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Category: Guns

  • Wednesday feel good story

    UpNorth sends us a link to the story of a man in Forth Worth, TX, who thought he was buying a cell phone from a Craigslist ad, but he took his gun and his CCW license, just in case. When 20-year-old Desmond Paige tried to rob him, the would-be victim shot him dead;

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    According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram;

    MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky said paramedics told him that the robbery target “took out his gun, and he shot the alleged perpetrator in the chest several times.”

    The man with the gun was shot in the arm. His injury was not life-threatening, Zavadsky said. It was not clear late Tuesday whether he was shot by Paige or shot himself, officials said.

    I hope the Senate keeps this story in mind as they vote on gun control today.

  • Tuesday feel good story

    David sends a link to the last chapter of the story of the life of 26-year-old Jeremy Scott Irvin of Fairfield, Ohio;

    Smail Gueddari…heard his wife, who had been manning the cash register, screaming from the front of the shop.

    Gueddari rushed from the back room to find a robber, with the lower part of his face covered by a makeshift black bandanna, pointing a handgun at his wife and motioning with it for her to empty the store’s cash register. When the robber spotted Gueddari rounding the corner, he fired a shot at the store owner, but the bullet narrowly missed him and instead struck two mannequins before lodging into a nearby wall.

    So, Smail, drilled the shooter in the torso. Irvin grabbed some cash and tried to make a getaway but he didn’t get too far before he collapsed on the side walk outside the store with his ill-gotten booty.

    Gueddari was quoted as saying ” I didn’t kill him; he killed himself.”

    Since it’s Ohio, the prosecutor, Mike Gmoser, says he’s sending the case to a grand jury instead of showing some testicular fortitude and make a decision on his own.

    What’s for a grand jury to decide? The punk shot first and was found by the police with the fruits of his illegal labors. I don’t know who is worse in this case, the dead thief or the prosecutor. Gueddari saved his wife and two-year-old son who was sleeping nearby. Things like that make someone defending themselves think twice about pulling the trigger – which could cost them their lives.

  • Sunday morning feel good story

    The careers of two gentlemen came to a timely end Friday morning when they, along with two friends picked the wrong house for a home invasion-type robbery, according to WGHP in North Carolina;

    According to WTVD, one of the suspects, 20-year-old Xavier White, was later found shot on Martha Court. He was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, where he later died, the station reports.

    The second suspect was found dead around 5:45 a.m. along the shoulder of the roadway in the 5400 block of South Sumac Circle, WTVD reports. The second suspect’s name has not been released.

    The homeowner was also wounded in the exchange, the station reports.

    WTVD reports that two others were identified, but unfortunately they are still alive and on the loose;

    Saturday, detectives identified two additional suspects.

    They are 24-year-old Lamyer Gorminie Campbell and 24-year-old Derek Rashaun Hair.

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    Both Campbell and Hair have been charged with first degree burglary, robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit first degree burglary, and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.

    The suspects were last known to be in a dark colored 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a North Carolina license plate AMC-6212. Police said Hair and Campbell should be considered armed and dangerous.

    So those of you in the Greensboro and Winston-Salem area should oil up and load up your guns in case they come into your neighborhood to do their Sunday morning shopping.

    Thanks to Castro Hawk for the link.

  • Text of Senate “Compromise” Gun Bill

    Purportedly available here.

  • “Show Me”

    Recently the Missouri Highway Patrol was asked by unnamed Federal officials to give them a full listing of Missouri concealed carry permit holders.  The request was apparently a verbal one; no written request seems to exist.

    Regardless, the full list of roughly 185,000 Missouri concealed carry permit holders was obtained by the Missouri Highway Patrol – and apparently provided by them to Federal authorities –  on two occasions.  The first time was November 2011; the second, January of 2012.  At some point, the list may have been briefly posted to the Internet as well.

    According to Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer, the apparent rationale for requesting the list was so that “they (presumably Federal authorities) can match up anyone who had a mental diagnosis or disability with also having a concealed carry license”.  The list was allegedly provided to the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General.

    Missouri is “the Show Me state”.   But somehow, I just don’t think that motto is supposed to apply to any and all random questions asked by Federal officials regarding personal information protected by Missouri state law.

    Needless to say, the implications of this blatant misconduct by both Federal and Missouri State officials are deeply disturbing.

