With the entire Northwest on fire, it’s been smoky here for what seems like forever. Below is the view from my deck this morning, looking south and then west.
The other side of town is now invisible
Tastes like wood smoke this morning. The other day it was grass smoke.
By now you have heard about the terrible accident at the hands of a toddler, resulting in the death of his father. What more reason do we need to address the issue of gun control? Better yet, what greater example to envision a society where there are no guns…eliminating these types of accidents?
I can’t help but “go there” for a minute and think (putting this very, very unfortunate accident aside for a minute) how many lives would have been spared if there were no guns to end them. How would differences be settled? What other alternative would police officers take if it were not so easy to reach for their pistol and shoot a suspect?
Maybe we’d go back to the old days of man up…dukes up and fight it out.
I don’t recall many people dying from that, just bloody.
I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of people dying from being shot!
brainuser1
August 24, 2015
Toddler’s Fatal Shot of Dad Should Open Conversation About Greater Gun Control
[There are five things I find worth remembering from “brainuser1”.
1) This brainiac apparently can’t imaging there are tradeoffs in lives lost if there were no guns. If there were no guns then there would be only “lives spared”, not lives lost due to inability to defend innocent life.
2) The physically frail or even those just small of stature, in the view of this person, are not worthy of having a chance of defending themselves against large predators.
3) “People dying from being shot” is what is important. Not people dying from evil predators.
4) The specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms is not even on their radar screen.
5) Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
Make that five and a half things… They have crap for brains.—Joe]
Saturday I went to Whidbey Island for the steel match at Holmes Harbor Rod & Gun Club. I had specially practiced for this match last Thursday and had high hopes of doing well.
Here are the results:
| Name | Division | Time |
| Steve M. | RF-O | 44.92 |
| Steve M. | RF-RI-O | 45.6 |
| Brian L. | RF-RI-O | 46.35 |
| Jeff K. | RF-RI-O | 52.72 |
| Alex V. | RF-RI-O | 56.15 |
| Jeff D. | RF-O | 63.2 |
| Joe H. | RF-I | 67.22 |
| MAC | RF-O | 69.61 |
| Jim D. | RF-O | 71.43 |
| Brian L. | RF-I | 77.43 |
| Susan K. | RF-O | 81.4 |
| Joe H. | CF-I | 82.13 |
| Bruce B. | CF-I | 82.43 |
| Bruce B. | CF-I | 83.73 |
| Mitch H. | RF-I | 96.04 |
| Brian L. | CF-I | 98.47 |
| MAC | CF-RV-I | 98.71 |
| Jeff K. | CF-I | 99.08 |
| Rev B. | RF-O | 100.7 |
| Jeff D. | CF-I | 101.08 |
| John H. | CF-I | 115 |
| Jeff S. | CF-I | 141.44 |
| Bekah H. | RF-I | 351.29 |
I won in both rimfire iron sighted (RF-I) and centerfire iron sighted (CF-I). In a similar match last month I had times of 69.39 seconds and 82.6 seconds compared to this months 67.22 and 82.13 seconds. Those differences are essentially in the noise unless the stages were more difficult this month but comparison of other shooters between the months doesn’t show a clear pattern so I’m going with I didn’t shoot measurably better this month. I had a lot of misses so I think I probably was doing the transitions quickly enough to make up for the misses. If I can combine the speed up in transitions with accuracy then I might see some improvement.
Here are pictures of the stages. You can play a game of “Where’s the tennis ball?” in each of the pictures to discover the starting aiming point for people shooting rimfire guns.
I used my video glasses to record most of the stages. Again I forgot to turn on the glasses for one of the stages.
I was very pleased with one string (starting at 0.00:24). I shot five targets in 1.94 seconds. The first shot took about 0.77 seconds so the remaining four had an average split time of less than 0.30 seconds.
It was hazy from all the smoke but I had a nice ferry ride on my way home:
When you look at the city of Detroit, we’re kind of leading the way in terms of urban areas with law-abiding citizens carrying guns.
