Despite some (loving) criticism of his work, NRA commentator Colion Noir and I are on speaking terms (which is more than I can say for the NRA’s PR team). Ever since ever I’ve been advising the firearms fashionista to return to his roots: humor. Coincidentally enough, he’s doing just that. Specifically . . .
an upcoming video entitled “The seven types of people you meet on the gun range.” (Promo above.) Ahead of that welcome return to form, what types of gun range folk have you ID’ed?
My favorite: Boys and their Toys. Guys who go to the range just to shoot cool guns, who couldn’t care less about marksmanship, self-defense training, competition or anything else except high fives. ‘Cause I like cool guns and they like to share.
You got a fave? And what type are you?
It’s been like a decade since I’ve been to a gun range, because I just use my back acreage. So I don’t meet many people back there. But it’s free, I don’t have to pay per visit, or per gun, deal with surly range officers or any of the like. Have to keep an eye out, not to shoot the horse though.
When I did go to the gun range, the other visitors of the range were always friendly.
In H&K’s defense, I recall that the old Rabbinical Director of JPFO, Rabbi R. Mermelstein (Orthodox Jewish Rabbi), said about 20 years ago, something to the effect that of all the countries he lived in Israel was the only one where he felt oppressed by the government for his religious beliefs.
I can’t remember if he said that in his Ask the Rabbi column or in a private email to me. Either way, it predates my archives and anything on JPFO I can search through Bing.
And then there’s this:
http://www.wagc.com/alert-do-you-want-to-live-under-such-laws/
No one, my range is my own private property, if i meet you there, you are under arrest for trespassing.
Scariest is the CCW recertification student that does not know how to load their firearm. Really makes me wonder what they have been doing with their gun for the last 5 years.
Mostly idiots
Massholes who have hopped the fence and act the fool. I’d ask how long they were members and try to make them uncomfortable enough to leave of their own volition.
Old retired guys with no lives or time constraints who want to chat on and on and on about their tomatoes.
Met a neighbor there once. That was kind of neat.
A Ruger board member who was a total goober.
I try to go when I can be reasonable certain I’ll be the only one there. Doesn’t always work out that way.
While I prefer heading into the woods so that I can move and shoot (and keep well away from the few idiots found at a public range), just about everyone I’ve shared a range with are there to have fun and enjoy the camaraderie, trying out each others guns and troubleshooting issues. The best experience was being asked if I could be this guy’s range buddy because he couldn’t rent a gun alone. Welcoming new shooters is immensely satisfying.
While I prefer heading into the woods so that I can move and shoot (and keep well away from the few idiots found at a public range), just about everyone I’ve shared a range with are there to have fun and enjoy the camaraderie, trying out each others guns and troubleshooting issues. The best experience was being asked if I could be this guy’s range buddy because he couldn’t rent a gun alone. Welcoming new shooters is immensely satisfying.
I’ll be boycotting HK from this point on.
I’ve been going to gun ranges since about 2000. The weird and welcome thing I’ve seen in the last few years is black women with their kids. 15 years ago it was only OFWGs. I like diversity, when the common factor is “GUNS, HELL YEAH!!”
I’m the quite guy who is ever vigilant.
scared you’ll catch people “shopping”?
As long as it is an outdoor range I’ll go about once a month. I do collect social security. Got the handgun bug in my late 40’s, Grandfather had a ranch, all his granddaughters, were taught how to shoot. Meet a lot of nice people at outdoor ranges. Not so much at indoor ranges. Too many guys there trying to teach girlfriends to shoot.
You know what would be boss? Setup two belt fed guns designed to only feed every other round and have them share a belt. Basically a civie legal AA gun.
That picture up top even looks a little bit like the business end of a ZU-23-2
Do NOT watch this video, unless you want to suffer a seizure or screw up your brain.
I am sick and tired of people producing video with scene changes every second, rapid flashing and shifting of objects multiple times per second, and changing context every four seconds.
This honestly and truly degrades brain function.
:eye roll:
So, the design of the AR platform doesn’t allow rapid barrel changes. Thus creating a rapid fire weapon out of two of them simply makes for an expensive throwaway firearm that really conveys no discernible advantages.
Oh, and the video was terrible, too.
This video is the result of personal development being stunted right around age 16.
Adults like that are tolerable for only a very short duration.
Ironically, the last time I used my F.A.T. wrench was to mount a Vortex Crossfire II last spring. Looks like they might be on to something. No more than I use it though, I’ve been quite satisfied with the Wheeler wrench.
An AR 15 is an awful platform for sustained fire. See overheating issues… Oh and binary triggers do this better and cheaper… And more mobile… I suspect there is a reason this video tells you very little about the product. No thanks!
What would the NFA status of such a hand-cranked weapon be? I seem to remember that hand-cranked Gatling guns are not considered real machine guns and thus not included under the NFA, regardless of how many hundreds of rounds per minute they can put down range. Of course, this weapon would be crew-served just to keep loaded magazines in the ARs. Not being able to swap out barrels when they get overheated is a real disadvantage – maybe they’ll come out with a water-cooled version?
So are they going to rename it the Maxim 47?
Omg watch out for criminals using muzzle loaders now! Muzzle loaders are going to be the weapon of choice for criminals! Ummm not really. California thinks the bullet button is a speed loading device I guess a ramrod would be a super speedy loading device.
