Monthly Archives: February 2015

Link – Silencerco offering NFA trusts

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There’s a line of thinking that says an ‘NFA Trust’ is a good way to go when purchasing your expensive (and tightly regulated) supercool toys like suppressors and full-autos.

Several places on the internet sell kits to let you set up your own trust. I caught this over at Jerking The Trigger:

I am automatically skeptical of most of the NFA trusts that are sold online. A trust is a legal document/entity that, while not rocket surgery to build, is going to be the legal means of holding some of your most highly regulated and expensive possessions. I want to know its going to be right. Thankfully, Silencerco has stepping into the fray with their NFA EasyTrust offering.

The EasyTrust is a properly prepared gun trust offered by Silencerco, a company who knows a thing our two about NFA items. “It enables the use of NFA-regulated firearms and accessories among trustees, protects against potential future regulatory restrictions, and provides for the orderly transition of ownership upon death. It also tends to speed up the process for obtaining NFA items, eliminating the need for a Chief Law Enforcement Officer’s signature, fingerprints cards, etc. ”

The EasyTrust is 50-state legal and costs $129.99 which is more than some DIY trust options but less expensive than going to a lawyer who knows something about firearm specific trusts. It is quite affordable and very easy.

One major appeal of this, to me, is that by having the silencers in a trust, and me and the missus being in that trust, then we can use each others silencers without the other person having to be around. As I understand it, if I wanna pull her Evolution-9 outta the safe and take it somewhere, I can’t do that without her being there. Ditto if she wants to take my Sparrow to the range to play with.

This, of course, opens up a whole other question: do you want to get your name on ‘the list’ by purchasing such items to begin with. Honestly, I figure my name has been on ‘the list’ for so long I may as well give up hope of being overlooked and just start buying all the high-profile toys I can afford while I still can.

Vacation

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Was outta town (way outta town) last week and I have been catching up on a buncha stuff since I got back. As a result, posting is thin this week. However, I’ll have a nice post up about my trip.

Personally, I hate vacations…I don’t like travelling, I especially dont like flying, I especially specially hate the TSA goons, and I really don’t like leaving Nuke with a dogsitter. But….winters in Montana can be dreary and while I dont care for vacations my wife does. So….vacation.

But, I’m back now. As soon as I get some pictures editted I’ll have a post up about it. In the meantime, its nice to be back in Montana.

 

Article -10-story missile silo for sale outside of Roswell

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“It might be the safest home for sale in all of New Mexico. I say come out and look, make an offer, and you can have your underground castle right away,” said realtor Jim Moore.

40 feet underground lays an old missile silo in Roswell with a lot of history. It’s a home where you don’t have to worry about curb appeal.
All you can see from above ground is a door to the stairwell. From there, it’s straight down four stories in pitch black.
“If the lights happened to go out, you can’t see anything beyond your nose,” said Tom Edgett.
Once at the bottom, there’s a series of tunnels. Then, it finally opens up into a big room – an underground cave.

Its my understanding that these things are, in the unfinished stages, a mass of stagnant water, toxic byproducts, and endless hours of repair and restoration….but there is still something just really, really cool about them. How cool would it be to have your quaint and cozy ‘tiny house’ of 200 square feet and trapdoor in the floor leading to your zillion square foot basement?

But, yeah, unless its already been done for you, turning it into habitable space is gonna be an adventure.

Scope arrival

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As you may recall, I’ve been slowly putting together what can only be described as an experiment in how much unrecoverable value you can add to a .22 rifle. The base gun was the Savage MK I I FVR rifle. The next step was to throw away the horrible stock that came with the gun and replace it with a very nice and not cheap Boyds Tactical laminate stock. Next step?  Optics. Wound up with the Nikon P-22 BDC 150 2-7x scope. A couple things about this scope that really appealed to me were the target turrets and the very nice ballistics calculator that nikon has on their website. It has all the ballistics data for the Remington subsonic ammo I’m shooting and it even offers the option of printing a little data card to tape on the stock.

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The scope itself is okay. Made in the Philippines, so the quality is hopefully better than Made In China. The target knobs are resettable once you get dialed in. Took it to the range the other day and was quite pleased. Zeroed it for 50 yards since at longer distances that slow subsonic bullet is going to have the trajectory of a trench mortar.

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All that’s really left to do is drop a small Harris bipod on the front of this thing and it’s going to be ready for whatever task calls for a small, quiet bit of ballistic mischief.