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Keltec RDB-S: new on AllOutdoor
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Texture library updated.
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Listening…
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Three new articles on AllOutdoor
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MGI Hydra switch-barrel system.
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Sammy
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This year at SHOT show, I finally got to spend time with Sammy the actor.
He punched a 500 yard target on the first shot using BDC reticle of the new PA 1-6x FFP scope. Having tried it, I can see how that optic made hits a lot easier to make.
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One of my favorite recent portraits
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Lost necklace
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Four new posts on AllOutdoor
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Black umbrella
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Six new posts on AllOutdoor
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Two articles in March ’18 Blue Press
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My reviews of M+M 10x and Keltec RDB-S are up in Dillon Blue Press.
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Paper products at SHOT 2018: new on AllOutdoor
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A blue watch face.
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Reducing ricochets from BBs: new on AllOutdoor
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Rifles as canaries in the coal mine.
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Weapons are unique in the lineup of the items typically banned or regulated by governments. They are the only contraband that can be used to fight the enforcement of the ban on them. Neither a bottle of rum, nor a cigar, nor a bag of salt, nor any of the other things that governments control or ban are good for defeating a team of revenuers. Firearms and other weapons are, and that makes them the subject of special ire from those who wish to control others. Disarm the population, and all other items on their wish list fall into place.
In going after rifles, prohibitionists are more concerned about politically significant firepower than they are about crime. The authoritarians aren’t comfortable with constituents who don’t need state services, however unwanted those “services” may be. This is why shotguns with short effective range remained legal in many countries where rifles were banned from private ownership.
Those of us who hope to hide behind legal definitions, such as the items above being nominally pistols…that’s not how the other side plays this. One, there’s nothing to stop states from re-defining a pistol as a banned rifle. For example, until 2014 Ohio defined any firearm holding 31 or more cartridges as a “machine gun” (“Automatic firearm” also means any semi-automatic firearm designed or specially adapted to fire more than thirty-one cartridges without reloading, other than a firearm chambering only .22 caliber short, long, or long-rifle cartridges.”) Words mean what politicians and their enforcers want them to mean. Further, the various prohibitions simply cover appearance (pistol grip or thumbhole stock), performance (such as muzzle velocity), specific calibers (the way California bans 50BMG), specific actions (ATF banned open bolt semi-autos by an administrative ruling) and, the most encompassing of all, by the political affiliation, sex, age, economic status, medical condition, country of origin or some other attribute of the potential owner. Combined, these bans get the other side their dream of dominance.
Our best hope of stopping this without bloodshed is winning the hearts and minds of our generation and of the next one. Some states and many foreign countries prohibit teaching kids to shoot. Their aim isn’t the achievement of public safety but rather the denial of education and freedom.
What have you done to preserve your own rights lately?
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Another article in the newest Blue Press
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New lightweight armor
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During Tennessee summer, the surplus vest I have gives the option of either cooking in it or risking exposure to gunfire. It’s also getting long in the tooth, and there’s no good way of testing Dyneema for degradation over time. Finally, a second vest with ammo pouches is required over the top: donning both quickly is a challenge. I do have steel, both mainstream AR500 and thinner Premier…but steel is heavy and conducts heat and cold equally well. I don’t feel that my level of physical conditioning is up to using it for extended periods outside of home defense.
Level III (left) and much thinner IIIA (right)
DFNDR caught my attention by being the next step past Dyneema in strength. Such plates don’t require separate anti-spall layer, so they tend to be fairly thin.
These two plates, level III for the front, IIIA for the back, weigh 5.6lbs with the molle plate carrier. At this time, I am not sure if using lighter plate in the back is practical, considering that mag pouches also attach up front. The vest by itself seems comfortable enough to wear without having to make allowances for it, but I will report more detailed findings once I have time to use it more extensively.
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Backpack armor.
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A friend from a body armor company just wrote: “With the shooting that happened in FL, we are about 3-4 months backordered on some products right now.”
Since most of the armor for kids is used in the form of backpack inserts, doesn’t this put the decision by many school administrators to prohibit kids from wearing backpacks to school in a different light?
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Safety first
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One 19 year old committed a crime…every 19 year old in the state got punished!
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Collective punishment is what occupying armies of totalitarian states do to subjugated populations. And now we know how Florida legislators view their neighbors.
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