When I could afford membership, a lot of doctors and law enforcement, Border Patrol, people who work for some gugermint abbreviation. That was in TX.
Next, H&K will decide to shoot themselves with their own guns.
So this gun I don’t want I can get in Illinois?!? Joy,rapture and surprise…????
Awesome somebody build a drop in encore barrel with the suppressor offset and that the baffle system drops out for cleaning and we are talking.
Here’s the summary. The numbers of deaths due to repeal of Obamacare and the number of people that would lose coverage are based on the repeal of Obamacare and NOTHING REPLACING IT. Right there you can see the numbers are flawed.
There are numbers being tossed around. First is the number of deaths if Obamacare is ended. These numbers run from 18,000 to 100,000. Second is the number of people that would lose coverage if Obamacare was repealed.
“Here again, the answer is no, but my reason for reaching that conclusion is a bit more complicated. 21,000 is DailyKos’s back-of-the-envelope estimate that comes from an estimate by Charles Gaba (who runs the ACASignups.net website) that repeal of Obamacare (without replacement) could result in 23.1 million Americans losing their health insurance (Gaba constantly updates his figures, the latest being 25.3 million). Reporter Jon Per then multiplied that figure by .091% based on a Harvard study showing that uninsured adults were 40% more likely to die than statistically equivalent adults with private health insurance. This excess risk implies that there is 1 excess death for every 1,094 uninsured (Table 2).
This analysis has two problems: it grossly exaggerates the number who will lose coverage if Obamacare is repealed and it grossly overestimates the “excess deaths” that would result if indeed the number of uninsured went up.
Next:
“How Many Will Lose Coverage if Obamacare is Repealed? First, Gaba’s figure of 23.1 million (now 25.3 million) includes everyone who gained Medicaid coverage due to Obamacare since 2010. Such individuals constitute 57% of the total he estimates would lose coverage. But a new study by Jonathan Gruber (yes, that Jonathan Gruber) shows that 70% of coverage gains attributable to Medicaid were due to people already eligible for Medicaid under the old eligibility rules. Obamacare can be given credit for pulling such individuals out of the “woodwork” and onto Medicaid, but there is no reason to suppose that states would dump these individuals if Obamacare ended. Removing such individuals from Gaba’s latest count would reduce it by 10.1 million or 39.7%. So in the worst case scenario, assuming Republicans fail utterly to craft a replacement plan, the reduction in coverage would be 15.2 million, not 23.1 million. This alone would reduce the “death sentence” to 13,800.
But even this figure is a gross exaggeration in that it presumes Obamacare is entirely repealed without any replacement. However, anyone paying attention knows that is not what Republicans are seeking to achieve. Everyone from president-elect Trump to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan has made clear their intention to replace Obamacare, not merely repeal it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2017/01/30/beware-of-false-claims-that-obamacare-repeal-will-kill-thousands-of-americans-part-i/2/#6995b2203daa
The anti 2nd group is getting more forcefull.
If Trump does not get a supreme court to fix this, there is only one option left.
Molon labe
MA resident here. What’s weird about this is this state has no problem with muzzleloaders. They’re not regulated any differently here than anywhere else. And I can go to any sporting goods store and pick up an air rifle with an attached suppressor.
This sounds to me like Maura “I Make The Gun Laws Now, B****” Healy found something for her to keep up her street cred with the Dems, since trying to strongarm Glock didnt work out so well, and while she waits to get sued for her aribtrary “assault weapons” ban. I would assume the case is the same in NJ and CA
I hated the .357 Airweight, and the 642’s trigger was so flippin sorry, I was elated to pick up a used slightly holster worn 1980 Colt Detective Special for well under $600. 6 rounds, not 5, high carbon steel, so it’s heavy, but not much larger. The trigger? After a little work, it puts many Pythons, Cobras, and Diamondbacks to shame, not to mention $7800 Korth, and Manurhin revolvers. I can do a lot with a Smith & Wesson as far as trigger jobs go, but there are limits. The frame metal is soft, it inhibits getting a glassy smooth surface & retaining it. Give me a 586 and we are in a different universe. Nothing will equal the old Colt watchmaker’s action, though! It is not a robust as the Smith, but think of it as a thoroughbred, rather than a draft horse.
Circle K insurance and liability premiums are worth more than your life, so they ban self defense.
I have no doubt a small business owner will hire her gladly… small businesses are more mindful of their business.
UPDATE: been fired, has GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/gas-station-robbed-mom-of-3-fired
Does anyone know if Lee Paige emigrated to the UK?
I do believe the leftists have bypassed full retard, full potato, and particularly potato salad and hit super mega ludicrously plaid levels of insanity in their push to turn us into commies er nazis er… Whatever the hell their end goal for this crap is.
Big government created every distortion in the health care market– only fools think that more government meddling will make it better.
Serious question; why is the battery life on illuminated scopes (even high end one like this) so short. Even budget red dots now have battery life measured in years. If there was a illuminated scope with a battery life of at least a year, I would probably use it over my Aimpoint.
The rifle he’s holding is indeed an AK. The Stg44 mistake is a side panel of the base of the statue. It’s an exploded drawing, etched into the statue. It’s not real obvious unless you know what you’re looking for.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/22/kalashnikov-monument-blunder-nazi-sturmgewehr-included-memorial-russias-top-gun-designer/
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