What Illinois Avoided... So Far... And What To Do About It.

While we are stuck w/ Chicago and a herd of ignorant, anti-gun politicians, we are also blessed w/ some sh!t-hot lobbyists from the NRA and ISRA who were able to get the word out about the attempts to push their bills days before it happened, giving us a chance to mobilize by the tens of thousands and beat them back for the time being. At least at the state level.  Federally we have the Lightbringer.

NY was not so lucky.  Their plutocrats filed and jammed through a vote effectively banning all semi-auto firearms w/in hours.  I'm sure that's what the Founding Fathers intended for this nation.

If you are a firearm owner, instead of panic buying one more 20rnd magazine at $75, use that money to sign up and donate to the groups so they can keep affording to send lobbyists and lawyers out to do battle. Send an email. Sign up family members.

 If you haven't bothered to take the time to make phone calls to your local, state, and federal legislators, written the paper or joined the NRA, SAF and/or your local/state firearm rights organizations, do NOT come out bitching AFTER the SHTF and they manage to pass something stupid.

Just sayin'.  We've fought it back here so far but if you think it's over, go ahead and just sell your toys now.  They obviously don't mean that much. 

Anti-Gun Rally; Wilmette IL

From the ISRA:

EVENT DETAILS

WHEN: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 2:00 PM

WHERE: Wilmette Public Library, 1242 Wilmette AVE, Wilmette, IL

WHO: This event is being hosted by a band of gun controllers including Mark Walsh of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence; Lee Goodman of Stop Concealed Carry Coalition and; Jennifer Bishop of the Million Mom March. These people are the real deal - the hard core top dogs of the gun control movement. These are the people leading the charge to raid your gun safe and confiscate and destroy your guns. These are the people who want to prevent you from carrying defensive firearms. These are the people who don't care if you or your family members are raped, robbed and murdered by violent criminals. They only care about one thing - disarming you.

So IOW the Joyce Foundation is making a push in Illinois w/ their paid puppet groups that have zero to little membership. 

Let's show them what 'grassroots' means.

CPD BS

What do you do when your boss wants a reason to promote more anti-gun legislation? 

Stage a press conference w/ a bunch of scary looking guns and claim they've been seized in just two weeks. 




What do you do when your story is found out to be crap and the guns are ones that have been allegedly confiscated over the last year? 

Come up w/ a bunch of lame-ass excuses why the 'real' guns couldn't be displayed.

 Police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said the department had intended to show this year’s seizures, but the firearms weren’t inventoried in time. The weapons shown “match the guns that we took off the street” in characteristics like maker and caliber, she said.

 Here's my question.  Why the hell should we believe them?  They're 'representative' of one of the most corrupt gov'ts in the US and who have threatened the lives of firearm owners should CCW pass in IL. They will do and say anything to get their pet laws passed. 

So no, I don't believe the CPD has seized this many 'representative' firearms.  I believe this entire event was staged for the media. 


 

What Josh Sugarmann Left Out

In a typical rant about how evil gun owners, manufacturers, etc are by daring to hold the annual SHOT show and showcase *GASP* guns, he states this:

By shutting out the mainstream news media and doing its best to limit SHOT Show access to industry journalists, NSSF hopes that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

 Nowhere in the entire article does he mention that HE has access to the SHOT show through his highly suspect FFL license.

In reality, we all know that Josh is the one celebrating as the firearm industry is the only thing keeping him employed.

Ammo Review: PMC .45 230 gr.

As a disclaimer, I am neither a professional nor a competitive shooter. I don’t do IDPA, USPSA, ABCD or any other tactical alphabet shooting. I did regularly qualify on the M9 while in the Army Reserve so there is that. I’m just an average firearm owner that likes to hit the range and perforate pieces of innocent paper and cans whenever I get the chance. That being said, the folks at LuckyGunner have kindly asked me to review different types of ammo for other firearm owners.

The first thing I can say is their shipping and customer service were top notch. Being from Illinois, I needed to send in copies of my FOID and Driver’s license. A quick scan and email took care of this and my package was shipped out the next day, arriving a few days later. There were regular Email follow-ups to make sure it had arrived and how I felt about the service.

 The ammo they sent me was PMC brand, 45 ACP 230gr. FMJ. I shot 100 rounds out of a Rock Island Armory 1911A1 using various magazines at 10 yrds. Weather was a nice 60 degrees and partly cloudy with a light breeze.

Out of those 100 rounds, I had zero misfires, hangfires or dud rounds. This particular handgun has cycling issues (typical of a cheap 1911) and the PMC did neither better nor worse than other brands in regards to that. Accuracy was on par to my abilities and the penetration of ‘plinking’ targets (an old garbage can, dryer, among others) was good. The ammo is on the dirty side however as I noticed considerable carbon buildup on the rounds I cycled out by hand, about the same as another brand famous for being ‘dirty’.

Overall this is an inexpensive round worth your money for basic range use and plinking. I would not recommend it for high performance competitions.

The One Shot Wonder

Yes, Anti-Gun Legislators really are this stupid:

 AN ACT CONCERNING RESTRICTIONS ON GUN USE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to establish a class C felony offense, except for certain military and law enforcement personnel and certain gun clubs, for (1) any person or organization to purchase, sell, donate, transport, possess or use any gun except one made to fire a single round, (2) any person to fire a gun containing more than a single round, (3) any person or organization to receive from another state, territory or country a gun made to fire multiple rounds, or (4) any person or organization to purchase, sell, donate or possess a magazine or clip capable of holding more than one round.
Statement of Purpose:
To reduce the use of guns for criminal purposes.

