A regular reader writes:
I’ve been following the rockethub.com funding of 80 percent lowers for some time now. [ED: 80 percent lowers are the unfinished lower receivers which recipients complete to create a legal, unregistered firearm.] A LOT of the projects have turned into complete crap storms. Multiple projects have gone way, way over what they were trying to fund (i.e. trying to fund $10k, make $220k) and nobody has gotten anything. There are now rumors amongst funders and on forums that Rockethub is pulling 80 percent firearms projects due to the complete failure of most of the projects. Reading the “conversations” tabs on the projects – click here, here or here – is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. If you do some more Googling on these companies, the amount of excuses and “next weeks” is astounding. It seems that only one company has really been able to actually deliver the goods, albeit slowly, Precision Arms Manufacturing… incidentally, also the one I threw my $90 into the mix for an AR-10 lower.
Hence the III Percent. If 97% of the armed country slowly goes down the road to being disarmed, so be it.
It won’t be me, or my son, or his son, etc,…
And I think a lot of folks agree. I am having a Mr. Heston flashback.
The first time you use an acronym in prose, you should spell it out followed by the acronym in parentheses. What is RKBA?
LEARN HOW TO MAKE GUNS! They can’t take the knowledge out of your head. GUNS ARE NOT THAT HARD TO MAKE. That’s why criminals will always have them. A gun need not be fancy to do it’s job. Cut the fancy crap that we find in the guns we buy, and you can make them in your garage with minimal tools and materials you find every day.
No need to stash what you can make. No need to hide what you haven’t made yet…
“And that’s probably for the best.”
Not only did you begin that sentence with a conjunction, but I also disagree as completely as a person can.
I beleive we need more killing. Disagree if you like, I just don’t value the life of shitty people and I’m willing to put mine on the line for the chance to make the world a better place by removing a shitty person from it.
Like I said, disagree if you like. This IS a matter of opinion, and it is my opinion that all men are created equal, should they choose to lower themselves too much after being created, they should be killed. Period. Life isn’t the only gift. Humanity is. Superior intellect is. If these are discarded and a man stoops to being an animal, he should be killed.
Relax, guys. I have the doomsday plan.
1. Run for local sheriff.
2. Deputize everyone over 18 in your county.
3. Tell President Hillary (or Bloomberg or Christie) to get bent.
This will become common very soon.
rather put the cash into spare mags, and the time into reload practice, then it really doesnt matter
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
D.H. Lawrence
Still waiting / hoping / praying i get mine from Pebble Peak. I don’t think at this point its ever going to happen, but a guy can dream.
I have a push-button mechanical simplex lock on my pistol safe. Best of both worlds.
Aw for a second Piers Morgan was the happiest man alive. Piers seems to relish in the death of school children.
Please stop blaming us for your children’s crimes.
so I guess asking Shannon what color panties she has on is verbotten?
hmmm, ok – for a group that says it wants “dialogue” and common sense, why do you delete comments you don’t agree with? Why not engage the dissenter in conversation and demonstrate the superiority of your argument? Why not show your allegiance to the First Amendment and encourage those who rights you want to curtail why your views should prevail or why you believe that our understanding of the 2nd Amendment (vis-a-vis Dick Metcalf) is improper? Even pro-choice and pro-lifers can have an honest debate and try to find common ground (ie, too many teen births out of wedlock).
How can a just consensus on guns be reaches if the voices of common gun owners are muzzled? Nothing meaningful and lasting will ever be obtained through isolation and repression.
Our Constitution be it state or federal is not and should never be seen as just a mere obstacle to “get around” and any attempts to do so (especially if they are consistent and constant should be seen as a threat to the state and/or the Constitution). My rights are not up for debate any more…we’ve debated gun control to death…it’s dangerous, counter productive, harmful, statistically incorrect, morally defunct, dangerously naive and willfully ignorant. I may even start a Petition to recall/remove or whatever mechanism NH has to all of those that keep pushing this issue and keep attempting to subvert our constitutions in any way and a failure to uphold their oath of office, in fact deliberately and directly violating it repeatedly. I should never have to fight so hard for any right that should just be and is seen as a natural basic human right and be expected to just sit around and wait for the next thing they try to pull coming down the pipe. It’s intolerable… Why are these constant attempts to molest my rights not seen as criminal? Why should I believe in any way that they will ever stop even though it’s proven all over the place that the anti 2nd Amendment crowd is wrong? My rights should never be trumped by your “feelings” and they should never be threatened by anyone who doesn’t have facts, stats, studies, research or truth to back ANY of what they want up! Not a single stat, research study (EVEN BY GROUPS APPOINTED BY THE ANTI GUNNERS!!!), fact and truth that is found and to be is self evident and contradicts every last argument the left has for infringing any further upon our rights! 100% fed up with it and I want to know when it will be considered a crime, high crime or even treason to even suggest any further violations…It should be seen and viewed for what it truly is…a continual assault on our right to bear arms OR ANY RIGHT for that matter and an affront to the Constitution and common sense…When people violate the law…they go to prison or are punished in some other way…why not with the most basic and important of laws…our rights. The fear of the people should never take precedence over all of our rights…not even theirs. It is a dangerous, knee jerk, emotional reaction to things they can’t or refuse not understand, it doesn’t trump facts, stats, research and truth…they are wrong.
Dear MDA:
Why did the gun-free zone law not stop Adam Lanza?
Why did the gun-free zone law not stop the Virginia Tech shooter?
Why have all but one mass shooting where more than 3 people were killed been done in a gun free zone?
Why would a criminal, already knowing he’ll serve life or be sent to death for killing someone, be deterred by a gun law or gun-free zone law that only carries a penalty of 5 or 10 years? He already intends to kill someone. Will he suddenly change his mind when he realizes that he’ll be breaking a gun-free zone law?
Why do you delete Facebook posts, especially polite and non-confrontational posts, from people with a different viewpoint? Do you realize how that behavior is perceived?
Banning polite Facebook posts makes it seem you are not interested in having a mature discussion.
Banning polite Facebook posts makes you seem to be hiding from the arguments from the other side of the debate.
Confirmation Bias
A 20inch barrel is less accurate than a 18inch. You get better external ballistics with the longer barrel, but you have more flex in the longer barrel when firing, which detracts from the accuracy of the rifle. So a shorter barrel will have less variation at the muzzle, but worse external ballistics typically. So its a balance between the two, but I have seen 600yard first round hits out of MK18mod1 so I am def more inclined to the shorter barrels being able to perform. And will people stop referencing the Seals using scars, its one of the most hated guns that was forced upon the teams.
Ask Hollywood. People think suppressors actually silence the sound of a gun shot.
…It must be true I saw it in that James Bond movie.
In what universe can you compare an air rifle suppressor with that of a firearm?
Precision Arms MFG is no better than the rest!! Precision Arms MFG and their new parent company CB Arms are a bunch of liers and cheats. They have repedidly lied about shipping of funded items. I even recieved a shipping notice from them via USPS on Febuary 7 2014 and have still yet to recieve anything as of April/18/2014.
I got took by Northwest Precision for barrels and by The Gun Vault on 80% lowers. Never again…..