Nice save

In SC, an 18 year old high school student was collecting the materials to bomb his school. His principal said he was a top student and didn't cause trouble.

So many people think that firearms are the only tool that enable one to kill, but this is flawed logic. There are more efficient ways to mass murder, and the materials are readily available to anyone.

There are a number of lefties who believe that if firearms were taken away from us mere civilians, than the world would cease to become violent because there would no longer be a way to kill. History says otherwise, and I often point this out:

• The deadliest school massacre in US history, and second deadliest spree killing in modern history was carried out with a bomb.
• The deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history was committed with a bomb.
• The deadliest act of terrorism in US history was committed using airplanes which were taken by force using box cutters.
• The deadliest spree killing in modern history was committed with grenades and two rifles with only 18 cartridges.
• This man killed 30 people in an hour and a half with swords and a rifle.

History is filled with far more killing in the absence of firearms. We cannot dis-invent the gun, nor can we destroy all metal, stone, bone and wood. There will always be a method to kill in numbers, and the laws of men cannot suppress a black heart.

Good on the parents of this kid for paying attention.

Cool anti-gun video

My rant to Wal-Mart

I didn't have the time during the week, but here is what I sent them today:

To whom it may concern,

It upsets me to hear that Wal-Mart signed into agreement with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Mayors Against Illegal Guns. This group works diligently to destroy the rights of guns owners, and I can't see how this agreement will produce anything useful. Federal and State law are adequate for retaining the Federal Firearms License needed for Wal-Mart to sell firearms, and to go “above and beyond” based on the assertions of a blatant anti-gun organization is disingenuous.

My first firearm, a Mossberg Model 500 shotgun, was purchased at the Wal-Mart here in Fredericksburg. I defended Wal-Mart when the decision was made to reduce firearm sales, and I have always purchased ammunition and other shooting supplies at my local Wal-Mart because prices are always lower than other stores. However, I will not defend nor patronize a business that takes measures to stand on my rights.

This agreement assures that I will be taking all of my business elsewhere. Please spare me the generic reply that Wal-Mart has issued to the outraged gun owners before me; I have seen that reply, and find it to be lacking.

Sincerely,

Carlton
Fredericksburg, VA

Time will tell what their response is, but as of this week I am officially off the low price teat of Wal-Mart. My problem now is that Target sucks, and doesn't sell ammo, and I have been on a borderline Gander Mountain boycott for over a year now.

Update: That didn't take long. Wal-Mart responded with the generic email that I specifically asked them not to send. They did, however, say that for further correspondance, reply to this email. I will see what else I can get from them.

Movie Guns IV

After a long and tedious week, I am proud to bring you another movie guns post. I actually pulled frames from two movies, and I had a hard time deciding which one to post this week as they are both good.

This weeks movie guns is from the movie I Am Legend, starring Will Smith. I doubt that he's a shooter in real life, but he has fired lots of gun props so his weapon handling skills are not too bad, even if there are a couple of bad flinches in there.

There are not a whole lot of different guns in this movie, but there are some great firefights and closeups. Will Smith's character has amassed quite the arsenal, and has various weapons stashed strategically throughout his house.

Here is the M4 with ACOG optic that is used throughout most of the movie. That wire for the Pentagon light pressure switch should be moved out of the way of the ejection port.


Not once during the entire movie did I see the ejection port cover closed. It's a little fuzzy, but check out what he is pointing at:


That would be a lion. Shooting a lion with an M4 would probably just piss it off. You can see the Pentagon light with laser on the side of the rifle. Later on in the movie he does a little room clearing using the light, and what does he find?...


ZOMBIE!!!


Smith blasts this zombie on auto with his M4 at close range under the illumination of his weapon mounted light. Good stuff!


Nothing excites gun people more than the chance at fighting zombie hordes! I know many of gun owners, and none of them desire to shoot another person, but zombies....they are already dead, so the ethics involved are not important. Zombies are just moving targets.

In a self defense situation only one or two attackers are involved, and the fight is over in seconds. Afterwords there is the part of dealing with taking a life. Not so here. The thought of thousands of dead...or undead...hostile targets that explode into ickyness when shot is every gunnies dream, and this is backed up by the fact that most online gun forums have a disclaimer stating that zombie threads will be deleted.


Here we have a scene where Smith is choosing his carry gun for the day:



We have a M249 Squad Automatic Weapon; too big for day-to-day carry even against hordes of undead. Then we have:


Two M4A3's with all kinds of mounted goodies. I have no idea what the third gun from the left is; maybe a Tippman paintball gun? Imagine if New Yorkers could have a gun locker like that without fear of arrest!

Next up we have a Benchmade Auto Stryker that Smith uses to cut himself free of a rope.


Hey, knives are arms too! Knife laws in this country are every bit as stupid as gun laws. A good knife in your pocket is comforting.

For the H&K fans we have Smith fighting zombie dogs with an H&K USP, caliber unknown:





Yikes! Danger close again!


Ultimately, Smith is saved by his courageous and bad ass German Shepherd. Man's best friend can be the fight winning weapon when the chips are down.

Later on we have Alice Braga drawing a Glock 19 with a retention lanyard:




She doesn't shoot it, but it's still cool that she's packing.
Smith has a Smith & Wesson 5903 on the counter that he had taken out of a drawer in the living room:


During the final fight Smith pulls an M4 from the umbrella stand and gets some work done on full auto! Who says M4's can't be used for home defense!


