The Natural Selection is strong in this one

This loser soundly violated all four rules of gun safety, and will hopefully now get the full affect of daddy's wrath.

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Sadly, this type of behaviour is almost expected among our youth these days; why 90 lb. juveniles think it's cool to cover their face with bandannas while spouting hard words at a camera is anyone's guess..

Hey hoss, keep your focus on the fundamentals right now, like not peeing on the toilet seat, before setting your ambitions any higher. And I'm afraid guns will never be your thing, so get that out of your head.

H/T Ace

Gun free Good Ol' Boy violence

For a story lacking guns, drugs, or alcohol, from what I can tell, this one has every backwoods Southern stereotype one would expect.

A taste:

When she opened the front door, her boyfriend--who is also her ex-husband--came down the steps in a T-shirt and boxers, Timm said.

I'm thinking a grease stained wife-beater instead of a T-shirt, and I would bet you a shiny new paycheck that he had a piece of straw clenched in his teeth when he opened the door. Perhaps even had some David Allen Coe blaring in the background. Oh yeah.

Starter pistol violence

The hostages included McNulty, Chris Wood and a security guard. Police said 43-year-old Lee had been armed with starter pistols and homemade pipe bombs.

I did not know that crazy Baltimore gunman guy had starter pistols. The bombs I did know about though.

Maybe someone should pass a law making gunman paint starter pistol barrels orange or something.

Also:

Then, McNulty said, a calm came over him and "I started thinking, 'OK, I'm a hostage, what do I need to do?'"

Where's your Kel-Tec? Glock? Oh, yeah that's right, it's Baltimore. It's gun free.

Beware of nakedness

A naked D.C. firefighter apparently was caught on camera preparing food for a party in a firehouse.

The photo was supplied to News4 by a source who says complaints have been made by female firefighters and paramedics who were there at the time.

I guess I could see how the female firefighters might not approve, but being the non-offendable person that I am, I just can't see why everyone gets so bent out of shape over some nudity.

Not that I walk around in the buff or anything; I just can't see getting a case of the vapors, fumbling around desperately with the phone to call the cops, my therapist, my pastor, or my bestist friend, all over the sight of genitalia that we all have, and see every day. Well, most of us anyways. But then again, I drive past cow and horse pastures to and from work every day, so the sight of humongous pairs of balls and worse makes anything that a firefighter could produce seem pretty insignificant.

Delicious wounding redoux

A woman who shot her boyfriend during an argument over a submarine sandwich pleaded guilty to malicious wounding yesterday.

None of this would have happened if she had just got him a sandwich like he asked! Get me my sandwich, or you'll see the back of my hand!!!

All jokes aside, I still find it odd that this woman faces 21 years at most for purposely shooting her boyfriend in the face over food, while this old geezer faces an 80 year sentence for getting off via webcam. He's a creepy guy for sure, and could be violent, but in the case of Lyles, she is definitely violent.

Which one would you rather live next to?

So where are those guns coming from?

A ridiculous discussion on the 'Weapons seized from Drug Cartels by Mexican Army' thread at Militaryphotos.net about where the guns are actually coming from has turned to angst. Seems some people just know that it's America's fault.

Let me point out something really obvious to everyone. It doesn't matter where a drug cartel thug requisitioned his Colt rifle from in regards to traceability, whether it be he deserted the military and took his issued weapon, or bought it from Billy Bob's gun shack in Arizona, or payed some starving Mexican Federale for his, because every Colt rifle starts life in the same exact place. So no shit the rifle can be "traced back to the US!" That's where it was made! Virtually all AR type rifles are manufactured in the US, so of course they're going to be traced there. I bet every one of the Chevy Tahoes that the cartels use to deliver a car bomb can be traced back to the US too!

From browsing this thread and comparing it to the Mexican Armed Forces thread, it's easy to see that a lot of the heavy hardware starts its service in the hands of Mexican government employees and somehow makes its way into the hands of the cartels. You can argue how that is happening all you want, or not happening, or can't happen, but in every other picture of captured cartel weapons there are those shiny gold canisters that are about 40mm in diameter, and if you look close you can also see them here. Hmmmmm.

Also, the grenades that the cartels use originated in the US too. I gather that the LAW rockets and M203s did as well, and probably the M18 claymores. So don't get all wrapped up around the axle when some alphabet news man or internet commando says that the cartels get weapons from the US. Smile knowing that every one of the 8,000,000+ M16/AR15 pattern weapons that the US brokered to Mexico can be traced back stateside, and then ask is it possible that the cartels may be getting them from the corrupt Mexican government. Trace them all you want to; we know where they're getting them!

4 Day work week

To hell with the savings; I think it's a great idea.

I have come to realize that I am working my life away. I'm all about serving mankind, but these days my wife and I struggle just to make time to go to the grocery store. When did it all end up this way? Do any of you out there even know a retired person who is truly retired, not one that has retired from like two different jobs? It just seems like all Americans do anymore is work.

To bad this idea won't affect me; I could use an extra day to spend with the kids.

Equipment Change Proposal

I've been trying really hard to not be so negative lately, but the bitterness. . . .it BURNS!!!!

The ingenuity in the baby care department is seriously lacking.

At approximately 0'dark thirty this morning I was up with CTone the youngest, cursing under my breath as usual as I was navigating those shitty monochrome buttons on the pajamas, when I realized that I hated the next part of the event before it had even happened--making a bottle.

Everyone's technique is basically the same: grab a clean bottle, turn the water on full hot, keep a hand under the water to tell when it gets warm, fill the bottle when it gets to the proper temperature, and then you have to add baby formula to finish the deal. Simple enough, except that you have to measure the formula using the provided measuring scoop, which being clear in color buried in white powder makes it a pain in the ass. I mean, the engineers at the baby formula factory might as well make the scoop out of the fucking camouflage from Predator.

So it's dark, because any light whatsoever makes baby think that it's time to play, and you have a wet hand, and you have to fish around in the jug of formula for a scoop that you can't possibly see, so you end up trying to delicately find the end of the scoop without getting the powder all over your hand. And if you get that shit under your finger nails, you're done son. Baby formula and water is what they use to make Gorilla Glue.

Huge pain in the ass.

Does Enfamil get a better deal on clear plastic scoops? Are engineers these days even smart enough to engage their brains and make scoops for white powdered formula out of a colored plastic that disgruntled dads can see at night? Would it be asking too much to make the scoop handle out of red plastic? Fuck! It's not rocket surgery! Fix it!

While we're still on the subject of stupidity, clear plastic, and baby stuff, perhaps the engineers at NUK and other companies that make pacifiers would be so kind as to make them in readily seen colors as well. After the bottle/formula incident this morning, I found something else to bitch about.

Pacifiers were sent to the earth by Satan himself to torture working moms and dads, and if you're going to use them, at some point you should know that it means nightime hourly trips cribside to give screaming baby the plastic thingy that he can't find for himself in the dark, inches from his face. The plastic ninny is a fucking addiction, so you would think that making them blaze orange, or maybe putting some tritium inserts in the damn things would be wise so that you don't have to be the one swirling your hands around in the crib trying to detect them without swatting little Johny in the face.

They're made in either clear, white, baby blue, light green, light pink, or light yellow plastic. Stop right now and think about the sheets on your little precious' bedding -- that's right, white, baby blue, light green, light pink, or light yellow. Don't Soldiers wear clothing that blends into their surroundings so that they cannot be seen? What do you jackasses think you have done when you make baby's pacifier in those colors? You've made them camouflage. Why do we even have to be stuck with those colors anyways? There's a whole pallet of thousands of colors to chose from, and you idiots pick the same ones every time?

