Category: Guns

Knowing that most of you who lurk here at TAH are owners of multiple firearms, I’d like to share this online resource which has saved Ol’ Poe’s increasingly forgetful butt on occasion when he’s needed a manual for a particular weapon and one is not easily at hand. Unfortunately, it’s been a while since I needed it so I had forgotten that the link is in my favorites until a buddy sent me an update today refreshing my increasingly unrefreshed mind.

This extremely comprehensive chart has been around in one manifestation or another for many years so many of you may already have it; but for those who don’t and own many firearms, it could come in handy, especially if you’re in need of a manual when away from home, as you can pull your manual up on your phone. Sorry but Poe cannot vouch for how recent are the updates for individual manuals.
Here ya go:

Please do not share with any liberal Democrat acquaintances. The way things are going in this country we don’t want them knowing how to fix and/or maintain the few guns they do own.

In Vallejo, California, 41-year-old Adam Powell dramatically appeared in the door of a Starbucks, wearing body armor and armed with some sort of scary black rifle.

He attempted to murder two police officers in the coffee shop, but his broke-dick gun wouldn’t fire;

The officers were not injured because the battered weapon, its butt covered with duct tape or foil, appeared to jam. Powell of Suisan City was in critical condition after being shot by the officers during a foot chase.

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Authorities said Powell had served prison time for robbery and drug-related offenses and was barred from possessing guns.

Bidou said Powell is the father of a 2-year-old boy who may have accidentally shot himself earlier Sunday in Suisun City, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. The child was taken to a hospital for a gunshot wound.

Police said preliminary information indicates the wound was accidental and self-inflicted. Powell was present when the child was shot and left the home before officers arrived, police said.

Apparently, while he was running away from the scene and with police in pusuit, Powell was trying to pull immediate action on his rifle so the officers shot him three times before he could clear the malfunction. I’ve always said that we should issue those 100-round drums to the criminals, because they all jam.

It’s hard to buy a legal gun in California, but a felon like Powell had no problem getting a gun – or a reasonable facsimile – and a scary black gun and a 100-round round magazine both of which are generally illegal in California. If he had the gun that his child had used the day before, there would have been a very different outcome. The fact remains that a felon had at least one gun…in California…where law abiding citizens can’t own a gun. But, yeah, let’s write some more laws to limit legal owners’ possession of firearms.

KY3 tells the story of 49-year-old Scott Goodwin-Bey in Springfield, Missouri. He has a fairly long criminal record;

Goodwin-Bey was convicted in 1992 in St. Louis of possession of crack cocaine, illegally carrying a concealed weapon, and resisting arrest. He was convicted in federal court in 1997 for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. He was convicted in 1997 in Greene County for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was convicted in 2008 in federal court for being a felon in possession of a weapon.

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Goodwin-Bey is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of four people in a motel room on northeast Springfield on Nov. 15, 2014. Investigators believe Goodwin-Bey thought one or all of the victims told police about his drug use.

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Greene County prosecutors charged Goodwin-Bey for the murders in February 2015 after lab tests were completed on the handgun, which had been stolen in Ozark. The tests included analysis of 11 bullets and 13 casings that were in the motel room and the victims’ bodies, and markings on some of them matched markings made by test bullets fired by the Ruger pistol.

Goodwin-Bey is scheduled for trial in January before Greene County Circuit Judge Calvin Holden on four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of armed criminal action.

So, Mister Goodwin-Bey walked into a convenience store in Springfield on August 23rd, acting erratically. He approached the clerk carrying a gun, a Ruger 9mm, and placed it on the counter. The clerk gave the gun to his supervisor and escorted Goodwin-Bey from the store to his white Lincoln Town Car. Police picked him up later and they found ammunition rolling around on the floor boards of his car.

So, here you have a fellow who is a hardened criminal with a long record out on bail for four murder charges, yet he can still get a gun. Aren’t there enough laws in place that will prevent a criminal from getting a gun yet?

Well, Mr Goodwin-Bey might finally get locked up for good, but that clerk and store manager are lucky, very lucky.

Just a reminder that after the next administration confiscates our guns, the criminals will always know how to get their hands on one.

The Seattle Times reports that Turkish-born Arcan Cetin who killed five people with .22 caliber rifle in the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, had gone to a gun shop minutes before his shooting rampage in an attempt to buy a .45 caliber handgun.

Cetin, she said, came through the door and asked her “If we have .45s and stuff,” referring to a popular and powerful handgun caliber. “I mean, yeah, we have ‘stuff.’ It just didn’t feel right.”

Cetin was referred to a store sales representative, Dawn said, where he almost immediately began asking about background checks. When he was told he would have to undergo one no matter what, Dawn, said, “he sort of puffed up the way men do when you tell them, ‘No.’ ”

Cetin, she said, asked about buying a firearm at a gun show, but was told that under Washington law every firearm transaction — even those between private individuals — requires an instant background check.

Dawn said that once Cetin was told in no uncertain terms that a check would be conducted, he “just walked out of the store.”

The owner told the reporter that they had already decided that they weren’t going to sell him a gun because of a “feeling”. Good instincts, Dawn.

According to the article, Cetin was under a court order that forbade his possession of a firearm and that might have been sufficient if it popped up on the background check – but nothing is a given when it comes to NICS. We’ve seen a number of shooters who shouldn’t own guns, but had them despite evidence to the contrary.

The first line of defense is firearms dealers. Funny how the Times isn’t making a big deal about how he finally got his hands on a gun. It appears that he stole his father’s gun. But, the fact remains that current gun laws were sufficient to prevent him from creating a bigger mess in his hunt for his ex-girlfriend.

Our friends at Maxon Shooters Supply and Indoor Range send us a link to the photo at Atlantic discussing the new poll that claims only three percent of Americans own the 300 million guns in the country. Here’s a better picture of the photo that they use;

I guess Atlantic couldn’t find a picture of someone who actually knows how to insert the magazine into their rifle. I couldn’t bring myself to read the article after looking at the picture, the caption says that the fellow with the magazine problem is “pro-gun”. I kinda doubt it.