From Dwight Lewis of The Tennessean:
Gun advocates can make me sick to my stomach.
Glad to oblige.
Robyn Ringler Sighting
Robyn ran one of the few anti-gun blogs out there. But she got tired of the Reasoned Discourse and quit blogging. Jacob found an interview with her by CSGV. She said blogging:
… was one of the most disheartening experiences I’ve ever had. Most of the comments I received were so mean and lacking in compassion and empathy it was hard to believe people would write such things. Death threats were common. When I wrote about children dying from gun violence, responders wrote that inner city children were not really children, but rather thugs and monsters. Racism and prejudice seemed to motivate a lot of the comments.
I recall the comment section there, and I recall a lot of facts being brought forth to refute her emotionally driven nonsense. I also don’t recall any racism in the suggestion that, yes, some children, particularly the ones that belong to gangs, are indeed monsters.
Big Bore AR Pistol
Shoots the .50 Beowulf. The funny thing is, it would probably make a pretty good gun for shooting IHMSA big bore, if its barrel were just a little shorter. That round would have no trouble knocking over the rams. The only other problem is I suspect it’s probably heavier than IHMSA allows for.
Can We Clear Something Up?
Blackwater is not the company doing blogger outreach. Para-USA is the company sponsoring our blogger summer camp. The training is going to be provided by Todd Jarrett, who is a many times over IPSC world champion. Para is paying Blackwater for the use of their facilities. That’s the extent of the relationship, despite some folks attempt to read more into it.
Norinco Type 97 For Civilian Market?
According to The Firearms Blog even the Canadians will be able to get them. This version will be chambered in 5.56mm NATO and will take STANAG mags. Will they be available here? Or are they not considered “sporting purposes” enough?
More Sunday Competition
Looks like we have a new World Steel Challenge Champion from the Army Marksmanship Team. Mr. Completely scored 24th of 84. Not too bad for an international competition!
Pennsylvania State NRA Airgun Silhouette Championships
Well, today I shot the State Championships for NRA Airgun Silhouette which was held at My Club in Falls Township, Pennsylvania. We’re loacated just north of Philadelphia, and do an NRA sanctioned airgun match every Thursday evening starting at 6PM in summers, and an unsanctioned indoor air/smallbore silhouette match during the winter months. It’s great fun, really. At states, I managed to score second out of four in my class with a 39 (out of 80. 22 on the first match, bombed the second with a 17). We started off with five AA shooters, but one guy shot well enough to move his classification up to AAA. I decided to take some pictures so folks who aren’t familiar with silhouette, and what club competitions are like can see for yourselves.
It was a very fun match, and Dave did a great job putting it together. He knows how to run a fun match. I never thought I would get as much enjoyment out of air gun as I do.
Olympic Update
Vincent Hancock, of the USA Shooting Team, takes the gold in men’s skeet at the ripe old age of 19. Halfway around the world, in India, Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal win in 10 meter air rifle has created a surge of interest in the shooting sports in that country. Peter Hamm will no doubt be looking for native Hindi speakers so that The Brady Campaign may spread the message to that country that all this will bring is dead children, burned villages, and plagues of locusts.
Against Gun Ownership Indeed
If the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership isn’t against people owning guns, why are they gloating over the fact that one of McCain’s advisors got prosecuted for having an unloaded shotgun in his car in DC? I would think in a world where people hunt, and shoot clays, a common pastime in DC politics, that it should be common and accepted, even by the Brady Campaign.
Unless, of course, you believe all guns should be illegal, and all hunters and shooters who transport their firearms in compliance with federal law (but maybe not DC’s now unconstitutional law), should be in jail. Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, Indeed.
Second Amendment As Applied to Aliens?
Eugene Volokh discusses the topic. I would imagine that, if the second amendment is to be a fundamental right, that all people lawfully in the United States would have a right to keep and bear arms. But could Congress regulate foreign nationals coming to the United States, purchasing firearms, and taking them back home?