Break From Moving

But not from working some way or another. Driving it 10 miles down hardball also sucks a bit. "Bouncy" Doesn't begin to describe it.

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Blue Angels

Then and now.  Just plain cool.

Ninja Suit

Despite the name, I do want.  The Merino Wool one, I'm pretty partial to the green-ish color.

So... Cool...

Via SayUncle, a homebuilt 12ga revolving shotgun using chambers cut from scrap 12ga barrels and a $10 barrel.  This is quite possibly the coolest thing you'll see all day.

Chinese Top Gun

Not quite what you think.  Although I think Tom Cruise may be about the same height as most of their pilots, for what it's worth.

MWG 40

Bulgarian manufactured 40 round magazines for the AR-15. 

At $25.95 I may have to pick some up and see what I think next payday.  I've got a couple Bulgarian AK mags and they're rather nice.

Cat Shit One

Starting on Feb. 5th, the first episode with English dubbing will be up for a limited time on iDa Entertainment's site, and the first DVD & Blue Ray sets will be available on Amazon.

 

I'm pretty excited, I've seen the first episode with subtitles, and it was awesome, but it's nice to not have to read and miss the action.

(h/t Tactical Fanboy)

Not sure...

...if serious...

Sig 1911-22

So many little things that people seemed to have missed at SHOT, like Sig's .22lr 1911.

I'm moving...

Me, the person, not the blog.  I got a new apartment, so blogging may be rather light this coming week between that and work (8 on, 8 off, 8 on a couple times... about to crash for one of the "offs" right now...)

Question of the Day

What do ‘sporting purposes’ have to do with Second Amendment?

David Codrea talks about the recent ATF shotgun "study."

(h/t SayUncle)

Sig716

Sig also revealed their 7.62x51mm AR10 type rifle during SHOT.

Pic from CTD

I think it looks good, and has a lot of features I'd go with right out of the box.  Maybe I'll be able to get one in a few years....

On a more serious note, they're making them in a 12.5" SBR, 14.5" carbine, 16" patrol carbine, and 20" marksman package (pictured above.)

It's Monday.

The ATF says so.  Actually I'm sure they were just recovering from too much A at their post-SHOT party.  They finally got their shotgun thing out that they referred to last week.

Just skimming over the begining, it looks like they tried to more narrowly define "sporting purposes," and decided that the only legitimate ones are the ones that have been around for 100 years and only use pretty shotguns that don't hurt feelings.  Oh, and "plinking" isn't a sporting purpose either, since you can do that with any gun.   So any "action shooting" like IPSC or three gun stuff is not a sporting purpose.

That's all sorts of crap...

Anyway, Uncle's got a better breakdown going, I'm picking up a few extra hours at work tonight, so I'm probably not going to be able to get through it.

2011 Magpul Catalog

Is available for download here.

Twisted Industries .22lr Kel-Tec Conversion

I was contemplating keeping an eye out for a PF9, this may be the proverbial straw...

GFS.com Acquires TFB

Actually, Congratulations to Steve.  A good deal came at a perfect time to get him set up in a great way.  The Firearm Blog is one of the small handful of gun blogs that pushed me over the edge and into the abyss that is the gunblogospher, and it still remains one of my largest influences.

The "Guns, not Politics" policy is refreshing, and Steve promises that it will not change.  The sale only means he'll have more time to blog, and spend less time on the maintenance required to host your own site or however that works (there's a reason I use Blogger... I'm not too much of a computer person.)

Again, congrats to Steve, and best of luck in his future endeavors.

Knight's Armament

Angered the beast that is Gun Nuts Media.  I don't blame them though(GNM I should say.)

Who Can Carry

It looks like South Dakota is starting to revise things after the recent lawsuit. Between this and Wyoming's progress yesterday, it's good to see more of this going around.

Really, I find it difficult to really understand any viewpoint other than Constitutional Carry.  I mean if you can legally buy the thing, why do you need to jump through a bunch more hoops to carry it?  And why should it matter how you carry it?  But I'm preaching to the choir...

I'm not holding my breath either...

...but it sure would be neat for the CLEO Signature to disappear.

Hexolit 32

Funky looking super-expanding shotgun slugs.  The concept intrigues me, but I'll wait until there's more penetration studies done.

Deliciously Relevant...

...to my interests.

Good for them!

Wyoming Senate passes Constitutional Carry.  I hope it continues all the way to the top and provides an example of why my home state should be doing.

Neat. SD "Home Defense Package"

A former co-worker and friend has been picking my brain for a "home defense" and plinking gun, preferably in 9mm, and in looking for options I came across the Smith & Wesson SD9 and SD40 "Home Defense Package" MSRP'd at $499.

I've gotta say, that actually looks like a pretty sweet deal for a starter home defense package, for $40 more than the gun alone, you get a white light and a gun vault.  The gun also has a Tritium front sight, and simple white dots on the rear, which is great for a defensive gun.

"High Velocity Clips"

I think the only time I've had any of those is when I get in the groove with my reloads.  Oh wait, those are mags. Maybe somebody's throwing stripper clips off a really tall building?

Guns of Firefly

Possibly my most favoritest live action TV show ever, and I don't watch much TV to be honest.  Uncle linked to a good variety of the guns featured in the series.

Art of the Precision Rifle

They may not have had new products at SHOT, but they're certainly not resting on their laurels.

Just posted today-



0:30 mark is just plain sweet...

AKs Morally Outdated?

What does that even mean?  The story broke on Military Firearm a couple weeks ago, and we laughed.  I guess the story is gaining some legs, and I've seen it referred to on a couple blogs this morning.  I think my first response really sums up my feelings towards it pretty well though.

It appears that the Minister considers them to be evil rifles, because they are used by evil men.

"Terrorists from the Caucasus always use Kalashnikovs and SVDs,” Clussky said. “The funding, which they receive from abroad, gives them a very good opportunity to receive American and French small arms. They often use foreign-made communication systems at times, but they most frequently, if not always, use Russian-made rifles."

I think it has more to do with them being "cheap" and "reliable," rather than having any inherent "evil" in them.

Now, I'm not arguing that the AK and SVD platforms aren't outdated.  For once Ret. Gen. Scales may be on to something with his regurgitated gun-forum complaints about the system (seriously, this isn't the first time I've seen his name attached to some WTF military "analysis" on their site...)-

"The AK-47 is outdated because of it’s not an accurate weapon,”

However I don't see the Russian military just ditching the guns, let alone buying foreign made weapons, simply because bad guys use them.

Rhino stuff

Gun Nuts Media is hoping to get some in for testing and evaluation.  I'm looking forward to hearing what Caleb has to say, since he is a revolver guy.  I'm not, but I have a soft spot for "different" guns (my only cartridge revolver at the moment is a Nagant...) and I do like the looks of the Rhino, especially the short one.

Killing some time

Got a late start to the day, so really not any time to accomplish much before work.  At least I'll spend it doing something relaxing.

AAC MINI4

It's possibly the cutest can ever.

Photo from AAC's facebook page.

Overall length is just 5.25", and it's only 13.5oz.  I think it would be great on an SBR to, you know, maintain the SBRness.