Sebastian – Page 828 – Shall Not Be Questioned

I Hate to Hinder a Good Cause

A small product with a BIG message, for sure:

â€œBy putting this decal on your car or home, it tells an intruder that you have a gun and you are going to protect yourself,â€ said Derflinger.

Let me rephrase that:

â€œBy putting this decal on your car or home, it tells an intruder that you have a gun to steal,â€ said Derflinger.

I think I’d rather just donate to the NRA Youth Shooting Programs directly. But if you really like the decals, you could do what I’ve done with my NRA and IHMSA stickers, which is to put them on magnets that can be easily removed if circumstances call for it, such as leaving home for an extended period of time with the car sitting in the driveway, or going into the city and parking for any extended period of time. I’ve never considered it a good idea to advertise the fact that you’re armed, or to help make targeting easier for theft rings.

Range Stereotypes

SayUncle lists thirteen types of people one can expect to encounter at the range. I’ve definitely seen most of them. Not sure which one would fit for me. I hardly show up at the range for casual practice anymore.

Advertising

Bushmaster is starting to advertise in non-gun publications. That’s going to make the Bradys and other gun control groups crap a bowling ball. The industry hasn’t done much advertising outside of trade related publications.

I Think It’s Worth Losing the Deer

A bow hunter who was trying to recover a deer was unable to, because the property he tracked it to wouldn’t let him recover it. Normally, that kind of thing would just piss you off, but you know, I think I’d be ok with losing the deer if I knew it had wandered onto the property of the CEO of the Animal Rights Alliance.

Who do you think is respecting the deer more? The CEO, who will let the animal go to waste, or the hunter, who wants to recover the animal to use it for a purpose nature intended — food.

Canadian Media Missed Brady Memo

They are calling it the yard-sale loophole. Apparently they are out of the loop on the nomenclature. They don’t call it the yard-sale loophole. Ordinary people have yard sales. Everyone is familiar with what a yard sale is. People might not be sufficiently scared by the prospect of someone selling an old gun at a yard sale.

No, it’s the gun show loophole. Booga! Booga! Many people have never been to a gun show, so it’s easier for them to distort what goes on there, and make it sound like they are organized by the KKK and neo-Nazis groups, and have more criminals at them than the prison yard at exercise time. Gun shows are all manner of shady. Just ask them! Yard sales are something your grandma does. Get with the program CBC!

About Time!

Apple reveals its replacement for the Mighty Mouse. Optical mouse with no buttons, switches, wheels, or balls? It should last forever. I hate the Mighty Mouse. The scroll ball on the mouse will inevitably end up dirty, to the point where Apple’s recommended cleaning method will no longer work, and the mouse can’t be taken apart and disassembled without breaking it. Â The Might Mouse I’m currently using looks like this, because it stopped scrolling, and I had to take it apart to clean the gunk off the gnat sized rollers. It still works, but it doesn’t glide as smoothly across the pad anymore.

The Mighty Mouse is dead. Long live the Magic Mouse!

Personal Protection Poll

Gun Pundit is helping with a Personal Protection Survey for Shooting Illustrated.Â Before reading farther, go take it! Then come back and hit more for my take on it.

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Epoxy to the Rescue

After figuring out the hard way you really need to make sure you’re receiver is properly supported when you’re hammering pins in place, I have managed to epoxy my lower back together. The epoxy I used is a product called JB Weld, which auto mechanics use to fix cracked engine blocks. Hopefully if it’s good for that, it’ll hold together an AR-15 lower receiver under the impulse of repeated firing.

You can see the epoxy along the seam where it broke off. I don’t really know whether the epoxy will hold the ear in place or not. The trigger guard pin would not seem to be a high stress part, but I’m pretty sure if I beat the rifle up pretty bad, it’s going to break back off at some point. As long as it stands up to normal use at the range, I won’t worry too much. It’s not like I’m going to take it into combat.

A little bit of black touch up paint seems to have tidied up the seam nicely. If you get close, you can still see the monument to my stupidity, but from a few yards away, you won’t notice. It actually shows more in LED light than it does under normal light. Really, as long as it holds, I’ll deal with the minor blemish. I’d hate to think the Pennsylvania State Police went through all that trouble to enter my lower into their registry sales record database and not end up using it to do things that make the Governor cry.

Folding Knife Protection on Obama’s Desk

The House and Senate have worked out their differences on the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, and amendment to prevent US Customs from redefining assisted opening folding knives as switchblades has been preserved. You can read about it over at KnifeRights.org. NRA was also helping move this forward, along with several Senators.

â€œThis amendment was necessaryÂ to prevent commonly-used pocketknives from being branded asÂ illegal switchblades. The National Rifle Association is grateful to Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.),Â Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)Â and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) whose leadershipÂ fixed aÂ provision thatÂ would have criminalized millions of law-abiding Americans — including millions of hunters and sportsmen,â€ saidÂ Chris Cox, Executive Director for NRAâ€™s Institute for Legislative Action.

The Senate adopted this amendment through unanimous consent back in July, but it took a while for the House and Senate to work out the differences in the conference committee. Many thanks to the folks who helped get this through. It’s one less thing we’ll have to worry about.

Like You and Me, Only Better

With Corzine trying to paint Chris Christie as a tool of the “gun lobby”, which is kind of amusing since I think most of us think the guy is pretty weak on the issue, third party candidate Chris Daggett’s driver, a retired NJ State Trooper, apparently left a loaded pistol in the glove compartment of a loaner vehicle. Remember, New Jersey can’t pass concealed carry reform because ordinary citizens are too irresponsible, and can’t be trusted to carry guns!