I sense a newfound lack of trust

Amongst these two Chicago cops.

Would you trust your partner after he shot you accidentally.

And I'm not throwing rocks at how the situation went down or how they handled it. I'm just saying that once your buddy puts a round in your vest, you may not want to hang out with him anymore.

Kids these days

They have the audacity to break clearly written laws.

The comments are more interesting than the story. Notice the burning desire to revert back to "the good ol' days." Apparently adults these days are pussies for not handling their bidness with fists. Because beating someone's face in is so much of a safer alternative than the non-confrontation that is so common place amongst those who carry a firearm. I'll take pacifism over brawling any day.

Home again

I am done with driving up to Fairfax county every day. It will take me a day or two to get my shit together, and once that happens my blogging will go back up.

Unfortunately, I'm still battling kidney stones, so my overall disposition is not so good. Pain has a way of keeping people bitter.

State of the Union

Mrs. CTone went to the beach with the kiddees and left me all alone to attend classes in Northern Virginia for the last two weeks.

Ah, beautiful Fairfax county: the San Francisco of Virginia. The four and a half to five hours of driving time added to a nine hour day would be why I haven't been around. Virginia is known for incompetent and highly dangerous drivers, and it gets worse the further North you go. I pull into the driveway in the evenings and my hands are shaking from road raging madness and outright post traumatic stress.

I honestly felt safer driving through Ramadi.

On a happier note, last Sahrrdee [Appalachian Ebonics] I made my way to the coolest place in all of Virginia: Greentop Sporting Goods. Upon entry of this divine establishment, guests are treated to the enchanting emanation of Culprit worms, as well as the soothing burble of the baitfish livewells. I remember this transcendental embrace of my senses from when I was still in diapers. The smell of Culprit worms still sedates me. It reminds me of my youthful pond fishing days.

I love this place.

I first went to the firearms counter, nervously looking around before I slipped the clerk a twenty with a wink, and softly asked for large pistol primers. A young lad was he, and must have started working there recently cause' he looked at me curiously and pointed to the shelf in the back right next to all the other reloading components where primers had been lovingly stacked since waaaaay back before November of 2008. I walked back and found primers aplenty in every shape and size. Weird.

I got 2k large pistol and 500 CCI BR2 primers. Hells yes!

Next up I made my way to the factory ammunition shelf where .45 ACP in primo brands were available, but admittedly weren't in the amounts that are typical for a store of this magnitude. But lo and behold I saw two boxes of Federal Hydra-shok in .380 Auto; rare beasts these days. A wide eyed gentleman snatched them up so fast like he was saving me from the maw of a cobra. A few minutes later I found a treasure trove of about ten boxes of Hornady Critical Defense, again in .380 Auto, and I grabbed a box for a friend as I don't have a .380. But alas, they still didn't have .32 ACP which I haven't seen much of in awhile.

The powder locker was filled to the brim with affordable powders of every kind, and bullets were available in just about anything you would desire. I was in a good mood.

Yesterday I was in my local Ganderous Mountainous and spotted many boxes of Remington and Cor-Bon .32 ACP for a bizzilian dollars each, and I declined. I hate that store. A half a mile down the road, Dick's Sporting Goods had many 50 round boxes of CCI Blazer in .380 Auto for a reasonable $1,899 - I mean $18.99 - and even had plinking ammo in .45 ACP and 9 millimetah.

I think the ammo nightmare is about over my friends.

I did get some shooting in with the big bad .308, and boy was that interesting. I was tesing some new loads at a hundred yards, and it was as hot as the hinges of hell. Humid too. I was prone behind the gun shooting off Harris bi-pods and a sand sock, and I would wipe my sweat soaked face with a wife beater, and then wipe off the stock before quickly getting on the scope. Before I could break a shot in that seven seconds, I would loose my cheekweld from the slime and sweat would fill my eye. I didn't shoot too well with the 165 grain Sierra Game Kings.

Fortunately mother nature reared her childish head and cranked out a thunderstorm about ten minutes after the last shot of my first loads, just like she always does Every. Single. Time. Too bad for her her whorelike plans failed and I was able to successfully use the hatch of my Xterra to shield me from the onslaught long enough to shoot some three round groups with some 155 grain loads. I got a .333" group out of one of em', and I've got similar groups with this load before. Enough to know that it's not a fluke anyways.

