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“It is not complete,” said BlueWaveNJ President Marcia Marley. “It is a good start but it needs to be complete by adding the 10-round limit for magazines that our citizens want and have demanded.”

via Gun control bills move forward during heated day in Trenton | NJ.com.

Back in the days of the old Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Bill, politicians swore up and down the stack of bibles that the laws they were trying to enact would be the solution to all our gun violence problems and nothing else was needed and of course, they were not after our guns. As soon as the ink was dry on the paper, the same slimy actors would come out with big smiles on their faces, pat themselves in the fannies for a job well done and comment to the reporters that the laws just passed were “A good first step.” And, of course, they went after more gun control laws.

Apparently the old tricks have been resurrected once more, but we already knew this.

A report about Glock firing pins breaking for the weapons issued to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies bring out the “experts.”

CBS4 News showed the Palm Beach report to local gunsmiths and armorers, including Robert Hasmi, president of Absolute Tactical Solutions in Miami Lakes and a police officer in South Florida for more than 20 years.

“Remember these are all working metal parts rubbing against each other constantly, that’s how a gun works,” said Hasmi. “The slide rubs against the frame, the barrel rubs against the slide when it, when you form its actions. It’s metal rubbing against metal.”

Hasmi said the possible culprit is the type of metal Glock uses in its firing pin.

“If the metal is too soft that the manufacturer uses, that could also be an issue,” he said.

via Report Raises Concern About Glock Handguns « CBS Miami.

I know it has been decades since I walked through the halls of engineering academia, but I seem to recall that very hard metals are brittle and break  under stress and/or effort while soft metals bend.

But I might be wrong since I am not an “expert.”

The Gun Control Webs are all in “Awwww” mode about this postcard by Vice Biden and sent to the kid’s school. Apparently Uncle Joe loved the kid’s idea for a gun that shoots chocolate:

But I must warn Myles that if he was, for example, to modify a Nerf Gun to shoot Hershey’s Kisses and take it to school to display it next to the cute card from Biden, police would be called, he’d be handcuffed, arrested and charged with a felony for violation of the Zero Tolerance rules.

Is it really that hard to figure out the “solution” to this “problem?

Ladies and Gents: It is all CoF Design. Make sure that you adapt the Course of Fire to the safety needs and available space. Any CoF Designer knows that what’s on paper and what ends up being set up may change drastically. If possible, move the points farther away from the targets so the shooter has more leeway. Muzzle SAFE points are for SAFETY, not to piss a shooter off or make it a contest on which SO can give more procedurals.

Example:
Is this a CoF with the darn Muzzle Safe Points too close? Shall we call HQ and demand that the rule book be shredded and the Tiger teams tar and feathered? No. We can do something as simple as this:
Whoa! Where did that come from? Could it be that simple?

The safe point on the left is to avoid putting extra holes in the wall as the range management frowns on that and get really miffed when shooters start chipping away the darn thing and usually means you don’t get to shoot there anymore. The one on the right could even be placed a bit farther but there is another CoF being run just outside the pic, so that is good enough for demonstration purposes.

PS: If you have the blessed luck to shoot in a range with bays, specially of the 270 degree variety and are still bitching about muzzle safe points….

-As properly pointed out by Rob, The Springfield XD family has now moved to the SSP neighborhood. The Glock Families are crying “There goes the Home Owners Association!” The rest of the DA/SA and DOA families will still stay in the Trailer Park area of SSP.

-Clarified the term “Engaged.”  No more, “But I engaged it! I shot at the neighborhood in where the target is located with one bullet!”

-Keep the reloads where you want them except the mouth, armpit and upper pockets.

– R19.5 No weak hand drawing from the holster is allowed. Not sure on this one. Does that mean you cannot reach across with your weak hand to the strong side holster  or you cannot have your gun in a weak side holster and shoot like that? I would not mind doing a match or two drawing and shooting from the weak side.

-Flashlight remains a separate object and justifiably so. Weapon-mounted lights are becoming popular but not yet mainstream.

-“In case of doubt, the best score goes to the shooter.” Still here and a good thing.

– Threat and Non-Threat indicators are not hard cover. We had some issues in the past with this.

-Threat indicators of different kinds have equal threat value. (gun not better than knife not better than stick) Easier to design and avoids the Tacticool arguments.

-No modifications to the score sheets after they leave the Score Keeper’s hands. The stories i have about this sh….stuff.

-Calibration of Reactive targets. Not only it has to be calibrated to the lowest power factor in IDPA (105)  but the complaining shooter has to have his/her rounds Chrono’ed and subject to applicable penalties if not in spec. MUHAHAHAH!

– More Boolits! If your gun has 7-6 round capacity, you can carry three spare mags or speedloaders.

-First Target and Last Target cannot be Non-Threats. And the last Target cannot disappear. Likes!

-Moving target cannot be painted with Hard Cover. Awwwww..Damn It. but that is the prick in me.

-And a major round of Kudos to IDPA for the Permanently Physically Disabled Shooters Rules. Flexibility and cordiality must be afforded to them.

OK, that’s it. Go download and read the rest yourself.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

via Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe.

The Government has the right to keep track of what its employees are doing. Sheesh! I really don’t know what the problem is with this thing. It was not like they were checking their Tax records or were in need of evacuation from an attacked embassy.

You all just hate Obama…. bunch of racists!

This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by the state’s attorneys,” despite statements to the contrary by the university’s president, Javier Cevallos. It didn’t take long before the radical, pro-gun playbook showed its ugly face. Shortly after he first heard about the policy under consideration at an April meeting of Kutztown’s Administrative Council, the president of the faculty union, Dr. Paul Quinn, began receiving anonymous death threats

via Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats | Raging Chicken Press.

Gun rules get relaxed on campus which is what gun owners wanted. But apparently for these twisted souls, death threats only come from Gun Owners. You need to suspend common sense to buy this load.

Logic died a little today.