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Tacticalize your 10-22

May 15, 2013 | Author Murdoc

TacStar/Adaptive Tactical 10-22 Stock over at Shooting Sports Retailer.

Posted in Parts, Rifles | No Comments »

Surprise!

May 7, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Firearms-related homicides declined 39 percent between 1993 and 2011, the report said, while nonfatal firearms crimes fell 69 percent during that period…

Overall, the Justice Department report said, firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011, while nonfatal firearm crimes declined from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.

This is something that Murdoc tries to make sure everyone understands when we talk about guns, gun violence, and gun control:

The drop extended to schools: Homicides at schools declined from an average of 29 per year in the 1990s to an average of 20 per year in the 2000s.

I’m not sure that one person I’ve ever told that gun violence in schools is down has ever believed me for a second.

Posted in Crime and Violence, Politics, Schools | 3 Comments »

Shelter in Place?

April 19, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Boston on lockdown during marathon manhunt for white-hat suspect

Residents told to lock doors and hide. And, Murdoc, supposes, use the time to sharpen a stick or something.

Murdoc ran the race on Monday. He’s extending an invitation to the remaining bomber to come visit.

He won’t be hiding in the basement praying for the cops to get there. He’ll be hoping for a few seconds and a clear line of sight.

Posted in Nonlethal, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Obviously, a site like GunPundit is going to support Magpul’s decision to move out of Colorado after a law banning the sale or transfer of magazines holding more than 15 rounds was signed by the Governor last month. And poking fun at the idiots who passed such a law or those that support it is part and parcel to Murdoc’s role.

Even so, this opinion piece by Rick Tosches in the Denver Post seems, well, sort of deranged:
Tosches: Go ahead, Magpul. Move. Wyoming seems nice.

Is that what passes for an opinion in the Denver Post?

Posted in Magazines, Media, WTF | Tags: CO | No Comments »

Contests for April

April 11, 2013 | Author Murdoc

The monthly round-up of gun giveaways is up at The Weapon Blog.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Magpul to Leave Colorado?

March 18, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Good:

Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said:

We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we will have no choice but to leave if the Governor signs this into law. We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing

Posted in Magazines, Politics | Tags: CO | Comments Closed

Please let this be from The Onion

January 31, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors

Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman?

No problem — just grab a pair of scissors and fight back!

That’s some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency’s Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Posted in WTF | 4 Comments »

NY Registration

January 27, 2013 | Author Murdoc

New York Gun Owners Plan Defiance of Registration Law

Rifle owners in New York

are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,” The Post has learned.

Gun-range owners and gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to defy the law, saying it’d be the largest act of civil disobedience in state history.

“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline comes,” said Brian Olesen, president of the American Shooters Supply, one of the largest gun dealers in the state.

It’s almost like the registration plan won’t work.

Posted in Legal, Politics | Tags: NY | 2 Comments »

The Stephen King eBook ‘Guns’

January 25, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Famed author Stephen King has published an eBook called ‘Guns’ to discuss the gun control issue.

No link given here, but here’s the blurb on Amazon:

In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King’s keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.

Seems almost reasonable, and definitely a possibility for “rational discussion.”

But then there’s this:

King’s earnings from the sale of this essay will go the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Whoops. One doesn’t have to know anything about King’s politics (which are very Liberal) or know what his stance on gun control is (he apparently favors a total ban on semi-autos) to realize which way his breeze is blowing on this.

Don’t buy this eBook unless you want to put money in the pockets of the Brady Bunch.

It’s almost like Stephen King is totally full of shit.

Posted in Books Etc, Media, Politics | 2 Comments »

Yay, Journalism!

January 5, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Inmates using newspaper’s gun owner map to threaten guards, sheriff says

Law enforcement officials from a New York region where a local paper published a map identifying gun owners say prisoners are using the information to intimidate guards.

Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, who spoke at a news conference flanked by other county officials, said the Journal News’ decision to post an online map of names and addresses of handgun owners Dec. 23 has put law enforcement officers in danger.

“They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That’s not acceptable to me,” Falco said, according to Newsday.

It’s almost like publishing that information was irresponsible.

Posted in CCW, Law Enforcement, Media | Comments Closed

Nice

January 5, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Oconee sheriff boycotts weapons dealer after gun control policy

OCONEE COUNTY, GA (CBS ATLANTA) – Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said neither he nor his law enforcement agency will purchase weapons anytime soon from a major firearms dealer, after that dealer made a change to its policy on who can buy certain types of weapons.

Dana Safety Supply, which has a store in Sugar Hill, recently amended its policy to exclude any non-law enforcement customers from purchasing semi-automatic weapons.

Sheriff Berry says that excluding citizens from purchasing firearms that they’re legally allowed to buy is the reason for the boycott. Good on him.

Via Instapundit.

Posted in Politics | Comments Closed

Sold Out

January 2, 2013 | Author Murdoc

Empty shelves:

It wasn’t just the AR-15s, the AK-pattern rifles, the M1As, and the FALs that were sold out. It really hit me when I realized that the World War-era M1 Garands , M1 carbines, and Enfield .303s were gone, along with every last shell. Ubiquitous Mosin-Nagants—of which every gun store always seems to have 10-20—were gone. So was their ammo. Only a dust free space marked their passing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Posted in Industry News | 3 Comments »