Looting. Mass protests orchestrated by unions and other socialists. Ineffective police.

Bet on it.

Argentina is just a few years ahead of the rest of the “Western” world.

Are you ready for THIS?

Finally got my Para LDA back from it’s THIRD trip back to the factory.

This time it was for a firing pin that was stuck forward by the Series 80 style firing pin safety. Pull the trigger, the pin sticks out….Rack the slide and pull again, the pin returns to normal. Was kind a interesting finding that error….the first time, the gun jammed, as the firing pin was forward enough that it went OVER the cartridge and prevented feeding.

Cleared that malfunction and then a few mags later got a double. Nope, not a double feed, a double fire. First round on the target, second one went (I think) high. Not sure though.  No damage to the range or backstop. Being the curious type, I had to try once more. loaded two in the magazine and gave it a try…. Got 2 in a row that time too. Both on target Not bad when you are expecting it

Now the pin sticks out most of the time even under dry firing..one hammer drop to make it stick out, another makes it pop back correctly. Even after a THOROUGH cleaning and lubing.

So I call Para (again), select for Customer Service and wait about 5 minutes…..Get a nice female voice asking how she can help me?. I explained my problem and politely asked if there was anyone in authority who MIGHT CARE TO MAKE MY FIREARM WORK RIGHT!

“Please Hold”.

A 3-4 minute wait….

“Please Hold”…from a different voice…?

“Hello, how can I help you?”  Male voice asks.

“Who are you?”  I ask.

“I’m (so and so) from customer service. I handle people who are unhappy with our service. I expedite things and make sure you are happy.,,,How can I help you?”

“Good!” I reply. “How many times should a firearm be returned for service before you make it right?”

“At most once,”He replies.

“Well, this will be the THIRD time I am returning a pistol to you for service”.

I go on to explain my issue and suggest that one of three things should happen:

A.  FIX MY FUCKING PISTOL

2.   Replace said pistol with another one that does work.

III.  Refund my purchase price. Offered to provide the bill of sale.

I explain that any of the above choices is acceptable. There are no other options.

He apologizes and says he will personally fire the pistol . I suggest more than one magazine.  In fact, I suggest that he fire it for a few hundred rounds and MAKE SURE THE THING WILL WORK PROPERLY before sending it back to me, as this pistol isn’t going to sit in a drawer. It is gonna get fired…if not as much as some, more than many… He agrees that it will be test fired more than a few rounds.

He sends me a call tag THAT DAY and I ship my pistol to them overnight on their dime.

I get notification that it is on it’s way back 14 days later. I unpack the thing and realize that they have replaced the trigger, the safety, all the slide components (except the slide itself)… the grip safety, the slide stop and, as far as I can tell, everything except the frame and the grips. Maybe the barrel is original. All the new components are blued steel instead of the stainless originals. Not terribly happy about that, but it is acceptable….The gun is FILTHY…..Likely had been fired more than 200 rounds.

Events make me wait a week or so before I have time to get to the range for a decent session.

150 rounds, not one FTF, not one FTE, not one misfire, not one double…Everything is excellent. Rapid fire, slow fire, Ghetto style, all good. Floated 5 cases in the air a couple of times, still no issues.

Next range session a week or so later: no issues over 100 rounds.

Next range session a few days later (I hadda reload some cases) 150 rounds with one FTF (a cracked case that I didn’t notice, led to a set back bullet and a rolled case mouth, not blaming the gun) and otherwise perfect. Lead 230 G round nose , ball 230 G, lead 200 G SWC, all fed well….loads ranging from 4.0 grains of 700x to 5.3 grains of 231…. even a box of Blazer Brass just for fun.

Round count is currently at 450 with no issues AT ALL. The gun hasn’t been cleaned, and the only lube was that which I applied when I cleaned and disassembled the firearm when I received it after being serviced (it was DIRTY then). Slow fire groups are about 1.5″ at 7 yds, 3″ at 50 feet. Not bad for a 3″ autoloader.

The new trigger has finally smoothed out and I am beginning to think that is is finally fixed.

Further testing is, of course, required. As soon as my order for 1000 230G lead round nose comes in, I’ll continue.

I only wish that the damned thing had been this good the first time.

It’s the 21st.

If you are reading this then nothing happe

Never works.

Ever.

Not even once.

It may appear to work at first, but in the end, you have to either fight or capitulate entirely.

Ask those who believed Neville Chamberlin….Gerrmany under Hitler still went to war, despite appeasement. Ask the jews in Israel…..Giving up territory just brought the rocket launchers closer. Appeasement fails every time.

It’ll fail here too, if we let ’em take even some of our gains in 2nd Amendment issues. Gun control hasn’t made anyone safer. Ever. If it did, then there wouldn’t be the gun crime so prevalent in Chicago or Wash. D.C.

