gun control

Guns on the internet

Posted on by Caleb

I note with some interest the resurrection of the “buying guns online” meme in the aftermath of the PA gym shooting.  Rich Grassi takes a look at it in the Tactical Wire, and hits all the salient points on the head.  One of the legacy media’s favorite stunts in perpetuating this myth is to pull what amounts to a “bait and switch” – they’ll say something along the lines of “OMFG BUYING GUNS ONLINE!!!!ELEVEN” and then very briefly say “you have to go to a dealer to pick it up” and then immediately transition to “OMFG ILLEGAL HI-CAP CLIPS!!!!” or some other distraction.  The point of all of this is exactly that – to distract the average viewer from the facts of buying guns online.

Say, for example, I wanted to buy this sexy Glock 24 (on sale!) to shoot in Limited-10 Division.  To do that, I’d have to go through the following steps:

  1. Order the gun from Davidson’s and pay the deposit
  2. Go to my local gun shop when they call me to say that they’ve received it
  3. Fill out the federal 4473 form.
  4. Have the gunshop run a NICS check on me (that’s a federal background check, the same one that you have to have run when you buy a gun the regular way, or at a gun show)
  5. After NICS comes back clear, I pay the shop for the balance of the gun, and then I’m on my merry way.

In short, you can’t have guns shipped straight to your house.  You cannot buy a modern firearm online without going through the background check process.  Most online auction sites like GunBroker require full compliance with the laws to be a bidder/seller, which means that guns purchased online go through the same NICS check as any other gun.

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Gun Nuts tonight: BRING IT

Posted on by Caleb

Due to the popularity of a previous segment wherein listeners were asked to share their grievance with our federal government, tonight’s Gun Nuts Radio will focus primarily on the grinding of axes.  You’ve got a grievance?  We’ve got a forum.  Whether it’s with the federal government, a firearms company, your mother-in-law, as long as it’s related to politics or the shooting/hunting/outdoor sports, I want to hear from you tonight at 9pm Eastern time.  The show goes live at 9pm, and we can be reached by calling 347-539-5436 – as always we’re live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts.

The way I see it, my therapist said it’s good for me to vent my frustrations, so I might as help provide catharsis for all of our dear listeners out there, right? Join me tonight at 9pm Eastern time – bring your axes and your grindstones to Gun Nuts Radio!

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Maryland DNR converts to Smith & Wesson M&P

Posted on by Caleb

The Maryland Natural Resources Police have converted to the Smith & Wesson M&P pistol in .40 S&W.  The whole press release is at the link, but I did actually laugh out loud at a press release, which is pretty rare.  Here’s the line that brought the lulz:

The Smith & Wesson M&P40, chambered in .40 S&W, will be issued to each officer of the Maryland NRP to replace currently issued non-Smith & Wesson firearms supplied by a European-based manufacturer. (emphasis mine)

The italicized section is PR speak for “Glock”. For some reason, it just cracks me up.

However, this does bring up something that I’ve noticed, which is that S&W has been chipping away at Glock’s marketshare as “the” pistol for street level law enforcement. I personally think that the M&P is a better pistol for cops than the Glock, primarily because of the M&P’s low bore axis and interchangeable grips. That’s a personal opinion though, and I will freely admit I haven’t fired nearly as many rounds through M&P’s as I have through Glocks, but the little plastic gun from Smith just feels good in the hand.

shooting/sports/USPSA

USPSA Area 7 Results

Posted on by Caleb

The final results are in from the USPSA Area 7 Championship. Here are your winners by division:

Limited Division: Travis Tomasie
Limited-10: David Olhasso
Open Division: Lee D.
Production Division: Dave Sevigny
Revolver Division: Josh L.
Single Stack: Scott W.

Todd Jarrett finished 2nd place in Open division.

The next big major is this weekend, and it’s a big dog – Steel Challenge. The best of the best are going head to head in Piru, CA to find out who the fastest gun alive is. I’ll bring in live updated just as fast as I can this weekend – it’s a bumme to me that I’m not going to shoot the match this year.

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An answer in search of a question

Posted on by Caleb

Make your Glock into an SBR, for the price of a real rifle! I kid a little bit here, but honestly, attaching a stock to a pistol ranks just slightly above .357 Sig on my list of “useless items for the shooting sports”. Not trying to run down the guys at Endo, buy for what it would cost to do this you might as well make an SBR out of something cool. Either way, you’re going to get a proctological exam from the federales, so it should be for something awesome like a 10 inch carbine.