Here you can see a blank that has ejected from the rifle.

Check out the cases in the air. Smith is looking over the top of the rifle and trying to walk the rounds into the zombie. It would seem that this scene suffers from the "bottomless magazine" syndrome. Right after this frame the rifle runs out of rounds, and the viewers are treated to the mechanical click-click-click-click-click sound to inform those who have no firearm knowledge that the gun is empty. Hollywood!

Smith finishes him off with the Beretta 92F that he keeps on his nightstand.

The deadliest zombie medicine in Smiths arsenal is the M67 fragmentation grenade. I wonder if he paid his tax stamp to the ATF to have this in his Manhattan town home!

That's it folks. It took me about three hours to pull the frames from the movie, label and then organize them, and I have the frames already pulled for the next movie guns. I promise it will be as good or better than this one!

Friday morning round up

The DC bank robber is given more money that taxpayers have to pay for. My past coverage here.

People do not seem to respect gravity these days.

ACLU opposes DC's gun grab. My past coverage of said gun grab here, here and here.

Mother stabbed to death while fighting with two thugs who were trying to carjack her. They had taken her keys, but her 4 month old was in the car and she fought to get the keys back.

Fire can be used as a weapon and is totally unregulated!

Kalifornia high school student killed by a school police officer. Typical Kalifornians blame the cop, the school and just about anything else besides the student, who smashed a cop in the back of the head with a baseball bat, knocking him to the ground. In the story, the cop drew his sidearm when the kid was about to hit him again and accidentally dropped the magazine. He pulled his backup from an ankle holster and killed the student.

More on Wal-Mart

Over at Armed Canadian. Go read it.

Past coverage here.

I don't have much time this week to give stuff like this my full attention. Fortunately, the more prominent gun blogs have things covered.

Anti-gun trash from NBC4

Video interview with a VA Tech survivor who is "looking to turn her pain into something positive." That something would be gun control, to include "closing Virginia's gun-show loophole," of which there is no such thing.

"Right now anyone can walk into a gunshow......go to a private dealer.....and buy..like...an AK-47."

Not true, but she doesn't know that. She would be better served trying to close the madman loophole, or stopping continental drift.

There are all of the typical lies and bias throughout this piece, including showing a rally of ProtestEasy guns which they call "advocates" of gun control, as opposed to what the pro-gun side is usually called -- "gun lobby." A quote I found interesting:

"I thought it was blanks inside the gun....or I thought it was a bad prank."

People like this girl live inside of a dream world of safety that pushes the "it can't happen here" mentality. I can understand being shocked, or caught off guard, but it seems to me that she lives in a world that is full of puppies and unicorns, and that the reason is because someone else is tasked with making everyone safe. You are your own first responder. Now here's your dose of stupid for the day:

[speaking of Cho] "Of course there are times when I hate him...especially when I'm in pain, and crying, and of course but really.......he was a victim of the system."

There you have it folks. It was not Cho's fault.

I suck

Yesterday was buy-a-gun day and I had to postpone as it was also my anniversary. My wife does not love guns and roses, and if I had walked throught that door with a shiny new firearm then she would have certainly shown me hers.

Either way, she has given me the green light to buy a wannabee AK, so that is in my very near future.

Jimmy sucks

Really. I don't have much time today so I'll direct you over to The Liberty Zone for some good ol' Jimmy Carter bashing.

Desperation and effective armed resistance

From someone who was there. Marek Edelman is a Jewish doctor who lead part of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the nazi army.

When the nazis started to take away the Jews, Edelman and a couple hundred others took up what arms they could find and fought back. Who were these brave individuals:

"I remember them all — boys and girls — 220 altogether, not too many to remember their faces, their names,"

Boys and girls fought off a professional army of well equipped nazi soldiers with no training and few weapons.

Several hundred young Jews took up arms in defense of the civilians — the first act of large-scale armed civilian resistance against the Germans in occupied Poland during World War II.

His fighters, between the ages of 13 and 22, scraped together guns and ammunition that they and the Polish resistance managed to smuggle in from the outside.

Courage and bravery like this are hard to find these days.

"Every moment was difficult. It was two or three or 10 boys fighting with an army," Edelman said. "There were no easy moments."

But they were outnumbered and outgunned.

"It lasted for three weeks, so this great German army could not cope so easily with those 220 boys and girls," he said with a grain of pride.

There are fellow citizens among us that scoff at the idea of effective armed resistance. This man says otherwise.

Some claim that there is no way that American citizens could ever resist the might of the US military, but they don't have a clue as to what armed resistance is, or what the stakes are:

"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.

How could the entire US military, scattered across the globe, and engaged in "the long war," engage its own citizens in a drawn out war on its own soil, within its own cities, and without many of the resources that it counts on to win in a non-linear war? It's not like every Serviceman could just come back to the US and fight their own people. Who would watch the interests of the country abroad? How many would throw down their chevrons and join the other side?

The Army could not call in an airstrike onto a townhouse in downtown Chicago because they couldn't knock out that determined shooter, nor could they fire a 120mm HE round from the main gun on a M1A1 into the top floor of a condo in Myrtle Beach because some good ol' boy was busy picking them off one-by-one with his grandpappy's Springfield 03. Get that out of your head.

