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I’m going to say that I bought a new gun to celebrate Veteran’s Day; but that’s not quite how it shook down.  I was in Gander Mountain for Christmas related reasons, when my perusal of “clearance shotguns” section cast my eye upon the very H&R Survivor .410/.45 Colt combo shotgun I had been chasing after the last time I went to a gun show.

So, because the Budget Committee is a wonderful and graceful woman, I was able to acquire said shotgun rifle.  I’ll be rolling out to the range in the next couple of weeks to try it out.  Like the webpage says, it has a hollow buttstock that allows you put survival gear in there.  A ziploc baggie full of matches and some tinder would be a nice fit.  Or, I could do like Mrs. Ahab said and “fill it full of beef jerky”.

In other interesting events from the weekend, I witnessed an attempted straw purchase.  Now, the actual definition of a straw purchase is when someone who is legally allowed to purchase a firearm is purchasing a firearm for someone who is legally barred from gun ownership.

Of course, I almost died laughing when I overheard the whole transaction.  It went something like this:

Gander Mtn Employee: “Sir, you’ve checked the box that indicates you are not the actual purchaser of this firearm.  Because of this, we cannot legally sell you a gun.”

Straw man: “So, you can’t sell me this gun because I’m buyin’ it for someone else?”

GM Employee: “That’s correct.  Who exactly were you buying this gun for?”

Straw Man: “Uh…just sumdood.”

On a humorous note, the firearm he was trying to buy was a POS used PPk clone, in glorious chrome.

Pretty good weekend for me.  If I can cap it off with a 49ers win tonight, it will be perfect.

Update to this post, it looks like we would have had to get about $30,000 together to afford Pancho’s old guns.

Selling for $18,000 was the prize of the auction — Villa’s Remington single action revolver that is engraved with his real name, “Doreteo Arango,” on one side of the barrel.

That’s pretty cool.  Congratulations to whomever won those at auction – it’s a fine collector’s piece and deserves to be preserved.

I want to buy the two guns owned by Pancho Villa.    I think it’s cool that these historical firearms are being auctioned off – I am hoping actually that the Calamity Jane pistol gets picked up by the NRA, or is somehow donated to their museum.  It’s a neat little piece of history, and deserves to be preserved.

The guns from Villa are really interesting to me; I’ve always been fascinated by that period of history.  Despite the fact that he was a murderous, socialist bastard, the character of Pancho Villa himself is one I’ve always been interested in as well.

So, if anyone wants to float me a couple grand…

My 10/22 PDW project is back on track, after months of hiatus because my gun ADD was forcing me to buy .45 ACP revolvers left and right (Note: this is not a bad thing).

So…I still haven’t decided if I’m going to make it a .17 HM2, or a special build for the 60 grain Aguila SniperSubSonic rounds.  If I do the Aguila build, I can get a barrel that’s threaded for a suppressor, giving the rifle even more of a Tommy Tacticool look.

Decisions, decisions.  So, .17 HM2 or Aguila SniperSubSonic?

The Court is deciding whether or not take Parker today.  They’ll announce their decision on Tuesday.

I have not talked that much about the Parker case, mostly because it has been well covered by other blogs, and as such I don’t feel like I have much to offer in terms of coverage.

Parker makes me nervous.  I mean really, really nervous.   I want to win, and badly.  But I really do get nervous about it – Bush has not been a friend to us, and I really have no idea how his appointees will roll on this issue.