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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Outdoor Channel

How tiresome that we don’t get Outdoor Channel over here!
Oh, but the wonder of thar interwebs makes it global.
http://www.outdoorchannel.com/tv/index.aspx

Friday, January 11, 2008

Gesture Politics From Lame Duck Home Secretary

So Jaqui Smith is looking to distract from her abject uselessness by increasing restrictions on deacts.  Pre 1995 deacts are apparently easier to re-act than post.  As ever I have to point out that if you have the skills and the equipment to reactivate such a beast then making a gun from scratch is not beyond your ken.  Even a half arsed useless get like me could do it.
David Davis sensibly points out that:

Government’s own figures show that in 2005-06 there were only eight incidents where deactivated or reactivated weapons were used – just 0.04 per cent of gun offences.

So we can see that even if the new law were to magically make illegally reactivated guns disappear “from our streets” the actual impact on gun crimes would be pretty much negligable.
What a waste of fucking time and effort.
If Ms Smith wants to make an actual impact on gun crime then the Government needs to act on criminals not the tools they use.  Remove one source of tools and they will simply find another, given that drugs pour into the UK from abroad seemingly unchecked - how hard is it going to be to smuggle firearms?
Here’s how to tackle crime Ms Smith:
Arrest criminals, real criminals not just “thought criminals”. 
Succesfully prosecute them.
Lock them up, and here’s the clever bit - don’t let them out after five minutes, make them serve the full term not half of it.  Criminals in jail are not shooting people, mugging people or robbing houses.

Stop handing out caution after caution, one caution (for any offence) and the next one is prosecution.  Stop pretending that young thugs are going to magically become model citizens, the chances are incredibly slim.  Lower, yes lower, the age of criminal responsiblity.  Youngsters think they can get away with any kind of crime because of their age.  This must stop.  If you insist that under 10s should not be prosecuted, then the parents should be criminally liable.  If my dog were to bite someone then I would be held responsible, why should it be any different for children.
Marxist bleeding hearts insist that criminal behaviour is the fault of society and that scum can be shown the error of their ways, they cling to this view despite the collosal failure of this line of thinking over the past 60 years.  It is time to recognise this failure and start to attack the endemic criminality in this country.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

100 New Sensible Shooters

There was a manufactured kerfuffle in the MSM recently as the GCN tried to make hay over young people being issued gun licences.  The media tried to crack on that youngsters were running amok with guns with the approval of the police.  Bollocks of course, these are people who have been assesed as safe and who will be supervised by a responsible adult appropriately licensed as required by the law.
Not to be left out our local rag picks up the story with the news that 100 youngsters in our area have been issued certificates.
No rent-a-gob quote from that witch Marshall-Andrews this time, but no doubt some harpie will write in to the letters column in protest.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

EU Gun Restrictions

Often I hear shooters declare that a Blighty ‘Fully in Europe’ (whatever that means) would be A Good Thing because we would benefit from their more relaxed gun laws.  I always say to them that they are kidding themselves and that the best that could be hoped would be that things didn’t get worse.  The EU is not Europe, nor is it the sum of the nations dumb enough to have shackled themselves to it’s yoke.  It is a monsterous creature out to enslave the continent in it’s neo-Marxist agenda.
So it was no surprise to me last week that the EU trumpeted it’s new firearms legislation, which included a ban on under 18s buying firearms.  Tellingly this was apparently to ‘bring the EU into line with a UN protocol’.  The UN of course being the other big player in global Marxism, a gentleman’s club of dictators.  Who are they to be ‘in line’ with?
A representative of FACE was quoted in last week’s Shooting Times as saying how this was a victory!  Jesus H Christ, just how bad must it be to have been a defeat?
The business in Finland was of course bandied about as justification, inevitably some are saying that this would have prevented the shootings.  Bollocks of course, but why let the truth get in the way of a good headline.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

MOD Restricting Shooting

In the name of “elfinsafety” the MOD are restricting power levels on their ranges, this also affects Bisley.
Energy levels are apparently to drop from 7000 joules to 3800 joules, this doesn’t just knacker the 338 Lapua but also apparently 155 grain .308.  Which cocks up all kinds of shooting comps including Target Rifle, Match Rifle, and F Class.
The NRA are of course reacting in their usual manner.  i.e. rolling over and saying thank you sir - may I have another?
Shooters who aren’t so keen to take it up the arse (again) are describe by Glynn Alger as

namely rogue shooters who are not willing to accept the authority of the NRA to deal with this issue in timely fashion without interference.