While I'm thinking about it, when the hell is Magpul going to make a pacifier in foliage green or flat dark earth, so that I can see it in the crib at night?

You don't have to conform to the same theme that everyone else has done for years. It's like an ant line, where every ant follows the one in front of it because that's just how it's done. Oh yeah, I'm calling you engineers ants! You're ants! Mindless little worker ants, who have to stay in line or they get lost and hose the whole line of ants up behind them! You go get a degree so that you can do the same shit that everyone else does! Can't you think for yourself?

Seriously though, I can't stand the pacifiers; I never used them because I have thumbs, and because those thumbs are attached to my hands, I didn't drop them on the pitch black dirty floors at Outback, run them over with the stroller in Wal-Mart, or lose them in a dark crib. They were always there when I needed them, and I quit sucking my thumbs when I was four, so the whole "you can't take away their thumbs; they'll suck them until they're thirty" argument is moot.

The pacifier will eventually become a major issue when you have to take it away from your rugrat. I'm not kidding about the addiction part; if you take them away for the day to only be issued out at night, your kid will wander around the house aimlessly, mumbling over and over about "ninny; where is my ninny?"

I realize that baby equipment is new territory, not like, say, parachutes, where the learning curve was way more steep and required advancements that pretty much took everything off the table early on.

Before you build something, sit back for a minute and picture yourself as a dog-ass tired dad, scooting out of bed at 2 a.m. to attend to screaming Johnny, dried out contacts, brain disengaged, you walk out into the hall barefoot and step on those annoying little plastic animals that might as well be steel spike strips, cursing under your breath; do you really want to be trying to find a white plastic thingy on a white sheet in the dark?

You would think that y'all would learn some of this shit in school, and not be getting it from a no name blog. It's alright though, my advice is free. Now, what are you going to do with it?

Marines saving the day

. . .by kicking a little pirate ass!

I heard that one of the little pirates shat himself, giving new meaning to the term poop deck!

Here's some pics of the smackdown, which ended without shots fired. I see a M40A5 with Schmidt & Bender 3 - 12 x 50mm in that first pick.

Tactical goes into uncharted territory

'Bad-ass,' 'tactical,' and 'apocalypse,' are generally terms that you wouldn't reserve for a spork. . . . until now.

And I thought I had seen everything with the invention of the tactical pen.

One of the coolest pictures I've ever seen

In what looks like a pretty intense fight these guys are in, this picture gives you a glimpse of what a standard issue Colt M4 with ACOG has to go through in its lifetime. Yikes!

And in case you didn't scroll through that whole page, there are US Soldiers throwing hand grenades at Taliban fighters at the edges of the FOB. That would be pretty scary to have the enemy that close to where you sleep.

Dog shooting

After reading about all the dogs shot during drug raids and such, I was actually pretty impressed when I read this story to hear about the lengths the DC cops went through to not shoot the dog. It was unfortunate that they had to, but it doesn't sound like they had much of a choice.

Spree shooting in Kentucky

Guy goes crazy and shoots his family and neighbors. He allegedly had violence issues for some time, although the article doesn't clarify.

In situations like this one, it's hard to say what could have been done to prevent it from happening. He started shooting his own family, and who would expect that, and then went over to his neighbor's house and started killing there too. Again, not what you would expect.

Here's the part that I find notable in this whole thing:

Sims said that when state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Neace's body on the porch in the unincorporated community of Mount Carmel in Breathitt County, which is home to about 16,000 people.

This is not a knock on the cops; it sounds like a remote part of the state, and who knows how long it took for someone to place a call. I point it out because calling the cops is not always the quick answer to a problem. Sometimes you may be on your own for awhile.

Russian gun p0rn

On the Russian thread MilitaryPhotos.net.

I see a Stechkin APS with detachable wooden stock/holster (very cool), a VSK-94 suppressed sniper rifle, a VSS suppressed sniper rifle, and an AK-101 with grenade launcher, among other things.

Some of those so called soldiers look like they were planted just for the photo shoot. Clicking through that thread shows some dudes from heartier stock that look like they actually do this stuff for a living.

Spree shooting in PA

At Kraft Foods in Philly:

PHILADELPHIA – Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.

The timeline says she came back with a gun "about ten minutes after the woman was escorted out." Time will tell whether she drove home to get the gun, or if she kept it in her car, which raises other questions. I would bet that she knew the axeman cometh, and prepared for the event accordingly.

So true!

I remember this like it was yesterday.

"Looking Professional"

The comics at Terminal Lance are hilarious. Check it out!

Philipine National Police SWAT use Savage

After the bungled bus/hostage standoff a few weeks ago, I guess they're trying to save face with a little dog and pony show.

I read in a Shotgun News not to long ago that the Philipine police snipers had just awarded a contract to Savage to buy some of their model 11os. Cool to see them again.

Is that how it works?

Let's see if I can extrapolate how Virginia's justice system works these days.

If you are a violent psychopath that started your career of mayhem at the age of ten, then you qualify for like a year or two of time in state prison--most of it suspended--for every violent crime you commit up until the point where you are indicted for murdering five people.

If you are a violent psychopathic woman who stabs someone in the chest with a kitchen knife, then you qualify for five years in state prison, but will only serve six months so that you can do it all over again as soon as possible.

If you are a violent psychopathic man who has a lengthy criminal record for such peaceful acts as assaulting a cop, then you qualify for six months in jail with four and a half months suspended, making it possible for you to drive around at night while firing your gun in the air.

If you are a violent psychopathic scumbag with a lifelong penchant for hurting people, and you are arrested for tying a guy down to a chair with a lamp cord and beating his face in over a drug deal that didn't go your way, then you qualify to serve five years in a state penitentiary.

If you are a violent psychopathic scumbag with ten felony convictions, then you qualify to be released on parole once again from state prison so that you can rape, sodomize, and murder a depressed woman and leave her body to freeze in the woods. It's cool. We know you like that, so we'll give you a break this time too.

Now, if you're a creepy older guy with no known prior convictions, and you pull your winky out in front of your web cam to impress a 13 year old, than you qualify for 80 years in state prison.

WTF?

I'm not concerned about the well being of the creepy guy, but when the hell do violent people get shown to the revolving door while the guy who is accused of what is arguably a victimless crime get fed into the grinder? What am I missing?

I don't know about you, but if I was, say, searching for a home to move my family to, and I had to chose between having a neighbor who was convicted and served time for showing his junk to an undercover cop posing as a kid, or a guy who was convicted and served time for taking hostages and shooting up a post office, and for shooting his girlfriend in the chest while he was wanted for having sex with a child, then which one do you think I would pick?

I understand that the economy thrives in part on the sale of prisoner's bonds as securities, but come on now!! You've got it all backwards!! Is this some sort of inflation backlash from the new sex crime laws? Somebody needs to go back and rethink murder and other violent charges so that they're up to par.

I've read somewhere before that 15 years is the average time served in America for murder. You have to have one seriously mangled schlong to traumatize someone to the point where you should get more time in prison than the fella who tries to hire a hitman to cut the throat of his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Hey Virginia, how about some crime reform?

And there you have it

When Fidel is saying that the communist system in Cuba is broken, then you know for a fact that you've got troubles.