  • Feel good Thursday story

    Sandy Mize of Spokane, WA, grandmother of 10, held Sean Denny at gunpoint waiting for the police to arrive when he broke into her house while trying to hide from the cops after being foiled at another break-in according to KXLY;

    A K-9 began tracking Denny but before police could find him he had broken into Mize’s home.

    “Lady called saying that somebody had forced their way into her house, she had grabbed a firearm that she kept for her own personal protection, fired one round, ended up hitting the wall and then she held him at gunpoint in her living while the police responded,” Sprague said.

    Denny made a last ditch effort to escape out the back door but was greeted by that K-9 team that was out looking for him.

    “He is receiving treatment from a minor injury from that,” Sprague said of Denny’s run-in with the K-9.

    The thug life is tough, I guess. Thwarted by a grandmother and then bitten by a dog. Sean is going to be real popular at the Graybar Hotel.

  • That UN gun treaty thing

    I don’t trust either side in this discussion, unfortunately, there is virtually no source material on the treaty that passed the United Nations General Assembly today. Apparently, we’re supposed to just trust our UN politicians that they would only act in our best interests. All I can find at this point is news reports and press releases. I know that the NRA tells us that it’s bad, but then, so do China, India, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran. According to the Washington Post, folks I mistrust on the other side who like it aren’t much more trustworthy;

    U.S. officials and several nongovernmental organizations, including the American Bar Association, have argued that the treaty would have no impact on American gun rights.

    Its specific language recognizes the “legitimate trade and lawful ownership, and use of certain conventional arms for recreational, cultural, historical and sporting activities.”

    On Tuesday, Secretary of State John F. Kerry welcomed the approval of the treaty, describing it as a “strong, effective and implementable” tool that can “strengthen global security while protecting the sovereign right of states to conduct legitimate arms trade.”

    Oh, yeah, Amnesty International likes it, too. So, given the folks who like the treaty (whom I’m sure haven’t read it either) don’t inspire confidence.

    The UN’s website says;

    According to the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, the treaty will not do any of the following: interfere with domestic arms commerce or the right to bear arms in Member States; ban the export of any type of weapon; harm States’ legitimate right to self-defence; or undermine national arms regulation standards already in place.

    But the Washington Post says;

    The treaty would require governments to establish a national record-keeping system to track the trade in conventional arms. They would also have to ensure that weapons are not illegally diverted to terrorist organizations or other armed groups. In addition, governments would conduct risk assessments to determine the likelihood that arms exports were being used to abuse human rights, particularly against women or children.

    Either way, I’m pretty sure that we won’t be able to supply aid to any of our allies like Israel. The UN has sanctioned Israel more than 130 times since 1967. I’m pretty sure the UN would find a way to disarm them. Meanwhile, just like gun control inside the US, the treaty would be useless against criminal states like Syria and Iran, and those other countries I listed who abstained from voting or voted against the treaty. The only countries that would adhere to the mysterious treaty are the ones that always do – the US, the UK, Canada, etc….

  • Feel good stories for Tuesday

    There’s more oxygen for the rest of us today after a retired DC police officer in Maryland laid one burglar low in a shootout in his apartment while the other escaped;

    The incident began shortly before 10:30 p.m., when the former officer heard several loud bangs on his front door in the 3600 block of Harlequin Court in Huntingtown, according to the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office. He grabbed a handgun and answered the door, finding two people there.

    One brandished a weapon and both made aggressive movements toward the homeowner, who fired shots at the two men in fear of his life.

    I guess they didn’t bother to case the joint and gain a little situational awareness before they hatched their nefarious plot. Out of all of the unarmed people in Maryland, they picked a retired cop.

    In Texas, Cory Randle was threatened with a gun, led to his house where he retrieved his own gun and sent the gunman to his reward;

    Police said the victim, whose name hasn’t been released, had a gun pressed against his head by the armed robber in the parking lot of the Bel Air Place apartments on Dewberry Blvd. in Lancaster.

    The robber forced the victim at gunpoint to take him to his upstairs apartment. The victim said the robber said he’d kill him if he didn’t give him “everything he had.”

    While being held in his apartment, the victim grabbed his own gun and started shooting at the robber. The two exchanged gunfire inside the apartment and the shootout continued to the breezeway and down into the parking lot.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.