Compare & Contrast -- UK vs USA Gun Laws

Gun Control's Twisted Outcome

Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.

On a June evening two years ago, Dan Rather made many stiff British upper lips quiver by reporting that England had a crime problem and that, apart from murder, "theirs is worse than ours." The response was swift and sharp. "Have a Nice Daydream," The Mirror, a London daily, shot back, reporting: "Britain reacted with fury and disbelief last night to claims by American newsmen that crime and violence are worse here than in the US." But sandwiched between the article's battery of official denials -- "totally misleading," "a huge over-simplification," "astounding and outrageous" -- and a compilation of lurid crimes from "the wild west culture on the other side of the Atlantic where every other car is carrying a gun," The Mirror conceded that the CBS anchorman was correct. Except for murder and rape, it admitted, "Britain has overtaken the US for all major crimes."

I am jealous...

...especially of the recoilless rifle. Cool!

The Gospel According To John (Moses Browning)

Stolen from here:

John Moses Browning was perhaps the finest firearms designer, ever. His designs continue to work and to serve almost 100 years after they were created. There is an ongoing controversy about the reliability and safety of current 1911s vs. other "modern" pistols and I think this about sums the situation up.

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As translated from the original ancient manuscripts by Fr. Frog.
© copyright 2002 by John C. Schaefer

1 In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good. And behold the Lord said, "Thou shalt not muck with my disciple John's design for it is good and it workith. For John made the 1911, and lo all of his weapons, from the designs which I, the Lord, gave him upon the mountain."

2 "And shouldst thou muck with it, and hang all manner of foul implements upon it, and profane its internal parts, thou shalt surely have malfunctions, and in the midst of battle thou shalt surely come to harm."

3 And as the ages passed men in their ignorance and arrogance didst forget the word of the Lord and began to profane the 1911. The tribe of the gamesman did place recoil spring guides and extended slide releases upon the 1911 and their metal smiths didst tighten the tolerances and alter parts to their liking, their clearness of mind being clouded by lust.

4 Their artisans did hang all manner of foul implements upon the 1911 and did so alter it that it became impractical to purchase. For lo, the artisans didst charge a great tax upon the purchasers of the 1911 so that the lowly field worker could not afford one. And the profaning of the internal parts didst render it unworkable when the dust of the land fell upon it.

5 And lo, they didst install adjustable sights, which are an abomination unto the Lord. For they doth break and lose their zero when thou dost need true aim. And those who have done so will be slain in great numbers by their enemies in the great battle. ^a

6 And it came to pass that the Lord didst see the abomination wrought by man and didst cause, as he had warned, fearful malfunctions to come upon the abominations and upon the artisans who thought they could do no wrong.

7 Seeing the malfunctions and the confusion of men, the lord of the underworld did see an opportunity to further ensnare man and didst bring forth pistols made of plastic, whose form was such that they looked and felt like a brick, yet the eyes of man being clouded, they were consumed by the plastic pistol and did buy vast quantities of them.

8 And being a deceitful spirit the lord of the underworld did make these plastic pistols unamenable to the artisans of earth and they were unable to muck much with the design, and lo these pistols did appear to function.

9 And the evil one also brought forth pistols in which the trigger didst both cock and fire them and which require a "dingus" to make them appear safe.

10 But man being stupid did not understand these new pistols and didst proceed to shoot themselves with the plastic pistol and with the trigger cocking pistols for lo their manual of arms required great intelligence which man had long since forsaken. Yet man continue to gloat over these new pistols blaming evil forces for the negligent discharges which they themselves had committed.

11 And when man had been totally ensnared with the plastic pistol, the lord of the underworld didst cause a plague of the terrible Ka-Boom to descend upon man and the plastic pistols delivered their retribution upon men. And there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth in the land.

12 Then seeing that the eyes of man were slowly being opened and that man was truly sorrowful for his sinful misdeeds, the Lord did send his messengers in the form of artisans who did hear and obey the teachings of the prophet and who didst restore the profaned 1911s to their proper configuration, and lo, to the amazement of men they didst begin to work as the prophet had intended.

