Fire Acting Director Regina Lombardo for conspiring against a civil right.

 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-acting-director-regina-lombardo-conspiring-against-civil-right

Acting Director Regina Lombardo accepted contact from candidate Joe Biden, or representatives of Biden, and has signalled her intention to further violate the civil right of U.S. citizens and other legal residents of the U.S. that is expressly protected by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and is a natural right.

Specifically, Lombardo intends to further regulate or make illegal by fiat pistol braces and 80% lowers.

It is our belief that: (1) Lombardo is practicing creeping incrementalism, (2) does not support the 2nd Amendment, and (2) is violating her oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Thin Double-Stack Sub-Compacts: Down The Rabbit Hole,

 My wife wants to get a handgun for CCW. In the past she was dead set on the Ruger LCR. Now she is open to a semiauto and likes the Urban Carry holster.

Well, I was thinking about going gun commonality with her. Whatever she gets I'll eventually get. No problem. 

But then the wheels started turning. I set on the Kahr CW9 as a benchmark for some reason - for my wife. Thin, full-length grip, light.

So, the Kahr CW9:

credit: Kahr.com

Height: 4.5"

Width: .9" 

Length: 5.9"

Capacity: 7+1 (Compatible with 8+1)

Weight: 17.7 oz

But then that gun commonality thing in the family went by the wayside. Or did it? Could I steer her to a thin doublestack? 

Ruger Security-9 Compact

I became really intrigued by this gun, when I compared it to the Kahr CW9.

Ruger Security-9 Compact:

credit: Ruger.com

Height: 4.35"

Width: 1.02"

Length: 6.52"

Capacity: 10+1 (compatible with 15+1)

Weight: 21.9 oz

So, it is bigger in a couple dimensions -but not much bigger.

Possibilities.

Trump Is Still Your President

 

It's 11/10/2020, and Trump is still your president.

Oh, and Biden is NOT "president elect," even though he paid too much for a backdrop that said so.

Next Biden's going to claim: "I'm emperor of my toes. See! They do what I say ... Where's my pudding!?!"

Constitution Party

 A coworker asked me what the Constitution Party is, since he saw a candidate for president on his ballet.

So here goes.:

Wikipedia Constitution Party article

Political Junk Mail

 

Background Photo Credit: SFWeekly

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles

Local Wal-Mart Ammo Sales Suspended

UPDATE: An Answer. See Below

UPDATE 2: See Below

Went into Wal-Mart today. Checked out the ammo aisle.

I asked an employee if they had stopped selling ammo. She said, "All I know is they just locked it all down."

Possibilities

1. The local store actually stopped selling ammo.

2. The current Tropical Storm Zeta incursion has caused a "lockdown."

3. Wal-Mart is anticipating unrest around election day.

Well, apparently Wal-Mart doesn't want their guns and ammo to get looted as a reaction to the election. So Wal-Mart pulled the merchandise company wide.

Wal-Mart Yanks Guns amd Ammo - The Truth About Guns

Apparently, you can still get guns and ammo Wal-Mart. You just have to ask.

Western Journal

"Lightweight" Commanders: Love of the .45 and The .45 Deception!

LAST POST: "Lightweight" Commanders: A Little Personal History

Back when I devoured printed gun magazines and annuals religiously, the .45 ACP cartridge was king. It seemed like all the gun experts - which in my experience they were actually gun writers - thought that round was what everyone needed to use.

To their credit, handgun bullet technology gave the win to .45 ACP at the time - if you ignored revolvers and the .357 magnum cartridge. But that was the time that autoloaders had really hit their stride, and the police world was following the FBI down the .40 Short & Week road.

An Examples

Let's start of with an actual expert. Clint Smith, cofounder of Thunder Ranch, wrote an article in 2007. He covered his aversion but respect for polymer guns. He appreciated the handgun reviewed, and you would see him using one in training sessions for years to come - festooned with fighting-tiger "nose" art. I really wish I could find a picture of that Springfield XD.

Credit: Ichiro Nagata, AmericanHandgunner

Here's his take on caliber in the article:

"I don't care where or what handguns are made of, or even how they look. Any handgun takes a big step up on my ladder or judgement if the thing will simply function, and do it all of the time. So the plastic I could start to live with, sort of, but the caliber - sorry. Anything with a "4" and only an "0" after it ain't for this boy."

So nowadays, Smith would say that is just his personal preference, yadidadida. And now he carries a very nice 1911 - in .45 ACP.

Oh, The Great Betrayal!

I wish I could find the article, but it was a while ago - let's call it a decade - and the author revealed a dirty little secret of the gun industry - or at least gun writers. He said that, though the writers held .45 ACP up on a pedestal, that they all fell back on J-frames for daily carry. 

Credit: Wikipedia.org

The implication was that carrying a big .45 was a pain, it should be done, but a J-frame was easy to always carry or to at least to fall back on. 

So what's a gun buyer to do? Back to Clint Smith:

"Carrying a gun is not supposed to be comfortable; it's supposed to be comforting.”

NEXT: "Lightweight" Commanders: Choices

"Lightweight" Commanders: A Little Personal History

I have been enamored with 1911s ever since I handled a Colt 1991 at a Denver gun store back in the '90s.

