Some of you have already noticed that I have a new section to the Right… Over there… Under A List Links. “Podcasters”.
Check them all out. Download them to your MP3 Player. What else would you rather listen to? Your Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga music?
Okay guys… For all you MHI Fans, YOU WANT THIS! I want this!
I don’t know if you guys caught this last Sunday night. But about 5 minutes into Hour 2, we had a Technical Glitch. The feed to the studio where Mark Walters and Rob Pincus dropped. They could hear the Producer, Shawnto, in Dallas, but no one could hear them.
Take a listen.
I heard the worry in Shawnto’s voice and knew he was having a bugger of a time, so called in. Listen to the relief in Shawn’s voice when he hears me. Well, we covered the rest of the segment together and then Shawn rolls some archived stuff until they got the Feed back online.
This is Live Radio. This stuff can happen when you run a live show. Other Gun Rights type talk shows are pre-recorded. Not Armed American Radio. This makes AAR a lot more fun.
I work tomorrow and then I’m taking the next two weeks off. Tomorrow is going to be a long day! Anyone wants me to do anything for them at Basin Sports, come see me tomorrow or wait till after October 10th when I come back.
Gods of Miskatonic. A Cthulhu Mythos story in serial fashion. Go back to the beginning and read to catch up.
This is worth the read.
In the Uprising Saga, there is a character called “Uncle Musket”. Uncle Musket to many, just Musket to me. For those that don’t know, “Uncle Musket” is a real guy. He is in fact my younger brother. He posts from time to time on WTA. Recently he just posted his thoughts about an Automatic Pistol:
You buncha unholy meddlers and mad alchemists have true topped yersefs now!
This damn thing! Have ye any shame? An arm far defense is it? Whot?
Through the mad currents of private trades, I have this we bobble of an alleged defensive pistol and by the dark blazes you magazine and cartridge people make me ill sometimes!Right then. This lilliputian thing.
So, yes, OF COURSE this thing runs on metallic cartridges…very small ones.
Damn your eyes! “Oh well, you see it’s 380, and that’s not very far from 9mm!” 9MM! 9mm is a fair size for lock plate screws, not bores, you giggling twits! Did this JUST to make me mad!
Well, so, here it is. It’s bloody SMALL. Has a trigger there. The whole fool thing is the size of a proper arm’s trigger mechanism. The “grip” such as it is, made of poly-I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU CALL THIS CRAP!…holds a tiny magazine which contains the preposterous metallic cartridges. Each cartridge has a primed disk on the back…damn stupid thing to do…prying that little thing out for repriming…you people must have wagon loads of spare time…so, this tiny magazine rides inside this tiny grip handle…which is designed for a beetles’ pinchers more than for a man’s hand…you can’t club a footpad with this shameful gadget! Stoopid! If one of my stock cutters or locksmiths showed be this!
Six of the cartridges in the magazine mind. Cause, holy hell, havin six of the nonsensickle things make up for it’s glaring USELESSNESS!!
So now…this is a compact 380…polycrap frame…the SLIDE…purports to be steel of some kind.
The barrel. Look at this. This! is a pistol barrel! This sad broken pipestem is a pistol barrel!
You buncha gibbering loons.
Oh by the greenman’s beard do I feel deprived! Poor silly old me! I’m too ignorant to prance about your stone and glass cities stingin my sciencecraftic mates with these tomfool 380s!
My dear wood gods…pinacle of guncraft this…theres the magazine release…perfectly made for a fairey staff to articulate. That little speck there…
Fine! Grand! If you lads load up with these Gnome guns! You’ll dominate the field!
Stay back! He has a fel 380 of top sciencecraft! That little blob in his hand! Thass a GUN!
Thanksa bushel for this! I’ll toss out all me kit and wield this mighty cannon till me dying days!
No ball mold either!
I would like to see a whole series of Uncle Musket Reviews… but that’s his business.
Calm the fuck down.
As we’ve been tracking the FUBAR situation with Recoil Magazine, we’ve watched as many of their top shelf Advertisers drop those idiots like a hot potato. And rightfully so.
The magazine has put out another official statement. I’ll post links tonight, but let me paraphrase their message for you:
“You Slimy Handed Cake Eaters… How dare you question us! We have over 26,000 likes on Facebook! Screw you all and your views of Gun Ownership. We will not listen to you rednecks in Fly Over States! Go pound sand!”
Well, that’s what I read into their message… I’ll link up the actual message tonight when I get home.
So basically they are not going to get rid of the idiot Editor, JT, who caused all this mess.
That’s fine. That’s their choice. It’s their magazine and they can do or say anything they want.
But we don’t have to listen, read, or buy their magazine or the products of those that are continuing to support Recoil.
Over the weekend since Monday, they have lost a big chunk of advertising, industry support, and popularity. This new message from the Publisher has only made matters for them worse.
