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What, No Prices??

Via Kim I find that the Violence Policy Center has provided parents and grandparents a very useful chart of “youth” firearms for our kids and grandkids. How nice! But they left off the prices! How can you be a good shopper if you don’t know what they cost? Anyway, if you don’t want to sully yourself by actually visiting the VPC, I’ve reproduced the chart here.

Manufacturer	Model	Caliber	Weight	Barrel Length	Capacity
Anschutz	1451 Sporter Target	22	6.3 lbs.	22″	10 shots
.	1451 Beavertail	22	6.6 lbs.	22″	5 shots
Armscor	Model 12Y	22	4 lbs.	18.38″	single shot
.	Model 14Y	22	5 lbs.	18.38″	6 shots
Browning	Micro Hunter	22, 223, 7mm, 260,308, 243	6.25 lbs.	20″	5 shots
.	Buck Mark Sporter	22	4.13 lbs.	18″	10+1 shots
Connecticut ValleyArms	Youth Hunter	50	5 lbs.	24″	muzzleloader
CZ	Scout Youth Rifle	22	4 lbs.	16.2″	10 shots
Charles Daly	Field True Youth	22	3.5 lbs.	16.25″	single shot
.	Field YouthRepeater	22	4.75 lbs.	17.5″	6 shots
Henry RepeatingArms Company	Henry Lever Youth Model 22	22	4.5 lbs.	.	.
.	Golden Boy	22	9.75 lbs.	20″	16 shots
.	Mini Bolt 22	22	3.25 lbs.	16.25″	single shot
Kimber	Classic	22	6.5 lbs.	22″	5 shots
Marlin	Model 15YN	22	4.25 lbs.	16.25″	single shot
New England Firearms	Superlight Handi-Rifle Youth	22, 223, 243	5.3 lbs.	20″	.
.	Handi-Rifle Youth	223, 243	7 lbs.	22″	.
.	Sportster Youth	22	5.3 lbs.	20″	.
Remington Arms	Model 700 ADLSynthetic Youth	243, 308	6.75 lbs.	20″	4 shots
.	Model 700 ML Youth	50	7.25 lbs.	21″	.
Rogue Rifle Co.	Chipmunk	22	2.5 lbs.	16″	.
Savage Arms	Model 10GY, 110GY	223, 243, 308, 270	6.2 lbs.	22″	4 shots
.	Model Mark I-GY	22	5 lbs.	19″	single shot

There’s a table for youth shotguns, too, but I’m not much of a smoothbore shooter. My grandkids are four and five. Maybe in a couple of years…

UPDATED: By demand, I’ve added hotlinks to manufacturers and to specific firearms where I could find them. This chart is obviously out of date, as Savage has many more Youth models, for example, and I couldn’t find any mention of some models such as the CVA Youth Hunter.

Go! Explore. Put your kids on your lap and go shopping!

Merry Christmas! And remember: Gun safety starts when you’re young!

UPDATE II: Oh, right. I do all the hard work, but it’s KIM that Glenn Reynolds instalanches. (Like he needs more hits.) 😉

How the HELL did I Miss This?

Varifrank wrote a piece on October 11 very much in the same vein of my “That Sumbitch Ain’t Been BORN!” An explanation of what it is that Americans believe. It’s long, but it’s worth it if you missed it too.

The Secret Weapon

Excerpts:

Americans don’t believe that there is a class of people who should lead them. Americans infact tend to loathe and despise any person who feels that they “Deserve to be in charge!”. We dont see a “lord and master” or messiah in the office of President, we see a man, someone who’s just like us, even when nothing could be further from the truth, thats what we like to see.

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I then tell them the truth that the dont want to hear:

“Americans share two universal traits. First, all Americans are exiles of some sort, we are all run out, chased out, thrown out, burned out or sold out of all the other countries in the world. No American is in America because things were working well for them in the places they were from. Talk to an American long enough, and you’ll always find the scalawag who escaped from the noose back in county cork, or the ancestor of the kid who was on the run from conscription in Bismarcks Germany and never saw his family again, you’ll find people who are descended from people who were burned from their homes in during a progrom in Minsk, or survivors of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. For most of us, America wasnt our first choice as much as it was our last chance.

Second, Americans share one thing in common with each other that no other person in the world can understand. While the rest of the world goes to bed at night saying “Well if things get really bad, I can always go to the States…” As Americans, we know that we have nowhere else to go. If we dont make it here, there is no where else we can go, and few places that will accept us even if we wanted to go. If America were to fall, we all know that we would not be welcome anywhere else. That, is why we fight so hard, that is why we still hold onto our patriotism and faith whem most of the world has thrown theirs away.

Damned straight.

Satire mode=ON!

A poster over at AR15.com (who wishes to remain anonymous) contributed the following:

I finally got my phone call from Karl Rove’s Soldiers of Christ brigade today. Now that President Bush has been reelected, Operation Red America is now being implemented.