There are an estimated 80 million gun owners in the US, and the total number of personnel in the US armed forces stands at around 1.5 million active, and about the same for reserves. If 220 starving Jews could hold back Hitler's finest by fighting with pistols and pitchforks, then the American people could surely destroy any government resistance to the last man; thus ensuring that the reins of power stay where they belong.

Anyone who says otherwise needs a history lesson.

A storm brewing

In Pennsylvania. This story is about gun rights in Pennsylvania, and how there will be a showdown between political candidates tomorrow.

They give Paul Helmke from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership a sound bite, but no retort from the gun rights side was printed. Typical.

There was some mention of the Heller case, and how that effects the political climate. Absent throughout the article was any mention of Philadelphia's Mayor, Michael Nutter, defying Pennsylvania law by passing anti-gun laws.

I may actually watch tomorrow's debate just to see those two idiots impale themselves on gun control. It's not like they can hide it now.

Wal-Mart Boycott

This is unacceptable. I originally found out about this over at Sebastian's blog, and he now has a link provided to tell Wal-Mart where they can stick their new surveillance program.

Wal-Mart no longer sells firearms in my area, and I used to buy 98% of my ammo there, as well as other things like targets, air guns and groceries, but no more. As a matter of fact, I purchased my first firearm, a Mossberg 500 12 gauge, there when I turned 18.

This afternoon I will send a nasty-gram letting them know that I will also be buying groceries elsewhere. I will just have to start mail ordering my ammo from now on.

Death by hands and feet

A fistfight led to the death of a 22 year old man. No weapons, other than the God given flesh covered ones, were involved.

In Hollywood, fistfights only result in bloody lips and bruised egos. Here in the really real world we know that hitting people is not good because of the potential to maim or kill a fellow human. Should we register everyones hands and feet?

My point in all of this is that mankind is born with the tools to kill, and the carrying of a more effective tool to offset this threat does not turn otherwise good people into killers, nor does it "give" verbal altercations the chance to be lethal; that potential is always there.

Here's another example.

Dirty dancing

In the capital of the greatest nation on earth...that would be DC (don't laugh), the city that bears George Wahington's name, a fellow patriot was arrested for the crime of...dancing. Yes, dancing.

This heinous crime was carried out on the steps of the..wait for it...Thomas Jefferson Memorial!

The story brought to you by: Liberty Is My Homie, who was an eye witness. Read it.

Remember what I said about terrorist chopping ninja's who don't have terrorists to chop? When you can't enjoy your freedoms on the steps of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial without arrest by armed state agents, in the Land of the Free, at its freakin capital, then we are on the brink of an all out police state...if we're not already there.

Great Quotes II

From Sharp as a Marble in response to Senator Obama's absurd comment:

I'm in a bitter mood. I'm going to go hump my gun while I read Leviticus. I'm tired of getting hoodwinked.

That's funny!

The tale of two elitists

Here at Legions Fate, I avoid posting on the political clown show that is the current presidential race, but this is definitely worth mentioning.

Senator Obama sticks his foot in his mouth by basically saying that gun owners are bitter, and then Senator Clinton tries to pin him for being anti-gun, and then Senator Obama criticizes her for acting pro-gun.

Both of these fools are as anti-gun as it gets. Don't fall prey to their petty Jedi mind tricks.

Not to leave anyone out; lets not forget the anti-gun track record of Senator John McCain either.

Serial bank robber?

They're giving away free money in DC now, too! Is this a trend? Hey, they're just creating their own power trip!

Look at the robber's picture. How the hell do you not notice this guy?

Authorities said they involved a 45-to-50-year-old black man who stands 5 feet 1 inches to 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 115 to 120 pounds, and has a light to medium complexion and a series of scars on the left side of his face. He is known to wear a dark suit and tie of a black, puffy coat with dark pants. He also has worn sunglasses.

So why is Flavor Flav robbing banks? This is going to continue until someone shows these guys that taking what is not yours is unacceptable.

More Virginia citizens are armed

More than 44,000 concealed handgun permits were issued in 2007, and over 4,000 have been issued since February of this year.

Phillip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) was mentioned in an article about this great phenomina that is surprisingly void of hysterics. It's here at VCDL's new blog, The Sentinel, go take a look.

Killing 'em dead

Who knew Alicia Keys is a conspiracy theorist? Weird.

Movie Guns III

This week's post is on the movie Shooter, staring Mark Wahlberg, who plays the character Bob Swagger. I have not had the pleasure of reading the book "Point of Impact" by Steven Hunter, of which the movie is based on. I have heard that the book is better.

The movie is about a Marine Corps sniper who is set up by some shady contractors as the shooter in the assassination of the Ethiopian archbishop. There are some really cool weapons in this movie, and I decided to post some of them for your viewing pleasure.

The first guns shown in the movie is the USMC M40M3 in what would be 7.62x51mm NATO, wearing a Unertl 10x power scope.










In the background you can see the spotter with an M4 with mounted M203 grenade launcher with an Aimpoint CompM4.

I'm not sure who's bright idea it was to put two alleged Marines in U.S. Army ACU's (Army Combat Uniform), nor do I know whom it offends more; Army Soldiers or Marines.

I do believe that the reason the spotter is carrying an M4 instead of an M14, or at least an M16, considering they are snipers, is because they are also toting a Barrett M107 chambered in .50 BMG which is wearing Nightforce optics.










