Still Seems To Be True

I'll go start the grill

Someone else bring some beer.

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I am just imagining them wrapped in bacon and slow cooked over some apple wood.

FBI Makes a dynamic entry into a house with a chainsaw.

So, yet another raid on the wrong house. Yet another family terrorized. Only this one is different:

“I just happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the side of my door,” she explains. “And I was freaking out. I didn’t know what was going on.” Within moments, the chainsaw had cut through most of her door, and someone on the FBI’s arrest team kicked the rest of it in.

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Ya, that is right... They cut out the center of her door with a chainsaw!!!

Apparently someone thought that the best way to make a dynamic entry was to rev a chainsaw for a minute or so while they cut through the door.

Now I don't know a whole lot about door construction or chainsaw use but I have used a chainsaw a few times in my life. they are loud and they take a bit of time to cut through things.

Also, I have watched my fair share of horror films and I know that chainsaws through doors always end very badly for the people inside... I can tell you this much, I would have had an immediate fear that my life and the lives of my family were in danger and would have felt totally justified at shooting straight through the door at the person attacking my house and family with a chainsaw.

Lay-Away At The Local Gun Shop Is A Bad Thing

Ok well maybe not... In about 2 more weeks, this will be at my house:

From SR-22

Yes, that is a shiny new SR-22 pistol!

Read more about it here:

http://ruger.com/products/sr22Pistol/index.html

Remember, Aim For The Head

This was sent to me from a co-worker.

It is a .mp3 file, it is safe for work just watch your volume.

Download here: FargoEAS

Pure awesome! 

So...

Only a few weeks before my last post, I had just started a new job with a major IT company. I am happy to report that I am still at that job, still very happy with that job and still (amazingly) considered a new guy!!! The job has been very demanding, that is why I have not posted in a while. I aim to fix that. I will be posting the rest of the Lucky Gunner Blogger Shoot Photos here soon. I promise! Oh and apparently blogger has a new way of embedding photos, so the new posts will be different looking than the old ones.

Lucky Gunner Memorial Day Blogger Shoot 2011 - Part II

So, woke up the next morning and headed down to the hotel lobby for a meeting and safety briefing. Also they were giving us the address and directions to the range then. They didn't want it to be widely published too far before hand in an attempt to keep the general public out. Additionally they gave us a goodie bag that had a book, the yellow shirts we would have to wear in order to get our free ammo and some other gun related stuff.

After a nice cup of coffee, it was time to go to the range. It was about a ten mile drive out into the countryside and then, suddenly on the side of the road a giant sign with a Luckygunner.com clover on it. A quick right turn and up a hill and there we were, gunny heaven.

The first sight that my eyes beheld:





That is right, a M3 Stuart tank!!! There were actually two of them, both in working order and seemingly ready to take on the Nazi war machine. That is until you look really close and see that the person on the radio is in full German dress. Amazingly this would not be the most odd thing I would see that day.

Next, my already saucer sized eyes were able to feast on:

That is right, not one... not two... but four 12lb howitzers!!! All being fired by full teams in Civil War garb.











Notice in the above picture, he is aiming the gun by looking down the top of the barrel.





The younger looking fellow in the light blue pants is holding lanyards which they attach to the gun in order to fire it. As you will see in the photos below, you fire this thing by pulling on the lanyard, just like some far more modern field artillery pieces used by the military of today.













Ok look! They have found a volunteer... Really these guys were doing this for charity, a $25 donation to the Wounded Warrior Project and you could fire a ball.



















FIRE!!!





Now, by this point, the cannon above is still actually rolling backwards. I would guess it rolled 8 to 10 feet backwards after firing live ammo. And did I mention LOUD!!! I can only imagine how loud it must have been to the men firing it in the days before hearing protection, though I guess after the first shot everything is kinda just a ringing noise anyways.

Sebastian over at Snowflakes In Hell has a nice video of himself firing one of these beasts.

Here they are resetting it for another shot:



And some more guys in various dress talking it up:



Now, I finally turned around and beheld the range that was laid out before me...



Disney land for gun nuts!!!

I followed the smoke off to my left and saw that someone had already set something on fire down range.





I still had no idea just how amazing the day that was before me would be... I had already witnessed two amazing pieces of war waging machinery from two very different and far apart conflicts in our nation's history, the rest of the day would be similar with me experiencing things that spanned well over 150 years of history... Stay tuned for more.

Lucky Gunner Memorial Day Blogger Shoot 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I had the extreme good fortune to get to go to an invitation only shooting event in a small town outside of Knoxville, TN, the Luckygunner.com Memorial Day Blogger shoot.

I had an inkling of an idea that it was going to be a ton of fun but I really was not prepared for just how amazing it truly was. Over the next few weeks I will be posting most of the 800+ pictures I took over the three day weekend. I will make every effort to 1) correctly identify the guns in each picture and 2)correctly identify and link to the other bloggers that are in the photos. If for some reason I post a picture and get a name wrong or dont include one, let me know and I will make sure that information gets updated.

My drive to the Knoxville area was not all that eventful, my brand new GPS decided that I needed a tour of Southwestern North Carolina as apparently it was a 12 mile shorter drive than taking the interstate would have been. The down side was that it added over a hour to my trip because it involved 2 lane roads through the middle of small towns between 4 and 6 pm.

The first few photos are of the pre-event meetup that we did at a local pizza place. I got there a bit late so many of the people had cleared out by that time.



Here in the first photo is just a shot of the crowd that was left after I finished eating.





