Paul Helmke should really work on getting his blog posts up before they come pre-debunked.
Category: Guns
Court Upholds Lancaster Discharge Ordinance
Looks like the courts are giving this the OK. We covered this issue previously here. Apparently the ordinance does have exceptions for self-defense and other activities. I should note that whether Mr. Swinton acted in self-defense or not is a question of fact, rather than of law, and is something for a jury to decide at trial.
What the judge here is saying is that, as a matter of law, the ordinance is in accordance with state law. Pennsylvania’s preemption statute does not explicitly prohibit the regulation of firearms discharge. Obviously state law has to preempt some aspects of firearms discharge, otherwise what’s to stop cities from making the discharge of a firearm unlawful under any circumstance?
Earmark for Remington
The New York State legislature is going to give Remington Arms 2 million dollars to keep them in New York.
In an attempt to show county commitment to keeping the Remington Arms plant in the village of Ilion, the Legislature on Wednesday authorized spending up to $2 million for future equipment purchases by the firearms manufacturer. The budgetary impact of the amount serves as sufficient proof of legislator loyalty.
You know, maybe if it wasn’t for the constant political risk to their business from both anti-gun politicians and New York State’s awful business climate, they wouldn’t have to bribe companies to stay.
Civilization in Detroit at an End
If you live in Detroit, the time to leave is now:
[A Story Once Appeared Here About a Man Who Hunt and Sold Raccoons, but it is from a newspaper working with the scum of the earth I will no longer link to.]
You’re eating racoons. It’s over Detroit. Life is better in other places, like Camden, New Jersey. Or perhaps I can suggest a fine town like Oakland, California.
Hat tip to Eric of Classical Values.
UPDATE: Watch the video. I think the “Coon Man” is my new hero. I admire people who can capitalize on tragedy. Also, check out this post about how nature is reclaiming Detroit.
Media Gets it Right
Fox News hasn’t always gotten its facts on guns right, but it did this time. I join many other bloggers in praising Fox News for telling the truth about this issue. It covers exactly the things I highlighted here. They add:
In fact, it’s not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.
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But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.
Which is what I suspected. The guns they recover that have obvious sources from the Mexican or foreign militarys don’t get traced through ATF’s systems. The other question I have is what percentage of guns the Government of Mexico recovers are from violent individuals and drug cartel members, and what percentage were recovered from people who smuggled the guns back to relatives so they could protect themselves from the individuals I just mentioned. The latter is a human rights issue, but the Mexican government doesn’t see things that way.
April E-Postal – Deficit Shooting
JimmyB has the April E-Postal match up. Has to be in by the 27th at midnight. This is a really creative match. You start off 12 trillion dollars in the hole, and you try to reduce your deficit by hitting the small (-1) targets, without hitting any of the bigger deficit busting whoppers that surround it. Each hit on those is worth a trillion dollars in savings to your budget. Can you do better than Obama on the budget? Find out and shoot this month’s e-Postal match.
Cleaning Up After Corrosive Ammo
Dave Markowitz has some advice. I have to deal with this sometimes with the Nagant, and I’ve been the victim of shooting other Soviet Bloc ammo I didn’t realize was corrosive, but was. It can rust a rifle pretty quickly if you don’t deal with it.
I think it’s good advice. He recognizes that it’s the surfactants in Windex that make it a good cleaner, not the ammonia. When I shoot my AK-74 with the corrosive 5.45×39 ammo (you can shoot all day with that stuff for a good price) I just take the gas tube, flash suppressor, bolt carrier, and bolt, and give it a bath in soapy water. Then run some patches down the barrel with soapy water, clean the surrounding areas, and then go over everything with gunzilla once it’s dried out. That seems to do a good job of keeping the rust away.
Because You Su… Wait, We Suck!
Apparently H&K is having some trouble with reliability on the 416 under combat conditions. From today’s Tactical Wire:
The Tactical Wire has learned from very reliable sources that the US military has encountered significant problems with H&K Model 416s in combat conditions. HK has suspended production pending an internal investigation and inspection of that weapon system.
You know what would help work a lot of these kinks out? Selling your crap to the civilian market. No, we don’t shoot under “combat conditions” but enough of us shoot recreationally in enough conditions that a lot of the reliability problems will be found. Soldiers shouldn’t have to work out bugs in their weapons systems while other people are shooting at them.
But thanks to this country’s importation laws, and H&K’s lack of interest in exploring the U.S. civilian market for semi-automatic versions of their rifles, our soldiers are getting stuck with gear that hasn’t really been thoroughly tested and debugged.
Can We Use Pilot Stations to Fill Up Now?
Bill Haslam, Mayor of Knoxville, TN, soon to be candidate for Governor, and owner of the Pilot line of gas stations, has left Bloomberg’s Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns group. Does this mean the boycott is over? Haslam I think is the first one of Bloomberg’s Mayors for a while to leave by resigning, rather than by indictment.