13 And the men of the land didst drive out the charlatans and profaners from the land, and there was joy and peace in the land, except for the evil sprits which tried occasionally to prey on the men and women of the land and who were sent to the place of eternal damnation ^b by the followers of John.

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^a Several old manuscripts add the following text. "And they [also rendered as "these men"] didst chamber it for cartridges who's calibers startith with numbers less than the Holy Number 4. And lo the Lord did cause great grief amongst these men when their enemies who were struck in battle with these lesser numbers didst not fall but did continue to cause great harm."

^b or Hell

© copyright 2002 by John C. Schaefer

A Truly HOT Chick

The Swiss are Civilized

Stoled from "The Sudden Curve". Thx, kbye!

Sigh -- This is the Sh-thole Where I Live

Maryland Judges Uphold State Anti-Handgun Law

A Maryland appeals court has followed suit. A three-judge panel ruled last Thursday that the Second Amendment does not interfere with a Maryland law that generally restricts state residents from carrying handguns.

That's not much of a surprise. What is remarkable is that Judge Albert Matricciani went out of his way to write that even if the Second Amendment applied to state laws, Maryland's statute would be perfectly constitutional in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court D.C. v. Heller decision last year to invalidate the District of Columbia's handgun ban.

Matricciani wrote:

Even if the Second Amendment did apply, it would not invalidate the statute at issue here. CL Sec. 4-203 provides that a person may not "wear, carry, or transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, on or about the person" or "in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the state." This blanket prohibition is modified by subsection b of the statute, which provides eight exceptions to the general rule outlined above. One of these exceptions is for possession of a gun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides. Thus, even if the right articulated in Heller, namely the right to keep and bear arms in the home for the purpose of immediate self-defense, were to apply to the citizens of Maryland, this statute does not infringe upon that right.

Translation: Your right to keep and bear arms applies only to your own home. Read it all here.

Our state gov't is composed of worthless ass-nuggets.

Wow -- so I guess gun-control works after all!

Just dang cool!

Shooting An Anvil 200 Feet in the Air - Watch more Funny Videos

Volk Again...

True on a multitude of fronts:

Ammo Sales Up HUGELY -- Duh!

The AP seems surprised at this phenomenon. Teh stoopids!:

Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition.

Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass antigun legislation — even though nothing specific has been proposed and the president last month signed a law allowing people to carry loaded guns in national parks.

Gun sales spiked when it became clear Obama would be elected a year ago and purchases continued to rise in his first few months of office. The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported that 6.1 million background checks for gun sales were issued from January to May, an increase of 25.6 percent from the same period the year before.

Read the rest here.

Totally unrelated to my previous post -- I think.

Good Anti-Zombie Weapons...

...if you are a poor sportsman and don't want to give the poor zeds a decent chance.

A Gun for Zombie

Not to be Confused with the Classic: "A Gun for Dinosaur"

Question for discussion:
What is the best gun for killing ( ? ) zombies?
Consider rate of fire, reload-rate, stopping-power, amount of available ammo, etc.

Check out the whole list here.


My nomination:


My buddy's call:

I can see his point. Tom-ay-to versus tom-ah-to.

Red Green is Awesome!

Nuthin' to do with Guns, but...

...pretty darned awesome anyway.



She's well-coordinated, fresh-faced and very cute. I especially like her obvious happiness at successfully pulling this off on live TV.

For those tempted to make rude and or sexual comments, please restrain yourself -- such commentary is unnecessary.

Cool Targets

Zombie Targets -- available here.

#1 Daughter & New Gun

#1 Daughter Melinda (the blonde) and a friend at
Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) last year:


Hey Boy -- watch where you put that right-hand!:


A new gun that will be her Christmas present this year:

Rights & Amendments

They are granted by God, not gifted by government.

But they are protected and preserved by citizens:


The gent in this Rockwell always reminded me of my Dad.

Another reason that it holds a warm place in my heart.

Moron

It's loaded with slugs -- if there's any justice left in this world.

Respect Mah Authoriteh!

Old Phart

I LIKE this acronym:


Stole it from G.O.C. Thanks Denny!

