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Loading ...Apparently a guy was out sighting in his M1A rifle and suffered a catastrophic kaboom. He survived with a little blood loss and got to keep all of his fingers, luckily, but the rifle is a total loss.
Go read the whole thing, I recommend it, but long story short, it appears the barrel was made with substandard steel, improperly heat treated, and it just gave way after cracks in the barrel got big enough so it could no longer take the pressure.
So, how’s that gun ban working out for you?
I’m not saying the outcome would be different, but at least the victims would have had a legal option for their own defence. As it is now, the only ones with guns in Chicago are cops and criminals… What logical reason can there be for keeping law abiding citizens from owning firearms? How would crime increase? The criminals already have their guns.
Three people who were found fatally shot inside their house after an apparent home invasion in west suburban Darien, Ill., Tuesday morning have been identified, MyFoxChicago.com reported.
Police Chief Robert Pavelchic said the victims were Jeffrey Kramer, 50, Lori Kramer, 48, and their son, Michael Kramer, 20. Pavelchic also said three other people were inside the home at the time of the shooting: a daughter, a son and another woman whose relationship to the family is not yet known.
At 2:59 a.m. police received a call from the daughter, who is believed to be in her early 20s, inside the house. She was hiding upstairs and told police she heard a suspicious noise or shots fired in the home in the Tara Hill subdivision in the 8900 block of Kilkenny Drive, according to Darien Deputy Police Chief John Cooper.
The Feds seize 30 machine guns… These machine guns. Tell me if you think this passes the “sniff” test. I honestly still think this is an early April Fool’s joke.
This is the agency tasked with determining the legality of my guns? Are you serious?
*sigh*
Even if, and that’s a big IF, these “guns” could be converted to fire live ammunition, I bet you they would explode with the first round. I wouldn’t have these anywhere close to me when it went off, that’s to be sure.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday that its officers have seized a shipment of what it describes as 30 machine guns (M-4 automatic rifles) shipped from Taiwan.
The guns were fashioned to shoot plastic balls but could have easily become real weapons, the feds said.
The shipment arrived on Oct. 20 at Tacoma and has been investigated since. The guns were seized Feb. 8.
The shipment was described as toys and parts and valued at $10,000.
Officers examined it and found the rifles. They were the same size, weight and look of M-4 rifles. There were no serial numbers that a real gun would have but neither were there orange-blaze tips, which are required for all imported toy guns.
Investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive showed that the guns had been tooled to shoot plastic balls. However, parts could be switched out quickly to allow them to fire live ammunition.
ATF lab results indicated the rifle to be a WE-Tech, Model AWSS M4CQBR, Airsoft M-4 copy.
The guns will be destroyed.
Yess, I put “man” in lower-case and quotes above on purpose. How else would I describe a human of the male gender who I don’t consider worthy of being called a “Man”?
This sick, twisted individual would rather bury his child than defend that child with a gun.
Read that sentence again and let it sink in. What horrible, sick, twisted and morally bankrupt individual would say or do such a thing? Even prey animals in the wild defend their offspring with every means at their disposal.
Kurt Hoffman elaborates:
I submit that there can be no mutual understanding between healthy, rational human beings, and the kind of sick, twisted creature who would rather bury his child than defend him with every means available. Make no mistake; anyone willing to sacrifice his own child to his belief that self-defense is a “gun crime” will be more than willing to sacrifce you and your family to that same evil ideology.
To the Doug Van Gorders of the world, no compromise on gun rights will go far enough. Everything we give up will be a “good first step” (to the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, every gun law is a “good first step”), and the staging area for the next infringement on that which shall not be infringed.
The good news, if any is to be found, is that if Darwin is right, Van Gorder’s “progressive” attitude is doomed to the extinction it so richly deserves, purging the gene pool of the mental affliction that causes it.
UPDATE: Apparently the source of the letter Kurt Hoffman talks about is less than truthful. Please disregard this post… *sigh*
Hurray for the rule of law and common sense!
Greg Nickels can kiss my ass!
The law has sided with the gun rights advocates who took the city of Seattle and former Mayor Greg Nickels to court over the city’s gun ban.
King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer on Friday ruled in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Washington Arms Collectors, National Rifle Association and five individual plaintiffs, declaring the city of Seattle’s gun ban at public places is in direct violation of Washington state’s firearm pre-emption law.
In issuing the ruling, Shaffer wrote, “Seattle’s Department of Parks and Recreation’s Rule/Policy Number P 060-8.14 (“Firearms Rule”) violates Washington law and on that basis, is null and void.”
The city has been ordered to remove all signage banning weapons from public areas within 30 days.
First “No Snow” was evidence of global warming, now “Record Snowfall” is evidence of global warming. Which is it folks? You can’t have it both ways.
Apparently that’s how one California policeman thinks anyway:
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. — A controversy was brewing in East Palo Alto Tuesday night after a police detective made apparently joking comments through his Facebook account saying “open carry” advocates who visibly carry guns in public should be shot.Now East Palo Alto has become a reluctant testing ground for a battle of constitutional amendments: one police officer’s ‘freedom of speech’ versus a group’s ‘right to bear arms.’
Perhaps he should be less worried about his 1st amendment rights and stop thinking it’s okay to violate peoples 2nd amendment rights.
I’m not sure what the issue is exactly, but my friend, fellow blogger and gun owner, Jeffersonian, has run into some kind of legal difficulty and needs help.
Please, go over to his site and make a donation to help him out. I know him personally and he’s a great guy, and a true patriot.
Go here and click on the donate button (about halfway down and on the left).
Thanks!
Dave Workman was there and reports about the hearing. Go over and read the whole thing, including the Bellvue Police Chief who showed up in full uniform, but claimed they were only there in a “personal” capacity, and a video of the event.
More than 300 Washington gun owners descended on the John A. Cherberg Building in Olympia Tuesday morning for a hearing on SB 6396, the so-called “assault weapons” ban legislation sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Adam Kline.
Opponents of the bill vastly outnumbered its supporters, and for many in the audience who had traveled several hours to reach the capitol, it was disappointing that Kline allowed only 30 minutes for the hearing, and only a handful of speakers – evenly divided between pro and con – were allowed to speak. The crowd spilled out into the hallway, and at least a couple of auxiliary hearing rooms were jammed.
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Several open carry activists turned out for the event, and they were as well-behaved as they were visibly well-armed. Surprise of surprises; Washington State Patrol troopers who serve as security guards during the legislative session appeared relaxed and not the least bit uncomfortable with those folks.Jim Williams, a member of the Washington Arms Collectors’ Board of Directors, observed that a lot of people spent a lot of time and money to travel to Olympia for what amounted to a “30-minute show.” It appears the bill may not make it out of committee.Judging from the strong turnout in opposition, perhaps it never should have been there in the first place.
