Bench Vice

Finally got around to setting up the bench vice that my wife got me for Christmas.

I had to wait until my new workbench was set up.

I also have an AR15 mag blank that clamps in there to hold an AR15 securely while being worked.

--It's going to me damn handy!

Range Day

I took two more new shooters to the range for their first time.

One is a friend that has been talking about going shooting with me for months, maybe years. She also brought her 21 year old niece.

Her niece was raised in a very liberal democrat house where guns were always depicted as magically corrupt and evil. In college she has come to understand that guns are not evil or even the problem. Police states are.

We had all the time we wanted so we shot a large selection of hanguns:

• Suppressed Ruger Mark II - .22LR
• Ruger SP101 - .357mag
• Smith & Wesson 539 - 9mm
• Glock 17 - 9mm
• Beretta Px4 - .40cal
• Kahr - .45ACP
• Glock 21 - 45ACP

The SP101 revolver was the one she liked shooting the most. She liked being able to tell it's loaded at a glance, the simplicity of operation, reliability, and the level of recoil while shooting .38 Special. She likes the single/double action.

She tried everything. The recoil of the 9mm's was manageable for her. She shot the S&W 9mm very well but didn't care for the complexity, for now. The .45's were too much recoil and the Glock 21 grip was too big.

Her niece was more recoil averse. She tried the 9mm's. She was okay with .38's but enjoyed the .22 a lot.

It was a good day. She wants to go again soon. She also wants to go to the next gun show with me. She is all about the grip comfort. She is even talking about moving out of DC to VA for FREEDOM!

--We have a convert.

Quotes of the Week

There is, in fact, only one form of coercion: the initiation of physical force by one man or group against others.
--Ayn Rand

Women are always at the front of revolutions.
– Buthayna Kamel

The question isn't who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
 – Ayn Rand

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
 – Albert Camus

I believe in only one thing: liberty. But I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
– H.L. Mencken

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
 – General Douglas MacArthur

WANT: Custom Geek Glock

If you love Star Wars and Glocks do they have a project for you.

I saw this on Facebook and Pinterest and a few other places.

Cool idea.

--I don't think you'll see any mods like this with a Kimber...

The Grey Man

My friend OldNFO finally found something to do with all his spare time besides causing trouble!

"The Bad Guys Don't Stand a Chance Texas rancher and lawman John Cronin knows what it means to be tough. A decorated Vietnam vet with connections to law enforcement agencies all around the world, he’s thwarted smugglers and drug plots across the globe with more than a few narrow escapes. Whether it’s a sniper competition or teaching the feds a thing or two about police work, Cronin doesn’t hesitate to pull the trigger. Of course, this slow-talking lawman’s biggest challenge yet might be when his granddaughter Jesse falls in love with a Marine. When drug smugglers stir up trouble in Cronin’s backyard and try to kill Jesse and her new beau, all hell breaks loose, and Cronin and his granddaughter are just the people to set things right."

It is available in Kindle and Nook as well as dead tree version!

--I ordered mine already! Buy it! Buy it now!

Steampunk . 22LR Gatling Gun

More proof that some people have the most interesting hobbies:

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--Too much time on your hands?

True Detective

I just watched the season finale of True Detective on HBO. I hear the show actually crashed the HBOGO website. It is a really great but totally whacked show. It's very original and extremely adult in themes and images.

The show has a little gun content, handguns mostly. It had a full auto AK and some short shotguns. But mostly it has insanity...

--Horror movies don't scare me. This kind of thing does...

Situational Awareness

Risograph print / by Jamie Jones

I really like my iPhone. Not because it's an iPhone, it could be an Android. I really like the fact that I have the Internet handy when I need it.

Last night I was waiting at Ray's Hell Burger to meet a friend for dinner. I was watching for him out the window and it seemed like 8 of 10 people walking by the window had no idea what was happening around them.

I even saw someone that seemed to be actively following a woman, staring at her ass, and she was completely unaware. She was staring at her phone, headphones on, completely clueless of everything.

Carrying a gun is only a single piece of the whole when it comes to self defense. Being aware of your surrounding is a key component.

--Don't be that guy.

Loving VA

I have said it before and I will say again. I love living in Virginia.

It is a great state to live in if you are a gun owner. I love the fact that I can buy even Class III items from a classified ad on the Internet.

