New 2A-oriented podcast: Liberal's Gun Corner

[rlbellco72]

Cowboy T, wondered where you had got to! Welcome back.

[Monkey]

Interesting timing for the bump - As I was crawling into work this morning, I was wondering if there were any non-conservative 2A supporters on VGOF.

Looking forward to listening.

ATB,
Monkey

[DryBones]

Listening also. You can only listen to www.mikeomearashow.com for an hour a day so I need some filler.

[wanders]

You go! I'm not a liberal, but you go and convert a few.

[CowboyT]

Episode "Lucky 13" is now up.

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/03/17 ... rm-part-1/

This is a two-parter. We talk about "Choosing Your First Firearm". Why? There are so many new shooters that I'm seeing, and I keep hearing this is a nation-wide occurrence. Many of these new shooters are Liberals. Of those, a lot, I'm finding, are college-age and totally bewildered about what to choose.

Ergo, I thought perhaps a rangemaster's point of view might be useful.

This, part 1, discussses the basic handgun types and some recommendations, based on my observations over the last few years. Part 2, coming later, will discuss the long guns as an option.

[CowboyT]

Episodes 14, Part II, is now up.

For convenience, here is the link to both parts.

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/03/17 ... rm-part-1/
http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/03/31 ... rm-part-2/

This is a two-parter. We talk about "Choosing Your First Firearm". Why? There are so many new shooters that I'm seeing, and I keep hearing this is a nation-wide occurrence. Many of these new shooters are Liberals. Of those, a lot, I'm finding, are college-age and totally bewildered about what to choose.

Ergo, I thought perhaps a rangemaster's point of view might be useful.

Part 1 discussses the basic handgun types and some recommendations, based on my observations over the last few years. Part 2 does the same thing for the long guns.

Now, some of you live out in the country and/or have been shooting for a long time. You folks could, and probably do, shoot a gnat's front right leg off at 200 yards, while leaving the other five legs there (the second shot finishes off the pesky gnat, naturally). So please, remember, this is about newbies in the cities and suburbs. We've got to help them along and get them started, too.

[CowboyT]

Episode 15 is up. Title: Leverguns Chambered for Revolver Cartridges – Why They’re Good Tools

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/04/14 ... ood-tools/

Leverguns, leverguns…well, sometimes we just gotta talk leverguns, right?

Well, the Cast Boolits forum sure thinks so, because that’s one of their quotes. And we’re going to do just that.

Seems some of you have noted just how much fun I’ve been having with the .44 Magnum lever-action rifle recently, and you asked for an episode about it. To that end, here it is. Our specific focus is going to be on what I’ve found to be the benefits, and the compromises that come with it. Depending on where you are, you may find a levergun in .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .44-40, or .45 Colt to be useful for your situation or not.

I suggest that if you’re in the thick woods and taking shots at an absolute maximum distance of 150 yards, a levergun chambered for a revolver cartridge becomes a very useful tool. They also have good home-defense characteristics. It turns out that the Magnum handgun cartridges take on entirely new levels of power when shot out of a rifle-length barrel, either nipping at the heels of the classic .30-30 or even equaling it.

Saddle up, pardners, for a journey into the past, but with today’s modern twist! (pun intended)

[CowboyT]

Episode 16 is up.

Topic: "The Racist Roots of Gun Control, Part 1".

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/06/09 ... ol-part-1/

Five years ago this month, I finished waking up to the importance of the right to keep and bear arms--our Second Amendment-guaranteed rights. At that point, I had a decision to make--change my views on the RKBA, or remain inconsistent.

I chose to change my views.

Since then, I've been researching the origins of these so-called, "gun control" laws. And my research has brought up some pretty harsh results. The racist roots of gun restriction--its proper name--has its origins in the slave-era American South, all the way up through Jim Crow and "Massive Resistance". Yes, that includes Virginia, too. I'm referring to the so-called, "Black Codes."

