Statement from Remington on HS-Precision

From AR15.com:

To get this thread back on topic - update from Tommy Millner at Remington:

Because its thanksgiving and everyone is off, we have not made contact with HS. We have taken any reference to HS from our web site..

When you first emailed me I honestly did not recall horiuchi's name so you caught me unawares. I also do not read the blogs so the fact there was an issue came as a surpise.

In any event, HS makes a great product and we are a large customer of theirs. Why they would pick a super controversial spokesperson is beyond me. Doing this violates pure business common sense. Early next week we will use whatever persuasive powers at our disposal to get HS to do the right thing..

Do me a favor and tell those on the bolgs that Remington and I are now fully aware of the issue, in full agreement with the outrage, and will do what we can t exert pressure on HS to reverse course.

Thanks

Tommy

[Via Rick R]

The Aim of Mayors

We're having a gathering of eagles, and I didn't know about it.

Mayors Against Guns is coming to Cleveland this afternoon. Had we known in advance, we could have organized a delegation.

Instead, I have to settle for today's Gun Rights Examiner column.

GUNS Magazine: December 1958

"The Rifle in Atomic War."

"Crossfire" letters about the Swiss "Nation of Riflemen."

Guns, ballistics, hunting, shooting and the classic period ads and prices (check out the Solothurn on pg. 45).

The December 1958 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online.

Enjoy.

A Tale of Two Citizens

Meet Mr. 138 and his perfect counterpart, Bearcat357, with his motto "I [club] Libs."

Try as I might, I can't decide which one I'm prouder to share a Republic with.

Maybe if We Ignore it it Will Go Away?

Using November 25 as the earliest starting point I can find, I'm tempted to post a daily reminder...which would make this Day 8...

Checkpoint Gun Check

We spoke the other day about the proposed domestic deployment of 20,000 troops. A question has been posed to me via email about this photo from the MSNBC story:

Notice the green banding on the weapon of the soldier (a woman?) at the left? Now maybe that just has to do with the sling mounts - but I've also seen those types of markings on unloaded weapons - specifically there so one would know they were unloaded.

Maybe someone else would know more on this - but it led me to wonder if she was just out standing there like a scarecrow?

Anyone who can educate us on this, please do so.

We're the Only Ones on an Easy Path to Easy Money Enough

“(Shamah) sought all those privileges as a police office as just an easy path to easy money,” Morrissey said.

Goodness. If we can't trust Windy City "Only Ones," who can we trust to show us the right path?

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We're the Only Ones Displaying Affection Enough

According to court documents, the 14-year veteran of the department threatened to post sexually explicit pictures of the woman and sell them on eBay if she "did not immediately respond to his communications, answer his questions about her contacts with other people or agree to resume sexual relations with him."

Some "Only Ones" really know how to romance a gal, don't they?

Pac-Man Eats Ditka?

“Pacman to Ditka: “From my cold, dead hands!”...

Mr. Ditka’s proposal to strip all professional football players of their God-given right to self-defense is nothing less than communism.”

This one is making the rounds in the gun community and it seems some in our ranks are eating it up.

Understand that "Serious Sports News Network" is a satire site.

The other joke, of course, is that meathead Mike Ditka.

[Via SameNoKami]

This Day in History: December 2

On 02 December 1775, John Mayfield of Browns Creek, a Ninety-Six District militia captain serving under Colonel Thomas Fletchall, was captured along with several other officers at McLaurins Store in the Upper Saluda region. The commander of the Whig forces that captured Mayfield was Colonel Richard Richardson, who, shortly after the capture, wrote a letter to the ad hoc Whig Council or Committee of Public Safety in Charles Town (Charleston).