Funny Photoshop

Barney Fwank as Sgt Schultz:

" I know nuffink! NUFFINK!! "

h/t to Jackie & Dunlap at Red State Update.

Buy-A-Gun-for-Teddy to Celebrate

Finally -- this pathetic excuse for a man is meeting his rightful desserts:


Which is being rogered by the barbed phalluses (phalli?) of a billion Demons for all eternity:

"You're my beyotch Teddy!"


Teddy's Record on Constitutional Freedoms and 2nd Amendment rights:

• Voted NO on prohibiting foreign & UN aid that restricts US gun ownership. (Sep 2007)
• Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)
• Voted NO on banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers for gun violence. (Mar 2004)
• Voted YES on background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
• Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
• Voted NO on loosening license & background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
• Voted NO on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)
• Full details here.
  

Dunno about the rest of you-all but, aside from taking an especially large dump, buying a new gun is the best way that I can think-of to celebrate the Floater's life -- and especially his long-belated death.

This is what I'm buying (sans scope):

Remember -- whenever you buy a gun, the Baby Jesus smiles.

Chlorine in the Gene Pool

Yep -- a fine, upstanding citizen. R.I.P.

So Joseph Graves (17), Matthew Morgan (17), Marcus Fluker (15) and Tahjaue Wiley (18) were bored one night. So what to do? Well, in Thugville, it’s always fun to find an elderly couple, kick in their door and rob them. Which is exactly what they did. First they attacked the old man aged 76 in his shed. Then they attacked his wife. Once they had them tied up, they ransacked the house and took what they wanted and took off. Unfortunately for the thugs, homeowner C.L. McClure got free, retrieved his gun and took off after them. Now not all the details are in, but what is known is that a third of a mile down the road, C.L. opened fire on them, hitting Marcus who died at the hospital.

Read it all here.

Mark Steyn Rocks

Mark Steyn on the 2nd Amendment.

Let's take a hypothetical situation: I'm up late working on a Sunday Telegraph column at home. I hear a noise downstairs and cautiously investigate. It's a fellow I've never seen before, hunched over my stereo. What do I do? I take my gun and take him out. Okay, okay, for the more "compassionate" among you, let's say I try to hit his shoulder to disable his own firing arm. Unfortunately, I'm not that good a shot and I blow his head off. I instantly regret it, knowing I'm now going to have to repaint the room.

Gun-Barrel Diplomacy

A big-stick is only effective...

...if people believe that you are willing to use it.

Gun & Knife Turn-In Program

HAH! Rowan Atkinson is always great:



h/t to Arms & the Law.

When seconds count...

...the police are just minutes away:



Be prepared to protect yourself.

Kelly's Heroes -- Awesome

Just bin watchin' an old flick on DVD. Classic -- it may be old but it never gets old, if ya know whut I mean:



Of the main stars, only Clint, Rickles, and Sutherland are left. Sad -- tempus fugit.

The Man Who Has Lost Everything Has Nothing Left to Lose...

Looks intriguing:



I wonder exactly how Hollywood will twist this morality play into something small and mean.

Gun-Control In Action

Awesome. Just freakin' awesome:



Read the whole thing here.

Note that a .500 batting average is not too shabby in any League.

Note also that this is timely fo the NY Liberty Medals -- I dunno whether to nominate Gus under the "Leadership" category of the "Educator" category.

A New Toy!

Just got a new "toy" for my AR:

Feeding a hungry AR-15 style rifle becomes much more affordable now that it eats .22LR or .223.

Although web-reports are that these units are picky about ammo, I've fired several different brands/loads through it -- from Aquila target loads to Federal bulk-pack -- and all have functioned flawlessly.

Coolness. More practice = a good thing.
---- Surprisingly, neither recoil nor muzzle-jump are noticeably different with .22LR than with .223 (although the AR that I've installed it into is a heavy-barrelled target gun).
---- Report is much-reduced - so I can shoot an AR in my back-yard. Excellent!

Racist History of Gun-Control

A well-done documentary here:

Click To Play

h/t to Jews for Preservation of Firearms.

