High Capacity Magazine BANS:

"No honest man needs more than 10 rounds."

Those words are reputed to have come from that fine engineer Bill Ruger the founder of 'Sturm Ruger & Co' in 1949. - Naah he didn't say that in 1949 but I guess he might have said it sometime (maybe 1992) before he passed in July 2002 - Bill was a dynamic guy who loved his guns and his cars.

RUGER Mini-14 Magazines .. Ruger's Small 10 Round Magazines Are Reckoned To Be a 'Betrayal' & Terrible in Some Circles 
- As Are The Higher Capacity Units In Others 

There are to this day STILL folk who seem to want to spit when Ruger's name is mentioned - feelings run high and deep. - In all fairness there is also as big a crowd of passionate haters for Smith & Wesson since they started building their revolvers with a "stupid" internal 'lock' mechanism in 2000.

Today, all around our world and particularly here in New Zealand - high capacity magazines and "assault rifles" - along with their owners - are being blamed for the deaths of innocent victims .. and together with "military style semi-autos" .. have now been BANNED.

This is because a majority of ordinary people really can't see why anyone needs so much 'fire power'.. These good people right now are shocked and grieving following the evil killings of 50 innocents in Christchurch.

There's nothing new in the opinionated having as loud a voice as those who actually have experience & knowledge about these firearms and their workings.

However shooters doubt that a restrictive legal ban on any 'style' of gun will end acts of terror or general criminal mayhem. - Indeed our NZ Police themselves favor this same style of weapon for defense against violent crime.

I once was invited to sign an anti-air-gun petition calling for some aspects to be made illegal that were already unlawful .. & had indeed been illegal for decades. - When I tried to explain why I declined to sign - a heavily built outraged parent became very bellicose.

In all fairness there are strongly held arguments and justifications in both directions - but as the world gets smaller and ever more crowded - the opportunities and need for privately held sporting arms is decreasing - while the clamor for disarmament will inevitably get louder. - Guns for self-defense come under a whole other argument related to civil rights.

One sad aspect of our local reaction to the horror of the 'Mosque Massacres' - is that some 240,000 of New Zealand's finest steady citizens - who have been examined, approved, endorsed and repeatedly checked as Fit and Proper to own and use firearms .. seem now to be blamed as a causal noxious sub-group to be both contained and punished.

Any government or law enforcement service that chooses to vilify hundreds of thousands of a nation's most honorable, law-abiding and upstanding people - has gone badly off-course.

Marty K.
P.S. Welcome news is released of NZ Police drug raids on Comancheros gang houses - with drugs & high value vehicle seizures. - I think it strange how our police still seem preoccupied with stock style & seem to rate a shotgun as more deadly when fitted with a "free standing pistol grip":  "About $60,000 of cash and firearms have been seized, including a loaded pistol at one address, and a MSSA pistol grip shotgun and rounds of ammunition at another."

Russian Revolvers & Longarms In US:

Am I showing my dumb here? .. likely but I don't care .. because I think it's a shame that multiple good Russian designs have never made it out into the daylight where they'd be affordable.

- Surely Donnie would do a deal for a few Trumpushka Towers on the Steppes? .. The US government buy plenty of Russian rockets to launch their American satellites .. but not civilian firearms? - & the US manufacturers haven't shown much interest in a commercial partnership to date .. too much like competition.

The problem seems to be that the free market US has repeatedly banned Putin's imports - checkout Obama's 2014 Executive Order 13661.

The BATFE is used as a big hammer to shape the American weapons market - all that crap about silencers having a $200 machine-gun registration tax .. Back in 1996, Clinton entered the U.S. into a “Voluntary Restraint Agreement” with Russia that banned the importation of several types of firearms following a similar move earlier in 1989 by George H. W. Bush,

A 9 mm Bottom Chamber Firing BREAK-ACTION.

REX Top Break 357" MAGNUM Revolver.

Nosorog (Rhino) 9MM uses Full Moon Clips.

Check-Out The 'Swing' Action Of This Silent STECHKIN.

One beautifully made early .22" target pistol I should never have sold was a Russian Margolin MCM - well finished quality tools and very affordable.

- Where did they all go to?

There has to be an answer to getting these red revolvers built & distributed. - All that poisonous mind altering drugs-shit seems to flow freely in and out of borders in the Americas. Why don't Kalashnikov USA set-up to manufacture some solid quality handguns and let 'The local Market' sort it out freely?

 - Ship over the machinery .. and the staff for an overseas experience - call them Spiff & WestKal .. Mmmm nachos and burgers for the workers - заводской рабочий.

SAIGA.

Donnie's Citadel Tower NYC

Can't someone "Get on with it?"

Marty K.

P.S.  On the US home market for handguns ... How many months is it since Standard Manufacturing was taking orders for it's interesting TWO BARREL .22"WMR eight chamber but FOUR shot revolvers? - Where are they?

- You can now send me a wee support $ - starting from $1 to get all this stuff from New Zealand:        https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16618870

The NZ MSSA Ban - A False Start:

I have received a copy of the Second Reading of the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Bill

View it & read it yourself .. Link to the House of Representatives document:

https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/SCR_86606/d390ad91a9369f8482d2050648e1074226dee11c

Sadly - It is apparent right from the very first opening paragraph that any hope for a reasonable fact based consideration of firearms regulations is futile and wasted:

First paragraph (first sentence):

"About the bill as introduced
 On 15 March 2019 an armed person carried out a mass shooting at the Al Noor and Linwood Mosques in Christchurch using legally held semi-automatic firearms. Fifty people were killed and a similar number suffered serious to moderate injuries."

.. I surely don't need to correct that false statement and point-out that the main weapon used was an illegally modified and unlawfully possessed restricted firearm ..

This is an official Parliamentary document that is being used to alter important LAWS ..

