Triggered

Reading this from Cold Fury.

I am once again struck with a thought.

"Why the fuck isn't Mr Triggered WORKING?"

Why do I ask that?  Because he spends a lot of time down in HR being offended by ever smaller slights rather than doing his job.

I remember predicting these outcomes about political correctness in the way back days of 1990.

Only members of the protected species are allowed to be offended and only their offense is actionable.

Ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls: that is institutionalized bigotry.

Real bigotry.

Real prejudice.

Remember how I keep saying that symbols are mutable?  Any symbol can be twisted to mean anything if someone works hard enough at it, and that means that every symbol can mean something different to someone else.  What we're not bothering to do is check and see how the offending person is using the symbol and, yes, it matters.

I am reminded of the debate at Iowa State University over changing the name of Carrie Chapman Catt Hall.  Whenever she gave a speech or presentation to advance women's suffrage, she'd tailor her speech to the audience.  In a nutshell, "If women get the vote, you get more of what you're interested in."

So while talking to some white supremacists, she said that giving women the vote would make it easier for white people to stay on top.  She may even have said, "CENSORED," or, "CENSORED," while doing so!

Under the ever more offended rules we're presently promulgating, what this means is since Ms Catt used racist language to advance women's rights; we must no longer have women's suffrage because it's racist.

Sorry girls, but you shouldn't have been racist bigots... once... a hundred years ago...  Wait.

Browning Dual Mode 9x19mm Luger

The Browning Dual Mode, also known as the Browning BDM.

It was supposed to be the successor to the High Power, alas...

It was originally developed to compete for the FBI's Secret Service's (thanks Dan) new pistol contract in the early 1990's.  The SIG-Sauer P228 won that one and commercial sales were hampered by the 1994 assault weapons ban on normal capacity magazines.

Limiting it from 15+1 to 10+1 in its infancy killed off it's chances for wider acceptance.  Maybe if it had taken the same magazines as the older gun...  We'll never know.  But it came to market as Glock was becoming dominant in police holsters and the government lashed out against guns of its kind.

It's very similar in size to the old Hi Power, but much thinner in the grips.  They're nearly the same weight loaded, but BDM magazines are slightly heavier.

The safety works backwards.

Down for decock/safe.

Up for fire.

At least the safety is mirrored ambidextrous, I guess.

Unlike its predecessor, The BDSM BDM is a double action gun, with a twist.

With the mode selector on the side of the slide oriented thus with the dot on the 'P' the gun is in "Pistol" mode.  Which is what we think of as normal everyday double-action for a pistol.  Double action for the first shot and single action thereafter.

But if you rotate the dot to align with the 'R' it's in "Revolver" mode, or what we call Double-Action-Only today.  This was to specifically mimic the revolvers that were still plentiful in police hands at the time.  You can use a cartridge rim or a flat screwdriver to rotate this selector, but the magazine has a small tab that's supposed to be used.  The magazine also makes that nice round scratch you can see above.

The mode selector simply rotates a nub that trips a decocker bar inside the frame.

Revolver Mode

Pistol Mode

Decocking bar.

The firing pin block works differently from most others in the firing pin stop slides up when the trigger is pulled and lifts the firing pin clear of two rails that otherwise block it.  The hammer is also cut to hit above the firing pin if the stop isn't raised.

Stop in the lower position.

Raised position.

The checkering on the back of the slide, "...lets you assure that the slide stays in battery during holstering."

Why doesn't this gun use the proven HP mag?  Because they made the magazine release reversible and there's only one cut on the HP magazine.  The thinner grip also mandated a different taper from the double column to single feed.

Another oddity to me is you cannot lock the slide back if the decocker/safety is engaged.  Hitting the decocker will drop the slide even on an empty magazine.  It might be easier to hit the decocker than the slide release when reloading too, the release is very small and smooth.  This might be a "feature" to make the gun more ambidextrous.

Now, how much would you pay?