James Craig
Detroit Police Chief
August 2015
Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief’s call to arms
[It’s a great article.—Joe]
Dear ammosexuals, not all gun owners have teensy, tiny peens- most of them are actually nice normal people with perfectly normal sized genitalia. The ones with the 1/10 scale bonzai boners are you clowns who can’t shut the fuck up about your penis extensions and insist on doing stupid things like parading around fast food establishments with the biggest long gun you can find strapped to your back as you scare the shit out of everyone around you in your nonstop quest to validate your childish concept of “freedumb”. If you weren’t such annoying assholes and a danger to the community thanks to your stupid stunts we wouldn’t have any reason to tease you about your miniature manhood. Millions of sportsmen, collectors and other gun enthusiasts manage to go through life without being pushy, obsessive jerks about guns- the day you idjits figure out how to do so too is the day we’ll quit teasing you about your itty bitty dangly bits.
zippy_w_pinhead
February 12, 2015
Comment to How All Your Favorite Liberal Blogs Muffed The Yoga Pants Bill (Which Does Not Exist)
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
This is what they think of you, freedom, and gun rights activists.—Joe]
If you just shut up, you can beat almost any straw purchase charge.
John Risenhoover
Former ATF special agent
August 21, 2015
Amid Dearth of Federal Action on Straw Buyers, States Forge Ahead on Their Own
[And that will never change without universal gun registration. And of course that is essentially impossible, illegal under the Bill of Rights, would be widely ignored, and if push came to shove the odds of it escalating to something much higher on the force continuum would be very likely.—Joe]
The days of wetting your pants to ward off rapists are coming to an end. The days of shooting center mass are emerging. This is a positive trend.
GLaDOS
August 21, 2015
Comment to Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief’s call to arms
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
I reserved the training bay at the local indoor range last night and put about 600 rounds of .22 down range:
I had noticed something when I watched Master and Grandmaster class shooters. When they transition between targets they move the gun much faster than I do. Why don’t I do that?
I set up the simulated steel challenge stage with paper targets with the largest possible angle I could get in the range and still keep the bullets in the berm from 30 feet away:
The stop “plate” is the center target so I could test shooting left to right and right to left. And a secondary test was an order of shooting question I had wondered about for years (1, 2, 4, 5, 3 versus 1, 2, 5, 4, 3).
First I shot as I normally do and found the order of shooting didn’t make any difference. And although it was more comfortable for me to shoot left to right it didn’t make a measurable difference in my time. It was always between about 4.6 and 4.9 seconds.
I tried swinging the gun faster between targets. Maximum acceleration then stopping on target long enough to fire an aimed shot then maximum acceleration to the next target. I found it took me quite a bit longer to get the gun settled on the target compared to the way I usually do it. The end result was that I ended up with essentially the same times.
But I kept trying. At about 300 rounds my time just dropped by a full second. It wasn’t gradual. It was just the same as usual on one string of fire and the next was a full second faster. It continued to be in the 3.6 second range and when I sometimes messed up with a target acquisition and it took something like 4.5 seconds it seemed like forever. 4.5 seconds a few minutes earlier would have been a good run.
I pushed a little harder and even had a few runs that were in the 2.8 to 2.9 range. That’s almost two seconds off my previous times. That a reduction of about 40 percent! I backed off some so that I was consistent and was steady at about 3.6 seconds per string. I continued shooting until I ran out of time trying to condition my brain and muscles to make this a comfortable habit.
My gun got so hot I couldn’t hold onto the barrel and I found out when I cleaned it tonight the front sight had come loose. The heat had probably degraded Loctite on the threads.
The gun also got quite dirty on the outside as well as the inside:
I’ll find out at the steel match tomorrow if the training stuck. If it did and I can shoot as fast and accurately tomorrow as I could last night I will be very pleased.
Kelly and Giffords, both gun owners themselves, actually do not support “gun control” in the traditional sense of the phrase. Instead they are in favor of “gun responsibility.”
Sean Quinn
Staff Writer
Essex News Daily
August 20, 2015
Former WO astronaut lobbies for gun responsibility
[It is an interesting sequence of names these type of people use:
The general trend is they used to openly state they wanted to ban guns. Then it was just “control” them. Then it was “prevent gun violence”. Then their goal was “gun safety”. And as of yesterday we know the next deceptive phrase they are going to use to try and infringe upon our specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms is “gun responsibility”.
They should just give it up. We aren’t going to be fooled by this attempt to sucker us either.—Joe]
I just felt the need to get involved because of how personal that event felt and how upset it made me feel.