What a twat.
Having seen the stunning sucesses of the NRA ‘dealing with issues in timely fashion’ (semi-auto ban for example, where the NRA told the Government there was no sporting purpose for a semi-auto) it is hardly surprising that shooters do not accept the so-called authority of the NRA.
Yes, the shooter who apparently gave the OIC at Altcar a verbal buggering and threatened him with legal action was probably ill advised in his actions, but I don’t think for one moment that his actions will be any more detrimental to the cause than the useless fuckers at Bisley bending over.
Glynn Alger also states that

We have to realise that to the military there is no ‘Defence Imperative’ to allowing us to shoot on their ranges.

How can the top knob at the NRA forget that the whole reason for the NRA coming to being was to encourage marksmanship and rifle usage for the defence of the nation?  Not for a bunch of old school tie wankers to piss around in comps which have bugger all relevance to warfare but to ensure that more people knew the business end of a military weapon.  The NRA should have been about ensuring that military shooting skills were practiced and yet it is chock full of old giffas shooting weapons you would never see on a battlefield practicing shooting styles alien to modern warfare.  If there is no defence imperative to civi shooting on military ranges it is because the NRA have been complicit in allowing this state of affairs to come about.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

EU Gun Control

From time to time I hear people who think that the EU will eventually lead to more liberal gun laws here in the UK.  They reason that because many of our neighbours have less strict gun control that EU law will eventually standardise to the French or German model.  They are of course quite wrong.  The EU is not in the business of providing freedom, it is in the business of control.  What is much more likely is that the EU will at first make a minimum level of control, not restricting the big two, whilst allowing more strict control in member states.  Then having established competency over that area of state law it will tighten up the screw until such time as it can outlaw guns in private ownership entirely.
Could this then be the first step on the road?

A British MEP is hoping to “fast track” a new EU deal on gun control and says last week’s school massacre in Finland should act as a wake up call.
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The new directive would make it harder to buy guns across the EU. 

Friday, November 02, 2007

Foam Gun Leads To Warning

When I say foam gun I don’t mean a foam making gun, I’m talking about something that shoots a foam ‘bullet’ - Nerf guns and the like.
Hardly a danger and hardly realistic.
Yet a group of students in Springfield Ohio’s Wittenburg University were taken into custody for possesing such a beast.
From the AP article:

Wittenberg is a liberal arts college

There’s a surprise.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Ban bog roll!

Some numpty apparently tried to hold up a bookies with a bog roll tube up his sleeve claiming it was a gun.
Staff weren’t fooled by this wheeze however!
From BBC News

A man has admitted attempting to rob a Glasgow bookmakers by claiming a toilet roll up his sleeve was a gun.
John McMillan, 25, told staff at Ladbrokes in the Saltmarket area of the city: “I’ve got a gun. Give me money.”
Staff refused to believe he was armed and when he left empty-handed he was confronted and wrestled to the ground.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Support for gun control dwindling in America

A great headline in the Baltimore Sun.  Though I was surprised when I read further.

Just 51 percent of Americans believe that laws governing the sale of firearms should be made more strict

I had no idea the number was so high in the first place.
Looking at the Gallup poll though, this is more like it:

A solid majority of Americans (58%) opt for focusing exclusively on better enforcement of existing laws

No surprises here:

a majority of women favor making them stricter

This is a surprise though,

a solid majority of nonwhites favor stricter laws

Have they forgotten the concerted efforts to disarm non-whites in the past?  Or the times when a gun would have protected the family from racial violence?
A final nonshock:

Two-thirds of Democrats favor stricter gun laws

...bears shit in the woods, Pope Catholic etc.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

GCN Baiting

11 year old girl field stripping an AR-15.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Illegal guns same as legitimate guns to Gordon

From Gordon the Moron’s speech to conference:

amongst the vast majority of us there is an abhorrence of guns in our society

Not illegal guns.  Just guns.