I'll post a pic when I have a camera available. It's currently taking shots of my kids frolicking in the sea. Without me. One day I will get a vacation, and I'm sure my levels of bitterness will go down to normal levels.

Liberty and Justice for none

Eleanor Holmes Norton. Is there anything she can't do?

Stand back citizen!! Do not impede her selfless efforts to stop a pre-mitigated non problem before it doesn't start!

You guys seriously check her name on the ballot box? Think about that.

The media sock puppets are quick to come to her aid as well, facts and elementary logic be damned.

Anyways, citizens can't carry any firearms in DC as it is, so it's already illegal. The Secret Service already creates not only a "Gun Free Zone" around the president, but make it weapon free to the point of silliness. On top of that, these people were no where near the president, and every stupid law on the books will not stop terrorists or "crazies," but that mindless woman knows that much.

That only leaves the freedom of non DC citizens for the taking. I just wish she would say it outright instead of acting like she cares.

Chainsaw Free Zones

So the little hooligan thought he would be slick:

"All the while that the teachers and principal are confronting this kid, holding him down and tackling him, he's got eight live pipe bombs attached to his person," Brunicardi said.

No one was hurt in the explosion and no gun was found, according to Manheimer.

Thank goodness the youthful bastard saw the signs out front and didn't bring a gun. Someone could have been hurt.

But just to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again, I took the liberty of saving the California gov't some of their hard earned I.O.U.s and designed the latest in school safety signage:




Be safe citizens!

Hateful New Begginings

"The union has decided they are opposed to the type of unique, quality programs that we provide for young people," Muhammad said.

Well, when your unique quality program is "transform[ing] objects of hate into works of functional beauty and a symbol of change," then I can see why it's opposed. Calling an inanimate object that is routinely used for so much good an object of hate does bring that kind of reaction; especially considering that that's the kind of logic one would expect from a child.

Oh, you mean that the facility is designed to hold children? That really paints the whole picture now doesn't it. And considering the kind of problems that have plagued the detention center in its short existence, that doesn't surprise me a whole lot.

How about that program title? Just the kind of stupidity that has long been considered the norm in DC. With a name like "anti-prison', would you expect anything different?

And here this whole time I thought "anti-prison" was freedom and liberty.

Silly me.

Charred

I absolutely positively was not out on a boat on the Potomac all day yesterday. No sirrrreeeeeyy.

I am burned to a crisp. I used a friends sunblock instead of my own, and found out yet again why you should buy new sunblock every year. I have splotches like a cheetah.

I also will have a range report in the next day or so; I just haven't had time to post lately.

BLACK MAN WITH A ASSAULT THINGY

In Arizona.

OMFG It's LEEEEEEGAL!!!

"What's this guy's motivation?"

"It was a group interested in exercising the right to bear arms," said police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill.

Weird. A guy was carrying a gun in a group interested in 2nd Amendment rights.

Oh, and for the record, the gun isn't an assault weapon. It's a AR15. Semi-automatic. Facts are so hard to come by these days.

BLACK MAN WITH A ASSAULT THIN

The AP weighs in on GUNS IN PARKS!!!

And it's really stupid. They did spare us from the much of the ignorant rhetoric, but then again they did quote Paul Helmke.

"There is still time for Congress and the president to take steps to keep loaded firearms away from the valleys of Yellowstone, the cliffs of Yosemite, and the Statue of Liberty -- but they need to act quickly," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

It won't take long after the enactment of this law that nothing will happen. There won't be blood in the streets or anything of the sort, but sometime years down the road some poor citizen will gun down a violent scumbag or starving diseased animal and it will have been worth it. If it saves one life!!

On another note, it is fully presumed that the first family was protected by at least two dozen guys with guns during their trip to Yosemite this weekend.

In other news, seven people were shot in the "Gun Free" bastion of our nation this weekend. The Metro police are no doubt scouring their new gun registration for the whodunnit, as well as talking with local NRA members.

Sunday shooting shows

I love Sunday mornings. I get to sit here drinking coffee (if I'm not fixing the house) and watch shooting and outdoor shows.

As I write this, I'm watching a recorded episode of Tom Gresham's Guns & Gear on Versus HD. This is the first time I've watched it and I'm impressed. Good to freaking go!

Another one that I've just started watching Tactical Arms on the Sportsman's Guide. If you are military, a shooter, or just an aspiring mall ninja, then you will love this show. The first episode that I saw was on the M1911. Oh yes!

