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ARSENAL - mojo4m.com The Arsenal http://arsenal.mojo4m.com Ragnar <![CDATA[NRA Plans to Show Obama the Meaning of 'Bitter']]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1971/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1971/ Ragnar <![CDATA[John Lott on Obama's 'inartful' Gun Control Flip-Flops]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1968/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1968/ Ragnar <![CDATA[John Lott to Canada : Handgun Bans Won't Cut Crime]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1967/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1967/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Getting Tired of Waiting for the Heller Decision?]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1966/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1966/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Texas is One of Only SIX States That Prohibits Open Carry]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1965/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1965/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Rimfire Shootout Round II - Ruger Mark III vs. Browning Buck Mark]]>

In my prior post, I laid out the reasons why, from everything I could determine, the Ruger Mark III and the Browning Buck Mark stood head and shoulders above the rest of the pack in the $300-$600 semi-auto rimfire pistol market. As I laid out previously, each of these two product lines enjoys a rock solid reputation for reliability and accuracy.

Both of these models are worthy contenders, but there can be only one. In this post, I'll lay out the reasons why, in my opinion, one of these two excellent product lines has the edge.

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Despite the good times we always had with the Ruger, I've never added a .22 pistol to my own collection. I suppose I've always associated rimfire weapons with boyhood. Sometimes, the things of boyhood are things to be left behind. Sometimes, though, the things of boyhood are just the things of life. Even after you grow up, a lazy Sunday afternoon is still a lazy Sunday afternoon, your Dad is still your Dad, and a .22 pistol is still a lot of fun.

Frankly, if you enjoy shooting, a rimfire is a no brainer. With centerfire weapons, it's not at all difficult to run through $100 in ammo on a trip to the range. That's not too bad once in a while, but if you hit the range on a regular basis, that can add up quickly.

After dropping $150 on ammo recently, I decided it was probably past time to pick up a nice rimfire pistol.

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As noted previously, the Remington 597 had originally acquired a somewhat "mixed" reputation for operational reliability, owing largely to the original magazine design, which proved to be woefully defective. Reviews of recent model 597s, which incorporate a substantially revised magazine design, have been decidedly more positive. Never content to rely on the third-hand reports of strangers, my goal was to hit the range and run through a 500-round box of ammo, in order to determine for myself whether the Remington 597 was truly worthy of the "Remington" name.

I used Federal Champion High Velocity, 40 gr solid, which set me back about ten bucks for a brick of 500. After running this first brick of ammo through the rifle, I'm happy to report only a handful of minor operational issues, all of which occurred in the first 200 rounds. I'm willing to give a gun a certain amount of slack during the "break in" period. A malfunction on the 2000th round through the gun gives me much more cause for concern than a malfunction on the 20th round through the gun.

In this case, all of the malfunctions occurred early on in the test. There were 2 or 3 failures to feed within the first 200 rounds. Once I got through the first couple hundred, though, it was all smooth sailing. There was not a single malfunction in the last 300 rounds out of 500.

Hands-on Impressions of the 597

I found the rifle comfortable and enjoyable to shoot. The synthetic stock is a full-size adult stock. The rifle is well-balanced front-to-back. The scope is clear and relatively bright. The controls are well-placed and intuitive. The rifle sights in on target quickly. Operation is smooth and precise. The trigger pull is a bit stiff, but not uncomfortable. Overall, this is a well-designed and well-built gun.

As far as accuracy, I can tell you that the accuracy of the gun is beyond my abilities. Granted, that may not be saying a whole lot, but take it for what it's worth. The Remington 597 has come under a fair amount of criticism for its operational reliability, but its superior accuracy has never, to my knowledge, ever been in question.

Operation of the Remington 597

The Remington 597 has a fairly conventional magazine release, designed to be operated by the trigger finger:

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Truth be told, the stock Ruger 10/22 is really more of a "youth" size gun, and my own prior unit had a habit of failing to feed reliably, so I wasn't necessarily sold on the 10/22 as the ultimate .22 rifle. Nonetheless, when I went down to the store the other day, I was more or less planning on picking up a 10/22. Oddly enough, they didn't have a single 10/22 in the store.

The fellow behind the counter directed my attention to a nice-looking Remington on the rack, a scoped model 597 in .22 LR. This one:

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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.

But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.

The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”

Full article here.]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1945/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1945/ Ragnar <![CDATA[The Remington Model 870 Express Synthetic 7-Round (25007)]]>
So, after doing a little research of comparable offerings, I settled on the 870 Express Synthetic a while back. This model is, in many respects, a less-expensive civilian version of Remington's popular 870P (Police) model, with an 18" barrel and a "six plus one" capacity (six rounds in the tubular magazine plus one in the chamber). Like the 870P model, the 870 Express Synthetic also has a parkerized finish and synthetic furniture.

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They continue to believe, against all available evidence, that deep down we are just like them--albeit with lower intelligence and less sophistication. They continue to believe that we would embrace their socialist vision of the world with both arms if they could just manage to break it down into simple terms our simple minds could grasp. So, they talk about "pie." Even the mentally retarded understand PIE, right? Michelle Obama's sales pitch for socialism has gotten to this level. It goes something like this:

"See, the problem with the world is that the rich have all the pie. Barack will take the pie from the rich and give a big piece of it to you! Doesn't that sound tasty?"

