Guns and Ammo Thread

[SampsonandDelilah]

She’s a beauty!

[Honkey_Kong]

Found this. https://www.pnjakt.se/art/merkel-helix-noblesse-1.php

Apparently this certification I have to go through will take some time so might be a couple of months out to buy this.

She looks purdy, but holy fvuk @ the pricetag. Is that the normal going price for a good rifle out there?

[SampsonandDelilah]

Just did a currency calculator...wow! Is that thing really almost 9,000 US$?!


Ya, that’s crazy expensive!!

Could get a Barrett .50 for that price tag and explode some hogs!

[Cuz]

https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/



FUCK JOE BIDEN.

[Honkey_Kong]

https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/



FUCK JOE BIDEN.

Stock up on parts right now. We don't know what the future brings.

[SampsonandDelilah]

https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/



FUCK JOE BIDEN.

Yup, and put small businesses out of work in the process. Mom and Pop gun shops depend on online sales to keep up with the mass production sites like Cabelas and Bass Pro.

Ridiculous and for what? Limiting “kits” (like the homemade black powder rifle Honkey Kong made) or ammunition that can simply be purchased over the counter or accessories that giants like Magpul can sell at massive box chain stores.

That’s in addition to violating the 2nd amendment...I mean who wants to honor The Bill of Rights?! That would be crazy

Makes no sense...

[SampsonandDelilah]

https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

His firearm agenda is amongst the worst I’ve ever seen. Deplorable

[SampsonandDelilah]

Doesn’t look like there’s an end in sight. Once it does hit the shelves, people will either hoard it or be limited in their ability to purchase it.

https://apple.news/AyhYYmThiRjmimQ-bMtKW5w

[Honkey_Kong]

This stuff is a pain in the ass to make, but I can vouch that it works to reload large pistol primers for .45 ACP

https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.m...iming-compound

I really don't know if it's corrosive or not, so make sure you clean your gun well if you use iit.

[Beetlegeuse]

Biden's Transition Team contacted the ATF to discuss Gun Control

They're coming after 80% lowers and pistol braces through executive fiat. Which they have precendent for because Trump already banned bump-fire stocks by EO (in violation of the Constitution).

[SampsonandDelilah]

Biden's Transition Team contacted the ATF to discuss Gun Control

They're coming after 80% lowers and pistol braces through executive fiat. Which they have precendent for because Trump already banned bump-fire stocks by EO (in violation of the Constitution).

I’d order your binary triggers too if you want them! They’re next too, guaranteed

[SampsonandDelilah]

Just ordered a Saint Victor pistol in 5.56.

Fuck it, they’re coming for them may as well load up!while I still can

[Beetlegeuse]

Biden's four part plan to destroy the Second Amendment

Increased scrutiny on FFLs, NICS checks stay on file forever, anti-gun activists will be given unfettered access to firearms trace data, and extra funding for the BATF.

[Beetlegeuse]

...I really don't know if it's corrosive or not, so make sure you clean your gun well if you use iit.

I've come across forum posts elsewhere stating that the guy who sells this stuff gets testy if you ask what's in it but based on the the components used in the video I can't figure anything it could be except a potassium chlorate/perchlorate compound. Which is sho-nuff corrosive. Potassium chlorate is hydrophilic so that's probably what's in the bag of white stuff that you have to knead (absorbed moisture makes it lumpy). I'm mystified how he can sell something like this commercially and not need an MSDS.

Franklin Arsenal used to sell it (primer compound) but I don't see it on their website now. It also was a perchlorate, IIRC. I expect there'd be hazmat or EPA red tape with fulminated mercury because of the mercury and lead styphnate (or lead azide) because of the lead.

Anyhow, here's a (free) tutorial on DIY primers, including making the explosive compounds. And here's a place where you (probably) can get the constituent chemicals.

Here's a story about making primers at TTAG. I am loathe to recommend anything from that website but this was written by Dean Weingarten, and anything by Mr. W. is GTG.

[Beetlegeuse]

I’d order your binary triggers too if you want them! They’re next too, guaranteed

Troo dat.

[Beetlegeuse]

From a Montana lawyer: Attorney educates residents on self-defense legalities

Too lengthy to repost here, and the legal precedents he's talking about won't necessarily pertain in your jurisdiction, but if you ever have to shoot somebody, you might wish you'd read this.

