Category: Guns

Nutter Can Bite Me

It’s amazing that all the gun control people are willing to use the death of a police officer to score political points.  NRA members aren’t the ones shooting police officers, Mr. Mayor.

“I think that they should make an immediate statement acknowledging that there is no legitimate reason for anyone to have such a weapon and should join us in supporting — at least — this kind of reasonable legislation. They don’t have a leg to stand on, and they owe the Liczbinski family an apology for their obstructionist activity in this regard.”

Because there are legitimate reasons.  Why does what gun the scumbag used matter?  Any gun is dangerous in hands of people who would murder police officers.  The problem, Mr. Mayor, is that your city’s justice system isn’t getting these people off the streets.  One of these losers escaped from a halfway house.  Why was this guy in a halfway house and not the big house?  These are the kinds of questions Philadelphia needs to be asking itself.

Meanwhile, while Mayor Squidworth is busy taking pot shots at the NRA, the third suspect is still at large.  It seems to me that Nutter’s first priority as mayor ought to be bringing this guy to justice.  His public statements and rhetoric should be focused on that.  What does it say to criminals to hear a message of “Shoot a cop, I’ll blame the NRA!?”  The Mayor’s rhetoric needs to be “You shoot a cop, we’re going to catch you, we’re going to try you, and we’re going to put you on death row.”  Is that kind of tough talk too much to ask for from the Mayor?

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Small Arms – Threat to Peace and Security

More on the international front, this time by the UN:

“We have all witnessed how these weapons have been used to maim and kill; plunder and rape; instil fear and insecurity; block humanitarian aid; hold communities at ransom; destroy the social fabric of entire countries; and how their excessive accumulation and misuse has hindered stability and development in every way possible,” said Hannelore Hoppe, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.

Representative for Disarmament Affairs?  Why are we still paying for this crap, and allowing them to occupy some of the most valuable real estate in the country?  The problem is guns can also protect against all these things, and disarmament efforts tend to take guns away form the people who most need them.

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Olympic Shooting: Just Say No

From Jeff Soyer, it seems that activists for gun bans in the UK don’t want to ease laws on olympic shooters, because pretty clearly this is a menace to civilized society:

What do they have to say?

Gill Marshall-Andrews of the Gun Control Network hit back: “We oppose any kind of change, even for training. Why should we put society at risk for the sake of a few sportspeople?”

And I’m supposed to believe these folks aren’t going to ban my sporting guns?  These types of hysterics don’t know limits.  They have an irrational phobia.  It shouldn’t be my problem, but in the UK, at least, they have made it everyone’s problem.

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Classifications

Well, I finally joined IHMSA.  My rating, pretty much across the board, will be A, except for Big Bore, where I’ll get a B rating.  The only pistol I have that can shoot big bore is my Smith & Wesson 629, which not only is a bitch with recoil, you can’t taco grip a revolver.  I think, at this point, I will stick to field pistol with the 629.

A rating sounds good, until you realize it’s like baseball.  A is the lowest category of any consequence.  From there you go to AA and AAA, and if you’re really good, go into the top International Class.  From the rules, it looks like as soon as you shoot into another class, you get a leg up, which earns you a ‘+’ classification.  If you shoot into that class again, you then enter that class.

My goal now is to enter into AA class before the end of this season.  We’ll have to see if I can do it.  So far I am very happy with the Volquartsen Trigger Kit I put into my Mk.III. I managed to shoot 19 this time, which is better than I have been able to do previously, and I lost a few animals raising my sights too high on the turkeys and rams.  Live and learn.  Air pistol was a disappointing 13.  But airgun is harder than it looks.  It looks like it should be easy, because the animals are so close, but trying to hit 1/10th scale animals at 10 to 18 yards is harder than you might think.

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Quote of the Day

From West, By God:

I have to say, I was honestly expecting the 6.8 to feel significantly different from a .223. Other than the sound, there really isn’t that much difference. Well, that’s a lie. The difference you feel is just in your wallet instead of your shoulder.

This was in reference to Robb’s range report.  You’re not kidding about that!  I love the 6.8 cartridge, but you basically have to reload.

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When the Personal Becomes the Political

As much as Bryan Miller might want to use the death of a police officer as a segue into attacking one of his pro-gun commenters, I tend to find it to be as repugnant as what he accuses VeroFeritas of.  I’d rather not make a political issue of what happened to Bryan Miller’s brother, but I’m not the one who has done that.  It’s Bryan that has chosen to bring that personal tragedy into the public light and use it to promote a political position.  I’m not condeming that, because all sides of the debate do this.  It’s not just anti-gunners, we do this too.  But it seems to be rather disingenuous to bring your tragedy into the political area, and use it to stump for your position, while crying foul when others bring it up in support of a position in contra to yours.

But that’s not the real issue here, while I have no doubt that Mr. Miller’s sympathy for the family of Officer Liczbinski is genuine, I’m going to suggest that we not use this incident as political fodder for one position or another.  Let the family grieve.  There will be plenty of time to argue over the politics later.  At this point, the right thing to do is keep the Liczbinski family in our thoughts and prayers.

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Muzzling Common Sense

I don’t want to muzzle common sense, but I can’t believe The Morning Call printed this drivel:

The colonists didn’t need a Second Amendment to possess guns. They had guns! In sparsely settled areas of Pennsylvania like Carbon County, they had to be ready for attacks from the native Americans. Settlers in Tamaqua and Lehigh Gap were killed. The Lehighton Cemetery bears witness to the massacre of 11 Moravian missionaries at their Gnaden Huetten settlement. Guns were needed for protection from the bears and the wolves. Sharpshooters provided wild game for much-needed protein for their families.

But, times have changed. Two hundred and sixteen years ago, there was not the terrible crime rate that exists today. Criminals, gang members and the mentally impaired can get their hands on a variety of weapons. Our society is burdened with too many sick individuals who do not value life. They will kill a human being as easily as they would swat a fly.

Let me get this straight.  We needed guns years ago to protect against all this violence, but today we don’t need guns because we have all this violence?  If this is the kinds of arguments that the gun control folks come up with, I’m feeling pretty good about the future of our second amendment rights.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is responsible for three sensible laws that shouldn’t be negated by the Supreme Court. The 1968 Gun Control Act lists the kind of individuals that should never be allowed to buy or own guns.

God damn.   It seems Paul Helmke has been time traveling around with Ronnie Barrett if The Brady Campaign is responsible for the Gun Contorl Act of 1968, which happened six years before the National Council to Ban Handguns was created, which became Handgun Control Inc. in 1980, and which finally became the Brady Campaign and Brady Center in 2001.  I’m an NRA member, and even I know more about Brady’s history than the clown who wrote this editorial.

The most sickening setback to gun control was the failure of Congress and President Bush to renew the ban on assault weapons. Now there are hundreds of ads for machine guns, large-capacity magazines, and ammunition on the Internet.

Really?  That’s funny, because the 1986 machine gun ban is still in full effect.  Not that the gun side doesn’t have our share of ignorant grass roots who can’t make a coherent and factual argument, but at least they aren’t writing editorials!  Time to send off a letter to the editor to expose this fraud.

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We Can Do Better!

Apparently the United States has about 40% of the world’s small arms in private hands.   I have to tell you, with that many armed spooky foreigners, clearly America is under threat.  We all know from the media and gun control folks that gun owners are scared to death of foreigners and minorites, so clearly we will just keep buying until we reach 100%.

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