A 3D printer for $399?
YES PLEASE.
It doesn’t include “electronics,” which will add another $150-$300 depending on your sourcing.
I am kinda sad that my attempt at building a CNC router stalled out in January. It sits there on my workbench taunting me, with it’s x and y axes completed but no drivetrain and no z axis.
Every now and then, I have to disarm. I try to avoid it, but sometimes you have to go to “gun-free” zones to get stuff done.
Like getting new license plates. Or meeting friends for dinner at a restaurant I’ve never been to and seeing the please rob my restaurant gunbuster sign.
Because, you know, it’s safer to leave it in a box with tempered glass sides than on my person.
Anyway, several years ago I bought a car safe thingy similar to this one from GunVault
For a while, I would transfer it from my jeep to my wife’s car when we would go on trips and stuff. Then, I just started leaving it in her car full time. So I bought another one, only this time it had a combination lock instead of a key lock.
In any event, they’re pretty cheap. They secure to the car via aircraft cable–I loop the cable around the front passenger seat bracket. I just found out that they’re also TSA approved for transporting firearms in checked baggage. That’s definitely an added bonus.
I highly recommend them.
The mask slipped. House Democrats actually complain that there are too many rapists and muggers getting killed.
How many “isolated incidents” do you need before you get to the “widespread institutional behavior” level? How many until you get to “standard operating procedure”?
Officer charged after video shows beating
There is a six minute local news report attached to that article. Your standard local newscast is 22 minutes of programming.
The long and short of it is a couple of officers beat the crap out of a senior citizen, put him in the hospital, and then charged him with assaulting two police officers.
Only problem is, there’s video. Now the officers are in trouble (for assault, not for false arrest or lying on a police report or any of that other boring procedural stuff that the rest of us would be crucified for) and the victim is clearly recognized as the victim.
But, you know, isolated incident.
Just like this other one from Florida.
“I can’t access the system” is NOT the same as “I can access the system, but it takes longer than I’d like.”
Huge difference there. HUGE.
Holy Crap $49 for the Verizon version.
I’m holding out for the next Evo, which went on pre-order today. I wanted the Nexus, but the delay from the time it was announced to the time the Sprint version was actually available allowed HTC to convince me to buy one of their phones. It’s a fine phone, especially at the price point Amazon is offering them.
After reading this post over at New Jovian Thunderbolt about giving the reader an idea of scale when taking pictures for reviews, I realized that I never mentioned what my guns are sitting on when I snap pictures of them.
It’s a Chessex Megamat that I use for RPG sessions. The squares are 1″. I know a couple people that don’t like it as a backdrop, but it’s come in handy when people want to know the rough dimensions of my guns.
I got an email a couple of weeks ago from the fine folks at LuckyGunner.com asking me to review some ammo for them. Since one of my goals in life is to shoot as much free ammo as possible, I accepted. 😀
They sent me two boxes of 130gr Solid Copper Hollowpoints from Magtech.
My initial thoughts were “Solid copper? Seriously? And only 130gr?”
Then I remembered the perennial lead ammo bans that come up as bills in California or as EPA proposals. The small weight (.40 S&W is usually about 180gr) is still heavier than your typical 9mm round, so that is less of an issue than I originally thought.
Robb did a fantastic review of this same ammo last year, and you should go over there to see the pretty flowers this stuff makes when it expands.
So the only thing left to know is: How well does it shoot?
In a word: Awesomely
I went down to the local range and tested it out. My method was to “warm up” with some target ammo, then alternate between the test ammo, target ammo, and my current carry ammo–180gr Winchester Ranger SXT.
The four shot group from the Magtech ammo was well within “acceptable” levels.
I also filled a magazine with 3 rounds of each ammo and fired that in one relay, just to get a sense for how each round felt with regards to recoil. The Ranger SXT definitely had more felt recoil than the other two, but the Magtech ammo and the target ammo were very close in feel. This is important, as most people shoot lower-recoil target ammo, but carry hotter self defense loads. I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but I suspect the higher recoil might affect accuracy. These rounds might be a good way to mitigate that.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be using these to fill up my new M&P. Plus, hippies will like the fact that I’m being green, right?
This was published last month, but I only recently discovered it via Bruce Schneier.
The operation’s intent, secondary to the threats on paper at least, was to broadly collect intelligence on the Patriot movement’s members and activities, according to records of the investigation and former FBI agents who worked on the case.
Three Patriot groups were directly targeted by PATCON — [Texas Light Infantry], an Alabama organization called Civilian Material Assistance, and the Tennessee-based American Pistol and Rifle Association.
My favorite part of the article is where the FBI reported that two groups got together, and each accused the other of being infiltrated and under surveillance. They were both right.
You know how to tell which one is the FBI informant, right? He’s the one advocating violence.
