Trends they don't like

This weekend was the two year anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy. Since Newtown, the national trend has actually been toward weaker gun control laws. The places that pasted greater restrictions as a knee jerk reaction have seen crime actually on the rise a bit

Polls even now indicate that protecting gun rights is more important to Americans than gun control. I actually don't care much about polls.

The gun control groups just keep talking and proving their efforts don't work with their own words. They are currently screaming that "95 more school shootings have happened since Sandy Hook". They don't realize that they are actually saying "Gun Free Zone laws totally failed 95 times since Sandy Hook!" If you just take a few seconds and  look close at those shootings Most are drug and gang related. This paints them further with the willful ignorance brush.

They keep saying basically that the only way to stop this is to magically disappear ALL the mean scary guns. Or. Maybe... have good guys with guns on site. Which of these do you think is possible?

A few people are actually beginning to think, "Hey, maybe we have a Crazy People Control problem." Then the gun controllers hear this and say, "Anyone that wants to own a gun is mentally ill!" 

We protect our President with guns.
We protect our celebrities with guns.
We protect our banks with guns.
We protect our TV stations with guns.
We protect our highways with guns.
We protect Children with a "Gun Free Zone" sign.
 
--America is waking up to this fact. I already have coffee made.
 

Quotes of the Week

Clark and Ray - Brothers and other Debacles

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty.
– Dr. Walter Williams

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
– Edmund Burke

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man.
– Thomas Paine

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
– Charles-Louis de Secondat

We must remember that government, no matter how hard it tries, cannot protect an individual from themselves.
– Peter Calcagno

The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
– President Woodrow Wilson

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm.
– Milton Friedman

Private property was the original source of freedom. It is still its main bulwark.
– Walter Lippmann

Holiday Visitors

Tis the season!

Today we are having our annual Christmas open house.

Basically I get to sit around and drink coffee, feed people cookies and answer the door when the bell rings.

My wife spends all day giving people tour of the decorated house while kids try to find the pickle ornament that she has hidden on each of the ten Christmas trees.

Yes. I said TEN Christmas trees.

My wife beats Martha Stewart it comes to Christmas.

She collects vintage ornament. She is an ornament Nerd. She knows all the makers and types and techniques they used. She even collects rare vintage ornaments that are made of candle wax and usually never survive even one summer in the attic.

What does this have to do with guns?

I will be concealing one all day.

I also have about thirty ornaments that are gun related! Santa with a hunting rifle making Rudolf nervous!

--Plus I might sneak out to the range with JayG later!

Happy Friday!

DPMS HBAR

I have been doing more photography recently. I'm really enjoying it.

I think my next photo session will be outside on a nice day. Maybe as early as this weekend!

My new range allows photos in the lanes. I am hoping to get some of people actually shooting there.

I am also enjoying using Photoshop on the images to tune them up to the way I like.

--This image turned out OK but I may have manipulated it a bit too much!

Random Thought Thursday

My 18 year old son got into his first fender bender yesterday.

It was not a big deal except for my insurance rate.. Very little damage to the car he rear ended. Cops came and didn't even give him a ticket.

The front of the 1999 Subaru  was all plastic and its all busted up now.

The worse thing that happened was that the hood latch was damaged and gave way on the way home after. The hood flew up and cracked the wind shield.

Lots of lessons learned.

I had plans for a post about the joys of bayonets and upgraded AR15 grips but I am just not feeling it. So here is the pic I was going to use. Note the nice grip, 40 round mag and bayonet.

Zombies, blah blah blah...

--I need some more coffee. Need coffee bad...

Weekly Comic Wednesday

Remington Recall

I have a new Remington 700 that I purchased just this rear and it has now been recalled. There are more details here.

It turns out there is a trigger problem that will cause the gun to fire without the trigger being actually pulled. Here is a video of it actually happening on one guys rifle:



--I wonder how long it will take to sort this out?

Monday Random Thoughts

Happy Monday all. I hope your coffee is as good as mine today!

I had a great weekend with friends.

It included a trip to the range. We took a wide variety of firearms for the guys to shoot. Calibers shot included: 9mm, .40, .45 and .44mag. We actually had more than one firearm of each kind. It was mostly handguns but I also took a couple pistol caliber carbines: Beretta CX4 and my Roni Glock 21 SSBR.

After the range trip we enjoyed good steaks, beers, bourbon, Archer episodes and a couple movies. We watched Expendables 2 and Sabotage. Good gun filled flicks!

I am really enjoying having a formal Bench work area to clean guns and reload mags. I now have a computer and a dock for my iPhone! Perfect for music or audio books while I am working.

Next up for range time I am going to sight in several rifles.

--Big fun. Love having the new range so close.

Quotes of the Week

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man.
– Thomas Paine

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
– Charles-Louis de Secondat

We must remember that government, no matter how hard it tries, cannot protect an individual from themselves.
– Peter Calcagno

The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
– President Woodrow Wilson

Private enterprise creates; government destroys.
– Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It is still its main bulwark.
– Walter Lippmann

Guns and Children

Oath Keepers in Ferguson

Armed Oath Keepers have advised St. Louis County Police 

through their attorney that they have every right to guard 

rooftops of Ferguson businesses that want them there, 

and have refused to stand down.

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

Armed members of the Oath Keepers continue to remain on the roofs of businesses that have requested their protection.

It's working. Go Figure.

Looters are cowards. The biggest cowards of all the thieves. If they think they might get an ass full of lead while trying to carry away the big screen TV, they will stay away.

--I hate looters.

Long damn day

Left the house before o-dark-thirty. Had no time for bloggin today.

Will return to my regular shenanigans on Friday!

Weekly Comic Wednesday

PMAGs

I scored some more 40 round PMAGs for a good price.

Availability that was null, not so long ago, is now back to adequate levels.

What do you think will cause the next drought in the market? I am sure there will be one. Will it be the run up to the next election? Will it be caused by the election results? Will it be caused by another shooter going postal? Will it be caused by the Killer Robot Uprising? Maybe even the pending Zombie Apocalypse?

Anyway, the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. And it's shining very, very bright in Virginia right now.

--Buy your guns now. Buy Mags, ammo, but leave the .22LR for me!  Please!

Great Weekend

Andie and my AR15 SBR

It was a really nice weekend.

I went to the range four times. Mostly because I was trying to work out the stove pipe problem with my SBR. I tried a weaker buffer spring and it was not that. An adjustment of the depth the buffer tube made it a bit better but not perfect. I am now starting to thing that it may be very picky about ammo. Frankly I am about ready to replace the entire upper.

It was great to have the range just 4 miles away. I was able to just swing in for a quick test.

I also went hunting on Saturday. Didn't see a thing. It was a nice morning in the woods.

I also set up my photography studio and took some photos with a friend and my firearms. Here is the first from this batch of photos. It was really fun. It makes me want to get better backdrops! I added the K-Bar for JayG!

--Need more coffee before this Monday begins...