Gun Culture

Friday, February 23, 2007

Replica Gun Spotting

On last nights installment of the Gun Ban Show ITV News a copper showed a replica of handgun and the real thing side by side in order that we should see just how convincing they are and what a difficult job it is for a copper looking down the barrel of one of these beasties.  He points both units towards the camera to demonstrate “It’s the one on the left” I shout at the screen.  “Which one was the replica?” asks the journo.  “In this case” says PC Plod “it was the one on the left”.  Easy really, one had a chuffing big hole for a 9mm round to go down and the other had a itty bitty little .22 sized hole. 
All somewhat irrelavent though, if a street punk points a replica at an armed copper he should expect to get some 9mm holes in him sharpish.  There should then be no bleating from the media about how the thug was “needlessly slain”, the media should run with what a stupid little shit he was pointing replica guns at coppers with the real thing.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

More top quality journalism

On this evenings ITV news was a piece regarding that old chestnut - conversion of replica firearms.  Usual high standard of journalism.
A ‘hoodie’ was sent in to a sports shop where replicas were sold including airsoft versions of ar-15 type rifle ( ‘terrifying arsenal including machine guns’ ).  Chummy asks for a Brocock and is told that Brococks are no longer sold, not strictly true of course as Brococks are still sold but the name is used to describe self contained gas cartridge pistols which were sometimes converted to fire .22lr and are now illegal to trade but can be held on a Section 1.  In conversation the shop owner describes how the conversion of replica pistols leaves the unit as likely to blow up in your hand as function as intended, the voice over poo-poos this as “three quarters” of illegal handguns recovered are conversions (no source is quoted for this) of course he does not say how many of these are actually capable of functioning without the failure as described.  A misleading statement and far from proving the shop owners statement incorrect.  At all times the inference is that the converted unit is a firearm which fires regular cartriges, 9mm or whatever, it is never made clear that the replicas really couldn’t handle a load such as this.
The ‘hoodie’ buys a Umarex pistol which looked like a CO2 powered ‘air’gun, a low powered creature.  The journalist goes on to tell us how easily this can be converted, he is later pictured wetting himself with fear as he handles this evil device.  Our ‘hoodie’ is despatched to a local rub-a-dub wherein a chancer tells him how he can convert this unit for prices which vary from 250 to 500 pounds depending on how quickly he wants it turned around.  If the unit is indeed the CO2 beastie then the chances of it becoming a functioning firearm are practically nil, it simply does not posess the appropriate chamber and trigger unit required to fire a percussive cartridge, the extra machinery required means you may as well just buy a proper gun and at the prices quoted you certainly could.  If my idenification of the model of pistol is incorrect and it was in fact a blank firer then it is possible to convert to something which fires a percussive cartridge but not a standard pistol round - no where near.  The unit would need significant alteration to accomadate the rounds and the barrel is simply not capable of handling the pressures.  More likely the unit’s barrel would be drilled and modified blank rounds used.  Capable of inflicting serious injury at very close range but no where near the power of a proper handgun and with bugger all accuracy.
Actually I suspect the ‘bloke in the pub’ recognised the ‘hoodie’ as a know nothing and was trying to scam him.

All in all the usual mix of hysteria and half truth masquerading as journalism, this on the same night they trumpet their success in some industry awards or other.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Relegalise Guns - Power to the People

What a great title for a press release from the Libertarian Alliance.
Freedom for Tooting under the Tooting Popular Front!

“RELEGALISE GUNS: POWER TO THE PEOPLE”, FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK TELLS BLAIR GOVERNMENT

The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties policy institute, today calls on the British Government to take firm action over the shootings of young men in South London.

It believes the best action would be to relegalise guns and let ordinary people fight back with lethal force against the violent criminals who presently rule the streets of our cities.

Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Sean Gabb, says:

“The Libertarian Alliance believes in a return to the wise laws of our ancestors, under which a person could walk into a gun shop and, without showing a licence or any form of identification, buy as many guns and as much ammunition as he pleased, and could keep these at home, or carry them about in public, for the defence of his life or property.