Now raise your hand if you think Raul is going to turn that ship around and sail right into the lap of luxury; after all, even with a battered economy, I'd take the homeless life in America to the average life in Cuba any day.

You said it mister!

I almost laughed oatmeal out of my nose when I read this headline! So much can be deducted from that one statement depending on who you are and how you think.

Personally, I have no dog in the DC Mayor fight; I think they have both shown to not care very much about the rights of their constituents.

Vince Gray:

"I do not support a bill that would have us give up our right to legislate and have us give up our gun control laws," said Gray.

Adrian Fenty:

"But if we had to make that call on a close margin, I do believe a majority of District residents say: 'Give us the vote. Give us the vote, and we hate this gun law, but we'll find a way to get rid of that if necessary.' "

Where a candidate stands on a simple human right tells a big tale about how they will treat you as a person. Both fail under my standards, but then I don't have to live by their rules. I can safely stand back and mock whichever one wins from the relative safety of my keyboard. Either way, I wish DC folks well. It's like having to decide between cat shit or dog shit for dinner.

Mexican drug war nastiness

MEXICO CITY – The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago."

Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials pointed to Mexican drug cartels' use of three car bombs, a tool once favored by cartel-allied rebels in Colombia, as evidence that the gangs "are now showing more and more indices of insurgency."

Knocking off mayors and using car bombs shows that this mess is far beyond semi auto rifles and where they came from. And not to throw cold water on Hillary's plan absent the facts that she has, but didn't we already have Special Forces Soldiers train the Mexican military? Last I heard, that was not working in our favor.

I will major in Zombie

Zombie 101 now offered at the University of Baltimore.

Dirty arms dealers

"According to criminal complaints, the two men began negotiating in April 2009 to buy 300 stolen automatic weapons from FBI undercover agents and police officers. In addition, Hamayel sought to purchase grenades, improvised explosive devices, remote-controlled detonators and C-4 plastic explosive, the complaints said."

One would think that a Palestinian Authority militant would have plenty of places besides Miami to obtain automatic weapons. Thinking about it though, why not just buy all this stuff for basically nothing at a gun show in Texas like the Mexican cartels do? No background checks for C-4 at a gun show, so there's no risk when purchasing them there, and grenades are finally back in stock after the great ammo rush of 2009! The Feds can't say a thing when you show them your receipt!

H/T Ace

Reminiscing

I'm looking back on an earlier OCW test that I did with 165 grain Sierra Game Kings. Despite having magazine related issues, I did find two fantastic loads for my 308, and I'm starting to get the rifle reloading bug again.

Last weekend or so I had a disappointing range trip with the 308 and 168 grain Federal Gold Medal Match. I blamed the barrel nut for my woes. The next day I chiseled an action block out of two pieces of 2 x 6, which to tell you the truth I could have easily just ordered one from Brownells, but I wanted it that day so that I could take the rifle apart and check the barrel nut.

All seemed well with it, as it was still tight, but I took it off anyways and re tightened it. Now I need to shoot it again to see if it made a difference.

Last night I seated my first round of .380 auto, so I'll be cranking those out like a goon here too. I want to make fifty to start with so that I can get some chrono data and make sure that they won't blow up in my face. Range Report with pics to follow, if I ever get the time to shoot again.

You are worth defending

This post at Excels at Nothing is right on. If you could kill an attacker to protect your child, you could kill an attacker to protect yourself.

I have an obligations to my family: I owe my kids a father, and my wife a husband. I can't make good on that if I'm not alive.

Busy Labor Day weekend

What do you do on a beautiful Labor Day weekend when all of your kids are sick? Well, you don't take them to the mall; that's how my kids got sick. I still can't understand why some trashy local mom would bring her sick kids to a play place in a public mall; it drives me crazy.

Fortunately, there are plenty of outdoor activities to go to, such as the Chancellorsville battlefields and many parks. If you're a history buff, and have read up on the American Civil War, then you have no doubt heard of Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania. Some epic fighting went down there, and the battlefields have been largely preserved for you to take your family to.

Since our kids are so little, and taking into consideration that they're all sick as a dog, we didn't take them trekking for miles on end in the woods of Spotsylvania; a half mile round trip at a time seems to be the logical distance before you retire for a couple of hours for naps, lunches, bottles, and such. First though, we hit the museum to see guns and stuff which left my kids unimpressed:




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In that last picture, you can see a cannon ball stuck in a piece of a tree. Now, if you could only imagine being in a line of battle marching toward your enemy when the guy next to you gets smashed in the chest with one of those! That would surely take away any morale that you might have had!

There were small arms in the museum too, like muskets, rifles, carbines, sidearms, and sabers:





I was itching for a gun show after leaving the museum.

Wandering the woods gives you a sense of how scary fighting in that terrain must have been. All battles are fought with some sort of formation of troops - at least initially anyways, and I can easily see why Union officers loathed "The Wilderness" so much; marching your troops through any forrest would suck to say the least. Ten feet into the brush here are Confederate trenches, which means that if you're in the front of some clanking and cursing formation trying to fight your way through the undergrowth, you would have walked right into the teeth of the enemy who lies there unseen and very protected in the earth:



I grew up in the area, and just casually strolling the woods here can be exhausting. Fighting in it would be unimaginable. My kids didn't finish the walk on the first evening, and needed a hand getting back to the car:



On another day, we checked out some of the artillery that is so abundant here:





This particular spot is Hazel Grove, and was a pretty big tactical blunder for the Union Army back in the day. For some reason, they gave this high ground up, which was promptly taken over by the Confederates; they paid for the mistake in blood as the Confederates rained ordnance down on their lines from 1,200 yards away:



I highly recommend the battlefields as a day trip for the kids. This place is saturated with American history. There's much more to see than can be done on a weekend, but in my case my kids are not very interested in the historical aspect. They don't mind hanging out in the shade for awhile though:



Now do you see where the bulk of my time goes?

We also took them down to Alum Springs park and let them play in the creek. Kids need a free pass to get dirty every once in awhile, and yesterday was that day:



The Fenix PD20 helped point out the fish. My kids aren't very outdoorsy, as we found out this weekend. Again, taking into consideration that they were sick, they could go from happy to irate to happy again in about two seconds, so the whole thing was an adventure. My wife and I have agreed that this was more fun than anything we could find to do in town. We're going to be taking little trips like this again in the near future.

Fun with spell check

Something tells me that the spell check creators are not big fans of the military.

I found this screenshot today on my external hard drive:


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So the Air Force is suave, and the Marine Corps are scum. Hmmmmmf. I'll have to check out the Army and the Navy now. Sheesh.

Knife p0rn!

Check out a review of the HTM-DDR Gun Hammer by Darrel Ralph at Sharptactics!

A good knife is a welcome investment.

On the Discovery gunman

The media reports he was an extremist, which quite frankly doesn't impress me that much. Plenty of people are extremists without resorting to violence, and this guy at first glance doesn't have the history to suggest that he would wind up in a building full of people with a bomb strapped to his chest. Thankfully he didn't blow any one up.

Also, kudos to the cops for taking him out and saving all the hostages; with the police presence there yesterday, and all the rifles, armor, armored vehicles in all, it was about time that a crazy hostage taker lost his life via the good guys on national TV.

