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Here’s a picture of a fella purchasing an AR-15 for silver. The fella owning the hands on the left is counting out ounces of silver to trade to the hands on the right, who is calculating the value of the various weights.

This fella bought this silver over the years when it was cheaper than it was now. He’s getting $31.70 per ounce towards his new AR-15. Since he almost certainly paid less for that silver than $31.70 a couple years ago, he’s actually paying less for the gun than if he pulled out greenbacks today. Don’t let anyone tell you that stockpiling gold or silver is a dumb idea.

Speaking of acquisitions, this wound up in my hands:

You can never have too many paperless Glocks with spare mags. Especially for the price I paid for it. Unfortunately, this particular G is of the 23 flavor, and while the G23 is a fine pistol I am a 9mm kinda guy and just dont have room in the safe for a .40 caliber. So….this being a sellers market, I shopped it around and sold it a few hours later. The guy I sold it to got a good deal since I like him and want to see him have the tools he needs for facing the challenge of the current slide into dystopia. If this thing was 9mm, though…It’d be in the safe with the others. Ah well.

Spoke with a buddy of mine in the NYPD this evening who tells me that at roll call some folks actually announced that the cops needed to bring in their mags to be traded in for 7-shot mags. NY, as you know, passed a law that limits guns to magazines that hold no more than seven rounds. Trouble was, they forgot to add in the usual exemption for The Only Ones. Embarassing, that.

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This is from our buddy Ryan over at TSLRF.

Broadly speaking, if all this eventually blows over and there’s no hideous new gun control that prevents us from owning the thigns we can own now, what will you do differently?

Me, I’ve seen this movie before back in ’94. When ’04 rolled around I went out and made bloody sure to buy as much stuff as i could against the possibility of a repeat performance. BUT….I got complacent as the years went by. If all this blows over, I’m signing up for the Stripped AR Receiver Of The Month Plan. I’m just gonna call Stag, give them my debit card number, and have them automagically ship me a stripped lower (or two) every month. Like clockwork.

What about you?

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Amazing..since there are, to my knowledge, no 7-round mags for them, every non-cop Glock in NY state just became a single-shot gun.*

* Well, they have generously given the owners one year to get rid of the mag.

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And in other hysteria-related news, KelTec just announced a $300 increase in the price of their KSG shotgun. Their rationale is that since it is specifically named in Feinsteins ban bill, they need to recover the development costs before theyre forbidden from making any more of them.

It’s an interesting gun, but its no Remington 1740 (thats 870 x 2).

ETA: So much for only semi-automatics being targetted, eh?

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I learned a new word today – gunfaced. It’s a verb to descrive the action of shoving a gun in someones face to get them to stop what they’re doing. A fella was talking to me today and telling me about a almost home-invasion that occurred at his house. He says when he opened the door there was a guy standing there who looked like some sort of ‘Alabama meth head’ and that the guy started yelling and screaming at him. As this happened, the fella noticed this guys buddy creeping up along the side of the house. The storyteller then said “so I gunfaced him and told him to get off my porch…he fell all over himself getting out of there.”

“Gunfaced”. I like it.

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There’s been some discussion in comments a few posts back about ATFE Form 4473 and how it will lead to dastardly things happening.

I’ve been selling guns for a number of years, let me tell you how it works here in Montana. You buy a gun from me and fill out the ‘yellow sheet’. If you have a carry permit, I dont have to call for the NCIC background check…you fill out the form, collect your thundertoy and go. If I call the NCIC background weasels, they do get your personal info but they dont get to know what you purchased…(oh, they know “handgun, long gun or other” but thats it…they’ll know the call is about you trying to buy a pistol…they won’t know its make, model, serial, caliber, etc.)

So, you fill out the yellow sheet, collect your gun and head home. What happens to that yellow sheet? Well, here in Montana there is no state requirement to do anything like fax it to the state police or something, like in other states. So, all I do is what the feds require. Here’s what that is – the yellow sheet goes into a filing cabinet and after twenty years it goes into the shredder. (They may have changed that last part.)

