Quick update from the road: The Mayor of Portland Indiana has dropped out of the group. Two down!
It's a bird, it's a plane
It’s a blog post from my wife on health care reform.
Is your mayor anti-gun?
With Indiana being widely recognized as a very pro-gun state, my Hoosier readers and friends might be surprised to find out that your mayor is a member of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns group. While the name sounds benign, MAIG as an organization supports gun control and infringing the rights of Hoosier gun owners in the name of Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun agenda. Many mayors have signed up for the group unaware of Bloomberg’s gun control agenda.
Starting today and continuing through Monday, we’ll be looking at Indiana mayors that are part of MAIG – if you live in a town with a mayor that is a member of Bloomberg’s gun control group, contact them today and urge them to withdraw from a group that seeks to infringe the right of law abiding Indiana gun owners.
Today’s three mayors are 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat, from the cities of Portland, Warsaw, and Columbus Indiana.
Mayor of Portland: Bruce Hosier can be emailed at [email protected]
As of Friday morning, Mayor Hosier has dropped out of MAIG.
Mayor of Warsaw: Ernest B Wiggins, also a Republican can be emailed at [email protected]
Update Mayor Wiggins has officially dropped out of MAIG.
Mayor of Columbus: Fred Armstrong, a Democrat can be emailed at [email protected]
Remember that some of these mayors have no idea that MAIG is an anti-gun front, so keep your initial emails cordial. Good lines of conversation would be pointing out the anti-gun agenda espoused by MAIG, and questioning whether an Indiana mayor wants to be publicly associated with a group that wants to infringe on the rights of Indiana gun owners.
American guns arming Mexico!
Relax, I haven’t switched teams or anything. Smith & Wesson has begun shipping its M&P-15 contract rifles to Mexico’s Department of Defense.
GlockTalk.Com is in a tizzy right now
North Carolina Highway Patrol converts force to S&W MP pistols and M&P-15 rifles.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol has purchased 1,840 Smith & Wesson M&P357 polymer pistols chambered in .357 SIG. The new duty sidearm will replace non-Smith & Wesson pistols that were previously issued by the department. The M&P pistol’s reliability, ambidextrous operating controls and three interchangeable palm swell grip sizes were noted by officials within the agency as key reasons for the selection of the new duty sidearm. The North Carolina Highway Patrol added that the polymer pistol’s accuracy, reliability during testing and ability to disassemble the firearm without pressing the trigger were all primary factors in their decision-making process.
That part in bold is emphasis mine, because it’s rare that I laugh when I’m reading a press release. But that made me laugh out loud, because it’s a direct shot at the previous pistols issued to the NC HP, which were Glocks. Not that there’s anything wrong with Glocks per se, but I do like that you can take down an M&P or an XD without having to pull the trigger.
It's like I'm disabled
A long time ago, I had a round of Wolf .45 ACP grenade in a wheelgun. I have attached a picture of the shell casing, which I keep as a reminder to not buy Wolf ammo for my pistols.
And yet, despite the fractured and subsequently impossible to extract reminder of my folly, I purchased .45 ACP Wolf ammo again, this time to shoot in my 625. While none of the rounds made like a grenade, the fired rouds were so difficult to remove from the moonclips that I actually bent two moonclips using the de-mooner trying to get those out.
Sometimes I think my wife is right, I really do have to learn everything the hard way, twice.
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Gun porn!
Still not selling my coach gun for one of those, sorry.
Indiana's Byzantine Deer laws
Yesterday’s post about the .458 SOCOM being legal for deer sparked a flood of emails and comments about “whatinhell is wrong over there” for deer hunting. As Tam pointed out so eloquently in comments, it’s actually pretty straight forward; but here goes. In the early 20th Century in Indiana, farmers and over hunting had pushed the whitetail deer population in Indiana damn near to extinction. So, the government passed a series of regulations which would in effect make taking a deer much more difficult. At the time, the regulations were such that you could only take a deer with archery, or a shotgun loaded with slugs. Over time those regulations expanded to include muzzleloaders, pistols in certain calibers, and carbines in certain pistol calibers.
A sample of “legal” guns:
- A muzzleloader, caliber .54
- A .410 shotgun loaded with slugs
- A TC Contender pistol in .270 Winchester
- A Marlin Guide Gun in .45 Colt
Examples of illegal guns for deer in Indiana:
- A rifle chambered in .270 Winchester
- Anything chambered in .30 Carbine
- A pistol chambered in .45 ACP
- A Marlin Guide Gun in .45/70
See? Clear as mud.
Gun Nuts Radio with Julie Golob
Don’t forget to check out last night’s Gun Nuts Radio, featuring Julie Golob. Despite BTR’s technical pukes, it was still a great show, and many thanks to Julie for taking the time to join us. Download the show here, or click for an .mp3 format.
I’d like to apologize to all our regular listeners for the tech issues we’ve been having today. I’ve been with BTR for over a year now, and they’re experiencing growing pains right now, as they integrate new services and features that will both improve the hosting and listener experience. Your patience as we get through this together is appreciated.
Tune in next week as we’ll be discussing NSSF’s First Shots program and other topics of interest!