After last weeks news, now I am glad it Monday

Ok, lets take a break form the endless ( for me) internet searching we have been doing this weekend

and have a Laugh, I need one if you don't.

Guy goes into a bar, there's a robot bartender.

The robot says, "What will you have?"

The guy says, "Martini."

The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man,

"What's your IQ?"

The guy says, "168."

The robot then proceeds to talk about physics,

space exploration and medical technology.

The guy leaves, but he is curious...

So he goes back into the bar.
The robot bartender says, "What will you have?"

The guy says, "Martini."

Again, the robot makes a great martini gives it to the man and says,

"What's your IQ?"

The guy says, "100."

The robot then starts to talk about Nascar, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.

The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time.
He goes back into the bar.
The robot says, "What will you have?"

The guy says, "Martini," and the robot brings him another great martini.

The robot then says, "What's your IQ?"

The guy says, "Uh, about 50."

The robot leans in real close and says,

"So, are you people still happy you voted for Obama?"
  

Last Nickel


A father walks into a restaurant with his young son.. He gives the young boy 3 nickels to play with to keep him occupied.

Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking.

Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help.

A well dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and  places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the  restaurant.

Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's' testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.

Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?"



'No,' the woman replied. I'm with the I.R.S.'

More Airsoft assaults, come on Fox news, you have to be smarter than this!

EXCLUSIVE: Toy Gun Sold in U.S. Can Easily be Converted to the Real Thing

By Diane Macedo

 - FOXNews.com

Felons, illegal immigrants and all others banned from buying a gun in the United States have a new alternative if they’re looking to get their hands on a firearm: Just buy a toy.

Felons, illegal immigrants and all others banned from buying a gun in the United States have a new alternative if they’re looking to get their hands on a firearm: Just buy a toy.
A FoxNews.com investigation reveals that a popular recreational pellet gun can be converted easily to a real semi-automatic weapon. And while the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is already aware of the issue, these “toys” -- new, top-of-the-line airsoft rifles -- continue to be sold throughout the country.
Like paintball without the paint, the propane-powered airsoft guns are designed to shoot quarter-inch plastic pellets and are generally used for recreation or in military and law enforcement training.
When the ATF seized a shipment of 30 of these guns in October from a port in Tacoma, Wash., it said they could be “readily convertible” to machine guns. But gun experts called that claim absurd and said the ATF was overstepping its bounds.
Now one of those critics is reversing his position, saying at least one airsoft manufacturer has taken the quest to be authentic a little too far.