Now, while I can see how watching back-to-back episodes of Kate Plus 8 would drive anyone to madness, I just can't get over this:

Video taken by a Youtube user that day reveals an individual throwing money to gleeful crowds in Silver Spring. That individual in the video may be Lee -- who was arrested that day in Silver Spring for littering and disorderly conduct after he threw thousands of dollars to people. ABC 7 News released video of Lee's arrest after police determined that he was creating an unsafe environment. He served a 10-day sentence.

Who would have thought that throwing cash to a consensual crowd would constitute creating an unsafe environment? I can see the littering charge if you consider that cash is really just worthless paper, but only in America would it be a crime to throw money at people.

In another article, we find that the gunman had some unregistered destructive devices. Maybe we should make people register them or something, and make public buildings bomb free. We have such wonderful and successful security measures in place already at airports; it seems like common sense to me to extend it to other places like where you work, Wal-Mart, and Kroeger's and stuff. What's the harm?

Looking at some photos of this mess gives me some concern. The guys in green are presumably police officers of some sort, most likely FBI HRT, who look to be more geared towards fighting in Afghanistan than Silver Spring; indeed, the guy in the first photo is wearing many of the things that US Special Warfare troops wear, like the Crye Precision combat uniform and MSA Advanced Combat Helmet. I'm all about SWAT having all the toys that make their job safe and all, but what's with all the green and camouflage, and the armored vehicles? When did the boys in blue become Soldiers in combat outfits? I believe these guys are Maryland State Police -- do they look like it to you?

When I think of police, I think of blue uniforms and eight point covers; when I think of county Sheriff's deputies, I think of the brown uniform with a neck-tie and Smokey; and when I think of SWAT teams for the exact type of incident that happened yesterday, I envision black and/or blue clad cops in armor with kick ass weapons and battering rams. Sadly, today it's more likely to be cops in multicam riding in on an APC complete with M2 BHMG, and it seems that every small town has them, but is strikingly absent of hostage or terrorist situations.

When there is trouble, you are supposed to know exactly who is the police officer charged and sworn with addressing the miscreant - we have that with the eight point cover and Smokey. There is no mistake in a crowd. Why is it then that we can't accurately determine who is a police officer, who is a federal agent, and who is a Soldier in our country anymore? When did we let that change? Something's not right with that.

I still commend the cops for taking that scumbag out without loss of decent life.

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water. . . .

A pretty big shark was caught in the Potomac.

Nasty!

The shotty thread

More shotguns than you can shake a stick at, at ARFCOM.

Now I have some ideas!

The response one would expect

"Anguiano took the stand Tuesday and said he hoped to be sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife. But the judge, influenced by the defendant's five previous prison stints, instead sentenced him to 40 years."

Honestly, if you've been in and out of the prison system many times, and are acclimated to the idea that you can do horrible things to people and get a smack on the wrist, than you would probably be surprised when a judge finally hooks you up and rids society of having to deal with you forever more. It's just a shame that it took six times to do it.

And how about those weapon free courts? Just another example of how getting a blade into a prohibited area is so easy even a felon can do it.

Nun's Guns

Would the opposite be Hell's Bells?

Anyways, there are some people there who are easily offendable, and apparently some of those people are Catholics. At least, that's what the article is trying to say. Also, are you sitting down for this. . . .Hollywood at times instigates emotional reactions in human beings by using shocking, bizarre, or inflammatory media!

Hollywood is "trying to shock!"

You can't hear me through the internets, but I just gasped!

The lesson I learned from this is to never pass out an offensive survey to Catholics in the first place, so that they won't get offended. And also, don't show anyone guns. Guns are icky, and if you own one, you should repent at once you heathen!

Dirty, dirty guns.

Shooty

I fired of a baker's dozen from the LR308 this afternoon, and things weren't up to par. I'm convinced that the barrel nut is not as tight as it needs to be. There is just no other explaination for the inconsistent performance.

Updates if it does the trick.

My bad

The EPA dropped its proposal to regulate/ban lead bullets because it realized it had no authority to do so. I bet there was way more to it than that, and there were probably some congress critters making phonecalls and such. Elections are right around the corner and all.

The circus is in town

It seems like the more people that cram their way into town, the more the violent weirdos show up. Why can't married folk lead normal lives and love their spouse without having to resort to kidnapping and raping homeless hookers, beating them with sticks, and then stabbing them with kitchen utensils?

Enough already! Go somewhere else!

That's not a gun. . . . .

. . . . THIS is a GUN!!!

The A-10 is saahweeeeet!! You have to watch the whole video to see the finale.

Your ammunition rights are under attack!

When a political critter can't take away the guns, they go for the next best thing - ammo.

It doesn't seem likely at all that this EPA petition will get enacted, but still. . . .whoa!

Baltimore cop is fired

I vaguely recall seeing these videos sometime back whereas a Baltimore cop goes ballistic on a young skateboarder. I almost passed by this article this morning, as I don't find much interest in YouTube justice unless it is over something extreme, but watching this guy get his rocks off by yelling at a teenager piqued my interest.

When my kids become youthful teenagers, who may not be all that appreciative towards police officers or the day to day tribulations they face, I would still expect that they are treated better than the lad in the video. Think about if you had to drive over to some incident between your kid and some cop, and the cop is calm as a cucumber but your kid is mouthy and disrespectful, or even just really wound up. My default reaction would be to deal with the less childlike person, which nine times out of ten is probably the cop. Not so much in the video here.

Anyways, the cop was fired, which means nothing, really, as he will surely be picked up by another department. The act though was appropriate, and may send a message to that ten percent that might take their job a little too serious.

New cutting edge holster material sighted!

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H/T to my wife

Premeditated spree shooting

Sponaugle's sister, Kitty Cooper, was among the wounded. Cooper says Sponaugle indicated months ago that he planned to kill his son and two others relatives.

And Cooper's husband, Mark A. Cooper Sr., who also was wounded Sunday, said Sponaugle told a relative two days before the shootings that "he was going to kill a bunch of people."

What more do you need? If someone indicates that they're going to kill a bunch of people, what do you do with that information? Why did these folks sit on this, and not act?

This is the same story that I posted about yesterday. Who knows why they didn't do anything about it; maybe they didn't believe him. These folks that live out in the middle of a nowhere county are known for following through with what they say.

Dog's worst friend

This is one bizarre story. It's starts with a drunken man shooting his dogs indiscriminately and ends with a police standoff. All human beings involved are alive and well, but several canines lost their lives.

I'm a dog lover and all, but just can't see sending a man to prison for six years over killing his own property. I mean, Virginia seems to think six months is reasonable for stabbing someone multiple times in the chest, so a dog shouldn't seem like that big of a deal. The lone commenter to the article sounds like he would be cool with stringing the man up. Compassion for animals is higher than for people it would seem these days.

Also, who knew that there was such a charge as maliciously shooting a companion animal? Who thinks of that and turns it into a law?

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed. . . .

. . a Sonic Drive-In Restaurant! Ooooooooohh!

Theater safety

So, typically, you feel safer when you know security guards will detect weapons on people entering a building they’re assigned to protect, right?

Aaaah, no, jackass. It usually pisses me off to no end because it typically means a trip back to the glove box. One case in point is the Marine Corps museum, but that's another story.

It’s hard to have that kind of peace of mind with District schools and offices.

Peace of mind? Isn't that what an ostrich does when it sticks its head in the sand? I do agree with him to a point though; I don't have any peace of mind with any area in the District as long as it continues to prevent the community at large from using modern means of scumbag prevention. The community is mostly responsible for that, which is a shame, and it appears that things are not going to get any better:

Last year, the District fired security contractor Hawk One, which had a four-year record of poor supervision, inadequate training, ineffectiveness, and “fraternizing with students.” To replace Hawk One’s 200 guards, D.C. hired two firms on one-year contracts totaling $22.1 million.

