Ninth Stage

You need not wonder why.
Kellerman’s numbers may have changed, but so have his terms.
The original (and debunked) quote was, “a gun owner is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than an intruder.” The new and improved quote is, “guns kept in the home were 12 times more likely to be involved [...]

I hope, for the artist’s sake, that he has an FFL.  And ran a NICS on his buyers.  And observed CA’s 10 day waiting period before transferring his blinged up rifles.

Among the most accurate descriptions of a weapon I’ve read in the media in a long time.
Pendleton said several shots were fired from a semi-automatic AK-47-type . . .
And then they blow it completely.
. . . assault rifle inside the house and several more were fired on the outside.
Folks, folks, folks.  Semi-automatic rifles are [...]

for President.

“But we cannot, and will not, abandon the values of our most valuable and precious republican base. I speak of course of the NRA. <clunk clank-clunk chunk zip-chunk>”
Via Kevin Baker.

You have to be pretty smart to dismiss a point by point refutation of your argument with a simple “nu-uhh”. I guess just about as smart as an M.D.
Via Uncle.

If Kevin can do this with a brand new rifle, why couldn’t Lon Horiuchi hit what he was aiming for with his business rifle?  Oh wait, he did.

Makarov.com is going TU.  Get your goodies now, while they last.
Via Ah Shoot!

Videos.  You get your race-gun hybri-comp plus compensator in action, an AR-15 showing ejection and bolt bounce 2 times,  there’s your CUTAWAY(!) 1911 in action, with and without restraints, an S&W Scandium 340 smashing some dudes hand, plus a bonus feature of I don’t know what.  All courtesy of Tripp Research.
Via da geek!

You probably remember Metal Storm as the company making those programmable high speed electronic “machine” guns seen on you-tube. Now Metal Storm seems to be having financial problems.
[I]n its 1999 prospectus, [Metal Storm] hypothesised that it could earn as much as $1.1billion in revenues from its technology over five years.
At the time it also [...]

There’s a post over at Accurate Shooter about overbore cartridges with an accompanying chart purporting to list cartridges in order of their “overboreness”. I commented:
Volume/area is a poor proxy for “overboreness”. I haven’t thought it through yet but since a .50 bmg is basically a scaled up ‘06 it should equal a 30?06 in [...]

Congratulations to Kevin on his new rifle.  It’s all dressed up and ready to go.  I’ve heard great reviews from others about the 700 R5, yours should shoot like a dream too.  I particularly like that spirit level [wink].

I know it’s not scientific but I’ll take my pleasure where I find it. And I know it doesn’t “give”, it protects.
USA Today poll: Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?

We’re winning 32 to 1.

Anti-freedom Clark Garen proposes on his website here that we:
1. Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.
2. Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, [...]

Now there’s a documentary about girls and guns, A Girl and a Gun (really, judging by the previews, it’s girls and guns). Trailer here and more here.

The cause of Cowboy Blob’s piston upper KaBOOM has been diagnosed and a new upper is on the way.
POF-USA did an autopsy on my kaBoomed upper:
[snip]
They’re going to build me a new upper and bill Wolf for it.
(I still think it should be “KaBLOOM”)

Syd on why he doesn’t carry a gun.  My favorite (and pretty much my reason):
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
There are plenty more.

STI has ceased all shipments of firearms to California.
The move by STI comes after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed microstamping legislation into law. “This law is not going to stop criminals, it is only going to hurt law-abiding citizens in the state,” STI’s Pauletta Skinner told Bullet Points. “We felt like we had to take a [...]

Cowboy Blob’s Patriot Ordnance .223 gas-piston upper is no more, with photos. The upper took a Beta-C Mag with it.
ADDED:  Since it belongs to Cowboy Blob, shouldn’t it be kaBLOOM?

At CBS, The Skinny is “Keach Hagey’s take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet.”
Yesterday a topic was the reaction to The Skinny’s earlier coverage of the WaPo story “U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico“. Hagey distills readers take on the story with.
Skinny readers, it turns out, [...]

Tonight Nashville’s WKRN Channel 2 news at 10 had segment called “Life of a Gun”. Mostly it’s trying to find controversy over a Sheriff office selling confiscated guns.
Classie Wilson was killed by 14 year old using a recycled handgun. The gun had been”traded in” by the Maury County Sheriff in 2001. [...]