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"Marsha McCartney hopes Lavender fails.   "Back in the Old West, people had to leave their guns at the edge of town," said McCartney, a spokeswoman for the Texas chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "I thought that was very sensible. I wonder why that was changed.""     It hasn't changed.  That was never the law or even common anywhere in the US.  There were a couple of highly publicized incidents where the local sheriff required cowboys who were coming in town to get drunk after a cattle drive to disarm before coming into town.  Most states still do not allow those who are drinking to carry firearms.   As usual, you can count on the Brady Center to distort, lie, and ignore actual facts.

A summary of common .303 Enfields:   There are several basic models: 1)  US-made Pattern 14 .303 and US Model 1917 .30-06.  Really a modified Mauser action with cock-on-closing.  WWI manufacture by Remington and a Remington-run plant called Eddystone.  Here's a better description and some photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_1914_Enfield 2)  No1, MKIII Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield.  In the late 1880's the Brits adopted a bolt-action design by an American (James Lee) and it went through several changes, including changing the rifling to the Enfield pattern, and shortening it.  Thus, it was the Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield, or SMLE.  This was the main rifle of the British empire from 1904 through 1939.  It is easy to identify because the front bayonet boss looks like a barrel sticking out from the front nosecap, but lower than it should be.  The actual barrel does not stick out past the front sight.  It also has a tangent rear sight mounted just in front of the chamber. 3)  No 4, MKI.  Developed to be stronger, lighter, and more easily manufactured than the No 1.  Has a rear peep sight at the rear of the action.  Also has two small lugs at the end of the barrel to allow the short spike bayonet to be attached.  The barrel sticks out past the front sight for another two inches.   There were a LOT of variants of the Lee-Enfield.  One of the more common is the No.5 'Jungle Carbine'.  Most are converted No. 4 SMLEs that had a shortened barrel and hand, a flash hider with different bayonet lug, and some lightening cuts to the bolt, receiver, and barrel.  There are also .22 trainer versions of both the No1 and No 4 models, as well as sniper versions in .303 and 7.62NATO.   The Wikipedia entry is pretty good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield   The British Lee-Enfield has a VERY fast action and a 10rd magazine.  At the beginning of WWI, the well-trained British troops were able to bring Germans under such accurate, heavy, long-range fire that they thought that they were facing machine guns.

The revolver should operate smoothly.  Double-action trigger pull is intentionally heavy.  Single-action should break pretty crisply, but don't expect it to be like a Colt Python.  To eject empty shells, push down on the barrel latch lever and open the action briskly.  Opening it very slowly may allow the cam to reset and the ejector star to drop before the shells are completely out.   With a bit of practice, you can eject the empties by pushing the top of the barrel against your right thigh as you operate the barrel latch with your right hand.  Your left hand should secure six new cartridges from your belt pouch and drop them into the chambers by feel as you stand erect and gaze coolly at your approaching enemies.

I have one of those tools, and it makes pretty good percussion caps.  Not as reliable as factory caps, but they do work most of the time.  It does not work for making modern-style primers.   Where are you finding paper roll caps?  I haven't seen any of those in some years.

Actually, .303 Savage IS a collectable caliber.  Original boxes from the '30's can sell for up to $100 each depending on condition and rarity.  This caliber is still produced in small lots by Hornady and Prvi Partisan.  I do not recall ever having seen 190gr ammo before.  But, I haven't really looked, either.   It's slightly more powerful than the .30-30, with much of the advantage being the ability to use spitzer bullet which are ballistically more efficient.

A 3D printer for aluminum is available.  The cheaper ones cost about $150K.   What nobody mentions is that a small CAD milling machine only costs about $5K.  You can make a LOT of nice guns with one of those!  And it will fit nicely in your garage or basement without taking up too much room.

What a maroon.  :rolleyes:

Ammunition is a consumable, just like food.  Every time you go to the range, you need to realize that every single round fired by everyone there will need to be replaced.  I see a LOT more people shooting these days than I did five years ago.  That's means a LOT more ammo is being shot up.   As for 'hoarding', what do you mean by 'hoarding'?  I buy ammo by the case when it's plentiful and cheap.  When it's expensive and hard to find, I buy very little, if any.  Am I a 'hoarder'?  If so, why is that bad?  Because I'm smarter than those who wait until things are scarce and expensive?    If you are smart, you will have a stock of a year's supply of food, a year's supply of ammo, as well as batteries, water, gasoline, and other necessities.  Have you ever been to a grocery store during a bad snowfall?  Remember all of the empty shelves?  Expecting the grocery store to always have what you want is worse than stupid.  What we are seeing with ammo is exactly the same as a grocery store during a snowstorm.  It's all the idiots who didn't stock up who are emptying the shelves.  Since ammo has a longer lead time, it will take a while before stocks get back to normal.