Next up this morning I have some Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild on the Outdoor Channel. This show isn't new, but it sure makes me laugh. That, and the fact that I'm lucky to get into the woods for one day each season.

My kids would rather be watching Noggin right now, but that's tough. Maybe they won't mind some recorded Shark Week!

Shooting tip of the day

I normally don't have a chance to post on weekends, but this one is the exception.

I was doing a little reloading this morning and decided to snap a picture of my ghetto fabulous powder trickler with my cell phone as I thought somebody may find it useful.


Despite having an automatic withdraw account with MidwayUSA and Brownell's, I can be a cheap bastard. I didn't see the need to spend money on a powder trickler, so I made one with the clear body of a Bic pen. It works great.

Just fill it up using your powder funnel, and tap tap tap your way to the powder charge of your dreams. I can easily drop single pieces of Hodgdon H335 using this pen body. Give it a try. The medicine bottles work great for handling smaller amounts of powder, and I use the Lee powder scoop for dumping charges right onto the scale when I'm measuring each charge.

Many people are getting into reloading and are trying to get the most equipment to start with, and perhaps skip some of the fluff until several years down the road when they can get the not so critical stuff. It takes years and years to gather all the crap that you will end up using, but there's no reason why you can't get started with the basics.

Liberty is getting into reloading and looking for some advise. Anyone out there who has some shortcuts to offer, drop by Fighting For Liberty and leave a comment.

Free HK MP5 with a case of ammo!

Courtesy of Jacksonville Beach Police!

At least the awestruck news anchors got the legal stuff right.

(H/T Seth)

Got PPsH-41?

How about 88 of em' mounted in the belly of a bomber?

Only at MilitaryPhotos.net.

Mind your heater

I'm all about the success that this man had in stopping a nightime thief, but tell me what's wrong with this story.

Here's a couple of lines to get you interested:

"Lay down. Lay down or I'm going to knock you down boy," you can hear Brown telling the suspect.

****

"I got my flashlight in this hand, and my heater in this hand, and bang, I put one shot in the ground," Brown said.

Very strange.

Personally, I wouldn't have engaged in any physical contact while I had a gun in my hand. But that's just me.

The great unbiased NBC 4 news

So unbiased that their writers now insist that angry citizens at town halls are displaying "manufactured meltdowns." It's all fake you see, like professional wrestling. There's absolutely no way that citizens on both sides of the isle can actually be pissed off at their representatives on their own will without influence by someone with money.

Really?

I smell projection.

And nothing brackets writer Sarah K. Smith as a pompous opinionated beast quite like this quote:

"So things got shouty and most folks just stayed at home and watched the protests on their televisions, where they'd be safe from gun-wielding nuts."

Hey, has anyone seen anyone "wielding" a gun at a townhall event? Anyone? How about nuts? Anyone seen any nuts at townhall events?

Sarah, where are these gun wielding nuts of which you speak? I would like to meet them and possibly ask them to be my friend.

Seriously, these days I push all modern news outlets like CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, and local newspapers into the same shitcan grocery store tabloid "news" sources like Sun, Us Weekly, and The National Examiner. The people that write anything we consider news these days are just a bunch of sensationalist kooks.

All of em'.

My morning laugh

So I was on my way to work this morning while rocking some Disturbed when their cover of Land of Confusion by Phil Collins came on. I was just noting how appropriate the song was in today's political climate - right up until the line "I Won't Be Coming Home Tonight / My Generation Will Put It Right / We're Not Just Making Promises / That We Know We'll Never Keep" where I laughed coffee out both nostrils.

Somehow I always knew that my generation wouldn't really grow up to be responsible.

Thinking about the meaning of the song, I wonder if the author is looking at his TV set right now and doing a forehead smack at the greed and corruption that is going on; maybe even longing for some of the fiscal responsibility and decisiveness from the Reagan years, even for a moment.

Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

MMMmmmmm. . . .mustard!!

But it's no grey poupon.

Finding a beaker full of mustard (HD) is not encouraging to a population who just wants the nightmare to end.

Back in the day we (the U.S., not me) were a little too cavalier about giving access of chemical and biological weapons to whomever, and these days we seem to be forgetting the lessons learned from the past.

The results will probably be the same.

The scientific DHS "right wing terrorist" report

My jaw just dropped.

To think that the data of the entire report was pulled not from solid reputable sources, but online news articles.

Just, wow. . . .