“The airsoft can be converted to an AR-15,” firearms manufacturer Leo Gonnuscio told FoxNews.com after testing the make and model of airsoft guns seized by the ATF.
Having concluded that several other airsoft guns could not be converted to fire real ammunition, Gonnuscio said he was surprised to find that he was able to to transform this particular gun to the real thing  -- and with “minimal work,” because its bottom half, or “receiver,” is so similar to an AR-15's.
To make the airsoft receiver function just like an AR-15’s, Gonnuscio said, “All you have to do is drill one hole.”
And once that's out of the way, the rest is even easier. The AR-15 receiver is the only part of the semi-automatic rifle that is given a serial number, and is the only part that is regulated. All the remaining parts of the real thing can be purchased by anyone – any kid, criminal or terrorist.
The cost of buying the Taiwan-made airsoft gun and all the parts needed to convert it to an AR-15 comes to roughly $1,100 -- more than the cost of some real AR-15s. But someone who can’t clear a background check or has been refused a gun for any other reason could use this method to make his own lethal weapon, Gonnuscio said.
Making it into a machine gun, he said, would require yet another conversion, and the makeshift gun would likely be able to fire only 15-20 rounds before it stopped working due to the pressure it would have to withstand while firing in an automatic fashion.
But as semi-automatic weapon, Gonnuscio said, “It may not last forever, but they’ve got a gun to get the job done that they were assigned to do, and nobody knows the wiser.”
The ATF has made no reported moves to regulate or seize any more of the airsoft guns, which continue to be sold in stores around the country, and it appears to be bowing to critics and reconsidering its stance on the guns' convertibility.
“We’re having to take a serious look at this, so it’s just something that we’re reviewing, and I’m hoping we’ll have some information that we can make available to the public certainly very soon,” ATF spokesman Drew Wade told FoxNews.com.
But firearms expert Len Savage said the ATF is taking a “serious look” at the wrong issue -- or, more specifically, the wrong part of the gun.
The reason it’s possible to make these airsoft receivers function as real receivers is that all an AR-15 receiver does is hold the gun together, Savage said. So with enough gun knowledge, almost anything can be made into a receiver.
“There’s a line of AR-15 firearms out there where the lower (the receiver) is made entirely of injection molded plastic … It could be made of cardboard and scotch tape,” he said.
The most important part of an AR-15, and the most difficult part to replicate, he said, is the upper half of the gun -- which is unmarked, unregulated and readily available for purchase.
“The upper is what contains the barrel, the breecher bolt, that’s what contains all the pressure,” Savage said.
He said the reason the lower half of the AR-15 is the part with the serial number, and thus classified as the receiver, is that it was up to the manufacturer to choose the location of the gun’s serial number. Because the bottom of the gun has a flat surface, it was the easiest to mark.
And though federal law has since defined a gun’s receiver as the part “which provides housing for the hammer, bolt, breechblock and firing mechanism,” Savage says the bureau has continued to mark and regulate the lower part of the AR-15 to avoid confusion.
“In the stream of commerce, you’d have uppers that were marked and regulated and then lowers that were marked and regulated, you could see the confusion on a dealer basis” in determining which parts require licensing and which don’t, Savage said.
But even though the upper half of the gun can be bought by anyone, Gonnuscio still says that banning the airsoft receivers and implementing a few new rules for airsoft manufacturers could be a good start to keeping unregulated AR-15s off the street.
“I would hope that the ATF applies pressure to the manufacturers of these airsoft guns to redesign them so they cannot be converted," he said. "Make them move the pin holes ... so that an upper can’t be attached to it without major machining.
"Fill in some of that gap so that they would literally have to chuck this thing up in a mill and totally reconfigure it to work. Tighten up the magazine well so a regular magazine won’t fit in it.”
And because the U.S. is such a big market for these airsoft guns, Gonnuscio said, a foreign manufacture would change the product if its current design were banned here.
“There are tons of good uses for these guns: We use them for training, kids do reenacting with them, kids get out there and play just like the old days. We played BB gun wars when we were kids and we survived. These are little plastic balls that are shot by electricity or propane.
"So let them have their toys. Just make sure they’re still toys.”


I am going to wait a few hours before I respond, it's my federally mandated cooling off period. 

It does not apply to others, as we can see.


Hey Tim, I just found and read an article that describes how to turn a utility pole into a 5 wt. fly rod and a railroad tie into a clarinet!
Now if I could just find the one that describes how to make a French horn out of soft drink cans, I'd be all set!!
I have yet to finish the last project- turning a soybean combine into a two-seat convertible. Having a hard time getting some rusty bolts loose. 

Very well written. He said it better than I ever could.

Some research I made

http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m1d28-Arrested-development-in-Georgia-gun-case

Looks like Savage may (?) be trying to get back in good graces with ATF?

Then I just found this on The Barking Moonbat ( love the name)

http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/the_lie_that_just_wont_die/

I do not own one of these GBB's, I thought they were a bad Idea to bring into the US at the start. That being said, I still will not believe that they will hold up to firing  a .223 cal load. I would love to see his Cardboard lower, and the fact that there is a lower made out of plastic, come on, has this moron never ever seen a Glock Pistol.

From the guns rights examiner,

http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d14-Fox-News-Airsoft-can-be-converted-to-real-guns-Will-that-make-toy-owners-felons

Fox News: Airsoft can be converted to real guns. Will that make toy owners felons?

May 14, 6:17 PMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

"Felons, illegal immigrants and all others banned from buying a gun in the United States have a new alternative if they’re looking to get their hands on a firearm: Just buy a toy," says an exclusive Fox News report by Diane Macedo.