CCW -- Taken to the Extreme

An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.

Twenty-five-year-old George Vera was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol.

The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin -- D'ya think that mebbe the grossness of his cheesy, fleshy folds of flab may have reduced the enthusiasm with which the arresting- and correctional-officers executed these searches? Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break--- Ewwwwww! That discovery method has generated new frontiers of revulsion.

Here the gun that he had hidden on his person:

No data on what gun-oils or protective coatings he used to prevent corrosion. Am anxiously awaiting this news.

Uncle Ted is Awesome

Top-10 Combat Rifles

Is your favorite on this list?

#10 is the M-14

Hot!

Hot brass, that is:

The Hideous Logic of the Dred Scott Decision

h/t to Oleg Volk

Both Tragic & Awesome

You go girl!

Our thoughts and prayers are for you and your loss.

A Nice Little Rifle

Mossberg 44(US) from the Civilian Marksmanship Program:


With the right ammo, this is one of the most accurate 22s I have ever fired -- compares with H&R Mdl 12 and/or Rem 512T. Bull barrel, lead lapped bore, CRISP trigger, and surprisingly lightweight for off-hand shooting.

From back when the USA could still manufacture first-class stuff.

Fallacy of Gun-Free Zones

This Scares the Shit Outta Misogynistic Islamic Assholes

And well it should!

Major Pucker Factor

NOW I know why I became a bomb-disposal technician, rather than a photographer:

US Response to Iranian Election

What our current imbeciles are doing:

Obama Says Iran's 'Robust' Election Debate Hopeful Sign for US-Iran Engagement: On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden raised doubts about the legitimacy of the Iranian election process. "It sure looks like the way they're suppressing speech, the way they're suppressing crowds, the way in which people are being treated that there's some real doubt about" the election results, he told NBC's "Meet the Press."
But Mr. Biden and other senior U.S. officials stressed that America's national-security interests were best served by directly engaging the Iranian regime, irrespective of the election results.
WTF!?! Actually, it's not that surprising to see this lack of respect for the will of the electorate, IVO the endemic use of fraudulent voters by the Democratic party in the last election-cycle.


What a real President would do:
Instead of issuing such a weaselly and pussified statement of capitulation to whatever the Islamo-Nazis of Teheran are able to squeeze outta their "election", a real President woulda stood up for Freedom and would already be having a buncha these things being dumped outta C-130s over Iran's major cities (if not already pre-positioned):

Giving new (and real) meaning to the term "Power to the People."

Wouldn't this have the Mad-Mullah's shitting their pants? Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea to produce a couple hundred million of these over here in the US for distribution to the People.

Penn & Teller Get It Right

Penn's a fat-boy and Teller is a mute Hobbit.



But they get it absolutely correct herein.

Lies, Bullshit, and More Lies

Appalling:



But this is what the LibTards believe.

CIFTA Treaty Supported by the Odiot

h/t to Little Miss Attila

Cool Mini-Gun Videos

Impressive -- if only you can afford the ammo @ ~50-cents per round. Yowch!

Bullshit Confirmed!

Hah -- I said it awhile ago:

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.

While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico.

Read it all here.


In this Nov. 7, 2008, photo a soldier stands guard
during the presentation in Mexico City of arms,
captured in the largest seizure of Gulf drug-cartel
weapons to date, about 288 assault rifles, 500,000
rounds of ammunition, numerous grenades and
several .50-caliber rifles (AP).

Hot Rifle!

Was there a rifle in that photo?

Nice Guns!

I'm in lust.

Tragic!

Deactivated guns:



Kinda like a sterile, frigid woman. She might look nice, but serves no real purpose.

Note obviously (from the context) that this is not MY collection.

If it is not actually functional, I'll stick with a bolt-gun or a semi-auto.

Steven Crowder -- Pretty Funny (& VERY TRUE)

Also check-out his "The Qur'an Challenge" video. Priceless!

Alternative Deconfliction Options

Option A:



Option B:



YOU choose...

