Justin Buist

I’d say about 95% of the time that I “lose” something my wife knows where it is. She’s been a great asset to me over the previous two years. If I can’t find my wallet, or some other random object, I can call her at work and she probably knows where it is.

Unfortunately she has no idea what a black Galco OWB holster for a 1911 looks like, hence, I haven’t been able to find the damned thing for months.

I really need a bucket dedicated to holster storage.

LawDog has a post up on his favorite type of fighting knife. I have no knowledge of knife fighting, but his reasoning behind a push knife makes sense to me.

Unfortunately:

Unfortunately, the Great State of Texas classes push knives as “illegal knives” and being caught with one in public will net you a Class ‘A’ misdemeanor — which is why I no longer carry mine.

The same holds true for Michigan too, to the best of my knowledge, although I think it’s actually a felony here.

How strange is that? He’s a police officer but can’t carry a simple knife!

Our laws are a tangled mess when it comes to weapons. For instance, in Michigan any firearm under 30″ is a pistol which requires you to get a “Safety Inspection” done. That means if I drop an 18.5″ barrel on one of my Remington 870 shotguns and a pistol grip with a folding stock it become a pistol, which also means I can legally conceal it under my winter coat and waltz into Meijer to do my grocery shopping. Or, I could just drop it on my passenger seat and drive around town doing my business.

Granted, I have no intention of doing that, nor any desire, but I legally could.

But a double edged knife with a 4″ blade? Nope. Can’t carry that around.

I suspect that the there are a few reasons why our knife laws haven’t changed much in the last 50 years:

1) 99% of the population has no idea how dumb they area.
2) Because of reason #1 people illegally carry knives quite frequently.
3) Nobody ever gets charged for violation of them unless they had it coming. If they have been then I’m not hearing about it.
4) Because of reason #3 there’s no lobbying effort to change these things.

I only ran one round of trap tonight. I got to the range and realized I forgot my magazine cap* and missed the first line that went out while I was driving home.

Scored 16, which is an improvement over my regular 12 and 13’s that I’ve been getting, but still isn’t anywhere near good. However, I busted the first 8 in a row. That felt really good.

I started in at station 1 and ran: 5, 4, 3, 2, 2

*: I switch out the 18.5″ barrel for my trap barrel every time I take it to the range and reverse it as soon as I get home. I left the magazine cap in the closet. Won’t make that mistake again!

Details here.

There’s an issue where they’ll fire if dropped, so if you have one check to make sure your pistol isn’t one of the defective ones.

Wow, that was fast.

Dan Cooper, founder and current president of Cooper Firearms donated money to the Obama campaign, lied later saying that he donated to McCain and the RNC too and much noise was made.

As of 7:50pm this is what’s on their website:

The employees,shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper.

Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms.

The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc.

Daily operations will continue with the competent staff currently in place in Stevensville, MT producing the finest, most accurate rifles money can buy.

Dan Cooper has spentall of his working life producing the highest quality rifles built here in the USA. He started with nothing but the American Dream and built that into firearms company anyone would be proud of. We firmly believe Dan stands by the2nd amendment.

We wish him all of the best in his future pursuits.

That didn’t take long.

Bitter gives a run-down on ACORNs attempted involvement in a gun case in New Jersey.

In the comments at my post on the Form 4473 changes a commenter asks how that might affect folks that need a purchase pistol permit.

The commenter has a blog, and from that blog I gathered he lives in North Carolina, and in my 10 minutes of research on NC firearms laws I learned that you need a pistol purchase permit for a crossbow in North Carolina.

Wow. Gun laws applying to things that aren’t even guns.

In my inbox right now:

Vote Freedom First — Vote Dave Agema for State Representative!

“Vote Freedom First.” What a crock of shit. The dude’s good on gun rights in Michigan, and I’m glad he’s going to win the local election, but I have a hard time equating “freedom” with the dude that got his mug on local television a few months ago pitching a fit because a local university was going to start offering benefits for unmarried people that lived together. He wanted to cut their entire budget by 5% for doing that.

Why? Gay cooties. We just can’t have our tax dollars going to them homosexuals now, can we? That’s immoral and a waste of taxpayer money!

Never mind that local businesses in this staunchly conservative area offer the exact same plans to their employees. I’m not sure how many do, but my wife’s employer does.

Of course, I shouldn’t be surprised at the NRA’s willy-nilly stance on tossing the “freedom” label around. They’ve endorsed McCain after peppering their America’s 1st Freedom magazine with anti-McCain articles, related to his legislation in campaign finance reform, for years.

The NRA’s “vote freedom first” campaign is as ludicrous as the ACLU sending me “I vote the Constitution!” bumper stickers.

I like the slogans, and I like the organizations, but I’m not delusional enough to think that they’re actually promoting what they say.

Unfortunately the ATF hasn’t updated their website, so I can’t link to a new example.

Some of the changes:

1) It’s yellow again.

2) They have checkboxes now for the “Yes/No” question section. This is, I think, the 2nd change related to those questions in 8 years. Back in 2001 there was only enough room to put “Y” or “N” so they changed that, and now they’ve just scrapped requiring people to write it all out. Good. One less reason to go after legit dealers.

3) Apparently abbreviating your address is now OK. I hear the new form says this explicitly. Good. I always thought it odd that the ATF couldn’t read an address that the USPS or any 3rd grader would understand.

4) New options on the type of weapon transferred. If you’re ordering up a bare receiver that can now be selected. Previously if you were planning on turning an AR-15 lower into an AR-15 pistol you had to make sure the FFL marked it as a pistol, but no more.

FFl’s are required to use the new form by November 15. So, next time you plan on buying a new gun be prepared for a new form.