While converting it to a machine gun, as claimed by the ATF, would require yet another conversion, firearms manufacturer Leo Gonnuscio has reversed his earlier criticism and now claims "The airsoft can be converted to an AR-15."

From the report:

The AR-15 receiver is the only part of the semi-automatic rifle that is given a serial number, and is the only part that is regulated.

Per firearms designer Len Savage:

“There’s a line of AR-15 firearms out there where the lower (the receiver) is made entirely of injection molded plastic … It could be made of cardboard and scotch tape,” he said.

With these new claims, questions I've asked from the beginning gain new relevance:

If, in fact, these toy guns pose a legal and real danger, is everyone in possession of such a lower receiver now in possession of an illegal firearm?

Will there be a recall? Will BATFE issue a circular to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers...and local law enforcement?

Importantly, will anyone who has one now be in danger of being classified a felon if it can be proven they know about this, making their possession or transfer of their airsoft gun "willful," and thus subject to criminal prosecution?

Do we now have a new crop of criminals? Hundreds or thousands of them? How could that not be the case?
UPDATE-- Len Savage tells me:
What FOX did not print is that I told them anything including plumbing parts that are sold at home depot can be made into a gun and any 8th grader can build a gun in shop class. Making a gun is not a complicated task.

There was apparently a word limit, and the editor dropped many things.

I also gave FOX ATF documents that showed a disparity in ATF declarations on what part of a gun is a frame or receiver. Most recently ATF ruling on the FNC that is VERY similar in design to the AR. ATF says that the "upper", not the lower is "the" frame or receiver, while the AR lower, not the upper is considered "the" frame or receiver.


Developing... It looks like the web is filling up with stories about this, ATF will do something, I will try and keep on top of it.

05/16/2010 found a link to a discussion on the Mythbusters forum talking about this.
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9741919888/m/52419955401/p/1

 

What's up with ARES

This is the info I have been able to glean from some phone calls

Spartan imports will be bringing in the H& Kock branded guns, they will also have Ares other guns but they are bringing them in from Europe so the price will be high.

Z shot ( at this time) will be the distributor for all non H& Kock guns for the US.
The reason the guns are not here yet is because Ares does not inventory guns. They make them when ordered and the order has to be considerable ( read Bunches and Bunches of guns) They also make them in sequence, 1st M-4 then WA 2000's as so forth.

Last I talked with them, and all of this is subject to change as this is airsoft, it looks like summer time before they start coming in. I did not ask about about any specific guns time frame. 

 

So, if you want a H&Koch Ares, have your dealer call Spartan, for all others, Z-Shot,

but it's best to wait till they start coming in,

I am sure that Arines, airsoft EU and popular airsoft will let you know when that is. 

 

On a personal note, I got my new computer up, what do you think?

I just cant seem to find discs to fit for a backup, must be too new to the market.

 

I also wanted to talk about this Arizona thing, as that is the state I was born it.

I am glad to see pictures of the Border Patrol doing such a great job, keep it up guys!

Now, get back to work

See you later,

Stay thirsty my friends.

Thank you, Thank you. I am here all week, tip your waitress

There’s two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says

‘You man the guns, I’ll drive’ 

 

A neutron walks into a bar and asks "how much for a beer?" The bartender says, "for you? no charge." 

 

Guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under arm. Says to the bartender: "I’ll take a beer, and one for the road." 

 

Monday rolled around again, I guess it's better than the alternative!

Here we are again, Half way to Christmas.

Hope your weekend was spent shooting something and
you bought your Mom some nice flowers.

She deserves it, after raising a kid like you!

( look, now I'm projecting,
guess it's time to go back on the couch)

Take a minute, have a laugh.

Mexican Oysters

A big Texan stopped at a local restaurant following a day roaming around in Mexico.

While sipping his tequila, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious looking platter being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, the smell was wonderful.

He asked the waiter, 'What is that you just served?'

The waiter replied, 'Ah senor, you have excellent taste! Those are called Cojones de Toro, bull's testicles from the bull fight this morning. A delicacy!'

The cowboy said, 'What the heck, bring me an order..'

The waiter replied, 'I am so sorry senor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bull fight each morning. If you come early and place your order, we will be sure to save you this delicacy.'