So how does .gov track you, then? Well, they’d have to send someone to the shop and have them demand to go through all the sheets looking for the one with your name. Other than that, they dont get that info…the notion that a week after you buy a gun from an FFL (in Montana, anyway) your name is in a federal database somewhere with a serial number and all is kinda silly. Unless the feds are psychic and have mastered ‘remote viewing’ a’la Art Bell, there’s no way for them to know until they come and pick up those sheets.

So how do guns get traced? Well, let’s say little Leroy blows away a 7-11 clerk in Los Angeles and for some reason ATF decides it’s worth following up on. They call Remington and ask who they shipped that 870 to. Remington says it went to Jovino’s in 2005. They call Jovino’s and ask who they sold it to. Jovino’s calls them a few days later and says that after checking their books, they find they sold it so Joe Blow in ’06. They contact Joe Blow and Joe says he sold that shotgun probably around ’08 at a moving sale when he moved to Iowa. Some guy came up and offered $150..he had a receipt but he lost it in another move recently.  At that point, the trail ends. Unless….in ’09 the guy who bought the 870 pawns it and never redeems it. The pawn shop logs it in and know its back ‘in the system’ in the sense that the next person to buy it has to fill out a yellow sheet. But tracing the gun from Remington will dead-end at the point where the new owner didn’t do any paperwork…that on-the-lawn moving sale.

Or…….They call Remington and ask who they shipped that 870 to. Remington says it went to Jovino’s in 1978. They call Jovino’s and ask who they sold it to. Jovino’s calls them a few days later and says that after checking their books, they find they sold it so Joe Blow in ’79 but tossed all the yellow sheets in ’99 when they hit the 20-year-mark. They have a name, “Joe Blow”, copied from their in/out log, but no yellow sheet..no address, no DOB, no POB, no nothin’. Sorry.

Or…ATFE checks their records from gun shops that were closed and finds the last known person who bought it, and he says he sold that shotgun probably around ’08 at a moving sale when he moved to Iowa. Some guy came up and offered $150..he had a receipt but he lost it in another move recent.y.  At that point, the trail ends.

So let’s review….the only way your purchase, on a 4473, gets into the ATFE’s hands is if the gun shop you purchased it from has gone out of business OR they are tracing a particular firearm and that firearm never changed hands without going through a dealer. The notion that they just do a couple keystrokes and find you bought a 10/22 last week is a bit far-fetched.

Now, some states do require the gundealer to send the records into a state agency and the state agency may have a database. Thats up to the state. In a place like Montana, and many other states, there is no state registration. What about ATFE just coming into a shop, grabbing all the 4473′s and going door-to-door? I suppose they could but the idea that they have the manpower for such an activity is absurd. Oh, they might try to recruit local law agencies but I bet that wouldn’t go very far. And, honestly, if they ask where that AR is you bought in  ’04 and you say you sold it at a yard sale to some college kid..well, that’s legal (in this state) so..sorry, can’t help ya, guys.

Does that mean there’s no advantage to buying unpapered guns? Well, I prefer unpapered guns but I can’t really put my finger on why. Intellectually, I know that the guns I do the yellow sheets on for myself aren’t going in a database somewhere…but I still like to get those free-range guns when I can.

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I only use steel cased ammo in guns designed for them (‘Commie’ guns). I’ll run steel cases out of AK’s, Mosins, Makarovs, etc. since those Commie guns were pretty much designed around them. I try to avoid shooting steel cased ammo out of my non-Commie guns (AR, Glock, P35, 1991, etc) since, usually, those guns are more valuable than the Commie guns and I think it’s asking for trouble to fire steel cased ammo out of it.

I never shoot steel-cased out of my AR’s. First, the notion of steel cases bouncing around in an aluminum receiver gives me visions of horrible gouges and scratches. Additionally, I just dont think there’s enough definitive data to show whether firing stee-cased ammo out of AR’s increases malfs and extractor wear.

This post, however, seems to show some interesting data on the subject and I highly recommend you read it.