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A Kimber .38 super Pro carry

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Post date September 3, 2021
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Kimber .38 super Pro carry. New with case. Two magazines 8 rounds. This is pretty . - Picture 2

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UNCATEGORIZEDArmslist.Com, RIP? How The U.S. Government Could End The “Craigslist For Guns’ ByPeter Suciu

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Post date September 3, 2021
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Even as California’s population has been on the decline, and it will soon lose a congressional seat, the Golden State still maintains vast influence. As of 2015, California accounted for just 12.5 percent of the total population of the United States, yet many lawmakers seem to feel that its policies should lead the way for the rest of the country.

For supporters of the Second Amendment that has unfortunately included its gun control efforts.

California has some of the most restrictive firearms laws in the United States, and some communities have passed ordinances that make even legally owning a firearm difficult. The Golden State was first to adopt a ban on so-called assault weapons in 1989, which led to the 1994 assault weapon ban (AWB) nationwide. Just a few years later Los Angeles County banned the sale of firearms on county property – essentially killing the Great Western Gun Show, which had been the largest gun show in the country.

Now the state’s Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein is seeking to dictate California’s stance on guns to all Americans. She has already received support outside of California from two other Democratic lawmakers – Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) – in introducing legislation that could hold account online gun marketplaces for illegal gun sales. It could take aim at websites including Armslist.com and potentially auction sites such as GunBroker.com.

Armslist in the Crosshairs

The three lawmakers specifically called out Armslist.com, the “Craigslist for guns,” which is currently the largest free gun classifieds on the web. Feinstein and her two distinguished colleagues argue that online gun marketplaces such as Armslist can essentially “evade basic background check laws” by allowing unlicensed sellers to sell guns to anyone.

The lawmakers noted, “Armslist and its competitors have become rife with illegal and dangerous gun sales; unlicensed sellers comprise as many as three in four sellers on Armslist alone.”

Feinstein, Blumenthal and Whitehouse have made the case that in enacting Section 230, Congress did not intend to grant a sweeping liability shield to all companies, including firearms marketplaces, merely because they operate in cyberspace.

“Under the Accountability for Online Firearms Marketplaces Act, online firearms marketplaces will no longer enjoy sweeping, blanket immunity—a change which will help take guns out of the hands of dangerous persons seeking to evade background checks and other gun safety measures,” the senators suggested, adding that the Accountability for Online Firearms Marketplaces Act would clarify Section 230 to ensure that the law’s blanket liability shield does not apply to online firearms marketplaces.

The Accountability for Online Firearms Marketplaces Act has already received endorsement from Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady, Giffords, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Newtown Action Alliance and Sandy Hook Promise.

Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He regularly writes about military small arms, and is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com.

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If Past Practice is Indicator, ATF Correspondence in Rare Breed Case Will Show Much

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Post date September 3, 2021
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Ammoland Inc. Posted on August 30, 2021 by David Codrea

ATF has shown its determination in the past to get things to fail no matter what they had to add to them to make their case. (Screenshot: ATF “Test” Results Letter)

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Discovery in the above case rendered these gems of ATF groupthink … Imagine what the discovery is going be like in the trigger case????” Historic Arms LLC firearms designer Len Savage posted on an AR15.com thread talking about the Rare Breed Trigger case. “It will not be pleasant for ATF as I suspect their own internal emails will damn them.”

For those who have not been following that story, ATF issued a cease-and-desist order to Rare Breed Triggers over its FRT-15 Trigger, claiming it is a machinegun. The company says it will not comply with the order and has filed a lawsuit.

The previous case Savage was referring to was when ATF classified one of his submitted designs as a machinegun but had to make some major “modifications” to do it:

“ATF has a long history of using zip ties to make machine guns…See for yourself,” he wrote elsewhere in the thread, providing links to an ATF response letter revealing how they arrived at that conclusion, with the “help” of zip ties, duct tape, and chain.

This was a revelation of ATF “testing” procedures I first covered on my The War on Guns blog in 2008, presenting correspondence with ATF’s Firearms Technology Branch, and noting:

In addition to going through contortions to declare his property a machine gun and then refusing to return it, they’ve assigned his design submissions to an agent whose testimony Savage challenged.

Further detail was presented in my 2009 report after ATF arrested Savage’s submission. As I noted at the time:

With that criteria, given enough added parts that are not part of the submitted design, I know a lot of people who could turn a banana into a machine gun.

Because Savage chose to fight back – and to not hold back on how ridiculous he found ATF’s methods to be – and because that had been the way he had dealt with in-your-face ATF absurdities in other cases, it’s clear that retaliation and “getting” him back was the Bureau priority.