“We have the most restrictive laws in Europe on gun ownership. These have plainly not worked. In 1968, in 1988, and twice in 1997, we were promised a safer country if only we gave up our guns. We were cheated.

“In fact, the only people who have no guns are the respectable. Those who do commit assaults are no more likely to obey the gun ban than they are to stop listening to horrid music or to wash their hands after using the toilet.

“Even turning the country into a police state, with powers of random stop and search and scanners in public places, will do nothing to disarm these creatures. Such laws will only inconvenience the respectable. They subject us to the indignity of being searched by police officers who are increasingly useless and corrupt. They disarm us to the point where criminals can roam among us like foxes among chickens.

“Laws against keeping guns at home and carrying them about for defence of life and property are an infringement of our liberties.

“We need to get back to the sane legal climate of the Victorian era, when citizens were expected to take part in defending themselves, and were encouraged to use lethal force when they believed it necessary.

“At the same time, we need real punishments for real crimes. Those who commit assaults on others should be caught and punished with terrifying swiftness and severity. Assuming due process of law, I see no objection to the use of the death penalty.”

The Libertarian Alliance believes:

* That there should be no controls on possessing and carrying weapons, including handguns, for self-defence, and that accordingly the Firearms Acts 1920, 1937, 1968, 1988, 1997 (one and two), and all other restrictive laws should be repealed;

* That there should be a legal and moral climate in which, where believed necessary, the use of lethal force to protect life or property is celebrated;

* That all persons found guilty under the existing laws against self-defence should be pardoned and where appropriate compensated;

* That all criminal laws should be repealed except those directed against force or fraud;

* That all agencies of inspection and control set up to implement laws against victimless crimes should be immediately abolished, and that their records be destroyed;

* That all investigatory powers given to the authorities for the prosecution of victimless crimes should be immediately abolished;

* That any organisation arguing against the above should receive no public funding or charitable status.

Death to America!

Billy Cox - no angel

When you hear of someone being described as ‘no angel’ or in the case of Billy Cox ‘not perfect’ by the families, you just know that what they really mean is that he was a wrong ‘un or a fucking scumbag.  So when it turns out that the 15 year old was a convicted burglar and small time crack dealer I really wasn’t at all surprised.
Chief Woodentop and professional arsehole Ian Blair said of the recent shootings

There was no evidence that all of these crimes are linked

Interesting, but not entirely true.  Without having heard a single thing about any of the incidents I could have told you a number of things:
The victim would be black.
The perpertrator would be black.
Both parties would be involved in the drug trade.

In these cases all the above are true, but I understand there is some suggestion that one of the victims was a case of mistaken identity.
I’m going to make another guess whilst we’re about it.  None of the guns used were converted replicas or deacts.
As usual we have the politicians spouting crap about the incident, cause and solution.  Blair (Tony this time) wants to drop the age boundry for the so-called mandatory 5 years minimum for carrying illegal guns to 17, quite how they imagine this will make the slightest difference I don’t know.  For any kind of punative deterrent to have an impact it must be that the scum feel they have a realistic chance of being caught and convicted.  These scum feel untouchable, and to a certain extent they are correct.  Their own experience will tell them this, for the slime on the streets to get jail time requires a huge amount of convictions before they get beyond the point where stupid corrective sentencing like cautions, activity holidays, petty fines, tagging are exhausted.  The likelihood of a crime leading to a conviction in the first place?  Ridiculously low.  So no wonder they feel untouchable.
The focus on guns?  Crazy.  Guns as used by the street scum are already illegal, this doesn’t worry them due to the reasons above.  Making them more illegal won’t make the slightest difference.  What will make a difference is if they fear that they will be caught and fear the consequences of being caught.  Due to the Lawrence bullshit the police are hamstrung in doing stop searches of the very demographic who are likely to be carrying weapons and drugs.  Due to the left’s insistence that everyone is essentially ‘good’ and just needs to find the road, any scum unlucky enough (or stupid enough) to be caught will be given countless ‘opportunities to reform’ which they will inevitably squander.