Amy Schumer
August 8, 2015
Amy Schumer: ‘I Think It’s Money’ to Blame for Gun Control Problem
[I find it very telling that her actions and thoughts are based on her feelings rather than on data and analysis. She is apparently one of those people, as it typical of anti-gun people, who don’t know how to determine truth from falsity.—Joe]
Hat tip; Uncle
That’s what I envision whenever people speak of shooting their guns. Why would you even think of shooting a perfectly good gun on purpose?
I fire mine a lot, I’ve shot a few deer and a lot of cans and bottles and other things, but I’ve never shot a gun.
It may annoy some people, but I find the fact that words mean things to be both convenient and comforting. If I seem over-zealous at times, that is the reason why– I LIKE words to mean things, and I like them to mean the same things in the future as they did in the past. The trend of course is something else.
There are a lot of them that aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Steve Bucci
Security expert and former top Pentagon official
August 17, 2015
Price for TSA’s failed body scanners: $160 million
[Never forget that they even have TSA backward. A more accurate acronym is AST (A Security Theater).—Joe]
Update: This product is being taking off the direct to customer market. See this post for more information.
I received a free can of Interflon Fin Super for review a while back and have been using it on my guns and in a few around the house applications. Here is a portion of the email I received about it:
Hi Joe,
I am writing to you because I represent a lubricant called Fin Super. Fin Super is a multi-purpose spray. It is not very well known in the states, but has been used for a number of years by military and police brigades for firearm lubrication in Europe.
Do you accept product to conduct reviews on your blog? If so, I would be happy to send you a sample to try. The feedback I get is always overwhelmingly positive.
I have included some info about Fin Super. In the attachments you will find:
-a review written by a friend who has been using Fin Super for the past three years
-A picture of what the can looks like
-An article translated from an Italian Firearms magazine (the translations isn’t great but the information is very useful)A copy of the article is included in text form lower in the email.
Lastly, here are some useful links:
Company site:
www.interflon.comProduct Page:
http://www.interflon.com/ca/en/products/570/interflon-fin-super-%28aerosol%29Technical data sheet:
http://www.interflon.com/asset/download/2866Safety data sheet:
http://www.interflon.com/asset/download/16513
Here are the two supplied reviews of the product and a picture of the container:
You can purchase Interflon Fin Super from Amazon.
I have been wanting a dry lubricant for my guns for some time. I frequently am in a very dirty environment and the oil on guns attracts even more dirt. Notice the dirt build up in the rear of the slide below:
Another problem with liquid lubricants, particularly with my .22s, it seemed that they contributed to the build up of powder residue in the receivers. Dry lubricants should reduce that problem.
And finally I have shot in matches where it was very cold, sub-zero, and because I had been using appropriate lubricants I had higher scores than Master class shooters because their guns turned into single shots instead of semi-auto because the slide would not go into battery without manual assistance. Dry lubricants don’t have this problem.
I had two main concerns I wanted to test:
I was initially annoyed when I applied the lubricant as directed and even after 24 hours the interior surfaces of the gun were still wet. I agree with one of the supplied reviews on this topic (emphasis added):
One essential – and actually, in terms of the way it appears, almost unique – characteristic of Fin Super is that it is a semi-dry detergent-lubricant-protective product (the manufacturer considers it to be “dry”, but we think our definition is more accurate). After it has been applied to metal after giving the bottle a short but necessary shake, it evaporates slowly leaving a highly adhesive film offering the great advantage that it does not grease or stain the hands and clothes, nor does it attract dust or dirt.
I had closed the action of the gun and put it in my holster with a loaded magazine and a round in the chamber. Of course evaporation is going to be unlikely in that environment. I tested it again by leaving the gun unassembled and having an incandescent light bulb shine on it from a few inches away overnight. The surfaces were no longer wet but had a film that wasn’t really wet and adhered well.
After shooting hundreds of rounds through the gun the barrel cleaned up easily. Perhaps easier than it would have with Friction Defense. The film was still detectable with a rub of your finger over the surfaces and hence the lubricant had passed my two tests. But the slow drying brought up another question.
