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Borepatch: I finally get my own gun
http://borepatch.blogspot.com ^ | 3 Dec 2010 | Borepatch

Posted on 12/04/2010 12:28:04 PM PST by smokingfrog

I just got my first gun.

Kim du Toit used to blog about how a .22 was a household commodity, like sugar or flour. However, the People's Republic of Massachusetts made things enough of a PITA that we never jumped through the required hoops. Now we're in Georgia, and breathe free air, so it's a different story.

Because I no longer live in Massachusetts, I don't need special licensing from the State to own a gun. Even without special papers, without fingerprinting and background checks, I can own one - and ammunition (!) -without becoming a felon. What this make me, in a psychologically important way, is a citizen. Not a subject, not someone who has to ask "please" from some Government Functionary, but a free citizen who can be entrusted with the tools of power.

Funny, I haven't had the urge to go shoot up a school. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun **--Ownership--** Violence, this no doubt will overtake me any day now.

The Winchester 190 was a semi-automatic plinking/varmint rifle manufactured in fairly large quantities. It's tube fed, and the tube magazine is probably big enough to make this an "assault rifle" in New Jersey. This one has a 2x scope, and looks like it would be sweet for clearing out small, unwelcome four-footed guests. And since the two-footed ones don't want to get shot (even with a .22), it might have some use there as well.

But the meaning goes beyond the (quite modest) firepower of the rifle. It's a statement of freedom, the mark of a citizen, not a subject. We could use more citizens, not more subjects.

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To: Nailbiter

for later read


21 posted on 12/04/2010 1:24:54 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: IYAS9YAS

Hey now - how many foods with just a wee bit of accessorizing can be used as breakfast, dessert or dinner? HMMMMM?


22 posted on 12/04/2010 1:26:50 PM PST by sanjoaquinvalley (Longtime Lady Lurker)
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To: sanjoaquinvalley

Pickles.
Hotdogs.
Sishi.
Bacon.
More Bacon.


23 posted on 12/04/2010 1:33:27 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Huebolt

$219.00. Postage paid from Ammoman.com


24 posted on 12/04/2010 1:38:56 PM PST by Renegade
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To: OneWingedShark

Bacon-wrapped bacon!


25 posted on 12/04/2010 1:39:42 PM PST by smokingfrog ( ><{{{{{(0>)
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To: KoRn
I need to get some real guns. All I own are:

the worst M1911 clone Auto Ordnance could excrete from its foul, union-run dungeons,

a sawed off Mosinka-Dubinka (1959 Bulgarian attempt at making low-cost billyclubs for concentration camp guards) that probably shoots better if you put the ammo in backwards,

a Marlin 3000 (a 336 made for big box stores without any of that fancy nonsense such as accuracy or production quality) complete with a Kmart scope,

a Czech autojammer in Tokarev caliber that loves to drop the hammer when I put on the safety, and separate into two components whenever I put it in the holster,

and a Ruger 10/22 that was reworked by an amateur gunsmith to ensure removal of what little accuracy or quality Ruger may have accidentally installed.

I'm praying for a break in so that I can write them all off on my insurance and buy some Colts, Remingtons, and Henrys.
26 posted on 12/04/2010 1:46:47 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: smokingfrog

Congrats! Now go get a pistol and a carry license. Its easy and another statement to our want to be rules! Georgia has pretty good gun laws. A few still need to be changed but overall not bad.
I LOVE it here!


27 posted on 12/04/2010 1:52:44 PM PST by jafojeffsurf ( Return to the Constitution.)
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To: KoRn

Thanks. I’ll check again.


28 posted on 12/04/2010 1:53:20 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: smokingfrog
That's a beauty! Worth every penny too. Mine was the successor to that one. The 144LS had a straight bolt handle, Lyman sights, and an adjustable fore end stop. The stock was American walnut. The Mossberg line of my day was largely overlooked by 3-position small bore competitors, but with a total cost of around $50 I could hold my own in rifle matches with nationally ranked teams. No, hooked butt plates, diopters, or fancy gew-gaws or doo-dads. It was simply a finely made rifle with iron peep sights. You became a marksman by learning its strengths and weakness; becoming intimately familiar with its trigger pull; learned to time the shot between heart beats. That rifle could group ten rounds into an area the size of shirt button. I sold it for $75. Yes it still hurts whenever I think about that.
29 posted on 12/04/2010 2:07:50 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: smokingfrog

Congrats on finally experiencing a relatively FREE part of the country. I would not do well in peoples’ republic states like Mass or Kalifornia. And the thugocracy which runs those states would not have much fun trying to take my guns from me.


30 posted on 12/04/2010 2:14:06 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: dogcaller; All

FYI

I’m not “Borepatch” - I just posted from his blog.


31 posted on 12/04/2010 2:29:46 PM PST by smokingfrog ( ><{{{{{(0>)
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To: struwwelpeter

How could anyone ruin a Ruger 10/22? I have one that’s 35 years old (no plastic parts) and it still works great. Thinking about getting a target barrel for it though.


32 posted on 12/04/2010 2:33:04 PM PST by smokingfrog ( ><{{{{{(0>)
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To: silentreignofheroes

Welcome to Georgia. Guns n grits forever.


33 posted on 12/04/2010 3:00:27 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2
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To: struwwelpeter

Call your local PD and see who or where the next gun “buy-back” is happening.


34 posted on 12/04/2010 3:08:37 PM PST by panaxanax (IMPEACH THE MUSLIM MARXIST....NOW!!!)
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To: PowderMonkey
"learned to time the shot between heart beats"

I haven't heard that in ages! Who was your coach?

35 posted on 12/04/2010 3:17:07 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: struwwelpeter

Maybe you can make a trade at your gun show or through private parties to get one quality firearm. Maybe not a kimber or Colt, but something like a newer 10-22 or Rossi?

One that you can trust to fire beats several that you can’t.

And if you’re re building your collection, consider consolodating calibers, too.

I decided that I didn’t really need 9mm or .40 cal so I traded/sold them off so I had fewer calibers to keep stocked.

That was, of course, before the tragic incident where I lost all my equipment in a boating accident.


36 posted on 12/04/2010 3:22:38 PM PST by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: Eagle Eye

Thanks, sounds like a good idea. Especially consolidating calibers.


37 posted on 12/04/2010 4:54:33 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: ez

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Herters-Rifle-Ammunition-Tins/706333.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch%2F%3FN%3D%26No%3D60%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3D223%2Bammo%26Ntx%3Dmode%252Bmatchall%26WTz_stype%3DSP%26form_state%3DsearchForm%26search%3D223%2Bammo&Ntt=223+ammo


38 posted on 12/04/2010 5:01:44 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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To: An Old Man

His name was U.S. Army Col. Kenneth Potter. Audie Murphy’s CO himself.


39 posted on 12/04/2010 5:02:09 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: ez
When I bought my mini-14, I bought a case of .223 for $80. Now that case sells for $450

I have the ranch rifle. I wanted a mini-14 but the seller talked me into the mini-30, I think they call it. Ammo is pretty cheap if you get the Russian made stuff. Someone posted it's $240 a case.

If the ammo is good enough for the red army, I suppose it's mostly ok...

40 posted on 12/04/2010 5:24:57 PM PST by Huebolt (It's not over until there is not ONE DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE ANYWHERE. Not even a dog catcher!)
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