Here is the message:
RECOIL Magazine’s Position:
In light of some of the comments and complaints made about a paragraph in a recent article about the Heckler & Koch MP7A1, Recoil wishes to make the following points clear:
· It is simply not credible for anyone to question Recoil’s support for, and commitment to, the Second Amendment. Recoil is first and foremost a gun lifestyle magazine, aimed at the modern shooting enthusiast.
· The opinions in the paragraph in question accurately reflected those of the manufacturer, and should have been reported as direct quotes. Recoil acknowledges the way the paragraph was written has caused unnecessary confusion.
· Jerry Tsai, a passionate gun enthusiast and the visionary behind Recoil magazine, will remain as editor of Recoil.
We thank you for your support and understanding.
Quite honestly, if you read the article, it was one paragraph that was actually quoted from the manufacturer and we did not state it that way. Recoil has 26,000 likes on face book and the magazine has only been out for three issues and issue number 4 is just hitting the streets. I honestly believe that this will not hurt the magazine. I have not lost anyone as a result of this and do not expect to.
Joe Galloway
Associate Publisher
5.0 Mustang & Super Fords
Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords
Phone 813-675-3493
Fax 813-675-3557
Email joe.galloway@sorc.com
Assistant: Jennifer Conklin 813-675-3507
Some guys have blamed HK for this because they will not sell the MP7 to Civilians. This is unfair to HK. I sat in a meeting with the President of HK, and I spoke with him personally about the whole “You Suck and We Hate You” thing. Yes, HK is very well aware of Master Correia’s thrashing of them, and admitted that it was actually justified. He stressed the lengths they are going to to try to turn that image around. As a dealer, I have seen the results of their efforts. Calling up HK now is like calling up a totally different company. According to German Law – HK is based in Germany after all – they are not allowed to sell the MP7 to Civilians. German Law says because such weapons have no sporting purpose they can’t export them to the US… unless it’s to a Law Enforcement Agency. So it’s not HK saying that you suck and they hate you – It’s the German Government saying you suck and they hate you. The president of HK would love to sell you and me and our friends, HK MP7’s and SL8 rifles with full magazine capacities. Of course they would… they are a Commercial Company. They want to make money.
Recoil Magazine however has taken all this too far saying “Thank heavens we can’t get our slimy hands on guns like these.” We can’t handle firepower of this magnitude! Never mind we can get AR-15 rifles with 100 round magazines topped with optical gunsights that were science fiction 10 years ago. FNH PS90 carbine/SMG’s with 50 round mags. (Just so you know, Belgium isn’t in Germany) Recoil has persisted in showing us their ass and has given us the middle finger for saying “Hey, that’s not right!”
As a result, we need to persist in the flogging of Recoil Magazine and those that continue to support them in Advertising and on Facebook. Simple as that. We can’t have a supposed Gun Magazine that prints Anti-Gun Bullshit. Yes, what they said was Anti-Gun… it’s exactly what the Anti-Gun Liberals say. Looking for Sporting Purpose justifications is pretty much saying that you don’t know shit about the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution and of you hang on to the Sporting Purpose BS, then you are NOT “Pro-Gun”. We don’t need this in a magazine acting like they are. We don’t need Recoil. We need Recoil to Go Away if they are not going to Change. And that Change is the dismissal of “JT”.
Oh, one more thing. Make sure you UNLIKE Recoil Magazine on Facebook.
So the Editor if Recoil Magazine issued an Apology. I’m not going to post his bullshit, but it was basically him saying “I’m sorry you were offended.” Not that he was sorry he made an error in saying it… just sorry that you took it to be offensive. That’s not an apology. That’s what I say when what I really want to say is “Fuck you, and fuck off.”
George Bush said this to China when a Chinese Fighter ran into one of our P3 Orion’s and caused it to crash land… China demanded an apology and Bush basically said “We’re sorry your fighter pilot ran into our plane.” Again, Bush basically gave China the middle finger.
So with Recoil giving us the Middle Finger, it’s time to return the favor to them.
Recoil is a magazine. Magazines make their money not by selling the rag – that just covers costs – but by selling Advertising.
Instead of contacting Recoil Magazine, we contact those that have been advertising in the magazine:
Magpul, Panteo, Bravo Company.
We need to contact these guys and request that they stand up for Civilian Gun Owners and withdraw all their advertising from Recoil.
Recoil needs to die on the vine. It was a shallow rag at best with no actual content and these companies advertising with them can do better in other venues.
In fact, ask them to Advertise instead with Armed American Radio and Mark Walters will give them a smoking good deal if they Jump Ship over to AAR Advertising.
I’m still pissed at Recoil… They had a good idea at a nice high end magazine, but really failed at not hiring actual Gun Guys to edit and write for them. This is a fatal flaw that needs to be shoved right through the heart.
It is possible to save Recoil. The Layout Artists are good, but the writers and editors need to be replaced to the person. Especially JT, the moron who started this mess. When Recoil gets a new Staff, it could become one of the best magazines out there.
But to be honest, I don’t see this happening.
What’s sad though is all the good magazines that have gone away… I miss OMNI Magazine. *sigh*
Happy Birthday, M.