New groups mobilize as Indians embrace the right to bear arms.

From the Washington Post;

In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms.

When gunmen attacked 10 sites in Mumbai in November 2008, including two five-star hotels and a train station, Mumbai resident Kumar Verma sat at home glued to the television, feeling outraged and unsafe.

Before the end of December, Verma and his friends had applied for gun licenses. He read up on India's gun laws and joined the Web forum Indians for Guns. When he got his license seven months later, he bought a black, secondhand, snub-nose Smith & Wesson revolver with a walnut grip.

"I feel safe wearing it in my ankle holster every day," said Verma, 27, who runs a family business selling fire-protection systems. "I have a right to self-protection, because random street crime and terrorism have increased. The police cannot be there for everybody all the time. Now I am a believer in the right to keep and bear arms."

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I just found out that Mr. Completely has written three articles on fixing .22lr magazines.

I've just started reading Part I, and I'm looking forward to reading Part II and Part III as soon as I can. I have a Bersa 644 that has feeding problems.

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My friend Rob Reed is the new "Detroit Firearms Examiner".
Rob is  a great instructor and an excellent writer so this will be a good thing for the firearms community.

Congratulations to Rob Reed!

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Via "The Firearm Blog" 

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 Happy Veterans Day to everyone.
"To Us, To Those Like Us and To Absent Comrades"

And there is this, from "The Telegraph" - Britain at War: Readers' Memories

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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

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A member of the Black Gun Owners Forum, Quibb, has put together what is in my opinion, one of the best guides to cleaning and caring for your AR15 rifle.
 It can be found on M4Carbine.Net.

 

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 A 20 gauge sound suppressed shotgun! I've always wanted one.

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 And let slip the dogski's of war!

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An interesting essay.

What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army?

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This Saturday, 30 May, I was privileged to participate in a NRA "Women on Target" clinic held at the Livingston Gun Club in Brighton, MI.

There was close to 100 women in attendance. They had the opportunity to learn how to handle pistols, shotguns, rifles and bows/arrows.

I worked as a rifle instructor. From talking to some of the ladies, they were there because their husbands owned guns but never included them in their shooting activities. Some ladies had plenty of experience shooting shotguns, but no experience with pistols or rifles. Far more had no experience whatsoever and wanted to get a taste of shooting before they go out and buy their first gun.

The ladies were great. At the rifle station, we had four shooting benches and four instructors. We (the instructors) took as much time as we could to try and make sure that each shooter had a positive experience and because of that, things slowed down a little bit when they got to the rifle station.
But I didn't hear any complaints and when a group showed up and one of them started knocking down steel plates like an FBI sniper, they'd cheer her on and applaud.

Here is a group picture of the women who came out. I think the attendance was somewhere between 90 and 100. There was a prize table too. Events like this seem to be easy to collect swag for. There was t-shirts, ball caps, gun cleaning kits, air soft guns and a few other things. Each woman received a certificate of completion from the NRA.

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1 Awesome turnout!

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 I've tried to tell people that the origin of gun control laws in the US have nothing to do with public safety but everything to do with population control.

 The JPFO has produced a short documentary discussing the racist origins of modern gun control laws.

"No Guns For Negroes" Part 1 (Part 2 is below)

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I hate taking off handguards. But sometimes you have to.
This video shows you a very cheap solution to getting them to come off properly.

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I saw this on "Six Meat Buffet"

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These Iranian Soldiers are so Tactical they can field strip their machine guns with their feet.

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I found this article via "The Firearm Blog".

It's useful for anyone who owns a 1022. I didn't realize they could be successfully taken apart and cleaned.

 Thanks Mr. Rasch!

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The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.

While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico.

EXCLUSIVE: You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.

-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.

-- CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.

-- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors ... come from the United States."

-- William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that "there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States."

There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one:

It's just not true.

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I kinda saw the "Watchmen" last weekend. What I saw wasn't bad, it's going to go on my Netflix queue when it comes out so I can see the parts I missed.

This is pretty funny. A Saturday Morning Cartoon version of the "Watchmen";

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 So, if you had to prepare your own meat, could you do it?

 I'm not talking about unwrapping it and plopping it into the pan. I'm talking about getting it out of it's original packaging and making it ready to cook.

Michelle at Six Meat Buffet has a post about learning to get your chicken dinner out of the chicken.
Not for the timid.

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