We are also the 4th safest state to live in. With all the gun freedom some would like you to think that because I can carry a concealed firearm in church or a bar that gunfights would be breaking out everywhere all the time! Nope. Sorry to disappoint them.

--But what the hell is up with the snow this year!?

Quotes of the Week

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
– Isabel Paterson

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
 – Haim Ginott

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.
 – P. J. O'Rourke

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
 – Coretta Scott King

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it
– Orwell

To shackle future generations, with such monstrous debt and liabilities, is tantamount to selling them into tax slavery.
– Eric Englund

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; one cannot exist without the other.
– William E. Simon

In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to evade that effort.
--Ayn Rand 

 Politicians can't create real employment by taxing people and giving the money to others.
--John Stossel

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
 – General Douglas MacArthur

Facebook Followup

Well, the big to-do earlier this week regarding Facebook policy turned out to be not so much.

Even though the Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Moms Demand Action groups are claiming victory, what the policy actually says is that Legal Gun Sales on Facebooks is perfectly fine.

They basically are just saying don't do anything against the law. I think they should have a policy against murder with hammers.

--Back to our regular programming...

So it begins...

Virginia: McAuliffe’s First Attempt to Roll Back the Rights of Gun Owners With only two days left in the 2014 regular legislative session, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) has made his first attempt to limit the legal use of firearms in Virginia by returning an amendment to House Bill 962 that would further restrict how handguns may be stored in vehicles.  Sponsored by Delegate Ben Cline (R-24), HB 962 would codify an Attorney General opinion from 2012 (see here), and a decision of the Virginia Court of Appeals from last year, Doulgerakis v. Com., 737 S.E.2d 40 (Va. Ct. App. 2013). House Bill 962 has passed in the House of Delegates by a 70 to 27 vote as well as in the Senate by a 27 to 13 vote. This opinion and decision both found that a handgun in a vehicle doesn’t have to be in a locked compartment in the motor vehicle to fit within a statutory exception to the concealed carry prohibition that allows for a person without a permit to conceal a firearm within a secured compartment or “secured” container within a motor vehicle.  The McAuliffe amendment seeks to contradict the opinion and ruling by forcing drivers to keep firearms in a “locked” container rather than being allowed to secure those firearms in a container without a lock as they have lawfully been doing for years.  What began as a simple clarification bill would be turned into legislation that is worse than current law. The House of Delegates is expected to vote on this amendment tomorrow.  Please contact your Delegate and respectfully urge him or her to vote against this restrictive amendment. On a brighter note, as of July 1, hunters in the Commonwealth will finally be permitted to hunt on Sundays on private property with written landowner permission.  House Bill 1237 was signed into law yesterday and its Senate companion, Senate Bill 154, is expected soon to be enacted as well.  Please contact the sponsors of these bills, Delegate Todd Gilbert (R-15) and Senator Phil Puckett (D-38), and thank them for their leadership to expand and protect the Commonwealth's rich hunting heritage and providing greater opportunities to hunt that will strengthen recruitment and retention.

--We didn't have this problem or this much snow, until JayG moved here!!

NRA Annual Meeting 2014

Trying to get organized to go to the annual meeting. I have hotel reservations. I have made arrangements for a media pass. My final step is to find out what the concealed carry regs are in Indianapolis, Indiana.

--Roll call! Who is going!?

Facebook and Guns

The social network has been under pressure from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Moms Demand Action groups to ban gun-themed fan pages on the site. (no, I won't link to these asshats)

These groups have discovered the best way to limit your Second Amendment Rights is to limit your First Amendment Rights.

These groups do not want you to discuss safety, the fun of shooting, the benefits of protecting yourself, self defense stories or God forbid allow you to legally purchase a firearm.

This would also include activism. Talking about the recent gun bans and confiscation in Venezuela and Ukraine would be included.

--Liberal Fascism is alive and well.

Gun Free Zones

The Church I attend is debating becoming a Gun Free Zone.

They had a a Town Hall meeting to discuss the issue.

I made my opinions clear:

• GFZs in no way make us safer.
• GFZs may in fact advertise a soft target victim zone.
• Only the honorable, law abiding, citizens will comply.
• I will resign my membership and withdraw my pledges, if this policy is adopted.

--The measure will be decided next week.