Gun Culture

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dumbass sues DEA

Shot yourself in the foot?  In front of a school class?  Humiliated on the internet?
Sue the DEA!

Some moons ago, Gun Culture featured a DEA agent who demonstrated his professionalism in front of a class of school kids by shooting himself.  Much hilarity ensued.
Today I notice that The Englishman carries the tale of how the agent is suing the DEA because he is a laughing stock and can’t do undercover anymore.  Strangely though it was him that ND’d ensuring that he became infamous, it wasn’t the DEA who told him to shoot himself in front of a class of children.  Where’s (what remains of) your dignity man?

The Smoking Gun carries the skinny on the law suit.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Google AdSense

I was just thinking it might be a jolly wheeze to plop some Google Ads hereabouts - purely as a public service to our reader you understand!
So I thought I’d have a wee looksee to find out what it was all about, looks like it ain’t happening.  A quick peruse reveals a couple of caveats that Gun Culture will more than likely contravene.

Site may not include:

Excessive profanity
Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organsation
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Sales or promotion of certain weapons, such as firearms, ammunition, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles

Clearly I’m not adverse to a bit of adult language, I don’t think excessive but Mr Google might not agree.  Violence? Only against those who would visit it upon me.  Racial intolerance, no but advocate against any individual, group or organisation?  Terrorists? Al-Qaida?  The Labour Party? The EU?  Do these count?
I don’t sell firearms etc but I’m sure that Gun Culture will be deemed to be promoting firearms - unlike butterfly knives though firearms are perfectly legal, where’s the harm?
Google have the perfect right to set the rules, but I still think it sucks to treat legal firearms the same as criminal or immoral activity.

The Army’s Missing Guns

Quite a bit of traffic today on the BBC regarding the “Army’s Missing Guns”.
Between 1997 and 2005 the Army have lost 36 SA-80s of which 10 were recovered and 39 handguns of which seven were ‘accounted for’.
Quite why one would want an SA-80 I’m not sure but I suppose it’s better than nowt, many of the rifles referred to in the story appear to be pre-rework - jamtastic!  Of course the key fact paraded on the news is that the SA-80 is:

capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute

capable of firing 700 rounds a minute

As ever the press are (deliberately?) confusing theoretical cyclic rate of fire with actual capability, try to fire 700 rounds on the bounce through an SA-80 and you’ll soon find that it certainly isn’t bloody capable.  Overheated barrels and such like will soon lead to jamming and you’ll get pretty pissed of changing the mag - unless of course you have a seven hundred round mag.

The Defence Committee was stirred into action following the revelation that 28 Browning handguns and shotguns stolen in a raid on the Royal School of Artillery armoury at Larkhill barracks in Wiltshire were still missing

Has anyone looked in The Englishman’s shed?

Friday, April 07, 2006

IRA Didn’t Kill Snitch

Apparently the family of Denis Donaldson believe the IRA statement that they did not murder the former snitch.
In related news, Cardinals state that Pope is not in fact a Catholic and leading biologists state that bears have never been known to shit in the woods.

Entirely possible that the family have had a visit from the boys suggesting that it is in their best interests to ‘believe’ the statement mind.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Skype

Just installed that Skype lark.  Quite jolly, Skype is a VOIP style service which offers free calls to other Skype users and fairly cheap calls to land lines.
I’m not going to go bonkers and put my Skype contact details on here just yet but any blog buddies that want can email me for them.