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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 6 months ago
    A stabilizing brace is not a bump stock. It reminds my of my annual (for 21 years) NRA requalification pistol training for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
    There's a "bone support" training technique for further stabilizing your two-handed gripped aim by pressing a forearm against a post at the firing range.
    In real life that post can be substituted by a tree trunk or the corner of a house. If a good guy has no choice but to shoot a bad guy, its best to quickly improve your aim if given the chance.
    Why risk creating collateral damage with what the military calls "friendly fire?" Selfish standpoint? Shooting the wrong person can get you in a lot of trouble.
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    • Posted by GaryL 1 year, 6 months ago
      Every projectile that leaves the muzzle of your gun is your responsibility! Everything you can do to make every shot go "As Directed" is of the utmost importance. Shoot straight or suffer the consequences or don't shoot at all.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 6 months ago
        As the sergeant in that Gary Cooper movie about Alvin York said at the rifle range, "A bullet has no brains. It will hit wherever you're aiming it. So don't you start murdering each other."
        As for Alec Baldwin's BS claim that he never pulled the trigger, I recall an Alabama DOC firing range instructor telling us to keep our fingers away from our triggers until we were aiming at the target downrange because pulling the trigger is the only way a gun can shoot.
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        • Posted by GaryL 1 year, 6 months ago
          We had guns on the training range that did in fact fire themselves. That malfunction was traced to a worn trigger seat and the guns were sent back to the armorer. Alec Baldwin is FOS and the gun in question was inspected and in proper working order. The gun was a single shot revolver which first required him to cock the hammer back and second to pull the trigger. He can run his BS game on those who have no knowledge about how guns work but he can't run the game with me or the investigators.
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 6 months ago
            Over my (age 75) many years twice in a Western movie I've seen a dropped gun go off during a gunfight, but I can't recall the name of either or even if it was the same movie. Anyway, it was a movie and enough said.
            Anyway. that has nothing to with FOS Baldwin indeed pulling a trigger and thank you +1 for teaching me something I did not know today.
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            • Posted by GaryL 1 year, 6 months ago
              Older revolvers never had hammer blocks so the hammer rested on the firing pin and sure could discharge if dropped. Most revolvers these days do have a hammer block that only drops if there is pressure on the trigger. Most semi auto guns also have some form of a hammer block or they have a half cock trigger so the hammer does not have contact with the firing pin when half cocked. There is no doubt that guns, mechanical instruments, can and do malfunction but 99 times out of 100 there has to be a human screw up except with what we call Saturday Night special GARBAGE Guns that should all be destroyed.
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    • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
      Biden doesn't care about these technicalities. All he's seeking here is to start peeling back the 2nd Amendment so nothing remains.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 6 months ago
        You get no argument from the dino over what King Joey cares or doesn't care about when it comes down to We The People not having any guns at all.
        Me dino wrote what I care about. That's all.
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        • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
          Dino, your insight means a lot to people who care about effectiveness of weapons in self-defense or otherwise. Just that Biden won't give a damn. Anything that smacks of weapons in the hands of the American people is his enemy.
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 year, 6 months ago
    seems they WANT a Civil War
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    • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
      That's what the Marines standing behind Biden during his recent "Gates of Hell" speech strongly imply. Easier for Biden to have a civil war when his Guatemalan goon squads have all the guns.
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      • Posted by mhubb 1 year, 6 months ago
        i do not think those were Real Marines
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        • Posted by LibertyBelle 1 year, 6 months ago
          I didn't see that (not having a working television set.) but, real Marines or not, I doubt that they were enthusiastic about being there; however, most likely they were not given a choice.I can imagine things that they might have been thinking, and various profanities/obscenities that they were not at liberty to utter aloud. My service having been merely as a 4-by-10 Naval Reservist, and cut short by epilepsy (I did not apply for the discharge, told them not to do it), I could still sympathize with Marines in a case like that. (Poor devils!)
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 1 year, 6 months ago
    Didn't the Supreme Court just the other year uphold the individual person's right to bear arms and say it was covered by the U.S. Constitution?
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    • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
      Just another good reason to vote in November and hope enough Republicans in Congress will oppose Biden's forthcoming gun grab--it's a dead certainty Democrats will not oppose Biden on this.
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  • Posted by shaifferg 1 year, 6 months ago
    I was recently handling my single action revolver (single action not single shot) checking the fit of a new cylinder I had purchased. This required removing the hammer from half cock position to resting on the hammer block. Safety on (hammer block, finger not on trigger, barrel pointed in safe direction) as I pulled the hammer back to disengage it from half cock position ( requiring a trigger release my thumb slipped off the hammer.
    Since it was an empty cylinder I was not concerned about it going off but this style of revolver should not be dry fired as the firing pin can damage the cylinder. The existing hammer block safety being engaged prevented the hammer from contacting the firing pin. It can happen with any revolver single action or double action. And I really trust the ones that examined the gun......not! Safety should not be disengaged until weapon is pointing at an intended target and then only after going to full cock. Then the finger can move to the trigger..
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    • Posted by $ katrinam41 1 year, 6 months ago
      I have a deep fondness for SSA revolvers. For safety sake, it's recommended that one chamber be left empty to prevent an accidental discharge. I prefer the safety I have trained into my head and a full 6 chambers.
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 1 year, 6 months ago
    There was an excellent video linked to that article.

    It shows how some lawmakers will stand behind a blatant lie, even to the point of ignoring any viable research on the subject...it's just plain scary.

    Makes one wonder just how many OTHER factually unproven lies they stand behind.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 year, 6 months ago
    Wonder if there could be a "rental service," for both guns and/or any other 'ownership" they want to register. (Presumably) if you don't own it, there is no consequence for not registering it.

    That's just a first thought. Of course, once the ploy was figured out, it'd be outlawed anyway.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 6 months ago
    Stabilizing braces are blatantly silly, and clearly an attempt to skirt a law. Bump stocks were even sillier.

    That said, the law is even more blatantly silly. Who cares how short your rifle or shotgun barrels are? I mean WTF? Even worse are suppressors, which are personnel safety devices. Trump should have pressed for suppressor legalization in his first half term when he had both houses. However, he had no idea how to accomplish anything at that point.
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