Firearm BS thread

Ah, yeah, I've got no need for the other stuff, I know it'd end up rolling around in a random parts drawer for an eternity.

I appreciate the offer, PM incoming.

Interested for sure, PM incoming.

 

I also had one of the first gen bodyguards. Worked ok with the stock trigger, but would not function with a Galloway Precision trigger kit, like I used on my Ruger LCP.

 

Sold.

 

It was a Galloway trigger bar kit. Installed by a gunsmith.

 

I was considering the Santiago kit for mine.

 

I went through three different Galloway kits on that gun, and finally gave up and sold it. It was a deep carry backup weapon and between the shitty factory trigger and the light strikes from the Galloway trigger, I gave up.

 

I don’t remember if I posted about it before, but I’m frickin happy with this! My wife had some modifications to my savage bolt done for my bd. Work done by The Polished Knob out of MT. Now if everything will thaw out and dry up so I can do some shooting.

 

That ones mine, too.

 

If yall have of of the Bodyguard parts sitting in a bag on the shelf, I kay be interested in testing mine out.....

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales.

“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez wrote in a 120-page opinion granting the group's motion for a preliminary injunction.

Voters approved toughening California’s already strict firearms laws in 2016, and the restrictions took effect last July.

New York was the first state to require a comprehensive ammunition background check system for each sale, but it never took effect. That left California as the first to the extend firearm background checks to each ammunition sale.

Four other states — Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey — require buyers to undergo background checks to obtain firearms or ammunition licenses that they must show when buying bullets, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Hannah Shearer, the center’s litigation director, called the ruling “a dangerous step in the wrong direction” at a time when gun stores are seeing increased sales to those worried about the effect of coronavirus on society or their safety.

“The law’s red tape and state database errors made it impossible for hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Californians to purchase ammunition for sport or self-defense,” said Chuck Michel, the association’s general counsel. “The court found that the flimsy reasons offered by the government to justify these constitutional infringements were inadequate.”

He expected the state to appeal the ruling. But in the meantime “Californians can sleep a little easier tonight knowing their Constitutional rights were restored and strengthened by this decision,” he said.

Gov. Gavin Newsom championed the law before he became governor, and spokeswoman Vicky Waters said his administration is disappointed by the decision and considering its next steps. "California’s strong gun safety laws help keep our schools and communities safe,” she said.

The state attorney general’s office said only that it is reviewing the decision. It did not immediately say if it will appeal or seek to stay the order, which takes effect immediately at a time when some California gun stores have been ordered shut because of the coronavirus. Among the places where the shops were not deemed essential businesses are Los Angeles and San Jose.

The same judge’s decision last year striking down the state’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines sparked a week-long buying frenzy before he halted sales while the state appeals his ruling. Gun owners similarly rushed to stockpile ammunition before the new restrictions took effect last summer.

Benitez called the ammunition background check law “onerous and convoluted” and “constitutionally defective.”

“Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks,” he wrote. “The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition.”

While it is intended to keep ammunition from criminals, it blocked sales to legitimate, law-abiding buyers about 16% of the time, he wrote. Moreover, he ruled that the state's ban on importing ammunition from outside California violates federal interstate commerce laws.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a court filing earlier this month that the background checks stopped more than 750 people from buying bullets illegally from July 2019 through January 2020, not including those who didn’t even try because they knew they weren’t eligible.

The law requires buyers who already are in the state’s firearm background check database to pay a $1 fee each time they buy ammunition, while others can buy longer-term licenses if they do not have certain criminal convictions or mental health commitments.

 

I have been watching northwoods law.

 

A California judge makes a ruling based on law and the Constitution, that's a story all by itself.

 

Maybe, or maybe extremely long thumbs

 

Looks like the bolt out of the savage 111 light weight now!

 

He's the same judge who created Freedom Week........
Saint Benitez

 

Anyone in here own a Sig Mosquito?

 

A buddy of mine owned the firefly, which I believe is the same gun, different name. He hated it, did not cycle reliably. ended up trading it on a SW victory.

 

I am just glad there is some who honor the pledge they took.....

 

Horrible, jam-o-matic. Buddy quit selling them in his shop because everyone brought them back.