Kurt Cobain's Suicide Gun Revealed -

Kurt Cobain appears to have shot himself with a 20 gauge Belgian Browning Model 11.

Kurt Cobain's Suicide Shotgun

Video - Gun Show Theft (and "Rap Video" Arrest Update)

Gun Show Table Theft

This is one of the most brazen gun-show robberies ever captured on video. The original story and footage came from ClickOrlando:



What's amazing, is that a number of arrests and local apartment complex evictions at the Windsor Cove apartments have resulted from accidental self-incirminations made during the shooting of a "rap video"...

Colt Defense LLC Filing for Bankruptcy

"Guntry Clubs"

Michael S Rosenwald at Washington Post has a great piece with video (above) of some of the clients and shooters at new 'super clubs' like the 14 million dollar Elite Shooting Sports project in Manassas.

Elite Shooting Sports
7751 Doane Dr
Manassas, VA 20109
(703) 335-2750
http://www.eliteshootingsports.com/ 

Open Carry Advocates vs Open Carry Idiots

I am not sure if some of these geeks in the Open Carry 'advocacy' crowd could possibly be worse for the rights of regular gun owners and actual open carriers.

Every time some fanatical 'Open Carry' attention-hog videotapes himself acting like a punk in an attempt to get a rise out of regular folks and LEO's, I cringe as I know the blow-back is going to be immediate and real, and almost always with a negative impact on access for actual level headed open-carriers.

Seriously guys, don't do us any favors.

The fact that YouTube can make 1 of a 1000 of these interactions 'famous' for a day just keeps motivating them to keep going out and pushing the limits under the guise of Open Carry 'advocacy'.

The rest of us have to start calling BS on it.

The guy in the image below, Jim Cooley, decided to film himself wandering through the airport in Atlanta with an AR and what looks like a double drum mag:

Atlanta Airport Open Carry Advocate

Even though the original thought was to include video news stories, I am actually making a conscious decision to not embed or link to any of Mr Cooley's videos as it's just more of the same old nonsense.

In fact, I propose the following - 

As some of these guys seem to love mentioning lawsuits, let's put it in language they can understand.

1) If an open carry advocate is warned by a concerned (and armed) citizen not to enter or approach and is then engaged by and shot by the same concerned (and armed) citizen and the advocate's rifle was in, or entered the SUL, Port Arms, or Guard / Ready positions, then no civil lawsuits can be filed against the shooter.  A move into the Guard / Ready or SUL position after being warned to 'get back' shall be in itself considered an aggression that warrants lethal force.

2) If an open carry advocate telegraphs his possession of a weapon and the advocate is robbed by being overpowered or by being 'slow on the draw' during a filmed session in which the primary reason for Open Carry was "Showboating", "Entertainment" (making videos for a named YouTube channel), Personal Brand Marketing (trying to be famous) or out-and-out Disorderly Conduct, then he shall be liable for Failure to Maintain Possession and any civil lawsuits resulting from the weapon's use in future crimes.

I am about as pro Open Carry as they get, especially in times of social unrest, natural disaster, and even during protests, but the fact is we have no idea if these guys are on the same page as us and for all we know they could be getting paid to make these videos by anti-gun crowds specifically intending to flood the Internet with videos that garner support from almost zero sensible folks, immediately fuel the anti-gun opposition, and if anything forces management in venues like Airports to scramble to support and push any legislation that keeps it from happening again.

If these guys keep it up, mark my word, we will all lose our rights to Open Carry even when we actually need it most - "the blow-back is immediate, and real and almost always with a negative impact on access for actual level headed open-carriers."

JP

Safety First! M-1 Receiver explodes (video) after shot fired with squib-load obstructing barrel

When shooting in competition, it's important to keep your goggles on even when you are not the one firing as a catastrophic failure of a firearm elsewhere on the line can cause shrapnel with substantial energy to be delivered in your direction.

The POV of the footage is almost exactly where a 3rd shooter might be positioned during a CMP match and as you can see in the video below, when this M-1 explodes there are parts of the receiver flying directly toward the position where we can imagine a 3rd shooter:

Musical Targets' "Viral" Hit! Ruger 10/22 and the "Star Spangled Banner"

Musical Targets!

Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association

Interview with Jade Miller Tammy Billingsley with footage of their riding and shooting while training for the CMSA competitions with their single-action / black powder cartridge revolvers.

Accidentally shot by simply dropping a bullet on the concrete?

According to this news story, a 22 round fell on the concrete where the primer was struck and supposedly discharged with the bullet actually hit the woman in the upper left leg.

