Powder Valley is where I buy my reloading supplies…when they have them. They just posted this announcement in their Facebook page.

I know that not many shooters actually reload, but when a mayor manufacturer can only ship under 10% of the order and probably not because of lack of trying, it tells you that the potential for the .Gov to out-shoot the civilian population is at best a sorry myth. I do wonder if anybody has ever tried to calculate how many rounds are shot by civilians every week/month/year and the amount of components sold to civilians.

In the meantime, does anybody know where can I get an 8 lbs keg of TiteGroup for a decent price?
PS: For those who freak out when the word “arsenal” is used to denote 300 rounds and a couple of guns, 8 lbs of TiteGroup is enough to make some 12,000 rounds of 9mm.
You can really freak out now.

In 1998, the movie Pleasantville came out. It tells the story of a teenage couple of teenagers who gets transported somehow inside a TV and ends up living inside a 1950s TV show about an idyllic Andy Griffith/Father Knows Best/Leave it to Beaver-type town where everything is just peachy.

Our friends at the Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence apparently live in Pleasantville and have no plans to move into the real world anytime soon.

Apparently most CSGV followers like Ms. Moodie do live in Pleasantville or have no kids or their involvement with the school goes as far as to drop the progeny in front of the school on the way to Pilates class. It is a sad fact that too many schools already look and feel like prisons thanks to an ineffective system that has helped create more problems than solved it up and including spree shooters.

I find hard to believe that CSGV and the rest of the Laddites do not know about metal detectors in schools:
Fences, gates and bars:

Surveillance:
plus the ever popular bag search and the latest in technology: RFID School IDs, same as in selected prisons around the country.

I am sure that one or several of these methods were available at Sandy Hook and other school shootings, but they did not work as advertised by the Gun Control “experts.” But offer the idea of a proactive method that has a better chance to curb an active shooter and suddenly we are transforming our schools into the prisons that already are but they have failed to notice in between sips of Hazelnut Macchiato with tofu flower venti with Splenda.

Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, named for a White House press secretary gravely wounded in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, said local officials’ failure to enforce their gun-show ordinances “is not only troublesome, it’s dangerous.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/06/3327745/misfire-how-florida-failed-to.html#storylink=c

The lack of background checks for private sales is “a recipe for disaster,” he said, preserving access to guns for convicted felons and the dangerously mentally ill.

via Misfire: How Florida failed to close gun-show loophole – Florida – MiamiHerald.com.

This was front page in the Miami Herald yesterday. To tell you the truth, I did not know that we had a county ordinance regulating private sales. If you read the article with detail, you will notice that nowhere in it tells you about the level of violent crime in the state and for obvious reasons: It is at its lowest in possibly 40 years. Gun violence between 2007 and 2011 dropped 33% while gun ownership skyrocketed, but if the authors of the article were to mention that, they would be shooting themselves on the foot by actually telling the truth. Plus probably the White House would not like them anymore and call them names. Then again the Miami Herald is an irrelevant paper slowly circling the drain.

Based on my own studies of social dislocations, I believe that a rifle is a huge “force multiplier” in a situation where everything flies into the fan. Therefore, having a rifle seems like a good idea. The rifle becomes an extension of the very idea of concealed carry…I’m not sure when a fire is going to break out, so I carry a fire extinguisher.

via The Michael Bane Blog: The Urban Rifle.

Go read the whole thing. If you don’t have a rifle, get one no matter what is available.

Today I am reminded of Liviu Librescu, survivor of Labor Camps and Ghettos in Romania who stood up and blocked the doors of his classroom at Virginia Tech so madman Seung-Hui Cho could not kill his students. He paid the ultimate price.

And I am also reminded of Mordecai Anielewicz and all the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who facing death, decided not to go quietly but stand and fight.

לעולם לא עוד

(Never Again)

Frankly I am amazed that it took them this long to find about it.
Bill Ruger was a great gun designer and manufacturer, but he was a treasonous f*** to Gun Owners. He was an old school businessman that expected to save his company from the impending legislation that ended up being the Assault Weapons Ban by feeding the wolves a small part of his business body and everybody else’s full bodies with the belief that they would leave him alone and continue business as usual. He greatly miscalculated in several fronts: The political wolves are never satisfied and they will keep wanting more. Almost all other firearm manufacturers stopped being competitors (in the stupid way) and joined forces to fight the common enemy. And his customers turned against him and the brand.

It took the company over a decade to recover from such a gigantic misstep. The new board of directors had to pretty much convince the public that they had no relationship with the old man Ruger and still to this day, many Gun Owners refuse to buy Ruger products.

Possibly the greatest insult hurled at Ruger was at a gun show I was attending around the year 2000 or so. At one table there were selling a Mini-14 (the specific gun which made Bill Ruger write his letter to Congress) for a fairly decent price but nobody gave it a care. There were two other guys perusing the offerings and one pointed the Mimi-14 to his friend who said “I rather buy a turd than a Mini-14.” Sales of the Min1-14 never recovered and the new Ruger corporation moved to build its own version of the AR to compete in the long gun market.