No-one who sells drugs to our children or uses guns has the right to stay in our country

Not illegal guns.  Just guns.
No doubt some apologists would say that the illegal part was implicit and unnecessary, they are quite wrong.  Gordon the Moron hates the private ownership of guns and will not be happy until State enforcement have the absolute monopoly on gun ownership, illegal gun ownership and gun crime being simply a useful tool to facilitate this.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Another ‘professional’ with a negligent discharge

These seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment....
As Mike points out in the comments of the last post on this topic yet another of these professional gun cops has had a negligent discharge.  This time thankfully he has only shot himself not some other poor bugger.
According to The Scum

A source said: “It looks very much like the safety catch was not on as it should have been.
“He got into the vehicle and the weapon went off. Frankly he’s lucky he didn’t kill himself or somebody else.”

Actually I think it was probably a Glock with the Safe Action system.  This isn’t a ‘safety catch’ as most people would understand it and only prevents a discharge on dropping or whatever.  It wouldn’t prevent the gun firing if the trigger got caught on some clothing or whatever, I’m guessing that something of this nature happened.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Another police shooting accident

This one didn’t seem to get much play in the press, certainly I only noticed it in the Daily Mirror I read whilst waiting for my chinese on Friday night.

A policeman is recovering in hospital after being shot by a colleague at point-blank range in a training accident.
The officer, who has not been named, was saved by his body armour but suffered severe bruising.
The incident occurred at the Sussex Police range at Gatwick.
A source said: “The armour saved this officer’s life but he was left in a lot of pain from the impact.”

Lucky bugger.  Presumably this was low profile because he wasn’t badly injured, but it could easily have been a fatality.  There’s no getting away from the fact that gun clubs up and down the land have a far higher safety record than these ‘professionals’.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Firearms Amendment 1997 “A waste of space”

Following the shocking shooting of that young lad in Liverpool, Albert Kirby, Former Detective Superintendent, Merseyside Police has the following to say.

“Fire arms can be obtained very cheaply and after they have been used criminals can dispose of them because they are so cheap - a handgun can be bought for about £25 a time.

Fire arms are so readily available that you can go out on the street, make the necessary enquiries and come up with them. It is that easy.

The legislation that came in after the Dunblane shooting in 1996 has been utterly and totally ineffective. It was a waste of space.

With the borders disappearing in Europe there are no checks on firearms coming in from abroad. They come from Eastern Bloc countries, recommissioned firearms, and a steady flow coming out of the world’s conflict zones.

Merseyside Police have done a tremendous amount of work to recover firearms. But bearing in mind the amount of firearms that are available it is very difficult.”

Hat tip to Mirage for the info which appears in The Daily Telegraph.  Given the last tip Mirage gave me got me a uniformed visit, I hope this one doesn’t provoke the same response!

Albert Kirby clearly knows what we shooters have been saying for a very long time - legitimate sporting shooters are not the problem.  If there was the slightest ounce of common sense the Government would stop persecuting respectable shooters with ridiculous restrictions, stop treating us as the whipping boys everytime a firearm issue pops up and put hanguns and semi-auto rifle back on Section 1.  Having done that they could address the real problem which is the porous borders and wholesale lawlessness.
I shan’t hold my breath.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

The Happy Dance

Time for what Kim would call The Happy Dance.
I have in my possesion a shiny new FAC and an equally shiny new SGC!
What better way to celebrate than with a new gun?
CZ 452 16” Varmint in .17HMR and a SAK moderator to match, thank you very much.  Fitted a Rifle Basix trigger to cure the horrible heavy pull and creep that you get with the CZ.  Better than the Brooks kit I find because you can adjust the pull with a grub screw rather than buggering about with spring changing and you can get rid of the creep with a sear adjusting widget rather than buggering about with brass tubes.  Sure the Brooks is dirt cheap but I’m happy to pay the extra for the adjustability.  The only difficulty was that I had to remove a little bit of stock where the sear adjusting lock nut lives but this was straight forward once I’d worked out this was why the trigger didn’t work with the stock in place.
Speaking of the stock, this is the only part of the gun I’m not so keen on - it being wood.  Not a fan of wood and I’ve not long got rid of the last bit of dead tree in my cabinet.  Tempted by one of those Wild Dog stocks but I can’t help but think that them’s damned expensive - about the same as the cost of the rifle itself.  If only Hogue made stocks for CZs like the one I have on my Ruger 10-22