, more regulation , and government sponsored healthcare, education, job support, and even government security should be expanded.
If my generation doesnt pull the plug, our kids will.One day I’ll probably be that old timer who reminisces at the Airsoft Gun Licensing Office about the good ol days when you could buy a handgun at the hardware store.
I did some mass shooting last weekend. I fired a few rounds into a dirt berm.
Spell Check man!
Posted from my phone. Fixed.
I love guns for the limitless variations on a theme that they represent. So many different ways to accomplish the flight of one or more projectiles from the gun to the target.
Wow, the dude in that video is really into reloading ammo, when he discovers girls that’ll change. #puberty
“I do not love the bright sword for it’s sharpness, nor the arrow for it’s swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”
-Tolkien
That sums it up for me.
Though I do love their mechanics and reaching out and touching something.
I love mechanical things. I love seeing how things work. I love the pure artistry of a finely crafted rifle, the utilitarian simplicity of a Glock handgun and the undeniable presence of a modern sport rifle. I also love to shoot, the almost zen-like state of mind you get when lining up that perfect shot. Plus guns are just cool.
This is me, too.
My wife (who… tolerates guns and grudgingly accepts their role in our protection) always remarks on how calm and peaceful I am after coming home from the range.
For me, it is the best possible form of meditation.
Edit: errr, except for your choice of weapons. =P. I prefer the revolver and lever action rifle for my namaste
Using the media’s/action demanding moms hyperbole, I guess a drunk stumbling across my lawn is a home invasion. This is how they come up with those ridiculous numbers like “200 school shootings a year” or lump in suicides with murder to jump from 9,000 deaths to 30,000.
Just bought the THUNDER RANCH bad ass little gun !!! Easy to reload,devestating power,and wouldn’t wanna be on wrong side of those 2 barrels..sorry all you haters..but this is a great gun !!!!!
As a NH resident with bi-polar disorder, I worry that this is the beginning of a slippery slope. Shooting makes me feel better, relaxed, happy. Taking that away would give me one less pleasure in my life.
THIS WOMAN MUST LEAVE THE SENATE!!!! SHE’S DEFNITELY LOSING HER DAMN MIND!!!
I hope the drone was spying on her …God I really hope so!!! 🙂
Wait, I thought we had all agreed before that we were going with a two part answer: guns are cool, guns are sexy.
I only use drug free guns…
She has gone completely power mad.
Are we talking about flying drones or is Feinstein preempting automated ground turrets (like those seen in the movie “Aliens”) too? Perhaps she envisions a future where Terminator-like security robots are walking around protecting elites and government officials while the rest of America is left to their antiquated AR-15’s that can’t so much as dent the armor plating of the Terminators?
“It’s so cute how the pro-gun crowd of the early part of the century genuinely thought they were preserving their right to self-defense… yet with the ban on civilian ownership of armed drones and bots of any kind in 2014, and the preexisting ban on destructive devices, it wasn’t long before the right to bear arms became nothing more than a sport of nostalgia, like fencing…”
What a graceful picture.
It would look great on a white 3D printed lower.
I like machines. Guns are machines. Pure machines. Like an old v8 with a carburetor on top, or an old honda 4. They’re visceral. This part does this – only this – and this part does that, and when you stick them all together the right way, they just work. They do what they’re supposed to do, and they do it all analog. There isn’t a computer that makes sure the magazine is fully seated. There isn’t a microprocessor that directs the extraction and ejection of an empty case. This machine was designed to perform this way, and it usually does.
When it doesn’t, there is no debugging – only hands-on troubleshooting. Area by area, part by part, until a mechanical failure is identified. That part is repaired or replaced. Done. Good to go. No codes to clear, no threat of utter ruination by a rogue static discharge.
I don’t own a 1911. I don’t own a Glock. They both, however, are beautifully designed, beautifully functional machines.
The history of violence in general (of which mass shootings are a very small subset) does not show a large participation by people with mental illness. In fact, their share is the same as that of people in general.
