Don't talk to me in that tone of voice

At Reagan National Airport a woman gets extra screening, verbally protests said screening, and gets a concussion from being slammed into a row of chairs and then a table by terrori . . .I mean . . . "security" for her tone. The reason for using such force:

According to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Kassner was not cooperating with screening procedures and interfered with the screening process. She was charged with obstruction of justice.

How is that obstruction of justice? I guess by "justice" they mean that she wasn't happy being assaulted from behind by a state funded thug. Sure, I can see that. The "interfering with the screening process" charge is just something they tack on to get more money out of you. I know plenty about this stupid charge.

It's such a goat rope to fly anymore that I avoid it at all costs, but unfortunately I'm in the wrong job for that. These morons that run our transportation security couldn't catch a cold, much less a terrorist. Do you reckon that they have even seen one? Still, you give them a crime fighting tool and suddenly everything looks like a nail; including this woman.

Why do we put up with this sort of behaviour?

Silly terrorist

Why didn't he just go to a gun show for all of his terrorist needs? Everyone knows how easy it is to by weapons there. Hell, I hear they just pass them out to children free of charge!

Sloth attempts to abduct a 2nd woman.

I say Sloth because that is exactly what the police composite sketch looks like; a face only a mother could love. All of this took place at the University of Mary Washington.

So I guess all of those M4's didn't help campus security now did it?

Natatia Bledsoe of the Fredericksburg Police Department said the woman, who is in her 20s and is not a UMW student, was running on the trail around the athletic fields on Hanover Street when a man with a gun grabbed her and pushed her into the bushes.

Just give him what he wants. Let the state handle the aftermath.

The attacker tried to tie the woman's hands together and when she resisted, he dropped the gun, Bledsoe said.

I thought you weren't supposed to resist? And how come the attacker dropped the gun when it's supposed to be the woman who does that? This changes everything. Next time you go jogging, I recommend you take one of these.

Here is an oft heard multiple dose of stupid:

Neighbors along Hanover said yesterday that they never considered the UMW track area to be an unsafe place to run.

"I was out there about 6:30 [Wednesday] morning," said Shirley Eye, who lives on Hanover near the track. "I've always felt really safe and content that this is a nice place to be."

"I would have said it's the safest place in the world to go and jog," he said.

"Sometimes I see girls out there at night running by themselves and I worry," said Betsy Spradlin, another Hanover Street resident. "But I wouldn't think you'd have to worry at 7:30 in the morning."

Do people really think that criminals look to conduct business in a rough part of town? No, they look for petite unarmed joggers who are not likely to resist. Here is a look at what happens when petite prey resists.

Woman, be advised: you can stop an attacker with the right tool.

Sweet!

I'm referenced in Wikipedia under PASGT (Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops) for my ballistic vest shoot.

That's more than I could have ever asked for.

Doctors peeing themselves over Heller decision

Of course doctors from the New England Journal of Medicine had to get their alarmism on. "Guns are bahahahahad, myeahhhh!"

The three editors of the prominent medical journal, Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, Stephen Morrissey and Dr. Gregory Curfman, said handguns were far more likely to cause harm than do good.

And their proof would be . . .?

"In our opinion, there is little reason to expect an optimistic result; research has shown and logic would dictate that fewer restrictions on handguns will result in a substantial increase in injury and death," they wrote in a commentary released in Thursday's issue.

I agree with them in that there is little reason to expect an optimistic result in their opinion. They offer no empirical evidence to back up their point.

"In 2005, the last year with complete data, there were more than 30,000 deaths and 70,000 nonfatal injuries from firearms," Drazen, a physician at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues wrote.

Here we go again with the "30,000 senseless gun deaths" mantra. How many of those deaths were suicides? 17,002. I suppose there are those that think that without a firearm handy those individuals would be alive and well. I disagree. How many were accidents? 789 in 2005. Homicide? 12, 352. How many of those homicides were criminals killing criminals? There's a lot more to that figure than meets the eye, but don't count on gun grabbers to break it down.

Here's today's dose of stupid:

"A number of scientific studies, published in the world's most rigorous, peer-reviewed journals, show the risks of keeping a loaded gun in the home outweigh the potential benefits," Dr. Arthur Kellerman, an emergency physician at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote in The Washington Post

Spoken by the man who published one of the most mocked studies on the subject, which was so ridiculed and debunked that he never even bothered with peer review. Maybe that's because he's a physician and not a criminologist. Stay in your lane man. Kellerman's flawed study was released in 1986, and has since been the only "fact" that the anti-gun side has been able to cite. Why not give the professionals a read.

Some other "facts" cited by the three Gargamels:

"According to the Justice Department, far more guns are lost each year to burglary or theft than are used to defend people or property."

