Not just the guns, but all the stuff that goes with them
I see that Gurgle’s evil technocracy has blocked a few conservative outlets, but somehow missed blocking Splendid Isolation :
My few thousand daily Readers are doubtless not worth their attention. So capitalizing on their omission, here’s a pic of a gun:
That’s a Knights SR25 in the manly 7.62mm NATO (7.62x51mm), and it’s at Collectors.
May as well take advantage while I can.
Via Knuckledragger, I read with interest Herschel Smith’s take on the current ammo shortage:
We’ve actually learned something else besides the effect of political climate. First time gun buyers are purchasing primarily pistols. In order to use them, they need ammunition. Apparently, manufacturers are retooling to supply that ammunition.
So hunters needing 7mm magnum, 6.5 Creedmoor, .308 and 30-06 should go ahead and try to scrounge up those rounds now. They won’t be available for long. That also goes for AR-10 operators.
Peter Grant has similar thoughts.
I have to admit, I was unaware of any ammo shortage myself, mostly because I only buy ammo in small amounts to “top up the tank”, so to speak. The Chinkvirus has stopped me going to the range as often as was my wont, so I haven’t bought ammo in about four months. So I’ll just ride it out for a while, although I might need to get some ammo for a gun I don’t have anymore (see: canoeing accident on the Brazos/Colorado river, passim ).
I hate to sound like a broken record on this, and I know that most of my Readers are not only similarly stocked but are a few cases of ammo ahead of me.
But folks, jeez: you don’t need to get hit upside the head with that two-by-four more than once, right? Buy ammo. Buy lots of ammo, as much as you can afford, buy more than you think you’ll need.
Reader JD sends me this little snippet:
Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, has confirmed it is missing more than 60,000 rounds of ammunition.
…or, about the same number of rounds we expended in a single afternoon at a Nation Of Riflemen shoot a dozen years ago. But here’s the not-so fun part:
Another 48,000 rounds from an elite special unit with links to right-wing extremism are also unaccounted for.
Just so we’re all clear on what these media assholes are implying: a study taken a while ago showed that a few members of Krautland’s G9 Special Forces group were — gasp! — of a conservative bent. None were actually ever proven to be members of any right-wing extremist groups, it’s just that some of their opinions were the same as those of the BLM (Kraut wing — they’re a neo-Nazi crowd, not Commies like our version).
What DW is implying, therefore, is not that their army and SF are careless with ammo, or that they’re not accounting for their ammo properly; they’re hinting that some of their soldiers may be shipping ammo to neo-Nazi groups.
There’s fuck-all evidence that any of this is happening, of course: it’s just part of the leftwing media agitprop. As the Emperor Misha has so rightly stated:
Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.
It’s not often that I can read an article without being able to summarize it with a few words or sentences, but this post by The Captain is one of the exceptions. Here’s but an excerpt, but there’s so much more gunny goodness:
To begin with, it’s always been a myth that the police were there for protection. Regular readers, and most other educated men and women, already know about cases Warren versus D.C. and Castle Rock versus Gonzales. There are more, but these two cases demonstrate that police are not duty bound to offer anyone protection.
But at least it’s a myth that many people have believed. The riots, looting, pillaging, beatings and murders of late have convinced many uninformed folks that maybe they do need protection in lieu of police. In short, that myth has been shattered.
And it gets better, wif grafs and stuff.
This just goes to show how ignorant some people are:
It seems that residents wanting to defend their homes from a mob are no longer allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights in the city of St. Louis. On Friday, KSDK reported that local prosecutor Kim Gardner got a search warrant for the McCloskey home. And based on the court order, police seized the rifle used by Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis resident who used the weapon to defend his home from a group of protesters who threatened to kill him and his wife. They also seized the handgun Patricia McCloskey used, which was being held by their former attorney.
The ignorant people, in this case, would be this loathsome prosecutor Gardner and the people who “advise” her.
If I’d been in this situation (assuming I only had one gun, which I do, following that terrible canoeing accident on the Brazos or maybe Colorado rivers), I would have replacement guns in the house about, oh, half an hour after the cops left. Only this time, I’d hide the some of spares where the cops would need a pneumatic drill to get access to them. Or not.
So from this unhappy situation we should deduce the following:
If you haven’t made such arrangements already, do it now.
Via Insty, I see that Colt has decided to grace the civilian market with its presence again:
“There have been numerous articles recently published about Colt’s participation in the commercial rifle market,” Colt President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said last year. “Some of these articles have incorrectly stated or implied that Colt is not committed to the consumer market. We want to assure you that Colt is committed to the Second Amendment, highly values its customers and continues to manufacture the world’s finest quality firearms for the consumer market. The fact of the matter is that over the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity,” Veilleux continued. “Given this level of manufacturing capacity, we believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future.”
So for those of you who want to spend a premium for a commodity brand, here’s an alternative to POF (who I think give Colt a good run for the title of “world’s finest quality product”). Others can continue to call on Palmetto State (good luck with that, see stock availability at the link) or others of that ilk for the identical, and cheaper, product.
I love this high demand for eeeeevil assault rifles because it makes fools of the gun-confiscators (not that they needed any help).
Anyway, welcome back to Colt.