So they hired a company to put uniformed human beings with guns in buildings for the sole purpose of disarming everybody, and the end result was that determined people were still able to gain entry with weapons while the guards were aggressively tutoring the youth? Who could have seen that coming, and why do they think hiring armed human beings in different uniforms will have a different outcome? And holy smokes - $22 Mil? Seems like it would be more effective and less costly to have the parents of students holster up and provide security in shifts; if there's a liability question, there are ways around that. Human beings are human beings, and the security folks would be much more inclined to do a good job if their interest in the matter consisted of their flesh-and-blood, and not Federal Reserve Notes.

With security contractors like these, who needs criminals?

Thinking that you'll have a better outcome if the human factor is clad in new duds is going to lead to more disappointment. You'll probably have more failed "penetration tests" too, in more ways than one.

Bad guys are afraid of the light

Well, it's not the kind of light that I would choose to deter a scumbag who would gun down someone in a "hail of bullets." I'm quite fond of this deterrent light source; I hear it frightens the boogey man somethin fierce!

Too bad folks in that area, like the victim in this tragic tale, could carry only the light, and not the device that it clips to.

Repetitive vicious maliciousness

A Stafford county Virginia woman was arrested last Friday night for aggravated malicious wounding. She had stabbed a woman multiple times in the "upper body" which I construe as being in the chest.

So big deal right? Some trashy scumbag in some no-name county in the Old Dominion got her stabby on, what's that got to do with anything? Who cares?

With that question I point you to the Virginia Court Case Information System where you can look up this woman's name in the same county and see where she was convicted last year for the same damn thing - stabbing a woman repetitively with a knife. And what severe sentence did she receive for this reckless act? Five freakin' years, which seems pretty appropriate for a first time offense of that nature where the victim lived. The problem is that four years and four months of that sentence was suspended, and she got out after six months in state prison and promptly and repeatedly rammed a pair of scissors in a girl's chest.

What is it about arresting and locking up crazy people, and then cutting them loose way before you said you would so that they can go out and paint the town red? If you say that the state demands five years for stabbing someone, then make it five years! If this woman had been caught with a pound of pot you know she would still be in prison. Keep the loony toons behind bars where they belong!

Oooh, check out the second comment for some humor!

Multiple shooting with ,22 caliber pistol

In Louisa county Virginia.

The story says it was a target pistol, which shows that it doesn't take a machine gun to take many lives. Two Sheriff's deputies killed the gunman, so at least the surviving family members don't have to live through a trial.

What a tragedy.

Thy righteousness and thy cellphone, they comfort me

Update: To the below post, in comments Boomhauer notes that DC police are in official uniform when working security, so that indicates that the hoodlum would be the one who flew off the handle. Perhaps he had been sniffing the Gorilla Glue for too long, and thought he could take on the world!

Today's dose of stupid and quote of the day, all rolled into one:

kj85756
Guns are dangerous. The civilian should have called the police and let them take care of it. Guns are not needed when you have a cell phone.

This is a comment in response to this article which lays out very little detail about an upstanding armed citizen in DC who saw a crime being committed and intervened. As you can guess, the citizen was an off duty cop, and as usual, his firearm un-assed from his holster and discharged, all on its own.

Some facts here:

1. The off duty cop works part time at the Home Despot where this all went down.
2. The cop was carrying his "service revolver", as the news person in the video knows firearms very well, and has made that determination with all the accuracy and oversight that we have come to expect from the media.
3. The Service Revolver has full control of itself, and can discharge at will.
4. Bite wounds and a grazing gun shot wound warrant a high speed ambulance ride to the hospital, complete with two police cruisers in tow, for everybody, not just cops. Honest.
5. Guns are baaaa-ah-ah-ah-ah-d.
6. Cellphones stop violence.

Now, the article says our off duty hero witnessed a crime being committed, confronted the dangerous threat, and a fight ensued whereas the violent hoodlum showed how completely reckless he was by grabbing the issued Service Revolver which then in protest decided to discharge without any such human interaction. The video has some cop-like official stating matter of factly that the Home Despot employees, who we presume were unarmed considering that they work in DC, saw the alleged hoodlum committing NoGood and confronted him at the front of the store, wherein the off duty cop comes strolling by and the employees ask him to intervene in a more authoritative capacity. Either way the off duty cop assumed his role as a cop and took action, which means that the above quoted moronic commenter has failed to notice that the "civilian" did in fact summon the police; he just happened to summon himself.

The question that remains unasked is whether the off duty hero cop identified himself as a police officer, or whether he tried to use armed color of law while clad only in an orange apron. If he chose the latter, and displayed a Revolver that we all know the DC police still issue to cops for Service, than the hoodlum may have assumed he was an armed antagonizer. If he chose the former, than did he display the required amount of credentials to show without a doubt that he was a cop, and not just some random un-blessed guy with a gun who works at Home Despot?

The article does say that the off duty cop had just arrived at Home Despot to "work security," which leads to more questions such as: was he wearing the beautiful blue uniform that security guards wear to identify them as being there for the purpose of making something secure? Was he openly wearing the big ol' honkin' Revolver issued by DC for Service, making it easily identifiable as a Service Revolver for the purposes of making the store secure? Who initiated the physical altercation which led to a Revolver having to discharge? Was the hoodlum acting as a patron who was scared of a big scary armed man, or was he acting as a violent scumbag who hates the coppers and won't be taken alive? Why the hell does Home Despot need an armed security guard?

The hoodlum may indeed be a violent scumbag for all I know, but I have to question whether he would risk fighting with multiple people in the front of the store, one of them who probably stated that he was a cop and who is at least potentially armed, all to make off with a booty of gas cans and Gorilla Glue. But then again, this is a Home Despot that though it prudent to hire a cop to be an armed security guard, so there is potential for the area to be saturated with people who would gladly kill for some brushed aluminum door knobs.

Also, if cellphones are all that's needed to stop criminals in their tracks, than why don't cops carry them in their holsters instead of dangerous Service Revolvers? You know, the more news articles I read, the more questions I have. You would think that journalists would be trained to provide facts, and not make a big mess of things.

A botched rescue attempt

In the Philippines. Fortunately the scumbag was taken out, but many hostages died in the process.

It's strange that the gunman, who was fired a couple of years ago for robbery and extortion, thought that he could force the government to give him back his badge by taking hostages at gunpoint, like anyone would ever trust his psycho ass with a gun ever again.

Some people are apparently that naive.

Also, check out some of the video footage here. The second on is titled "Snipers end the Philippines Hostage Taking," but watching the video casts doubt on the use of snipers. Who knows; maybe the Manila police snipers are trained to dump a full magazine into the windshield of a bus in order to take out a gunman, or maybe all those gunshots were outgoing rounds (not likely). I'm under the impression that cops with iron sighted M16s are the ones who killed the guy, and it's likely that some of the hostages were hit with those rounds. I'm not knocking anyone here; stopping a well armed gunman in a bus full of hostages doesn't sound like an easy task.

Ask and thou shalt receive

Americans by-and-large have asked for more police protection, and these days the bar is set at this level instead of here where it was in my youth.

