Posted on November 20, 2009 by Caleb
In today’s sports desk roundup, we found an interesting match several months ago from Israel, where a terrorist in a bulldozer attempted to crush/murder a bunch of civilians, and was shot 4 times by an Israeli taxi cab driver. No one but the terrorist was killed.
The highlight reel!
- Terrorist gets bulldozer/weapon
- attacks cops and civilians
- Armed civilian shoots him four times, critically wounding him
- After armed citizen gets the party started, cops finish him off with M16s.
- No good guys get killed.
- Bad guy gets killed.
And that, my friends, is how you deal with scumbag terrorists.
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by Caleb
Sebastian has a fun little troll, who is trying to claim that CCW permit holders are responsible for 200 murders each year. You know how he’s doing this? By making up numbers. It’s really quite cool, actually – just like MikeB’s magical “10%” of gunowners claim, it’s based on a total lack of understanding about how statistics actually work.
Of course, I’ve noticed that this is awfully common among anti-gun advocates. If the facts don’t fit your narrative, that’s no problem, just make up new stuff and portray it as fact! The problem being is that it actually works some of the time, specifically because it targets the general lack of knowledge of firearms, concealed carry, and gun rights issues that most folk are burdened with. So when a guy like Mark says “I’m a reporter and here’s my research”, it’s really nothing other than him trying to leverage his perceived authority as a “reporter” to lend credence to an argument built on lies.
Which goes to one of my favorite drums to bang, namely that of “education”. We win arguments like this not by engaging with people like Mark, but rather by educating the people he’s trying to persuade with his made up numbers.
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by Caleb
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by Caleb
Along with Ruger, it would seem that Remington is eying the handgun market with a 1911.
A 1911 is in first-production testing, and may be ready for introduction at SHOT Show in January. That is a qualified date because the company seems more concerned in making a solid product before introducing it to the consumer public, eschewing other companies’ practice of launching products and making adjustments on the fly.
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caleb
Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caleb
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caleb
The short answer is “absolutely”, and the longer answer is “yes, think of it as a hot 9mm.” Cor-Bon manufactures several different loads for the .38 Super as a defensive round, from standard jacketed hollow points in 115 and 125 grain weights all the way to a 100 grain Pow’RBall load. DoubleTap also makes a 115 hollow point load for personal defense. The thing to bear in mind is that the .38 Super projectile is the same as the projectile fired from the 9mm, it’s a .355 inch bullet, so any load that you could conceivably handload for the 9mm you could also work up for the .38 Super.
However, there are drawbacks. Ammo isn’t nearly as widely available for the .38 Super as it is for 9mm, and it’s often more expensive in factory loadings. Magazines and spare parts for guns are also more difficult to find, as the caliber has fallen from popularity in recent years. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone who is specifically looking for a defensive firearm, because the ballistics are easily duplicated with 9mm loads. The one caveat to that is for people married to the 1911 platform but not wanting a .45 ACP. The .38 Super tends to be more reliable, as stubby cartridges such as the 9mm tend to be more prone to feed issues in 1911 style pistols; plus they make John Moses Browning weep.
I wouldn’t tell you to go out and buy a gun in .38 Super for concealed carry for the reasons mentioned above. However, if you’ve got one sitting around and want to carry it, then it’s most certainly a viable choice. But don’t think you’re getting anything better than a hotish 9mm, because that’s exactly what you’re getting.
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caleb
Namely, spend about 45 minutes browsing the USFA website. Because when I did, I found their “Lend-Lease” Colt SAA reproduction, which is a Colt SAA style revolver chambered in .45 ACP. This is a historically accurate revolver, as well – it seems at the start of WWII, the Brits were off in a bad way for small arms, and pretty much took whatever they could in terms of pistols. Among those pistols sold to them in the US Lend Lease program were 161 single action Colt revolvers that had been chambered in .45 ACP.
The guns that USFA makes don’t really fill a niche for me – I don’t shoot CAS much these days, and I don’t have $1800 to drop on a gorgeous hand fitted revolver. However, like many things in the world, they are worth that price to certain people, in which case you’re probably not going to find a more attractive single action revolver.
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caleb
Let me tell you a story, shall I? So, some cub reporter for a paper that no one reads decides he’s going to write a story about people in Indiana that have pink cards, aka carry permits. So he contacts the State 5-Oh and gets a copy of the list, because if you’re an Indiana carry permit holder, your information is a matter of public record.
Then said cub reporter posts that he wants gun owners to contact him to talk about the articles he’s going to write. Then the internet happens. Hilarity ensues, as the 11 page thread on the Hoosier gun forum is a pretty sporty read. Piles and piles of misinformation fly around, no one knows what’s going on, and dogs and cats are lying down together in unholy congress.
But there are some valuable pieces of information for Indiana gun owners, of which I know there quite a few that read us at Gun Nuts. So for the record, yes, while some reporter is probably going to run a hit piece on permit holders that’s not what I want you guys to get out of this post. This is: your information is a matter of public record. If you’ve got a pink card, regardless of whether it’s a lifetime card, a 4 year, or whatever, your personal info is out there and part of the public record.
Don’t bother calling the State Police about it, by the way. It’s not their call – so don’t go blaming them. You want to call someone, write a letter or an email? Contact your State Legislators. If you don’t know who your legislator is, you can use this handy form provided by in.gov.
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Posted on November 18, 2009 by Caleb
On last night’s Gun Nuts Radio, Breda asked me what type of ammo I had in my carry guns. In this case, a picture is worth 1000 words though.
From left to right:
- CCI 40 grain JHP, .22 WMR
- Speer Gold Dot 35 grain JHP, .25 ACP
- Hornady Critical Defense 115 grain Flex tip 9mm
- Winchester Ranger 140 grain JSP frangible, .40 S&W
- Wolf Gold 185 grain JHP, .45 ACP
- Hornady LEVERevolution 225 FTX, .45 Colt
It really is a matter of millimeters, though. When you look at a 9mm, a .40, and a .45 ACP all right next to one another like that, the size difference is almost laughable. It’s almost funny to think about the countless hours spent debating which of these has more “stopping power.”
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