Spotted at Michael Bane’s — only because I haven’t looked at FB today, MagPul will be expediting 10-pack orders of standard capacity magazines directly to Colorado residents in the coming days.

Full text:

We are proud to announce that within a matter of days we will be going live with a new program. Due to a bill currently moving through the Colorado legislature, there is the possibility that Colorado residents’ ability to purchase standard capacity magazines will soon be infringed. Before that happens, and Magpul is forced to leave the state in order to keep to our principles, we will be doing our best to get standard capacity PMAGs into the hands of any Colorado resident that wants them.

Verified Colorado residents will be able to purchase up to ten (10) standard capacity AR/M4 magazines directly from Magpul, and will be given immediate flat-rate $5 shipping, bypassing our current order queue.

Our customers outside of Colorado, please know that our PMAG production will continue at an ever-increasing rate until we do relocate, shipments to our distributors in other states will continue, and that we do not expect relocation to significantly impact PMAG production. We are also aware that Colorado is not the only state with existing or pending magazine capacity restrictions; we are working on programs for other affected states as well.

Full details and instructions will be announced when we are able to go live; please watch here for the coming announcement.

And, just as importantly, exercise them.

A goal on my own Bucket List is to be able to deliver this very speech — which never happened in the exact verbiage as people have so often quoted.

A compelling speech nonetheless.

Spotted at Bob Owen’s place:

I couldn’t resist–I put together a homemade, standard capacity bullet clip. Though this one would technically be illegal in NY:

Yes, the advice from the VP about using a shotgun for home defense — given his description — is likely to land you in prison. Count the felonies.

If somebody is on your property, the legality (and morality) of escalating to lethal force to stop them is questionable. Trespassing is typically a misdemeanor. Yes, in states where castle doctrine is in force, the mere presence of a person uninvited in your home is justification for lethal force. But they have to be in your home — Old Joe is telling you to escalate to lethal force for just trespassing. In much of the nation, lethal force is not justified for trespassing.

Prison.

Warning shots? You mean like in Hollywood movies and television shows? In the real world, warning shots have a legal definition: felony menacing.

Prison.

Shooting into the air: If it’s bird shot or target loads, that’s one thing — the shot will slow to a harmless velocity within about a hundred yards or so. But buckshot or slugs will be far more dangerous for a much greater distance — it has to land somewhere. Negligence will cost you in a civil case and, depending on factors, may also land you where? Yup, in prison.

Also, if you have a side by side and you’ve just fired both shots into the air, you’ll need to reload. Quickly.

Oh, and then there’s the whole “easier to use than an AR” thing. Feast your eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=jafkVM-jnbE

And, finally, a remark about the video itself. All of those people who put shotguns into the hands of those women without giving them some proper instruction: you’re all assholes. You have a responsibility to make sure that when you put a firearm in somebody’s hands, you provide them suitable instruction to mount it, aim it, control it, and use it safely and appropriately.