The officers are counseled to be more aggressive in confronting a threat when victims are in imminent danger, rather than sitting back and establishing a perimeter.

I can see this going both ways. The comments to this article are brisk to say the least, though there are not many. I don't have any experience around Fairfax county police, so I can't speak for their professionalism, but something about training them to be cool around machine gun fire while being confrontational and aggressive just doesn't sit right with me.

Going by the articles in law enforcement magazines, the transition to the patrol rifle is close to complete. AR15s make an exceptional defensive weapon, and truth be told I am more comfortable with the idea of a cop firing single 55 grain rounds at a scumbag in a crowded mall than a magazine tube full of buckshot; what gets me though is the militarization of it all, and how the American people are great with the idea of every county and every police department having a crack team of nylon clad agents with automatic weapons.

Yes, the ultimate goal is to have cops stop the bad people before they do anyone harm, but don't forget about the human factor. Sometimes SWAT shows up at the wrong house, tries to arrest the wrong guy, or lets a round go from their pistol in an act of negligence and the outcome is not good. Police want to do the right thing and protect the public, but how about thinking this through so that things don't go to far. It's logical that training follows the issue of a shiny new rifle, but the training should be clearly defined, and so should the lines of authority. There are good folks who receive rifles and training, with clearly defined authority, and Fairfax county police are starting to look just like them. That's not exactly something to celebrate.

Cops wanted carbines, the public consents, and now they have them. Perhaps now is a good time to start reviewing the training and the mission involved.

Greed and commerce

Two women are charged with luring their landlord into a compromising position and then trying to blackmail him.

Compromising position indeed. This one's chock full of stupid.

On its face, there wouldn't be any controversy if the women had kept up their side of the bargain; it's simple give-give. The landlord is a scumbag for accepting adultery as payment, as he already has an obligation to his wife. The two women twice dishonored the agreement, which makes them scumbags too. For one, they couldn't handle their obligation to the rent as agreed, so they made a bargain, and then dishonored that too. Then to top it off, they tried to make a third contract by blackmailing the landlord for $11,000.

That's some goat rope those people have there. I guess there is no honor amongst thieves after all.

Highly trained

TAZEWELL, Va. - A retired Virginia state trooper faces charges after shots he fired at a coyote hit a school in Tazewell.

Rule number 4!! Just because someone is trained to handle a firearm does not mean that they are always safe.

Burning Bush

Why is it that the press is still casting stones at former president Bush? That guy gets no quarter from me, but that doesn't mean that I sit around all day pondering up ways to blame him for stuff.

The latest example is from NBC News contributor Sasha Perl-raver with her short piece on the film "The Tillman Story," which is just a bunch of nonsense about how "war is hell", but was actually much worse because of Bush. One person can make bad worse, you see.

So admittedly "war is hell", and Corporal Tillman was a Ranger in Afghanistan shooting a machine gun at some bad guys, was killed by his own buddies in the fog of war, and then everybody and their brother had a hand in botching the details and somehow this means that Bush sucks? I'm confused.

Bush sucked for a variety of reasons, the least of which is like eight dozen human beings getting the details of an elite Soldier's death wrong for whatever excuse. The events proceeding the death of Corporal Tillman sound an awfully lot like the game of telephone in grade school, where a teacher demonstrates how the human factor can completely skew a message when it's passed down through so many people. The point of that demonstration is that the less human involved in transmission of a message, the less skewed it will usually be; in the case of Corporal Tillman, the message had to pass through a ton of human. This is the Army we're talking about.

Media types are fascinated with conspiracy theories stemming from some Republican tool. I like conspiracy theories too, I just don't make it my mission in life to continuously smear someone over them because I have nothing better to do than hate on the opposite party. Daggone, grow up would you!

Patrol Devices

What else do you call a Glock chambered in .50 Caliber Terror in the hands of a Montgomery County's finest?

Garland stole several items from the car that had been parked overnight in front of an officer's house in Brookeville in June, including a police baton, two loaded .50 caliber Glock magazines and two sets of handcuffs, police said. Police found the M-4 rifle and a glove stolen from the car, but many stolen items remain missing.

Oversight and all. Can you imagine the madness that would follow if .50 caliber Glock magazines were discovered missing by one of the non-badged folk? And why does any cop neeeeeeed a handgun that's capable of shooting down an airliner flying at 30,000 feet at 550 mph with one shot?

Those cops must be serious about enforcing the law.

Celebrity trigger control

Or lack thereof.

I enthusiastically note that Stalone looks like a goon holding that M249 para. Dolph Lundgren on the other hand seems to know what he's doing, which isn't surprising considering that he's a veteran of the Swedish Marines.

Gun P0rn!

I love the Benelli M4.

A Navy SEAL with a SCAR H.

Some cannons and a Hawken being fired.

Brandishing

Not a good way to get leverage in an argument, especially at night on the side of the highway.

The story itself is kinda ho-hum, but commenter wideopenspaces brings up a good point: why would anyone pull over at 12:30 at night in a one-way-street (I know where this happened) to bicker with someone that they don't even know? That's pretty reckless in its own right. This all happened in Stafford county (borders Spotsyltuckey) which is not known for competent drivers nor sane people.

The only thing I can guess is that the complainant thought he might get to beat down the other driver in obviously justifiable retribution for such a hurtful "hand gesture", and then realized that the other guy wasn't wrapped real tight either.

Man, I wish all the savages hadn't decided to move here. Things used to be so quiet.

Cos' a country boy can survive

Wheeeeeeeew doggie! A Spotsylvania Good ol' Boy stops a wasted home intruder in his tracks with his trusty twelve gauge, but fortunately didn't have to fire a shot. That kid is so very lucky he didn't get shot.

The man gathered his family and placed them all in one room, Timm said. He then got a gun and encountered a young man he didn't know in the hallway in his home.


The homeowner ordered the suspect to the ground at gunpoint and held him there until Deputy Katie Higgins arrived. The subsequent investigation revealed that the suspect had kicked down the front door after failing to get in a rear door.

NBC News Washington's crazy and eccentric Pat Collins convinced the homeowner, who was busy skinning bucks and running trot lines at the time, to have an interview.

Folks out in the Western part of the county live remotely to say the least, and you would have to be pretty intoxicated to go banging on any doors out there at night. I know a Sheriff's Deputy who patrols out that way and he refers to it as "Spotsyltuckey." Quite frankly I'm amazed that the scumbag had the mental ability to even put his hands behind his head. Really though, the kid might not be a bad guy at all; it sounds like he was just so inebriated that he forgot where he was. With that said, any time you decide to modify your senses with the drink, you are responsible for your own actions, and have to accept that if you take things too far, some sober individual may use his Remington to help Natural Selection run its course.

(H/T to my wife)

90% of car bombs in Mexico come from US gun shows

I kid, I kid.

The drug cartels in Mexico have stepped up their game a bit with beheadings and car bombings. It works in other countries, so it's no surprise to hear about these tactics being used.

Also, there's this slideshow showing the little submarines that the cartels are using to smuggle drugs and, presumably, most or all of the grenades, mortars, machine guns, and rocket propelled grenades from Central America into Mexico - although the article doesn't say as much. It does say this:

Surprisingly sophisticated homemade "Narco subs" are the drug cartels' latest tool for smuggling drugs from Latin America into the U.S.

Just drugs, right ABC? Because cartels using these subs to smuggle weapons wouldn't fit the narrative, now would it?

The submarine could have had the capacity to carry at 150 metric tons of cocaine or heroin.