Any questions as to whether their goal is 'safety'? 

Range Day Saturday (Finally)

Finally got a combination of (semi) decent weather and some time to hit the range today. Took out the RIA 1911 and dropped 100 rounds through it. 

The 1911 is going away. I've had endless problems w/ it since day one.  The sights were (visibly) off so I sent it back to the factory where they replaced it.  It still will not feed correctly, religiously not wanting to load the first two rounds out of any magazine then having regular problems after that.  Doesn't matter which ammo I'm using.  So yeah, it and all my .45 ammo is going on the table at the next show. 

BUT, right before it started raining, the mail showed and these little doohickeys were in the box:

 Headspace gauges for my Mosin.  A quick check (all good) and I grabbed my bag and a box of ammo and ran back down to the range. It made a nice bang w/ less recoil than I expected.

The scope is off.  Low and to the right. Just to make it sure it wasn't me, before I got deluged, I shot off a round using the iron sights.  Dead center on a can of PAM at 25m.

The internal magazine is looser than what I'm used to on the Mausers so that will take me awhile to get used to but overall I'm happy w/ the rifle. I can definitely see the fascination w/ Mosins. 

With luck the valley will not turn into a marsh or completely freeze over and I can get back down there w/ the table and I can zero the Mosin and the 10/22 w/ the scope I just put on it.

 Overall a successful day IMO.

Bloomberg "Pharmacies and Poor People Cause Drug Crime"

King Bloomie is a complete lunatic. He's limiting the number of painkillers at city hospitals because he blames doctors for drug crime.

  the number of pain pills currently being prescribed had even contributed to an uptick in violent crimes...

 “You see there’s a lot more hold-ups of pharmacies, people getting held up as they walk out of pharmacies,” he explained. “What are they all about? They’re not trying to steal your shaving cream or toothpaste at the point of a gun. They want these drugs.”

And when people run out?  To bad so sad:

  so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit. The other side of the coin is people are dying and there’s nothing perfect … There’s nothing that you can possibly do where somebody isn’t going to suffer,

 While Bloomie sits in his ivory tower w/ private doctors, publicly paid for security and a god complex the likes of which God doesn't even have.

"The shooting may have been gang-related"

That is a common refrain when it comes to murders in Chicago, home of some of the strictest firearm laws in the nation and 5x the homicide rate of the rest of the state.

None of that really matters though when anti-gun activists will try and focus the entire debate on the headline:


Boys, 14 and 15, killed in separate shootings Friday 

 At least one was a 'good boy' who never did anything wrong.  OK, sure.

Again though, the facts behind it don't matter when it comes to emotional diatribes. It doesn't matter if there's a juvie record a mile long, if they're school drop outs or were involved in illegal drugs.  The ONLY thing that anti-gun fanatics will say, over and over, is that two 'children' were 'killed by guns'. 

No focus on the other gang bangers involved.

Only the guns.

Authorized Journalist Fail

MLK day is January 21st.

The SAF is holding its 'Gun Appreciation Day' on January 19th.(I'm planning on getting some range time in)

Dumbass Journalist (bolding in original) :

Anyone who thinks they picked January 19th, which happens to be Martin Luther King Day, by accident is terribly mistaken: By choosing to hold their “kiss your gun day” at the same time most sane Americans will be recalling a man who died by gunfire and lived his life for peace, the gun lovers are going for maximum publicity and news exposure.

Please tell me if I'm missing something.

This is the kind of sloppy, emotionally driven drivel that we see from PuSH'ers when it comes to firearms.  Even basic facts don't matter.

There Is No Gun Confiscation Plans...

Until there is.

A 'Slippery Slope' is a logical fallacy where an argument is taken one step at a time to a ridiculous conclusion.  One could call this one except for the fact that over and over politicians have proven they cannot be trusted and WILL eventually try and ban guns.

Take a look at Sebastian TBFKASIH's post on what NY is trying to pass:

 Currently, licenses for handguns are issued by the county in which the gun owner lives. With few exceptions, licenses are valid for life. .... once a license is obtained, there is no subsequent check to determine whether the holder is still eligible to own a gun. Governor Cuomo will propose a single standard across the state to ensure that appropriate checks can be run to bar convicted felons and other prohibited people from possessing firearms.

 So handgun owners will now be regularly shaken down for money because the state is incompetent in managing criminals.

Governor Cuomo will propose tightening our assault weapons ban and eliminating large capacity magazines regardless of date of manufacture.

So they will now ban property they previously promised was grandfathered.  Chicago is another perfect example.  Under Daddy Daley, a handgun registration was implemented for 'safety'.  Then they simply closed the offices and started raising fees.  Defacto ban.

Incremental steps like this will continue until you get politicians saying things like :

ban semi-automatic guns and “start taking them” from owners who refuse to surrender any illegal firearms through a buy-back program.

and have the proposal taken seriously and workable instead of by a fanatical crackpot.

So next time you hear about 'compromise' or 'reasonable gun control', just remember what they're really after.