HF 573 moves out of committee!

H/t to the Iowa locals on my sidebar. This is the Stand Your Gound legislation. (castle doctrine)

Seriously? A candle for a violent attacker?

Where is the candle for the victim? Or are the candles passe now? I've been known to beat dead horses for years.
What I am referring to is referenced here and here. Guess I'm a little tired of the smoke and mirrors about "child related gun death" when the child is engaged in a violent felony. The anti-rights groups also chime in with the 'give up your wallet and you will be fine' meme. After they have already violently attacked you? Nice theory. Wee'rd and Bob S. do a much better job than me at deconstructing the arguments of the 'more sane gun laws' crowd.

Wow that got here fast.

Ordered this Saturday morning. It is before noon Monday.

Monthly Round Count

1000 rimfire.(Give or take- may be more)
1143 centerfire pistol.
730 9mm
42 380
100 45acp
271 40s&w.

I should reload. Also, the 9mm includes a new gun. I'm not going to keep that rate going all year.

Added- safe to assume I won't shoot anymore this month. Unless you count airguns. Range is closed Monday and Tuesday.

Range time. With moving pictures. Updated

Update below!

Took the CMMG adapted AR back to the range with my M&P 9c and the LCP. 24 degrees out today. The AR went about 400 rounds, give or take, with a few misfeeds (mostly on the Black Dog magazines) until it stopped working.  It looks like what happened is the pin that holds the extractor in moved down slightly, and is contacting on the rails that the bolt runs on. I was running it dripping in lube, so it was a sloppy black mess. I may need to stake the upper part of the pin to keep it from moving down.

 The LCP fired off the 2 mags of carry ammo just fine. Had a fail to eject with the nasty UMC Rem bulk pack. Basically douched the gun as it was pretty dry, and it ran 25 rounds without incident.

 I took some 9mm NATO my lovely wife picked up for me, and the last 50 out of a box of UMC Rem el cheapos. With the 9c, I was hitting the dueling tree 1/2 the time or better- almost blew one target off(designed to) with the NATO. Blew half the case off of a hanging bowling pin. Then I switched to the Rem el cheapo. I flat nailed one 40 yard target (9 for 10) with the one miss hitting a target just to the right from my line of aim. So I broke out the phone camera. Bring on the suck.

I was out of 9mm ammo after this. So I went back to the AR and discovered it had pooped itself, or I would have some video of that too.

--Update below--

The kit is working now. I pushed the pin out, cleaned it up, tried to dent it, put it back in and it seemed to hold. Went back to the range. (twice in one day- haven't done that since the 90's) Talked to the gunsmith at Olofsons, he mushroomed the head of the pin. I went out and proceeded to run 300+ rounds through it with just the odd misfeed and two of them failed to fire, neither would fire a second time.

 Ran more through the 9c; it is up to 580 rounds without a cleaning or problem. I so cleaned the dirty thing. It's a carry gun, not a range beotch- though it is accurate enough. Ran the 40c's carry ammo, bang every time and accurate to boot. Shot some Federal 180 grain through both M&P's. Shot like a putz. Shot the 40c better than the 357 w/40 barrel. Even with the stubby mag.

My thumbs hurt like hell. Too many rounds loaded today.

Relaxed Iowa Carry Laws?

Nice opening statement.

.....the number of Iowans with permits to carry concealed weapons increased 154 percent during the first year of relaxed laws governing their issuance.

 As I recall, 1- it's not a permit to carry concealed weapons. It is a permit to carry weapons. Concealed or open is up to you. 2-Relaxed? The word you are looking for is uniform. There is a reason Sheriff "arming the criminals" in Johnson county went from 552 (of his supporters?) to 2270 citizens. Sheriffs issued blanket denials, or penciled in nonsensical rules for validity, like must be carrying $X, or only when hunting or going to gun range, for example. I'm also guessing the 381 criminals cited for Johnson County must be for pretty pissant crimes. Guess the good sheriff did not want to go before a judge 381 times explaining why he denied these hardened perpetrators permits. Please expound on the evil nature of these crimes. And the 'just because they can' and 'I don't know why [the response has been so dramatic]' quotes. I don't see them bringing Grand Theft Auto night or the fine meth industry up in the tourism ads, but the dirtbags are out there, even in our little paradise.