All of these proposed gun control laws are already being used other places.  And guess what?!  In none of those places did violent crime decrease.  In fact, in almost every instance, violent crime increased!  So, if it doesn't do what they say it's supposed to do, why do it?

It IS an alarming trend.  Can you believe it?!  Only ONE of those attackers actually died!  Three of them will live to spend a few years in jail (we hope) before continuing their life of crime.

If you can snag one for under $400, you've done well.  If the condition is really nice, I'd probably go up to $500, especially if it doesn't have that d@mned push-through safety!

Why is this news to Nashville?  This happened in Delaware!  No Tennessee residents were involved.   (sarcasm on)  Hmm, you don't suppose they are running with every firearm murder story in the country, do you?  Surely our news organizations wouldn't be pushing the message that more gun control is needed? (sarcasm off) :yuck:   Why do you guys still watch this cr@p?  Every minute you spend in front of the tube puts more money in their pockets. 

  Absolutely NOT TRUE!  The President is head of the Executive Branch of the Federal government and Commander in Chief of the Military.  Explain to me where the Secret Service has authority to over-ride a Presidential directive?    The sad reality is that I seriously doubt that any recent President ever gave the matter a moment's thought.  Obama, of course, wouldn't know how to tell if a rifle had a bolt or not.

Nope, you need to stay in at least 20 to get anything.

Trust works both ways.  If you don't trust ME with firearms, why should I trust YOU!  In fact, usually those who try to disarm me have just proven to me that they are not worthy of my trust in any matter.   Troops on parade are no threat to the POTUS.  They never even get within a hundred yards of him.  And one man trying to load and fire a rifle would be jumped on by everyone else before he could fire a shot, much less take time to aim at a target 100 yards away.   The Secret Service are the only armed folks that take an oath to defend the President.  Military take an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  Perhaps this explains why our leaders are so afraid of armed soldiers.

The State of the Union Address is nothing but a campaign speech for Obama.  By law it is supposed to be a summary of the status of the country.  good luck getting any actual useful information from it these days.  Unless, of course, you want to know what crap Obama is going to pull next.

Add in the huge number of rounds fired from aircraft, both fixed-wing and helicopters, and that goes a long way towards explaining that ratio.   Another factor folks don't think about is that a civilian in their home defending against a home invasion will rarely have reloads on their person.  so, what they have in the firearm, is probably all they will have usable for defense.  As stated above, three attackers will most likely require AT LEAST twelve rounds and leave the defender with an empty gun. With multiple targets, hit ratio declines as the defender is changing targets while shooting.  So my advice would be that three attackers will need more than 16rds, unless the defender is very good or lucky. Most people in a gun fight continue to shoot until all attackers are down or gone, or they run out of ammo.  That applies to civilians AND police.  And LE feels that officers need at least three 15-17rd magazines.  Why are civilians less valuable than LE?

As of 2008, there were 765,000 sworn Law Enforcement officers (Federal, State, Local) in the US.  Figure that departments buy more guns than one per officer, so 900,000 is probably not too far off the mark.  And figure an average replacement cycle of every three years (very liberal, but why not?).  That's only 300,000 handguns per year as a market for LE. ATF says that there were almost 2.6 million handguns made by licensed manufacturers in the US, with 120,000 of those being exported.  Military contracts for Beretta, Sig, and Colt pistols only amount to about 40,000 pistols per year.   So, over 2.1 MILLION handguns are sold to civilians every year, versus less than 400,000 for Military/LE.   Smith&Wesson went bankrupt after getting civilian gun owners pi$$ed-off in 2000 by making a stupid deal with Clinton.  If you don't think that other manufacturers noticed, you would be wrong.  And Smith&Wesson in particular, has been VERY vocal about not supporting gun control!

