Rachel & Meghan go to the gun show

[Nitro Express]

Guns are fairly easy to make. At least crude submachine guns are. The toughest part is the barrel. Even the ammunition is fairly simple to make. The tough part is the gun powder. You can't make that without a chemical plant. So if they really wanted to take the guns away, they could just make the gun powder hard to get. You aren't going to make that in Joe's Garage. I remember going to the Browning museum in Utah and they had a lot of John Browing's original prototypes there. They had the original 1911 pistol, the original BAR, some smaller pistols. They were all really rough, no bluing, hand made pieces. You could see the hand file marks all over them. He probably made most the parts for them with simple hand tools. I don't know if he made his own barrels or how he did his heat treating. But the magazines were all hand bent. You just need a spot welder and a bending jib to make those.

But making guns are a lot like making guitars. You can make a couple and one will be the magical one. It's all resonance. When that gun fires it flexes and the muzzle moves. A lot on a gun like an AK and less on an AR. Also how the gun is held and who shoots it effects the accuracy. You can make a gun malfunction by holding it too loose. Browning had a cool device that you put on the muzzle called a BOSS which allowed you to harmonically tune the gun for the round you were making. So like a highly tuned engine the gun and ammunition become a system as well. So a real accurate rifle has to be custom tuned to a particular shooter and the ammunition matched to that rifle. Change one factor and you mess up the system. So like a musical instrument, it's all about tuning and fitting the needs of a particular person.

[Nitro Express]

Odd, since Rachel appears to be as anti-femme as well seeming a bit annoyed of having to look "professional" at a gun show with that tacky blouse instead the usual bowling or NASCAR shirt she normally wear to such an event.

I wonder how much say these media personalities really have in anything including wardrobe. It's basically we will pay you well but say what we want you to say and look how we want you to look. It's more showbiz than anything. Real news died a long time ago when you had no idea what the politics of the reporter was. Real news is supposed to be neutral. Now it's just networks and talk shows that divide people on social issues we never will agree on.

[binnie]

An AK47?

That's just frightening.......

[Guitar Shark]

I for one hope to never see porn of rachel maddow...

Has she ever looked more like a dude that she does in this video? Yikes...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Has she ever looked more like a dude that she does in this video? Yikes...

Who gives a fuck what she looks like ??

I wish we (meaning Americans) had more people as incredibly smart as she is....

[Nitro Express]

An AK47?

That's just frightening.......

What's frightening? AK's are real simple. Just don't take the trigger group out. Getting that clip spring back in is a real bitch. Just dunk it in some solvent and oil it up with some CLP and you are good to go. They are pretty junky looking new so if you scratch the wood you won't cry about it.

If you want to roll your own you can get the goods here.

http://ak-builder.com/index.php

[binnie]

The idea of any weapon that can cause that much destruction frightens me.

I guess its just cultural: outside of a museum, I don't think I've ever seen a gun 'in the flesh'.

[Seshmeister]

The idea of any weapon that can cause that much destruction frightens me.

You should see me with a small fruit knife.

[jacksmar]

The simple answer to the dumbass high capacity magazine question:

Mob of Thieves Swarms Las Vegas Convenience Store

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/14575982/mob-of-thieves-swarms-las-vegas-convenience-store

LAS VEGAS - Caught on camera, a mob of young people bombarded the City Stop convenience store on Sunset Road and Pecos Road and stole $600 in merchandise.

"It became a feeding frenzy," said City Stop owner Jon Athey. "They were in the store for three minutes and 30 seconds… It's a pretty scary thing."

Athey says the crowd darted in and snatched numerous items from the store. "Beer to jerky to candy bars to soda, whatever hit their fancy… potato chips," he said.

[BigBadBrian]

Who gives a fuck what she looks like ??

I wish we (meaning Americans) had more people as incredibly smart as she is....

What you meant to say was: "I wish we (meaning Americans) had more people as incredibly smart as she is with her political viewpoint." Right?

[Va Beach VH Fan]

What you meant to say was: "I wish we (meaning Americans) had more people as incredibly smart as she is with her political viewpoint." Right?

Regardless of your opinion on the content of what she says, you have to admit she's pretty fucking smart....

I don't have any problems with someone from the right discussing an issue, as long it's a valid argument....

[ashstralia]

i like rach. she's cooler than eskimo shit.

[Guitar Shark]

Who gives a fuck what she looks like ??

I wish we (meaning Americans) had more people as incredibly smart as she is....

LOL... I was just responding to FORD's "porn" comment. Relax dude, I agree she's smart

[Nitro Express]

For me it's shot placement and a quick reload. I lean toward revolvers because I always loved a tuned Smith & Wesson trigger job and with Safari speed loaders I can hold my own with the semi-automatics. Plus, a revolver doesn't throw your brass all over the place.

As far as large capacity magazines go they tend to be unreliable especially if you keep stored fully loaded. The spring loses it's power and you can get jams. I would rather have smaller reliable magazines that are a quick reload. If the gun has a magazine safety get rid of it so you can keep one round in the chamber ready to fire while you change magazines.

Another thing is spraying a lot of shots equals a lot of misses. Set some targets up and blaze away, you will find most the shots don't hit anything.

Again it's like guitars. Equipment does matter to a point but most of it depends on the people using it. So all this argument about magazines is just really feel good talk. You can carry a few big ones or more smaller ones. Before they had quick reloads people use to carry multiple pistols. Nothing really has changed than much in 150 years. We will be arguing about this shit until gun powder becomes obsolete and we have something else to worry about.

[Nitro Express]

You should see me with a small fruit knife.

That's more scary to me than an AK. A solid hit with a AK round will probably kill you quickly. You won't even know what happened. Getting sliced up with a little fruit knife would probably mean a really bloody, slow painful death. You need about 5 inches of blade to get to the vitals but you can bleed to death slowly. Jam that little fruit knife down through the collar bone area and then tell the mother fucker to put a tourniquet of that. They can't. They will just bleed and freak until they are out of juice. A fruit knife is scary as shit.