Here is the source of their claim, from 1997. The study says about 500,000 guns are stolen every year, and that they estimate 108,000 defensive gun uses annually. Here it is:

On the basis ofdata from the Bureau of Justice Statistics'National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data,one would conclude that defensive uses are rareindeed, about 108,000 per year. But other surveysyield far higher estimates of the number of DGUs.Most notable has been a much publicized estimate of2.5 million DGUs, based on data from a 1994telephone survey conducted by Florida StateUniversity professors Gary Kleck and MarkGertz.[13] The 2.5 million figure has been pickedup by the press and now appears regularly innewspaper articles, letters to the editor,editorials, and even Congressional Research Servicebriefs for public policymakers.

It seems to me that the doctors only read as far as they had to in order to suit their ideals. That's piss poor work. I guess that is expected when you take advice about firearm usage from a doctor. I don't go to my mechanic for advice on how to prevent a hernia.

Like I said - stay in your lane.

Attempted baby-knapping

Via Clayton Cramer's Civilian Self Defense Blog comes this story of a man who shot it out with three thugs at his own house when they tried to rob him of his child.

When the victim, 52, said he didn't have any cash, one robber said, "get the baby", according to Avondale Police Sergeant Memo Espinoza.

This sort of incident is what I fear most. As a father I am very cautious of my surroundings when I am with my daughter. If someone steals my car while I'm paying for gas; big deal. When my daughter is buckled into her car seat and I'm filling up my tank than any attempt to carjack will be treated as a life-or-death situation that requires use of lethal force. You can try me later.

I cannot imagine the feeling that would come with such a situation were I to be unarmed and defenseless. What are my options? Stand there and let them take my child? Die because I have no way to match the force that the criminals are displaying? Not a chance. It is my duty to protect my family, and I'll be damned if I'm going to stand there empty handed while someone has their way with my kid.

And it is flat-out criminal to tell me that I do not have the option to protect myself with the proper equipment to deal with this type of situation.

What is the proper equipment? I'm a firm believer in Col. Jeff Cooper's Combat Mindset - plan A. Call me a coward, but I will avoid confrontation if possible to include someone shouting obscene things at myself or family. I don't care. I am also a firm believer in Plan's B and/or C. Anything worth carrying one of is worth carrying two of. I am a believer in having some sort of knife at all times. At all times. Those that know me are aware that if I'm not stark strip naked then I have a knife on me. It is a tool, and one that can, on occasion, be used as a weapon. You can bet your ass that if I'm armed only with a knife and you try to take my kid, than your gonna think someone hurled a 230 lb. running lawnmower at your head.

There is nothing "paranoid" about having a firearm to protect your family, no matter if you live in a "safe" area or not. Criminals look for such areas, and to be unprepared for such souls can be perilous. So be prepared.

Disney World not a fan of new gun law?

Who would have known?

I'm kinda standoffish on this particular law since it spans both gun rights and property rights, but the lame-ass excuse that Disney is fronting is so laughable:

Disney argues their federal permit, to handle fireworks fits the law's exemption of companies that handle large amounts of explosives.

"The safety of our cast and guests is our top priority. We will continue to maintain our zero tolerance policy for guns and workplace violence," Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said.

Disney thinks that a citizens snubby S&W locked in the glove box is gonna "discharge" and bring down the whole park? Or is it that they think that some mother of four might spontaniously turn into a crazed terrorist and grab her Kel-Tec .32 Auto from her minivan's console and attempt to breach Disney's powder magazine in an effort to blow up the park?

Seriously? The stupidity is rampant in that place.

A bad way to get busted for your illegal gun

During the recent police shootout in Baltimore, MD, the scumbags crashed into a parked car:

Clifford said officers recovered handguns from the car containing the suspects, and also discovered a gun in the car that was struck.

MD gun laws are pretty stupid, and it would sure suck to get in trouble because a couple of yahoo's crashed into your car and outed your weapon.

We must ban it for the children

Beer pong, that is. And by children, we mean those who are potentially graduating from college.

According to police reports, she had three beers during the day, then played beer pong — a drinking game — in the evening, and downed some vodka, too.

Foellmi's death was tragic, but typical in many ways.

Yes, drinking yourself to death is typical behaviour. This is almost as bad as the crack epidemic with all of the children dying left and right:

An Associated Press analysis of federal records found that 157 college-age people, 18 to 23, drank themselves to death from 1999 through 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available.

Wait a minute? 157 deaths in 6 years? Using the CDC's handy WISQARS tool shows that more "children" ages 18 - 23 die from Meningococcal Infection, and almost as many die from Meningitis; all during the same time frame. Maybe someone should put up a sign!

I mean, it works so well to keep guns and drugs off campus. Here's another deadly danger:

One practice — drinking 21 shots on a 21st birthday — has proven especially lethal.