There are two interesting things about the scene where they are under attack from the gunship. First is that the snipers both engage the gunship with their rifles until the spotter gets killed, at which point Swagger picks up the Barrett. Why not use the Barrett first?

The second thing is that Swagger hand cycles the action of the Barrett for every shot. I would think that the reason is because that blanks probably do not have the oomph to cycle the bolt. You can clearly see the case stuck in the breech before he racks the round home.

Next up we have a beautiful Cheytac M200 Intervention chambered in .408 Cheytac with a Leupold Mark 4 ER/T M1.








Of note is that the minute marks on the optic are spray painted with the rest of the rifle, as are all of the other minute marks throughout the movie. I don't believe this to be SOP, but if there are any real shooters out there who are in-the-know, please leave me a comment.

Just a couple of feet from the muzzle in this picture is a large dog that would surely be deaf from the blast, if real cartridges were being fired.

Up next is an unknown type of .22 caliber rifle with a homemade suppressor. Once again, if anyone knows what type of rifle this is from the profile, I would love to know.










I found this to be pretty cool. Swagger and an FBI agent are making pipe bombs, and he is using IMR-4350 to fill them.













The next gun that I captured from the film is in the hands of this...operator? I hate that word.

















It is an H&K G36, which as we all know makes him a super pimp, bad ass! Because...like...it's an H&K, and it like totally rocks, and everyone that wields one is a stone cold, super ninja!

Is it me, or is it getting all tactical up in this piece?

Too bad this guy becomes fixed blade fodder shortly after this frame by falling victim to Swagger's knife, which is also interesting because the guy dies almost immediately after being stabbed in the kidney. Ahh, realism.

On to the next! What we have here is Swagger shooting an M4 with an Aimpoint CompM4.









Right before this frame, Swagger is running with this M4 and decides to change magazines. It appears that he drops the magazine, re-seats it, and then racks the charging handle, at which point you can see a cartridge fly from the ejection port. Ooops.


He is also firing on auto when you can see that the selector is on semi-auto. I know, it's a movie and all, but I have an eye for these things.

Also, check out that muzzle flash! That is definitely not an A2 flash hider. I have heard that blanks make lots of flash so that the viewers can tell when the weapon is being fired.

The rifle on the ground to the left and the rifle on Swaggers back are both Remington Model 700's chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum; a cartridge I love to shoot. Here's a close up.

Notice anything unusual about the brass being ejected? It's definitely a blank. Also, you can see the spray painted Leupold with the covered minute marks. Strange.


Another gun that came up towards the end of the movie is this gaudy Beretta 92F with chrome plating and pearl grips.

The gun has four rounds in it when it is used to gun down a bad guy who is played by Elias Koteas, who I have a hard time seeing as a strong character since I still picture him as Casey Jones from the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

He does well as a bad guy, mind you.

The last gun I have for you is an M1911A1 of some undetermined make. This gun is used to destroy the last of the bad guys, and is the last weapon used in the movie. Other than that, there is nothing special about it considering that you can't get a good look at it.












That's all I've got. I'll have more next week!

Cool

Check this out. I found it at FreeConstitution, via HotAir: a homemade tank that fires paint balls.

.44 MOA at a mile with a .338!

Bad ass! I want one to hunt bears, because a mile is about as close as I want to get to one that's not behind bars.

Stand and be judged

I have been thinking lately about the requirements to carry a concealed handgun, and there are so many things about it that I just don't like. It comes as no surprise to me that there is someone else that shares my resentment towards the whole "permit" system, AKA "CHP," "CHL," "CCW" etc.

Make no mistake; when your state, local or even federal government requires you to fill out paperwork, to be fingerprinted, to have your past life investigated, to be judged, rated or otherwise fondled by those who you have voted into office, then you are, in fact, asking for permission to exercise your right.

Now, I don't like the word "permit" either, but that's what came to mind when I walked away from the courthouse where I asked the county judge to grant me rights that I already had from the day I first drew breath. Not only that, but I had to prove that I had training to exercise this right, and had to pay a fee on top of that.

I often wonder at how we got to this point in our freedom minded society where we ask for things of which we don't need permission, pay fees for things inherited, and ask for judgment to be performed upon us to make us feel more qualified about ourselves. Peer review, it is not.

There are those who carry a firearm concealed with the lawful qualifier of the "CHP," and belittle those who lawfully open carry without the granting of a "license," as somehow their fellow man has deemed them to be superior by handing them a piece of paper. I grin in painful disdain at the very sight of these shiny things, which are sold in every gun magazine that I have ever picked up.

Somehow I can't help but to draw a parallel to many of the television shows where folks stand before a "panel of experts" and wait to be judged for their actions. Granted, they are not asking permission to exercise a right, and they're being judged for their previous actions vs. the chance of future actions, but it does highlight that they are looking to be held in higher esteem by those they find themselves inferior to.

I'm not knocking competitive spirit; I'm just pondering the idea that some feel that in order to be qualified at something, that that qualification has to be determined by someone better than themselves. Is this a self esteem issue?

In my eyes this goes along with the idea that only a cop "licensed and authorized by the state" shall be the only one professional enough to stop a criminal, as if we are all too stupid to accurately determine if our life or limb is in danger of being destroyed by some scumbag.

