The Gun Blogs

Yep, today marks the second year of The Gun Blogs.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Many of the gun blogs are powered by wordpress. The latest version has just come out. This release was cooking for over 6 months!

Be careful when upgrading and make sure you have a backup of both the files and the database.

I messed up the upgrade on my blog (The Firearm Blog) and it had to be taken down for a few hours.

The upgrade instructions are here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Many people do not like the new admin theme. If you don't like it have a look at this theme.

Court Transcripts and Video of the Arguments can be found at:
WWW.FIREARMWATCH.COM

Today the handgun ban in Washington D.C. is argued before the Supreme Court. This is the first gun bill to be heard in the supreme court in 32 years. Several mainstream media outlets reported that if the court lifts the ban, the 2nd amendment right to bare arms includes all weapons at the time that our founding fathers signed the constitution which includes "Fully Automatic" machine guns ( No, not the ones that anti-gunners mistaken for. Those are so-called assault rifles but those are included too. ).
- John Birster

NRA Headline:
Joint Statement from Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox Regarding Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court Concerning the Second Amendment

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Washington, D.C.’s ban on keeping handguns and functional firearms in the home for self-defense is unreasonable and unconstitutional under any standard. We remain hopeful that the Supreme Court will agree with the overwhelming majority of the American people, more than 300 members of Congress, 31 state attorneys general and the NRA that the Second Amendment protects the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms, and that Washington, D.C.’s bans on handguns and functional firearms in the home for self-defense should be struck down.

Well, since Fred Thompson dropped out of the 2008 race it looks like we have to find an alternative.

I think Kevin, over at The Smallest Minority: has the right answer:

Rustmeister's Alehouse is up and running.

Been so busy making sure other bloggers knew this I forgot to post it here. Duh.

Drop on by. I'll be cross-posting my gun stuff here, of course.

As of this posting, everyone who has requested an account has been approved or otherwise dispensed with. Sorry we had to go the approval route, but spammers were killing me.

Erratic posting from me till the New Year.

On that note, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

One: Which (free) blogging service would you all recommend to someone who is considering starting one? Is Blogger good?

I ask because sometimes there's things that need sayin', but they're not about guns.

Two: This site has, at the moment, authorized its 479th blogger.

Why isn't this site the busiest on the internet?

Seems to be working now.

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Please stand by

Well, as it started out, Kim listed his 100 favorite guns, then Tam picked it up and ran with it.

I, however, choose to take another course. Here is my list of the worst weapons used in military service. Not even near 100, thankfully.

4 - The Canadian Ross Rifle. This rifle actually did well as long as it wasn't in the trenches of WW I. In that arena, it jammed on a regular basis.

3 - The Japanese Type 94 pistol (WWII). The only pistol I know of that could be in perfect working order and cause an accidental discharge. Can anyone say "exposed sear"?

2. The US Reising submachine gun. An overly-complicated piece of junk given to our Marines in WWII, there are numerous acounts of these being dropped once a a suitable replacement (aka anything) was found. One story has a Marine commander dumping his outfit's Reisings into a river so they would be issued something else.

That's hard to beat, but here's

Number 1 - The French Chauchat light machine gun (WW I). This gun was a sterling example of bad engineering and even worse quality control. Magazines with huge openings on the side (exposing the rounds to trench gunk), overheating at the drop of a hat, magazines that wouldn't properly feed. This gun was so shoddily made its parts weren't interchangable between guns. Once they broke, they made good poles, I guess.

I know there are others out there. I also know the original M16 (not the A1, A2, etc) could have come in at number 4 along with the Ross, but seeing as the M16's problems were quickly fixed, I left it off.

This post refers to my blog The Firearm Blog and was originally posted here:

I approve all comments on my blog before they are shown. This is to prevent spam comments, mainly medications of dubious origin, from being displayed. This is common practice.
When checking the latest comments on my site this is what I came across:

This is blatant SPAM. I cannot believe DoubleStar Corp. would resort to such tactics. The commenter makes a vague one sentence comment about the blog post then goes on to push the Star15 rifle and link to it.
Have any other gun bloggers been getting this SPAM?
I will be contacting the company and asking them for any comments, ha, about their SPAM comments.

