From PSA:
I have no words… no wait, I do:
Ice Cream Gun
Tag: Guns and such
My favorite toy
Reaction
It is a well-known fact of sales and advertising is that if you want to create demand for a product, you show it, extol its features and wonders, and then say, “…but you can’t have it.”
I have a similar reaction to a product when someone might want to prevent me from owning it: I get one.
Longtime Readers will be only too familiar with my attitude towards the AR-15 poodleshooter and its varmint ammo — the executive summary would be that I despise the frigging things.
However, the more that the anti-gun brigade wants to ban them as eeeevil assault rifles (“only the military”, “designed not to hunt but to kill humans” etc. etc. etc.), the more I think that every American citizen should own one (or more, as the urge takes).
Which is a long way of saying that I am really, really glad that I now have one: not because of any love I may have for the thing, but because now that I own one, I’m never going to give it up to any government agency, no matter what laws or restrictions the government may pass to make them illegal.
Were the Nanny Hoplophobe Set not so keen on banning them, I wouldn’t own one in a month of Sundays, because let’s just say that I might happen to have alternatives that I would consider far more effective in the AR-15’s purpose.
But regardless, I’m glad that I have a poodleshooter… simply because some asshole doesn’t want me to own one.
And it appears that as many as 15 million Americans feel the same way that I do — and very many likely for the same reason.
So while news items like this are very welcome, we sure as hell don’t need to have some super-lawyers (e.g. the USSC) explain the Second Amendment to us. We know what it means, regardless of what they think or how carefully they may parse penumbral meanings out of the Constitution.
As for the would-be gun-banning types: FOAD.
Liquidation
I believe it was Reader GT3Ted who said: “I need another .22 rifle like I need another wife,” and I can certainly see his point.
However: I have seen a .22 rifle that I absolutely must have — I think pretty much all y’all are familiar with the feeling — BUT I cannot afford it. And there is literally no room left in the Ark Ye Olde Gunne Sayffe.
So out they go. I’m offering these two as a package deal:
Marlin 880SQ (.22 LR)
…and its companion:
Marlin 882SV (.22 Win Mag)
And together:
Scopes, bipods and sundry spare mags are included. All will be shipped in a hard case.
Now the sales pitch, for those not familiar with their story. As equipped and shown, these are both one-hole rifles — I’ve found that CCI Mini-Mag / Maxi-Mag 40gr solids work best — and while I’ve moaned about their triggers before, Combat Controller put it thus: “FFS Kim, they are one-hole rifles. How much smaller do you want to make the hole?” (or something like that).
I’d rather not split them up, because then shipping costs get ugly.
Price for the package: $500 plus shipping.
Reply via email, please, and we can make arrangements.
And once that is taken care of, I’ll tell you about the rifle that will replace them.
Weapons-Grade Stupidity
…and no, this isn’t a dig against the .dotmil. But you have to admit that this kind of stupidity is kinda different — an upgrade, if you will — from just the usual Congressional idiocy:
Pennsylvania state Rep. and former Democratic Party Vice-Chair Malcolm Kenyatta pushed a ban on “military-grade weapons” after the handgun/shotgun attack that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD).
Yeah, by all means let’s ban include pump-action shotguns and handguns in the category of “military-grade weapons” (whatever that means) — because after all, the military does use them, right?
Sheesh, when clowns like this can be elevated to the position of Democrat Party Vice-Chair, what does that say for the people who couldn’t make the grade? And to use a sporting term, how deep is their bench of quality politicians?
Simple answer, of course, is that the current Democrat Party has no bench; their talent pool, which may once have contained intelligent men like Tip O’Neill and Sam Rayburn have all been driven out of the party leadership in favor of vacuous idiots like AOC and larcenous malcontents like Ilhan Omar, all by the hard Marxists who are now the nomenklatura of the Party Of Jefferson — who by now would have used a handgun on pretty much all of them if he could see what they’ve done to it.
As for this moron Kenyatta, he’s just trying to leverage any opportunity to get guns out of the hands of citizens. At least he’s behaving quite like his namesake, who was also an Afro-Socialist.
Go Vols!
And following on from the above, it looks like Tennessee has the right idea:
“The Senate passed SB 1847 on April 21st. The House followed with HB 1807 on April 23rd. If the governor signs it, property owners will be able to use deadly force to prevent trespass, arson, damage to property including livestock, burglary, theft, robbery, or aggravated cruelty to animals as soon as July 1, 2026.”
“If”?
Message to criminal scrotes: FAFO.
Just a mischievous thought: under that “aggravated cruelty to animals” part, what about those ATF and DEA agents who go after a homeowner’s dog as part of their warrant-free home attacks?
Get Busy
Here’s something I can only describe as a wake-up call:
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) is leading a coalition of GOP House members urging President Donald Trump to pick an Attorney-General who will “immediately” wipe away Biden-era ATF gun controls. Clyde and 32 other House members signed an April 21, 2026, letter, asking Trump to choose and A-G who will “immediately cease enforcement of Biden-era gun rules and secure permanent – not temporary – relief.”
Yes, yes, and again yes.
I’m getting heartily sick of a Department of [alleged] Justice which pays lip service to the Constitution — and especially to the Second Amendment — but either fails to redress wrongs through inaction or by continuing to slavishly enforce older regulations which tramp all over the Founding Document.
Clyde and his colleagues also ask Trump to choose an A-G who will reform and clean house at the ATF. They view this task as including:
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- Purging the ATF of gun-grabbing bureaucrats;
- Opposing any effort to create, operate, or maintain a federal firearms registry in any form;
- Stopping the ATF’s release of sensitive firearm trace data in violation of the Tiahrt Amendment*;
- Shutting down and deleting the ATF’s illegal, searchable gun registry known as the Out-of-Business Records Imaging System (OBRIS); and
- Reducing NFA application processing times.
That “purging the ATF of gun-grabbing bureaucrats” should only be a precursor to moving the A and T part back to the Treasury (where it belongs), and a complete deletion of the F, because fuck them.
Clyde and his colleagues pointed to the support Trump received from gun owners during the November 2024 elections, suggesting he should now support them as they supported him: “Mr. President, American gun owners have been some of your most loyal and enthusiastic voters. They delivered for you at the ballot box, and they deserve to see their constitutional rights respected in return.
“The roadmap above requires no new legislation – it only requires leadership, will-power, and a Department of Justice that is genuinely committed to your agenda rather than protecting its own institutional inaction.”
Clearly, ex-AG Blondie wasn’t up to the job. If I were Trump, I’d make Alan Gottlieb (of the Second Amendment Foundation) the AG, let him clean the place out for (say) two years, and then let him get back to doing his proper job at SAF.
Frankly, I don’t actually care what Trump does. What I want is for the DOfuckingJ to stop harassing gun owners and go after the real criminals. And to do it quickly. If DJT can achieve that with his choice of Blondie’s replacement, so much the better.
*The Tiahrt Amendment is a provision of the U.S. Department of Justice 2003 appropriations bill that prohibits the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation. This precludes gun trace data from being used in academic research of gun use in crime. Additionally, the law blocks any data legally released from being admissible in civil lawsuits against gun sellers or manufacturers.