Remember the spin the media put on the story where Jeanne Assam gunned down a goblin in a church? Apparently she was "qualified" by being a "security guard" with a "license" to have a handgun for protection in order to lawfully engage in a firefight with the man. Good thing she was predetermined to not be crazy so that she could use her right!

We "license" police to attend to society's protection without interruption, and to that end we hold them accountable -- thought not so much these days -- for actions against individuals within the community to ensure that rights are protected, but I am under the firm belief that it is every one's duty to protect his or her community.

This is not to say that everyone in society should be a vigilante, but that everyone should be vigilant. We should intervene when it is morally right to do so, up to and including righteously gunning down a scumbag with accurate fire from defilade, in support law enforcement. To force a citizen to prove themselves worthy of this right by obtaining a permit or license beforehand is madness.

Licensing for many careers is often a laughable idea that often causes unknowing folks to be less cautious when choosing a person or business to perform a service.

In a past life I was an electrician. I am very well trained, with both formal school education and "on the job training" with two of the most professional master electricians I have ever met, and they taught me how to do quality work.

Now that I'm out of the business, it's almost embarrassing to see the terrible work performed by many of the popular "licensed" electrical companies when I do fix-it work around my house or a friends.

However did the Egyptians survive without "titled" interior designers?

Licensing sets the bar at a fixed point, and has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the task performed, nor the principals or integrity of the person who holds it. The individual can change his or her mind at any time, and there is nothing that prior restraint is going to do to stop it.

That people who carry a concealed weapon for protection do not start blasting into crowds of innocents has nothing to do with being licensed by a judge, or shielded by these shiny things, it is because that virtually all of them have no desire to hurt their fellow man.

We need to cast out this mindset that we are all incapable of protecting or providing for ourselves unless someone better than us says we may.

TSA engineered negligent discharge

Found at SaysUncle: TSA "safety" rules led to the Federal Flight Deck Officer shooting a hole in his plane.

Update: DC robber dies

Original post here. New story here.

This is what will happen when DC's gun ban finally gets squashed by SCOTUS.

Shouldn't that be illegal?

Guns in schools I mean. There should be...like, a law or something, and maybe some signs so stuff like this will never happen.

Then nobody would dare bring a gun to a school; which is great, because the school staff is unarmed and totally helpless to stop an attack if anybody: a)went to the courthouse and read the law, b) made it past the signs and then c)decided to take a gun into the school anyways.

Glad we got that cleared up.

Apparently, even young criminals don't obey the law these days:

Three guns, at least one of which was stolen, and other weapons were found in a student's locker, police said.

Signs and laws didn't help? Weird!

The incident is believed to be gang related and likely related to friction between students that began at the end of last week, police said.

Gang related? They must not have read the law. It clearly states that guns are not allowed into schools. And how did they not see this:

Why, it's almost like those little bastards have no respect for the law. We should make it more illegal so this definitely will not happen again, and maybe just do away with teachers altogether so there's no chance they will ever bring a gun to school!

Wal-Mart assault weapon

Man assaulted with a dangerous type of gun in a Wal-Mart, thus qualifying it as an "assault weapon."

Why doesn't he just use the "gun show loophole"

This guy is running around Va with a machete and robbing gas stations.

This being Va, sooner or later some 7-11 employee will ventilate his upper body with some well aimed .38's. Then people like this will get the message that this is unacceptable behaviour.

These lessons must be re-taught from time-to-time.

I can think of no worse

This is possibly THE worst way to die. You can count on OSHA conjuring up all sorts of new laws in the name of "safety" because of this freak accident.

VCDL's new blog

It's called The Sentinel, go check it out.

Home Security

I found this link on The High Road and laughed out loud -- Does watching those ADT commercials make anyone else want to buy more guns? There's some good stuff in there, go and read.

I used to install security systems, and they're only good if used as a layer in your security, as these alarms will not deter most criminals and are easily defeated. A good, yappy dog and a firearm or three should also be included in the layers. Something I found interesting:

Here's what Colorado Springs police think about alarms

Our local paper, the Colorado Springs Gazette, recently had an article on the high percentage of false alarms for residential and business alarm systems. According to the article, there are so many false alarms that the police have lowered their priority in responding to alarms. Here's an excerpt:

April 4, 2008 - 9:03PM THE GAZETTE

Of the 10,667 burglar alarms triggered at Colorado Springs homes and businesses last year, only 2 percent were legit.

For the other 10,454 alarms, cops made dry runs, burning time they could have been spent on real needs.

The problem of false alarms - caused by equipment malfunctions, poor installation or user error - is so great that in December, the department downgraded burglar-alarm responses in order of priority.

That means officers go to trespassing calls before they respond to burglar alarms.

Looks like one more good reason to keep a gun in the home.Link to the full article here: http://www.gazette.com/common/sectio...icle/&id=34952

Weak criminal laws

..in Connecticut gets a woman killed and another fighting for her life.

I suppose that instead of tightening up on criminals they will take the easy road and pass more gun laws in a lame attempt to stop these recently paroled violent felons from acquiring a firearm, which will stop crime in its tracks for sure.

This is not what I had in mind:

“The time for excuses and rationalization has passed,” Governor Rell said. “We need a law that says if you commit three violent offenses, you will be sent to prison for the rest of your life. Period. It is time for action.”