Perhaps we should lower the drinking age to 18 to limit the number of shots consumed!

I need to be a politician.

Police kill scumbag

. . . and arrest another in a ransom drop gone bad. The hostage was found alive.

It's good to know when the good guys win.

Fireworks show to be replaced with lazer show

In Vienna, VA. I understand that they have had injuries in the past, but is it really worth getting rid of a fireworks show watched by thousands of people every year? Kinda silly.

Virginia law bans the fun fireworks from us non "authorized" mortals because we can be trusted to drive a car down the highway at 65 mph with nothing but a four inch painted line keeping us from smashing head-on with another car, but we are too incompetent to use bottle rockets that launch a hundred feet away before popping harmlessly.

Way to make us safe! It's a good thing Virginia didn't ban the fireworks that spray 1,800 degree fountains of flame because those are super safe!

"No Johnny, you can't have that lady-finger because it might pop in your hand and cause a blister. Here, let me light you one of these razor sharp sparkling sticks of molten hot metal instead! Now go wave it in your sister's face! Yay!!!"

Another not-so-safe weekend in "Gun Free" DC

Drive by's and killings, and it can't be blamed on the Heller decision. Hopefully district "officials" don't tarry too long; the overwhelming number of good citizens in the city need something to protect themselves.

For a good laugh, read the comments under the first link.

Read here to see how the police are planning on installing more "gunshot sensors." Do they save DC residents from getting shot?

Officers said since usage began, police have been able to quickly locate 13 homicide victims and 49 assault victims.

Nope. My emphasis is to show that the technology is locating victims, instead of stopping criminals.

Maryland to hold Terror Drills

Terror Drills? Are you kidding? Do you think they could find a better title than that? Maybe they are practicing their police state tactics, which in that case the title would be fitting.

Movie Guns XIII

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

After much mental debate, I decided to cover Terminator 2 for this week's post. Earlier this week, I came across a website called Internet Movie Firearms Database. This website covers guns from a great deal of movies, but I got a little overwhelmed and discouraged. The site is a good resource for data from movies, but I still think that I can offer something different. I will still continue my movie guns post as I think I offer a more in-depth perspective on the action involved.

Terminator 2 offers some exceptional gunfights, bad-ass weapons, and cutting edge special effects that revolutionized action movies.

Let's start.

The first bit I have is from the bar scene at the beginning of the movie. The Terminator is a model T800, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he walks into a biker bar to look for clothes and weapons. When the bikers try to take him down, one of them pulls this big knife, and looking at the second picture shows it to be made of rubber:



Cool!

One of the bikers demonstrates why you shouldn't carry your 1911 without a round in the chamber. His hands are burned and he struggles in vain to load the thing while the T800 closes in on him and takes the pistol away:



Condition 1, cocked and locked is the way to go. Not that it would matter when facing a futuristic machine. The T800 chambers a round in the 1911 which looks like a Colt Delta Elite, but may not be judging by the hammer:



Later on in the film, the T800 pulls the pistol on two guys in an alleyway and he racks the slide to chamber a round. Why can't anyone get this right?

The first firefight has the T800 squared up with an updated Terminator: the model T1000 played by Robert Patrick who is blazing away with a Beretta 92F. He executes a nice mag change in the middle of the fight, and you can see him reaching for a fresh mag right before slide lock in anticipation of going dry:




I'm not sure if Robert Patrick is a shooter in real life, but his gun handling is top shelf. No flinching throughout the entire movie, which is fitting considering his role of a merciless killer.

The T800 is weilding a cut-down Winchester model 1887 that he stole from the bar owner at the beginning of the movie. The front of the trigger guard has been removed, the stock cut off leaving only the pistol grip, and the barrel has been shortened:



He uses this gun throughout the rest of the movie. Later, the T800 and John Conner (Patrick Furlong) spring Conner's mother, Sarah (Linda Hamilton) from a mental hospital. Sarah takes the T800's 1911 and starts letting some rounds go:



While fleeing in the police car, John passes a magazine to Sarah that was taken from one of the guards at the hospital, and you can clearly see the crimped line running the length of the magazine indicating that it is either a 10mm/.40 S&W or a 9mm which is the indicator that the pistol could be a Delta Elite (10mm), although the hammer is definitely not correct. Also notice the smallish bore. Right before this frame was taken, she had just stuffed a fresh mag into the gun and dropped the slide before shooting seven rounds into the ceiling of the elevator (which would be deafening to the point of rupturing ears). Then she fired one round into the windshield of a police car for a total of eight rounds without coming to slidelock, so this gun can't be .45 ACP.

