Category: guns

Old Hands

Senior Citizen Handguns – Do Older Folks Need Different Handguns? Sometimes … [More]

Yeah, my thumbs aren’t what they used to be…

Fortunately, this doesn’t apply to me, because as everyone here knows, especially you LE lurkers, I don’t own any guns. Evil, nasty things always going around killing people…

The prohibitonists, of course, have an entirely different take on aging…

Thunderbawl Revisited

Too bad Connery — and the rest of the lot — turned out to be such tools.

[Via WiscoDave]

Then He Slithered and Slunk, with a Smile Most Unpleasant, Around the Whole Room, and He Took Every Present!

What You Need to Know Before Gifting a Gun [Watch]

Do it in a way that won’t let the grinches steal your freedom.

If you’re a famous gun-grabber, you get a pass.

[Via Jess]

‘King of the Enfield Sniper Rifles’ Combines Superb Photos with Detailed History

Whether you appreciate firearms for reasons of technical interest, design, performance, or historical knowledge, or all of the above, L42A1: King of the Enfield Sniper Rifles hits all targets… [More]

Every once in a while I like to take a break from screaming at cars over politics and just have fun with a good old-fashioned weapon of war.

It’s NOT the Guns…?

You see, before 1920, Britain’s gun laws were so relaxed they made Texas look effeminate. You could buy a pistol and bullets at the ironmonger’s. But this country, in that period, was not a hellhole of mass shootings and armed bank raids. Is it possible that the USA’s problems with gun crime, or indeed the hideous massacre which took place in Prague the other day, are not caused by the ready availability of guns, but by the ready availability of something else? [More]

Go on…

Grading on the Curve

As should be obvious to all regulars, I do freedom and culture and leave the hardware to those who know it better than I do, which is no doubt many of you. That said, this was just called to my attention and I’m calling ot to yours:

Is this something thast new materials and tech would allow to be perfected?

And if somebody tried, would “in common use” prove a hindrance?

[Via WiscoDave]

Gun Stats

Ammo.com has compiled them for Global Civilian Firearm-Ownership, Global Civilian Firearm Rates & Gun Deaths, Gun Ownership Rates By State, What State Has the Most Guns Gun, Ownership Per Capita By State, Percentage of Gun Ownership by State, State Firearm Ownership and Firearm-Related Deaths, Firearm Ownership & Firearm-Related Deaths, Firearm Ownership & Firearm-Related Suicides, Firearm Ownership & Firearm-Related Homicides, and ATF Seizures and State of Origin. [More]

Just a subjective design comment here: If I were doing it, I’d replace ✅ with ☠️ under “Permit to Purchase” and “State Background Check.”

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