How ironic, then, it is that our nation's first Black American President and Attorney General would be so on-board with those very same Gun Restrictions! I had no idea that the antis were that much in bed with Bull Connor, Jefferson Davis, David Duke, and their ilk. And yet White Southerners--historically the ones who wanted to disarm anybody not White--even within my lifetime--today are the ones defending the RKBA for everybody! My, how times have changed....

Tell me folks, who needs a defensive firearm more--Sharon "I Got A Shotgun" Stone, or that Black or Latina woman living in a tough neighborhood? Who needs it more?

- T

[lizjimbo]

A liberal is someone that wants what they want when they want it. No thought is required to be liberal...just want!

[CowboyT]

A liberal is someone that wants what they want when they want it. No thought is required to be liberal...just want!

That's funny...that's been my experience of most Conservatives I've met, too! Perhaps it's just generally a human-nature characteristic; we as a species tend to want what we want when we want it, without a lot of thought in many cases.

[CowboyT]

Episode 17 is up.

Topic: "The Racist Roots of Gun Control, Part 2".

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/06/23 ... ol-part-2/

This is Part 2 of this two-part series. Last time, we talked about the true origin of today’s proposed gun bans. Ironically, it’s being done by the very people who by rights should be totally *against* gun bans.

This time, we talk about how the effects of that gun-ban mentality still affects us today. The antis don’t want you to know this side of the story. It’s not in their agenda.

So, I will tell you. And I’m going to tell you from a Liberal’s perspective. That’s what you’re going to hear in this episode–today’s ongoing ramifications of gun bans.

Folks, the Second Amendment has nothing to do with “hunting” or “sport”. Rather, it has everything to do with defense against tyranny. And it always has.

[CowboyT]

Episode 18 is now up.

Topic: Schools Now Treating Children Like Terrorists and Sex Offenders?

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/07/19 ... offenders/

When I was a little boy, which wasn’t all that long ago, we’d run around the playground with our fingers in the universal “kid” sign for a gun and go, POW! POW! BANG! BANG! That was what you did when you played Cops ‘N’ Robbers, or Army vs. Aliens, or similar stuff. We’d even do it in the lunch room (POW! BANG!). No harm ever came of this.

However, that was before the era of so-called, “Zero Tolerance” policies that a lot of schools have nowadays.

I call them, "Zero INTELLIGENCE" policies. And we're going to show you just what they're doing to our kids. Apparently the antis in our schools are *SO* desperate to push their anti-freedom agenda that...they're going after our kids. They're even referring to them as--and I quote--"terroristic".

Who's the "terrorist" here, really...the kid...or the school administrator doing this to the kid?

[CowboyT]

Episode 19 is now up. Topic: A Liberal's Take on "Stand Your Ground" and the Martin/Zimmerman case.

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/08/09 ... rman-case/

At first, I wasn't sure if I should do an episode on this. Might be a little incendiary, even by my standards.

Well, can't be afraid of controversy. I'm a Liberal, it's a Gun Corner, so we've *got* to address it. And so we shall. We do two things here:

1.) Dissect a little speech that Attorney General Eric "Fast 'N' Furious" Holder recently gave to the NAACP.

2.) Discuss the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman shooting case in Sanford, Florida.

As you might imagine, I have a somewhat different view of the Martin/Zimmerman shooting tragedy than I'm sure a lot of folks here do. Conservatives, be aware of this. And Liberals, be aware that I do go after Mr. "Fast 'N' Furious" Holder.

This is a heavy-duty episode all around.

[Taggure]

Hey Cowboy T long time no hear from and I hope you are doing well.

Thanks for all the posting and there are several that I will enjoy listening to on the way to work.

[CowboyT]

We've reached Episode 20.

Topic: Just How Long–Or Short–Is the Path to a Police State?

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/08/18 ... ice-state/

Surveillance on Americans...by our Government...all your phone calls, all your Internet activity...all of it being watched by some Government official. Comfy thought, ain't it?

We're going to talk about the recent revelations about Government spying on Us, The People, and we're even going to relate it to those who exercise their Second Amendment rights.

