Recent content by eye5600

I've thought about some of these issues in terms of utility functions. The term arises out of philosophy and economics. It just means that each person assigns a value to things. The value is not a money number, necessarily, but more like a degree of importance. So most people on THR assign a...

It's been somewhat interesting to me as a political observer that we have not had much discussion of putting taxes on guns. That approach worked pretty well for FDR with NFA. Just raising the tax stamp to $1000 and putting semi-auto rifles into the NFA category would case AR-15 sales to plummet...

It will be interesting to see how long it is before some pol says "Yes, I shot skeet with the President." Other than Biden, of course. For the average pol, a little recreation with POTUS would be seen as a feather in his cap. A lot of you guys may not like it but, fact is, he's at the top of the...

The first commenter was right: it all depends on the SCOTUS, however the liberal judges are somewhat limited by the Heller and MacDonald decisions. However much they disagree with them, it takes some real oomph to override a prior decision, especially such a recent one. My own view is that the...

I gather from what I've read in other threads that the "yellow" on the Henry is rather soft brass that scratches very easily.

I suspect that most big city gangs own AK-47s. They would have Mini-14s or AR-15s, except the AKs are cheaper and have the reputation. They have them, but they don't use them for ordinary stuff. They are for the gang version of SHTF, which is a gang war. This leads to a certain amount of...

Somewhere in a discussion of the AK-47, I read that early-on in the VN war, there was concern about the terminal ballistics. They redesigned the bullet to be less stable, and more like to tumble. Which supports the rather obvious point that generalities about the rifle are less important than...

That's why portrait photographers get a few feet away and use a mild telephoto. We tend to think that good vs bad in cameras corresponds with sharp vs blurry. In fact, a really good camera also has much better color. The reason that natural light gives better color is that all colors are...

The explanation is that the Brady rating system is a crock. CT gets a boost in their ratings from having a AWB even though that contributes zip to public safety. AWB aside, CT is pretty realistic that about the fact that, if a guy has a gun, it's not really that important for public safety...

IANAL. One way a object can become a burglary tool is by linking possession with context. For example, you can carry a crowbar down the sidewalk, but when you trespass with crowbar it may become a burglary tool. Burglars know the ins and outs. In a book on the Massachusetts Brinks robbery, it's...

It amuses me that people complain so vociferously about the S&W gun locks but never mention the internal lock on the New Vaquero. Out of sight, out of mind.

I wonder how much the experts get paid for their walk-in appearances?

The gun designer cares. Better efficiency means more velocity with a given round.

There is certainly truth to this. My wife sat on a local board and the staff (with whom she had cordial relations) were frank about saying "we'll be here when you're gone." Holder is a hard core left wing ideologue. He says things that the President doesn't agree with, or at least, doesn't...

Jmorris, watching that water tank is like watch a waterhole on the Serengeti.