It was marked $499.  When Willard asked about their bottom dollar, the counter drone said $469.  Yet moments later when the question was rephrased to "what's that come to, out the door?"  The drone recalculated it at $369.  SOLD!  Says Willard, thumping cash on the counter.

Making it an even better deal, it came with the box, booklet and the original spare magazine.

Clear Self Defense

If someone shoots someone with a S&W 329, you know for a fact that it's self defense.

And you can call them "Lefty" afterwards.

Criminal Arrested For Breaking One Law Likely Has Broken Others As Well

Via The Firearm Blog.

TFB Link.

In other news, dog bites man.

This is a prime example of why gun control just will never work.  The "people" that proponents claim to be disarming are fully aware of what side of the Rubicon they stand on.  When you're a felony child-porn collector; why not also be a felony NFA non-registrant?

Note the cops weren't at his place because of the guns.  They were at his place because of the child porn and then found out about the guns.

It makes you wonder how many other caches of arms like this are out there held by people whose only crime is the guns and where there's nothing like the child porn to lead the cops to their house.  Again, we only know about this cache because he was arrested for child porn.

Being a legal NFA owner I've learned first hand that the most complicated part of making an NFA item is the damn paperwork BATFE wants.  How many people never bothered to learn that and just made the items without it?

The guns aren't the problem.

Rebound

Marv's Premier shotgun does have rebounding hammers.

What keeps him off the ranges is the floating firing pins.

The concern is the firing pin will stick forward and touch off a round when he closes the action.

However, we noticed something...

See those two little slots under the chambers?  Those are on the ejector bar and it extends out when the action is opened (it's not extended here because the gun is taken down).

The slot is really a ramp that sweeps the firing pin back into the receiver as you close the action!  Pretty clever I think.

At A Local Gun Shop

Willard and I discovered a Winchester 670A in .30-06.  $375 and sitting on the used rack with a Burris scope already attached.

Information on it is scanty.  All I have is that it was a cheapened version of the already cheapened for 1964 Model 70 with a blind magazine and pressed checkering on less expensive grades of wood (like beech instead of walnut).

That small amount of information makes me immediately wonder how much Model 70 is still in there and if it could be upgraded to the same standards.  Or if it needed to be upgraded at all.

The blind magazine is what scares me the most about this rifle.  It's a feature I have always sought when doing my bolt-gun agony.

And, of course, it's not a real Winchester...  First it's not real because (do I have this right?) they stopped making REAL Winchesters in 1964.  Second the original Winchester went bankrupt in 1979...

Oh, never mind that second one since the 670's production run was from 1967 to 1973.

Voting Against My Self Interest

What that really means is someone is voting against what someone else thinks their interests are.

It might be OK for them to look down their noses and tell me I'm wrong if they'd bothered to notice that "my interests" are always their interests they want me to support.

They've never asked me what my interests are or checked to see if I received any actual help from voting in "my interest."

"My interest" comes with strings.  Rules that I must abide to receive the assistance that invariably make my life worse than before the "help".

No Disruption My Ass

Harvey, in addition to losing her hard drive a while back, has also just lost access to her verizon.net email addy.

We were supposed to change it over to AOL, but hers failed to transition.

Now she's apparently boned.

Hurray!

Did you know there's not a soul at Verizon or Frontier who knows how to solve this issue?

Isn't that remarkable?

Good thing she moved most of her stuff over to gmail already.

That Moment

Since my friends have tended to be older than me my whole life, I've got to watch some benchmark moments from time to time.

Most recently was a friend dismissing news of an illness because, "it's only dangerous to the very young and elderly," only to realize that they were now in that elderly category.

Just For Willard!

Thus The Name

No, the Biscayne SS does not have air conditioning.

It's called a hot-rod for a reason!

Good Thing All Other Crime Is Solved In Massivetwoshits

Fun and games in Boston

Let's focus on how some rifles look instead!

Confidence Testing

There are several instances in the Army where the troops use a piece of equipment in its intended role, just to show them that it works.

