East_TN_Patriot

Wow... YouTube - Mosin Nagant 91/30 (NFA, SBR)

They have a total handgun ban. Surely there must be some mistake. Dad who split up fight in McDonald's shot dead - mirror.co.uk

You non-Glock types are so goody-two-shoes. I will never understand the persistence of non-Glock people to tell Glock owners how they need to carry their pistols. We choose Glocks because of what they are, not what some other person may prefer them to be. If you want to buy a Glock and put a "dummy switch" on it, have at it, but don't suggest that because folks like me don't want it on our pistols are inherently unsafe or too careless to carry a pistol without a thumb safety. Or better yet, why not just get something like a Springfield XDM that has a grip safety? By listening to some folks, one would think that there are millions of AD/NDs each year from those archaic unsafe Glocks. Funny how out of all the millions and millions of striker fired pistols out there these days, the number of accidental deaths from shootings has been on the decline. Maybe it's safer handling of firearms by owners, or perhaps that thumb safety is insanely more popular than I realize (however I wouldn't be willing to bet any money on that). I'm just in total shock and awe that you manage to carry your Kahr without shooting yourself with it. Maybe you should get a thumb safety on that too. I mean, it is a "modern" firearm after all...

If you carry on a CCW, just be aware that your agency will likely not back you in an official capacity if you act "under color of law" as a corrections officer. In other words, if you decide to carry under a regular CCW permit rather than any sort of TDOC authorization, you are basically no different than a civilian if involved in a shooting. Just something to consider.

The only reason anyone has an AD/ND while holstering is because they are stupid. If you keep your finger out of the trigger guard when holstering like you should with ANY firearm, and if you make sure your holster properly fits and is in good repair like you should with ANY firearm, you won't have this problem. The other issue regarding field stripping is another example of stupidity and negligence in handing firearms. If you assure that your chamber is clear before pulling the trigger, you won't have any problems. In the case of the Glock using the scenarios you present here, a thumb safety is nothing more than a "dummy button" for people who shouldn't own a Glock, or any other firearm for that matter. It amazes me the number of people who think the thumb safety should be added, but the vast majority of people who have thumb safeties on their firearms carry them with the safety off, which is the smartest move for a defense pistol IMO. This Glock safety issue is as dumb as the 1911 "cocked & locked" safety issue of a decade ago.

I think there needs to be a high-capacity battery compartment ban on these. I mean, who NEEDS a flashlight that will hold more than 2 D cell batteries?

Well, I picked mine up today. It appears to be a decent specimen of a Soviet Izhevsk M91/30 made in 1943 (I assume that the big number is the year of manufacture). I cleaned the cosmoline off of it, and looked it over. The bore looks good and overall, the rifle is in better shape than I would have expected. It came with a bayonet, parts for the cleaning rod, a sling, and a cartridge case. I'm looking forward to taking it out this weekend and trying it out. Any tips before I take it for my first trip to the range with it?

Yeah, no kidding. How do ya do that?

Nah, this one is my throwing knife. The guy is semi-retired from knife making and does shows & demos over the winter. He makes a few each year to build up cash to get them through. Of the dozen or so he made that fall, this one was the best. He knew I was eyeballing it, but couldn't afford the price, so he offered to trade it for some custom-tooled leather sheaths in trade. He agreed to not sell it over the winter and we'd trade in the spring when he got back to Sevierville. He said that he could have sold that particular knife several times because it's just so cool looking. I thought about selling it a couple of times, but just can't bring myself to do it.

Here's a unique handmade knife that I acquired about a year ago. The blade is Damascus steel custom made using iron from the Camp del Cielo meteorite that landed in Argentina about 5,000 years ago. The handle is made using springbok horn and a fossilized ammonite in the buttcap. The blade is about 4" long and is razor sharp. It was made by Ken Largin, the man behind Kelgin Fine Cutlery. The picture shows a small fragment of the meteorite that the blade is made from. The pics simply don't do this thing justice, but I wanted to share.

I read an article in Blade magazine about a year ago that talked about how most big name knife makers are being counterfeited by the Chinese (just like they do with most other brand name merchandise - I saw where they are now selling fake Vibram FiveFingers shoes of all things). I've read that on the web, as many as 75% of products like that are fakes. I've gotten to the point where I just don't buy anything like that over the web unless I do some serious homework first. Some businesses are even mixing the fakes in with their real products to help cover their tracks. It's a real shame.