[Beetlegeuse]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ... Vista Outdoors (which bought Remington's ammunition business out of receivership) says they've got a backlog of ammunition orders amounting to a year's worth of production and $1 billion (with a "B") USD in sales.

So don't look for the dam to break on ammo shortages any time soon.

[Beetlegeuse]

Flarduh Governor DeSantis is trying to get the state's "Stand Your Ground" law expanded so it's open season on looters.

There's something of a gun law Holy Trinity in the south formed by Flarduh, Texas and Tennessee. Whenever one passes a law related to HD/SD (and sometimes 2A/RKBA in general), the other two usually say, "Hey, I like that" and do something similar in short order. Other pro-gun states often follow suit, given time, but those three states are in veritable lock-step when it comes to guns. In this political climate, once those three states start issuing looter hunting licenses, I expect a lot of other states to offer their law-abiding citizens the same protection. And it can't come to my state soon enough to suit me.

[Beetlegeuse]

US Senator Kennedy (R-La.): Nothing to Worry About Unless You’re a Taxpayer, Parent, Cop, Gun Owner, Person of Faith, or Unborn Baby

(CNSNews.com) - If the Democrats win run-off elections for two Senate seats in Georgia, the only people who have something to worry about are taxpayers, business owners, parents, cops, gun owners, people of faith, and the unborn,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday....


There's a video (I can't link to here) of Senator Kennedy dispensing a whole lotta homespun wisdom in about 4 minutes.

[Beetlegeuse]

I was doing house cleaning on my PC and found a file relevant to this thread. It's a research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (dated 2005) titled The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas. You can get a copy of your own here. Here's the crux of the biscuit:

VII. Conclusion

Thousands of gun shows take place in the U.S. every year. Gun control advocates argue that the “gun show loophole” that exists in many states makes it easier for potential criminals to obtain a gun. Gun shows may also affect suicide rates by increasing the ease with which individuals who are contemplating suicide can obtain a more lethal device. On the other hand, opponents of gun show regulations argue that gun shows are innocuous because potential criminals and other individuals can acquire guns easily through other channels.

In this paper, we have investigated the effect of gun shows using eleven years of data on the date and location of every gun show in the states of California and Texas, the nation’s two most populous states. We have combined this with information on the date, location, and cause of every death occurring in these same two states during our eleven-year study period. We focus our attention on homicides and suicides, with firearms accounting for 61 percent of the combined 106,205 deaths from these two causes in California and Texas during the 1994 to 2004 period.

Our identification strategy tests whether the number of homicides or suicides changes in the weeks immediately following a gun show. We investigate separate models for the two states given that they sit at opposite ends of the spectrum with respect to their regulation of gun shows, with California arguably the strictest and Texas among the least stringent. To the extent that regulations such as those in place in California reduce any deleterious effects of gun shows, one might expect to detect a larger effect in a relatively unregulated state such as Texas.

Our results, however, provide no evidence to suggest that gun shows lead to a substantial increase in the number of homicides or suicides in either California or Texas. If anything, we find evidence of a modest decline in the number of homicides following the average gun show in Texas, though our aggregate implied effects amount to just one percent of all homicides in the state of Texas. Taken together, our results suggest that gun shows do not increase the number of homicides or suicides and that the absence of gun show regulations does not increase the number of gun-related deaths as proponents of these regulations suggest. (emphasis added)

There are, however, two important caveats to our analyses. First, we are considering only the effect in the geographic area immediately surrounding gun shows. To the extent that firearms purchased at gun shows are transported more than 25 miles away from the show, our identification strategy will not capture this effect. Additionally, we consider the effect only in the four weeks immediately following a gun show. However, guns are durable, and thus to the extent that effects occur much later, our analysis will not capture this.

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You probably are aware there there is no such thing as the "guns how loophole," that's just a pejorative that hoplophobes use in an attempt to stigmatize the law that allows gun shows to exist (and they have an irrational hatred of anything that enables firearm ownership). Anything that legally can happen at a gun show also can happen every ounce as legally in the parking lot of a Piggly-Wiggly. Or in the back pew of church at Sunday morning mass. There is no loophole.

