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Quote of the Day: As God Is My Witness Edition

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“If you go to a couple of places and can’t find the ammunition you need, fear sets in. The next time you see that ammunition for sale, you’re going to buy everything they’ve got.” – Mark Johnson, Guns for Christmas: After year long buying frenzy, dealers unsure what market holds [at thepiedmontjournal.com]

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  1. I feel for the dealers and their fears of a slow Christmas season, but not TOO much. They’ve been raking it in for more than a year, now, so any who haven’t socked away enough to carry them through a slow patch have only themselves to blame.

    As for the rest of us – bring on the bargains! If you had the common sense to avoid the gougers all last year, it’s your turn.

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  2. Outstanding, I’m glad things are slowing down, maybe I’ll be able to get a few more weapons and ammo to go with them without taking out a second mortgage. That said I have more ammo stashed now than I did a year ago and I didn’t pay gouger prices for any of it. You just have to be ready to pull the trigger so to speak when you stumble across a deal.

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  3. I picked up some backups (to my backups to my backups)….

    Troy DOA rear flip up + Troy M4 style front flip up with Tritium (got $20 off)

    …oh and a RA Raptor charging handle at Primary Arms, while they were still in stock and $20 off. (Yeah, I am also having a hard time justifying $70 for a charging handle, but it is the best one on the market)

    Can’t wait to get the new gear slapped on my Crossman .177 pellet rifle! 😉

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  4. I tried to order one a month or so ago. They no longer make them, unfortunately. I have very long hands…think basketball player…and the extra leverage on the front would’ve been nice when changing my G21 out to it’s 10mm or .460 Rowland barrels. Don’t discount the idea just because it’s not for you. Gas pedals are nothing new and at least someone made one that didn’t involve frame modification or a huge mount. Hopefully someone else will pick up the mantel and make something like this available (and at that price point) again.

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  5. It’s no surprise that the poorest areas of NYC are also the most crime-ridden. Poverty breeds desperation. Desperation breeds crime.

    As for WHY they’re poor…there are probably a thousand reasons for that, most of which are likely to start an intense flamewar if I bring any of them up.

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  6. It’s not poverty, it’s social pathology. Not only does the poverty map sync well with the shootings map, but so does the “households headed by single mothers” map.

    http://takimag.com/article/children_and_guns_the_hidden_dads_gavin_mcinnes/print#axzz2mFD3enxU

    The welfare state creates an incentive for people to make bad life choices. This has resulted in 72% of African American households being headed by a single mother, many of them teenagers themselves. The number for Hispanic households is equally grim, at 53%.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39993685/ns/health-womens_health/t/blacks-struggle-percent-unwed-mothers-rate/#.Uptu4eIlgWk

    Children raised in such situations do not experience the stability and discipline of a two parent family and thus these children are more likely to be high school drop outs, criminals, drug addicts, or single parents themselves.

    http://heartland.org/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/4387.pdf

    This destruction of the traditional, stable family unit has been further accelerated by the toxic culture of thug-worship, drugs, crime, misogyny, and violence. Daniel Moynihan pointed this out in the 1960s. He was right then, he’s even more right now.

    As with so many government initiatives, the welfare state has had huge unintended consequences. The main victims of those consequences have been the very people the programs ostensibly set out to help.

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  7. I love this map because it shows the problem pretty clearly. same story, every city. Used to be, an outlet for “unskilled labor” was a job in the factory or steel mill. Now that we have moved those jobs to China and Mexico, the outlet is drugs and crime. Drugs, unemployment, and welfare, pay more than a real job. We cannot all be 180 IQ tech geniuses. leftist labor policies and the drug war are pretty toxic.

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  8. Thanks Nick good catch on this. Lots more info on the map (school project) at the link. Picture says a thousand words… be interesting to see same for Chicago.

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  9. I like the idea of a go/no-go gauge being kind of open like that. I have spotty issues with my 147 grain projo’s not wanting to chamber.

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  10. The thing to do is show up with 1000 feet of pipe cut into 1foot pieces and some washers and nails and sell them as zip gun parts kits.

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  11. These types of gages have been used by benchrest and accuracy reloaders for years and years.

    Since most barrel blanks are 28″ long, and most shooters want a 24 (or shorter) barrel, gunsmiths would keep the 4″+ stubs, mark what they were, then when a customer wanted an ammo gage, they’d run a reamer into the stub, then mill off a couple of steps, then run a mill into the shoulder/neck/throat area of the chamber and wha-la, there you go.

    This idea has been around since, oh, the 1950’s, when PO started his Ackley craze and everyone was blowing shoulders forward on cases.

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  12. Couldn’t this be deemed not a valid of use of self-defense since the man that was defending himself was also in the process (but not quite there yet) of committing a crime?

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    • Innocent until proven guilty. Not only can he not be proven to have committed a crime, he hadn’t even committed it yet.

      Besides, I never really liked “Minority Report”

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