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Category: Guns

  • She’s Baaaaaack!

    You all remember Emma Gonzales, don’t you? Lovely young girl, despite the shaved head. Such crocodile tears she wept for as long as she was onstage, and then hey! Presto! They vanished. She was also good at reddening her eyeballs. One can only hope she’ll get glaucoma out of it, or worse.

    https://www.nraila.org/articles/20181012/who-s-bs-ing-now-gonzalez-argues-for-gun-confiscation-but-insists-she-s-pro-second-amendment

    And that bald head? I thought it was only nuns and Marines that shaved their heads. Well, nuns sort of are Marines, wearing black habits – the Army of God or something like that.

    But I digress… somewhat.

    It seems that Ms. Gonzalez is back, in fine fettle, arguing for confiscation but insisting that she is so very 2nd Amendment-friendly… except for those parts about confiscation and banning guns and – well, such a plan she has for Others (that’s us) to follow that you have to read it for comprehension, not just context.  And you have to do it without throwing things, too. She thinks the Australian confiscation plan was just great! And ditto, the UK, except that in both Oz and Merry Olde England, people are still allowed to have weapons – for hunting, target shooting, and other such endeavors.

    Just to make it clear where she stands:  “… if she actually read the website of the gun control group for which she is a national spokesperson, she would learn a “comprehensive semi-automatic assault rifle ban” is among its agenda items.  The ban it has in mind not only “prohibits the future production and sale of these weapons” but “provides a solution for dealing with those semi-automatic assault rifles that are already owned,” such as “a buyback program” for lawfully obtained guns. Needless to say, this measure by definition would affect those who are “already … responsible gun owner[s]” and force them to give up their property.”

    “That’s not all. Even if we assume she doesn’t know what her own organization wants, we have her own words delivered on other occasions to explain exactly what she means.”

    “At a public appearance in May, Gonzalez told her audience, “It’s just cheaper to take away the guns that aren’t imperative to living in America,” adding, “You don’t need an AR-15 to protect yourself in bed from a robber at night.” She even hinted on that occasion that guns should be limited to the military: “Go join the Army if you want to have fun shooting off a weapon, and serve your f***ing country.” – NRA article

    I really do appreciate her referring to this nation of ours as ‘your fucking country’. She can leave any time. I’m sure either Venezuela or Cuba would welcome the little bitch with open arms.  As nasty as she is, she might even fascinate or amuse Vlad Putin for a brief moment or two.

    Now, don’t be too easy on her. She’s only 18, hasn’t really seen the world for the vicious, gangbanging place it is, nor does she have even a vague understanding of the conflict of meanings manifest in everything she says.

    Deep down inside, she’s an apprentice bitch on wheels, practicing on the unsuspecting souls who support her as-yet-unspoken agenda without realizing what sort of quagmire they’ll be marching into by that very support of her.

    Just wanted you to know that I’m not snoozing here.

  • US Navy says assault rifles were seized from Persian Gulf boats

    ddg jason dunhamA team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham inspects a dhow while conducting maritime security operations. A U.S. military video released Aug. 31, 2018, purported to show small ships in the Gulf of Aden smuggling weapons amid the ongoing war in Yemen, with officials saying they seized over 2,500 arms from the vessels. (U.S. Navy via AP)

    A boarding team from the guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham captured more than 1,000 AK-47 rifles from a vessel sailing in the Gulf of Aden.

    Navy officials said the warship intercepted the stateless skiff while it was drifting without engine power on Tuesday.

    The boarding team determined that the vessel was not flagged to any nation and then discovered the cache of weapons.

    The Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet gave the updated total in a statement Wednesday.

    It boarded a skiff and a dhow, a traditional ship in the Persian Gulf, during routine checks in the Gulf of Aden on Aug. 28.

    The Navy added: “The origin and intended destination of the skiff have not yet been determined.“

    I’ll take, “Who Are Iran and Yemen?” for thousand, Alex.

    The entire article may be viewed Here.

  • Other Feelz Good Stories

    I have no idea where the Usual Suspects are, but here goes.

    You may enjoy this particular story.  https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/09/staff-writer/man-strangles-girlfriend-unconscious-then-gets-pistol-whipped-by-an-unnamed-third-person/

    In a somewhat atypical defensive gun use out of Walnut Hill, Florida (yes, it is always Florida), Cordaryl Lewis was pistol-whipped by an anonymous person who found that he had strangled his girlfriend.

