Marlins Posed

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 2004-08-01 07:00.
# I took a photo of my two Marlins, the 1894P on top and the 444P below:
Marlins
Here's a close-up of the receivers:
Marlin Receivers
Here are the cartridges, top-to-bottom: .44 magnum, .444 Marlin, .30-06 (for reference). The bullets are 200 grain .44-40 RNFP (.430), 300 grain Hornady XTP (.430), and 147 grain FMJ (.308).
bullets

# Here are my kids posing with Christopher's Hobbico Nexstar radio control airplane.

# GeekWithA.45 - GeeketteWithA9mm & I Just Fell Off Our Chairs - watching the healthy opinion of guns expressed in the 1954 Sinatra film, Suddenly. [geekwitha.45]

I think it fair to say that as this was a major release film, the position taken on guns in the hands of citizens (and kids!) was fairly indicative of what was socially acceptable at the time, and a shocking reminder of the ground lost over the last 50 years.

Oh, how far have we fallen.

# Jacob G. Hornberger at The Future of Freedom Foundation- Pentagon Learns About the Sixth Amendment - the right to a speedy trial is not quite dead in Amerika, though the Busheviks wish it were. [root]

# Mark Cassill at Gunblast - Feeding the Gunblast Bulldog - A Study in Terminal Ballistics - tests in wet newspaper of penetration and expansion of .44 Special loads from a Charter 2000 Bulldog Pug, a 2.5 inch barrel revolver that Mr. Cassill won from Gunblast in April. [gunblast]

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