Baltimore is suing some car makers whose cars are being stolen because their cars are too easy to steal. Next up: suing rape victims for dressing like they clearly want a cocktail, hold the tail.
Maybe those car makers should sue black people for stealing everything that isn’t (and some things that are) nailed down. Maybe they can take some of those future reparations payments.
Anti-gunners claim that you don’t “need” an AR-15 because it is a weapon of war(tm) that is only good for killing large numbers of people. However, what if where you live has become a war zone?
This isn’t what I think that a civilized society should look like. People shouldn’t have their property stolen by roving gangs of armed thugs threatening to kill them. In the old days, they would have been killed and their heads displayed on pikes as a warning to the others.
Oldvet50 asks:
How long can you safely store a loaded mag before the spring weakens and causes misfires?
The answer to that depends on the magazine manufacturer. Cheaper magazine manufacturers, especially ones with polymer feed lips, are more prone to failure. Not of the spring, but of the magazine itself. Scorpion had a well documented issue with that. It turns out that the factory Scorpion magazines would dry out when left in a dehumidified safe for long periods. That’s why the Scorpion PMAG is a better choice than the factory one.
With a quality magazine, the answer to that is decades. Magpul themselves claim that they have had magazines fully loaded for eight years, and they still function.
The damage is done by compression and decompression of the spring. The more cycles that a spring goes through, the more it weakens it. I wouldn’t worry, however. It takes thousands of cycles to wear out a spring. Still, I think of magazines as consumable items, which is why I have so many of them.
SmileyFtW asks:
Why the waste of space with the foam? Load the cans tight for maximum capacity I would think. Same stuff in one can; label the can and move on. If one can is to be an assortment, say so on the can and ID the contents so it is obvious to what each one is
That was actually what I was doing up until now. What I got was cans that either contained a bunch of different mags in the same can, or the can wasn’t full. Example. Let’s say that I have a bunch of Smith and Wesson magazines:
That’s 80 magazines. They will likely fit into one caliber can, but they aren’t cross compatible. The worst part is that some will fit in the handgun, but not function. For example, an M&P9 magazine will fit in the M&P40, but you don’t want to attempt to fire it like that. So with this system, good luck finding the right magazine in a hurry.
Another reason for padding them is preventing damage. One of the biggest reasons for malfunctions in a quality handgun (that isn’t a 1911) is a damaged magazine. My carry guns are life saving equipment, as far as I am concerned. The number one quality that I need in a carry gun is reliability. I need to know that it will go ‘bang’ every time I squeeze the trigger. Since quality handgun magazines cost anywhere from $35 to $60 each, having 100 magazines is a significant investment. By padding my magazines, I am protecting them and my investment. I lower the chances of malfunction which will, at best cost me some range time and money replacing it, and at worst will cause a malfunction during a firefight.
That’s also why I number my magazines. I know which ones have malfunctions. Note that number 2 and 5 are both missing in this picture. It’s because they are currently loaded and ‘in use’ by one of my handguns.
It’s a simple numbering system. If it starts with a 9, it’s a magazine that will fit the S&W9. If it ends in a “c” it’s for the M&P9C. This makes sense in my mind, because the compact can accept the full sized mags (but not vice-versa). The magazine numbers that start with a ‘G’ are for the Glock 19. (That’s the only model of Glock that I have, thanks to Project Gaston)
A similar code works, with the M&PShield Plus mag numbers all starting with ‘P’, the 45 magazines starting with ’45’, etc. I have a spreadsheet* that I use to track magazines, ammo, firearms, and firearm spare parts.
*I also keep a list of spare parts on hand: springs, firing pins, sights, and other fiddly bits. That’s why I have so many M&Ps: common spares, and the best spare part is simply having a spare pistol. Not only that, but I also know how to detail strip and troubleshoot the M&P series very well, which simplifies repairs. The Glock is easy to do the same with, but I generally don’t like the way that the Glock fits my hand. I’m still learning all of the ins and outs of the AR system.
One of my issues with red dot sights is that they make it difficult to find a holster. That looks like its been solved, if this sight is any good. Anyone have one, or know someone who does?
A man rammed the gates of the Vatican today. The Swiss guards fired on the car, but didn’t hit anything. They were apparently aiming for the tires. They must watch too much TV. Bullets from a 9mm striking tires aren’t going to stop a speeding car in time to matter. They should have perforated the driver.
Trannies, Carpet Munchers, and Fags are so angry that they can’t perform sexually explicit content in front of children, they have decided to cancel their entire drag show in Tampa.
To the homos: If you don’t want to get lumped in with the degenerates, toss them out. Notice that we were OK with you, for the most part, until you allowed trannies in your club to begin grooming and molesting kids.
I spend about 2 or 3 hours a day on this blog, between researching posts, writing them, reading and moderating comments, and other miscellaneous tasks. I’ve been at it for about 16 years now- yep this blog is nearly 16 years old.
