Firearms

In the wake of massacres in the US media people who know no better, like Piers Morgan, called for tougher gun laws, like those in the UK. How do they work in reality? Not so well it turns out.

The images of paramilitary-style policemen with assault rifles in Luton are a shocking confirmation that law and order has collapsed in parts of our country.

In an age of terrorism, we have become used to seeing armed police at major railway stations and airports, or guarding other potential targets such as embassies. But when officers with guns are needed to patrol the streets of an English town because of an upsurge in gang shootings, it seems we have reached something of a watershed in our national life.  Read more »

via The Firearm Blog

Independent filmmaker Cathryne Czubek is directing a documentary about female gun culture. The trailer is embedded below …

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Andrew Tuohy from Vuurwapen Blog discusses magazine capacity limits.

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I fired my first shots from my dad’s Ruger Mk II pistol, which I now own, when I was three years old. My dad would take my brother and I through the woods, his scoped Remington 700 on his shoulder. Dad never missed an opportunity to take us shooting. I went from a Marlin .22 rifle to a .20 gauge Remington 870 and beyond. We didn’t have a lot of money, but ammo was cheap and time was preciously used forging a family of shooters. Some of my fondest memories are of shooting with my dad, under his careful direction, and always listening to his well-placed comments on personal responsibility and respecting firearms and human life.

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The liberal left wants to control access to guns…unfortunately for them it is a forlorn hope, technology is advancing significantly.

That is a video of 600 rounds being fired through a 3D printed AR15. Just a few months ago their first attempt failed after 6 rounds. Kelsey Atherton at PopSci explains:

The agents provocateur at Defense Distributed welcomed Congress back from recess by releasing a video of a brand new 3-D printed AR-15 receiver being used to fire multiple 100-round magazines. … The last time we saw Defense Distributed test a 3-D printed lower receiver, it broke after 6 shots. The latest video shows that it can survive a whopping 600 shots. This suggests that Defense Distributed has made significant progress toward its goal of building a working 3-D printed gun.

This is why gun control will fail…just 10 years ago it was unthinkable that you could print something simple let alone something as complex as a gun.  Read more »

Obama just keeps on breaking all the records for gun sales. He has now sold 91% more guns than were ever sold under George W. Bush:

There have been 65,376,373 background checks completed for Americans purchasing firearms since February of 2009, the first full month of Barack Obama’s presidency.

According to data compiled by the FBI, the number of Americans purchasing guns has skyrocketed since Obama was elected.

In 2009, there were 13,984,953 background checks for Americans buying firearms.  If we subtract the 1,212,860 checks completed in the month of January, the total checks for the year under Obama were 12,772,090.  Read more »

With the gun control debate in full flight in the US some journalists and publishers have been very vocal in their support of gun control. One paper even went so far as to publish all the names and addresses of legal gun owners online… apparently in the interests of transparency.

Watch what happens though when they are asked to put their online and printed words into action. Watch at around the 5 minute mark when the publisher of the Journal News who published the names of gun owners hides behind armed security guards. The hypocrisy is astonishing.  Read more »

Barack Obama has done more for the gun industry than any subsidies have …every time he opens his gob and talks gun control the general public rushes out and buys even more guns. I suppose he could claim it is his way of boosting the economy pre-Christmas…watch him claim success as the next economic indicators come in and show retail sales pre-Christmas rocketed.

Call it the law of unintended consequences. The more our public officials — from President Obama on down — talk about gun control and a possible ban on high-powered assault-type weapons, the faster the things are flying off the shelves.

Yes, even here in uber-liberal Massachusetts gun shops are doing a land office business in precisely the same gun used to slaughter 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The owner of the Northeast Trading Co. in North Attleboro told the Herald he sold out of the AR-15s, including a shipment of seven Bushmasters, Tuesday in four hours. The owner of C&F Guns in Middleboro reported that the 30 assault rifles he had in stock on Tuesday were gone by Wednesday — yes, that would be the day the president announced his task force and vowed to combat the “epidemic of gun violence that plagues” the country.

 

This is why nothing will happenin the US about gun control…besides the point that it is impossible anyway:

At the Huffington Post, Mark Blumenthal looks at what the polling says about gun control:

First, while support for stricter gun laws has declined in the polls across several measures, Americans remain roughly evenly divided on the issue. The Pew Research Center found about equal numbers of Americans preferring to protect “the right to own guns” (46 percent) and to “control gun ownership” (47 percent). A modest increase in the second category would be enough to create majority support for stricter gun laws.

Second, there is broader support among Americans for incremental changes to gun laws. Polls by CNN and YouGov earlier this year found overwhelming support for several specific gun control policies: background checks, bans on gun sales to those with mental health problems, waiting periods before gun purchases and a national registry of gun ownership.

There is a great deal of talk about America being “awash with guns” but is this true?

Well no it’s not:

7. Gun ownership in the United States is declining overall.

“For all the attention given to America’s culture of guns, ownership of firearms is at or near all-time lows,” writes political scientist Patrick Egan. The decline is most evident on the General Social Survey, though it also shows up on polling from Gallup, as you can see on this graph:

The bottom line, Egan writes, is that “long-term trends suggest that we are in fact currently experiencing a waning culture of guns and violence in the United States. “

Now you have the interesting case of the incidences of gun crime rising as gun ownership falls…riddle that one out. It’s like the reverse of climate change. Temperatures rise because of CO2 so we need to reduce Co2…or so the liberals will tell us.

In this case gun ownership is declining and mass killings are increasing…could the solution be the same as for global wamring…increasing gun ownership will reduce mass killings.

They will argue the exact opposite…and yet the empirical, scientific evidence is there before you…gun ownership is dropping…you could say the science is settled.