What if you were to apply the lubricant and take it into a cold environment before it had dried? The same reviewer I quoted above had this to say (emphasis added):
Let’s take a look at the stated chemical and physical properties: this is a semi-synthetic PTFE (Teflon) oil with a medium density (0.85 grams per millilitre at 20°C), flash point at 80° C and self-ignition at 370° C, a muddy yellow-nut brown colour common to many products to which Teflon has been added, almost insoluble in water, usable between -43° C and +170° C (although it should be pointed out that after application and vaporation of solvents the product remains effective at between -200 and +300° C).
Okay. -43 C (-45.4F) is probably below the temperature I will be using it. But what does “usable” mean? Will the gun still cycle at low temperatures? I applied the lubricant to all the usual surfaces of the gun and without wiping the excess off put the gun in the freezer (6.2F) for several hours. When I pulled it out it was almost instantly covered in frost. I should have taken a picture because it was a pretty funny looking gun with the frost growing on all the metal surfaces. But despite the cold and frost the slide and hammer moved as freely as they do at normal temperatures.
Interflon Fin Super has passed all my tests and I’m now using it on all my guns (when I get around to cleaning them). The price does seem to be a bit high ($28.00 + $7.49 shipping from Amazon). But at the current rate of consumption I’m sure the can will supply enough lubrication such that each gun cleaning will only amount to a few pennies. I can live with that for the benefits of having a semi-dry lubricant.
No one wants to disarm anyone.
We want to reduce hand guns IN PUBLIC.
David De Santis
June 2, 2014
Comment to Editorial: More gun violence, but not prevention
[Not only is prosecuting people for handgun possession in public infringing upon the “keep and bear arms” section of the Bill of Rights De Santis’s statement is self-contradictory. This conclusively demonstrates it is non-sensical from an epistemological view. This means De Santis does not know what it means to know things.
And yes, he actually wrote that in consecutive sentences. He didn’t write three paragraphs and arrive at a different void in his mind where communication from void A to void B was nothing but static. This had to be part of the same void or else these voids in his mind are so close together they have merged into one.
Apparently Mr. Crap for Brains David De Santis, like many anti-gun people, is nothing but a vacuous noise maker.—Joe]
Now the paid nra #tinycockclub is pretending they aren’t paid. Some are even pretending to be women. Their rage is funny. #bokbok #gunsense
Bacon @Baconmints
Tweeted on December 23, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a Tweet from BFD @BigFatDave.—Joe]
I participated in a USPSA match at Marysville (Washington) today. For some reason I was extremely nervous for the first stage. My stomach was tied in knots and my shooting suffered. The second stage I shot (Killer B’s) I felt better but I still shot extremely poor. I had three misses and hit a no shoot target. It was a tough stage and two people zeroed it. But I shouldn’t have had problem with it. After that I settled down and did okay. But only in one stage (Dirty Mike) was I rather pleased with my results. But that wasn’t the stage that I did the best in compared to everyone else. I did the best in the classifier where I came in 3rd out of 17 in Limited and 7th out of 43 overall. Seven people zeroed that stage.
In Limited I came in 7th out of 17:
| Place | Name | Member # | Class | Division | PF | Lady | Mil | Law | For | Match Pts | Match % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoang, Vinh | TY55787 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 577.3837 | 100.000 % |
| 2 | Parkison, Ian | TY91657 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 560.3346 | 97.047 % |
| 3 | Leander, Mike | A28558 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 532.9299 | 92.301 % |
| 4 | Tsang, Keith | A71578 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 469.3082 | 81.282 % |
| 5 | Purcell, Greg | FY23884 | G | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 448.1394 | 77.616 % |
| 6 | Huggins, Rick | A88883 | C | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 417.1654 | 72.251 % |
| 7 | Huffman, Joe | TY29386 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 395.2001 | 68.447 % |
| 8 | Sherman, Tod | TY37515 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 379.3488 | 65.701 % |
| 9 | Huang, Jemy | TY71576 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 364.1748 | 63.073 % |
| 10 | Roessel, Gary | A2757 | B | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 340.5804 | 58.987 % |
| 11 | Domingo, Emilio | A86951 | D | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 317.6713 | 55.019 % |
| 12 | Beaman, Earl | A91163 | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 315.8587 | 54.705 % |
| 13 | Russ, Kimberly | TY59608 | C | LTD | MINOR | Y | N | N | N | 310.1970 | 53.725 % |
| 14 | Adam, Brandi | A73942 | C | LTD | MINOR | Y | N | N | N | 303.3375 | 52.537 % |
| 15 | Steward, Jim | A91246 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 292.0199 | 50.576 % |
| 16 | Crumpley, David | A89435 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 193.1871 | 33.459 % |
| 17 | Bregante, Carlos | TY4508 | C | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 158.8101 | 27.505 % |
I tested out video glasses I got from Amazon and have shooter point of view for all but one of the stages:
The configuration program for the glasses didn’t work so I couldn’t set the date and time on the glasses and I couldn’t turn off the time stamp. So all the video has the wrong time.