But don’t take my word for it. Take what’s been documented in ATF internal correspondence.

“FTB has received a response from Historic Arms,” John R. Spencer of the FTB informed his colleagues. “Mr. Savage has declined our offer to register his machinegun.”

“Let the fun begin,” Gary N. Schaible replied. As an aside, but for context, he’s the ATFer who had to provide testimonial cleanup in 1996 for the head of the National Firearms Act Branch after he was caught on videotape essentially admitting to institutional perjury:

“Let me say that when we testify in court, we testify that the database is 100 percent accurate. That’s what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true.”

“I almost feel bad for that dude sometimes,” Violent Crime Analysis Branch’s Daniel L. Pinckney wrote about Savage in an email to NFA Branch Specialist Ernest A. Lintner. “Almost.”

As an aside, it’s clear from multiple emails that Pinckney bore a personal animosity to Savage, and from the tone of this and subsequent statements, it’s not unreasonable to infer an unfulfilled “You will respect my authoritah!” undercurrent going on.

“He is setting up a good case for a retaliation case though,” Pinkney had to admit. “The more he testifies as an ‘expert’ against ATF, and the more he gets hammered by FTB for anything he submits, the better his case gets for a civil suit at some point.”

“I wonder sometimes if we don’t ‘manufacture’ a firearm in the process of getting it to work,” Lintner acknowledged. “That is if someone in the public were to be caught with that rig, would we want them charged with manufacturing? I bet yes.”

“I remember seeing the pictures once before. I do think Len is an ass, and he deserves everything he has brought on himself, but if we/they have to stoop to that level to reject one of his projects, does it make us any better than him?” Pinckney responded, again showing personal hostility toward a citizen standing up for his rights against what the analyst knew, legally and morally, to be wrong. “If anything the zip ties, chain, and metal plate should be the illegal conversion device. 😊 ” [He actually ended his email with a smiley face icon.]

“I agree – if we alter course one way or the other based on who submits it, then the tail is wagging the dog – and in a case like this one manufacturer could use the agency to damage or wreck marketplace competitors,” Lintner replied.

“The emails shown are an internal commentary of what was going down,” Savage tells me. “Pickney and Lintner were equivalent to baseball commentators in that they were not playing the game or calling the shots, but they were reporting on the ball in play with color commentary.

“It shows the cold, callous math of folks who depend on the Department of Just-Us for a paycheck,” Savage notes. “They were just calling it as they saw it.”

It also shows how the “us vs. them” worldview results in a “team player” mentality and hostility toward “the other side,” even among functionaries not directly involved. It’s not hard to imagine those whose “professional judgments” are being publicly challenged, and whose careers can be affected by “losses,” are even more vested in winning at all costs (and resentful of vocal challengers).

Rare Breed Triggers’ Lawrence DeMonico has not been shy about standing up for himself in no uncertain terms, and in doing so has exposed the Bureau’s decision-making as political and worse. You can bet those he won’t just roll over for are taking that personally.

Savage is right. Discovery should produce some revealing examples of that.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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TGIF NSFW

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3 American-Made Shotguns That Defined the Late 20th Century Winchester, Remington, and Ithaca built three guns that set the pace for semi-auto shotgun design in the U.S. BY JOHN GORDON

The Ithaca Mag-10 is still popular today with die-hard goose hunters.

American-made shotguns continued to evolve in the second half of the 20th Century. They had to. There was increased competition from around the world, particularly Italy—Beretta and Benelli have grabbed a large share of the semi-auto and double-barrel shotgun market in the last 30-plus years. Pump-action shotguns continued to sell well but the winds of change were blowing, and the autoloaders dominance began with three innovative offerings from Winchester, Remington, and Ithaca.

1. Winchester Model 50

The Winchester Model 50 laid the foundation for future Winchester semiauto shotguns. — Winchester has been chasing the the semi-auto shotgun niche ever since turning down John Browning’s A-5 royalty request. *icollector.com*

Ever since Winchester had turned down John Browning’s A-5 royalty request, they chased that niche, looking for a marketable semi-auto shotgun design. The Model 12 pump ruled the roost for decades but in the early 1950s Remington’s 870 was gaining ground fast. They needed a new shotgun and quick, so they turned to David “Carbine” Williams. Williams earned that nickname through his work on the U.S. .30-cal carbine rifles used during World War II and beyond.

The Winchester Model 50 became the fruit of Williams’ labor, and was introduced in 1954 to a somewhat lukewarm reception. It utilized a short recoil system based on a Jonathan E. Browning’s (son of John Moses) design. Val Browning also developed a unique short recoil shotgun with his Browning Double Auto.

