Month: September 2008

Bob Moates Sport Shop Settling

According to the Wall Street Journal:

In an out-of-court settlement, the former holdout, Bob Moates Sport Shop, Midlothian, Va., agreed to tougher rules for selling guns, according to a copy of the agreement reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The new rules are based directly on stricter standards Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest gun seller, adopted earlier this year in a voluntarily agreement with a gun-control group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

You made a deal with the devil Bob Moates, and I’m afraid it will likely cost you your business.  Just ask Smith & Wesson.  You can’t give into bullies.  You have to fight them.  By giving in, you’ve encouraged Bloomberg to find more shops to beat up.  Fortunatly, Bloombergs little sting is now a crime in Virginia, but that’s not going to get other states off the hook.

Spread the word.  Don’t shop at Bob Moates Sport Shop.

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When Unions Lie

Unions should be ashamed of themselves for lying to their members like this:

Trumka, an avid hunter and fisher, says corporate interests will again seek to exploit the issue of gun ownership this year, hoping to distract gun-owning voters from real issues like jobs, health care and retirement security. This election is too important to let distortions and falsehood affect it, Trumka says.

It’s not corporate issues seeking to exploit this.  Am I a corporate interest?  Are NRA’s 4 million members corporate interests?  No.  You can’t hide from Obama’s record.  Union members need to be aware of their leadership attempting to pull the wool over their eyes this election in hopes they’ll be good little union members, and pull the lever for the O-man.  Let’s hope the union folks are smarter than their leadership gives them credit for come November.

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The WaPo Has Some Gall

The Washington Post are taking Mark Warner to task for getting behind the bill to force DC to comply with Heller:

It was jarring, however, to see Mr. Warner take a position at odds with his well-groomed image of a moderate. As he knows, D.C. officials already are working to bring the city in compliance with the ruling of the high court, and Mr. Warner would never countenance for Virginia a law as extreme as that proposed for the District.

What?  Do Journalists even bother to do research anymore?  Virginia’s gun laws are in numerous ways more liberal than those proposed for the District of Colombia by Congress.  In fact, that is the case in most states.  Here’s what you can do in Virginia you can’t do in DC, even if the proposed Heller enforcement bill becomes law:

  1. Get a license to carry a loaded firearm concealed.
  2. Carry concealed on a reciprocal license if you’re from another state.
  3. Carry any firearm loaded, openly, without a license.
  4. Buy a machine gun, suppressor, or short barreled rifle or shotgun.
  5. Own pistol ammunition that you don’t own a pistol for.

Mark Warner doesn’t have to countenance a law as “extreme” as the District’s for Virginia.  Virginia law is already better than the proposed law for D.C.!  And I won’t even get into the fact that Arlington and Fairfax Counties have crime rates that are a fraction of those found on the other side of the Potomac.

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The Palm Pistol

The Palm Pistol has been making its way around the gun blogs.  My first thought was that I can’t believe it’s not classified as an AOW, but I guess it’s designed to be fired by a single hand, so it’s hard to argue it should be.  My second thought was that I can’t believe there are still firearms innovations coming out of New Jersey.

UPDATE: Here’s the ATF approval letter for the Palm Pistol.

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Shooting the Gun Blog Rifle Match

Well, I spent most of the day at the range today working through the Summer Rifle Match.  Just to give you some background on my high-power experience, next Sunday I will shoot my club’s Garand match.  This will be the first formal high-power match I will ever have shot.  So far the only shooting sports I even have a classification for are NRA and IHMSA Air Pistol Silhouette, IHMSA Smallbore and IHMSA Field Pistol.  My high-power shooting has been entirely the occasional fun afternoon at the range.

The rifle I used was an AR-15, an Armalite M15A4, with open sights.  It’s a production gun with no modifications other than me adding the bird cage flash suppressor and bayonet lug after the AWB expired.  Doesn’t add much to the rifle shooting wise, but it felt good leaving that piece of garbage law behind.

Ammunition was hand loaded.  55 grain Hornady FMJBT w/ cannelure powered by 21 grains of IMR-4198 with a CCI 400 small rifle primers, all held together with unfired Lake City NATO spec brass.

Result:

  1. Standing Slow – 91 0X
  2. Sitting Rapid – 91 0X
  3. Prone Rapid – 94 1X
  4. Prone Slow – 95 0X

Total 371 out 400, but it seems I can’t find the X ring very often.  Some observations which I may or may not be crazy about.  For one, I could swear that hand loaded ammunition ejects brass is a more consistent pattern than factory ammunition.  My brass was usually in a nice arrangement on the ground.  I often have to hunt down factory ammo because it gets ejected wildly.  Two, I could swear my point of impact was lowering with the use of the sling, but I find it hard to believe the sling could bend the barrel down enough to matter.

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Proposed Rule Change

I’m proposing a minor rule revision to the rifle matches based on some of my experiences shooting the match today.  It was a busy day at the range, which taught me a few things about shooting a match with other people who are not.  I was seriously worried a few times I wasn’t going to finish before sunset.  Go see what you think.

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Obama Lies About Guns

Kurt got a response from Barack Obama’s Senate Office about guns:

On the other hand, I support the re-imposition of the ban on the sale of assault weapons that expired in September 2004 because I believe these guns are used primarily for criminal rather than sporting intent.

Again, Obama does not understanding what the Second Amendment is about, and he’s even dead wrong on the sporting intent.  I am about to go out and embarrass myself by attempting to shoot my evil “assault weapon” in the gun blogger summer rifle match.

Lest one of the Brady lurkers thinks this match was concocted out of thin air by myself need only check out this video by Robert of the Texas State Rifle Association’s Highpower Championship to see that’s its also common in sanctioned matches, and has been for years.  If either The Brady Campaign or the Obama Campaign want to explain how these firearms lack “sporting intent,” I’m all ears.

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Quote of the Day

Biden says that Obama better never come after his shotgun:

One of rural Democrats’ biggest fears about Obama? That he’ll come after the Second Amendment. Not so, said Biden — and he’d better not try.

“I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey,” Biden said angrily. “They’re going to start peddling that to you.”

“I got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.”

Biden has said he doesn’t hunt, but shoots skeet with his two firearms. “I like that little over and under, you know? I’m not bad with it,” he said today.

Yeah, except the Second Amendment ain’t about Crazy Joe’s over/under, or his alleged skeet shooting prowess (I’ll believe it when I see it).  Barack Obama not only doesn’t support the Second Amendment, he’s deeply offended by the entire idea.  The good thing in this is Biden comes off as disingenuous to even a slightly discerning ear.  Biden might think these guys are rubes, but we’ll see come November.

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How Dare She Challenge the Lightworker!

Mark Morford, who introduced us to Obama the Lightworker, has a new piece out on Sarah Palin:

It’s more accurate to say that every thoughtful or liberal or intuitive or open-minded white woman I know worth her vagina monologue and her self-determination and two centuries of nonstop striving for equal rights and sexual freedom and exhaustive patriarchal unshackling is right now openly horrified, appalled at what the addition of shrill PTA hockey-mom Sarah Palin seems to have done for the soggy, comatose McCain campaign — that is, make it not merely remotely interesting and melodramatic, but aggressively hostile to, well, to all intelligent women everywhere.

It is absolutely amazing anyone, including a major newspaper, takes this guy seriously.  Hat tip to Volokh.

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