I forgot to turn the camera on for the stage that I messed up on the most. That is the stage I would have most liked to have the video for!
I am so proud of myself. I have exercised true gun control. I went to the gun store and only bought one gun.
Razor
August 14, 2015
Gun Control
[I can see this being considered reasonable gun control when visiting a gun store. But of course it’s self control not government control.
A great many of the political conflicts in this country find their roots in the battle between the individual and the collective. The collectivists think in terms of what the individual should be allowed to do and the individualists think in terms of what the collective should be allowed to do. This conflict was supposedly settled in this country with the U.S. Constitution over 200 years ago and resulted in the greatest nation, by almost any measure, the world has ever seen. We also have numerous collectivists examples to compare with such as the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.
The differences in outcomes between the collectivists and the individualists are so stark I can only conclude people that still push for the implementation of the collectivist vision are mentally ill and/or evil.—Joe]
It turns out that unlike many of the elements common on earth gold cannot be created as part of the nuclear reactions in stars as they burn their low atomic weight fuels. So scientists have wondered where gold comes from. They now have an answer to that question:
Unlike elements like carbon or iron, it cannot be created within a star. Instead, it must be born in a more cataclysmic event – like one that occurred last month known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB). Observations of this GRB provide evidence that it resulted from the collision of two neutron stars – the dead cores of stars that previously exploded as supernovae. Moreover, a unique glow that persisted for days at the GRB location potentially signifies the creation of substantial amounts of heavy elements – including gold.
“We estimate that the amount of gold produced and ejected during the merger of the two neutron stars may be as large as 10 moon masses – quite a lot of bling!” says lead author Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
The alchemists of a few hundred years ago that attempted to turn lead and other common materials into gold apparently just needed much bigger hammers.
There’s been a number of changes in gun laws in states all across the United States in the past several years, a number of pushes to purchase these high capacity magazines, for fear that they may not be legally available some time in the future, and now is it possible that now maybe some of those are making their way to the major cities? We don’t know, but for some reason they are showing up in all major cities.
Cathy Lanier
D.C. police chief
August 13, 2015
DC’s Top Cop Accidentally Makes The Case Against Gun Control
[Let me get this straight. Lanier knows that people are buying standard capacity magazines because of laws being passed to ban them. Then she wonders why people in major cities own them?
Does she have a problem with forgetting facts she expressed only seconds earlier when she attempts to ask a question?
As Emily Miller said, “I don’t think the IQ is all that high.”
Let me spell it out for you Ms. “Crap For Brains” Lanier. People in the cities own them in increasing numbers because authoritarians like you are trying to ban them. Stop trying to ban them and there would be less demand for them. And, this is the really important part for people like you to grasp, if you stop trying to ban guns the less likely they are to be used on you.—Joe]
I had a woman who was probably in her 70s, very sharp and alert; she came into the store and said, ‘I want an AR-15’. I said, ‘Are you sure?’ She said, ‘Absolutely. Obama says I can’t have one, so I want one.’
John Burrud
Owner of Loveland Colorado firearms store Jensen Arms
August 13, 2015
Politics, not violence, increase gun permits, sales.
[Obama, the greatest gun salesman of all time.
It’s an interesting dilemma the ant-gun people have. Any serious political push results in increasing the number of gun owners. If they don’t bring the fight to us then we take the fight to them against their weakest points.
It seems to me the only hope they have is to change the minds of the public at large before they can hope to make progress. But we have a significant advantage in that regard. They don’t have anti-gun ranges where people get a big smile on their face when they learn to not use a gun.—Joe]