The next morning, the cowboy returned, placed his order, and that evening was served the one and only special delicacy of the day. After a few bites, inspecting his platter, he called to the waiter and said, 'These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday.'

The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, 'Si, Senor. 

Sometimes the bull wins..

 Is that a great picture or what?

I now have a fetish for mini M-4's 

Sam took the pic

X-Caliber Tactical built the gun.

Getting the battery that would fit in that tiny forearm was a huge pain, 

but somehow they did it. 

Review to come.

This would be cool with 6mm plastics and 

fashion the bottom of it so it could be rail mounted.

 

Another old one, but it always makes me chuckle

 Qantas Airlines

       Just in case you need a laugh:
       Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high
school diploma to fix one; a reassurance to those who fly routinely in their
jobs.

       After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a 'gripe
sheet,' which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The
mechanics corrects the problems, document their repairs on the form, and
then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

       Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here
are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS pilots (marked with
a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.

       By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has never, ever,
had an accident, or so they say.

       P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
       S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
       *
       P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
       S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
       *
       P: Something loose in cockpit.
       S: Something tightened in cockpit.
       *
       P: Dead bugs on windshield.
       S: Live bugs on back-order.
       *
       P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200-feet-per-minute
descent.
       S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
       *
       P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
       S: Evidence removed.
       *
       P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
       S: DME volume set to more believable level..
       *
       P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick..
       S: That's what friction locks are for.
       *
       P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
       S: IFF is always inoperative in OFF mode.
       *
       P: Suspected crack in windshield.
       S: Suspect you're right.
       *
       P: Number 3 engine missing.
       S: Engine found on right wing after brief search..
       *
       P: Aircraft handles funny. (I love this one!)
       S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
       *
       P: Target radar hums.
       S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
       *
       P: Mouse in cockpit.
       S: Cat installed.
       *
       And the best one for last
       *
       P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget
pounding on something with a hammer.
       S: Took hammer away from the midget.

REMEMBER


  

See you tomorrow

Stay Thirsty my Friends.

Me, doing a demo of the Strafer at the North Atlantic Airsoft expo

The Strafer

175 bb's per second or so

400FPS

Louder than hell

More fun than a bag full of weed whackers or a Hello Kitty Chain Saw

As you can see, I could not edit these to just show you how awesome the Strafer is, wish I could have cut out my ramblings, but for some reason I cant edit videos shot on my Nano with my computer, so live with it. 

Wallace from Z-Shot graciously donated the box,  

Doug from Tactical Duo Stock worked as the camera man.

Your announcer and trigger squeezer was me, in all my old, fat glory.

The Strafer was supplied by X Caliber Tactical

Goggles supplied by ESS, the only airsoft goggle used by NAFOM

Look at that cool shirt I have on, that too was supplied by X caliber in a collaborate design with yours truly.

Next month 5.11 will come out with it and claim the idea, remember where you saw it 1st.

Get your Strafer here

http://www.xcalibertactical.com/products/strafer/index.html

They are going thru them like Pelosi goes thru Botox,
better get yours now.

It's the weekend, and I want to rant

The view from right outside my office in the lair.

I have been letting this one build for a while, I have addressed it time and again on some forums. I then realize when it turns into a flame war that I need to remember my mantra, 

fighting with morons is like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Lets start on my first rant, this one is on Airsoft suppressors.

This will usually start with a post from a new member wanting to reduce the sound of his AEG or GBB.

Some one will chime in with the fact that its not a good idea, then it will turn into a "why not",
"that sucks", "ATF sucks", "you don't know crap", " my cousin is a ATF agent and he said it was fine"
and so on and so on.

Lets boil this down to just what you need to know. If you make a device that can be removed 

( QD, screwed off etc) and it can some how be attached (tape, threads, gorilla glue etc)

to a real firearm and it reduces the sound level by just 1db
(even if it is destroyed in the process),

You have made a "NFA Firearm" and are subject to 

 a $250,000 fine, 10 years in prison, or both.

Now really, is it worth fighting about on the forums when you know what the penalty's are?

