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Next Week on Gun Nuts: TNG

Posted on by Caleb

I want to continue to promote next week’s show on Gun Nuts: The Next Generation because I think it’s going to be one of our best shows ever.  Remember the ultra-long thread(s) at Snowflakes in Hell where the topic of extremism in the pro-gun movement was debated at length?

Next week on Gun Nuts: TNG we’re going to be talking to Sebastian of Snowflakes in Hell, as well Kurt from Armed & Safe.  While this won’t be a traditional style debate like you’d see from political candidates, we’re going to be having the gentlemen mentioned above discuss both sides of the issue, as they represent relatively opposite ends of the pro-gun movement.  Squeaks and I will be neutral, keeping our opinions to ourselves and will really only serve to ask questions and drive the conversation.

The original thread at Sebastian’s had like 200 comments or some ridiculous damn number – a lot of that comes from the fact that we as pro-gun activists are extremely passionate about what we believe, which is why I am really excited about next Tuesday’s show.  You can tune in live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts – Tuesday at 11pm Eastern time!

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Ahab watches old movies

Posted on by Caleb

Not that old, I suppose – Mrs. Ahab and I really hate going to the theatre, and we will really only go if there is a movie out we both are significantly interested in, such as The Dark Knight.  Because of that, when I see a preview for a movie that looks good, I make a mental note to order it On Demand or Tivo it when it’s playing in HD on HBO or Starz.

Last night, we finally got around to watching our DVR’d copy of The Kingdom, starring Jamie Fox and Jennifer Garner (who is hot in a girl next door sort of way).  I remember when this movie came out that people were saying that it was anti-war and anti-American or something, to which I can only conclude that they weren’t watching the same movie that I did.  The basic gist of the plot is that some terrorists attack a western housing compound in Saudi Arabia, and the FBI does some political tap-dance and gets to send a team over to “The Kingdom” (hence the name) to assist with the investigation.

I actually thought the film was pretty solid – it did a decent job of portraying the difference between your average Muslim who just wants to live his/her life out and the crazy jihadists who want to kill everyone, without sliding into apologizing for terrorism or anything like that.

Now for the part that you people care about – there was a pretty cracking gunfight for the last 10-20 minutes of the film.  Jennifer Garner spends most of it with an HK MP5K, Jamie Fox goes from an HK G3 to a 12 gauge shotgun, and then tosses that for a pistol grip AK.  The badguys are pretty much universally armed with AKs, although you do see a Tokarev, and the goodguy Saudis are usually packing M4’s and Beretta M9s.

If you get a chance to see it for anywhere from $0.00 – $5.00, The Kingdom would be totally worth it, if for no reason other than the political intrigue (which I dig) and the big gunfight at the end.

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A Real Fighting Handgun

Posted on by Caleb

Amidst all the intertrons hubbub about 1911s and Glocks (really?) Mike went and got himself a real man’s fighting handgun.

Say what you want, but an S&W Model 19 with a 2.5 inch barrel will do the job you want it to do every single time you pull the trigger.  Plus, you get an additional +5 to your “Old School Cool” factor whenever people are talking about carry pieces.  I mean, I love my Glocks and Berettas, but if someone looks at me says “Oh yeah, I’m carrying a Smith model 19” I’m just going to say “you win”.

You see there’s cool, and then there’s the Model 19.  I am insane with jealousy.

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Why don’t more churches call for gun control?

Posted on by Caleb

Some guy at Huffington Post that I’ve never heard of asks the question why more religious groups don’t call for gun control, especially in light of the recent church shootings in Knoxville and Colorado.

And of course, Paul Helmke is on hand to lie and twist the facts about the recent (and past church shootings, all to help bolster their failing cause.

What’s kind of odd is that the HuffPo guy asks the question, but doesn’t actually provide an answer.  I mean he sort of says that liberal churches don’t touch the gun issue because it’s surefire way to lose, and that conservative churches don’t touch it because it would distract from pro-life efforts (really? – ed) but he doesn’t actually think about the issue and why churches don’t usually touch the gun issue.  He does note the “God not Guns Coalition”, the Brady Campaign “faith-based” anti gun group to which I’ve given a sound trouncing in the past; but that’s all he’s got.

It never occurs to our little HuffPoer that maybe, just maybe the reason that most faith based organizations don’t actively support gun control is that a majority of their parishioners don’t want them to?  Take a look at my church again, which is actually pretty representative of a lot of modern churches.  We have liberals, conservatives, old people, young people, you name it.  But if I was reading the announcements section one day and it said “East 91st Street church plans to sponsor a gun buyback to get guns off the streets and needs volunteers” it’s a sure bet that I would be burning the phone lines down with calls – and I wouldn’t be the only one.

That’s the root cause, actually, so maybe the HuffPo guy was right.  Gun control is a losing issue – especially in areas (like churches) that heavily rely on community involvement to be successful in their endeavors.

Ultimately, I’ll refer you back to last night’s podcast – as long as people, churchgoers and non-attendees alike still believe in self defense, it’s going to be a pretty tough row to hoe to get mainstream Protestant denominations involved in gun control.  And by “tough” I mean “damn near impossible”.

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Illegal gun seizures in New Orleans

Posted on by Caleb

I’m with Uncle, I’d like to see Ray Nagin locked up right next to Fenty and Daley.