One of these things just ain't like the other.

;)

There. I fixed the photo. I need to learn how to use the goofy app. Or it just randomly picks what way to orient photos.

CMMG AR15 Kit

Picked up a CMMG Kit 10237 today at Rhine Group in Ankeny. I've been waffling between a M&P 15/22 and a conversion upper. The kit included 3 mags, and I already have 2 Black Dog mags laying around. So I headed home, shaved the mag tabs to fit my AR-15's magwell, and headed right up to the range. For the first few mags it had some misfeeds- one required pulling the kit to clear. After that, it settled down and worked fine. Only one stovepipe. I ran whatever was left in a brick of Rem Golden Bullets that don't work in anything else- fine enough in this. And some Federal 38 grain stuff that, in the range officer's opinion worked good with nothing. Around 5 misfires- one was crushed and should have fired, the rest fired on the second try.

I'm guessing around 400 rounds today. Next time it will be more. Didn't shoot paper, but it was hitting the dueling tree targets just fine, and would tag just about anything I cared to aim at.

Overall, I'm happy with the kit. Run it some more next time. Should pay for itself very quickly. And I paid for it with my own cashy money and get nothing cool in return for talking about it.

Strawmen invade Iowa Capitol against Castle Doctrine

Domestic abusers and gang members will all walk now, at least according to chief law enforcement lawyers here in Polk County. Didn't Mattel get in trouble when Talking Barbie said "Math is hard?" So the local legal eagles will have to try harder to get a conviction. Bet those pesky 4th and 5th Amendment rights piss them off too.(Look, my very own logical fallacy- or is it?) And totally ignored is the secondary purpose- stop civil persecution of those acting in self defense. Love all the scare quotes in the article, too.

President Assigns Blame Properly......jk

Just heard an excerpt from a Presidential stump speech, might have been the STFUSOTU, blaming the Senate Democrats for only extending the payroll tax cut 2 months instead of a year. Man, he was cajoling them to get with the program and pass it for 2 more months a full year. Oh, I guess somehow he thinks the House Republicans were at fault, you know, when they had that steaming turd dropped in the inbox as the Senate closed their full session and went home. And then the MSM went apeshit blaming the Republicans for raising income payroll taxes* on THE POOR (tm) if they didn't pass the buck on. As I recall, The House wanted to make it a full year but Harry Reid refused to recall the Senate if they made any changes and sent it back. 2 months was not enough time for this stuff to go down the memory hole. Didn't they learn from last years Debt Ceiling hoaxes?

*My initial thoughts when the first payroll tax "holiday" was passed was, golly, the Stupid Party and the Democrats do want Roosevelt's New Deal to go into the red much sooner than later. Boner should have thrown the 2 month bill in the toilet, flushed, and went home too.

Also, it looks like Nancy Pelosi owned Romney. She has been walking back her "I know what Newt did last summer" comments just as Willard is running ads using Pelosi's statements.

President Sides With TSA over Rand Paul

Well of course he did. Our President is a Constitutional Scholar- so obviously he hasn't read the damn thing. The wookies in the comments there are very restless.

ETA- Will we skip straight to the beer summit? Wait, last time Mr Pres said the Cop was stupid. This time he says the Senator was stupid.

News Flash! Our Dirty Water is Wet!

So the Chicago Sun Times will no longer endorse candidates. Sounds great. Of course, they lead with the fact that they were founded as a product of a "bygone era" where evil Republicans had their own newspapers, and our Glorious Founder just had to counter that. Historical filler, we're above that now, Faux News!, our own new tone, we will publish the views of local groups we agree with support Democrats,then they get to the truly LOLworthy part:

[Candidate endorsements] promote the perception of a hidden bias by a newspaper......

No, reading the insipid bird cage liner promotes the perception of bias. Where is this hidden crap? All it takes is a round of Spot the Party to find the bias. At least when they endorse a candidate, the bias is open and above board. Disingenuous hacks must not have gotten any stimulus money this election cycle. And then the kicker: We are going to focus on local issues this year. Translation: too much focus on national issues might make you want to vote against The One, who we reflexively can't go against.