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A friend recently mentioned that he thought it would be cool to have some shotshell buttons on his blazer. He did me a really good turn recently, and I like to make things, so I thought I'd solder some button findings to some trimmed down hulls and surprise him with them. This should be...

Since Obama today claimed that the gun lobby 'willfully lied', I thought it might be fun to have a thread in which we put together a compendium of the lies that the antis have told to date. Aside from being a fun way to celebrate today's victory, it might also turn into a useful resource in our...

I've noticed that CB caps are available in 'lr' packages, ie they are powered by a primer only like a cb cap, but are physically the same size as a .22lr round to enable cycling them in magazine fed guns. They don't have enough 'oomph' to cycle a semiauto, and must be cycled by hand. I had an...

King Cuomo has acknowledged that at least part of his new 'SAFE act' is ill conceived and unworkable. He's realized that placing a restriction on magazines capable of holding more than seven rounds will jeopardize his new law, so he's made a concession; we can continue to buy ten-rounders but...

This looks like Good News! It is by no means over, as the AWB could be added as an amendment, but it certainly seems to have upset Frankenstein: http://www.breitbart.com/instablog/2013/03/19/hasta-la-vista-assault-weapon-ban

I understand that I will soon have to pass a background check in order to buy ammo. Sometimes NICS checks are delayed by a few days before being approved. Although this has never happened to me, apparently NICS checks are often put on delay for permanent residents. Does this mean that I...

I went in to Coliseum Gun Traders on Long Island today to buy a .22 plinker. I looked at a Marlin 60 and decided to buy it, but then they asked me for three months worth of bills to prove residency! For those that don't know, this law was repealed sometime last year because it was deemed...

I have been hankering after one of those little Crickett single shot .22's. I like the idea of replacing the takedown screw with a thumb screw so the stock could be detached for storage and transport. With the stock and barrelled action separated, the rifle would make a great backpack gun. I...

I don't yet own a .22lr rifle, and it is a silly hole to have in my collection, so I'm going to correct it. I want a small knockaround gun for general plinking and perhaps for camping etc. I'm in NY (State not City) and don't yet have a pistol permit, so it must be a rifle. My initial idea...

I am reading a book by one of my favorite authors, Robert J. Sawyer. He writes some excellent sci fi, but I have noticed a little anti gun rhetoric here and there in his writing. In the book I'm reading, two characters are discussing suicide. The short version is that strict gun laws...

There was a show in the UK a few years ago called 'The Day Today'. It was a spoof news programme that mocked journalism. In one episode, one of the presenters said 'There's no evidence to prove it, but it's a scientiic fact.' They were of course mocking the way the mainstream media operates...

I just bought my first rifle, a Mosin Nagant. I was stripping it to give it a thorough cleaning, and it occurred to me that I don't know what to do about oiling the surfaces of the metal for rust prevention. On the one hand the metal parts need to be oiled, but on the other hand oil + wood...

Just got my first MN, an M91/30, and I can tell that these things are going to become a serious addiction for me :D There is a wealth of information on these rifles all over the internet, so I have managed to find answers to most of my questions, but there is one issue on which I have read...

This has been bugging me, but with all the nonsense going in lately, it's easy to get a little paranoid... I read that SCOTUS does not hear cases that they have already ruled on in the past. Does that mean that cases such as Heller vs. DC are in the bag? I just feel like it's a constant uphill...

I haven't been to a gun shop since the panic buying started, but I've seen various posts here that are telling me it's bad... My tax return came surprisingly early, and I've got a hankering for a Mosin Nagant. None of the online stores like Aim etc seem to have them, so I'm thinking that it...

I'm not up to speed on the politics side of things. I'm learning as fast as I can, but it's a complex thing, and having only lived in the States for three years, I'm still very much a beginner. If you were a gambling man or woman, what odds would you place on the new NY laws being...

In the wake of NY Governer Cuomo's ridiculous new gun laws, his approval rating has plummeted like a lead balloon: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/BIZNEWS-BLCPOLSTL-BNALBANY-BNALL/2013/01/30/id/488064 This is all over the web, but I'm on my iphone and this is the only non-mibile link I...

Would we even know? I bet it has. We're always talking about how, even if you don't have a gun in your home, firearms ownership still protects you because the criminals don't know which homes have guns. This is obvious, but it's difficult to come up with hard data to support it. How about a...

I'm from England. I moved to the States three years ago to be with my wife. I'm a legal permanent resident (green card holder), and I must wait another couple of years before I am able to apply for naturalization (become a US citizen). Instead of waiting, I have another idea. I'd like to...

I just saw a report on the news that a guy was arrested for possession of several 'assault weapons'. I thought that 'assault weapon' meant currently legal semiauto rifles with certain cosmetic features, but this guy must have had assault rifles, ie full auto, otherwise they would have been...