When Gun Free Zones Aren’t

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Tell me this is a bad thing:

A young man is dead and another is seriously injured after a shooting during an attempted robbery of a basketball coach near a Detroit high school.

MyFoxDetroit.com reports that a 70-year-old coach for the girl’s basketball team at Martin Luther King Junior High School was walking two students to their cars at the school when the shooting occurred.

Detroit Public Schools spokesman says the male coach, who has not been identified, was targeted by two teenagers who allegedly tried to rob him.

When one of the suspected robbers reportedly pulled a gun, the coach allegedly fired back, fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Scott and injuring the other person, according to MyFoxDetroit.com.

I have no idea of the legality of the coach carrying the gun, or if his job is now in jeopardy for carrying his gun. Still the fact that the coach was escorting students to their cars says he was charging himself with their safety, and also he was smart enough to know that a 70 year old man, and teenage girls can be quickly overpowered, guns or no guns.

Also I’d like to add this:

Priscilla Scott, Michael’s mother, told MyFoxDetroit.com that her son didn’t own a gun.

Not legally he didn’t at 16, but criminals will find a way, and no laws will stop them.

What laws will do is prevent the good from protecting the innocent, and I certainly suspect this coach may be in some trouble for doing what I think we can all agree, is the right thing in a dangerous area.

Be safe out there!

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A More-Serious Attempt At Gun Control Pending

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Weerd Beard

We’ll see where this goes:

Senate Democratic leaders expect to introduce a gun bill that includes most of the proposals backed by President Barack Obama, with the notable exception of a ban on military-style, semiautomatic weapons, a top aide to Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said.

The bill would likely seek to limit the capacity of ammunition magazines; expand background checks to include sales at gun shows and other private transactions; and require better record keeping to keep guns out of the hands of those with mental illnesses. It would also try to curb gun sales in states with more relaxed gun laws to buyers in states with stricter laws.

The details provide the first snapshot of how Senate Democrats plan to move forward on major gun legislation in coming weeks.

So it looks like they’re paring back the more onerous restrictions against the most popular rifles in America, but still going after the most popular magazines in America, as well as private sales.

There’s no bill number listed here, so I can’t read the text. Honestly the only thing that might do ANY good is strengthening the NICS reporting, but I need to read the bill to see their methods.

Of course Private sale bans should be looked at with extreme caution because it can lead to backdoor registration, as well as make future restrictions on FFLs could make sales of firearms very difficult in the future. And again I must note that selling a gun to a felon or somebody severely mentally ill is a serious crime on the federal level.

Magazine restrictions are just foolishness. It restricts the lawful home owner, who might be defending the home (and not wearing a gun belt with several magazines), or carrying concealed on the streets and not wanting to carry multiple magazines. Meanwhile we have the Virginia Tech Massacre, which is the most deadly school shooting, and all but two of the dozens of magazines used held only 10 rounds. Also I must note that the most deadly attack was in 1927 and used explosives.

Contact your representation here! Let them know that you don’t get to choose the location of an engagement, only your attacker can do that, and such restrictions will only put us in MORE danger, not less.

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“Gun Death” Rogue Wave

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Rogue waves are VERY scary. Offshore I’ve been hit by two. One threw me like a rag doll from the rail INTO the boat…that was kinda neat. One almost threw me OUT of a boat, which would have likely ended my life, that wasn’t so great. This is one of those latter stores.

Authorities say a man and a juvenile fishing near the Golden Gate Bridge died after being swept into the ocean by large waves.

Southern Marin fire Battalion Chief Matt Barnes said the unidentified pair and a third fisherman were pulled into the frigid waters on Friday just before 5 p.m.

The trio was on a rocky coastline just northwest of the bridge in the Marin Headlands, which is exposed to large swells rolling in from the Pacific.

Happens in Maine every summer with people watching storm swells coming onshore on exposed points. In these cases the water is warm, but the waves usually dash the people to death on the rocks.

Not a “Gun Death”, any less tragic?

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Cylinder Gap Blast, and a Nagant Revolver

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Very neat video!

I’m with Hickok, I was cringing when he put his hand near the cylinder. My experience with cylinder blast was shooting a .22 S&W Model 17 in a training class, and I was attempting the crappy shooting hold with my left hand gripping the front of trigger guard. All that I got was a quick sting and a lot of burnt powder on my fingers, and I learned not to do that again.

Thank goodness it was only a .22!

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Remember Those Rules

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Both the Four Rules but the rules of self defense:

A Utah man has been arrested after he allegedly fired two shots with a handgun after burglary suspects fled from his house.