We're also going to address some of the feedback I've gotten about the two-part series, "The Racist Roots of Gun Control". Some folks seem to think I was "attacking White people". Nope, but it deserves to be addressed just the same, so we will. Those of you who've read, "Why We Need to Welcome Liberals to the Cause of the Second Amendment, And the Consequences If We Don't: A Liberal's Perspective", I refer to some things in there.

[CowboyT]

Hey Cowboy T long time no hear from and I hope you are doing well.

Thanks for all the posting and there are several that I will enjoy listening to on the way to work.

Thanks, and hopefully you do find them interesting. So far, things are going pretty well, busy, but well.

[CowboyT]

UPDATE: I have just learned that the speaker at the end, the survivor of Tiananmen, is Mr. Yang Li. Mr. Li, thank you for your testimony.

He was interviewed by Dick Gordon (American Public Medium), and that interview was published on The Story on 19 February 2013. The interview is about 50 minutes and is worth your time.

The link is here.

http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-02/gun-freedom

[CowboyT]

Episode 21 posted on 10 Sep 2013.

Title: Reader feedback, Adventures in Reloading, and the Defense of Liberty

http://liberalsguncorner.com/2013/09/10 ... f-liberty/

It's been just about a year now since we started the Liberal's Gun Corner. In that time, we've had some feedback, and we'll share some of that with you. That's what we need to keep this relevant.

As some of you know, I'm also a reloader. Did my first major run of .45 Auto (ACP). I thought it was going to be harder than the rimmed revolver cartridges I usuallly reload. Boy, was I wrong, and boy, is it fun doing this round!

Then, we get to our colleges and universities, specifically their anti-Second Amendment attitudes that encourage criminals to terrorize students. The recent robberies at VCU and ODU, mentioned in several VCDL VA-ALERT's, should drive that home for us all.

Finally, we hear from a professor who knows just how fatal "Victim Disarmament", or "VD", can be. He tells us about his family's escape from Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Enjoy!

[gunderwood]

@CowboyT

Be very careful with steel!

The reason steel is highly advised against reloading is because it is not ductile enough and will NOT show signs of work hardening like brass. Basically, brass is ductile and will deform (mostly) elastically, while the mild steel is not and will suffer mostly plastic deformation (mostly). It won't take many firings of a mild steel case before it weakens enough that it suffers a catastrophic brittle fracture. Brass will also eventually suffer from work hardening and a lowering of its tensile strength since the "purely" elastic deformation ends at approx. 30kpsi and max yield is approx. 80kpsi (ever wonder why cartridges top out at ~60-65kpsi...now you know). However, brass shows its plastic deformation and those are the signs we use when deciding to toss the brass. I.e. brass suffers a ductile fracture.

Elastic deformation = "flexing/stretching" and for the most part non-damaging at that
Plastic deformation = atomic bonds being broken and it's permanent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformatio ... neering%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength

http://www.chapelsteel.com/mpa-psi.html
Brass yield ~ 200mpa = 29kpsi
Brass ultimate ~ 550mpa = 80kpsi

Mild Steel yield ~ 248 = 36kpsi
Mild Steel ultimate ~ 841mpa = 122kpsi

I.e. steel starts out stronger, but since it isn't ductile, it experiences excessive plastic deformation which significantly weakens it, but it does NOT show the typical signs that we are use to seeing with brass. When the much reduced ultimate strength is reached, it will suddenly let go and kaboom. Fortunately you've been playing around with .45 which is a low pressure cartridge (not to mention straight walled so the resizing stress, which causes yet more plastic deformation, is much lower) so it will take many more reloads before it lets go. Again, it will NOT show traditional signs of case fatigue until it's too late.

I'll keep my anonymity.

[CowboyT]

Thanks for the heads-up, gunderwood. I'm always very careful when reloading and firing, but there's no such thing as "too much caution" with this stuff.

The cases are now going in for their fourth firing. So far, so good. Will report back what I ultimately find.