In the late 80′s the Soviets were experimenting with an over/under 45mm grenade launcher. Things looks like a beast, and it weighed about 22lbs. Yikes.

I was in my local Gander Mountain the other day and they had 5 packs of the Federal Truball slugs (rifled, 1oz, 1600fps) on sale for $2.99 a box (regularly $4.99) plus a $2.00 mail in rebate. So, that’s 99 cents for a box of slugs.

No idea how long the deal lasts.

Rounds have been found leaving the range and impacting houses. Oh, and a guy took a bullet while the local campus cops were training there. That’s why people started looking for them around their houses.

Yep, they’re going to have to redesign that range. Honestly, I can’t tell what they’ve got right now. I’ve never been there and the online satellite images aren’t showing much.

I ran across this recently: Remington HD ULTIMATE HOME DEFENSE LOADS They came out in 2010 but they’re new to me. Plus I haven’t been blogging much, so I bet I haven’t covered them.

Let’s see, we’ve got either BB or a mix of #2 and #4 bird shot, both in 1.25oz loads, pushing 1250fps. Awesome. That’ll produce some crushing recoil (by my standards) on the user end, and produce some devastating results on darned near anything on the business end. Well, except for things like ballistic gelatin or medium sized (human sized) mammals more than 10 yards away.

I’m sure it feels powerful, the recoil will be marvelous, and it looks powerful, but you’re going to be getting somewhere around 8″ penetration even with the “big” BB shot in this stuff. The FBI wants 12″ penetration of out of pistol rounds for a reason. That’s 12″ into bare gel. Once you add in things like clothing (which might include heavy leather jackets) or ribs, which do a decent job of keeping incoming objects away from important things, that 12″ (which would blow right through me) ends up being less than 12″ in the real world.

Just pick a something in the buck shot range that works for you. Bird shot is for birds. A 1oz BB load, on the other hand, might be pretty handy for woodchucks.

I’d imagine anybody online, and of the political nature, has run across the claim that Somalia is the Libertarian Paradise of the world. Well, no, it isn’t. The place is run by warlords, or religious groups, and what have you. It’s a mess. They don’t have a functional government, not even by Libertarian standards.

What got me thinking about this is I went though Ron Paul’s book End The Fed which got me to finally reading some stuff from Ludwig von Mises. Somewhere in the book he starts calling the Swiss monetary system “bad” (by our government’s standards, not his) because they have incredibly low inflation and that’s not what governments really want. So I went to digging around Wikipedia while I put my daughter to bed tonight on my phone.

Yep, the Swiss Franc was the last currency to get off the gold standard. Their inflation rate is something like 0.7% a year right now, and that’s after they dumped gold and threatened the EU with buying “unlimited” numbers of Euros to keep themselves tracking with their currency.

Now, I’m not a Big-L Libertarian, I’m a libertarian minded yahoo. There’s a difference. At a glance here’s Switzerland from my perspective:
- Low corporate tax rate
- Nearly every home has an assault rifle in it, with a good shooting culture to go along with all that
- Sound money policy (hardly any inflation)
- Mandatory health insurance

Works for me. Why aren’t we trying to mirror those folks?

Glock is replacing all of the recoil springs on their fourth generation guns.

About time. Glad to see them finally doing something about the problem.

No news here. Just my thoughts on the matter. Kudos to everybody else for covering it.

I’ve been working really hard the last 4 years to dismiss every federal government SNAFU as just them being inept, rather than malicious, but now we’re seeing emails from the ATF regarding their “Fast & Furious” Operation, where they instructed gun shops to knowingly sell to suspected Mexican and Honduras drug cartel buyers, and then they get giddy about being able to use that anecdotal data to support more detailed, and illegal, gun purchase reporting measures.

Look, if the director of the ATF has webcams in his freaking office to watch known drug cartel suppliers purchase weapons, and the ATF still manages to lose track of them, only later to find them at US crime scenes, including the killing of US Border Patrol agent, I don’t see what in the heck they’re going to be able to help out with if they get a form indicating that John T. Cletus picked up a couple of BARs in .270.

As of right now I’ll be nice to the ATF. I’ll just assume you wanted to generate more paperwork for yourselves, to justify your existence, and if you had to assist in arming a few drug cartels that was no big whoop.

Heck, even when I put on my “nice” blinders that’s still extremely messed up.

Caleb: “premature magjaculation”

There’s a new one for me. I chuckled.

This looks kind of neat: Golfing with “Project Tiger”

Full details are in the link, but basically a black powder cannon that fires golf balls. Here’s a YouTube video if it in action.

I like guns, I think you guys know that. I also like beer, especially the craft brews, which is why I ran across this lawsuit earlier today. Flying Dog Brewery is suing the Michigan Liquor Control Commission for blocking sale of their “Raging Bitch” beer. What really caught my eye was this:

The first hearing on the case is set for June 8 at 4 pm in the U.S. District of Western Michigan in Grand Rapids. Both Flying Dog attorney Alan Gura and CEO Jim Caruso will be present.

Heh.