“Today marks the unfurling of The Trace’s most ambitious undertaking yet,” The Trace’s email blast boldly boasts, “a year-long investigation, created in partnership with more than a dozen NBC TV stations around the country, into the rising theft of firearms from American gun owners.” Their goal to prove that . . .
Americans buy guns for self-defense → carry those guns in public or keep them unsecured and at-the-ready → get robbed of those guns → arm the very criminals they fear.
“We have a society that has become so gun-centric,” former St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson told us, “that the guns people buy for themselves get stolen, go into circulation, and make them less safe.”
So don’t keep and bear arms and you’ll be safer! Heck, we’ll all be safer. Well that’s one theory . . .
A theory that The Trace wants to promote with the help of the aforementioned NBC stations and “journalists, researchers, students, and concerned citizens.”
To that end, The Trace has published a guide to filing annoying records requests. Somehow I don’t think Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitpropmeisters will get legions of unpaid workers to do their heavy lifting for them. Literally.
Regardless, this stolen guns reporting is a clear case of blaming the victim. Big style. But what else would you expect from an organization that promotes civilian disarmament for the public good?
I wonder if he will continue his virtue signaling on his car once he learns about DUI related deaths this past weekend, my guess not.
The most debased philosophy spewing the greatest levels of of naked hatred and outright evil is the tribalism of the Liberal Progressive.
I think they should go to Chirac and sell their ideas, maybe they would learn something……nah! Not a chance.
Sorry but I’ll keep my gats…you lost me at “NBC”.????
“….In partnership with more than a dozen NBC stations”. Yeah, okay I’ve read enough. Excuse me while i have a bowel movement.
So I can’t have nice things because criminals will want to rob me of those nice things?
Did I oversimplify it too much?
If you can’t fix the problem with a Ma Deuce, you better be on the horn with the cannon cockers, because you have some serious issues that you’re dealing with. I think the M2 HB is probably the best overall heavy machine gun out there. It penetrates what the lighter stuff won’t and while heavy, not impossible to move around. I’m surprised nobody has mentioned its other sometime use-a few wars back, some of the guys were buying telescopic sights out of the PX and mounting them on the weaver base on the top cover. Provided you had a good, tight T&E mechanism, you could make some pretty impressive long range single shots. Next step up and you are going to be in some sort of vehicle. For a time, I was a gunner on an M163 Vulcan, 20MM with a 3000 RPM burst fire and 1K continuous.
I was at a local range recently, practicing drawing and raising a Colt Mustang Pocketlite from low ready to shooting position while flipping the safety off and double tapping a target.
Over and over again, until I was getting cocky, because I could not miss that day. Then as I was raising the gun and had just flicked the safety off, I accidentally banged it HARD against the shelf that was above waist height, and the gun flipped out of my hands and landed downrange a few feet. It didn’t go off when it hit the concrete, and when I sheepishly looked left and right, there was no one else on the range, so I grabbed a broom, brought it back under the shelf, and resumed training.
but that’s the problem with realistic (or in my case, somewhat realistic) training: it’s potentially dangerous.
so, what is the marketing strategy of the people selling guns to black and hispanic gang members?
let me guess: somehow it is also whitey’s fault.
They might as well set out to prove that rapists rape because women provide sex to them. The logic is the same.
You know they intend to pin blame on the honest, peaceful gun owners who “provide” guns to thieving criminals. When are they going to take the next logical step and start blaming women for providing sex to rapists?
“The Trace”
That’s as far as I got…ROFLMFAO…
Thanks for correcting the DA/SA pistol action.
Many, many moons ago I found myself “volunteered” to spend a short period of time running a helicopter mounted .50 cal in a place we never were. I had little previous experience with it, but I came to the immediate conclusion that I had greatly underestimated the weapon, not to mention the disservice done to it in movies. She can deal some straight up hate, no chaser.
The people in California are just proving they really don’t need guns. But they do need to have sex in public on days the government gives them permission.
And they don’t need guns because they can smoke pot legally now in the state. Soon they will have their gun free zone utopia.
