I just put up a post long in the works, on the mighty Steyr Scout rifle. This is my go-to long gun, a real joy to carry and to shoot. I welcome your comments and questions.
The Scout rifle was of course the brainchild of the late, great LtCol Jeff Cooper of Gunsite. One of Cooper’s frequent targets (in the figurative sense) was the lunacy of San Francisco’s politics. I note with dismay but no surprise that the march of idiocy continues in San Francisco, with another ridiculous city gun buy. “The idea is to make the streets seem a little safer when the city’s murder rate has risen in recent years — San Francisco has had at least 89 homicides so far this year.” Except that the kind of people who’ll turn their guns in for paltry cash aren’t the ones out causing the crime problem.
At least San Franciscan doesn’t have his head up his ass, however.
But not everyone participating in the gun program Saturday believed it was helpful.
Peter Buxtun, a 70-year-old gun advocate, turned in two pistols Saturday that he said were worthless. He collected $300 in gift cards.
“You can buy junk guns for $10 and then use the gift cards to buy new guns,” he said. “I saw a half-dozen uniformed SF police officers taken off the street to sit for hours in a City Hall photo-op, instead of patrolling certain drug-ridden and gang-infested neighborhoods.”
Idiots, the whole freaking city is made up of idiots!
I’m willing to bet that the death rate from AIDS is fifty times the death rate from firearms in the city each year. So, maybe they ought to outlaw and confiscate all of the “guns” involved in that.
But I guess there’s no use in attempting to change them. After all, these are the same people who keep sending Nancy Pelosi back to Washington because she so perfectly represents their views – anti-gun; anti-military; anti-American; anti-family values; well, you get the picture.
A few comments from here in SF:
1. The gun/gift card swap was at Civic Center. Which is, of course, city property. The last gun regulation, which was passed about four months ago by the mayor and board of supervisors, states that it is against the law to carry firearms onto city and county (SF is the same thing) property. In other words, the city was asking people to break the law by bringing the guns in for the swap. I’m sure the agency organizing it had no idea. SF is so incompetently run, it makes me want to cry sometimes.
2. Most of the guns were crap. Burgos, Big 5 grade moisin nagants, unidentifiable crap–complete junk. If that’s the point of it, getting crap guns off the street, I suppose I don’t have a problem with it.
3. Buxtun’s a jerk. He complains about six cops wasting city money collecting junk guns and then collects $300 in taxpayer money trading in junk. Buxtun is not poor. Buxtun’s a local gun collector, and he doesn’t collect cheap stuff. I’m surprised Greg Martin wasn’t there with a semi truck of crap, but he’s probably at the Big Reno Show.
4. The city has one gun shop left. It also has two arms and armor auction houses–Greg Martin & Bonhams and Butterfield’s. I believe there are about 5 FFL holders in the entire city of 788,000.
And another thing about SF, not to mention the city of Nancy Pilosi, is that the city is trying to ban wood-burning fires in home fireplaces… because of pollution. If you can’t have a fire in your own home, you certainly are not capable of owning a complex piece of machinery like a firearm.
Mr. Buxtuns financial situation is irrelevant… he’s trying to make a point.
Unfortunately, only those not living in SF understand the lunacy he exposes.
I wish I lived close enough to participate in the program… my pawn shop is full of good “SF investments”.
Oh, I understand the local lunacy. Please, let’s not be patronizing.
Mr. Buxtun’s financial situation is relevant. Doesn’t it strike people as unseemly that someone who enjoys a very comfortable living is willing to work the system to make a “point”? Since it’s my tax dollars he took home and not anyone else’s here, yeah, that bothers me. There are other ways to make the point, but none other that involve enriching himself to the tune of $300.00.
I do appreciate Buxtun’s political activism–he’s been quoted before in the press and interviewed on local TV. It was interesting protest stunt, but I do think it was compromised.
Well done! Very informative.
Very much it was pleasant to me
So FUNNY,
Herb Caen, a much respected writer in SF during the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s, used to call San Fran-sicko “BAGDAD BY THE BAY!”
For sure, a man ahead of the times..
I left CA in 1996. It was the best thing I ever did. My gun collection is safe. My taxes are lower. My library has books on its selves. My parks are clean. My neighbors are not some sort of degenerate freaks. My neighbor has a garage full of cars and not Mexican Nationals. Etc etc. The good fight is lost in CA. If you work for a living and fulfill your obligations as a productive member of society and an American citizen, you would be much better off to leave CA. Vote with your feet. You will be glad you did.