| Author | Message | ||
     Ducbsa |
Time for Obama and Holder's replacement to get some upstate NY gunshops to sell guns to those Canadian gangs! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ us-gun-problem-is-creeping-into-canada/2016/02/13/ a28cd1e4-c388-11e5-b933-31c93021392a_story.html Look out Border Patrol up there, the gangs will have high powered military-style assault weapons soon. | ||
| Rick_a |
Lots of scary words and such. So their gang violence problem is really a U.S. gun problem then? Okay, der.  | ||
| Rick_a |
  Mostly fantasy.  Gun laws by state according to "them."  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I like how they always qualify GUN deaths, GUN violence. Not just general violent crime. Not crime in general. Not median income. Not population density. Pay attention to only one thing over and over. Also, you don't need to work so hard researching statistics if you just make them up. | ||
| Rick_a |
For decades elitists and bureaucrats have been convincing their subjects that their guns are the root of all evil among mankind. There's definitely something wrong with that. Anyone that doesn't think so hasn't really thought it through. Putting the peasants back into the stone age while gleefully engaged in their daily distractions must surely must benefit someone. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Gungrabbers can't make up their minds: http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2016/02/s elf-contradiction.html .223 cal AR's are "high-caliber" to these clowns. Do they just write what they assume it is or they willfully lie to achieve their ends? | ||
| Aesquire |
Willfully lie. Read the book handgun control put out. Basically how to lie to disarm the proles. | ||
| Rick_a |
 On a local note, the Chair of our Judiciary Committee (Miguel Diaz de la Portilla) refuses to hear bills for open carry and campus carry on the Senate floor, despite having overwhelming majorities in the house. Instead a bill on "slungshots" goes through.  A bill essentially banning backyard ranges gets signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott. Due to this I'm abandoning my suppressed SBR build and am converting that gun to a MagPul MOE-SL mid length style. The barrel is staying at 16.5." The wife is complaining about money...so her build has been abandoned and she can use this .22 if she likes it (I don't know if I could give it to her when done  ) It saves us $600. | ||
| Thumper74 |
My dog got my Magpul parts. They held up well... I e-mailed Magpul to see if it's warrantable. | ||
| Rick_a |
I've heard of worse.  | ||
| Rick_a |
I have abandoned my SBR tacticool 22 idea and am making a mid length style clone out of it. While waiting for parts I chopped the A1 flash hider into a mini style.  20160304_091345(0) by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr They originally look like this:  Along with the chopped stock the overall length is just over 2" shorter collapsed.  20151111_091230 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr That normally looks like this:  | ||
| Sifo |
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| Rick_a |
No gun...just parts. It's going to look quite transformed when it's done. I'm pretty much done with the gun thing. The kid has interest in a 22lr pistol. He likes the Ruger MKIII standard. Maybe next year. I may get a cheap 22lr revolver for shooting CB's out of. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kqtl2Uxklk I may get a .50BMG again at some point. It's kinda stupid to own, but incredibly fun to shoot.   On more practical items, setting up an SBR AR-15 lower makes good sense. That said, an SBRing Sig MPX would be cool, too.  But...I'm pretty happy with what I've got. | ||
| Gregtonn |
The kid has interest in a 22lr pistol. He likes the Ruger MKIII standard. You may want to wait until June or so. Then you can buy a Ruger Mark...???? G | ||
| Rick_a |
If anything I may just get him a MKII if a good one comes along. Heel release, but minus the goofy indicator on the side and no mag safety. CZ has a nice 22lr Scout rifle, but after getting his .223 he's forgotten all about the .22 rifles.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Have him pay for ammo. The .22 will be a favorite. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Have him pay for ammo. The .22 will be a favorite.  | ||
| Zac4mac |
I just picked up another, speaking of rimfires. Couldn't pass up a Marlin Mod 60 for 89 bucks. Stripped the stock of "stain" and finished with brown Kiwi shoe polish. Added the scope from my Benjamin pellet rifle and voila.  | ||
| Rick_a |
Nice score.