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich said. “I’ll be damned if a state with liberality hands out concealed gun permits and I’ve got them in my town every day.”
All Mayor Sokolich has to do is check out Pennsylvania next door to New Jersey. The good citizens of the Commonwealth have to pass both a state and federal background check and Pennsylvania doesn’t have any problems at all. End result? Roughly 1.2 million Pennsylvanians carry SHALL ISSUE licenses while maybe 1.6 thousand New Jerseyites carry MAY ISSUE permits.
Pennsylvania trusts its citizens, New Jersey doesn’t.
My Dad was a Korean War vet. Tank retreiver driver from the Pusan Breakout until the stalemate after the Chinese Incursion. Said the NK’s and the ChiComs liked to drop mortar rounds and sniper fire onto the exposed crews as they were trying to hook up and bring back disabled tanks and such. Their CO was able to get a quad-50 from an AAA unit to start tagging along. Dad said whenever they started taking fire the quad-50 crew would firehose the hillside it came from. Looked like a giant weed eater had worked over the terrain when they finished, and no more incoming rounds. Said it was the most awesome thing to watch and the most reassuring sound. The crews of the 2 retrievers always made sure the quad-50 guys had plenty of chow and beer. He always said to take care of those who take care of you! He made it back, was married to my Mom for 48 years, raised us kids, made a good living driving a truck, deacon in our church and was a quiet pillar of the community. He always gave the credit to God and the M2!
So I have seen only one comment on this but it’s the most glaring part of this article. Aside from the ridiculous implications that a gun ad has an effect on the mind of a mentally unsound dbag, are we ignoring how ignorant the “buy a gun, be a man” marketing appears to every person not so affectionate towards firearms. It makes us look bad as a whole. That’s how I feel and a lot would agree. This is intentionally going for a market segment that has issues with their masculinity. It’s exactly what the auto industry does but if we can’t hold ourselves to higher standards, we only create a steeper slope we have to climb. No politicians have considered banning cars after the attack in New York. I’m 25, fire the young guys you hired to handle your advertising. We shouldn’t be in charge of this. Generally speaking, we’re idiots
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“I think that there is this idea that the -First- Amendment is an absolutist text and that if you quote those words those are the most magical words that open up all the doors to whatever -speech- you want and however you want to speak” she said, “and I simply think that’s not true because Supreme Court jurisprudence has repeatedly, along with federal and state jurisprudence, repeatedly said that reasonable restrictions on -speech- are lawful.”
Edited by me to illustrate the sheer absurdity of this undereducated human’s statement.
The Bill of Rights CANNOT be infringed by government at any level. Period.
“Criminals are stealing guns from legal owners in increasing numbers [68% increase from 2005 to 2016], fueling violent crime in America.”
Last time I checked, violent criminals are the ROOT CAUSE of violent crime in America.
“The source of the problem, experts say, is negligence on the part of many gun owners. “
Once again, the source of the problem is the criminals who steal someone else’s property.
I own firearms. I will accept responsibility for the actions of criminals (stealing firearms and violent attacks) when Progressives vociferously demand that women accept responsibility for rape.
That’s a link to Brownells, not a list. I think their were also four, not six, but I was annoyed enough I didn’t count carefully.
I can do a web search for inexpensive AKs – or whatever – myself. What would be useful is a summary of features, pros and cons, et ceteta. Which I can also find myself but if you’re going to publish an “article” titled like this, it’s what I would expect you, TTAG, to have done.
Really, better to just not have published this as it stands.
It RAISES the question…
I seen a coyote and a doe while out walking yesterday. Last week a momma wild cat was fighting with a Tom cat, it was trying to kill the kitten, the kitten wound up hiding under my house. It was starving to death but had never seen a human. It finally got so hungry it chumed up cause I fed it, now I got a new little buddy. Life is good.
Bought a CA-compliant 2-stage trigger: first click runs a background check, second fires a shot upon approval.
The worst I ever had was wonderful.
Is there a carbine under all that junk?