The gas mask in a small building choked with CS (tear gas) being the classic example.

Some parachute drops are the same thing.

We were treated to videos and films (remember film?) of our tank be subjected to and surviving all manner of abuse to prove that we'd survive the experience.

It just hit me...

Not a single video, film or photo of our body armor taking a hit.  Almost as if they knew the PASGT helmet and vest weren't very useful.  As tankers, the CVC (combat vehicle crewman) helmet had even less protection than the steel Helmet, M1 (with ballistic liner).

We knew to be cynical about the old M1 pot, they perforated one for us live on rifle range day.

I know, now, that the old M59 vest and the PASGT armor wasn't intended to stop bullets.  It's intended to stop fragments.  Fragments are much easier to stop than bullets.  Because there are so many of them, artillery being the king of battle after all, fragments account for a lot of casualties.

I find it odd we never got shown that the vest would and would not stop.

I wore mine religiously because it stops the hatch coaming in the loader's hole from breaking ribs.

Premier Shotgun

Anyone out there know anything about Premier shotguns?

Marv's got his grand-dad's.

It's a 12ga SxS double with exposed hammers.  The hammers are non-rebounding.

His grandfather paid "about $30 in the '20's."  Marv now thinks that Grampa was remembering a different gun.

My gun value book claims that Premier starts in the late 1950's, and might show Marv's gun.

I'll throw up a pic of the whole gun when I have it.

Pics of the whole gun now that I have them.

Stupid Stuff You Can Do

I was curious about how the breech ring worked on the Model 12.

The barrel and chamber clamp down against the breeching ring, and the ring is between the barrel and the shell's rim.

Headspacing is provided by this ring.

With the bolt holding it in place, you could, in theory, fire this round.

I think that would be a little messy.  I shan't make the attempt.

A Conversation With A Florida State Trooper

At the scene of a car accident where Harvey was not at fault.

According FHP we are not allowed to shoot, stab, bludgeon, strike, garrote, choke, flay, whip, draw OR quarter the person who rear-ended Harvey.

Kidding aside, I am certain I heard that traffic accidents would turn into blood-baths if we allowed just anyone to carry a gun in public.

Harvey had hers and when I arrived to help, I had mine.  For all I know the guy who rear-ended her had his too.

Yet the situation was handled in a civilized manner by everyone.

Добро пожаловат!

Так как более половины хитов в своем блоге, были из России на прошлой неделе, я чувствую, что должен сказать что-то плохо переведенную Google!

Я надеюсь, что вы наслаждаетесь мое письмо и получить острое представление о сознании американского пушечного владельца.

I Have An ITAR Suggestion

How's 'bout we only charge the idiotic tax if someone actually tries to export a listed item.

I am fed up with "potential energy" laws.

You might do something, so we're going to act like you did it already.

Gun control is just rife with this crap too.

With the ITAR rationale, every woman needs to pay the solicitation fine because, well, they MIGHT charge for sex.

Choose One

I love ballistic calculators and comparing cartridges as much as the next guy.

But you should stick to one measuring system or the other.

Going to use inches for drop and drift?  Feet per second for velocity?  Grains for bullet weight?  Don't use meters for range or joules for energy!

If you're going metric, don't fuck around use them centimeters, meters per second and grams!

Endorsement

No objections to Hillary Clinton's nomination have been raised by J Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone S Woods or Glen Doherty.

A Letter To My Congressman

I recently read this article: https://blog.princelaw.com/2016/07/25/ddtc-issues-guidance-on-itar-registration/

I am unable to politely express my outrage at this.

An outrage that stems not only from the idiotic application of this tax, but from reading the actual ITAR laws. 

An outrage that stems from a regulatory body setting taxes.  That, Sir, is YOUR job and you aren't supposed to delegate your legislative authority to the executive branch. 

An outrage that stems from a law about exporting military technology being meticulously and retroactively applied to persons who are not actually exporting anything from their home county let alone state or the nation. 

