Posted on February 8, 2010 by Caleb
From USPSA Press release:
SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — The 2010 pistol shooting championship season kicks off with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association’s (USPSA) Area 6 Pistol Championship and once again Georgia-based firearms maker Glock has been named the overall match sponsor. The Area 6 region includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
This marks the 4th year that Glock, whose pistols are popular with many competing in the Production and Limited-10 divisions, will be the main sponsor of the match.
“Glock has had a tremendous impact on the shooting sports and not just through its generous support of matches like ours,” said Charles Bond, USPSA Area 6 director. “Through the years GSSF, the Glock Sport Shooting Foundation, has served as the unofficial feeder program for Practical Shooting getting tens of thousands of shooters into the shooting sports and ultimately into competitions like the Area 6 Championship.”
The Area 6 Championship will take place April 16 through 18 at the South River Gun Club in Covington, Ga. Upwards of 325 shooters representing Area 6 and 20 other states are expected to attend including Team Glock members Dave Sevigny, Jessie Abbate and Randi Rogers. International shooters from Columbia and Jamaica are also expected to compete.
This match basically takes place in Glock’s backyard, and they definitely bring their “A-game” for amounts to a home game match.
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Caleb
Alright guys and girls – we’ve been following the progress of two important pieces of legislation in the State of Indiana: HB 1065 and HB 1068. These bill head in to the State Senate this week after being successfully passed out of the Indiana House two weeks ago. Here’s a quick breakdown of what this bills support.
- HB 1065: Parking lots and Emergency Powers – this bill would allow law abiding Indiana gun owners to store their legally owned and carried firearms in their vehicles at the parking lots of their places of employment. It would prevent anti-gun companies from interfering with our right to protect ourselves to and and from work. Additionally, this bill has “Emergency Powers” language, i.e. “Katrina bills” that would prevent the government from seizing legally owned firearms in a state disaster.
- HB 1068: Gun Permit Database bill – this bill closes access to the Indiana Handgun Permit Database to Law Enforcement only; this would prevent criminals from gaining access to the database and using it as a roadmap to steal guns or to victimize houses that they knew to be unarmed.
To contact your state Senator, click on this link to find your district and your Senator.
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Caleb
From my buddy at the Firearm Blog; apparently the FBI has decided that hey, pistol caliber carbines are kind of a neat idea. According to the procurement document, the FBI wants these carbines for training and as option to the 5.56 AR15 rifles that they currently issue. The caliber makes sense as well, as the FBI’s standard issue firearms for Special Agents is usually a Glock 22 in .40 S&W. The FBI document actually mentions “easily sourced ammo” as a reason for going with the .40 S&W AR.
The actual rifle selected is Rock River Arms LAR-40. I personally haven’t played with this gun, but I’ve shot the RRA 9mm carbine, and it was absolutely a fine gun. I also think that .40 makes a lot of sense as a carbine/sub-gun round as the high pressures that the round operate at and somewhat snappy recoil out of certain pistol platforms is easily mitigated by the carbine. You could do worse than to imitate the Feds and get one of these for your HD gun.
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Caleb
Julie Golob has sent her S&W 627 V-Comp off to revolver boot camp at Apex Tactical to get slimmed and trimmed down for the upcoming ICORE season. Here’s the gun itself, nicknamed Moose, getting ready to have a titanium cylinder fitted.
As you can see, this is going to be a mighty trick revolver, with extended cylinder release, titanium cylinder, and of course Apex’s top of the line action job.
Julie will have more updates on her blog as work on the gun progresses, and you can check out her blog by hitting the link in our sidebar here at Gun Nuts to take you there!
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Posted on February 7, 2010 by Caleb
It must really suck to be Paul Helmke right now.
Starbucks has brushed aside a request from a gun control advocacy group to ban the display of guns in its retail locations, saying it will abide by laws that allow patrons to openly carry unloaded weapons.
Hey, how do you know that your star is on the decline as a lobbying group? Not even notoriously liberal companies like Starbucks are buying your bullcrap. Like I said Friday, sucks to be you, Paul.
Also, I am no officially a dedicated Starbucks customer. Way to be, Starbucks. I’ll toss your beverages on muggers with PRIDE, now.
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Posted on February 5, 2010 by Caleb
So apparently the President doesn’t know how to pronounce “Marine Corps” correctly. Many comparisons have been made to his predecessor’s inability to correctly pronounce “nuclear”.
The difference is that liberals spent the next 8 years harping on how stupid Bush was, whereas the Marines will simply shrug and get back to the important business of shooting smelly terrorists and other sundry badguys in the face.
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Posted on February 5, 2010 by Caleb
That was a question posited over on TFL, which surely start the usual “IDPA IS TACTICAL AND USPSA WILL GET YOU KILLED” or the also popular “ALL GUN GAMES WILL GET YOU KILLED” debate. The problem is that for anyone arguing any side of those points is that it’s just not that clear-cut. However, to discuss the first point: no, IDPA is not realistic. Paper targets do not shoot back, cardboard no-shoots don’t run towards waving their arms yelling “HELP ME” and obstruct your shot; the weird things that happen during a dynamic event don’t generally happen to mostly static targets on a pre-designed course of fire. So no, in that sense IDPA is not realistic – but then again, neither is USPSA, Steel Challenge, et al.
I can now hear the tactical guys saying “See, I told you so!” and preparing to exult in their triumph over us game players. The problem with all that is that anyone who is really honest with themselves about the gun games will be the first to admit to you that shooting USPSA/IDPA isn’t supposed to be tactical training. It’s not. No IDPA match will have you stacking in the door with your teammates, tossing flashbangs, and clearing a room – and it shouldn’t have these things because shooting gun games isn’t supposed to teach you tactics. Shooting gun games does do something very, very important though – it teaches you to think with a gun in your hand under stress. We all can’t afford to go to a force on force class, so shooting gun games provides a reasonable stress simulator to teach you to THINK with a gun in your hand. Simple thoughts such as “did I hit that steel” suddenly become very important, because you have under a second to make the decision to take a second shot or to move on. Opening a door becames a challenging task, because you know it will trigger a drop-turner that you’ve only got a half second to shoot, etc.
If someone tells you that IDPA will teach you tactics, they’re wrong. It won’t, and it’s not supposed to. IDPA is fundamentally a game, just like Bianchi Cup is a game. You will have two kinds of people shooting IDPA matches, as well: people who are shooting with their concealed carry gear to practice and reinforce fundamental skills that might save their life, and people who are playing the game to win the game. There is nothing inherently better about either of these schools of thought, because in the end both sets of people are putting rounds downrange and becoming better marksmen (and women) in so doing.
So to answer the question, no, IDPA is not realistic. But shooting an IDPA match is a great way to practice certain skills that you may need to save your life someday. I don’t know about you, but the ability to draw and put accurate hits on target in under 1 second might be pretty useful in a self-defense situation.
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Posted on February 5, 2010 by Caleb
So, the Brady Campaign in a desperate grab for some kind of relevance is trying to get Starbucks to ban the carrying of firearms in their stores. Doesn’t the Brady Campaign know that a cup of Starbucks coffee by itself is more dangerous than some guns?
You know, you almost feel bad for the Brady Campaign. They’ve had a rough year. I mean they sent a note to Obama that said “I liek u do u liek me to check yes or no” and he checked “No”; so now they’re reduced to essentially begging a major corporation to alienate their customers.
Sucks to be you, Paul Helmke.
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Posted on February 5, 2010 by Caleb
Posted on February 4, 2010 by Caleb
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