Call me Ahab

This weekend, the Indy 1500 Gun & Knife Show will be going on at the Fairgrounds.  I’ll definitely be there, if for no other reason than to break in the shoes I’ll be wearing at SHOT.

Also this weekend at Marion County Fish & Game is a steel plate match - that’s this Friday night.  Barring some unforseen disaster, I’ll be there as well.

Steel plates on Friday, gun show on Saturday.  What more could a boy ask for?

San Francisco Housing Authority to drop its ban on gun possession.

You hear that, Daley?

Tonight’s Gun Nuts Radio should be an excellent show.  We’ll be discussing the topic of Open Carry, which has been near to my heart in the past and remains so to this day.  Joining us on tonight’s show will be Meleanie Hain, the PA soccer mom who has become a public advocate for open carry after her carry permit was illegally revoked by the sheriff.

We’ll go live as usual at 9pm Eastern time - the first half of the show will prominently feature questions for Ms. Hain, and then we’ll open up the call-in line at  (347) 539-5436 so that you can ask your questions to Ms. Hain as well.  Join us tonight at 9pm Eastern time at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts for what is sure to be a great show!

Guess who spent a day at the range with her mom and three of John Moses Browning’s designs?  If you guessed The Breda, you’d be right.

Also, the 1903 Colt Pocket Hammerless is dead sexay.  I know someone who will occasionally drop one in her pocket.

This is the letter I sent yesterday to every. single. Republican. on the Judiciary Committee - I will do my part to block the nomination of Eric Holder as attorney general.

Senator [Name]

I am writing in regards to the pending confirmation hearings for Eric Holder, who has been nominated by President Elect Obama to fill the office of Attorney General in the upcoming administration.  I strongly urge you to do everything within your power to block the nomination of Mr. Holder as AG.

During his previous work  for the Justice Department, Mr. Holder displayed a tremendous lack of regard for the Constitution, as well as a willingness to push for increasingly restrictive gun control laws.  During a critical Supreme Court case (DC vs. Heller) Mr. Holder signed on to a brief supporting the rejected opinion that the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution establishes a collective right to bear arms, and not an individual right.  This collective right interpretation was rejected by all 9 Justices, including those dissenting from the majority opinion.

It is my belief that if successfully appointed as Attorney General, Mr. Holder will continue to erode the freedoms of law abiding citizens, by using his powers as the highest law enforcement officer in the nation to influence and increase our already myriad gun control laws.  It is because of this that I again urge you to block the appointment of Mr. Holder to the office of Attorney General, and force President-Elect Obama to nominate a candidate who respects the entirety of the Constitution.

Regards,

Caleb

Michael Bane’s sources say “new gun ban coming”.

1. Shoot more
2. Shoot better

Should be easy, right?

You cannot look at this image and not laugh.

Although Michael’s travails with his safe are not nearly as funny as the image.

Breda and Mike took Breda’s mom to the range this weekend, and a rather predictable thing happened.  The gunstore clerk recommended a .38 Special Airweight snubby as an ideal defense gun for Breda’s mom.

Now, make no mistake, I have nothing against .38 Special snub nosed guns.  But for the life of me, I’ll never understand why so many people are under the impression that these guns are the bee’s knees for first time shooters and women for self-defense.  It’s an extremely difficult gun to learn to shoot well - the sight radius is small, recoil can be unpleasant when shooting +P self-defense loads, the trigger pull is long and difficult to master, etc.  I’m not saying that women can’t or shouldn’t carry snubbies, but for the life of me I’ll never understand why people think that it’s such a great gun for “first time CCW” people.

Check out The Gunshots for a review of Mossberg’s new bolt action rifle trigger, called the “Lightning Bolt Action Trigger“.

At first glance, the casual observer might deem the LBA trigger merely an imitation of Savage’s 5-year-old AccuTrigger, and indeed, the concept is the same: The trigger blade mechanism blocks the sear from releasing the striker until the blade is fully depressed. However, there are some distinct differences, and they aren’t all cosmetic. (It’s a lightning bolt. Get it?)

I’m generally excited to see factory bolt action rifles coming from the factory with good triggers on them.  One of the unfortunate downsides of our litigious society is that it has been a matter of general fact that factory rifle triggers basically suck. I’m glad to see that Mossberg is joining Savage in finding a way to improve the triggers on their guns.

Now if I could just get a Remington Model 700 VTR in .223 with a great factory trigger, I’d be ready to go coyote-whacking.