Usually, congresscritters ignore folks that are not in their district.  I like to spice things up by showing them the error of their ways.   "Senator Manchin, I am in Tennessee, but what you are proposing affects everyone in the country.  So, here's the deal:  If you accept ANY infringement in the Right of the People to keep and Bear arms (including magazine limits, ammo limits, background checks, etc), then I will donate $20 to your opponent in your next Primary.  I know that you believe that you are 'safe' since that won't be until 2018.  But firearms owners have long memories.  And I promise that I will do all I can to ensure that this will not be forgotten.   If you are looking for a way to 'compromise' on the gun issue, consider re-reading the Oath you swore last month to "...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..".  The operative part of the Second Amendment is very simple.  "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".  How can you say that restrictions on private citizens are not an infringement?  I submit that ALL Federal Gun Control are infringements.  So, a good compromise would be to repeal the 1994 Brady Act as well as the 1986 Hughes Amendment to the FOPA, instead of the 1968 GCA and 1934 NFA as well.   Sincerely, me"   They really hate that part of "I will donate $20 to your opponent in your next Primary".  But be prepared to follow-up on it.  Otherwise it's meaningless.  As someone from out-of-state, that's about all you can do.

But you CAN buy suppressors designed for air rifles without a tax stamp.  If you put them on a firearm, it's illegal.  But to further complicate the issue, BATF says that if you CAN put them on a firearm, they require the $200 tax stamp.  People have gone to jail for buying an airgun suppressor without paying that $200 tax.  Even though there is no law saying that it required for an airgun.   No, it's not right or fair.  If you expect the law and/or government to be fair, prepare yourself for a lot of disappointment in life.   http://www.pyramydair.com/article/Airgun_silencers_What_s_the_big_deal_August_2006/32

Remember what the road to Hell is paved with?  When I was young, I remember going with my Grandfather to a hardware store and he bought a .22 Remington 66.  Cash and a handshake and we took it home.  In 1968, they told us that requiring dealers to have to transfer guns across state lines and making us fill out the old yellow 4473 would keep guns out of the hands of criminals.  It didn't. In 1994, they said that the NICS (and TICS) instant check system would be no imposition on gun buyers because it was 'instant', but would keep guns out of the hands of criminals.  It has been neither 'instant', nor useful at keeping guns away from criminals.   What you propose will still not keep guns out of the hands of the violent and insane.  Most convicted criminals get firearms from straw purchasers and theft.  That was equally true back in the 1930's (before ANY Federal gun laws), and has never changed.  As for the insane, I believe in a VERY difficult standard to get someone declared insane.  Governments have traditionally used the 'insanity' plea as a convenient way to remove dissidents.  Even our Federal, state, and local governments here in the US have done this in the past.  It used to be sufficient to have one psychiatrist as a professional opinion, along with two witnesses to strange behaviour to get someone committed.  Fortunately, that has changed.   Ideally, if someone is a violent criminal or violently insane, then they should not be walking around among the law-abiding.  But, since our court system sees fit to allow them to mingle with the rest of us, I would not be averse to some form of marking or permanent identification like a brand or tattoo.  If someone is too violent to be allowed weapons, then there should be some way for the rest of us to KNOW who they are!

  As an FYI, it's actually called 'martial law'.  And this isn't it.  Martial law is when the military are called in to restore order and normal non-military law enforcement is suspended and put under military command.  No matter how much they want to act like it, Department of Homeland Security is NOT military.

This explains how to load ammo into the stripper clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wf4B7GyArM   At one point, AIM Surplus had good stripper clips.  I don't see them on their website any more.  I have heard that this type work well. Here are some for $19.99/20: http://www.tickbitesupply.com/mos.html   These are original surplus ones for a bit more: http://oldsargesdropzone.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=159

Remember, it's not JUST Feinstein's bill that's out there.  There are several bills in the Senate.   Make sure that you send both Alexander and Corker firm notice that you will not tolerate ANY gun Control legislation. Including: 'Universal' Background Checks Magazine size limits A ban on any kinds of weapons or any other restrictions that their pointy little heads can come up with.

Phil Williams (reporter) - pwilliams@newschannel5.com Sandy Boonstra (news director) - sboonstra@newschannel5.com   Let them know (politely) that you are appalled at this propaganda segment and that it once again demonstrates why TV news is a waste of time.