An outrage that comes from redefining manufacturing to ever smaller activities that one expects the next threshold for having to pay the ITAR taxes will be owning an item that's listed. 

An outrage that, once again, a regulation is promulgated in violation of the laws concerning public comments. 

An outrage from seeing that, once again, these rules are put into place over firearms. 

An outrage from noticing that my representative talks a good game, but doesn't seem to actually represent me on issues such as this. 

I am furious about this unjust law and its everyday infringement of my rights. 

I pray to you to do something, this election year, about this.  Convince me that I am not disenfranchised and that my vote, and the vote of other gun-owners, matters. 

DO SOMETHING!

I've written my congress critter, have you?

Show Us The Data

It's not science unless you can replicate the experiment!

Refusing to let others see the data nullifies your conclusions!

Profiling

You know this story is bullshit.

We're expected to believe that a cop cannot tell donut from drugs?

A COP who isn't familiar with donuts?

I've some swampland to sell just south of here too.

Actually The Opposite

While talking, in general, about our service a pilot aviator friend once opined that "tanks just seem so pedestrian" compared to aviation.

I had to object to him there.

One of the points of armor is you're NOT a pedestrian.

Breaking track and cleaning the sub-turret suck, but they beat walkin'.

HA!

The Model 12 feeds those cute little 1-3/4" shells!

With the duck stick plug removed that should give it a 11+1 capacity.  4+1 with the plug installed.

Pretty impressive for a 104 year old design, huh?

By the way, did you know that a 2-3/4" 12ga round is just 2-7/16" long?  The 1-3/4" shells measure 1-5/16" and a 3" is 2-9/16"...

The stated length of a shell is the length with the crimp unfolded after firing.

Worth A Read

Click Me

For The 19 Series MOS People Out There

It's not the women in combat that's the problem, it's the lowering of the standards to let them enter combat arms MOS's.

There's no women's league war, sorry girls.

The hard wall of reality about humping gear that's crippling fit young men will hit home right fast.

Never mind chores like breaking track or loading heavy cannon and howitzer projectiles.

Combat MOS tasks are 90% strong back and weak mind.  In the 10% that needs a sharp mind, where women are equal to men, it's not a problem.  But it's not most of the task, is it?

Extrapolating that since woman are successful at the combat aviation job they'll be good at infantry just doesn't add up.

I'd also like to bring up the cost-benefit of separate berthing and plumbing that always accompanies mixed sex units.  It costs more to have and it forces a fixed percentage mix of sexes based on the available facilities rather than eligible candidates.

If 15% of your bunks, for example, are for women; then if your unit has less than 15% women it will be undermanned (pun).  You can't put men in those bunks if there's only 10% women available.  So you overbuild your barracks and bunkroom capacity to make sure there's enough people to do the job regardless of the gender ratio.  That costs more.

I guess we could say "full equality" and go back to single bays and one latrine (head).  But we're also going to have to address another cost of the mixed sex mil, that we're studiously avoiding every day from when we first decided women could serve non-combat roles.  Tab A fits into slot A and everyone wants to complete assembly because they're going to be young, mostly fit, and hormonal.

Bing up "olympic village condoms" for another example of mixing the young and horny.

Tab A fitting into slot B and slot C is far less a problem because there's no pregnancy from that.  Score one for gays in the military here, homosexual sex doesn't typically result in babies.

Cost-benefit.

Do the benefits offset the costs?

Are we being told what the costs and benefits are honestly?

Positive Aspect

Donald Trump is not a lawyer.

That's got to be at least a +5 in any election.

I Can't Do It

I cannot bring myself to find a Winchester shotgun collector's site, post a pic of the Model 12 and ask, "Where can I get a pistol grip stock and flashlight grip for when I have it shortened to 18" and cerakoted?"

Coming Up A Little Short

Missed a couple, Google.

It's OK, Bing has your back...

I have lived to see Microsoft become less evil than a company with "Don't be evil" in its motto.

They Look The Same

But they aren't.

Mass is not weight.

