Badass looking outfit.  Check

War flags. Check

Piercing stare. Check

Linked ammunition draped over shoulder. Check

Not having a barrel in your gun…

FAIL

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They have a really nice selection! make sure you check them out.

I’d like to see these in a lineup like the recent posts I made on rifle ammo and handgun ammo.

I have absolutely no idea what approximately 80/100 of these are used for.

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Quite the collection.

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Awesome reference.

4ga sure looks menacing!

More on Shotgun Shells at the Wiki – HERE

This is a gun board classic:

After some years now of reading internet bulletin boards, I think I’ve got the pros and cons of possible SHTF rifle choices figured out. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the following is my analysis based upon the wisdom of numerous gun board gurus (you know them, they’re always the first ones to tell you a particular model gun is “junk” and enlighten you as to why they have made the only logical purchases)…

The AR 15:

Great, awesome, unbelievable rifle(when it works). Can hit a fly in the butt at 300 yards (when it works). If one is ever attacked by a pack of feral poodles post-SHTF, this is the perfect defensive rifle (unless it jams, in which case you’re poodle food). The upside is that one can hang more plastic aftermarket doo-dads on it than a Christmas tree, which may effectively frighten away bad guys when the gun jams. Also, by simply changing the upper, one can convert it into a Ruger 10/22.

The MINI-14:

Could be a good rifle, but it’s not black.

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My diagnosis: CHEAP GARBAGE AMMO

Glock 36 Malfunction – Lawsuit Timeline

Note the following from the article:

I fired 120 rounds that day at the range. 100 rounds of Remington UMC ammo and 20 rounds of Corbon JHP +P. I experienced three of the same malfunctions with the Remington ammunition

No problems with the Corbon.  Coincidence?

My son and I fired the weapon on August 13 with 50 rounds of Winchester White Box and 50 rounds of Blazer Brass, both 230g ball factory ammo. I had one malfunction with the Winchester ammo, and my 16 year-old son had the same malfunction with the Blazer Brass

Again, the cheapest ammo you can buy.

I have had similar problems using cheap ammo with my G26.  I would get the occasional FTE (Failure To Extract) when I was positive I was not limp wristing.  This was ALWAYS when I was using a low end ammo such as Winchester white box, Remington UMC, Blazer, or Wolf, all which are notoriously underpowered.  I never had one problem with higher priced self defense ammo.

Reading the forums it seems to happen a fair bit with sub-compact models.  I agree that it is unfortunate that the issue exists, but you can’t blame a malfunction on the gun itself, when you are feeding it garbage.

I’d like to see a few hundred self defense rounds ran through that G36.  I would be willing to bet there would be no issues at all.

From what I have read, I don’t believe Glock should have lost the lawsuit.  That said, the situation should never have even reached that point. I would have liked to see them step up earlier on (after the 2nd set of issues) and apologize to Chris about his G36, and offer to exchange it for another gun.  If they would have done that, both parties could have saved a lot of time and effort over something so trivial.

Hat Tip: Steve @ TheFirearmBlog

When checking through the boxes of ammo used, we found five or six other cases that had no rim, there was nothing for the extractor to grab hold of and therefore couldn’t extract the spent case causing a malfunction.

WOW that is not good…  This is why it makes sense to give your ammo a quick look over before you use it.  Can you imagine this rimless ammo in a self defense situation? You would almost certainly be dead.  There is no method I know of to quickly clear a casing that can’t even be grabbed by the extractor without using something to poke the casing out from the barrel end.

Will paranoia of this situation bring about a new carry product developed by Speer to fix such a situation?

Story: Police One

Hat Tip: SayUncle

After telling my FaceBook friends they could shoot my T.V. if the Saints beat the Redskins, they showed up in full force after the Saints won in OT 33-30.

• Beer – check
• Guns – check
• Ammunition – check
• No hearing protection – check
• Imitation football helmet to run head first into T.V. with, after you shoot it into a million sharp pieces – check
• Video camera to document the events for posting on youtube – check

This was posted by user jaqufrost on AR15.com:

Thought I would share some pics of this years Christmas Tree. My wife and I didn’t have any ornaments, so we thought we would improvise.

You can find the original AR15.com post – HERE

Full resolution copy available – HERE

You might want to take a look at this when considering what caliber and type of ammo to carry.

I never realized that the expansion and retention varied so much even within the same caliber depending on the style of bullet you use.

Source: Panopticist – HERE

A new article today in the Wall Street Journal contains mostly the same information we have been reading about since Obama got elected last November.  There is some new data out for August though:

In August, the number of background checks performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Instant Criminal Background Check System was up 12.3% from the same month in 2008 to about 1.1 million.

That’s a lot of background checks in one month!  And who’s to say those people are only buying one gun? they could be buying several!

Surprisingly the article does not try and put a negative spin on the situation.  It reports from a purely business perspective which is always refreshing when it comes to this topic.

Link to the Wall Street Journal article – HERE

Classic newscast from July 2007 for those that haven’t seen it

“Some of these bullets you saw have an incendiary device on them, which is a heat seeking device…”

This was being passed around on the forums a while back, I thought it was pretty funny.

One of my favorite blogs The Firearm Blog has links to some data regarding the change in ammunition prices over the last few years.  The Firearm Blog also has some great predictions that I hope come true!

Screw diversifying your portfolio! By the looks of it I should have pulled my money out of the market in 2007 and invested strictly in ammunition.   The current prices are making that reloading press that I didn’t really want to buy, make a lot more sense.

At Cheaper Than Dirt alone, more than $100,000 in guns and ammunition have been sold every day since Election Day. Buyers are stocking up before President-elect Barack Obama takes office.

Check out the video on the ABC news website

This guy has a nice collection, and a decent amount of ammo.

The bible at the bottom is a nice touch too (mocking the clinging to guns and religion comment obama made)

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