Apparently, they really think this is going to work.

I guess I wish I could say it surprises me that they have these conversations on broadcast television, as if we don't have televisions or we can't understand the multi-syllable words they use. Sadly, that's not even surprising anymore.

Let me spell it out for you leftists in the simple language we common folks use:

We don't want you to "fix the economy." We want you to leave it the hell alone. Ever heard the term "laissez nous faire?" It's French. (If you don't know French, ask your buddy John F'n Kerry to translate.) The term comes from a time when French businessmen had their heads screwed on a bit straighter. Please write this down: we're not waiting for you to "save" us. We don't want you to go steal some pie for us. If you would pretty much forget we existed, that would be just fine with us. You really wanna help? Just get out of our lives and let us live them. We'll bake our own pie.

We don't need freedom of speech so that we can make art exhibits out of urine and used tampons. We need freedom of speech so that we can remind our neighbors how shitty you leftist elites are and how much socialism sucks.

We don't need freedom of religion out of some need to have some kind of drug we can take in to remove ourselves from the realities of our sorry lives. Marx and Nietzsche didn't understand this fact, but why would anyone expect them to? If you truly understood and embraced Christianity, as so many of you claim to, you would understand this, and you wouldn't recycle German atheist talking points as a substitute for genuine comprehension of what is going on in the mind of a conservative Christian.

We don't need the Second Amendment so that we can forget our sad lives by going shooting at squirrels with our kinfolk. We "cling" to our weapons because there may come a time when we'll need those weapons to protect ourselves from an out-of-control government. Leftist icons Huey Newton, William Ayers and Mumia Abu-Jamal seem to grasp the general concept of guns vs. "the man." Now, these particular men may very well have taken to arms because the government didn't give them enough stolen pie. Let me suggest that the motivations of William Ayers don't tell you a whole lot about the motivations of your normal Republican voter in rural Pensylvania. You keep your pie. We'll keep our guns.

Contrary to your claims, most of those of us who oppose amnesty don't harbor "anti-immigrant" sentiment. Many of our most outspoken members are immigrants. Most of us have friends who are immigrants, and the rest of us are only a few generations away from our proud immigrant ancestors. Most of us "cling" deeply to the idea of America as, in the words of John Winthrop, "A shining city upon a hill." Most of us believe that America should continue to be a place where people who want to be Americans and embrace American values can come and make their lives. If you think the debate over amnesty is a debate over these basic principles, that only goes to show how very much out of touch you are. The debate over amnesty is a debate over whether we can even have meaningful borders. It is a debate over whether we can even have meaningful immigration laws. You start from the basic assumption that we can have neither borders nor laws, and then you call us racists and bigots when we refuse to accept this ridiculous proposition. What we "cling" to is belief in the rule of law and of national sovereignty. If you think some stolen pie is going to cure us of that characteristic, good luck with that.

It's not that complicated. We don't want your help. We don't want your stolen pie. We already ARE voting our interests, and we'll be keeping our guns, our God and our respect for law and order whether you like it or not. Thanks for your concern. Now please go away.]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1943/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1943/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Charlton Heston, R.I.P.]]>

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners" - Charlton Heston
We all think of Charlton Heston as a larger-than-life actor and a champion of the right to keep and bear arms. He definitely was both. With his passing, our movement loses a powerful and eloquent leader. Thankfully, we are blessed with many good leaders in our movement, but this fact does not diminish the loss that Charlton Heston's passage represents.

It is sometimes forgotten that Charlton Heston was one of the first Hollywood actors to speak out forcefully against racism and that he was very active in the civil rights movement. Heston helped the civil rights cause, in his own words, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable." He joined a picket line of a segregated movie theatre as early as 1961. He marched with Martin Luther King during the march on Washington in 1963.

There are great men and there are good men. Charlton Heston was both.]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1921/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1921/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Barack Obama : "I am not in favor of concealed weapons"]]> Townhall.com:

“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”

]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1920/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1920/ Ragnar <![CDATA[Defend Your Life, Lose Your Job?]]> work for Pizza Hut, the answer may be 'yes':

A Des Moines pizza driver who was suspended from his job after he shot an armed robber said today he has been overwhelmed by support from people who cheered what happened.

“But no one had contacted me directly about a job offer,” said James William Spiers III, 38, who was sent home by Pizza Hut managers after he fired multiple shots at a man who put a gun to his head Thursday and demanded money outside the Sutton Hill Apartments, 2100 S.E. King Ave....

Spiers, who has a valid handgun permit, said he’s been “pretty much in the dark” about his job since the incident. Vonnie Walbert, vice president of human resources at Pizza Hut’s corporate offices in Dallas, said last week that employees are not allowed to carry guns “because we believe that that is the safest for everybody.”

I don't know about y'all, but this story pisses me off.

Should you feel inclined to ask Pizza Hut corporation why they would prevent their employees from having the means to lawfully defend themselves from violence, you can reach them here:

Pizza Hut, Inc.
14841 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75254
Customer Feedback Phone: 1-800-948-8488
All Other Inquiries Phone: 1-972-338-7700

h/t : HotAir.]]> http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1917/ http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/1917/