Right now he can't pay for his own BB's and pellets. It comes out of our pockets regardless. He already smoked my entire 22lr stash in days last year. I'm down to scraps. | ||
| Rick_a |
The tacticool 22 got finished. It's a pretty small gun as configured; 29-3/4" collapsed, 33-1/2 extended. By pure chance it is currently the only gun my M7 bayonet affixes to. It's probably the only gun that would need it  I'll get pictures soon. My phone is a bit garbled right now as it failed moving a few thousand picture files to SD card. What a disaster. | ||
| Rick_a |
Here 'tis.  20160313_083034 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr  20160313_083215 (1) by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr It's about the meanest looking 22lr I've seen. | ||
| Torquehd |
I dig it Rick! Wish I had a few hundred dollars laying around to invest in one myself! | ||
| Rick_a |
Well, it's a matter of time and money. I don't have a lot of money, but do have plenty of time! I've had that gun since last year. Finally got it done in a way I can live with. The next frontier will probably be a 9mm AR SBR. There is literally no use for it, other than I think it'd be cool and fun.  That one will be a while. So far there's really no way to do it on the cheap. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/an other_senseless_shooting_another_senseless_respons e_from_antigun_crowd.html 9mm AR SPR? Not useless, but not better than a lot of other options. Current "wisdom" says that pistol caliber carbines are obsolete in the face of the improved range and power of the .223 and 7.62x39 carbines. maybe... but having a carbine in a matching caliber to your sidearm has made a lot of sense for well over a century. I've been shopping for a good carbine ( cheap ) for a while. A Marlin lever action in .357 for example would be adequate and legal for deer hunting in some local counties and more than adequate for home defense, and plinking. Not, I freely admit, as good or useful as a rifle caliber carbine out past, say, 200 yards... OTOH... If I have to engage the enemy out past 200 yards, We are not talking normal home defense. It would have to be really apocalyptic for that. Not unlikely, in the world we live.... Still, it's fun to look at other people's toys. And that 9mm short barrel rifle would be a great gun for introducing beginners to shooting. Not too much kick, yet loud and big enough to be a step up from a .22LR. You don't need a reason to want something. Enjoy. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
If it were possible I'd be buying a Keltec PMR30. (Message edited by Mr_grumpy on March 14, 2016) | ||
| Reepicheep |
Also, don't rule out reloading as a factor. With an affordable progressive press, you can reload a LOT of 9mm in a pretty short period of time. The more you shoot a particular setup, the better you get. And 9mm from a longer barrel isn't trivial in terms of ballistics. 1250 foot pounds. .223 is 1500 foot pounds, but that likely assumes a longer barrel. So while there is a measurable difference, you are within 20%. So factor in practicing 4x as much because you can reload the 9mm for 1/10th of the cost of the .223... I don't consider anything over 100 yards as a relevant home defense scenario. And in that case I'd want an M1 anyway, even if it is just of the downrange drama factor of a semi-auto .30/06 and the sound of bouncing clips between reloads.  | ||
| Gregtonn |
...you can reload the 9mm for 1/10th of the cost of the .223... Where does that come from? I can buy .223 for about half the price of 9mm. Reloads all require bullets, powder and primers at roughly the same cost. G | ||
| Reepicheep |
I was also figuring in the resizing of the bottle neck cartridge. Primers are the same, I assumed powder was at least half, and I was assuming copper plated 9mm was much less than jacketed .223. I can get 500 plated 9mm for under $50. Huh. Looks like I can get .223 FMJ for about the same. OK. Never mind. I stand corrected. It's still a lot faster to reload 9mm though, because of the straight wall cartridge. Does .223 headspace off the base, or off the shoulder? I think 9mm is like .45 and spaces off the base, so you don't realistically have to trim them either. Oh, and looks like the .223 does use 3x the powder per round as well. So I'm not totally wrong. Just mostly wrong. | ||
| Macbuell |
According to the owners manual from my Kel Tec Sub 2000, a 9MM round out of a 16 inch barrel has the same power as a .357 magnum round. They are just a ton of fun to shoot as well and much cheaper to put a ton of rounds down range. | ||
| Rick_a |
I'm thinking 4 to 4.5" barrel...maybe on an 80% lower. Ghost gun SBR sounds scary. I like it Maybe do one of them newfangled binary/bi-directional/echo triggers as well. It'll probably be a couple years down the road. First thing I'll get is the lower and go from there. |
