Category: Guns

What happens when you have record gun sales, record new handgun permits, and fewer restrictions on where folks can carry?

How about the lowest number of murders ever recorded in a single year?

They have screaming. We have facts.

Last week I showed off my new toy and had a decision to make about mounting my optics. Regular readers know that I bought a BSA Sweet .22 mounted in a PEPR QD a while back for my M&P15-22, but it didn’t quite work out. I also have a Nikon P-223 3×32 BDC Carbine in some $20 QD rings*

What I decided to do was take the cheapo QD rings off the P-223 scope and put them on the Sweet .22. Then I bought some Burris XTR Rings for the P-223 on Farmdad’s recommendation. More on that later, as I’m playing musical gun parts with pretty much all my rifles right now.

So here’s what I ended up with:

And here’s what it looks like all broken down:

My next step is figuring out a way to put a bipod on it. I have this one, which came with a mounting plate for the rifle stock, but since apparently this stock is hollow I’m not sure how that’s all going to work out. This replacement barrel band gives me mixed feelings, and there’s a reviewer who says it doesn’t work with the takedown model.

One more thing of note: The threading on the 10/22 is a wee bit too long for the Gemtech Outback II-D…

Gemtech’s specs say that the internal threading on the Outback II-D is 0.400″ so I’ll need to use a spacer in order to avoid damaging the first baffle.

*despite what the description says, those are Weaver rings, not Picatinny.

Last year, Wayne LaPierre held a press conference and declared, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” He was mercilessly mocked for proposing such a “crazy” idea.

The Bloombergs of the world dusted off their playbooks, set the faux outrage meter to 11, and ran to Colorado to pass some of the most sweeping gun control legislation that state had ever seen. They banned standard capacity magazines and private sales saying that would prevent these mass shootings.

It didn’t.

Facts are still coming in, but it appears that the latest shooter used a low-capacity shotgun and bought it through a licensed FFL. Police say that he was “intended to injure many people” and had homemade Molotov Cocktails in addition to his firearm. He had a bandoleer full of shotgun shells and a machete, too.

But he only shot one person, and it was over 80 seconds later.

Why?

Because there was a good guy with a gun on premises, and just like every other mass shooting the shooting stopped when the bad guy was confronted.

This works. Every. Single. Time.

But, please: Let’s just continue to make it harder for people to defend themselves from nutjobs like this guy. For the children.

Mine. Alllllll mine……

I picked it up this weekend from my friend Reese at The Nashville Gun Company. Not a fan of the Mossy Oak stock, but colors are about the least important feature of a tool.

Two cool things about this particular catalog item (11140, if you’re interested–and I think it’s a distributor exclusive to AcuSport) is that the bag it comes with is brown instead of black, and it came with a BX25 magazine instead of the standard 10 round rotary magazine.

When I was picking it up, I casually mentioned that I was going to need to pick up a scope base for it, and Reese informed me that it came with one from the factory. Since I was planning on using the PEPR and Sweet-22 combo I took off the M&P15-22 when I realized it wasn’t going to work out on that rifle, that was great news.

Unfortunately, as has been the case several times, things didn’t work out the way I planned:

As Oddball put it: “That’s frustratingly close.” So now I need to decide if I’m going to buy a picatinny base or another set of $20 QD rings.*

One thing about the rifle that kinda surprised me was that the barrel band is…plastic:

And the screw that clamps the barrel band is clearly much longer than it needs to be:

And of course the reason I bought this model was BECAUSE THREADED BARREL:

So I’ll need to take that off and get a thread protector. Also I need more magazines because the answer to “how many magazines do you need” is always “More.” I have two from my Tec-22 that will work but I’m going to need more than that.

*As it turns out, Ruger’s base is Weaver and the PEPR is Picatinny so it would’t fit anyway. Weaver rings will fit in a Picatinny base, but Picatinny rings won’t fit on a Weaver Rail.

From IRC:

16:43 <+wizardpc> Things I learned today: .300blk subsonics won’t penetrate soft body armor
16:43 <@daniels> really
16:44 <+wizardpc> but the body armor will deform about 4 inches into “whatever” is behind it
16:44 <+wizardpc> so, ribcage broken in many pieces
16:44 * oddball is glad he didn’t go black friday shopping with wizardpc.

This is where I learned that, by the way.

My friend James sent these to me, with this:

I decided to order one of the new MOE AK Grips from Magpul, just to try it out. Got it Friday, and put it on the AKSU. I like it, much more “grippy” than a traditional AK grip. It takes standard Magpul grip cores, so you can configure the storage as needed. I think I am going to pick up another one for the SLR-105.

He’s also got a Burris FastFire sitting on top of that. It’s a fun little gun.

We’re doing some remodeling, and I’m building some furniture, so…..nail gun!

You probably have run across this picture of the Kenya Mall Attack:

Now, if you’re like me, you’re probably wondering why the hell those two guys on the left look like they’re running the Realest IDPA stage ever*.

Well, the reason is because they were at and IDPA match when all that started.

IDPA doesn’t train you for real life. That doesn’t mean IDPA shooters don’t shoot in real life.

*stolen from a commenter at the link

Same group as last week’s picture. This week we have Magnum Research’s Biggest, Finest Revolver in .45-70.

The owner said the barrel is aftermarket. He let me shoot it a few times and it’s….FANTASTIC! I hit a steel popper at 200 yards on like the second or third round.