Les Jones: Weekly Gun Links #3

February 03, 2004

Guns > Weekly Gun Links #3

Welcome to the new tradition. Things are going so well that I nearly have enough material for next week's links.

Jeff Cooper's January commentaries are online.

Knoxville bloggers are invited to the first-ever Rocky Top Brigade Pistol Night February 10th.

Kevin of The Smallest Minority has written his first article for the Shooter's Carnival. His shooting background resembles mine, which was a Daisy BB gun in second grade, my own .22 in fifth grade, and my own 12 gauge in 7th grade.

I agree with him 100% about .357 recoil not being that bad, and about most security guards being lousy shots. There was a young security guard in my CCW class shooting a Glock. For a guy who wore a gun on his hip for a living he was a piker. The two best shots in the class were a middle-aged guy shooting a Colt Python .357 and - all modesty aside - me shooting a Kimber Ultra Carry .45.

Gun Rights

Kevin at The Smallest Minority fisks a hyperventilating story in The Daily Mirror.

Owen of Boots and Sabers fisks an anti-CCW editorial in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Owen also has more info on the Wisconsin CCW override vote, scheduled for today. Did I mention I've blogrolled these guys? LATER: the veto override failed by one vote to reach the required two-thirds majority. The anti-gunners won, but the good news is that the pro-gunners were in the majority. Some of the "no" voters will be up for re-election soon.

SayUncle looks at the Democratic presidential candidate's positions on gun control. Some make pro-gun noises and some make gun control noises, but mostly they're all for the Scary-Looking Guns Ban and closing the non-existent gun show loophole. Obviously they all got the memo that most people don't like gun control.

SayUncle also links to encouraging news about attitudes towards gun control. We're winning.

Reviews of affordable guns

Kim du Toit likes the Makarov pistol, a military surplus piece that can be had for less than $200.

For hunters, GunBlast has the skinny on the Savage bolt-action package gun. With the rifle, scope and sling it sells for less than $400.

The print version of Gun Tests reviews the HiPoint JHP .45 ($159) and the Cobra Enterprises Patriot .45 ($316). Gun Tests gave both guns a "Don't Buy" rating because of their malfunctions.

If you're looking for a reliable defense pistol with a name brand, there are a couple of good choices. The Smith &Wesson 642 .38 revolver can be had for less than $400 brand new. So can the Ruger SP101 .357 magnum revolver and the Ruger P9x series automatics in 9 mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP. All of those are very good, very reliable guns from American companies that will still be around in 20 or 50 years.

This week's discussion board

Speaking of Ruger, check out the Ruger Forum.

Your weekly animated gun candy

Who would have thought that you could find a link to QuickTime movies of guns and stuff getting shot at BoingBoing. The clip below is a Desert Eagle .44 Magnum in slow-mo. Follow the link to see evil beer cans and marauding melons getting what's coming to them.

Last Week's Gun Links

Posted by lesjones

Say Uncle linked with Links and a meet

Comments

I was the best shot in my carry class, but that wasn't saying much. For everyone else they counted the holes in the target to see how many hit the paper. For me, they had to assume that the rest went through the big hole in the middle.

BTW, I was also using my very excellent Kimber Ultra Carry .45. It was brand new, straight out of the box, never been fired (OK, when I got it I took it apart, lubed it a little, dry fired and generally played around with it). It performed like the quality piece that it is.

Posted by: AlphaPatriot at February 04, 2004

can a desert eagle 44 magnum bb gun make someone bleed

Posted by: adam at April 19, 2004