But hey, why not convert your Glock into a carbine?
The one thing that is kind of depressing about that post is how in Europe, a suppressor can be had at a local hardware store for about 25 bucks, but here in the states they’re heavily regulated. One of these days I’ll be able to figure that one out.
BJ Norris has a great recap of the US Steel Nationals at his blog. I’m sort of surprised that I haven’t been reading BJ’s blog all along, as it’s kind of a “look inside” the head of one of the top competitive shooters in the world. BJ just won his first centerfire division championship at US Steel Nationals in the Limited Division, and what’s scary is that he says “he’s not comfortable with iron sights”. Run that around in your heard a little bit, because he’s one of those “All-Galaxy” class shooters, and he says that he’s not comfortable with iron sights.
Congratulations to BJ, Max Michel, and Dave Sevigny for their wins at the US Steel Nationals.
On Gun Nuts Radio, live tonight at 9pm Eastern we’re going to be aping one of those horrible “Entertainment news” shows. I’m kidding, of course. Gun Nuts Radio will never turn into one of those things, but what we will be doing on tonight’s show is talking about our favorite firearms media: books, movies, and TV. Tonight should be a pretty call-in heavy show, as we want to hear what gun-related media you enjoy – fiction or non, we don’t care.
As always, the call in number for tonight’s show is 347-539-5436. We’ll be wanting you, our listeners to call in and join the discussion live! Also, in a departure from the last two weeks, Breda will be hosting the show live from our new Webcam, that we use as a Featured host with Blog Talk Radio. That’s tonight at 9pm Eastern Time, live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts!
This last weekend at Atlanta Conservation Club, I had the opportunity to take the IDPA Safety Officer Certification Class as well as shoot the IDPA Classifier, so I could get classified in CDP. Check out the Gun Nuts Radio Blog for a full report on the IDPA Safety Officer course and classifier.
You know, I’ve always had an appreciation for Russian firearms. Not because they’re good, but because the Russians have an excellent knack for taking other people’s ideas, and making them ugly and clunky looking.
Witness the GSh-18, which is sort of like the horrible bastard child or a Glock and an FN Five-seveN. “The safety is on the trigger” and it fires a round capable of defeating body armor. Also, I am digging the Russian stock PR footage of the guy dual-weilding these things as he aimlessly blazes off rounds at some sort of terrorist.
From reading BJ Norris’ blog, I can deduce the winners of the US Steel Nationals are as follows:
Open: Max Michel
Limited: BJ Norris
Rimfire: Dave Sevigny
Also, if you go over to www.downrange.tv/blog Paul has a lot of good stuff up, however the DRTV blog site is down right now. Hopefully it will be back up soon.
From Todd Jarrett and the Army Marksmanship Unit, available for your viewing ease on the Youtubes.
Todd Jarrett – Shooting on the move
Army Marksmanship – Speed Reloads
Those are the parts of me I’d be willing to sell to make enough money to buy this. Do you know who designed that gun?
Okay, this is funny. Plus, it’s one hell of an earworm, you’ll be running around singing “this is a song about liberals we can’t stand” for WEEKS.
That’s not a typo. From Navy Times, courtesy of reader Brandon, I have discovered that 4 Coast Guard Officers are attending SEAL School in Coronado, CA.
All four completed the two-week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL preparatory course and the three-week orientation course.
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The four officers are: Lt. j.g. Brian Bruns, Civil Engineering Unit Miami; Lt. j.g. Brian Naughton, Coast Guard District 7, Lt. j.g. Sean Norton, cutter Steadfast; and Ensign Matthew O’Loughlin, cutter Boutwell.
If they succesfully complete the program, they will become the first Coasties ever to become SEALs; they’ll be deployed with SEAL teams just as though they were in the Navy, although their official department will still be the US Coast Guard. Once they complete their rotation in the teams, Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen said that he’d “like them to return to the Coast Guard”. I’d imagine that a rotation with the SEALs would impart a lot of knowledge to these young officers that the Coast Guard would benefit from.
Good luck to these young officers – you’re going to need it.
Semper Paratus