Credit: NorthwestFirearms.com

I handled a Glock 17 at the same time, and I hated it.

Credit: ReducerRecoil.com

My love shifted to the Colt Commander after a few years. And I'm talking about the original Commander which was later referred to as the "Lightweight" Commander, when Colt felt fit to introduce the all-steel Combat Commander.

There's of course a little back story that is slightly apocryphal, disjointed, and of course morphs over time. 

Let's see here!

I always like handguns. I starting getting Guns & Ammo magazine when I was in junior high. I thought the Ruger No. 1 was really cool for some reason, but it was definitely the handguns that drew my attention. And holy crap! I just scanned the entire Guns & Ammo homepage, and low and behold there were no handguns.

I remember looking through Gun Digest and the Shooter's Bible (back when they were both exclusively giant tomes listing all the guns that the manufacturers were will to pay to have listed in the annuals plus articles covering "new" developments and historical perspectives.). I was often drawn to the 1911 derivatives - and the ones that most often attracted me were the Colt Officer ACP models.

Credit: Colt, Defender (Series 80), current rendition of the Officer ACP

Accelerate a few years forward, and the darlings of the gun press circa 2000 were .45 ACP guns. .40 S&W was the new it caliber. But the gun press and industry experts were still enamored with the .45. Any gun manufacturer that upsized their .40-caliber and 9-mm guns to .45 ACP were on good terms with the experts.

The Para Ordinance Warthog was a perfect example of .45 ACP being the end all be all. The Warthog gave you 10 rounds of the big, slow-moving bullet from a small, heavy, thick, 1911-style gun.

Col. Jeff Cooper (Ret.) was a respected gunfighting expert. His gun of choice - even after promoting the 10 mm Bren 10 - 

Credit: IMFDB.org, Gunsite Edition

was the Colt Commander. I think it was the Combat Commander, but I am not totally sure.

Credit: Colt.com, Combat Commander (Series 80)

A Little History: Colt Commander

For those unfamiliar with the story, the Colt Commander was introduced in 1949 or 1950 - depending on whom is telling the story. The original Commander was lightweight. It did not take on the "Lightweight" name until the all-steel Combat Commander was introduced in 1970. But the most startling fact to some is that the original aluminum-framed Commander that was introduced in 1950 (or '49) was a 9mm gun!

Back To Recent History

For many, many years, .45-ACP ammunition was the darling of the handgun industry. Every manufacturer eventually introduced a version of new guns in .45, and the industry press almost always chose a cartridge that started with a 4 and ended with a 5.

Their dirty little secret was that, yes, the bee's knees was the .45 ACP, but most of them were secretly always carrying J-frame sized .38s.  

Back To Me

And really thinking back to that gun store visit, I remembered something. After that visit to the gun store where I handled the Colt 1991, I really wanted the Combat Commander version of that gun - or the Springlied Armory version.

GunAuction.com

I guess that I was concerned about the massive recoil of the .45 ACP from a lightweight package. That was before I bought a snubnose .357.

NEXT: "Lightweight" Commanders: Love of the .45 and .45 Deception!

Join the NRA

UPDATE: October 23, 2020

I finally bit the bullet and did it. I joined another gun-rights organization. I'm still a proud member of the NRA, bit the 2nd Amendment crowd needs to put its eggs in more than one basket.

Wayne LaPierre has overstayed his welcome. The State of New York has some legitimate claims against the NRA's top brass and definitely wants to neuter the organization. But the NRA is made up of million's of members and is a multi-faceted group that offers much value to its members and other fellow citizens.

But there are other organizations that are better at providing more targeted services for our natural right, and they are smaller and more nimble and are able to move quickly.

One such organization is the Second Amendment Foundation. As of last week, they are one stronger.

But again, the NRA is still vastly important. They provide tons of safety training, sponsor many events where gun owners exercise their rights, actively lobby legislatures, and make legal challenges to unconstitutional laws. I'm still a member. You too should maintain your membership or join the NRA. 

ORIGINAL POST: January, 2013

You might not like everything the NRA says. You might not like what Wayne LaPierre said about video games. You might not like that the NRA wants the federal government to fund putting police in every school on a short-term basis. You may want the NRA to help with mental-health research. There's a lot you might not like about the NRA, or that you want the NRA to do something, but the NRA is the 800-lb gorilla for gun rights.

I put a note on my calendar to ask my wife tonight to get an NRA membership. She hadn't had one for a while. I didn't have to ask. The NRA is now 4,300,001 strong.

And I'll be joining my second gun-rights organization shortly.

Obama threw down the gauntlet and sniped at gun owners right after Sandy Hook. The NRA launched the first real volley. Now Obama has loosed his return fire in this pitched battle, throwing one of the NRA's missiles back at us ("school resource officers", "a police officer in every school").

The NRA is a special-interest group, no doubt. It is my special-interest group. It defends a vital natural right enumerated in the Bill of Rights. I defend a vital natural right.

I am the NRA.

Time to write some letters, again. Congress, state house, governor, sheriff, etc, etc, etc.

Doomy Biden

 

"A dark winter is coming. C'mon, man."

- Joe Biden, plagiarizing Game of Thrones and Cornpop