We are watching this story closely, as we're not sure it's actually possible for the lead to move away from the much lighter brass without a chamber to control the gas...

See for yourself:

Kirsten Joy Weiss' "Annie Oakley" Trick Shot

Kirsten Joy Weiss and her gun

Splitting the playing card with her rifle!

Defense Distributed $1200 Home-CNC Unit Sells out in 24 Hours!

While huge amounts of main-stream editorial labor has been invested in concerns about a 3-D Printer's ability to empower nerds to create firearms with inferior materials, many old-school gunsmiths seemed flabbergasted by the new-found media fascination with 3-D printing while machining, especially with a CNC mill, produces a superior product.

Many have thought about the ability to make a low-cost or entry-level CNC machine capable of making a specific component, such as the AR-15 lower receiver.

Defense Distributed Desktop CNC for AR-15 Lower Receivers

Apparently a Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed felt that way as well and has designed a $1,200 CNC mill-in-a-box that is capable of machining AR-15 lower receivers.



We are pretty sure this is going to generate a lot of buzz and a lot of legal entanglements so we'll be watching this story closely.

Teachers with Guns in Utah? New Poll shows 64% Approval

WDBJ Reports (Video): "Many Automatic Weapons are Legal to Own"

Slow Motion 308 Tumbling after Impacting Target (Video)

I am not sure what the value of the target (peanut butter and jelly?) is but the amazing part of this video is the way the FMJ 'tumbles' after passing through the targets.

The sound of a suppressed .308 is also pretty cool, see for yourself:

How to Clean a Rusted Black Powder Rifle Barrel..

Ugh...

I just started trying to rehabilitate an old Kentucky style blackpowder but the more I work on it the more I wonder if I am going to be able to get it back in shooting order as the barrel is severely rusted and quite possibly damaged.

We have all bought an old black powder rifle for an 'unbelievable' price only to find that the previous owner shot it then just let it rust. Is it safe to shoot a black powder rifle if there's rust in the rifling? Can the barrel be cleaned without a gunsmith?

After tons of oils, rigorous brushing, and even a few hundred strokes with bundles of steel wool (based on some Brownells advice) twisted on to a ball-puller and I don't seem to be making any progress.

We found a few competing solutions while looking for next steps - Please feel free to leave comments with advice or link to videos you think might be helpful to anyone half-way through a project like this.

DoubleTap on TheFiringLine has the method we're working on next:

"ya don't need no powder solvent. Take a brass brush to that rusty barrel with some Breakfree CLP(walmart) and scrub the devil out of it. Then take a piece of 3M green scrubbie(Pan scrubbers from the supermarket) and scrub it well again. Then dry it out with patches.
Take as many patches as it takes till they come out clean.(a little gray don't hurt.)
Then rinse the barrel again with hot water and a swab stroking up and down with the water in the barrel. I put my barrel in the oven with the door open on 210 for about 15 minutes.
Then take a patch with bore butterand coat the inside of the barrel. When you're ready to shoot, run a couple dry patches in it before loading.
Hope this helps. [sic]"

I am actually thinking about getting a test on with "Evaporust" - Does anyone have any experience with this?

Once we get this thing back in shooting order, we're going to leave the high tech tricks behind and go 100% traditional which will protect and prevent this from happening again.

Hitler's #1 P-38 Pistol is for sale for an estimated $48,000,000!

Every gun collector's dream is to get a garage-sale basket-case project and find out it's worth more than he paid for it.

Hitler's P-38 for sale

In this case, a $300 garage sale find is turning out to be worth millions, bidding expected to start at 25 million in fact during an auction at RareP38.com.

The working P-38, complete with 24 karat gold and blood stains on the holster, was liberated by a soldier from the 101st Airborne, Easy Company.

KNWA was able to get an interview with the local man willing to sell it:





While the story will inevitably revolved around the collector who found it and the price of the gun, it's important to know a little bit about the men (plural) who originally liberated Hitler's gun during the war -

Well done men!
Earl McClung
Bill O'Laine
Frank Griffin
Bob Noody
Les Hegland

You can read more about them at Cost of Freedom Veteran's Museum HERE

Guns Owners Respond to "Evolve" and "TakeOnTheCode" Gun Safety PSA's

The "Evolve" gun safety PSA's are making the rounds and got our attention, which was their goal.

"The Code" Gun Safety

In the first, the founding fathers bicker with Jefferson about adding the phrase "Dumb Ass" to the bill of rights and it's actually kind of funny.

