Got the new SKS today. For the rest of the evening, I will be battling the cosmoline. Pictures forthcoming when I’ve won. This will be a good test of Gunzilla.
Month: June 2007
Let’s Not Make a Federal Case Out of It
Jesse Jackson has a well deserved reputation as an attention whore. Do we really need to go adding more federal crimes to the books because of that fact?
After denouncing the demagoguery of Rev. Jesse Jackson in his continued protests at a suburban Chicago-area gun shop, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced that it has drafted federal legislation that would prevent such protests from interfering with legal businesses.
“This is not an attack on the First Amendment rights of Jesse Jackson or anyone else,†said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “But it would put an end to the kind of publicity-seeking shenanigans that Jackson and his cohort, anti-gun Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, have been conducting at Chuck’s Gun Shop in suburban Riverdale for the past three weeks. We’re working on Capitol Hill right now to gather sponsors.
Jesse Jackson and Snuffy Pfleger were already arrested under state law for trespassing. Â Why exactly do we need to make a federal issue out of this?
Cool!
Dr. Helen has a new advice column. Hopefully, I will not be in need of relationship advice from her anytime soon. But I am interested in hearing whether Uncle is crazy.
What’s the Fascination?
If this guy thinks that Ahab’s blog is scary, the contents of my safe would absolutely make him crap his pants. Why is it that no one ever asks someone into classic cars “What’s your fascination with engines? Why do you need an engine that will do 110MPH?” Or someone into coin collecting “What’s your fascination with coins? Clearly you’re just a greedy bastard.”  No one ever asks a golfer what his fascination is with constantly acquiring new and better golf clubs, or finding new and challenging courses.
But all kinds of false assumptions are made about people who enjoy the shooting sports and collectors. Ahab has it exactly right: they are just machines folks, relax, and don’t worry yourself about it. A street urchin with a broken beer bottle should be more worrisome than a guy at the range firing a machine gun.
Forget Ford!
I want my next vehicle to be one of these.
Not much in the way of armor, but it sure would be fun to show up at a car hunt with one of these.
Going E-Postal: The Reload Drill
I got my entry submitted to Sailorcurt. I managed to tie Ahab!
If I hadn’t pulled that three, I would have beaten him! But such is life in when shooting. It only takes a little jerk. I noticed I was worse on the initial draw and aim, than on the reload and aim.
So my goal of one day beating Ahab in an e-postal match still remains elusive, but I tied at least! This is the type of shooting I practice most often. Granted I don’t usually do double tap, reload, double tap, but I generally practice rapid, not too carefully aimed fire. I liked this e-Postal, as it actually exposed some flaws I had in my shooting technique when practiced from draw (well, as close to draw as I could do at the range) and reload. I think I might actually add the double tap reload drill to my regular routine.
We’ll see how it goes overall. I’m hoping I scored properly. I’m only used to rough scoring for myself. My general rule for touching the ring is if I can’t see any white between the ring and the bullet mark, it’s touching. I have no idea if that’s the right rule to use though.
Campaign Finance Ruling
Dave Hardy has a good summary. I’m very pleased with the result, but I hope The Court will overturn McConnell in it’s entirety in the future.
Bitter Better Dump Me Soon!
Or, if CNN is to be believed, I’m going to kill her any minute! Criminal Profiler Pat Brown says that having guns should be a “big red flag” that any guy they are dating is a potential psychopath.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZUSN8_o3M[/youtube]
Oh well, at least they didn’t mention that we also all have small penises, as long as they were dragging out the unfounded stereotypes. But someone who does criminal profiling for a living, should at least know that just because criminals have an interest in weapons, that doesn’t translate into an interest in weapons making one a criminal. It’s statements like these that made me reluctant to tell any dates that I owned guns and enjoyed shooting.
UPDATE: Turns out she has a blog. Perusing through, it seems she falls into the “reasonable restrictions” category:
While I personally believe in the right to own guns and the right to carry them to protect yourself, I also believe we have a responsibility as a society and as citizens to be serious about gun ownership. We should be required to have a background check, one which checks criminal, behavioral, and mental status. In other words, this should be a solid check so that people like Cho who exhibit frightening behavior and are on antidepressant meds aren’t considered citizens safe enough to be gun owners. The owner should also have to go through strong training in gun safety and sign a document that accepts full responsibility for the gun, that if the weapon is used by anyone other than the owner in a criminal act, the owner will also be liable for prosecution.
I know plenty of people who are on anti-depressants that are no danger to anybody. She should think about what she’s saying! Is someone who breaks into my house and steals a gun going to cause me to be responsible for his criminal acts? Or does she just mean knowingly transferring a firearm to someone else to commit a crime? In the former case, that’s just ridiculous, in the latter case, that’s already illegal. It’s doubly illegal for those of us in Pennsylvania, and a lot of other states.
UPDATE: If anyone has problems viewing the video, please say so in the comments. I’m aware of at least one person who can’t view it, and if there are others it would help troubleshoot the problem.
UPDATE: Pat Brown has responded in the comments. In light of her clarifications, I think we can safely say she just misspoke, and didn’t intend to malign gun owners.
I Don’t See it Either
Clayton still isn’t buying GOA’s concerns about HR2640. I’m not either.
Flashing ID for Adult Beverages
Bitter points out a new regulation that may go into effect in Tennessee requiring everyone, regardless of age, to flash ID to buy alcohol. I would actually be willing to agree to have that in Pennsylvania if they abolished the state run liquor system and I could buy a bottle of bourbon in the supermarket. Can’t make the argument that it’ll encourage underage drinking if you have to card everyone! Whipping out the drivers license is less of a burden to me than having to drive to New Jersey or Delaware to get decent hooch.
Of course. all this is going to do is cause more straw purchasing of alcohol. Pretty soon after that, you’ll only be able to buy so much alcohol in a month in order to deal with the problem. But then they’ll start manufacturing it at home like I do [I should be clear here, I mean home brewing, not distilling. The ATF already has my number for the F part, I don’t want any trouble with the A part too :)]. And then…. but oh wait, we already went down this road and it didn’t work. It’s a pity folks can’t make the analogy.