Councillor: Only Fudd Can Save Us Now

A Richmond city councillor is suggesting a call to arms may be the only option left that could curb the city's troublesome rabbit population.

What--you don't want to take the "humane" approach and catch, spay/neuter and adopt them--with taxes plundered under threat of armed force?

Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.

We're the Only Ones Registering Enough

A NORTH Wales Police worker has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences following a major inquiry into gun crime in the region...His work is thought to involve keeping a firearms register...He is now the subject of a criminal investigation by officers, which forms part of a wider probe into firearms offences across North Wales.

I repeat: I do NOT purposely go our looking for additions to "The Only Ones" files. I merely look for stories related to guns.

These just fall in my lap. And sometimes I ignore them because I don't want the site totally dominated by this theme--and today, I did not blog on another story where an officer is fighting for his life out of consideration for a family going through hell right now.

We're the Only Ones Improper Enough

No action had been taken, and none pledged, as of yesterday against a Metro parks officer whose shooting of a man last year in Centennial Park was ruled improper.

Of course not. He's one of "The Only Ones."

Bloodthirsty Gun Store Profiteers Guilty of Murdering Innocents

At least that's what "authorized journalist" John Duncanson and his fellow hysterical propagandists at the Toronto Star would apparently have us believe...

The Mare's Leg Loophole

I just had time to read this month's issue of GUNS Magazine, and found an interesting article by Senior Field Editor John Taffin on the JB Custom Mare's Leg. Those of you at least as old as me will remember TV's Wanted: Dead or Alive, where Steve McQueen portrayed Josh Randall, a bounty hunter who carried one of the more memorable firearms of western fiction, the "Mare's Leg."

Starting with a Model 1892 Winchester, the gunsmith cut the barrel back to 12", removed most of the buttstock and re-shaped the lever to a larger more triangular affair. While he was at it he also increased the power significantly by converting the .44-40 to the larger and longer .45-70.

Every month I link to a cool and unique feature on the GUNS website, the issue of their magazine from 50 years earlier. It invariably invokes nostalgia for a simpler time, particularly an era when "gun control" laws were far less onerous and pervasive. Taffin's article reminds us of a stark reality of the time:

The Mare's Leg...was highly illegal by federal standards and required special agents on the set while being used.

So how does JB Custom produce a modern equivalent?

While it is illegal to turn a rifle into a handgun as done by Randall it is not illegal to produce such a firearm as a handgun original.

Yeah, I guess. At least until some evil traitor starts screaming "Loophole!"

We're the Only Ones Automatic Enough

"Some dealers would have loved to have it," Chisholm said. "But the ATF told me I basically had two options: I could destroy it or I could give it to a museum."

But he still managed to hold onto it for years.

That's because he's one of "The Only Ones".

[Thanks to HZ]