Another Killer Robot is in production.
It is designed to keep you safe. To do so, it has infrared vision, can break down doors, crash through walls and track targets with LASERs as well as remote cameras to keep an eye on you.
The Collection: Kara
The first time I saw a Beretta Cx4 Storm was not in a store, a gun show, the web or in a magazine.
It was on Battlestar Galatica on the SciFi channel.
Eventually I saw one in person and got the details. I had been on the lookout for years for a carbine that had magazines that could be shared with a matching handgun. I ended up buying one and the matching Px4 handgun. both in .40cal and both take the same magazines.
I can hit a paper plate (or Zombie cranium) every time at 100 yards with Kara (named after Kara Thrace).
It only weighs about 5.5 pounds. It has a top rail for scopes and other goodies as well as small side and bottom rails.The matching Px4 is my current favorite handgun. If I have bought this first I probably would have one in .45 and on in 9mm in stead of the Glocks I have.
--Excellent carbine. Excellent set. Excellent price...
Merry Christmas People!
My wife Loves me. She loves Christmas too. She is a Martha Stewart like decorating machine.
This year she is planning on five Christmas trees! She collects ornaments. She will have theme trees. One will even be completely vintage, pre-1940 ornaments. She is awesome.
She has even been keeping an eye out for ornaments that include guns!
--She found one!
Thinking about a new collection
When I was a kid I had 2 Crosman BB guns.One was a rifle and the other was a handgun. I really enjoyed the guns for many years when I was a kid. They were great for shooting pop cans. BBs cost next to nothing and you could buy 1000 of them in a milk carton style cardboard container at the local Hardware store.
It is good to learn the 4 Rules early.
Anyway this weekend I was antique shopping with my wife looking for a manual meat grinder. I saw the exact BB gun I had as a kid. I didn't buy it because it was not functional. But suddenly I started seeing classic BB guns everywhere.
They were priced from $5 to $150 depending on condition and vintage!
--I may have just found a new hobby...
I Want a Cannon
I don't really know how to describe this desire.
I just want a cannon. A real one. I want to pack gun powder, wadding and a cannon ball with a real ram-rod. I want to actually light a fuse. I want to be able to hit a door sized target at 300 yards.
I don't care that it would be stupid expensive to buy or that it would cost $30 every time I fire it. I don't care that it would require consistent maintenance, even if I don't fire it. I don't care that it would be a pain in the ass to find a place to shot it, to move it, to store it or explain it's existence to people.
Don't ask me why I want it. If I have to explain it, you probably won't understand anyway.
--I want it.
Worth Repeating: why the gun is civilization
by The Munchkin Wrangler
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
--I guess I am civilized after all.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
--I guess I am civilized after all.
A Few Quotes for You to Enjoy
Thomas Jefferson: "No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. "
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
George Washington: "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."
James Madison: "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
Alexander Hamilton: "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all forms of positive government."
Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Tench Coxe: "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American. ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
George Mason: "Who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, except a few public officers."
Noah Webster: "The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
John Adams: "Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
Samuel Adams: "And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
Samuel Adams: "And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
Benjamin Franklin: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
David Houle: Today, 100 million American gun owners, killed no one.
Jesus according to Luke:22:36: Then said he unto them, ,,,,,, and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
--My Father always said, "It's better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one."
US military unveils 'Smart Gun'
A new gun the US military hopes will help take on the Taliban has been unveiled.
It uses a laser guidance system and specially developed 25mm high explosive rounds which can be programmed to detonate over a target.
Richard Audette helped develop it for the US Army and says it's a big leap forward because it's the first small arms weapon to use smart technology.
More information can be found here.
New Amtrak Policy To Allow Guns On Trains Again
"Amtrak passengers will soon be allowed to bring guns aboard trains, a policy change pushed by gun advocates.
Congress ordered the reversal of a gun ban that had been in place on the government-owned railroad for nearly a decade, reports the Sacramento Bee. The policy change takes effect Dec. 15.
The new rail policy is in line with air travel rules that allow unloaded guns to be stored in locked baggage holds.
Gun owners will need to let Amtrak know 24 hours in advance of their intention to bring firearms onboard and the unloaded guns will need to be packed in hard-sided containers. These will be placed in special storage lockers - guns will not be allowed on trains that don't have checked baggage service.
Amtrak says gun storage lockers are being added to rail cars. But officials say they don't know how many people will want to bring firearms on trains.
The National Rifle Association and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi pushed for the policy change.
"We worked hard for this," says NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. "It is reasonable for law-abiding people who wish to travel with firearms to be able to do so."
Maryland and Mags
At dinner we were discussing dumb ass rules that gun owners have to follow in Maryland.
In Maryland you can only buy mags that have a 20 round capacity. The REALLY DUMB ASS part about this rule is that it is perfectly fine to own them and use them in MD. You can buy them else where in other states legally, like at the Nations Gun Show, and bring them back.
I just don't get it. Do they just want residents to use gas to drive a few miles to get decent mags? Do they want to encourage the use of the Internet?
--Please explain this to me. How does this law help?
I Rearranged My Shop Tonight
I got some new shelves from www.freecycle.org that are perfect for ammo storage. They really make it easy to see the inventory at a glance and show me what needs restocking.
I got two sets that are each about four feet wide and three feet tall. I believe they were originally intended for CDs or VHS tapes.
One shelf unit has my ammo sorted on shelves by caliber. The other shelf has assorted magazines, loaded, organized and ready to go.
Already I can see I where need to stock up. Ammo types I need to buy. Additional magazines for specific firearms too. At the Northcoast blogshoot I blew through about a 1000 rounds of various flavors. Christmas is coming! Ammo makes a great gift! Wink, wink!
--Good Times.
iPad and Blog Running
I recently got an iPad. I figured ti would be a novelty that would allow light web browsing, email and maybe eBook utility.One thing I really like is my daily Blog Running of gun bloggers.
The Safari browser holds nine of them all at once and even saves me the HUGE inconvenience of clicking on a link.
The best part is the form factor of the thing. It's like a book or a magazine. Some blogs seem designed specifically for the iPad. I have even optimized my blogs design for iPad viewing.
--I even listen to Breda's Radio show on the iPad now. Fun Stuff.
Life Imitates Art
Gun Found On Law & Order SetLife imitated art on the set of crime drama LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES on Wednesday (03Nov10), when a crewmember discovered a discarded gun during filming.
Castmembers including Skeet Ulrich and Corey Stoll were shooting a scene in the Culver City area of Los Angeles when a cameraman spotted a handgun lying on a rock.
Real-life cops were called to the scene and took the firearm away to be processed and logged for crime matches.
L.A. Police spokeswoman Karen Rayner has confirmed the semi-automatic handgun was not a replica.
--I would love to know what the real story of that gun is.
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