Up until this point, I have had one rule for comments- no personal attacks, and no spam. The last time I had to post on this was just a month ago. Apparently, people can’t handle the freedom of not having many rules. I had someone today compare me to Hitler for daring to be a part of a profession that obeyed the law. No one calls a gun dealer Hitler when they refuse to sell a gun to someone that fails a NICS check.
I have tried closing comments or not allowing comments on certain posts, but people try to circumvent it by commenting on other posts and referencing the one that is closed.
I am tired of having to remind people about personal attacks. I am tired of moderating comments. Some of the more outrageous comments come from first time commenters, or from people who are trying to get around the rules by using a VPN and not using the same name each time they comment. It gets tedious.
Comment moderation is active. I hate to have an echo chamber, but this is really taking a toll on me. There is a strong possibility that I will require (free) registration with a valid email address in order to comment. It will make things easier on me.
Sometimes I get a comment that is just so flabbergasting, it feels like I am being trolled. This comment to the post about the woman who murdered her newborn is so incredible, I had to break it out into its own post. The poster didn’t leave an email address, and the IP seems to be for a VPN. That will be important later. The comment in red. My response in black.
Of course I wish for every child to be wanted and to be raised in a loving home by an extended family. But that utopia is not reachable, and then what are the best approaches remaining in actual reality?
So because perfection isn’t possible, we should murder any children whose parents don’t want them? This comment isn’t about abortion. This woman MURDERED a child who had already been born. She took positive action that resulted in the child’s death, and tried to conceal her crime.
Daughter’s actions reveals she’s not the brightest. Mom’s being practical and wonders what the Bolsheviks (upper-middle class implementors of Communism) are going to do to her daughter. Like with drug abuse, adding prison to unplanned pregnancy does not improve the situation.
So what if the daughter is stupid? That isn’t a pass to commit murder. Again, let’s be clear here: she was in a hospital where her newborn could receive medical care. Instead, she gave birth to a child, who she then stuffed in a trash can and covered up with a trash bag. That is murder. There is a debate on whether or not abortion kills a child, and that debate centers around when a fertilized egg becomes a human life. This isn’t part of that debate. In this case, the child had already been born. There is nothing at this point that would legally or morally justify what she did. It is murder. I also don’t think that the cops here are acting as “Bolsheviks” here, as you allege. They are investigating a *murder* not a political offense.
The biology word “adult” means sufficiently mature to reproduce. This woman is an adult, as humans reach adulthood prior to age 18.
Human women reach biological maturity sometime around age 14. That isn’t the standard we are judging her by. As a 19 year old woman, she is an adult in the legal sense. She is also old enough to understand that murder is wrong.
This adult is innocent; she never stole from you, lied to you, cheated you, or trespassed on your property. You aren’t the father or the family supporting her, and her baby is none of your business.
So because I am not the victim, I can’t call her out for murdering another human?
The middle class calls itself “government” or “church” when they hurt innocents to demonstrate they aren’t on the bottom of the pecking order. The middle class says thoughtless casual sex for pleasure is “bad”, but that’s just a made-up apology for power. Communism for bad mothers like free healthcare, free food, and free babysitting are just more made-up apologies for power. Conservatives are on the same side of the barricades as the Bolshies, both fighting against liberty.
I don’t even understand what this non sequitor is even in the comment for. For excusing and politicizing the murder of a human child, you are a useless piece of shit.
Bad Dancer asks for my thoughts on using reloads for defense. This comes up from time to time, and I don’t do it. Not because of the gun lore of a prosecutor using reloads against you, but because it just doesn’t make financial sense to me.
Let’s say that I wanted to roll my own ammo. What does it cost to roll your own? (all prices from Brownell’s, because I am doing a blog post, not writing a novel)
So call it $735 to load 1200 rounds, or about 61 cents per round. Winchester white box currently costs 26 cents per round and JHP costs 40 cents per round. Now I already know what the reloaders are going to say. They are going to claim that they can reuse the brass. (We aren’t going to be reusing used brass if we are making war shots, because you are either saving them for later, or you don’t have time to police a battlefield for your brass) But OK, let’s play that game. Let’s assume that you can load each brass case 10 times before it gets lost, damaged, whatever. That lowers your cost per round to 34 cents per round, which is still more than buying cheap factory ammo. Even if the brass is free, it still costs 32 cents per round.
However, if we are going to do that, let’s also consider that I have to buy the tools, so let’s call it $300 or so. Then there is also my time, which is worth something. It takes over an hour to load 1200 rounds. Then there is the chance that you will make a mistake and destroy one of your firearms with a double charge, which has a much higher probability of happening with a reload than with quality factory ammo.
So that’s why I have never really wanted to get into reloading. Hey, if you like sitting at the reloading bench and rolling your own, I support that. Don’t think that I am attacking reloaders. Shoot sports is filled with all kinds, and if you enjoy loading ammo, knock yourself out. Just don’t say that you are doing it to save money.
Two black men shoot and kill a 66 year-old white man in New Orleans. The handyman was installing a mailbox outside a home. One of them tells cops they just “wanted to kill a white person.” Note that there are no “hate crime” charges pending.
Nope. Nothing to see here.