Clive's Finest found out you don't have to pay even a pittance at gun turn-ins. . A few zippitydoodahs get fuzzy just giving their weapons to the cops. For the children, I would guess.
This one netted 51 "weapons" if you count the BB guns and broken pellet rifles along with assemblies of rusted parts which weren't worth bringing home when new.
However, I imagine gleam in some acquisitive cops' eyes.
After determining if they were stolen, police will send the guns to the state crime lab for testing. Those weapons that are not found to be linked to a crime will be destroyed.
Uh huh. "Chief, I'll just take this here Ruger home and hang it up with the other guns I'm planning to destroy."
The bunk-junk photos reveal a few that we'd all be pleased to own and possibly a classic or two. Give me some slack for working with lower resolution images, but I notice:
A possible Black Hawk with McGiverned trigger guard, splotchy but savable ... A decent Ruger Standard ... A probable Hi-Standard Sentinel ... another HI-Standard-like semi on the order of the HD ... and something that looks at least a little like the Savage experiment with pocket autos.
But never mind. Clive is a safer burb these days. The Only One's press release says so.
May 21, 2013
May 19, 2013
Reloading .30-06 military brass
For reasons I hinted at last evening, I've developed an even stronger hunger for .30-06, and a rainy Sunday is devoted to loading some of the case stash, mostly military.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
Otherwise at the gun show:
This was a middlin'-size loophole, somewhere around a couple hundred tables. At the usual busiest time, mid-day Saturday, traffic was brisk but not jammed to the extent we've been seeing since November. You could get to the tables and coon finger the stuff. Observations:
--I've rarely seen so much U.S. military webbing and other field gear from the WW2/Korea era. The market hasn't decided on values. For instance, similar .45 magazine pouches carried askings from $10 to $25. One entrenching tool was offered at $15, a near twin at $50. And so forth.
--Everyday M1 Carbines seem to have settled to an arguing range centered on $800. (I saw only Inlands.)
--Plenty of 5.56x45 (.223 McNamara Stalemate) was on the tables at $.80-$-1 per round. Heavier popular rifle calibers were at $1 and higher.
--Components continued scarce and expensive. I saw no powder. Primers were tagged at $5 and $6 per hundred. I did see what I considered a bargain by recent standards, .223MS brass polished, sized, and primed at 20 cents.
--Everyone wanted .22LR. Only a little offered, but I saw nothing sell at the prevailing asks of $60 to $90.
--The dealers I know well enough to chat with reported gun sales slow to non-existent.
--I've rarely seen so much U.S. military webbing and other field gear from the WW2/Korea era. The market hasn't decided on values. For instance, similar .45 magazine pouches carried askings from $10 to $25. One entrenching tool was offered at $15, a near twin at $50. And so forth.
--Everyday M1 Carbines seem to have settled to an arguing range centered on $800. (I saw only Inlands.)
--Plenty of 5.56x45 (.223 McNamara Stalemate) was on the tables at $.80-$-1 per round. Heavier popular rifle calibers were at $1 and higher.
--Components continued scarce and expensive. I saw no powder. Primers were tagged at $5 and $6 per hundred. I did see what I considered a bargain by recent standards, .223MS brass polished, sized, and primed at 20 cents.
--Everyone wanted .22LR. Only a little offered, but I saw nothing sell at the prevailing asks of $60 to $90.
--The dealers I know well enough to chat with reported gun sales slow to non-existent.
May 18, 2013
Is there a .govbot in the house?
Three patriots understood that one can not make America a better place to live by hanging around a tea party. Even personal debt reduction must yield to to the need for action now.
Thus they sortied to a loophole, that is, a gun show, at 0804 this date, all in search of enhanced firepower. One of them was particularly enthusiastic about bringing a battlefield weapon to the mean streets of Smugleye-on-Lake.
Designed in part to resist enemy assaults, the (semi) automatic rifle with quick-change detachable bullet clips, was also intended to permit American freedom fighters, both professional and militia, to participate in assaults.
This one came from a federally licensed dealer, so the armed American exploited the gun show loophole by providing identification, a state permit in lieu of an NICS check, and filling out what has become a four-page form 4473.
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She's been rebarrelled (sharp, shiny rifling) but otherwise appears about original. The condition is somewhere near the high end of average, and I expect her to shoot rather well for a dowager born on the high river bluff of Springfield in March, 1943.
Even if she doesn't, I'm glad she's here, especially for a bride price well below the usual 1,000 FRC asking.
I did remark to a loophole companion that the M1 was not especially fun to shoot and that I never found it handy.
"So why did you buy it?"
Because an American should own a Garand.
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Thus they sortied to a loophole, that is, a gun show, at 0804 this date, all in search of enhanced firepower. One of them was particularly enthusiastic about bringing a battlefield weapon to the mean streets of Smugleye-on-Lake.
Designed in part to resist enemy assaults, the (semi) automatic rifle with quick-change detachable bullet clips, was also intended to permit American freedom fighters, both professional and militia, to participate in assaults.
This one came from a federally licensed dealer, so the armed American exploited the gun show loophole by providing identification, a state permit in lieu of an NICS check, and filling out what has become a four-page form 4473.
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She's been rebarrelled (sharp, shiny rifling) but otherwise appears about original. The condition is somewhere near the high end of average, and I expect her to shoot rather well for a dowager born on the high river bluff of Springfield in March, 1943.
Even if she doesn't, I'm glad she's here, especially for a bride price well below the usual 1,000 FRC asking.
I did remark to a loophole companion that the M1 was not especially fun to shoot and that I never found it handy.
"So why did you buy it?"
Because an American should own a Garand.
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