What’s needed immediately is proper robust policing, proper robust punative sentencing for all crimes and a rejection of leftist thinking on criminal correction.
What is not needed is yet more restrictions on lawful gun ownership.

Anyone care to guess which of the two possible courses of action above will be implemented?

Friday, February 09, 2007

American’s History Fogged

Whilst watching a piece regarding the A10 pilot who mistook some Warriors for dirka dirka rocket technicals, there was a short interview with the neighbour of the man revealed as the pilot.  Despite the man’s age (old enough to know better, old enough not to have been brainwashed by liberal schooling) he makes a couple of serious errors which left steam coming out of my ears.
Firstly he talks of how we ‘Europeans’ ought to get on board with the war against terrorists.  OK, that’s annoying that he groups us as European.  There are a large number of us in Blighty who consider the concept that we are european as being highly insulting thank you very much, lumping us in with cheese eating surrender monkies is not a great way to endear you to your strategic partners chummy.  Has he not noticed that in fact our troops are out there dying?  Does not the fact that you are being interviewed regarding one of our troops being shot up by one of your fly boys not rather give that away?
Secondly he goes on to talk about how ‘you Europeans sat sucking your thumbs during WWII’ .  Fucking hell man!  There was only one country (and this includes Germany) that was in the war from the get go until the fat lady warbled and that was Blighty.  You Yanks sat umming and ahhing until Pearl Harbour so don’t fucking come that shit about sucking our thumbs.

Mika - tosser

Pop sensation   Mika asks in his latest warbling Grace Kelly “Why don’t you like me?”
I can help you there Mika, it’s because you are a poodle haired vocal gymnastic chutney ferret wank boy.
Hope that’s cleared things up for you.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Insurrection?

Over at Samizdata there is a post from Guy Herbet which talks of his sympathy, even passive support, for the letter bomber who seems to be attacking the State machinery related to speed camera facism.
His views seem to mirror my own, as a rabidly law abiding person by nature even I feel a certain comradeship with the perpertrator.  I don’t want to have workers find explosives in the mail nor do I wish harm to them.  However the fact seems to be that these people are collaberating with an oppressive regime.  They are profiting from working for a regime which is increasingly facist in it’s outlook and modus operandi.  It shows just how far this has come when ordinary citizens start to feel sympathy with what is terrorism, like the fuel protesters of a few years back we feel that they are striking against The Man only this time actual violence is being employed.  How much further will this go?  How much further will the State push the people of Blighty before a grumbling acceptance turns from sympathy with the terrorist to tacit support of ‘freedom fighters’?
There is a saying that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.  The State machinery here and in Brussells is making revolution necessary, that same machinery in arms with our liberal media and political classes are making peaceful revolution impossible.  Any blood shed in collaborative organisations is firmly on the hands of these evil bastards.
I remain hopeful that we could roll back the ever encroaching state but history does not support my wishes.  I fear for the future.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Two new guns

Righto.  Since I had to sell my MX-5 to get the missus a driveway ornament, I figured I’d get me a new toy.
Enter stage left my Browning Cynergy Black Ice

Chopped my Medallist 28” for it, tis a 30” jobbie.  The Cynergy comes in a very posh ABS case with combination locks on, utterly useless as of course we in Blighty are effectively obliged to house our toys in big steel boxes.  It also comes with a stock length spacer, two comb pieces (making three in total; straight, right bias and left bias) and an extra stock pad.  Plus a total of five extended chokes and a selection of crappy fluoro plastic beads to snap off in the gun cabinet.  I thought I was doing pretty well in stealth for this one, the ABS case put in the loft and the gun safely in the case - the perfect crime, her indoors would be none the wiser.  Only I got home and noticed I’d left the cardboard case in the back bedroom!  D’oh!  Not to worry, I’ll prop the box up next to the wall by the pile of boxes full of books.  Too late, her indoors has spotted it.  However given the MX-5 incident, nothing was said.
Had a wee go with it on Sunday, hopeless with it!  Different animal to my Medallist that’s for sure.
Whilst buying the Cynergy I got to thinking about my unloved Lanber Field (none ejector, fixed choke - full and three quarter) and figured that this would have to be my field iron as I didn’t fancy the Cynergy’s chances in a grubby hide.  So I thought I’d look at a couple of semi-autos.  The Escort range is a good value, no frills gun at a few sheets over £300 for a new gun - not bad I thought but a bit agricultural in operation perhaps.  On the same rack was the Beretta AL391, much better action and a by-pass switch for chucking a different load in if required.  So over night I ruminated and tossed up the pros and cons.  Next day to the gun shop and don’t spare the horses.