Hmmm... I think I will have to get one after the first ones are out and the bugs are all worked out. I LIKE IT!

Well, I found one on GunBroker for less than a Benjamin, so I decided to buy it. I assume it will be here in the next week or so, then I'll need to hunt up some ammo and head to the range for a testing session. Too bad I don't already have my C&R... Anyone know where I can get some reasonably priced ammo in the Knoxville area?

I was using Federal Champion standard velocity ammo that someone gave me. He used to use it when he shot competition. Then I was using some other Federal high velocity ammo, which did a lot better. I'm planning on installing some Volquartsen parts in it, so I'm sure the troubles will be corrected in short order. However, after all the crud I cleaned out of the thing, I'm pretty certain that was the problem. That's what I get for trusting someone else to keep their firearms as clean as I do.

Seems to me that you'd be much better off putting a couple hundred trouble-free rounds through it rather than diving in with sandpaper and a Dremel. That's all the "peace of mind" that I have ever needed in a firearm. I've owned multiple firearms over the years and I've never polished up a feedramp that wasn't causing me trouble. If it's feeding fine out of the box, there is very little likelihood you will ever experience a problem with the feed ramp. More people have ruined a barrel and/or frame by grinding and polishing too much metal away or changing the angle of parts that shouldn't be messed with. Just my 2 cents worth.

The gun shop I used to work for regularly referred to customers with screwed up firearms as "another fool with a moto-tool."

I think that may have been part of the problem. The entire area around the barrel was totally caked with carbon and powder residue. The area around the extractor was pretty gunked up as well. I'm betting that the extractor just couldn't get a good grip on the case rim. That was the first time I took it apart to that degree and it looks like a very simple design. I didn't see any sign that parts were damaged or altered, so I suspect that the thing just needed to be cleaned really well.

We go there a lot and I don't recall ever seeing it posted per the statute, but it does say it on the tickets. On the up side, they do have armed law enforcement there instead of unarmed security guards.

No, it's not a tough thing to wrap my mind around. I fully understand the point you are trying to make and we don't agree. I say that the criminal's intent is what matters, not the color of the victim's skin. Why is that so tough for you to wrap your mind around? A crime motivated simply by hate for an arbitrary characteristic is a terrible crime, and that should factor into the case because such blatant disregard for human life is worthy of a harsher punishment, but I don't agree that one brand of hate is worse than another brand of hate. The idea of a "protected class" is nothing more than a political flavor of the month whereby a specific group gets preferential treatment by lawmakers. It's equally bad if a black man kills a white man over race-based hatred, or if a white man kills a black man over race-based hatred. There is no fundamental difference. The issue is hate, not who managed to convince the legislature to give them special victim status. Are you really trying to suggest that a 2 year old can have criminal intent? Really? Are you REALLY trying to argue that point? If so, please don't ever vote, go into law enforcement, or serve on jury because that is ludicrous. It also goes against every ideological principle in our legal system.

jonlisha: Actually, dirty may be the problem. I got this from a buddy of mine who is notorious for not cleaning his firearms. I learned that the hard way when I bought a nice AR off of him, took it to the range for the first time, and it seized up solid. When my buddy and I finally got it apart, the bolt was so caked up with carbon, it was seized up. We worked for over an hour with solvent, a brush, and a pocket knife trying to scrape all of the crud off of it. I'll try that first before I do anything else with it. I lubed it up before I took it out, but didn't clean it (I should have known better).

I took my Ruger 10/22 to the range today and had a ton of FTE and stovepipe malfunctions, which surprised me. I'm hoping some folks with more experience with the 10/22 than I have can offer some ideas of what I can do to correct the problem. I noticed that the problem was a lot worse when I was shooting standard velocity rounds. Out of 10 rounds, I would have 3 or 4 malfunctions. When shooting high-velocity rounds, it would happen about once per mag. As far as the mags go, it did it with all of them, which are a mixture from old mags to brand new mags. All of this leads me to think that there is something causing the bolt to not fully move to the rear, which was made worse by the standard velocity rounds. Any ideas?