Guns being seized in New Orleans during traffic stops now by cops flagrantly violating the law.

This is one of the negative aspects of modern police work, the “culture creep” or “new corporate mindset”.  This is where the anti-gun/individual liberty attitudes of the administration seep down to the street level officers, whether by accident or intention.  The officer wants to keep his job, so he plays along with the “corporate culture” until he or she doesn’t even think about it any longer.

It’s a sad thing, but it does happen.  Now, while most cops in most cities are still good guys, you see this kind of corporate culture creep more and more in places like New Orleans, or Washington, DC. and Chicago where the city departments are run by hardline anti-gun mayors like the aforementioned guys.

What’s the solution to this?  Get rid of the bums.  You change the administration, you change who’s running the PD, you can change the culture in the PD.  Then once you do that, you can with your local department to ensure that they’re educated on firearms laws; get involved with the city council to make sure that they’re not enacting policies which violate the right to keep and bear arms.  In short, don’t just bitch about it, do something about it.

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Guns and Church

Posted on by Caleb

On last night’s show, which is still available at this link we for obvious reasons talked a lot about guns in church, and the entire concept of church carry.  I mentioned that my church (which I haven’t been to in a while) has armed security staff on hand, complete with little earbud radios.  I suspect that these guys are off duty cops or Special Deputies, but it doesn’t invalidate the point that my church has chosen to go the armed security route.

And yet, despite that, I still carry to church.  We have a limited number of armed security, and they can’t be in every place at once – as was said several times, it’s my responsibility to defend myself and my family.

One of the items I wish we’d had more time to discuss last night was the actual dynamics of a situation like that.  Bonnie brought it up when she was talking about how there had been kids running around, and in the event someone had returned fire, they would have run the risk of hitting a kid.  Now, the anti-gunners would have us all believe that that’s exactly what a CCW holder is going to do – light the place up indiscriminately, which we all know is bullshit.  But it does serve to reinforce my opinion that in a crowd like that, you don’t shoot unless you absolutely have to, i.e. the shooter is in between you and your getaway, or you’ve got a really clean shot and are “as cool as the other side of the pillow”.

I think we can all agree that gunfights are a Bad Thing(tm) that should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.  That rule goes double for gunfights in places with blind angles and lots and lots of innocent bystanders.  This is a big part of why I say that anyone who is going to carry concealed should really get training with their carry gun – go to gun school and learn everything you can.  I’m not saying that a weekend at gun school is going to turn you into a long-range-low-heat tactical operator capable of making headshots on running targets at 25 yards, but it will certainly help you refine the skills you need to be able to defend yourself and your family in a crisis situation.

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Gun Nuts: The Next Generation – Guns and Church

Posted on by Caleb

Oh podcast my podcast – yesterday’s show covered carrying in church, some of the moral issues and the divide between people who accept church carry a logical and reasonable thing, and the people who think it’s a bad thing.

You can listen to the full audio here at Gun Nuts: The Next Generation, or download the .mp3 file at this link or by clicking below.

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This was a pretty good show, despite the technical difficulties we experienced.  Our user feedback was great, despite not being able to take calls for half the show – the chat session is where a lot of the action is and it was popping tonight.

If you missed out, you can listen to the whole show here!

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Live in 30

Posted on by Caleb

Gun Nuts: The Next Generation is live in 30 minutes!  Tonight we’re talking about carrying in church in light of the recent shooting in Knoxville, TN.

Listen live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts!

You can reach the show by calling (347) 539-5436 after 11pm, or by joining the chat session at the main URL, or by chatting with us on Google Talk.

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I have an assault shotgun?

Posted on by Caleb

According to the Brady Campaign, my Frankenshotgun is an assault shotgun because it can “fire up to three shells at a time”.  Update: The Brady Campaign updated their website so that it doesn’t say “at-a-time” any longer, now it says “three shells without reloading”. It’s too bad that they’re lying and portraying a gun with a 3 shot magazine as some kind of super deadly assault deathray.  Hoo-boy, three rounds without a reload…now that’s scary – I mean, they could fire half as many shots as revolver!  OHJNOES.

That’s seriously what they’re saying about the guy who shot up the church in Knoxville, that his Remington Model 48 which has a 3-round magazine could fire up to “three shells at a time.” Like one of the commentors at Sebastian’s said, it’s a “stupid lie”.

Look guys, I understand that it’s pretty hard to scare people when you’re getting your ass kicked all over the map on the gun control front, but running a picture of a bird gun with an empty birdshot shell next to it and trying to explain how it’s extra supers deadly is not only lame, it’s borderline sad.

Real sad, actually. I especially enjoy their Youtube selection to illustrate how scaaaaaawwwwy the 3-shot shotgun is – they must be scouring the internets for guys who aren’t too photogenic to post on their website.

So let us do a comprehensive review of the Brady Campaign’s tactics on this one:

  1. Lie
  2. Misrepresent things as something that they’re not
  3. Lie some more
  4. Post a video of some big country boys with their guns to reinforce negative stereotypes
  5. Lie some more
  6. Watch the donations roll in!

I like that we can always count on the Brady Campaign to keep the level of debate classy and above reproach…wait, that’s not the Brady Campaign that does that, it’s gun bloggers.