Author: wizardpc

Freiheit shooting one of the M16s we had on hand. It had a 5.45 upper on it at the time (I know this because the 5.45 upper had the red zip-tie on it)

I have a coworker who recently asked me to give her some range instruction. She’d shot before, but she wasn’t familiar enough with how her new Ruger LCP operates to be comfortable. Naturally, I obliged.

This was our second session, so it was still pretty much the basic. Grip. Trigger control. Understanding the Four Rules. Sight picture.

She was loading four rounds per relay, and in one of them she got a nice “CLICK!” on the third round. She was shooting Blazer aluminium cased ammunition, so I figured it was primer-related. I talked her through clearing the malfunction and she fired the last round in the magazine with no problem.

I wanted to use this as a teachable moment about cheap practice ammo. “It’s not bad, but things like this are going to happen so just keep that in mind. Malfunctions like this happen all the time, and it’s not your gun.”

We loaded the same round in the top of the next magazine (Tam, I can hear you screaming from here) because I wanted to show her that bad primers will often fire on the second strike.

But I got a failure to feed. It seemed strange to me, too, the way it was hanging up on the feed ramp. I had to drop the magazine to clear it.

Now, I don’t have a .380 anymore, but that looked like the bullet was set back a bit. I pulled out another round from the box and sure enough it was a couple thousandths difference. I’m pretty sure that setback happened as a result of the failure to feed, but it’s possible it was preexisting and caused the FTF.

But then….something else didn’t look right, either:

Now, if you’re slow like me, you probably don’t see it. Here’s a 9mm round for reference:

Yeah. The rim is missing!

So this round had probably two, and possibly three, factory defects. We’re actually pretty lucky the primer was bad (although it could be that the case is slightly shorter than the chamber, so the firing pin didn’t hit deep enough) because extractors don’t work so well without something to grab on to.

The rest of the box was fine.

Awelowynt had a Slide Fire on his M&P15-22, but his barrel wasn’t threaded so we couldn’t put a suppressor on it.

So we did the next best thing and swapped uppers:

Putting a Slide Fire stock on a scoped rifle? Sure. Why not?

I can never tell them apart:

Why, yes, that is a transferrable machine pistol. Why do you ask?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7wt7SKVQ0

Via jigsaw in #GBC…

Greens launch $350m guns buyback plan:

THE Greens want to spend more than $350 million to ban semi-automatic handguns and buy them back from their owners.
But the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) said that would not affect the guns used by drug gangs for drive-by shootings in western Sydney.

Greens leader Christine Milne said gun violence could not be tackled without taking guns off the streets.

“We need strong action to reduce the number of handguns falling into the wrong hands. They have become the firearm of choice for criminals in Australia, especially in the drug trade and in gangs,” she said in a statement.

Under the Greens plan, costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office at $351.5 million, semi-automatic handguns would be banned, with a 12-month amnesty and buyback.

So less than two decades after requiring registration to reduce gun violence (WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?), and that not working to reduce drug-related violence, the answer is to…

Confiscate guns from folks who aren’t violent drug criminals.

And this makes sense.

They can call it a buyback all they want, but unless it’s voluntary (hint: It’s not) it’s confiscation.

And go read this presser from the Greens if you’re having problems with low blood pressure today. That’ll cure it.