In reality, the chance of ATF busting down your door and 
flash banging mom and dad at dinner are slim. 
I do know if you get pulled over on the way to a game and the Law Enforcement officer that asks to search you car will not know all the laws. 
If you show him a solid metal tube that acts as a barrel extension, that's one thing,
if your "barrel extension" has baffling or foam, that's a lot harder to explain.

"But I asked my wife's third cousin who is a reserve sheriffs deputy 

and he said it was OK"

Here is a news flash, police officers know the laws they use the most,
they don't know all the laws, nor could they, some just wont admit it.

You will be dealing with a Federal case, something most locals want nothing to do with.

"I called ATF and they said I was fine, just do it"

This one amazes me, that someone would put in writing a legal opinion that can come back and bite them harder than a rottweiler on a ham bone.

Come on, don't you think some idiot will read this, then go out and make a can and when caught with it, give you up faster than a Strafer firers bb"s (175 per sec)?

Please, everyone ,
remember that the internet is forever,
what you say now will float around for years and
get you when you least expect it.

I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
I am a fool that has been around on this earth for almost 50 years
and have spent the greatest bulk of it in the Firearms industry. 

I have seen someone go to jail for "fake suppressors ", 
can I cite this with a internet link, no, it happened in 1987, 
long before I perfected the WWW you use now. ( me and AlGore)

He was a west coast competitor of mine when I was with Command post.

Back it those days, MGC company made MAC-11 Blowback guns 
( They used a cap in a brass shell to simulate firing of the gun)
if my feeble brain is still working, 
I believe he brought in 30 of the PLASTIC mac's with the cans. 
Customs seized them and ATF tested them, he went to jail for a long time for the lack of knowledge about the TOYS he was bringing in.

Bottom line on this rant

DON"T DO IT IF YOU WANT TO KEEP 
EATING CHEETOS AND PLAYING COD4

It is not worth the hassle for a little quieter gun, 
you make more noise walking than an average GBB makes anyway, 
you are not "Solid Snake" or "Sam Fisher"

Do I use cans on my guns, yes sir. Nice solid ones that wont ( maybe)
get me in trouble.

Will ATF get you? They are busy now with fools trying to blow up Pathfinders,

but you never know.

Mr Murphy shows up at the strangest times. 

So ends this rant for Saturday May 8, the year 2010

Stay tuned for more rants, reviews and genuine sillyness to come.

The above does not constitute legal advice,
I am not now nor have I ever been a bloodsucking, low down  lawyer guy
( just kidding, you guys do come in handy from time to time) 
This is just the mindless ramblings of a pre demented soul.

I am not an "expert" like most people on the internet.

Now I am going to bed, see you tomorrow. 

I have been "dark" for a few days

Do you think that this sign hangs outside a "China Clone" makers shop?

Sorry I have been remiss in my postings. 

I have been journeying thru the wilds of the great state of West Virginia attending the Mock Prison Riot that is held each year in the beautiful town of Moundsville.

Least you think that I have my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek when I say that, you would be wrong. 

It is a great show with tons of vendors,
Glock, Safariland, FN, Sage (great M14 stocks), Duostock, Foxfury Lights, X Caliber Tactical, MSA, ESS and of course, me (the main reason most people attend it each year).

It is limited to SWAT and Correction SERT teams. 52 competed this year and 1375 attendees were present.

Not much new was shown that would interest you guys,
I did hook up with a target company that is making targets just for airsoft,
they are sending a sample that I will diligently test.

This was the first year in the past 5 that I did not get sick or injured at the Riot (yaaaa)

Last year I had my foot ran over, year before dropped a 5lb co2 tank on my foot,
few years ago I was so sick I set up, went to the hotel, stayed in bed for four days
then broke down and went home.

This year was (thank god) fairly uneventful.

If you plan on going to the upcoming Airsoft event there,
give me a holler,

I have learned the best bars and foodstuffs and have a local guide on tap 

( this is, if you are over the age to consume adult beverages).

I should be back on track now, of course as always it takes me a few days of rest before I am myself again, but never fear, I will be back to "normal" soon.

I did get a new carry "Real Steel", what do you think?

See you tomorrow.