Three!! Are you kidding me?!! How about ONE, genious?!!

Fortunately here in Va they do a pretty good job of keeping scumbags locked up.

The Eye is upon you

Jeez, big brother at its finest, in DC no less. Of course this sort of anti-liberty idealism is conceved from the brain of a blatant socialist, DC's Mayor Fenty.

Your dose of stupid for the day:

Fenty's plane would combine those surveillance programs into one to monitor terrorism and daily crime and concerns.

"Hey Earl, them's terrorists are all hanging out at that there fish market again....you reckon we oughta call it in?"

"Nah, just keep an eye on um, they ain't hurtin nobody.."

As I've said before: terrorists are not around every corner! 5,000 cameras are just 5,000 more opportunities for government folks to monitor your every move on a daily basis.

KNOW YOUR TARGET!!

..and what is beyond it.

I've never heard of the charge "negligent hunting."

Robber shot by upstanding citizen in DC

Actually, no. It was an off duty DC cop.

Citizens in DC, according to the "public servants" who rule over the district, are too stupid and/or incompetent to determine that this scumbag was robbing a gas station under force, or threat thereof, so they would have never been able to intervene.

But DC cops are trained from birth to instantly determine a robbers proclivities, and are graciously given the rare privilege of carrying a death machine assault pistol to thwart the bad guys attempts to deprive a citizen of his or her property and life.

It's a good thing that the gas station owner did not posses one of these death machines or somebody may have gotten hurt.

Update: The bad guy died. So Sorry.

He didn't try to rob the gas station attendant; he instead tried to rob the off duty cop and got a chest full of holes for his trouble. Fortunately the victim was an "Only One" and was carrying his "service revolver," because if it had been one of DC's unarmed, unwashed proletariat the story would likely have been tragic.

Banks giving away free money!

This time in Arlington. What has happened to this country when some guy can walk into a mall dressed like he has SARS and then go into a bank and just say "give me the money." Look at the picture and ask yourself: how is it that nobody saw this guy and called security?

I mean suspicious doesn't even begin to describe him.

I understand that they advise tellers to use caution and not resist -- which I feel is not always the best policy -- but giving them all you have just because they tell you to is pretty stupid.

Assault with a deadly automobile

Man maims another guy with an SUV and is found guilty. An automobile is every bit as dangerous as a firearm, if not more so, and sometimes people will use anything within their grasp to kill others.

As David has often puts it: "Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian." I agree.

Let's hope they put him away forever.

"Youth Violence Prevention" in DC

Apparently DC kids think it's whitey's fault that they can't stop killing each other:

Adams said students offered reactions like "everybody does some bad," "you gotta roll before you get rolled" and "white folks give us the guns."

I blame the NRA for giving away free guns to kids in DC out of a primered van. Next they will be pushing these into their little hands and whispering...kill...kill...kill...kill.

How about a little self reponsibility.

Misappropriation of funds

How is it that the taxpayers owe money to the victims of a tragedy? I'm not trying to be cold hearted, but why do I have to pay?

If I get crippled by a drunk driver does the state owe me money just because? I'm confused here, will somebody please explain this to me?

Va Governor Tim Kaine is firmly behind this, and everyone knows that he's a socialist scumbag.

More here and here.

Oops

Cop negligently shoots two teens.

Notice that the article tries to blunt the blame by saying that the cop didn't shoot them, "the gun discharged." Indeed.

Fortunately the kids survived. Will the cop be held accountable?

Students sharpen their combat edge

George Mason University students spend the day at the range learning gun safety with NRA instructors.

Here's the video which shows students shooting, and a female student does a great job getting her point across about why they want to carry.

Good on them.

Playing the game

I was tagged by SailerCurt for this meme. I've never participated in this sort of thing, but I appreciate the offer and I'm all about it so here it goes:

First the Rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir.

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.

5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play....

My Love, Purpose, Direction, and Hope...













I have tagged Paul, The Pawnbroker, Peter, The Smallest Minority, and The Armed Canadian. We'll see what happens.

Righteous intervention

Knife defense is good-to-go.

Topless fishing charter

That's ingenuity right there.

DC gun grab stalled til June

The story here. My past posts here.

What truly made me recoil in astonishment was the comments made by Johnny Barnes of the ACLU in regards to other ways to get guns off the streets:

He cited the successful police-sponsored gun buyback program, in which residents bring guns to a designated place on a certain day and turn them in for money.

Gun buybacks aren't successful. They give out taxpayer money to elderly widows who turn in their late husbands war worn Colt 1911 without any idea of its value, or to gun dealers who know a deal when they see one and turn in several dozen broken $60 Lorcin handguns for a $250 return. How is it that a city can use citizens money to "buy back" something that they didn't own in the first place? I'm not the only one who thinks they're clown shows.

"Why do we have to put at risk our fundamental constitutional rights?" Barnes said of Safe Homes.

Indeed. The ACLU has never given one teeny little shit about the second amendment, which the citizens of DC have been deprived of for over 30 years. Where was the ACLU when gun owners needed them?

The ACLU is partnering with the community group ACORN and others to sponsor a training session that will educate people about their rights, he said.

Yeah, because ACORN is all about protecting your Constitutional rights. Spare me any of your favors.

Charlton Heston Dies

At the age of 84.

Bruce has some coverage. I've been out of town so I'm a little behind the power curve.