Report -- Richmond VA Gun Show

By the 0900 "Doors-Open" time, the line was easily 4-5 times its usual length. We didn't get in the door until 0935 and we were only about 1/2 way down the line.

They had state cops taking pictures of the folks in the line, as well as a local TV crew doing interviews. Some of the more paranoid in-line feared that the state cops were gathering intelligence on those in the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC) and the suggestion was made that we all simultaneously moon the cop a la Braveheart:

A BraveHeart Reenactment: Probably not that great of an idea after all

I suspect that the cop was actually just assessing the size of the crowd for Fire-Marshall and capacity/safety concerns.

Once inside, it was (surprise, surprise!) danged crowded. Prices were fairly high but selection was decent for all but EBRs (Eevil Black Rifles), reloading components, and Mag-Pul magazines. Of course, the latter were what I was looking-for.

140-round 0.308 Battle-Packs were available for $75, which was a better price than I had seen in a while. Not a great (or even good) price -- but at least they had the stuff.

Reloading stuff was in EXTREMELY SHORT SUPPLY, especially primers. Rifle primers could not be had for love or money.

A few Yuppies were in the crowd, but far fewer than up at the DC shows (not surprising, given the relative demographics btwn DC and Richmond). By 1100 the place was crammed so full that the O2 supply was dropping below 5% -- it was time for us to leave.

A Sweet Rifle from Korea

Credit goes to he who is unafraid to borrow (steal?) good ideas from other folks:

The K1 assault rifle was developed circa 1983 by the South Korean company Daewoo Precision Industries Ltd (a division of the large industrial corporation DAEWOO International Corp.) as a replacement for the license-built M16A1 rifles, used by the South Korean Army during the 1970s. The improved version, Daewoo K2, appeared circa 1987 and replaced the K1 rifle in production and service. At the present time the K2 assault rifle and K1A1 carbine are the general issue shoulder arms with the South Korean Army. Semi-automatic only, export versions of the K2 rifle, known as a Daewoo DR-100 (pre-1994), DR-200 (post-1994, both chambered for .223 Remington cartridge) and DR-300 (post-1994, chambered for Russian 7.62x39mm cartridge), are intended for the civilian and police markets. The earlier K1 semi-automatic versions were exported from Korea as Daewoo MAX-1 and MAX-2 rifles (both in .223 caliber).

The K2 rifles were designed as improved variations of the M16 rifle. While retaining most of the M16 design features, Daewoo designers replaced the direct gas system of the AR-15/M16 rifle with the more common and reliable gas piston system, and made several other improvements, resulting in very good combat weapon.

I got my K2 back when they were still legal and I still had my FFL. A very nice, highly reliable rifle.

I want one!

Not legal to import into the USA:



I need a pen-pal in Canuckistan.

Class III Weapon ?

Very clever!

Gun of the Week

The CETME was the predecessor to the H&K G3/91. It was built in Spain after WWII by German emigre engineers (from MauserWerke):

A Pretty Rifle -- the Wood Hardware Seems Strange after Black-Plastic

It's a .308 roller-locking delayed-blowback rifle with a 20-round magazine -- just like the G3/91.

Practically as heavy as a Garand or M-14, it'll put-out plenty of 30-caliber firepower.

Too Many Lawyers Pretty-Much Suck

A Russian, a Cuban, an American and a Lawyer are in a train.

The Russian takes a bottle of the Best Vodka out of his pack; pours some into a glass, drinks it, and says: "In the Rodina we have the best vodka in all of the world. Nowhere in the world you can find Vodka as good as what we produce in Ukrainia. And we have so much of it, that we can just throw it away..."
Saying that, he opens the window and throws the rest of the bottle through it. All the others are quite impressed.

The Cuban takes out a pack of Havanas, takes one of them, lights it and begins to smoke it saying: "In Cuba, we have the best cigars of the world: Havanas. Nowhere else in the world is there so many and so good cigars and we have so much of them, that we can just throw them away."
Saying that, he throws the pack of Havanas through the window. One more time, everybody is quite impressed.

Wait for it.......

At this time, the American just stands up, opens the window, and throws out the Lawyer.