Today’s snapshots

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Oleg Volk

Not quite as cold out today, so CZ527 came out to play. With iron sights, it’s a fast and handy brush carbine. With an optic, it’s set trigger allows considerable precision.

Not warm enough to stay out long though…

…so back to Neverland with locked and loaded Peter Pan. Sig M1911 Scorpion with X5L.

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2 Responses to Today’s snapshots

  1. LarryArnold says:
    January 11, 2014 at 10:15 am

    Thought of all your wonderful “old gun” photos, and your ladies, when I read this:

    William J. Vizzard, professor of criminal justice at California State University in Sacramento, who has long studied the firearms industry, commented that the gun market has not only expanded dramatically over the past 50 years, its very nature has drastically changed.
    “Up until about the 1980s, gun-buyers were primarily hunters, competitive shooters and sportsmen,” he said in an interview. “Prior to that period, guns were viewed as a utilitarian product, similar to hammers and saws. But now, guns have essentially become like ‘toys’ for adult men, similar to motorcycles, something most of them don’t really even need.”
    Prior to the 1980s, there was no market for such items as paramilitary rifles of semi-automatic weapons among civilian consumers, he added.

    Toward the bottom of http://www.ibtimes.com/southern-exposure-gun-sales-surge-northeast-manufacturers-fleeing-dixie-1533842

  2. Paul Koning says:
    January 11, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    I guess calling it a “toy” is a good phrase to use if you want to deny the existence of the second amendment. Especially if you completely omit any reference of the second amendment reasons for owning firearms either before or after 1980.
    As for “no market for semi-auto weapons”, obviously the guy is utterly ignorant, given that almost every handgun is semi auto. Never mind the fact that there are plenty of semi auto long guns aimed at the civilian market, dating to long before 1980.

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