Banning of all guns hasn’t worked in the UK, and certainly not in Australia. (wonder how many buried guns are there, waiting for the day?) and restrictions or bans won’t make anyone safer here either.

All of these examples show that it doesn’t work. “reasonable gun controls” won’t be the end, just the beginning. The bar will move and we will then negotiate (or appease) to keep what we have left  Then again a few years later….. Remember, the gun used by (supposedly) Adam Peter Lanza in Connecticut was legal under their “assault weapons ban” as well as under the old, national “Assault Weapons Ban” enacted in 1994. Banning others won’t bring those kids back. Making another law won’t make his actions any “illegaler” either. He (or someone) had 20 minutes before the police to do his deed. 10 round magazines would not have reduced his carnage at all. He would have had to reload more often, but that would not have materially reduced the level of violence nor his ability to kill those children in any way.  He had nearly one minute per person...lots of time to do his killing. Possibly changing the ways we handle disturbed or mentally diseased individuals might, but that, like gun bans or restriction of speech is something approached with caution. It too can be a slippery slope.

Are you prepared to fight for your freedoms? Might have to, or you become a subject.

Which will it be? 

-50C

That’s like…..just plain really damned fucking cold.

-58F.

I wonder if my woodstove would keep up?

Whoda thought?

“With just one single exception, the attack on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, every public shooting since at least 1950 in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns.”

Via 

Especially when you can use emotion to get people to agree to do something they will later regret.

any surprise?

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2012/12/feinstein-to-introduce-updated-assault-weapons-bill-in-new-congress

Gun bans didn’t help the UK….their violent crime rate is still high.

Maybe this will:

Knife Bans!

Then what? Cricket bats? Spiked shoes? Shovels? socks filled with rocks?

Where does it end?

Expect more “False Flag” atrocities with firearms in general and especially “Bushmaster High Capacity Ammunition Magazine Assault Rifle” type firearms in the coming days. Especially just before the new congress is sworn in. Or some type of Executive Order. Which won’t be challenged by congress or the courts.

Bet on it.

Buy your High Capacity magazines NOW. Expect pricing to go way up in the next few weeks.

Let us assume that the official stories about the last few shooting incidents are 100% true. That the crimes were committed in the exact ways that the officials involved state that have stated. That all the inconsistencies are just coincidental. That all the similarities are also just coincidence. That everything went down just as they said it did. That all of the reports of a second or third person were false, or misreported.

Then lets look at a few things:

 Since 1 in 17 people in the US (13 million) have a serious or debilitating mental illness (NIMH).

And:

Since the last 3 attempted mass shootings were perpetrated by people with severe mental health or emotional or behavioral issues:

And:

Since the current calls for gun control are to ban “Assault Weapons” because they were used in the last few mass shootings. And no doubt will be used in the future if Something Isn’t Done Immediately…

And since those advocating for such controls or bans are claiming that they are out to make the country safer. (“It’s for the children!”)

One would then surmise that along with an “Assault Weapons” ban, they would support, in addition, the incarceration and or imprisonment of every one of those approximately 13 million people diagnosed with a serious or debilitating mental illness.You know, those who might harbor homicidal thoughts and all.

Perhaps even the euthanization of these (extremely) dangerous people. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of these people?

I mean, since these people can, apparently at will, purchase of otherwise acquire a deadly “Assault Weapon” with “High Capacity Ammunition Magazines” with which to perpetrate their mass murder schemes. one would think that this would be a good start to keep the rest of us safe….Right? It’s not the sportsman who does this, nor the average law abiding citizen, it is the ones with a mental issue, disease, or defect, right? The ones with high level autism, or emotional problems, or others who are, for a time, able to seemingly cope with their issues and be a part of our society…until they snap and become dangerous….You never can tell when the urge might strike them, you know.

I fully realize that few of these people will, actually commit a mass murder, ore even a single murder. But few, if any of the so called “Assault Weapons” will be used for that purpose either.

So along with the weapons ban , in order to make the country safer, we should lock up any of those we already know might have issues and decide to hurt or kill others.

Make things safer in the future, you know. Trampling on a few rights is OK, as long as it saves even one life and all that…..Right?

(No, I am not advocating that we round up or incarcerate (or euthanize) any of these people with mental issues.  I merely brought it up to demonstrate the absurdity of the entire “Assault weapons” ban argument.)

13 million of our fellow citizens with mental disease didn’t commit acts of atrocity yesterday. Nor did 40 million gun owners, nor 8 million “Assault Rifles”. I don’t, for a moment, advocate that we remove the rights of the folks with mental issues, nor do I believe that we should remove the rights of firearms owners….and for the same reasons.