I love semi-autos, even though UK law confines us to just 2+1.  No, I couldn’t hit a barn door with this one either!

Monday, February 05, 2007

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Jeremy Vine: You see something happening in the street. Do you step in?

Tony McNulty: I think the general line must be to get in touch with the authorities straight and make sure that if things are as bad as you paint the police will be there as quickly as they can.

Jeremy: You see a young man looking aggressive, shouting at an old woman, what do you do? You retreat and ring the police?

Tony McNulty: I think you should in the first instance. It may well be the simply shouting at them, blowing your horn or whatever else deters them and they go away.

Jeremy: He’s now hitting her and the police haven’t come, what do you do then?

Tony McNulty: The same the same, you must always ...

Jeremy: Still wait?

Tony McNulty: Get back to the police, try some distractive activities whatever else.

Jeremy: What jump up and down?

Tony McNulty: But I would say you know sometimes that that may well work.

Amazingly, this is not an extract from a comedy show.  This is from Panorama and Tony McNumpty is Minister for Police and Security.
Unveiled soon are the new public safety Csars, Tigger and Zebedee.  How long before trampolines are banned as offensive weapons?

Wife Beater

I have a pretty lukewarm relationship with my in-laws.  This has been the case pretty much since day 1, understandable I suppose that when a 6’5” spiky haired, biker jacketed waster turns up to take your daughter out in his Fiesta thumping out house music at top volume....  Any how since day 1 it’s been clear that mother-in-law in particular has considered me to be a pretty unworthy son-in-law, MIL would much rather ‘er-indoors had married that nice trainee accountant bloke.  Fair is indeed fair because I have a very low opinion of her, and in fact them in general.  The family are townie wankers of the highest order, feckless useless wastes of space the lot of them.  MIL is a thick mick who has the audacity to refer to Cumbrians as Dumbrians, has a loud mouth and annoying laugh.  Equally an irritating tendency to sing lines from random songs, randomly.  FIL is shortarse useless fanny.  BIL is thirty something, still lives with ma and pa and has failed to hold a job down for more than a month in his life.  Behaves like a teenager still.  Makes you wonder why I married the wife really.  Still, I’ve civilised her a bit.  Speaking of marriage, the wedding was around the time of the BSE cobblers.  MIL didn’t want beef on the menu, my family are all farmers.
You can imagine then that visiting the in-laws or having them visit us is not a high point on my calendar and so it was last weekend when they insisted on visiting.  This was also the day when I had just sold my beloved MX-5 to buy the missus a new car.  As one might expect, I wasn’t in the best of moods.
Yesterday then when her indoors rang the MIL, said MIL said she had been worried for the missus after I was in such a mood.  Worried for her!
Fuck me, now she thinks I’m a wife beater too.
God-damned bitch.
Let’s just consider for a moment what a useless fucking tosswank of a husband I am for a moment.  My wife lives in a nice house which we don’t owe a penny on, I sold my pride and joy in order to get her the car she wanted, in a few months she will be quitting work for good.
MIL lives in a house which they have a huge mortgage on, she still has to work to make ends meet, they have a crap car which they probably owe a shit load on.
Yet I am a crap husband and apparently a wife beater too.  She probably wonders why I can’t stand the bitch.