I’m supposed to report for duty at one of my neighborhood churches. We will be issued black battle dress trousers and brown shirts. We were also issued truncheons, jackboots, and gas masks that will filter out hemp and crack fumes. Apparently my assignment will be “camp guard.” In the interests of cost cutting, we were asked to supply our own jumper cables and dog leashes.

We will be trained in suppression and apprehension techniques. The progressives will be rounded up slowly at first, but the pace is scheduled to pick up around Christmas. By next year, all of America’s cultural and intellectual leftist elite will be imprisoned in reeducation camps.

We have waited so long to purge these Great States of America of the liberal disease, and the train is finally rolling.

If any of you wish to join the effort, please IM me and I will send contact info. Hint: non-Christians, non-Whites, and women need not apply.

Oh, BTW, please don’t repeat this to anyone, especially not the Leftists. God forbid they find out.

One of the respondents in the thread commented:

You too? My job is to set up Patchouli oil honeypots in select areas….

Another said:

LOL if I sent that to my mom she would believe it… Even though I haven’t been to church in two decades, despise authority and would much rather shoot at JBTs of the left or right flavor than join them.

Finally, my favorite reply:

What is interesting to think about is how revolting this is to every freedom-loving American. If you tried to explain that to one of the liberal dirtbags, they’d never believe you. They really think that we think like that!

STILL So Wrong About So Much

Back in September of last year I did a post about (and I use the term loosely) cartoonist Scott Bateman, entitled “Never Have So Many Been So Wrong About So Much for So LONG”. Mr. Bateman is apparently the stereotypical Leftist moonbat, and his latest piece concerning the election illustrates that he’s still “so wrong about so much.”

Right. This election was entirely about the Religious Redneck Right’s rejection of the rights of them homersexshuls! (Just the men, though. Two women holdin’ hands or neckin’ makes us rednecks feel funny in the pants!)

Give. Me. A. Break.

We voted for Bush because the unemployment rate is lower than it was when Clinton ran for reelection.

We voted for Bush because we’re bright enough to understand that “Public Health Care” would be as inviting as “Public Toilets,” and probably about as sanitary. (Canada is right next door, you know.)

We voted for Bush because we know there won’t be a draft under him, but under Kerry there’d be a mass exodus from the all-volunteer military, and he’d have been forced to resume the draft to meet the force levels he promised.

We voted for Bush because, as of right now, nobody can name a single civil liberty we’ve lost under him, regardless of how many chicken-littles have decried massive loss of same.

We voted for Bush because Kerry would have done his damnedest to raise our taxes.

We voted for Bush because he won’t apologize to the world for doing what he believed was right, and damn the consequences.

We voted for Bush because he’ll talk to the UN, but he won’t grovel before it, nor kowtow to it.

We voted for Bush because he’ll work with our allies, not insult them. He saves his snubs for our opponents. And he brown-noses no one.

And we voted for Bush because he’s willing to prosecute the war on the Jihadists, and Kerry – quite simply – was not. It’s a war, not a law-enforcement effort.

Suck on your latte and consider THAT, Mr. Bateman.

GARAND!

I’m finally getting an M1 Garand. For those who are not familiar, the M1 was the workhorse rifle of the U.S. military during WWII. It’s a semi-automatic gas operated 8-shot .30-06 caliber rifle that is quite large and heavy, but reliable as a brick. It looks like this:

I’m getting mine through the Civilian Marksmanship Program by virtue of belonging to an affiliated club, the Tucson Rifle Club, and having shot in a 55-round qualifying match. I’m getting a “rack grade” model, made by Springfield Armory, that spent some time in the hands of the Danish Army before returning to the U.S. The “rack grade” rifle won’t be in any great condition, but it should be a halfway decent shooter. My order will go out today, after I find a notary to sign and stamp it, and in 45 to 90 days, my rifle should show up at my place of work.

Then I get to clean off all the cosmoline!

UPDATE: Order is in the mail.

NewsFlash! Riots Break Out!

No, really!

In China, Liberia, South Africa, and they’re expected in Israel.

Of course most of them occurred last week. And not one of them has anything to do with our election.

However, comedian Margaret Cho is advocating Democrats being bitchy. At least, I think that’s what she meant.

I’m greatly relieved. Apparently the Moonbat Wing of the Democrat Party is as small as I’d hoped it was.

Don’t Relax Now



I posted this earlier today over at AR15.com, and was politely ignored:

Please remind yourselves that the decision America just made was between Statists and Statists-lite. Or, as I prefer to regard it: between castration and a wedgie.

The Federal Government is still not our friend, regardless of who’s sitting in the White House or holds the majority in Congress.

Try to remember that.

We need to be ever-vigilant not only against the Leftist who know what’s best for us and want to make sure we get it – good and hard – but also against the Rightists who want the same.

The danger to our rights and liberty is reduced, not eliminated.

Yesterday’s election was a bitch-slap to the Moonbat Left, not a Mandate for the Wingnut Right. Let’s try to make sure that our elected representatives remember that.

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