Here in the two photos above we have Gene Hoffman, Chairman of the Calguns Foundation (parent of the calguns forum) talking with one of the reps from KRISS.



Here we have one of the Luckygunner.com guys (left) talking with a group of us blogger types.

The beer was flowing by this time and all we were doing was standing around shooting the breeze so I put the camera down for the night after that.

Week 5

Week 5 at my new job and I am still basically a new guy. It is incredible being trained by the people that literally wrote the book on how various parts of Windows work.

Life happens

Once again, life happened and kept me from posting very much. Since my last post I have gone from living paycheck to paycheck to starting an amazing career with a major IT company.

What this means to this blog is that I will have a much greater amount of free time and money to go shooting with. I am hoping to be able to get to the range at least a couple of times a month and will try to get posts here at least a couple of times per week.

Unfortunately due to me starting this new job recently and having to move to a new city, I will not be able to attend the NRA show this year in Pittsburgh. That said, I am fully planning on getting out to Reno for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. Additionally I am expecting to get out to several other blogger meetups and other shooting events this year.

Stick around, things are about to get a bit more lively here!

25 Years Ago Today...

I wrote this 2 years back, the message is still the same.

http://guywithguns.blogspot.com/2009/01/challenger.html

Raul Castro: Excessive subsidies have discouraged hard work

Even communists understand what democrats can't

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20 Years at a church that was too radical for Oprah

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/12/31/radical-in-chief-truth-finally-comes-out-on-jeremiah-wright-connection/

As the title says, this church was too radical and left wing for the hard left Oprah.

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Quantum machine built

I want my food replicator dammit!

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Owner of stolen car held liable for crash after theft.

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Apparently being stupid enough to leave your keys in the car is now something that can get you sued.

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Obama's Royal Visit To Mumbai

So apparently our royal highness is visiting Mumbai. Presumably he is trying to get the hell out of the country that just bitch slapped his party.

Tell me this does not sound like a royal visit though:

First they are removing the coconuts from the trees near his visit

All coconuts around the city's Gandhi museum, one of Mr Obama's stops in the city, are being taken down.

Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his freedom struggle against the British, is among five places the US president is visiting in Mumbai.

"We told the authorities to remove the dry coconuts from trees near the building. Why take a chance?" Mani Bhavan's executive secretary, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told the BBC.

And they are building a bomb proof above ground tunnel for his vehicles:

Since it is difficult to monitor such a congested area, they came up with a quick solution which left the Indians accompanying them amazed: A bomb-proof over-ground tunnel — to be installed by US military engineers in just an hour.
The tunnel would be a kilometre long and measure 12ft by 12ft — enough to let Obama’s cavalcade pass through. The tunnel would be centrally air-conditioned, fitted with close-circuit television cameras, and will be heavily guarded at every point, including, of course, its entry and exit.

Finally they are banning fireworks:

But for many Mumbaikers, Obama will get in the way of what they like best - a good party.
Fireworks, a highlight of any Diwali - after all, it is the festival of lights - will be banned in much of South Mumbai, where the president and his entourage will be based.

Finally, he will have 3000 people accompanying him along with a full compliment of 34 US Navy ships including a carrier:

He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday.

Apparently no one in the white house has ever heard of GoToMeeting...

New Jersey Gun Lawsuits On The Horizon

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New Jersey’s extensive gun statutes may become ground zero in the coming litigation battles, said John Vincent Saykanic, a criminal defense attorney. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun-control group, ranked the state’s laws as the second strongest in the country after California’s.

New Jersey’s gun statutes require a person to obtain a police-issued permit for each handgun purchased. Permit applications also require a series of state and federal background checks, including fingerprinting. There are also limits on semi-automatic weapons.

Now, I believe that NJ is actually the perfect place for challenging a statewide AWB. The reason is that their AWB includes tube-fed rimfire weapons and there is no method for people in NJ to legally dispose of a banned weapon should they come to possess it. So if you find granddad's old .22 in the attic and even if you know it is an illegal assault weapon under state law, you are still a criminal if you try to turn it into the police.

For example, this rifle below is an illegal assault weapon in NJ.


That is a early 1950's J.C. Higgins .22 rifle that was sold in Sears and Roebuck stores. In all likelihood someone that reads this will have a parent that had one of these. In NJ, it is a Felony punishable by up to 4 years in prison to possess this rifle unless you registered it in the 1 year time frame after the AWB was passed.

That's right, the very rifle that many older readers may have carried to and from school on a regular basis, hunting rabbits and squirrels on the way home, back in the 1950's and 1960's is now an illegal assault weapon in NJ.

Mcdonald - More Comments and Quotes

Pg 37:

In sum, it is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty.

Pg 39:

It cannot be doubted that the right to bear arms was regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as the States legislated in an evenhanded manner.

Pg 48:

First, we have never held that a provision of the Bill of Rights applies to the States only if there is a “popular consensus” that the right is fundamental, and we see no basis for such a rule. But in this case, as it turns out, there is evidence of such a consensus. An amicus brief submitted by 58 Members of the Senate and 251 Members of the House of Representatives urges us to hold that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental.

Pg 49:

If, as petitioners believe, their safety and the safety of other law-abiding members of the community would be enhanced by the possession of hand-guns in the home for self-defense, then the Second Amendment right protects the rights of minorities and other residents of high-crime areas whose needs are not being met by elected public officials.

Pg 50-51:

We therefore hold that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings. It is so ordered.

More tomorrow.