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Guns > Thursday Gun Links #9

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries for March, 2004 are up. They're posted somewhat irregularly, but you can use ChangeDetection to get an email alert when the main page gets updated.

Here's a great rec.guns discussion of using a gun to shoot off locks. Summary: sometimes the gun wins and sometimes the lock wins.

Mike explains how to work an AK-47 type rifle. Geek With a .45 explains how to work everything else. Via SayUncle.

Jeff at Alphecca has the weekly check on anti-gun bias.

SayUncle points to another case of negligent discharge by a police officer.

MadOgre blogs a recent shooting meetup. Many Rugers were involved.

Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Southern? A quiz.

This page searches Guns Magazine and The American Handgunner articles going back to 1982. The articles are available for download in PDF format for $4.

Girls Girls Girls! Guns Guns Guns!

Last week's feature on guns in the movies was a big hit, so there's more coming in April. In the meantime I just learned of a picture archive of actresses with guns via James at Hell in a Handbasket.

A Woman's Primer on Defensive Firearms Use by Sunni Maravillosa is a useful resource for women who are getting started with firearms.

So is Miss Fitz Buys a Gun from Backwoods Home magazine. Not only does Miss Fitz know her guns, she also has a funny sendup of gun talk BS:

Naturally, there's only one handgun anybody in his right mind would ever get and that's a Super-Wacken-Wacher Polymer-Resinated Triple-Action quasi-auto in the Southern Italian .486 cal. XY6 model, of course, not the completely inferior .392 Gnorf Magnum, but only if you add the custom No-Bump compensator, a trigger job by Bruce of Biloxi, and gold plated Trid-i-Glo sights, and load it with the Hydro-Blart self-fragilating 386.8-grain Teflon-jacketed bullets imported from Uzbekizmania, and hand-load your rounds with diamond-studded smokeless powder from the caves of Eastern Elphemia on a $3,000 Killersmorph reloading press, which'll give you a muzzle velocity of ...

Choice Quotes

The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
- George Washington

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
- J.R.R.Tolkien, The Two Towers

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
- Jeff Cooper

Concealed Carry

Clayton Cramer notes that a St. Louis man repelled three robbers, marking the first defensive use of a concealed firearm under Missouri's new CCW law. The man was using a .22. Luckily the robbers were using a BB gun. Score one for superior firepower, I guess.

Equal Rights for CCW Home Page is trying to make the concealed carry permit process fair by getting California to go to shall-issue permits.

Joel Rosenberg has a discussion of ethical, legal, and etiquette questions when it comes to carrying concealed in a private home other than your own. He also has suggestions for affordable defensive handguns.

Technique and Pick of the Week

Jeff Cooper's fourth rule of gun safety is "know what you're shooting and what's behind it." You can't do that in the dark without a flashlight.

Strategos International's The Strategies of Low Light Engagements (PDF download) shows the various techniques for pistol-and-flashlight carry, copiously illustrated, with frank discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of each technique. And because of the power of the Internet and their generosity, it's free.

Picture of the Week

The oddball contraption below is a Pachmyr pocket holster attached to a Smith &Wesson Model 60. The holster was designed to keep the gun from printing in a pocket, to shroud the hammer, and to carry extra ammo. Unlike a normal holster, this one attached to the gun by replacing the right grip panel. They're no longer made, but they're an interesting item for S&W collectors. Discovered here.

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