Marty K.

Christchurch Massacre Trial Detail:

The NZ HERALD report about the Christchurch "Mosque Massacres" dated 16 March in part states:

"It also emerged last night that a prominent member of the Muslim community fought back against the gunman, firing two shots at them as they sped away. He was heard telling police officers he was firing in "self defence"."

I have no other information or confirmation of this important claim.

Link to this NZ Herald story:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213150

It is possible that this reported armed resistance to the murderer may have been effective in saving innocent lives at the Linwood mosque and all interested parties need to follow the trial evidence for accurate detail regarding this part of the attack.

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Concerned shooters .. and that must be ALL of us - need to hold our deep hurt and grief permanently large in our minds following that scum's awful Christchurch killings 

- BUT we have also to turn-out and join the nasty game that our sometimes venal politicians have started to play - along with the poorly informed ANTI-GUN crowd.

WE are being 'scapegoated' and our gun rights ** attacked.

The politicians have to be seen to do something - to be decisive. - Indeed many of us shooters agree that the existing regulations were faulty in various areas.

The GUN Banners can taste a victory in their long-time simplistic stance that "GUNS KILL .. GUNS ARE EVIL".

We all need now to join and support either or BOTH  COLFO & SSANZ as these spokespeople need our support and funding .. NOW 

We forcefully stand accused of being part of a powerful gun lobby - but money for travel and legal representation will be essential if we can hope to even hold these political 'players' to a draw.

** Our Gun Rights are exactly that .. they are NOT a 'privilege':

.. Article 7 of our British AND New Zealand Bill Of Rights clearly states:

Bill of Rights 1688 (February 13).

" Subjects’ arms. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law:"

- By the passing of the (NZ) Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 - the British Bill of Rights, unmodified, became part of New Zealand law.

____________________________

Marty K.

Young Woman Fires 97 Historic Guns:

Mae fires 97 historic firearms without once flinching - handguns, revolvers, carbines, battle rifles and even full autos .. she may shake a little at times but there's that lovely smile for each firearm from each nation.

- There's even The Pederson Device.

What a great "encyclopedic"  hour and a half C&Rsenal video. Superbly put together 😄.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emUP4SiV74

Go on .. treat yourself,

Marty K.

If you truly are in a hurry - there is a brief condensed version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwu-2RbKFA

NZ Licensed Shooters Are Being 'Scapegoated':

New punitive anti-gun restrictions here are being pushed through into New Zealand Law with scant regard for democracy (or The Law). Very short notice was given of only two days being allowed for written submissions and ONE day only for sixteen invited speakers to address the committee.

When a society is put under stress it's members look for somebody to blame and punish for their problems. - Consider the way that overcrowded rats start fighting and biting at each other as one example of this.

The scapegoat theory of intergroup conflict provides an explanation for the link between hard times and increases in prejudice and violence toward out-groups.

 - In this very emotional time - following the cruel shootings & murders of 50 innocent worshipers in two Christchurch mosques - licensed firearms owners are being regarded as members of an outsider group and held responsible without trial.

Wikipedia says that:

 In the Bible, a scapegoat is an animal that is ritually burdened with the sins of others, and then driven away. The concept first appears in Leviticus, - in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.

- There is also a similar unjust system of the 'Whipping Boy' in slave owning societies .. where there was a tradition of bringing-up aristocratic young boys with a slave companion .. and it not being socially acceptable to punish or strike a member of the noble master classes - his slave was scapegoated for any youthful criminal act.

To correct the young master's behavior, it was custom to subject his young slave to punishment, such as flogging. The master-child would be made to watch his companion-slave undergoing the flogging, thus inflicting the lesson upon him. The physical suffering being seen as too cruel to inflict upon aristocratic children.

Shooters hoping for logic, common sense, or even basic justice are wasting their time - as our shocked and grieving country is in no mood for reason.

Ordinary folk need their SCAPEGOAT to punish for their shock and horror - and we gun owners are being pointed at by the GUN-BANNERS as the guilty ones.

Marty K.

UK Royal Ordnance Depot WEEDON:

This British Military Ordnance Depot was built between 1805-06 as the central small arms depot for the British Army - next to the Grand Junction Canal at Weedon Bec. - It was built in this secretive central UK location in Northampton because it was as far away as you could get from any coastal invasion force.

Eight Weedon Storehouses With Central Canal Cut Entering Through A Portcullis.

It was an important place that operated with it's own canal cut and railway branch line right-up 'till it was closed in 1965 and finally sold-off in 1984.

The initial area was 53 acres but later expanded to 153 acres. The heavy walled magazine buildings were separated by blast mounds and in the day stored 1,000 tons of gunpowder.

Magazines - Small Arms Stores.

Originally the gunpowder was delivered by barge but when the main rail line was built it blocked the canal - resulting in a complete section of the tracks having to be lifted to permit the canal barges entry .. rather problematic on a very busy line that curved sharply on both approaches to the canal.
It is notable that in one 13 month WWII period 1942-43 Weedons Depot issued 3,500,000 weapons.

Water Cooled Machine Guns From America. 
(Vickers-Colts M-1915 ? - Destined For The Home Guard?)

Here is a Link to an excellent history site:

 http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/weedon/index.shtml

Weedons Depot barracks at one time housed 500 men PLUS 121 military prison cells, a hospital, a chapel and a horse stables block.

In 1900 a three story military clothing store was built at Weedons that dressed and 'booted' much of the army personnel from England and Wales throughout The Great War 1914-18.

Today the remaining buildings are being re-purposed for storage and industry, but the main part of the original surrounding land has been developed for housing.

- Here is a link to a very good video-look around at the DEPOT site and buildings .. but the presenter needs to loosen-up a little eh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKs0WAyC9Qg

Marty K.