    According to reports, Lewis and his girlfriend were “arguing about leaving the house they had just bought” when Lewis decided to grab the woman’s throat. He choked her to the point of unconsciousness before an anonymous third party walked in on the scene, saw the woman on the ground and pistol-whipped Lewis in the face. When authorities arrived, they found Lewis bleeding profusely. The woman had sustained injuries consistent with the allegations against Lewis, and the man was arrested and charged with domestic battery by strangulation.

    IMHO, there should be warning signs visible from guys who like to abuse women, but when women are desperate to have a man in the domicile, it seems these signs are still missed.

    And there’s  this one:   https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/09/staff-writer/whataburger-robber-shot-and-killed-by-security-guard/

    Most fast food joints don’t keep armed security personnel on staff, but this one apparently did – and ten customers have him to thank for potentially saving their lives.

    Around 1:00 a.m. in Houston this past week, a man walked into a Whataburger restaurant and opened fire.

    “I see a dude in a white bandana pull out a gun like it’s a movie or something, and start shooting behind the counter,” said a witness named Jayvier Green.

    Immediately, the security guard took action, firing four shots, all of which hit the suspect in the legs. That’s laudable marksmanship on his part, and police agree.

    Well, maybe the gun-nutz customer was unhappy with his bill. Not having eaten anything at a Whataburger, I can’t answer that question, but he obviously had a few issues.

     

  • 12 Gauge Pistol- Just Because You Can…

    12 gauge pistol

    …doesn’t mean you should. Fortunately only five or so of these monsters are in existence. They started life as drab but reliable-as-a-hammer Rossi break-action, single-shot shotgun that was cut down and then reclassified as a pistol. This 12 gauge pistol is completely custom, and the only versions seen were found in Canada, surprising nobody.

    rossieRossi Single Shot

    When normal people think of a pistol-shotgun, one of the Taurus ‘Judge’ family comes to mind, or perhaps a Bond Arms derringer in .410/45LC.

    Cap guns in comparison.

    So I’ma goin’ to take my derringer and go home, but I won’t have a broken wrist.

  • Brunswick County sheriff discusses crime during Hurricane Florence

    loot shoot

    Never fails, some low thugs take advantage of other people’s distress and go in, looking for whatever they can grab. If anyone needs a reason for the Second Amendment, look no farther than the breakdown of law during and after a catastrophic event. Trees and power lines down, flooded roads, all make for a thief’s holiday, because EMS and LEOs simply can’t get to where they are acting out. And it’s already starting in North Carolina.

    Evacuations prompted by Hurricane Florence have left homes and businesses empty and vulnerable and some people are allegedly taking advantage of the situation.

    The sheriff’s office got a call about suspicious people on the south end of the county and arrested them for breaking into cars.

    Later on the north end of the county, they got a report of a business break-in and arrested one person after a short chase.

    Sheriff Ingram says while there is that criminal element out there looking to take advantage, the Sheriff’s Office is working hard to stop that from happening.

    Even in normal times, police are minutes away. In times of duress, the LEOs/EMS who can get to you will, but it may be days. Protect what is yours with what you have.

    The entire WWAY TV3 article may be viewed Here

  • Why Am I Not Surprised?

    Defensive gun use (DGU) happens more regularly in the United States than gun crimes, according to data the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) never publicized.    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/guns-save-lives-cdc-never-publicized/ 

    Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck has been arguing that point for a quarter of a century, saying that his own research led him to believe that DGU was far more prevalent than gun-control advocates claim.

    The CDC’s data, collected a few years after Kleck’s survey, appears to corroborate his findings, Reason.com reported. The question asked in the CDC survey addressed the use or threatened use of a firearm to deter a crime. “During the last 12 months, have you confronted another person with a firearm, even if you did not fire it, to protect yourself, your property, or someone else?”

    Kleck, upon reviewing the CDC’s data, noted just how close it came to mirroring his own.

    The final adjusted prevalence of 1.24% therefore implies that in an average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense. This estimate, based on an enormous sample of 12,870 cases (unweighted) in a nationally representative sample, strongly confirms the 2.5 million past-12-months estimate obtained Kleck and Gertz (1995)….CDC’s results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals.

