{"id":2055,"date":"2008-11-11T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2008-11-11T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:21:06","slug":"all-it-needs-is-a-built-in-can-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"All it Needs is a Built-In Can Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little Guns for Hard Times<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a gun-grabber headed for the White House, and he is going to appoint gun-grabbing judges at every level, so people are going nuts, buying guns. That will work fine, as long as old guns are “grandfathered” past the fascist laws and executive orders and rulings that are likely to hit us in the near future. Of course, it won’t be as helpful if Obama manages to fix it so existing guns can be confiscated. And that’s a possibility. Gun-grabbers like to use grandfather clauses to reduce opposition from people who already own targeted weapons, but if they ever get powerful enough to come after the guns you already have, they’ll do it, and they’ll melt them down. Rosie O’Donnell is probably salivating.<\/p>\n

We Second Amendment supporters like to bluster about “cold dead hands,” but the reality is, nearly all of us will obey the law and hand over our weapons. Would you commit a bunch of felonies, knowing there were people in your community who could inform the cops and the BATF that you own guns? Guess what. In prison, you won’t even be allowed to carry a sharpened toothbrush. On the whole, it’s better to avoid arrest and stay free. Or relatively so.<\/p>\n

Have you ever had a couple of beers and told a liberal acquaintance you have guns, just to irritate him? Do you have liberal relatives? Someone outside of your household probably knows enough about you to get you put on a list. You may be on one already. The odds are good that someone out there will have the knowledge and the inclination to send the storm troopers to your door.<\/p>\n

I guess it’s a good idea to stock up before Obama starts rewriting the Constitution, even if your purchases won’t guarantee anything. Still, it seems pointless to rush out and buy guns in November. You’re driving prices up, and you may end up settling for weapons you don’t want, because dealers’ shelves are bare. It will take a little time for the new regime to put new policies in place. You have a couple of months left for shopping.<\/p>\n

I keep thinking it would be nice to have something handy for short-range encounters, beyond a pistol yet not as hard to use as a big rifle. If you have to defend yourself on your property, you won’t have much need for deer-rifle-size loads that can kill people at a thousand yards, and you won’t want a really long gun that gets caught on things when you try to move around indoors.<\/p>\n

One of the guns that caught my eye a year or two ago was the Thompson .45-caliber rifle. You can buy these with removable buttstocks, and you can add hundred-round drums. That’s not bad. It’s a short weapon with no recoil to speak of, and it will shoot a hundred marvelous .45 ACP rounds as quick as you can pull the trigger. Aiming becomes nearly optional. It’s heavy, and I’m not sure how reliable the drums are, and it will cost over a grand, but it seems like a surprisingly nice defensive weapon.<\/p>\n

Here’s something else that seems like a sleeper. The M1 carbine with a folding stock. <\/p>\n

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I know everyone makes fun of this round, but think it over. It’s faster than a .357 or .44 Magnum. The bullet weighs about as much as a 9mm round (let’s say “.357,” since it’s the exact same round but sounds better). The Box o’ Truth confirms that it penetrates nicely, regardless of the funny stories about Chicoms in fluffy jackets. And you can shoot it from a pleasant carbine that takes a 30-round magazine. And unlike the Thompson, it will reliably hit things at distances greater than a hundred feet. The sights on a Tommy gun are just plain weird; I shot one, and I had to guess what the POA was. The M1 comes with a nice peep sight.<\/p>\n

I checked out Kim du Toit’s site yesterday, and he has a lot of SHTF stuff up. In case that acronym means nothing to you, “TF” stands for “The Fan.” He stores water and dry food, and he even found himself an entrenching tool, which people like me call “a soldier’s shovel.” As I understand it, the entrenching tool is the Holy Grail of survival supplies. It has magical powers non-veterans such as myself cannot comprehend. It’s even better than a towel; don’t listen to Ford Prefect. Guns play a big part in SHTF lore, and I’ve noticed that the M1 is mentioned at times. Maybe it would be a fine thing to have. It seems to combine the handiness of a .22 with the short-range deadliness of a centerfire. Rabbits, squirrels, your starving liberal neighbors who suddenly regret making fun of your SHTF plans…it will take down a wide variety of prey.<\/p>\n

Auto-Ordnance makes a nice folding M1 carbine, and it costs less than a good 1911.<\/p>\n

Maybe some day.<\/p>\n

Oops…maybe some day before the inauguration.<\/p>\n

Kim has a nice, brief Veteran’s Day post up. Take a look, and think about the men who bought the rights our President-Elect wants to take away.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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