By contrast, people with personality disorders feature prominently in violent attacks of all kinds. Whether street crime, sexual crime or gun violence, the majority of offenders have one variety of personality disorder or another. And yet these disorders are not notifiable, nor are these people usually confined to mental institutions (which have dramatically reduced in number compared to 40 years ago).
So this Bill will achieve very little in practical terms to reduce gun violence. It has missed its true target by a wide margin. This is what happens when ill informed people are entrusted with the task of devising legislation to ensure public safety.
Psychology is not a real science, not even close. Relying on its practitioners to determine who might or not be dangerous is fraught with danger in the extreme.
The most trustworthy body to assess public safety is the Police force. They can be relied upon to decide who might be unsafe to be allowed access to weapons.
He’s only against illegal guns – everything else is OK. His gun was probably legal. And he was not against kidnapping, pedophilia, or any of the other crimes he was charged with.
“in which he had a police car bring a former neighbor – a 20-year-old [male] to whom he said he was attracted – to his home”
Ok… so what disciplinary actions will be taken against the cop? Seriously. What (decent) cop would get an order to “pick up so and so and take him to the MAYOR’S HOUSE and not have warning bells going crazy in their head?!?
That’s not a very good looking queen, I’ll tell ya.
Maybe his unrequited love was turned off by his cigar halitosis.
isnt electrical ignition of black powder rifles perfectly legal?
6940?
So very much WIN!
“NO DAD, I’M NOT GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. I’m going to stay in here forever and be a regular American boy.”
While conserving water during his weekly shower/bike wash/guitar humidifying session, Juan’s intuition sensed his roommate stealing his still cooking Hot Pocket…again! This time, however, Juan was prepared…oh yes, things would turn out differently this morning…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that! …. whatever THAT is.
I would say instead of two triggers, engineer it to fire one side on each trigger pull. Back and forth. Though I’m not entirely sure how it could be done.
I’ve always been sort of an “absent minded professor” type. The first time a loaded gun was put in my hand and I realized that a scre-up on my part could be very bad indeed, that guy was banished and a paragon of mental discipline took over. There is no better way to learn mental discipline than by learning firearms.
Also, the closest I’ve come to a state of zen perfection is on the firing range.
I accept your 3-gun challenge. I will need access to the double-barreled rifle and pistol though…
NAA makes neat little, novelity revolvers, I would be lying if I said I didn’t think they were cool.
It’s still a just a girly pink-tip .223… Even with 62gr bullets, that’s less lead/energy than a .308 with one barrel and one bullet… With 2x DI fail-actions to babysit.
It’s like a home colonoscopy kit. The target market is pretty narrow, and I wouldn’t want them as friends.
Show me rail-mounted boobs and maybe we’ll talk….
Why is there nobody to tell her that gun control is unconstitutional?
I pity that poor drone.
No drone should ever experience such torture.
Sorry New Yorkers, you deserve the government you have.
I for one am glad libs like Harvey keep focusing on a gun owners association that has a member ship closing in on a reported 5 Million Members. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association
It’s free publicity for them and by making a boogeyman out of the NRA they can concentrate their anti-gun efforts on an organization that can only benefit from their labors.
I am only sad at the wasted effort. If they really wanted to solve Americas violence problem, they could direct their money and efforts to worthy causes. But then that’s the whole premise of progressivism, blame others, submit to the collective.
Found this run-down on the 3 big trigger packs for the Tavor: http://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/aftermarket-tavor-trigger-roundup/
All 3 ought to be excellent offerings. The details on pull weight & trigger type seem like better information upon which to base a purchase decision than, say, blind brand loyalty and a disaffection for early customer testing. 🙂
Personally, I’m in line for Art’s trigger, because I appreciate his involvement in the Bullpup community and want to support his business. I don’t have a bad thing to say about the other two triggers, though.
Looks to me as if a lot of Nutmeggers decided to become instant criminals rather than comply with such despotic lawmaking.
“The Constitution State”. What a laugh.