Attacks on gun shows actually are a veiled attempt to restrict gun owners' constitutional rights, not just of the 2nd Amendment but especially of the 1st, specifically the right to peaceably assemble. They want to limit the deplorables' right to assemble because if allowed to assemble without interference, lawful commerce in firearms might take place. Because in the end that's all a gun show is, a place where like-minded individuals can congregate and engage in commerce of a lawful product.

And besides, as this study shows, there is no hard evidence that there is any connection between gun shows and gun crime. It's all fiction, just like the "loophole" itself.

[The Deadlifting Dog]

A little "porn" for y'all...



Looks like a whole lotta fun.

[SampsonandDelilah]

Can’t even imagine sitting in that on the underbelly of a superfortress at 10,000 feet for hours on end. Truly the greatest generation.

I bet those 500 rounds per gun went pretty damn quick

[almostgone]

Can’t even imagine sitting in that on the underbelly of a superfortress at 10,000 feet for hours on end. Truly the greatest generation.

I bet those 500 rounds per gun went pretty damn quick

A single M2 can swamp you with brass in a hurry if there's no place to kick it away. Two of them is definitely double trouble.

[Beetlegeuse]

Hell, fiddy-cal brass ain't shit. Try being a loader in a tank making a gun run. The main gun ejects the empties into the floor of the turret, right where the loader does his business. At the end of a gun run there might be 12 or 15 105mm casings (now it's 120mm) rattling around under his feet. And it's his job to throw them out the loader's hatch, which he can't do until there's a lull in the action.

Plus the stench of cordite. That's what they use for propellant and it smells like someone's trying to burn ammonia. The M1 Abrams was the first US tank with a ventilation system effective enough to do a reasonable job of evacuating the gunsmoke. Before the Abrams you just had to live with it.

Can’t even imagine sitting in that on the underbelly of a superfortress at 10,000 feet for hours on end....

More like 25,000. Sometimes 35,000. And the airplane was unpressurized so everybody had to wear an oxygen mask above 10,000 feet.

Being unpressurized also meant it was as cold inside as it was outside, which in winter was as low as -50ºF. At -50 and with the added wind chill for the waist gunners, exposed skin could get frostbitten in seconds. Even in summer it was -20ºF (-ish) at altitude. So they wore shearling-lined leather suits with electric heat. Everybody was tethered to both an oxygen hose and the power cord to their electric suit.

I remember how shitty portable electric stuff like flashlights and electric socks were when I was a kid in the 1960s. A 1940s electric suit probably was better than freezing to death, but not by much.

[Beetlegeuse]

Big Tech's suppression of firearm-related websites already is underway:

Prepare for the Great Decoupling – Deplatforming moves downstream to WordPress.com and Mailchimp

The unrelenting deplatforming pressure from the left leaves non-leftists no choice but to prepare for decoupling on our own terms.

You might remember I previously mentioned an Irish soldier (and general bad-ass) turned US Green Beret, Kevin Owens. I thought I had posted a link to another video with KO in it but I can't seem to locate it. Anyway, in his (well-deserved) retirement he's working for a company that teaches basic survival and personal independence (to include firearms training) called Fieldcraft Survival.

Fieldcraft Survival got evicted on short notice by their web host. Somebody at Fieldcraft (or their IT guy) had foresight to have everything backed up so they got it moved to a new (RKBA-friendly) host and back up and running in just days.

[Beetlegeuse]

Any firearms in the vehicle today, sir?

[Beetlegeuse]

Huzzah!

The first prosecution for anyone still holding on to their bump-fire stock was dropped because the defense had an ATF expert witness prepared to testify that a bump-fire stock does NOT turn a rifle into a machine gun by the ATF's own rules.

[Beetlegeuse]

Optics planet is selling "pre-orders" for 115-gr WWB 9mm, 200 rds for $80, free shipping. https://bit.ly/3fhPUqq

... and 50 rds of 9mm 124-gr WWB for $21. https://bit.ly/35N8Vhw

[Beetlegeuse]

Never bring a skateboard to a gunfight

[SampsonandDelilah]

Optics planet is selling "pre-orders" for 115-gr WWB 9mm, 200 rds for $80, free shipping. https://bit.ly/3fhPUqq

... and 50 rds of 9mm 124-gr WWB for $21. https://bit.ly/35N8Vhw

Thank you!

