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Arizona is well on its way to passing legislation to expand the right of citizens to carry concealed without requiring a permit. It took a couple of hours for the news to sink in, but then I started to think that this likely bodes a new trend towards a more rational approach to carry laws.  Next, I'd like to see more permissive open carry laws in other states.

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Via SubGuns, I was disappointed to read about this shortcoming in the Kriss Super V design and operation.

I bought one of these guns recently in the SBR configuration.
It does reduce muzzle rise though mine is semiauto.

Had problems with extracting and unfired round and failure to feed.
Sent it back to the factory and was told they fixed the feeding issue but the gun was not designed to extract an unfired round without removing the magazine. It will occasionally extract the unfired round but not reliably.

I kid you not.

Spoke with the chief engineer and gunsmith.
When I asked why every other modern firearm does this and theirs doesn't the response was that it is a revolutionary design and then a long pause....
When pressed the gunsmith said that they have spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of man hours trying to remedy this issue but the gun is what it is.

Basically when you look at the bolt face there is no support of the case rim at the lower portion, only at the top 1/2. The extractor is at the 10 o'clock position and relies on the next round in the magazine to hold upward pressure on the round as there is nothing on the opposite side of the extractor to push against. It would take a redesign of the bolt to fix this.

I actually like the way the gun looks and shoots but to me this a liability if the gun was ever to be used for home defense or even for competition shooting.

Just thought the issue with extraction is important to know before the gun is purchased.

While I was probably never going to buy one, it seemed like an innovative approach and I wanted to see them do well.  I expect they'll get it resolved.

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Guns and Hummers go together like pizza and beer.  And TV.  And another hummer.  Via James Taranto.

"Buy Hummer, Get Free Shotgun"--headline, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16

I need to speak with them about the incredible attention-getting potential of offering a .50 BMG in Massachusetts.

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Via Sharp as a Marble, Robb shares his thoughts and a great blog post from Counting Cats:

I just love that, “Apart from the thermonuclear warheads” (note the plural - it could carry up to 26!). They seriously considered building something the size of a locamotive powered by a nuclear ramjet leaving a trail of sonic and radioactive devestation in it’s wake and it lobbed thermonukes.

I was born way too early and in the wrong country because that’s utterly brilliantly mad. 1950s America with Elvis on the radio and me with my physics degrees and taste for the subtle mathematics of blowing the fuck out of stuff* working on a nuclear ramjet (wow!!!) and cars with fins and wasp-waisted ladies and wasp-waisted fighter jets (NACA Area Rule) would suit me about right.

Yet, it’s 2010 and I still don’t have my sodding jetpack and they’re thinking of powering the country with fucking windmills!

I wannabe George Jetson and I’m going to end-up as Barney Rubble.

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I'm a sucka' for Remington marketing.  I need one.

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I got this great video from my father in-law, this morning, demonstrating the primary tactical application of the .50 BMG.  Bill M. had been talking about it earlier, so I figured the universe wanted me to share it.  Of course, they should be using the Tactilite to save taxpayers a few thousand dollars per rifle.

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I'm sure my readers will be surprised to learn that I'm neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar, so I'll leave the McDonald analysis to the other guys:

Says Uncle

Volokh (you'll have to scroll)

From the tenor of things, I'd suspect that anything short of an outright ban will be deemed "reasonable regulation" by federal courts.  While I don't know anything about this matter, I agreed with this opinion piece from the Wall St. Journal.

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