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Sorry about the really rude spam.

I'll check a bit more often for that.

Little spammy in here today.

For those of you who don't want a lot of saliva flung on them, I suggest you pass this little rant of mine.........Okay, fair warning delivered. Here we go.
What in the name of all that is good and holy is going on in the "Free World"?
When politicos can vote them selfs immunity in the guise of state sovernerty, when the courts find new and interesting ways to interpret the laws to benefit the state, and where the people are gullible enough to swallow any damn thing the media decides to spew, we cannot survive as a nation.
My god! Thomas Payne would gouge his eyes out if he saw what has been done to the idea of America!
The sad and undeniable fact of the matter is that WE THE PEOPLE are to blame for this mess. The question is "can we fix it?". I don't think we can, not really.
The government isn't the problem. It's the system. The bureaucracy that makes the this work from day to day. It's the people who have learned that they can vote them selfs anything they want out of the treasury.
How do we fix it? I, for one try to teach my children to be self sufficient, to rely on their brains and muscles to make a better life for them selfs (and to pick a NICE old folks home for me). A huge part of that is passing on the traditions of shooting, hunting and protection of family, home, and country.
Thats all I can think of doing. I vote and am failed by my representatives over and over, yet I keep trying.
How can one person make a difference? He can't. Not in this case, but if every person who can actually feel the idea of America in their bones and the words of the Founding Fathers echo in their heads would look beyond their short sighted political parties and put the idea of America first, then maybe, just maybe, we can avoid the fate of Rome and all the other great civilizations.

Okay. Rant done. Thanks for the time.

Uncle reels us in by agreeing with Paul Helmke, then puts the smackdown on him. He leads us in nicely:

But, Mr. Helmke, here’s the deal: Your side is guilty of abandoning reasoned discourse. For example, when you reference the NRA as the extremist gun lobby, you are being patently dishonest.

And then, a link-filled face-beating:

Now, while I do not advocate calling them Nazis, liar is spot on. If we’re going to have reasoned discourse, great. But lying is also not acceptable in reasoned discourse, Mr. Helmke. You know, like the time your organization lied about an Al Qaeda training manual mentioning lax US gun control. Or the time you lied and said the NRA was pushing handgun carry at colleges. Or when you’re lying when you make reference to cop killer bullets, assault weapons, blood in the street, gun show loophole. Or the time you lied about Jim Zumbo and Ceasefire Maryland’s bogus study. Or the time you lied about trace data and endorsed law-breaking. Or lied about how the assault weapons ban banned AK-47s. Or lied about how you don’t want to ban guns but want merely want reasonable restrictions. Or how you lied about how more guns increase crime. Or the time you lied about Florida’s castle doctrine bill. And the time you lied about police officers supporting gun control by adding their name to a letter without their permission. Note: I could go on but that’s just the first three pages of my archives.

(emphasis mine)

Kinda spammy in here. Sorry about that.

You know, I have made it a personal policy to never take financial advice from a 35 year old guy living in his mothers basement. I do not take marital advice from guys who had 5 failed marriages. It baffles me that anyone would consider some wack-job journalist or politician who has never even held a firearm much less fired it a creditable authority on the subject. If I wanted to know the legal process to rewrite the U.S. tax code I'll go to a politician. If I wanted to know what happened when said politician brought that legislation up for a vote I'll go to the journalist. These people couldn't reason their way out of a wet paper bag. Or as my father was fond of saying "They're talking out of the sides of their necks!" Like the adult living at home or the five time divorced, journalist and politicos should shut up and listen. They just might learn something.

Ever notice whenever some anti-gunning air-bag spews the "numbers" of deaths from firearms they always include suicide? Now why is that included? I'm not advocating suicide or anything, it just seems that a person willing to do that to them selfs, ARE going to find a way to do it with or without firearms. Then these yahoos use that to pad the "numbers" to make the U.S. seem much more violent than it really is.
Sorry.
End of RANT!