My favorite toy
…this excellent advert arrived from Gunstuff TV yesterday (note the opening sentence):
That’s the ticket. Don’t waste your Chinkvirus money on silly stuff like the rent, groceries, entertainment or car payments: buy a damn gun!
Don’t mind me: I’m just giggling like a schoolgirl, here.
Which can be encapsulated by the standard liberal response:
…even though this whole episode seems to have been triggered by Lockdown Blues.
Just coincidentally, this little advert arrived in my Inbox a couple days back:
Now, leaving aside the wisdom or lack thereof in buying a gun from Century Arms at that price, this merchant of death has a lot to recommend it, i.e.:
So let’s ignore CanuckiPM Pantywaist (as always), and consider the merits of the PSL, in Comments.
While seeking to assuage my Lockdown Blues a couple days ago, I stumbled on this little piece at Collectors:
Hmmm… a down-sized carry revolver in .45 Colt/ACP; what could be bad about it.?
Leaving aside the single-action issue (not an optimal choice for self-defense, really), what’s wrong with this piece is the bird’s-head grip.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find revolvers thus gripped to be almost uncontrollable: the damn thing turns in my hand not just up-and-down (which is a good thing with the bird’s head as it helps handle recoil) but side-to-side as well, which is a huge problem. I once had a pretty little Ruger Bearcat revolver in .22 LR, like this one:
…and after a couple years I sold it to someone who wanted just that kind of revolver.
Maybe it just was my hand size, I dunno; but I just had no fun shooting it. And that was a .22 LR revolver: what, I wonder, will it be like trying to control that grip in a meatier chambering like the .45? I’ll probably never own this type of gun again, but I’m willing to be proved wrong.
Your thoughts in Comments.
A Longtime Friend writes and tells me of his terminal boredom with this lockdown bullshit, made worse by a day’s rain. So he decides to clean some of his shotguns:
My only comment is that there are WAY too many over-and-unders…
Because, as any fule kno, a proper shotgun’s barrels should be side by side like a man and his dog, and not over and under like a man and his mistress.
(For a closer look at this magnificent Piotti shotgun, go here.)
Heheheheh… from the City of Brotherly Love:
ABC6 (Philadelphia) reports a would-be robber was shot and killed on Saturday, after violating the city’s stay-at-home order and, you know, the laws against robbing people.
The shooting happened just before 4:30 p.m. at the Star Wear store in the 2700 block of Germantown Avenue.
Police said the man was shot at least five times by an employee while he trying to rob the store.
The man was taken to the hospital and died a short time later.
Five times? Dude.
Excuse me, I think it’s time for a 
(I know, I shouldn’t go outside with all this “social distancing” stuff going on, but I’m assuming that people are going to stay well clear of a naked old fat man dancing crazy and shooting an AK-47 into the air.)
Try not to giggle like a schoolgirl when you read this report:
An intrusion suspect in Fredericksburg, Texas, was shot dead by a homeowner’s fiancee Saturday morning after he allegedly choked the homeowner unconscious.
I won’t spoil the fun by adding the final touch. Go and read it.
My only question is: what’s with this “intrusion suspect” bullshit? Little fucker broke into the house, attacked the man and then got shot dead. It’s all as clear as daylight: there’s nothing “suspect” or (my favorite) “alleged” about this.
Anyway, it’s all academic. One less choirboy for us to worry about here in Texas.