Gun hysteria from the Associated Press

Tim McGuire reports on the arrested man who "may have been on the verge" of a school massacre in Florida. There are all of the standard media lines of hysteria, like saying that the police confiscated a "cache" of guns (13 in all), "over five thousand rounds," and this gem:

"100 rounds of ammunition loaded into a feeding clip that authorities say are meant to take down an aircraft or military machinery."

Really? I didn't know that the gun blobby had pushed "armor piercing feeding clips" into the general population. They must be mailing them out by the thousands! Silly NRA, why would anyone need a feeding clip that can take out military machinery?

I don't believe one damn word that the media says anymore.

Knives in prison?

Shouldn't there be a law or a sign or something, you know, to make it illegal?

Teacher arrested on gun charges

Do you reckon she was a member of the NRA? Did she have one of those concealed handgun permits?

Ahh, no. This was in Kalifornia, and on school property, so apparently signs and laws did not help.

DC gun grab update

See past coverage here and here.

It seems that DC residents are not so naive after all. Good for them. Too bad DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier still tries to play everyone a fool:

The chief now says any searches would be done only by appointment unless there is an "urgent need,"

Uh huh, and what exactly constitutes an "urgent need?" And my, my, how about that amnesty:

Amnesty will be granted for any gun possession charges but not for any crimes committed with that gun.

The chief said police also will be alert to child abuse or other social services issues that may require government follow up.

"If we go into a home and we see a case of severe abuse or neglect; I mean, there's certain things that we just can't ignore," Lanier said.

And you wonder why you have this:

Since the program was announced weeks ago, it has been delayed in part because of fears citizens' rights will be violated.

No shit.

I'm not defending people that neglect their children, but what the government considers "abuse or neglect" and "certain things that we just can't ignore" sounds equivocal to me, and I am a very skeptical person when it comes down to government honoring a citizens rights.

Think I'm crazy? What happens when the police show up for an "appointment" and they see your Japanese Maple grow operation?

Exactly.

Update: Check out the consent form. Nothing in there says anything about "certain things that we just can't ignore." Definitely unconstitutional.

Here is the brochure for the "Safe Homes Initiative." I find this interesting:

While the main objective of the program is to search for illegal weapons, if drugs or other illegal contraband are found in plain view in your home during a SafeHomes search, officers will be obligated to seize the items in question. You will not be prosecuted for any drugs found in your home.

What else will they be "obligated" to seize? Perhaps disposable cameras? And this:

By cooperating with police, you are doing an important service to your community. Your efforts will help put an end to violence by bringing criminals to justice.

How will criminals be brought to justice if they are giving amnesty? More lies:

Parents or guardians will have the option to voluntarily allow their neighborhood foot
beat officers to enter their homes to conduct safety checks for weapons without risk of arrest.

What they don't say is that "without risk of arrest" is cast aside if they see "certain things they just can't ignore" which could be almost anything they want.

When you let agents of the state who possess the power to seize and arrest into your house, you open doors that you just can't shut.

Disposible cameras the new "assault weapons"

Apparently the Conneticut police "aren't buying it" when the accused 14 year old boy's father demonstrated how harmless the camera was. The reporter calls it a "weapon," with which the boy is being charged with attempted assault.

Absurd.

And Sgt Jeremiah Dunn of the Clinton Police Department is an idiot.

Dangerous colored assault tools on the rise

Since the hysterical anti-gun folks are shrieking about "colored guns meant to look like toys," as if gangbangers are going to send their $55 Bryco .25 Auto in to get a $200 Duracoat from Lauer Custom Weaponry, I decided to also point out the dangers of power tools meant to look like toys.

See, this is what normal power tools are supposed to look like:

But then, with the growing popularity of colored firearms, the power tool lobby decided to make things more colorfull in an attempt to boost sales:

And turned them into assault drills!

Then they did the same thing with Power Saws!

And nail guns!

Why, some poor child may saw his or her arm off thinking that these are toys! We must pass legislation immediately to keep these assault tools off of our streets in the name of safety...and the children!

Movie Guns II

I'm going to start posting movie guns weekly if I can. I watch lots of movies and I'm a critic when it comes down to accuracy. This week is mainly about the 1911, but since I was taking pictures from movies I decided to add a few more.

The first movie I went through was We Were Soldiers staring Mel Gibson. There were plenty of other great actors in it, one of which is Sam Elliot who wields a Colt M1911A1:

I can usually pick out an actor who has had little gun handling skills in life, and I think Sam Elliot is one of them. Cocking a 1911 with your finger inside of the trigger guard is a big no-no. Also, as he's fighting with the pistol you can see that he's not really even aiming at the NVA soldiers that he "kills," he sometimes fires towards the ground.

The 1911 can be seen elsewhere in the movie, such as this "Hollywood High Ready" picture that is so common in film:

This hold serves no purpose whatsoever but is seen on just about every movie poster ever made. He does however keep his finger straight and off the trigger which Hollywood does not usually enforce, and he doesn't do the "cup-and-saucer" pistol hold that is also very common amongst the firearm uneducated, so I would say that this actor has handled a firearm before.



Next up we have the movie Major Payne. Damon Wayans fires his 1911 into the air to get his ROTC students under control:

I have no idea what the make of this pistol is.

