I liked the list best -- 114 citizens' guns which wound up in the hands of the Fremont County sheriff's office. it suggests that folks there used to own a lot of junk, at least those who came to the professional attention of county cops.
But among the rattletrap Rohms and Ravens lurked a SW Model 28-2, a couple of potentially valuable Ithaca doubles, and some respectable old Winchester and Remington .22s. Not to mention around a dozen "sawed-off" shotguns.
The sherf says he bought about $1,000 worth of them himself and -- with court approval -- traded others to a local FFL for stuff his department could use.
It raises questions, and the state auditor is looking into things. No one else in the state bureaucracy is. The Register lede mentions possible criminal violations, but there's merely innuendo about that in the report.
Still, it is a good reminder that Officer Friendly may have a yen to grab your gun just because he thinks it would look nice hanging over the bar in his rumpus room.
And about those "sawed-offs" -- if they were sawed-off enough and transferred to the dealer without NFA paperwork, maybe we ought to send in a bureaucrat with a tape measure, sort of like the Feds did to Randy Weaver.
Apr 22, 2013
Apr 21, 2013
Loophole report (Please stand by)
I'll post a picture of the single purchase, a Lee AutoPrime II, one of the few shootin' gizmos that fine old company ever decided to discontinue. Right now I'm off to the loading shack to set it up and get started converting all that shiny and sized brass into a ready terrorism palliative.
I will say it's a goofy looking thing, but knowing Lee as I do, it will undoubtedly work as advertised. Even if it happens not to, I'll be a whopping five bucks in the hole.
Why? Because I couldn't find the No. 4 shell holder for the regular AutoPrime, new or used. Maybe they fell victim to the buying panic, too, since they can be used to restuff 5.56x45 (aka the .223 McNamara Stalemate) for assaultish looking weapons.
You see, the AP II uses standard shell holders, the ones you already have for everything you reload. Good idea, Mr. Lee,and I wonder if you have an engineer working on redesigning the AutoPrime to do the same.
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Otherwise a rather dull show. I did note some .22 LR staying on the tables when priced at $65 brick.
I will say it's a goofy looking thing, but knowing Lee as I do, it will undoubtedly work as advertised. Even if it happens not to, I'll be a whopping five bucks in the hole.
Why? Because I couldn't find the No. 4 shell holder for the regular AutoPrime, new or used. Maybe they fell victim to the buying panic, too, since they can be used to restuff 5.56x45 (aka the .223 McNamara Stalemate) for assaultish looking weapons.
You see, the AP II uses standard shell holders, the ones you already have for everything you reload. Good idea, Mr. Lee,and I wonder if you have an engineer working on redesigning the AutoPrime to do the same.
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Otherwise a rather dull show. I did note some .22 LR staying on the tables when priced at $65 brick.
Apr 20, 2013
The Fun Resumes, or Loopholing in Lutfiskia
It's Worthington again this weekend, one of those small country shows I enjoy.
The only urgent want is a No. 4 shell holder for the Lee Auto Prime, but I'll be in Condition Red for primers and powder. Given our experience at loopholes since the election, I am not optimistic.
I'm still looking for an interesting piece to shoot all that .38 Special cluttering up the place. The snubbie in residence will set it off, but since when is any Taurus interesting? Again, not cheery, and here we enter the realm of legality against the recent (if DOA) congressional discussion of allowing interstate sales of handguns, at least to concealed-carry holders.
As you know, Mr. FFL can sell you an assaulty looking rifle with a zillion-bullet clip anywhere you travel. But he is forbidden to transfer an Old Model Ruger Black Hawk to you unless you reside in his state. (Capacity five bullets plus $20 buryin' money rolled in the chamber under the hammer.) Your CCW makes no difference.
The practical effect of that is that buying one at Worthington would create two felons, me and the dealer, whereas if the show happened just 11 miles south, a foot over the state line, we would instead be a pair of exemplary citizens.
It would be nice to kill that illogicality, but in the current climate I doubt it will even go kof-kof for attention.
In fact, post-Boston, I don't see how we can avoid another defensive stand on at least a couple of fronts. Congressthings will find teevee time and perhaps votes by demanding trackers in in our IMR 3031. They'll also covet background checks and registration every time we need a fresh pound of Unique.
In an evil way I'm looking forward to the first drive to take black powder off the market. Someone like Senator Feinstein will announce that if we ban it there will be no more. That should give one of us a chance to work up the shortest riposte of the year: Bat shit.
The only urgent want is a No. 4 shell holder for the Lee Auto Prime, but I'll be in Condition Red for primers and powder. Given our experience at loopholes since the election, I am not optimistic.
I'm still looking for an interesting piece to shoot all that .38 Special cluttering up the place. The snubbie in residence will set it off, but since when is any Taurus interesting? Again, not cheery, and here we enter the realm of legality against the recent (if DOA) congressional discussion of allowing interstate sales of handguns, at least to concealed-carry holders.
As you know, Mr. FFL can sell you an assaulty looking rifle with a zillion-bullet clip anywhere you travel. But he is forbidden to transfer an Old Model Ruger Black Hawk to you unless you reside in his state. (Capacity five bullets plus $20 buryin' money rolled in the chamber under the hammer.) Your CCW makes no difference.
The practical effect of that is that buying one at Worthington would create two felons, me and the dealer, whereas if the show happened just 11 miles south, a foot over the state line, we would instead be a pair of exemplary citizens.
It would be nice to kill that illogicality, but in the current climate I doubt it will even go kof-kof for attention.
In fact, post-Boston, I don't see how we can avoid another defensive stand on at least a couple of fronts. Congressthings will find teevee time and perhaps votes by demanding trackers in in our IMR 3031. They'll also covet background checks and registration every time we need a fresh pound of Unique.
In an evil way I'm looking forward to the first drive to take black powder off the market. Someone like Senator Feinstein will announce that if we ban it there will be no more. That should give one of us a chance to work up the shortest riposte of the year: Bat shit.
Apr 19, 2013
I'm the NRA and I will Overkumbayah
Is this guy a confused, sloppy writer? Or a master of the droll?
But no one was more adamant about their hatred for the NRA than MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell who last night accused the civil rights group of aiding and abetting the terrorist(s) responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.
Wayne LaPierre stands tall at the Lincoln Memorial. "I have a dreeeeeem....". A misty image of Charlton Heston slowly descends behind him. A million snaggle-tooth rednecks wave their AR15s and chant in hypnotic rhythm,
"What do we want?"
"Thirty Rounds!"
"When do we want it?"
"Now!"
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This guy takes a reasonably accurate shot at O'Donnell. I watched a bit of Larry's spit fest. I found new limits to my admiration for him, MSNBC, television "news" in general, and the entire spectrum of far-left opportunists.
But no one was more adamant about their hatred for the NRA than MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell who last night accused the civil rights group of aiding and abetting the terrorist(s) responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.
Wayne LaPierre stands tall at the Lincoln Memorial. "I have a dreeeeeem....". A misty image of Charlton Heston slowly descends behind him. A million snaggle-tooth rednecks wave their AR15s and chant in hypnotic rhythm,
"What do we want?"
"Thirty Rounds!"
"When do we want it?"
"Now!"
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This guy takes a reasonably accurate shot at O'Donnell. I watched a bit of Larry's spit fest. I found new limits to my admiration for him, MSNBC, television "news" in general, and the entire spectrum of far-left opportunists.
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