[SampsonandDelilah]

The Saint Victor finally came free from a 6 day CBI investigation. In February it was less than 10 minutes. If this doesn’t raise a flag, I don’t know what will?

I’m happy to have her home and am going to let her sleep with my Ghetto Blaster and maybe they can make tiny little AR pistol babies

Wouldn’t that just be adorable??

[Honkey_Kong]

The Saint Victor finally came free from a 6 day CBI investigation. In February it was less than 10 minutes. If this doesn’t raise a flag, I don’t know what will?

I’m happy to have her home and am going to let her sleep with my Ghetto Blaster and maybe they can make tiny little AR pistol babies

Wouldn’t that just be adorable??

I'll take a few of their puppies.

[Beetlegeuse]

Nine days ago I mentioned that Flarduh's governor wanted the state's Castle Doctrine amended so it was legal to shoot looters. And that Tennessee and Texas probably wouldn't be far behind.

It took four days. A Tennessee legislator (whose district includes Ft Campbell) filed a bill on the 17th that would allow you to shoot looters. Except the proposed Flarduh law is 'fiddly' because the theft has to be in conjunction with a riot that was within a certain distance from your home. The Tennessee version isn't so overburdened with qualifying conditions. If he's stealing your shit, shoot him. Nice and simple.

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

Fuckin' A.

[Beetlegeuse]

Kyle Rittenhouse made bail ($2 million). Part of the money was put up by Mike Lindell, the "My Pillow" guy. Another part came from actor Ricky Schroeder. I don't know if they came up with the whole 2 mil or just $200,000 so he could hire a bondsman to bail him out.

If they hired a bondsman, the $200K is his to keep (but he stands to lose the whole $2 mil of Rittenhouse skips). If they put up the entire $2 mil, they get it all back if Rittenhouse keeps his court date.

It sounds to me like Rittenhouse already has consigned himself to spending the rest of his life in prison but he's convinced he wouldn't be alive to do the time if he hadn't "room temperatured" those two demoncrat assholes.

Instead of sending Rittenhouse to prison he should be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for removing those two miscreants from the gene pool and relieving society of the burden of their future criminal acts. The Antifa/BLM/Occupy Wallstreet tactic from the start was to commit mayhem and destruction of private property that hovered just below the threshold of justifiable homicide. So the logical response is to lower the goddam threshold.

The range is now hot. Fire at will. There is very little in this world that will disabuse you of the notion that you are you are at liberty to wantonly fuck with the liberties of law-abiding citizens like a 5.56 through the lower brain housing group.

If you'd like to show your appreciation to Lindell for taking such a YUGE political risk, right now he has his queen-sized pillow discounted to $30 (msrp $70). Just follow the link on the main page of his website to "radio listener discounts."

[Beetlegeuse]

You had to know this was coming ...

Left Apoplectic over My Pillow’s Mike Lindell Allegedly Helping Bail Out Kyle Rittenhouse

The left is coming unglued over news that actor Ricky Schroder and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell allegedly helped with the $2 million bail that allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to go home from police custody on Friday....

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The demoncrats are all-in on industry that murders 345,672 (mostly black) babies in a year but when one white kid has the gall to go about deadly armed and kills two people defending himself against their potentially deadly attacks, they don their moral high-hat and go all Judge Parker on him.

[kelkel]

Have you seen the news about Biden's new gun buy-back / tax? Just f'n lovely.

[charger69]

Have you seen the news about Biden's new gun buy-back / tax? Just f'n lovely.

The only guns I care about are the ones I flex! LOL


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[kelkel]

The only guns I care about are the ones I flex! LOL


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Thank god for small favors, right!


HA

[SampsonandDelilah]

Have you seen the news about Biden's new gun buy-back / tax? Just f'n lovely.

I have. Just another reason this regime terrifies the shit out of me. His entire platform regarding gun control is worse the Obama’s and Clinton’s.

Just have to pray the NFA doesn’t get a hold of “assault weapons”. Absolutely ridiculous

[SampsonandDelilah]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox...un-control.amp