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Loss Prevention at Gun Shops

Since my sister works in a retail loss prevention unit (basically, she catches shoplifters), I found this story to be rather amusing.Â It takes a certain kind of stupid to try to steal a gun from a gun shop, but that didn’t stop an Ohio man:

Saturday afternoon a white male in his probable 30’s entered Lock Stock & Barrel Gun Shop in New Boston to look at firearms. He decided he liked a particular AR15 rifle, moved toward the front door proudly holding it up, then politely telling the sales staff “Thank alot guys!” and ran out the front door.

The sales staff, consisting of a local firefighter who is former military and an NRA Range Safety Officer; the owner who is former military and an NRA Instructor and a gunshop employee who is an NRA Range Safety Officer and an avid bodybuilder weren’t feeling nearly as generous as the thief may have previously determined.

Read the whole thing.

Thompson Not Doing Well With Big Donors

I’m worried, especially after talking a few days ago about Mitt Romney doing well fund raising in Silicon Valley, that Fred Thompson just isn’t making it happen.Â The big money might be happy with Rudy and Mitt, but money doesn’t get you there.Â Votes get you there, and I worry that when the chips are down, neither of those two beat Hillary.

Democrats are energized this time around, and are raising money like mad.Â I worry we’re going to have at least four, probably eight more years of Clinton rule.Â For those of us who care about freedom, we’re going to be in for some sad years I’m afraid, and we won’t have anyone to blame but the Republicans.

Via Instapundit.

An Outrage in Maryland

All it took for me to get my unrestricted license to carry was filling out and application, a background check, and 65 bucks.Â I had it in two weeks.Â People in Maryland aren’t so lucky.Â Â Go read Sebastian’s whole post, and if you aren’t as outraged by it as I am, something is wrong with you.

21-22 Years Old? College Student? Got a LTC?

Peter Hamm says you might want to consider dropping out of college if you don’t like the fact that you can’t carry on campus.

Ed’s C.R.A.P.

According to Wyatt our Governor thinks people in Chester share the European love of Soccer, and thinks they are deserving of considerable “Capital-Redevelopment Assistance Program” (read tax dollars) to build a stadium.Â I grew up 3 miles outside of Chester, and I’m pretty sure that no one in Delaware County likes soccer enough to make a trip to Chester.

Let me just give you an idea of how bad Chester is.Â When I was growing up, it was well known not to enter the city at night, or really during the day either.Â Carjackings were not unheard of, and a few folks were dragged out of their cars and beaten for being at the wrong stoplight at the wrong time.

Thanks to PennDOT’s I-95 construction fiasco, I have been forced to drive through Chester on my way back from seeing Bitter on a few occasions.Â Normally I just lock the Glock in the case for the whole ride, thanks to the Great State of Maryland, which is most of the transit miles between here in DC.Â But when I have to drive through Chester, I make sure to stop at Delaware’s “Lock & Load” (also known as Service) Plaza and crack Mr. Glock out of his case, load it up, and get ready to do the Route 13 bypass at 1:00 in the morning.

Chester actually seems to look a little better these days than I remember it, but it’ll take a lot more than a soccer stadium to turn that city around.Â I’d say our governor is smoking crack on this, but it looks to me like a way to pay off his political supporters, rather than something he really expects will make a difference. Â A pity we’ll all have to pay for it.

Winchester Model 70 Returning

TD talks about some issues with the Model 70 that’ll be coming out of FN’s factory in Colombia, South Carolina.

IL Gun Laws

So Uncle sent me a sneak peek at this article yesterday, which prompted me to look up some Illinois gun laws, and let me tell you, I’m really glad I don’t live in Illinois.Â Â What appears to have happened is this guy had his FFL revoked, and decided to sell off his inventory in private sales, which is legal in Illinois, provided that you aren’t “in the business” of selling firearms.Â Illinois law does specifically mention liquidating a collection as not being “in the business”.Â But even so, operating as a dealer without a license is a misdemeanor under Illinois law for a first time offender.Â Â This article states that he is charged with a Class 1 Felony.

But what did this guy do?Â Well, he didn’t apply the waiting period required under IL law, which is three days for a pistol, and 24 hours for a long gun.Â Apparently you have to do this even in a private sale.Â Violation here is a Class 4 Felony in Illinois.Â Â But what got him the Class 1, the most heinous of felonies? Â Well, it turns out a recent law makes it a Class 1 Felony if you don’t ask to see the other fella’s FOID card before you sell him the gun.

Get that folks? Â If you do a private transfer in Illinois, and fail to ask to see the other person’s FOID card, it’s the same as if you pulled out the gun, and instead of handing it over to him, shot him dead.Â Illinois politicians apparently feel that selling a gun to your buddy or neighbor, and not asking to see the FOID, is an offense deserves to be up there with murder.

Remember that next time a gun control idiot tells you that most gun ownersÂ aren’t affected by gun control, and that all they want are reasonable laws.

Meager Progress

Ryan took a look at the 2008 appropriations bill and found this:

The Committee has heard reports that ATF has pursued violation revocations and denials against firearms dealers based on violations that consist largely of record keeping errors of various types that are unlikely to impede tracing investigations or prosecution of individuals who use firearms in crime. The Committee encourages ATF to consider lesser gradation of sanctions for record keeping errors.

The Congress Critters are aware of the problem, so why don’t they actually do something about it beyond talk? In 2006, before the Democrats retook Congress, we had H.R. 5092, the â€œBATFE Modernization and Reform Act of 2006.â€Â If the Democrats want to do something for us, other than lip service, they could reintroduce this bill, and move it forward.

Huckabee on the Second

About 4 minutes and thirty seconds into the video, until about 7 minutes.Â Mike Huckabee talks about his views on the second amendment:

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A sharp contrast from Hillary’s “I support the second amendment” nonsense.Â Hell, a sharp contrast to Bush if you ask me.

1895 Nagant

Well, the new revolver arrived, so I cleaned it up for it to get it’s picture taken:

Cleaned up pretty nice. I cleaned the thick greasy oil out of it and replaced it with some nice Friction Defense Gun Oil, from Brownell’s, and now the cylinder rotates into place and pushes forward rather nicely.

The downside to the Nagant revolver is the price of the ammo. Bitter asked “What’s so unusual about it?”, and my response was “Have you ever seen an uncircumcised penis?” Either way, 40-50 cents a trigger pull is steep, but someone said the other day there’s a way to reload for it. It’s also a pretty weak cartridge, only generating 157 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. No wonder Rasputin lived:

Determined to finish the job, Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, which would leave the conspirators with no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to grab one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes, grabbed Yusupov by the throat and strangled him. As he made his bid for freedom, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, Rasputin fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission and, after wrapping his body in a sheet, threw him into an icy river, and he finally met his end there

The trigger pull is brutal too. It’s almost a two stage like trigger. Take up the slack and it rotates the cylinder, but then it takes a quite a pull to push the cylinder into the barrel and drop the hammer.

We’ll have to see how it shoots once I get some ammo, but I got it mostly just to have one.