Or, like 5,000 grenades, 50,000 automatic rifles, or 1,000 rockets, which are used to supplement the firepower that the Mexican government bought from the US and gave to the cartels. Just a thought.

It's entirely possible that if the Russian mafia is helping the cartels build frickin' submarines, that they could also be supplying them with bona fide AK47s, which would be a way better economic venture than paying an "ant line" of American soccer moms to buy semi auto Olympic Arms rifles at full price at gunshows in the US, and then smuggle them South where they will have to be converted to full auto at the cartel's expense. I mean I'm not making a wild hypothetical shot here.

Oh, here it is down on slide 9:

" . .these vessels also could be used to ship weapons or personnel.

"That's it!?! Weapons and personnel?!?! I guess if it's in there, it's in there, right? Phenomenal.

Looking at the last picture shows just how dire the drug war is; that sub can go 65' under the surface, carry a 10 ton payload, and was built in a muddy creek in Ecuador by illiterate starving smugglers. And we're not talking the USS Fantastic here; this thing is a bare bones one time use rig, so it's not like the operators are going to fight for it. One of those slides shows a crew abandoning a sub via blow up life raft, and they often sink the sub with all the evidence. It looks to be a low risk operation.

I guess the obvious thing to do would be for the US to throw a billion or so dollars at the problem. That would be a way more beneficial use to Americans than buying down mortgages or such. The flow of drugs must stop.

Who knew vegetarian diets cause violence?

Investigators blamed a vegetarian diet on the mother grizzly's poor body condition, which they said was "made worse by a load of parasites found in her small intestine.

Hmmm. . . it seems that a bear cannot live by plants alone; they need tasty red camper meat to stay healthy and strong. I will take that into consideration if I ever go camping in the woods again.

Weekend WTF

I was browsing the Weekend thread at Militaryphotos.net and saw many cool and unusual things.

First is the unusual: it seems that some in the Lebanese Army Special Forces are going well out of the way to earn that "Special" title -- one guy demonstrates why jumping through burning hoops is a bad idea, and who knows what the hell to think from that last picture. Why the Lebanese government doesn't provide mannequins to bayonet instead of soldiers like the rest of the world is anyone's guess. Most of their "maneuvers" seem ridiculous, and remind me of the famous Spetznaz soldier doing a blindfolded backflip while throwing a hatchet at a target.

Either way: if you can't be a good example, than be a horrible warning; it seems that the Belarussians have picked up on the dog-and-pony show idea of demonstrating profoundly dangerous and stupid things for soldiers to do to impress the masses. Because you never know when your special force will be in the danger zone somewhere and have no other recourse than to break some concrete off the face of a fellow soldier with a sledge hammer, have an asbestos board broken over their naked chest, repel upside down and unarmed from a helo, or sic an attack dog on a burning, fleeing man.

Americans do crazy things like fly fighter jets 30' off the water over yachts and park armored vehicles in the streets. The Romanians like to make pirates shave each other, have their sailors balance balls on a spoon with their mouths, play tug-of-war, have sack races, and as a special treat have King Neptune bless their nation's boobies.

Now for the cool: the Brazilians have a new rifle - the Imbel IA2; the Indians are still using Enfields and Sterlings, but have also gone modern with the FN F2000. Coooooooool.

All and all it looks like the world's militaries were way more productive than I was this weekend.

What's in your wallet?

This post is about pocket holsters for little guns. If you carry a handgun, odds are that after a few years you will have a bunch of holsters sitting in a box somewhere, and this phenomenon seems to apply even more so for the inexpensive little pocket holster; at least for me anyways.

These are all for one pistol: the Kel Tec P3AT:



Something else about holsters too is that I find myself modifying most of them, because what somebody else designed to fit a particular circumstance doesn't exactly mean that it's going to fit mine. Looking at my first pocket holster for the mighty baby-Glock 26, the DeSantis Nemesis holster did not allow for my middle finger to make it up into the relief under the trigger guard. I found my remedy by removing the offending material and hand sewing some whatchamahoozit (industry term) over the exposed cut. Now it's beautiful:



You can see how I can get a full grip now that the holster has been modified. Also in that picture you can see a DeSantis Super Fly holster holding a Walther PPKS, as well as a modified Comp-Tac Centerline holster for the Kel Tec P3AT. I found the Centerline hanging from my neck to not be ideal for me, so I did some Dremeling to remove excess material, and then added my own spring steel belt clip fashioned in a manner that allows the holster to be tuckable. That sucker goes on my belt in a jiffy, comes off not so easily (a good thing), and is small and light enough to be worn on my pajamas if I so desired. It's also super concealable.

Another holster in that picture is an exceptionally well made GURU pocket holster for the P3AT that I ordered from Pocketholsters.com. It's built like a tank, and there's no doubt in my mind that one of my children will grow old with this thing in their pocket holding their mini ion blaster, as it is sturdy enough to outlive me. But again, it's modified to fit my needs. The holster is designed to prevent the pistol from printing through your pocket; it does this with the addition of a large, flat leather flap on the outside that is attached at the bottom by two brass Chicago screws, allowing the flap to kind of swivel out of the way so your hand can get to the grip. The problem I had with the flap is that it's huge. The teeny P3AT is still a tad larger than an early 90s Blackberry, so the leather flap that is cut to cover it makes it look like you have a Blue's Clues notebook in your pocket. Someone looking at the square thing might not know it's a gun, but they will surely be scratching their head wondering what in the world you have in there.

I fixed this by trimming the flap down; although I finally removed it as I don't see that I need it. The other problem that I had was that the "wing" where the two halves of the holster are sewn together did not leave enough room for my fingers to slide around the grip, so I drew a line showing what material to remove, drilled some small holes to allow me to re-sew some new stitches, and then used a sharp wood chisel to remove the part I didn't want. Five minutes of time made a very well made holster awesome.


Now, carrying a Glock 26 in a pocket is not always possible, but carrying the Walther or the Kel Tec is. Since I loved the DeSantis Super Fly for the Walther so much, I ordered one for the Kel Tec and couldn't be happier. The Super Fly comes with a removable and reversable flap like the GURU holster, but it's very flexible. This flap is also humongous, but it kind of wraps around the gun in your pocket, so it makes itself smaller than it really is. The texture of the Super Fly is sticky rubber, so it has the advantage over every pocket holster I've owned of staying in your pocket during the draw. The GURU holster comes out with the pistol almost every time, so I'm going to have to add something to make it stay; the Nemesis holster also slides out of the pocket with the gun most of the time, so I default to the Super Fly.

On order right now is an Uncle Mike's pocket holster which a friend of mine uses to carry his Ruger LCP. He loves it, and at $11 you can't beat the price. I'm going to give it a go as well, but I ultimately see this as a toss up between the GURU and the Super Fly.

To digress a bit, I added a Crimson Trace Lazer Grip to the P3AT, and before I even got it sighted in the battery died. When I got home, the thing worked again just fine. A little Google search led me to threads where others have had this problem, so I wasn't too happy to hear that. I did replace the battery and haven't had any problems since, but who's to say it won't happen later? Time will tell.

The real reason I bring up the Crimson Trace Lazer is that when you install it on your P3AT or Ruger LCP, your beloved pocket holster will no longer fit. Know that ahead of time so that you can have a holster ready. If you notice the Nemesis holster in the first picture above is made for the P3AT without a lazer. When I ordered the lazer, I already had the GURU holster on the way so that I had something to carry the pistol in.

