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“It was dirty and dusty and windy, and the Rand CLP I had applied lightly to the bolt carrier of my SCAR turned it into a Chia Pet, adding some drag to the cycling of the action and eventually causing a double feed (well, failure to eject followed by double feed) during a stage.”
Nick, im sure you’ll cover this when you write up the match, but if youre willing to give a quick answer, at what round count was this and with what ammo? Im sure it couldnt have been that high. Just curious. Ive never had a weapon malfunction from the dirt and grime sitting on the TOP of the bolt carrier and It just seems unreasonable for a SCAR, or any quality firearm, to malfunction under those circumstances, and if it did, i would call it a fluke and not the lube. I say this after firing my M4 covered in Afghan moon dust and shooting my DI AR in central texas covered in texas dirt and dust.
so we dont start any flames I understand any mechanical device can malfunction. Oh and am not a huge fan of the SCAR-16 for the record, but seems like a cool gun if someone wanted something a little different.
And thanks for the review of the lube, something new to check out (CLP and M-Pro 7 user)
Actually, I think the big change in the culture war for gunowners started in the 1980s with Florida’s “shall issue” concealed weapons law, pushed through the legislature by Marion Hammer. The media went berserk, with all of the “it will be Dodge City” and “the GunShine State” comments. Those “news” media comments have continued in every state that has passed Shall Issue laws, and every time they have been proven wrong. We are now, after 30 years, at the point where the leftist Propaganda Ministry has nearly given up attacking the Shall Issue laws. I think a lot of that is due to the fact that increasing numbers of women (in 40 states) are taking advantage of concealed weapons training, and learning how to protect themselves WITHOUT waiting for the authorities to show up. Over the last five years, it seems to me that many CCW instructors say that half or more of their students are women of all ages.
As an OFWG who saw the 1968 Gun Control Act passed with hosannas of praise from the entire media(newspapers and 3 TV networks), I personally see this as a HUGE change in the culture – a substantial percentage of the population seeing concealable handguns as good things (remember the EEEVIL “Saturday Night Specials”?). And by extension, they see guns in general as something they own and aren’t willing to give up. My favorite personal example is the 80-yr old Democrat, Obama-voting woman in our coffee group who just bought an S&W hammerless .38 and got her CWL here in Idaho – for protection when she goes camping.
I think we are also seeing this in the transformation of “assault weapons” into “hey, I own one of those and I’m not assaulting anyone.”
if this site had upvotes, i’d upvote you there.
Tired of this angry rhetoric that “there’s no converting anyone” and “there’s no use in trying to convince “the other side” (Where the other side = liberals).
BS. I don’t want to flog my personal experience again, so i’ll just point to IdahoPete’s above. A lot of people align themselves (D) because of civil rights issues, and 2A is one. and eyebrows get raised when the “powers that be” count to 10 as 1,3,4,5,6….
It sure seems like it some days. More and more the “common sense” gun grabbers are coming off as out of touch geriatrics and whining ninnies. I remember during the 80’s and 90’s they were taken very seriously by media outlets. Now they just take softball interviews on cable networks nobody watches and bitch about made-up outrages on Twitter.
However, I cringe to think of what the generation now in elementary school having “lockdown” drills will be thinking once they reach voting age. Years and years of “OMG scary gun!!! Duck and cover!!!” can’t be good.
The correct answer – neither. I would smuggle my stuff in with my household goods like everyone else.
Guns have turned into a rural versus urban thing generally. The urban pop is growing while the rural pop is shrinking. I think we are going to lose the long war unless we figure out a way expand our tent into the urban pop.
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Very nice write up brother Adam. TTAG needs to form an International Brigade. Would love to read what foreign locals think of their particular firearm situations.
Now if someone could do a skinny on the weapons for self defense in the UK.
(Spoiler-alert: they’re all illegal.)
Where would I find more on the information in section 1? I feel un-knowledgeable asking, but:
– Specifically, what is “SxS, O/U”?
– So then capacity on semi-auto shotgun is unlimited? (or just pump?)
– “must contain five or more shot” means that there must be at least 5 pellets, right? Since there is a .36″ limit, I would think that minimum count would be unnecessary.
Any help would be appreciated. If there is a publication that would answer my questions, a link would be good. Thank you!
I would be on board for more internationalism. aka international gun laws.
I know quite a bit about Europe. Especially austrian, swiss and german laws but I hardly know anything about africa or asia.
If people are interested I could do something on Austria. Home of Americas favorite gun 😉
Nice video. I found it very entertaining. However, the amount of .22 LR ammo on that table really pisses me off.
Rick Taylor uses Snake Oil. The only lube endorsed by the ghost of Jeff Cooper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tj7ytiqxx8
I don’t believe we are winning. I don’t believe the antis are winning either.
It’s very much a tit for tat type situation. They push some nasty laws in one state (NY Safe Act, CO and CT bans), we toss out a politician (CO recalls) or get a case overturned in the courts (Illinois, DC v. Heller).
If we define a gun owner victory as relaxing the laws, we are losing badly. We at best hold out with the laws we have rather than take back lost ground.
If we define a gun owner victory as getting more new gun owners, we may well be silently winning. But I don’t have a way to confirm it or disprove it.
http://blogs.militarytimes.com/gearscout/2013/11/27/mike-pappas-fired-from-silencerco/
http://blogs.militarytimes.com/gearscout/2013/12/11/more-changes-at-silencerco/
I’m pretty sure they’re unrelated. Mike was fired because he and Joshua Waldren were in constant disagreement about the companies future. Gary got an extremely good job offer elsewhere. Silencerco is still working on other designs and looking to expand.
“I think I pooped myself.”
I had a good laugh after that.
I like you and all Tom, but I think I ilked it better when Kirsten did the yoga pose…
Fascinating! This App simultaneously ignores the value of having good guns on-site, while highlighting the response-time deficiencies inherent in not having good guns on-site.
What a happy little tyranny you have there.
My daughters guns have not killed any adults. Not even the semi-automatic compressed air varmint vaporizers.
Can’t make that claim about varmints though.
A high ride thumb safety? A beavertail grip safety?Made in the USA?
Holy piss. If it’s got an internal extractor and 8 round capacity, I may just have to leave the underside of this cozy rock .
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