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Ha, Layne started writing about this WTOP column at the same time and posted first, but he didn’t even quote the foreboding last paragraph in full! This columnist, Mark Segraves, has done us the very kind favor of scaring us shitless: “As readers of this column will recall, I purchased a handgun the very first day the District began accepting applications for registering handguns. Because the law does not permit individuals from transporting unregistered handguns across state lines, my 38 Smith & Wesson sits in the back room of the gun store in Maryland where I bought it. Waiting for the day it can be legally shipped into the District. That day is getting closer.” Goo! Making fun of him is probably not the smartest thing to do, but martyrdom never comes easy. [WTOP]
Aww, sounds like someone’s gonna sleep soundly tonight, gently cuddling their cold, steel friend against their cheek and whispering sweet nothings to it
And America wonders why the rest of the world makes fun of it.
Sabre_Justice: Because we can’t shoot them from all the way over here?
Sabre_Justice: Though seldom to our faces, for obvious reasons.
Really, who the hell cares if this radio guy has bought a gun or not? Who cares? When are these snotty reporters going to learn to keep their own personal crap out of reporting. Just report the news–fairly, objectively, accurately and unbiased, and without any personal asides. Why do reporters think that anyone gives a damn about their personal lives in their reporting? Here’s a hint: No one gives a damn. In future: keep your personal crap personal, and just report the news!
mattbolt: R we still talking about guns?
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!
thefrontpage: Amen! Makes me want to pull out my Ruger 9mm and put a cap in his ass!
…Because the law does not permit individuals from transporting unregistered handguns across state lines,…
But the District is not technically a State, so what’s the problem? If someone stops you - remember- you have a gun!
Wait, you guys HAVE TO REGISTER YOUR GNS?! Here in the Home of the WALNUTS! the only signature you need for a gun is on the credit card slip or check.
Will somebody please bring up The Hillary Show being planned for the DNC so we can seriously vent some spleen?
ok. is goo! the new wow?
and if not, can it? or then some by squeee.
see?
LittlePig: 5 AND 1/2 YEARS?! and it could have been alot less if the guy had some common sense, or didn’t meet a me-luv-u-long-time in-terror-gator in there
so what’s the big deal about taking a gun across state lines? has homeland security starting putting in border checks between states? Do they have the ability to mentally read where the gun is from. Hey, if you gotta have a gun, why not use it and use it often. Like, what’s the point of buying a hammer if you never nail anything?
Two subjects not on my daily radar, for some unAmerican reason: guns and state lines.
If Mark Segraves is going to tell stories about himself, then he could at least learn a thing or two about Gonzo journalism. And a true Gonzo journalist doesn’t bat an eye at transporting a concealed weapon or a truckload of drugs over state lines.
Its gonna be great when we can all finally shoot the people we don’t like!
Oh wait.
:::A-hem:::
As one of the Charter Members of the Wonkette Associated Shotgun & Pistol Shooters (hereinafter “WASPS”)allow me to make one comment on the original article:
.38 cal. S&W = “Girl’s Gun.”
Even if you load it with Corbam, Plus-Ps, Glaser Safety Slugs, or your classic reversed wadcutter made from tire weight lead.
If you people have any questions, I’ll be out on Lane 13.
Be sure to wear your “Eyes & Ears.”
Neilist: Yeah, no doubt. Why, barely a week goes by that I don’t feel a little sting on my belly and think “WTF, was that a bee?” and then I see the .38 slug lying next to my foot and look up just in time to catch a glimpse of some beeyotch in a sun dress giggling and ducking into some tampon emporium or such.
NoWireHangers: Neilist: See, this is somebody who’s never seen nobody get shot. I used to cover the cops for a newspaper, and you know what people get killed by, mostly? .22s and .25s, that’s what, because they’re light and cheap enough that shootin’-type people actually have them in their pockets when they feel The Urge (Al Scaduto, RIP). Poke a lil’ hole in somebody’s liver and lights, and boom, down they go. A .38 Special comparatively is elephant ammo.
…Schuster is hammering PUMA on MSNBC for anyone who cares.
Translation: Dear criminals, I’m am unarmed.
AngryBlakGuy: That sounds kinda dirty. Didn’t he learn his lesson with the Chelsea pimp thing?
Might I point out that posting this article on the very same day you post an ad recruiting interns for Wonkette in D.C., well, it might not have been the best idea ever?
This might be a good time to note that there’s a gun shop a few blocks down from me called “Christian Soldier.” It’s got the Jesus fish on the store window, ‘n everything. Pretty cool, eh? I bet Baby Jesus would be proud.
Serolf Divad: Time to play “Guess the state”!
I got Texas.
In the interim between legalization and availability of stock, anxious shooters must resort to an improvised weapon like the legendary Zip Gun.
Lazy Media: The .22 cal. has killed more people than any other round. But it’s not the best thing for a Saturday Night Special semi-auto — e.g., a Beretta Jetfire or Baby Browning -because the rim of the cartridge has no “notch” and doesn’t extract as reliably as a semi-rimmed cartridge.
Also, because it is a rimfire cartridge, you get misfires from “sloppy” firing pins, etc.
Between the extraction problems and the misfires, the next thing you know, some 235 lb. transvestite hooker is beating you to death with your jammed Pocket Rocket.
In contrast, the .25 cal. cartridge is a standard semi-rimmed center fire pistol cartridge. So you have fewer extraction/feed problems, and the ignition is more reliable. But it’s a pretty weak round — most over-the-counter is around 60 ft. lbs. of energy. Your average 235 lb. transvestite hooker generates about that much force in the first 5 seconds of blowing the Senior Senator from the Great State of Idaho in a airport men’s room.
A .380 cal. is about as low as you should go, particularly for concealed carry. But why not a .40 cal. S&W? The Glock 27 is the same size as a .38 cal. S&W Airweight (although heavier). The over-the-counter .40 cal. loads generate around 550 ft. lbs.
Which will stop a charging 235 lb. transvestite hooker in mid-blowjob, particularly if you do a Mozambique Drill — two into the chest, one into the head.
I hope this information is of use to you East Coast Whimps. Remember, we WASPS are here to help!
Mark Segraves must be preemptively invaded before he acquires his weapon of mass destruction.
Neilist, although I am an actual East Coast girl, my .38 is my dad’s old service revolver.
I just wanted to give out props for the image from that movie. That was the best scene ever in such a forgettable movie. Totally, because I forgot the name of it, but I totally remember dude crossing off Sandler’s name from the “To Kill” list after he gets a belated apology phone call.
Advn2rgirl: No offense, Advn, but it’s still a “Girl’s Gun,” at least nowadays.
(Actually, it became a Girl’s Gun about the time of the Phillipine Insurrection, when the Army realized that the .38 cal. would not stop a hopped-up, machette-slicing Moro tribesman.
Those folks were harder to stop than a Florida Senator scenting a 14 year old Congressional Page in heat.)
On this topic I noticed all the Ron Paul Revolution signs on my walk to work kicked over, trampled upon, just like our glorious Constitution.