    Many gun control advocates have complained about the fact that the CDC is limited with regard to research on gun violence. A 1996 amendment to a spending bill bars the organization from using congressionally allocated funds to “advocate or promote gun control.”

    What those fighting for stronger gun-control generally leave out is the fact that the CDC is not barred from doing any research on gun violence — and the research it has done in the last two decades has largely corroborated Kleck’s findings.

  • School Shootings that never happened.

    School Shootings that never happened.

     

    II am always skeptical when people use statistics.  Even accurate numbers can be used in misleading ways.  Sometimes it’s just out of ignorance that numbers are misunderstood, but other times the statistics themselves have been deliberately skewed.

    How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?

    We should know. But we don’t.

    This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.

    But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.

    We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

    In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn’t confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn’t meet the government’s parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn’t respond to our inquiries.

    25% of the schools that reported an incident did not respond?

    The Education Department, asked for comment on our reporting, noted that it relies on school districts to provide accurate information in the survey responses and says it will update some of these data later this fall. But, officials added, the department has no plans to republish the existing publication.

    This confusion comes at a time when the need for clear data on school violence has never been more pressing. Students around the country are heading back to school this month under a cloud of fear stemming from the most recent mass shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Texas.

    At least 53 new school safety laws were passed in states in 2018. Districts are spending millions of dollars to “harden” schools with new security measures and equipment. A blue-ribbon federal school safety commission led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is holding public events around the country, including one in Alabama Tuesday. Children are spending class time on active-shooter drills and their parents are buying bulletproof backpacks.

    Our reporting highlights just how difficult it can be to track school-related shootings and how researchers, educators and policymakers are hindered by a lack of data on gun violence.

    “I think someone pushed the wrong button”

    Really?  They pushed the wrong button?   I will betcha there is funding available if the number of  “Gun incidents” reaches some target goal.

    Unacceptable burden

    The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights received complaints about the wording and administration of this survey even before it went out.

    A June 2014 research report commissioned to improve the CRDC as a whole noted that in previous data collections, districts had experienced “unacceptable levels of reporting burden.” They complained that the CRDC asks them to report information that is similar to what states already collect, but in a different format, or at a level of specificity that they don’t currently track.

    It is a very interesting article to read and NPR did an exceptionally good job with it.   If you find the time, read the whole article HERE. 

  • Dick’s Is Down

    Looks like Dick’s ideas of how to do things to please customers and bolster their public image is backfiring.

    https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180831/dick-s-sales-soft-following-anti-gun-efforts

    Their consolidated 2nd quarter earnings (all stores, all departments, all products) are down 4%. While this can legitimately be related to the decision by CEO Stack to cease and desist gun sales and destroy remaining stock in stead of returning those products to the manufacturers, the company, with help from CNN, America’s ‘most trusted name in news’ – the network that had Maddow’s bratchet-faced mug on display for hours during November 2016’s incorrect election forecast – considers acceptable a fabricated news release about this loss of earnings.

    CNN says now that investors should ignore Dick’s own admissions regarding the negative consequences of their gun control positions and blame stiff competition from online retailers and the store’s delicate relationship with one of its apparel brands for the inadequate performance.

    Yeah, okay. Denial of reality is a sign of something worse. CNN by now may be the worst propaganda rag/network since Pravda/Izvestia. Certainly, it is not a reliable source of information for anything. And if altering a sales report to suit their needs of reality is what CNN thinks makes them trustworthy, they have a problem.

    In May,  the Board of Governors for the National Shooting Sports Foundation – the firearm industry trade group – voted to expel the company “for conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Foundation.”

    Stack had already correctly predicted a negative effect on sales back in March. Loss of sales in all departments is not a good sign.

    Well, Gander Mountain is mostly gone into the mists of retail history.

    L. L. Bean has its own stores, but is still mostly camping, hiking and fishing, as it has always been. That, and duck boots.

    Bass Pro is still in business and seems to be thriving. Bass is the parent company of Cabela’s. Bass Pro has a fish-o-rama in the spring, about when the smelts are running in the Great Lakes.

    I think people will go where they feel welcome, not snubbed because they want a particular product.

    But then, I would question the idea that someone who is so blatantly anti-gun should be running a company that he has decided should no longer sell guns.