There's not a whole lot to say about this movie. He is seen with the gun at the beginning of the movie but I can't recall him ever firing it until this scene











The last film I'm going to cover is Black Hawk Down. The two Delta Soldiers had Colt M1911A1's and used them in a big shootout in the middle of the movie:

Both eyes open and looking for a target, but every time he fires his eyes are closed. You see all kinds of poor shooting when you advance the film one frame at a time.

Here is a picture of the other guy firing his 1911. If you look closely, you can see the pistol's hammer is back but the gun appears to be firing. The muzzle flash was added after the scene was shot as there are many more places where you can see the pistol is at slide lock but he keeps firing anyhow.


You can only tell these things if your going frame by frame, when the film is running normally everything looks fine. The shootout looks really good at full speed.


For fun I threw in some extra guns from the film. A M14 with an Aimpoint on top looks cool, and I'm sure it's devastating in an urban environment if you don't have to clear rooms or tight spaces, but I would imagine that the rifles long range effectiveness is ruined. Just a thought.

Here is a Colt M4A2 with a fake suppressor attached. The rifle looks great with that Aimpoint on the carry handle but I'm not sure if that's a Surefire G2 Nitrolon mounted on the side. If it is, I doubt it existed back then. Also notice that he's not looking through the Aimpoint or the sight. I would say he has never fired a rifle before.




The last picture I have for you is the Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun that the injured pilot is fighting with. In his lap is a Colt M4A1 that belongs to the Delta Soldier above. The Soldier with the M14 gives it to the Pilot, but the funny part is that he isn't given the gun until about 10 seconds after this picture. I guess it is a movie mistake.













Also of note is the light on the M4 is taped to the forearm.


That's all I've got today. Enjoy.

Power Tripping

At least they're coming out and saying it. Click here to see a video clip of DC Mayor Fenty talk about DC's new slogan appropriately called "Create your own power trip." What an apposite slogan for the bureaucratic elite in Washington to create.

I'm just speachless.

Interesting quote from the clip:

"..four concepts including; that Washington is the seat of power, has soul power, can make a power play, and also has fire power.."

So your supposed to create your own power trip, Eh? Hell, you didn't need a slogan to say that, these guys created their power trip years ago, complete with their own firepower!

Actually, I think firepower is the key to the slogan, because in order to "create your own power trip," you need to have a monopoly on the firepower.

Take Mayor Fenty for example. He created his power trip with help of the police who, with the exception of the gangs, have all of the firepower.

Hopefully the Heller case will bring about the destruction of the DC gun ban, giving the good citizens of DC the opportunity to have their own firepower, and thus their own power trip.

What was really meant by "Keep and Bear Arms"

Via David at The War on Guns comes this excellent piece by Mr. Tim Case that outlines what it takes to really be prepared. Go read it.

Something noted in the article is how the components to reload ammunition can be traded if not needed. I completely agree, and also consider this a reason for owning an array of firearms. Not only does it give you a better chance of having a weapon that will chamber various ammunition that is readily available, it also gives you a durable good to trade for other items.

My Grandmother was a German immigrant that survived the fall of Berlin during WWII. Undoubtedly she kept many of the horrors that she endured to herself, but one of the things that she did speak of was that currency became useless overnight.

She described it as wheelbarrows full of cash pushed by starving citizens to the marketplace, only to be exchanged for a few scraps of meat or turned away altogether.

In order to survive she would trade various durable goods like a gold or jewelry for eggs and bread. Some of the bread would be traded for bacon or milk. I'm sure there were tools and supplies that were also valuable for trade, and firearms were probably on the top of the list.

So if you think that your American Express will save you if the SHTF, think again. A quality rifle can feed and protect your family for decades, but as Mr. Case pointed out, only if you keep it fed with ammunition and maintain proficiency.

Navy SEAL earns Medal of Honor

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor saved the lives of three fellow SEALs when he dropped onto a hand grenade that was thrown at him in Ramadi, Iraq. Without hesitation, he took the blast from the grenade which killed him and injured two of his friends.

"He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it," said a 28-year-old lieutenant, who suffered shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. "He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs' lives, and we owe him."

His family will be presented with his Medal of Honor on April 8th.

Even the highest honor that our nation can bestow gives no justice to sacrifice such as this. May he rest in peace.

Common sense from the Army

The Army decided to let married couples who are serving in combat live together.

I'm sure there are some who will find a way to abuse this but that is no reason to screw everyone else over. I can't see getting all excited about the possibility of romance in a combat zone; sand and sweat of that magnitude is not a turn on.

But hey, if it saves one marriage...

Oklahoma campus carry stalls

My previous coverage here.

OK senators can't come up with an agreement. Not that the bill does me a whole lot of good. It allows veterans to carry on campus, which I don't agree with because I think that it is giving "privileges" to a class of citizens instead of freeing up a right to be exercised by all citizens in general.

Here is a dose of stupid for today:

University of Oklahoma President David Boren had argued the bill would hurt recruitment of students and faculty. It also would pose a dilemma for police trying to determine whether a person wielding a weapon was a "deranged gunman or someone who thinks he is doing good vigilante work."

So if you defend yourself you are a "vigilante." My understanding of a vigilante is someone who goes about looking to find bad guys and engage them in combat, not the other way around. But this is coming from a scumbag bureaucrat who has no concept of personal responsibility or self defense, so take it as a grain of salt.