A poster at Free Republic has posted a scanned image of the back of a precision rifle company’s catalog.
It’s an endorsement from Lon Huriuchi. Most famous among gun owners for shooting a Vicki Weaver in the head while she was holding an infant in her arms at Ruby Ridge.
I simply cannot believe anybody would be dumb enough to run this on their own catalog.
In the 1972 Men’s 800 Meter Olympic Finals Dave Wottle, an American, was in last place by a good bit until about 500 meters into the race.
And then he began his kick. You’ll have to watch to see how it ends.
I haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in a while. I think Knocked Up was the last one that was this good.
Oh sure, it’s a lot of crude humor, but it works.
Anybody here heard of Senate Bill 1331 before? It’s a piece of legislation that would put the .50BMG into the land of NFA destructive devices.
Good news: The Senator that introduced it won’t be a Senator next year.
Every now and again technology amazes me when I reflect on the past.
The other night I fired up my Xbox 360 to play some Halo 3 and got hit with a message that I needed to upgrade my software. I figured it was just another patch to prevent cheating.
With the patch installed I noticed that the interface was different and poked around. There was a new “NetFlix” channel on there. I downloaded that, fired it up, and viola — I can now stream any film NetFlix has in their “instant viewing” category right to my TV via the Xbox. Awesome. Now I can watch The A-Team on demand.
What got me is I couldn’t help but reflect upon the progression of technology that got us to this point. Back in the early ’80′s a VHS based VCR must have still been about $200 bucks and people bought them. Maybe it was $300. I don’t know. What I do know is that it was affordable but not a common expenditure. My father loves movies, and we had one in the early 80′s, but they were uncommon enough he had to drive a good 30 minutes to just rent a video at the time. We actually had a Betamax and a VHS system, though I don’t recall ever watching anything on the Betamax one.
Anyway, that’s not the point.
Roll forward to 1993 when I finally get online with a 2400 baud modem. At the time the only “pictures” you’d see were text in nature. ANSI art was as good as it got unless you wanted to wait 8 minutes for a proper JPEG image to download. Around 1996 I remember a guy pontificating, with absolute certainty, that you’d see JPEG and GIF images coming down the pipe just like we were seeing ANSI art. The bandwidth would be there.
Thought the dude was a loon. Turns out he was right.
Now, you have to remember that around 1994 to 1996 people were dialing up with modems in the 2400-14,400 baud range. At the low end we were kicking around 250 bytes per second, and at the high end 1400 bytes per second. The ISPs that we dial in to to get internet access only had 56k connections to their uplink. They were spreading that 56k connection around to the 3-4 guys that were actually on “the internet” at the time, and we were happy with it.
And then we all rolled around to 28.8k modems, and finally 56k modems, and then the masses picked up on it. In 2000 DSL lines capable of 512k or 768k started hitting. Cable services were offering up 388k and 768k services.
This shit was off the fucking hook for us old timers! I’ve come to terms with it, but I’m still blown away at times when I get a really good connection on my 6meg home connection. Hell, I worked on systems where 6meg wasn’t possible between two machines sitting 8 feet from one another.
Today I can fire up my Xbox, a $300 device which when weighed against inflation is probably cheaper than a VHS system back in the early ’80′s, use my $60/month internet connection that I use for work, and combine that with a $4.99/month NetFlix fee to watch everything in their “instant view” library.
And now we can watch movies our our TV cheaper than ever before and it only takes 30 seconds to make it happen.
So, what’s next?
Answer: This is what stops mass shootings.
Question: What is armed resistance?
David Hardy points to an article on the topic which shows a change in police tactics on the matter. It’s gone from calling in a SWAT team that would form a plan, like at Columbine, to 4-5 officers forming a diamond and roaming the hallways, like at Virginia Tech, to a lone officer confronting the gunman, which is what stopped the first major school shooting back in 1963.
Okay, so the Whitman incident didn’t just involve a single officer. There regular citizens keeping the guy’s head down with their own rifles (reminder: 1963, Texas) certainly helped and another regular civilian went up to confront Whitman in the tower. Whitman was unique in that he took up a nest in an elevated position whereas the regular school shooters these days just roam the hallways.
Shockingly, in every single incident, it ended when people started shooting at the bad guy. The quicker you start shooting them the better the outcome. Who knew?
The New Jersey ban on .50 caliber weapons ban was delayed until Dec. 15th so those in favor could engage in more fear mongering.
Apparently in New Zeeland you can’t carry a nail clipper onto an airplane, but gassed up chain saws are OK!
David Hardy notes that a 50 caliber ban is going to the vote in NJ on Monday. Sebastian brought it up too.
I followed the links off David’s post which detailed the arms that were to be banned by make and model. There’s at least a hundred, very few of which were designed after, oh, 1895 or so.
Folks, the nimrods that wrote this legislation are actually looking at banning the weapons used in our Revolutionary War. Yes, muzzle loading firearms are covered. Not all of them, but enough to to make me question their sanity or intelligence levels.
They made some attempt at keeping muzzle loaders safe it appears. If your gun has a wood stock and iron sights you’re OK, even if it’s a 50 caliber muzzle loader, but you’re shit out of luck if you’ve got a synthetic stock or bright colored fiber-optic sights on it, which are pretty common among people that actually hunt with the things.
According to David Hardy (lawyer, probably knows what he’s talking about) all muzzle loaders over 60 caliber are out the door. That would make the Brown Bess, the weapon of the British during our Revolution War, entirely illegal in New Jersey.
Just another attempt at “common sense” gun laws, eh?
I’ve never really cared much for the magazine brake. I don’t know why, but anything but drop-free magazines just seems wrong to me.
Pretty easy to fix it. Remove grips, push out a pin retaining the upper portion of the brake, press down on the main spring plug to take tension off the main spring plug pin, push that out, SLOWLY release the tension on the main spring and viola: You can remove your magazine brake.
From here flatten it out and trim of about the last 1/8″ of the brake. I didn’t bother trying to put a curve on the end of it to get it to go around the main spring plug pin. I’m just going to let it sit in the slot and call it good.
Once I got it to the right size I put the main spring, plug, and pin back in then reinstalled the brake.
Pretty easy. It took about an hour.
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