An Actual AR Used In A Crime!
Man bites dog in its rarity!Sadly, there's something very typical about this story (from the link):Both men had extensive arrest records. Gualtieri said Witchard had 18 prior arrests on 33 different...
View ArticleRust Never Sleeps
And it's sneaky and insidious.Anodizing, bluing and parkerization help prevent it, but aren't proof against it.I've seen many guns rusted from being left in cloth gun cases and then stored in the...
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Coming Up Short
Putting Weer'd's entry on the 15th for Mosin del día means I'm missing a Mosin for the 14th, 16th and the rest of the month.For such a ubiquitous rifle, hardly anyone seems to be willing to send off a...
View ArticleIs Newer Better
Thanks to my retro fascination, I have some vintage parts!The XM177 series came with skinny round handguards and starting with the XM177E1 an aluminum buttstock coated in vinyl acetate.The M4 series...
View ArticleConstitutional Carry In New Hampshire?
Probably be vetoed again, but their state congress keeps trying.
View ArticleNine
Nine years ago my mom died.The pain is more bearable, not lessened.We often didn't get along, which makes her absence oddly felt.Fuck cancer!Ironically it was a bone cancer that metastasized into her...
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In Seven Years
I've had my first short barreled rifle for just over seven years.In that time I have been asked to show my tax stamp a total of zero times.In that time I've seen others shooting their short barreled...
View ArticleOne Thing Follows The Other
"We will not be silenced!" Moms Demand Action.No shit. You don't like guns, so you're not going to buy suppressors.
View ArticleNot A Fan
Perhaps the best thing about being generally disdainful of Sportsball™ is never having a need for ESPN, thus feeling no sense of loss or disappointment about how political they've become.Related to...
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Magazine
Have you ever sold an AR?Have you noticed a reluctance to part with any of your precious magazines so the buyer can have a shootable gun?Scars from the dark days of the AWB I think.
View ArticleOut For Delivery
Joy!My order is out for delivery!Dammit!"Adult signature required."I'm the only one here. Good thing they think chronological age makes one an adult.Take that UPS!But with signature required, the...
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Once de Mosin
1943 Izhevsk 91/30 sniper. Arsenal refurbished, but with its original scope and all numbers still matching!
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This is Kaylee.
Kaylee is my first AR-15. She started life as an attempt to make a clone of an XM177E2. Unfortunately, I didn't know much about XM177E2's when I started; in fact I thought CAR-15 was the proper...
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Doce de Mosin
1938 Izhevsk M91/30 "low wall". Lovingly refurbished and stored for decades.
View ArticleSolemn Vow
Willard has taken a solemn vow to not accompany me to any more pawn shops, no matter how bad the parking, until he's at least test fired the purchase from the previous visit to a pawn shop with shitty...
View ArticleAll Your Climate Change Denial In One Place
It's pretty dense reading, but worth the time.Part 1.Part 2.Part 3.Part 4-A.Part 4-B.Part 5-A.Part 5-B.Part 6.Part 7. It's got all the charts and graphs and explanations about how the global warming...
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Size Comparison
L to R:DS Arms SA58 Standard with a 21" barrel, modified to be more like an FN FAL 50.00.Springfield Armory SAR-48 with an 18" barrel.DS Arms SA58 Voyager with a 16" barrel.
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