Gallow

I don’t know, guys. I just read a book called “Double Tap,” by Steve Martini, a genuine NYT bestselling author, in which someone is killed, at night, with two shots to the head at a distance of seven to ten yards. The holes in the head are a half-inch apart. In courtroom testimony, repeated several times and never questioned, it is established that the two shots were”…fired within a millisecond of each other. As fast as a healthy human hand and index finger could pull the trigger two times.” The gun, moreover, had a silencer which acted as a muzzle brake, so “it wouldn’t matter if the shooter were an expert marksman or a novice.” For those of you who doubt the ability of a novice to get a good hit even the first shot, it develops that the gun, an H&K, has a laser sight affixed. 'Nuf said? Why use a full-auto item when a semi-auto gives you a 60,000 rounds per minutes rate of fire?

Sorry if I mislead you. Outdoor safe—that is a pretty funny idea. The safe isn’t actually outdoors. It’s in an unheated outbuilding, in Michigan.

Is there something the matter with storing each of my handguns in zip-lock bags with a small pack of desiccant and most of the air squeezed out of the bag? For many years I’ve stored my guns in Bore-Store bags in an outdoor safe with several big cans of desiccant (recharged when necessary) and the guns look good, but the Bore-Store bags are looking a little tired. Bore-Store makes much of the fact that their bags permit free air flow, which of course the ziplock bag doesn’t. There’s not much free air flow in the safe anyway. I’m starting to shoot again after 11 years off, but most of my guns are inappropriate for current competition (tricked-out single-stack .45s, and a couple of 40 S&W abortions from the early days of the caliber), and will pretty much remain in the safe. I don’t want them wrecked, though. By the way, I know I’d have been better off with a goldenrod dehumidifier in the safe, but there’s no electricity handy, and I haven’t been able to find a 12v goldenrod. Inverters tend not to turn on with the small goldenrod demand.