After the hospital breakout, Sarah pulls a bunch of bullets from the T800 that look pretty authentic; showing the rifling marks and expanded nose:



When Sarah, John, and the T800 head over to a friends place in the dessert, the friend pops out with a Mossberg 590:



The friend is storing an arsenal of weapons in an underground bunker; like this M2 heavy machine gun flanked by a few AR's, AK's, shotguns:


. . . and this M134 minigun:




After cleaning her Colt 629, Sarah is carving up a picnic table with a SOG Bowie knife:




Later, Sarah tries to assassinate the creator of the Terminators, Bennett Dyson (Joe Morton), with the Colt 629, which she curiously mounts a suppressor on even though it will not accept one with the 4.5" flash suppressor that is standard on the weapon:


Hollywood never does get them right.

After that scene, the T800, Sarah, John, and Dyson go to Cyberdyne Systems building to destroy the Terminator technology. When the police show up, the T800 destroys all of the police cars with the minigun:


and then switches over to the M79 grenade launcher when the minigun runs dry:



Speaking of running the minigun dry, the T800 fires an almost constant burst from it for 46 seconds, give or take a few. Given that the cyclic rate for the weapon is 4,000 rounds per minute would mean it's firing roughly 65 rounds a second, and if we multiply that times the 46 seconds we get almost 3,000 rounds fired! As for the M79; the 40mm grenades that the T800 is using to blow holes in walls would definitely not explode at such a close range as they have a fuse that doesn't arm until it is many yards away.

The cops respond back with the iconic Beretta 92F's and shotguns, and the H&K MP5 like this one fired by a SWAT officer with his eyes closed while not using the sights:


and this H&K MP5PDW by another SWAT officer inside the Cyberdyne building:


Sarah keeps SWAT's head down with fire from a Detonics 1911:



While leaving the Cyberdyne building, the T800 takes this MM1 grenade launcher from SWAT and starts putting CS gas grenades out into the yard to keep the cops down:


As they're fleeing from the building, the T1000 is firing from a helicopter with a H&K MP5PDW:


Sarah fires back from the stolen SWAT van with a Colt 630:


Keep those eyes open!

The last gun featured in this post is a Remington 870 that has a folding stock and saddle for extra shot shells:


Sarah blasts the T1000 with it multiple times, but it takes the T800 firing the M79 to finally drop it.

The nuclear detonation in this film is pretty realistic (from what I hear, not that I've been in one). The futuristic weapons used in the beginning of the movie fire what looks like lazers although they eject casings. Of note is that if someone would design a T1000-like reactive target, minus the intent to destroy humanity, that sucker would sell like crazy! Check this out: here we have Todd Jarrett shooting steel with his Para 1911:


Boring!! Now imagine how fast Todd could have unloaded that .45 if he was shooting the T1000:


See what I mean!

Good stuff

Happy 4th of July!!

The madman in Jerusalem was stopped. . .

. . .by a bullet from a citizen. Via The Liberty Zone.

Update: Watch the video. It took multiple shots by a civilian and police before he was killed. Via Ed - thanks much!

The cops in Flint have nothing better to do

In Flint, Michigan the police are cracking down on saggy pants, saying:

Experts and other cities have said the "bare your britches look" reflects laziness and encourages gang activities.

This city is ranked third in the most dangerous cities in the US, and they want to bust people for their pants? I guess that beats actually cracking down on crime because someone might get hurt. And how does having a lowered waistline encourage gang activities?

It looks like Flint needs a regime change.

Man shoots home intruder

In San Antonio, TX. Isn't that funny how regular folk without police training can determine that the intruder was, in fact, an intruder, and then make the sound decision to protect himself, his family, and his home?

Or maybe he should have taken this federal law enforcement course so he would have a badge. Then he would be "authorized."

That didn't take long

The DC council is piling up the regulations to make it as difficult as possible for gun owners in the district. This comes as no surprise; the DC council is just creating their power trip.

"I am not conceding that the requirement of the Supreme Court in terms of the trigger locks requirement that we make an open ended exception." - Mary Cheh

In case you missed that, she's telling the Supreme Court to piss off because they specifically said that the trigger lock requirement was unconstitutional. Then we have this:

"We are moving quickly to respond to the Supreme Court as well as to protect our regulatory scheme." - Phil Mendelson

Scheme being the key word.
With the corrupt members on that council, I'm surprised it even functions at all.

They just can't help meddling with this, can they?

More: Here's a written piece from NBC4 with another dose of stupid from Mary Cheh:

"I do believe that there are a wide array of things that we can do -- and should do --to, ultimately, as far as I'm concerned, to occupy every inch of space left to us by the Supreme Court's opinion."

More pro gun laws passed

This time in Georgia where House Bill 89 became law. Judging from the news, it seems like our side is winning on most fronts. If only the anti's hadn't been so greedy.