A kilogram only equals 2.20462 pounds in one g.

At two g a kilogram is 4.40924 pounds, but still one kilo.

It's a distinction without a difference here at standard temperature and pressure (or close damned enough if you're not uncomfortable from the temperature and pressure) and one g.

Mind Fuck

I am eagerly awaiting a friend of Harvey's extolling the virtues of Hillary.

I can't wait to ask, "What did she do when she had the power to do...?" and watch him short circuit when his only possible out is that she was overridden by his favorite president of all time.

Either she's useless or the source of goodness and light, Obama the Healer, is as evil as I've long held.

Going to be expensive keeping a bag of fresh popcorn on me until November, but it'll be worth it!

Analogy

Banning modern semi-automatic rifles because they only had muskets in 1789 is like...

Banning tractors because they only had horses and slaves back then.

Nice Try

One thing that Colt is almost infamous for is never producing a mid-length gas system AR.

Today on a pawn-shop rack I saw a Colt lower with a middy upper.

For $1,149.

Maybe for a complete Colt, but not for a parts gun.

Russia?

My blog is suddenly quite popular in Russia.

I wonder why that might be.

Are they checking up on their rifles they lost to Finland all those years ago?

Elegant Luggage For A More Civilized Time

The Winchester shotgun has a travel case!

It's a Red Head brand 32" 175 FD case.

Broken Windows Theory Expansion

Broken Windows Theory.

With that in mind:  Could the cops shooting dogs when it's not necessary be a reliable harbinger that department will use excessive force in other ways?

Is it an indication that your local po-po no longer serve the public trust?

Oh, how I yearn for the police to return to being peace officers rather than law enforcement.

The first step would be to get their funding clipped of all the federal monies.

The second step would be to strip about 90% of the laws and their associated regulations; we will be amazed at how small and cheap a police force can be if it doesn't have to deal with the endless morass of bullshit laws they're being asked to keep track of.

The third step is educating the people about their rightful role in law enforcement.

Feed Rate

I've decided that the reason that Marv is 6'-6" tall is that he's part ogre.

I've come to this conclusion watching him finish two 80% lowers.

He's managed to slay two 4-flute, 1/4" end-mills now.

When you use a router to hold the mill you've got to have a deft hand on the mill and only move as fast as the mill is cutting.  Marv is putting too much pressure on the router and it causes chatter and breaks the mills.

In more positive news, his second lower is the one we drilled way to deep on the rear shelf.  Some 1/4-28 all thread rod and a nut have replaced the pistol grip screw and there seems to be enough thread to hold the grip on!  We did have to relieve the inside of the grip for tool-clearance so you can get a socket down there, but it works.

What Could Go Wrong?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/07/20/stuntman-to-attempt-knievel-launch-over-snake-river-canyon/

Well, what can go wrong that didn't in the previous attempts?

More Parts To The Story

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article91406042.html#storylink=cpy

h/t Miguel

Around 50 yards with an AR and he "missed" hitting Kinsey by mistake?

Pull the other one, it has bells on it.

This has every earmark of a bad shoot and both the shooting officer and his suspended supervisor should be looking through gray steel curtains for a while.  Felony a while.

Shit like this is why cops who aren't fucking up get blamed and this is the teensy kernel of truth lurking inside the Bureau of Land Management Black Lives Matter's protests.  That the police can shoot whomever they want with impunity.

It's not true, but if these officers walk, then who's making whose point?

Jonathan Aledda has shown he cannot be trusted with a firearm at the very least.  What's the charge if you or I pop off a negligent round and hurt someone?  I seem to recall Florida having a 10/20/life law...

And there you are.  Except, once again, there's an exception for cops.  Laws for me and not for my government employees are the very root of tyranny; no matter how light the chains.

Emile Hollant has betrayed the public trust, however, and he needs to be incarcerated for a good long time.  Yes, I consider his actions worse than Mr Aledda's.  Mr Aledda might have made a mistake, Mr Hollant did it deliberately.

Fuck him.