Overall, most brand name holsters today are superbly built, and some, like the GURU, are even beautiful. You can't go wrong by ordering several holsters for your gun, and don't hesitate to get all Martha Stewart on one to make it better suited for your exciting lifestyle.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Funniest story I've heard in the news in a long time. Safe for work too.

A taste:

A TOPLESS sunbather is being investigated by police after being accused of sensuously rubbing sun cream on herself on a public beach.

Police were called to a beach at Anzio south of Rome by a furious mother who said the way the “attractive” sunbather was rubbing lotion on her body had “troubled her sons aged 14 and 12.”

Yes, I bet those boys are now deeply, deeply troubled. Bothered even. Best to take them home and tell them to take a cold shower. As for the woman in question, she's hired a lawyer who's a real riot:

“'Let's be clear my client is tall, brunette and has an ample breast and is therefore going to naturally be sensuous when she applies cream to her chest.

Every sentence in this article is quotable, and funny as hell, so I'll tell you now to just go and read it. I won't post any more. Go read now.

What could go wrong: DC police edition

"Lanier unveiled the "Got Guns?" initiative on Friday. She says people can call in anonymously and receive up to $1,000 for tips that result in authorities recovering a gun."

So much for being able to face your accusers. How will the cops explain that one in court.

Regarding all these armed miscreants, I guess Chief Lanier failed to "get them", negotiate peace accords with the gang bangers, or even bring down crime by putting every cop they have on the street. Damn! And I was sure that was going to do it too! So close.

What will they think of next?

A look at what American Soldiers are doing in Afghanistan

This is a raw and unbiased view of what is going on right now, every day in Afghanistan, at Militaryphotos.net.

Yikes!

Pit Bull violence

Jones refused and officers escorted her outside, officials said. She suddenly stopped and ordered the dog to attack. The pit bull began biting the officer's foot, which was protected by a boot.

Many things to discuss. One, did the woman really "order" her dog to attack? Are the cops suggesting that she compelled the dog to act by tendering it spoken words? Seriously? I'm not defending her overall actions; she seems like quite the scumbag, and whatever charges are conjured up over her "ordering" an animal with a primitive will and no mastery of the English language will probably stick, but it still stands to ask the question of whether one can make an animal do anything. Responsibility for the dogs actions on the other hand. . . . .

Two, who wants to bet that the dog is not a "pit bull" -- the assault thingy of the canine world -- at all, but merely some form of muscular terrier that cannot be accurately identified by the police? Back in time, way way back before the Russians covertly introduced pit bulls to the American continent to wreak havoc on the place, the canine threat of the day was either the Doberman or the Rottweiler. At that time, pretty much any mid to large black dog that made the news was one of those highly dangerous and volatile animals, and the world knew about every toothy incident where one of them ate an entire city of people. These days, the Doby and Rotty threat is a thing of the past, as advanced doggy electroshock therapy and loppobodomy techniques have been so perfected that they don't seem to attack everything in sight like they did in the 80s.

Third, why the 1st degree assault? Are they suggesting that she planned to sic the animal on the cops all along? Like before she left her apartment that day, she re-checked her map and battle plan of the ambush, took a last long drag off her crack pipe, put on her shoes and grabbed Cujo's leash. "Lets go get us some poeleeeeeeece, Cujo! Don't let me down boy!" Yeah, totally premeditated, with like malice aforethought and stuff.

With all that said, it's surprising that the dog didn't get shot considering how often that seems to happen these days. Also, since we all know that a pit bull can tear off a mans leg with little to no effort, that only reinforces my opinion that this wasn't an American Pit Bull Terrier or other Bull Terrier breed at all, but probably a Beagle or something. And of course it sounds like this woman will be getting the treatment she needs. I could be wrong on that one; she could be a saint thrown into a big misunderstanding, but something tells me that that is not the case here.

Beware, the Worcestershire menace!

The man's ex-girlfriend is accused of forcing her way inside and throwing things at the other woman, Bledsoe said. Among the items thrown were a can of tile cleaner and a bottle of Worcestershire sauce.

And it gets worse. The man was hospitalized in serious condition when he was assaulted by an assault broomstick!

She turned on the man, Bledsoe said, hitting him numerous times until the broom broke in half. Police allege that she then stabbed the man in the lower abdomen with the broken end.

That was after the girlfriend was assaulted with the dreadful thing. We can all see the point here that it would be best if we just took everything and anything away from people so that we can live a life of peace and harmony. Imagine a world without domestic violence!!!

There are some obvious common sense measures that would have to be enacted as well that are without question, like the outright banning of wife beaters and Hurricane. That alone would go quite aways to building up the utopia, but combine it with the confiscation of worcestershire sauce and broomsticks and you have a recipe for love, not war.

Think about it now, who really neeeeeeeds bottled sauces that can be instantly turned into dangerous projectiles by errant drunken lovers in a moment of passionate rage, or broomsticks made of deadly metal -- metal used in machines of war and death? Doesn't make sense, does it?

Gunnish things

See the second and third pictures down in this thread at Militaryphotos.net to see a "pen gun" and "key ring gun" that were confiscated from some blokes over in London.

Also, check out the last pic of the Romanian "special police operative" with the double barrel shotgun, balaclava, and bandoleer. Very strange, but really really cool in the sort of way that only a shotgun like that can bring.

Go-go gadget KNIFE!

Stuff like this is such low hanging fruit. I don't live in DC, but I live close enough that I can point out all its visible warts.

Fans of go-go group Polo and the Boyz seem to have been responsible for the fuss, which led to a brawl and a stabbing at the club off Bladensburg Road NE.

The natives have a penchant for random acts of violence. At least no one was shot this time, which we can all contribute to the attempted strengthening of gun laws.

Something tells me that if a Go-Go club opened up in let's say Fairfax, that there wouldn't be crazy violence there. Richmond perhaps, and definitely Baltimore, but not in any city where the residents are all sane.

Now, why do I have this Wham! song in my head?

It's a start

The D.C. chapter of the Guardian Angels, a citizen safety watchdog group, says that members will start patrolling Metro's green line three nights a week. This comes after a large fight broke out at a station over the weekend, injuring four people.

The fight of which they speak is the one I was snorting about a few days ago.

This is the sort of community responsibility that I noted was lacking; now we have some brave souls who are willing to put their time and neck on the line to ensure there is safety on the Metro. It's a pity that they are denied the legal force necessary to prevent anything other than some teenage fisticuffs, but it does show an overt act of courage. Perhaps even more so that they are unarmed.

Sling blade

Do county officials really need a five pound blade? Sure, it's supposed to stay safely attached to the lawn mower, but when you have an accidental discharge, babies could be seriously hurt. Let's limit mowers to two pound blades to help prevent senseless mower violence.

Fortunately the little one was safe and sound. That could have been pretty ugly. That makes me think though, has anyone ever done lawn mower blade ballistics? That sucker went through quite a bit - "fliiine through the eehhhr" - before stopping.

Looking for some new rifle glass?

If you're a dork like me, you might be seriously considering what type of reticule is in the scope before you buy, to the point where you use Excel to down select between potential candidates.

If you want to know what the reticules look like in the really real world, then check out this Through the Scope thread at Sniper's Hide forums.

Such a tool

A review of the HammerHead Rifle tool for the AR15 at Military Morons. A nice to have multi-tool to help you maintain your carbine while in locations unknown.