Well, as far as the marksmanship was concerned, they weren't really trying. They started off with a Smith & Wesson Bodyguard .380, which I assume was for self-defense or perhaps CCW. The general discussion was, "Ha ha ha! I can't hit anything with this! Ha ha ha!" Then they would resume their lousy shooting and were clearly not trying to actually practice for the purpose of improvement. It was obviously a case where they just thought pointing in that general direction and pulling the trigger was good enough. As far as the cross-eye dominance, I understand that some people are like that, but this guy had no clue what he was doing. Once he'd shoot with his right hand & left eye, then the left hand and left eye, then he'd try left hand and left eye. He commented on my ability to pick off golf balls shooting off-hand and said I must come to the range a lot. It opened up an opportunity to mention that I used to be a police firearms instructor and have done a lot of careful practice, with the hopes he'd ask for some pointers. He just chuckled, went back to shooting literally 20 feet in front of the target he was aiming at, and then tore his hand up with the slide. Nice guy, but wow... Mike.357 hit the nail on the head. If you choose to exercise your right to own a firearm, one should at least try to do it safely and responsibly. To be fair, I had some folks come to our agency fresh out of the academy who couldn't hit the target at 7 yards, so this isn't just a civilian problem. And in response to Erik88, nothing makes you more aware of the dangers of dumb shooters than a trip to the range (including a police firing range I might add). Ah well, at least I didn't get shot and I had a good time burning through a brick of .22LR ammo. Now I need to go home and figure out what is wrong with my Ruger 10/22.

I managed to make it out to the shooting range today for a little plinking. I was happily shooting away when out of the corner of my eye I see the guy at the end of the firing line go bee-bop downrange to set up his targets. I stopped in shock and heard the folks next to me say, "Did the range go cold?!?" I responded, "It wasn't until that moron walked out there." Wow... What's worse is that you must pay for a membership there and attend a safety class before they issue you a gate key. Then we have a group of people who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn if they were locked inside of it. I'm shooting 12 gauge cases and golf balls at 20 yards with my Ruger MKIII, and they couldn't hit cans at 20 feet. One guy was shooting left handed and aiming with his right eye, another wrapped both thumbs around the backstrap and got ate up by the slide. Then another one in the group did the same thing. After about 30 minutes, I heard one say, "I think that's enough practice for me." I wanted to look at him and say "Think again." Wow... I'm all for 2nd Amendment rights, but some folks with guns scare the out of me.

No, that's not any sort of logical conclusion. There is simply nothing remotely similar about a 2 year old, who legally can't form criminal intent or be held criminally culpable for any crime whatsoever, and an adult who commits multiple cases of murder. That's about as absurd a comparison as any I've ever heard. I'm saying that if a rational adult commits a murder based primarily on the fact that the victim has some arbitrary characteristic the perpetrator doesn't like, the penalty should be the same. Our system says punishment should be based on the merits of the crime, not politically motivated labels. There is plenty of discretion built into the law and sentencing to account for mitigating and aggravating factors, which is why we have manslaughter vs. murder (per your other absurd comparison between Ted Bundy and the cheating spouse scenario). Our system already accounts for motivation, but with the hate crime legislation, they've gone one step further and said that hating certain groups is worse than hating other groups. So, essentially, they are saying that one type of hate or prejudice is worse than another type of hate or prejudice. If someone kills me because I am white, my killer is not going to be charged with a hate crime because I'm not a "protected class." If I kill a black man because he's black, I get an enhanced penalty. Explain to me how that is fair for anyone? A very good example of this situation was seen in the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murders here in Knox County. Five black offenders, one whom even made disparaging comments about the victims' race, and two white victims, yet it was not treated as a hate crime. The aggravating factor here is doing someone harm out of hate, not someone's race/ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation. Hate crime laws are concerned with arbitrary labels, not the actual harmful motivation behind a crime.

That's what the Fair Tax does. It's a federal sales tax that everyone pays when they purchase goods and services. Everyone pays. Illegal aliens, tourists, drug dealers, everyone. The only tax break one would get is if they choose not to spend as much. It's no different than the state sales tax here in Tennessee in lieu of an income tax. As another of my posts above notes, I never said that civil unions should get any sort of special government benefit. It would be a legal designation for couples because that relationship is important for civil law, probate & property law, and insurance purposes.