Tag: Guns and such

As mayor of your small town, you are faced with a huge problem.  All civic order has broken down, your town is under attack by [insert villains of choice here, e.g. ANTIFA, Afghan “refugees”, whatever]  and your local police force is woefully undermanned.  The state cops are off fighting federal agents — who are trying to enforce White House mandates on compulsory vaccinations, arresting parents for daring to oppose school boards all over the state, and [insert further examples of gross government action here].

Fortunately, fifty of your townspeople are willing to be deputized for things like guard duty at supermarkets, drug stores, churches etc.   For the sake of argument, however, it turns out that all the volunteers own personal weapons in different calibers, and to make resupply simpler, you need to issue them with common weaponry in a single caliber.

To the rescue comes a crusty, bad-tempered old fart (let’s just call him Kim) who reveals that over the years he has accumulated just over four dozen full-auto sub-machine guns of a single brand, along with 10,000 rounds of 9mm Europellet ammo (200 rounds per gun, and also two spare mags per gun), all stashed away in his fortified barn.  And he’s prepared to let you “borrow” said guns and ammo for the duration of the crisis, as long as you never let on to the the ATF that there are no Class III licenses to be found anywhere.

Your job, as mayor, is to pick which sub-machine gun you would like to see in ol’ Kim’s barn when he swings the door open (video links in case you’re not familiar with any particular model).  Critical, of course, is that the selected gun can be operated without too much training.

Here’s the list (and absolutely no substitutions allowed):

German MP-40

French MAT 49

American S&W 76

Finnish Suomi M31

Israeli Uzi

Remember:  you get to pick one, and only one — and only from this list.

I’ll be posting my choice on Monday.

Back tomorrow.

I get this, I really do:

My problem is that I don’t want to have to carry a revolver in a rifle scabbard — which is the only way I can see this thing working.

And by the way, I’ve had one of the Rough Rider six-shooters, used to teach kids how to shoot with it, and I can’t think of a better training handgun.  Just with a 4″ barrel, and not  that 16″one.

Interesting article about “point” vs. “aimed” (using the sights) handgun shooting.

One of the things Tarani didn’t talk about is that point shooting offers people with totally shit eyesight (like me) the chance to hit the target without taking half an hour to align fuzzy sights with an indistinct target.  This is why my recent handgun acquisitions have tended towards guns with rudimentary or no rear sights, e.g. the S&W Mod 65:

…and my backup Mod 637 has never had a rear sight:

Note that both are essentially short-range weapons:  the Mod 65 has bedside duty for those little indoor reindeer games, and the Mod 637 is for those occasions where the intended target is in halitosis range.

Neither my 1911 nor High Power have an adjustable rear sight:

…which means that for all intents and purposes, my target shooting days are over.

Which is also why nowadays my practice with the above are all point-shooting drills resulting in targets that look messy, like this:

…which, I would respectfully suggest, should be adequate for the job at hand.

Looks as though the ammo pipeline is opening up a little:

Sadly, it looks as though the “7-cent” days are gone forever, but at least it’s there for the taking.

Ditto this, from Speer:

I’ve heard good things about this RHT stuff (see link for explanation), and 65 cents per isn’t too bad for .45 ACP.

I can’t afford either at the moment, but there ya go.