From Teh UToob comes this:
One of the commenters think that this is an R/C model and not the real deal. That’s probably correct unless the home base for it is nearby and it was taking off/landing. Considering this is (or at least claimed) 40 miles from Chicago and the NATO conference is coming up, it could be a toy or it could be the genuine article.
Goose Gun in 10 gauge?
From New Jovian Thunderbolt by way of David Codrea (Link is to the right, hint hint) we get this:
http://jovianthunderbolt.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-wonder-what-mall-he-guards.html
All I can say is that at least his rifle has a bayonet mount.
Heh.
Even if you’re, um, underwhelmed by the .223/5.56 cartridge that is the normal AR chambering and therefore don’t own one, you should at least know how it works. And along with my disdain for the caliber, I’ve also never thought very much of the whole buffer tube thingy to make it work. It’s been nearly thirty years since I handled one, but I still think the Armalite AR-180 is the rifle the military should’ve bought if they were really sold on the whole “AK but better” idea. Why? Because the recoil spring/stuff is contained in the 180′s receiver which makes a folding stock model an easy and straightforward proposition. And you’d avoid at least most of the fail shown here:
I’ll even show you the offending photo:
See what they did there? They took a much needed enhancement and executed it in such a way that if you found yourself in a situation that you didn’t have the time or the space to fold the stock into the proper position, you’d have a single-shot rifle that will propel the bolt carrier back into your face/chest. Don’t be surprised if you see any of these guys on the Presidential ticket in 2016 or 2020.
Jeez.
In April, I got scope covers, an anti-reflection thingy for FrankenMauser’s scope, a pistol belt so I can make an Enfield-specific set of web gear, and a glass bedding kit so I could finish/correct the bedding job I did on the No4 Mk2. (I didn’t have enough goop the first time, so I couldn’t do the whole thing.) Plus, I needed to do the tweaking on the triggerguard so the mags will drop free of the rifle so I can keep feeding it when the scope is mounted. That all cost me $50, including shipping.
Now that it’s May, Emily is going to get the same anti-reflection thing, and I might also get another pair for my binoculars. And two or three hundred CCI Mini-Mags. I’ll probably keep it under $40 this month.
See, you have the luxury of spending a wee bit here or there right now. You don’t want to suddenly find out you need a whole pile of stuff and have no way to get ahold of it.
Jeffersonian, that is. They really do hate us and want us under their heels. Or dead.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=205373
See what they did there? Elements of both the Right and the Left are agreeing about something and they’re wrong, not that the Almighty Gummint has done something that threatens us. You know, We The Employers and all that.
Denninger refers to a couple of things from WW2; the capture and executions of the Nazi spies in 1942 and the internment of Japanese-Americans. Now, I normally abhor the practice of hyphenated Americans, but it’s important to be aware that many of the internees were regular-just-like-you-and-me Americans.
The main thing I wanted to let you kids know about, as well as remind the grown-ups in the audience was the settlement that the Clinton administration made with the plaintiffs. Not the settlement exactly, but the timing thereof. Just as everybody was ready to appear before the Supremes, the gummint suddenly saw Jesus and took care of the appellants. Why the sudden change of heart? Because that would have involved admitting that FDR’s Solicitor General went before the Supreme Court and lied. If he had been truthful, SCOTUS would never have allowed the camps to be set up and populated.
And that’s the sort of shennanigans that can never be confessed. Once that’s been admitted, all of us anti-gummint extremist Constitution clinging nutjobs suddenly have a sort of legitimacy that far surpasses that which we get from constantly being smeared by the press. And that must never be.
Yesterday, I published a link to a letter written by Phillip K Dick about the then new release of the movie Blade Runner. It occurs to me today that some of you kids have neither read nor even heard of the novel the movie was (loosely) based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? So, as yet another service we here at SEPHQ provide, here it is:
Here’s a letter from Phillip K Dick regarding the movie Bladerunner:
This:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/04/26/fg-42-tactical-take-a-deep-breath/
Oh, so totally want. And I already have more than 2K worth of 7.92×57…
Update:
Vidya
I’d have put the charging handle on the port side under the magazine. One has to move the trigger hand off the bang switch as it stands.
And boys and girls, this is yet another example of why the Brits decided to stop trying to assasinate Hitler. Imagine D-Day with the Fritzes armed with FG- and MG-42′s, StG44′s and with Me262′s flying overwatch. Had Adolf not interfered, that could easily have happened.
HundK is at it again, if “it” can be defined as a blatant disregard for their end users:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/04/26/hk-g36-useless-at-200m-when-hot/
Maybe the G36 was designed for the French, Belgian, and Italian militaries…