Williams made a significant change to the original design, however, in the Model 50. The barrel was static. It did not move back into the action like the A-5 or the Double Auto. Ejection relied on a floating breech system that moved back .1 inches upon firing. That movement causes the bolt to go backwards, ejecting the spent shell and loading a fresh one in the chamber.

A well-made gun, the Model 50 didn’t capture the attention that Winchester was looking for. The gun did have one famous devotee, Nash Buckingham. The author shot a Model 50 Pigeon Grade shotgun later in life, looking for a lighter alternative to the heavy A.H. Fox side-by-sides he favored in his youth. That Model 50 is housed close to Buckingham’s revered Bo Whoop and Bo Whoop II shotguns on display at Ducks Unlimited national headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee.

Winchester tried again in 1959 with the Model 59. The 59 had a fiberglass-wrapped barrel dubbed the Winlite and a creative Versalite interchangeable choke system. A little too ahead of its time, Model 59 production ended in 1965.

2. Remington 1100

Remington used the same receiver for the 1100 that it used for the 870. — Still a much sought after gun, the 1100 takes some if its design from the iconic 870 pump. *RemArms*

Like the Auto-5 before it, the Remington 1100 changed the shotgun game forever. The 1100 wasn’t Remington’s first gas-operated shotgun, that distinction belongs to the Model 58. The 58 was innovative with a magazine cap that dialed, adjusting the gas ports to cycle light or heavy loads. Remington called it the “Dial-A-Matic” load control feature. It was not very effective. Remington later shifted to the 878 version in 1959, doing away with the dial for what they called the Power Piston, capable of cycling different loads without adjustment.

The designers of the 1100, Robert Kelley and Wayne Leek, utilized barrel ports to bleed gasses from fired shells to drive the action sleeve rearward. The sleeve is attached to the bolt carrier, and that rearward motion opens the action, ejects the shell, and trips the carrier release, feeding a new shell from the magazine into the chamber. This system was much more reliable than the 58 and 878 versions.

The 1100 was popular for a few reasons. The first was recoil reduction. Using gas to operate an action is softer on a shooter’s shoulder, leading to less flinching and better concentration on the target. The recoil of a gas-operated auto is more like a shove and less like the sharp jab associated with pumps, break-actions, and recoil-driven shotguns. If you shoot a heavy duck or turkey load in pump, it can be downright painful. The same load in a gas gun won’t emit as much felt recoil.

Another attribute of the 1100 is how well it points. Just like the 870, the 1100 fits a variety of shooters and that translates into more hits and more confidence in the gun. In fact, the 870 and 1100 receivers are identical. Since millions of shooter bought the 870 it was a smart move by Remington to use the same receiver design on the 1100.

Like the 870, the 1100, which is offered in 12-gauge down to .410-bore, is available in a variety of options for clay-target shooters, upland hunting, waterfowl hunting, big-game hunting, law enforcement.

A drawback of the 1100 is its gas system is not very light load friendly and the gun requires cleaning on a regular basis, especially with cheaper loads using dirty powders. Remington made a big change to increase the 1100s load versatility with the introduction of the 11-87 in 1987. That system regulates gas usage, sending more gasses into the piston with light loads and less for heavy loads. That gas regulation method is standard in today’s gas guns.

3. Ithaca Mag-10

The Ithaca Mag-10 popularized the 3.5-inch 10-gauge autoloader. — A Canada goose hammer, the Ithaca Mag-10 (top) popularized 10-gauge autoloaders. *Rock Island Auction*

Waterfowl and turkey hunters have become small-gauge fans in recent years because better shotshells have made small bores more effective. But when the Ithaca Mag-10 hit the market in 1975, hunters were sure they needed a bigger gun.

Big bore shotguns had a following in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, mainly because of shotshell offerings were not as potent as modern loads. Today’s shells in 12-gauge and smaller are far superior to the early black and smokeless powder ammo. Waterfowl market hunters especially liked guns in 10- and 8-gauge for a simple reason: more shot equaled more dead birds to sell. The big 8 was outlawed in 1930s for waterfowl hunting but the 10-gauge lived on in double- and single-barreled guns that saw a fair amount of use.

Then the Mag-10 came along and offered hunters a three-shot gun that could shoot 3.5-inch shells. Goose hunters especially embraced the new Ithaca. It was tough to beat for shooting big Canadas. Equipped with 32-inch full-choked barrels, the gas-operated gun is pretty reliable, damn heavy (over 10 pounds), and still found in duck blinds and turkey woods across the country. The Ithaca had a decent run and lived on in a way after Remington bought the design in 1989, calling their version the SP-10.