The Wife of a "Dumbass Founding Father"

You can see the video "The Bill of Rights for Dumbasses" for yourself here:



The second video, far more viral in the sense that it features women with "sex toys" (as an analogy for men with guns we assume), and is a bit more strange.

Guns as sex toys or sex toys as actual toys? So confused.

You can see the video "Evolve, Playthings" here:


TheCode site does have choices to submit feedback (I didn't as I prefer not to be tracked or re-targeted based on interaction with websites) but we did have some thoughts...


As a collector, competitive marksman, CCP holder, range safety officer, and hunter; I can speak for most (who are probably less Libertiarian that I) that no reasonable gun enthusiast is fully opposed to discussing gun ownership or safety publicly or admitting that just like car owners and motorcyclists and boat captains there are some pretty moronic gun owners who've made simple mistakes with tragic results - just as they have with cars, boats, and motorcycles.

Regarding the campaigns specifically:

The Editorial Mission:

Pros -
We have all seen 'that guy' we know puts the entire club or lodge at risk (or worse) with his carelessness so there's no denying that the need for a bit of a nudge or at least acknowledgement of irresponsibility and it's results may be in order.

Cons -
Although we know that most gun owners are responsible adults, often in community leadership and head-of-household positions, tend to be more mature than most of the general population; there has been some concern that segments of the country (and media) have tried to portray us as intellectually inferior. This type of adolescent agitation can cause resentments and I would caution TheCode folks that even accidentally using "Dumbass" as a synonym for "Redneck" or "White Trash" or other common (seemingly acceptable) terms may create a lot of opposition to their mission even though opposition to their message was not that strong.

The Strategy:

Pros -
There's no denying that racy content and edgy humor on the internet are key to distribution and their videos are already far more consumed than many "famous" cable news networks' key shows.

Cons -
The race to the bottom to capture the "lowest common denominator" as a named demographic may or may not actually be reaching any folks who matter as much as it reaches the kids known as content-snackers on "Buzzfeed" or "The Huffington Post."  Will kids who think this is hilarious 'tweet' the link to grandpa to make sure he hasn't forgotten too many gun safety rules since Korea? Probably not...

The Culture:

Unfortunately, as a "Waltons-watching" bit of an old "fogey" at only 40 years old, I have to say they missed the mark on culture and some well deserved blowback may be warranted.

I don't think they realize the way we, as the potentially "dumbass' targets of this campaign, see ourselves. We work hard and well, proudly, to maintain a home and family that we defend financially, spiritually, and if needed, physically. When we go out to hunt or shoot, as many have before us and in the company we choose to keep - safety, traditions, and a level of moral and spiritual respectability as well as at least a hint of personal excellence is something we demand. I do believe we're the majority.

As I mentioned before, as a fan (I am not alone!) of the TV Show "The Waltons,"it's going to be tough to win me over with these videos. Did I watch it? Yes... Okay 1 point for them... Once it was finished though I couldn't help but reflect on the values, without regard to the message, of the people who thought kids sword fighting with vibrators would be hilarious... 

Again, we don't disagree with the messages of gun safety, but we are extremely skittish about letting folks we may consider culturally inferior holding dominion over us with legislation, As an example, a safe is a good idea but the idea of 'enforcers' using registrations for unannounced 'spot checks' of our homes' safes and their contents will be wholly opposed and unfortunately for TheCode folks who may or may not support absurd legislation, many gun owners will see the cultural rift on display as being all the reason needed to assume they 'just don't get it'.

Lose your guns after going blind? Watch the 'Vice' Documentary, "The Blind Gunslinger"

This is an interesting story about Carey McWilliams who's ability to keep his concealed carry permit and continue hunting after losing is eyesight is causing quite a stir with folks who don't believe the blind have second amendment rights.

One can't help but think that after years of hunting and plinking, you might be able to continue managing your firearms even without the ability to see.

Here is the video:

Controversial Video Promo for G2 Research's "RIP" Bullet "Radically Invasive Projectile"

Over the top? You Decide.

Schuetzen Rifles and Shuetzen Rifle Matches

Jim Scoutten at ShootingUSA has the best video review (below) of Shuetzen rifles and rifle matches.




 GunVideoNews editors were able to attend a match in Wilton, NY this weekend and got the following photos of some of the competition rifles!

For more information on how to get started in Shuetzen Rifle Shooting, please visit The American Single Shot Rifle Association at ASSRA.org (Schuetzen)

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Shuetzen Rifle Set Up, Wilton, NY