Fox13Now.com reports that Clare Niederhauser, of Layton, was driving toward his home Jan. 31 when he saw a car in his driveway and a man standing near his doorway holding a crowbar.

Niederhauser is accused of firing one shot at the fleeing car and another shot after the third suspect fled on foot.

Police say the use of deadly force is allowed when there’s a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury, and Niederhauser wasn’t threatened by the suspects.

The Utah Castle Doctrine law can be read here. Its Pretty Clear.

The antis claim this is license to murder, yet charges are being filed even tho it appears nobody was hurt in this case. When the attackers flee now its the cop’s job.

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More Shady ATF Activity!

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Wow, this agency is so dirty!

Several members of Congress are calling for an investigation into an embarrassing series of blunders made by the Milwaukee arm of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after a newspaper reported this week that the agency conducted a months-long undercover operation that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars and netted very few results….The newspaper claims that the agency conducted a deeply flawed sting operation that resulted in a still-missing machine gun being taken from an agent’s car, thousands of taxpayer dollars being lost in merchandise and angry residents saying that ATF officials reintroduced crime into their neighborhood. The operation comes on the heels of the botched Operation Fast and Furious anti-gun trafficking program.

This is the same agency that will be enforcing “Universal Background Checks” and the registration of so-called “Assault Weapons”. And politicians claim WE’RE the problem!!!!

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Gun Free Zones Kill

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

We need to do something about Gun Free Zones in America!

A manhunt was underway for two suspects after an assistant district attorney was gunned down Thursday outside a courthouse in North Texas.

Mark Hasse, 57, was walking from a parking lot toward the Kaufman County Courthouse annex when he was shot multiple times just before 9 a.m., Kaufman County sheriff’s department spokeswoman Pat Laney said.

Laney said late Thursday that no arrests had been made in the case….McLellan said the prosecutor had worked in a variety of areas including organized crime, knew the dangers of his job and readily accepted them. He was in Kaufman County three years.

Security officers and deputies closed nearby streets in Kaufman, a North Texas town of about 6,700 residents less than 40 miles from Dallas. Kaufman schools were put on lockdown.

Hasse’s death raises the larger issue of security for prosecutors who are responsible sending criminals to prison, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said.

Watkins says he’s most concerned that people who are out on bail and awaiting trial will target him as the face of the office or his prosecutors.

“These are people who are on the front line,” said Watkins, who leads an office of 250 prosecutors. “Why isn’t there security? We have a lot of individuals who have ill will toward our profession. Maybe this unfortunate circumstance will provide a wakeup call for those individuals who do hold the purse strings to make sure we’re protected.”

Texas is a state that’s very Liberal on guns, but court houses are gun free zones, and while most have security stations where people can disarm, and re-arm, I wouldn’t be surprised if most court workers simply leave their gun at home, or locked in their car to avoid the hassle of dealing with security.

And honestly for what? Why is a lawful gun owner any more dangerous on the steps of the courthouse as in the court? Still lawful citizens walking out of the courthouse obviously are in VERY REAL danger.

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A Great Article on Chicago

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

A good read:

CHICAGO – Not a single gun shop can be found in this city because they are outlawed. Handguns were banned in Chicago for decades, too, until 2010, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that was going too far, leading city leaders to settle for restrictions some describe as the closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban. Despite a continuing legal fight, Illinois remains the only state in the nation with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

And yet Chicago, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, finds itself laboring to stem a flood of gun violence that contributed to more than 500 homicides last year and at least 40 killings already in 2013, including a fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl on Tuesday.

To gun rights advocates, the city provides stark evidence that even some of the toughest restrictions fail to make places safer. “The gun laws in Chicago only restrict the law-abiding citizens and they’ve essentially made the citizens prey,” said Richard A. Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. To gun control proponents, the struggles here underscore the opposite – a need for strict, uniform national gun laws to eliminate the current patchwork of state and local rules that allow guns to flow into this city from outside.

“Chicago is like a house with two parents that may try to have good rules and do what they can, but it’s like you’ve got this single house sitting on a whole block where there’s anarchy,” said the Rev. Ira J. Acree, one among a group of pastors here who have marched and gathered signatures for an end to so much shooting. “Chicago is an argument for laws that are statewide or, better yet, national.”

First up, remember this is one reason to be fearful of national gun control. No gun shops in all of Chicago, no gun ranges. How do you think this would play for mandatory safety classes and banns on private gun sales? You might have to drive out to the hinterlands just to comply with laws to protect yourself….from the place where guns are banned, and violence is rampant.

Still I love how they praise Chicago’s tough rules, when the standard bleeding-heart revolving door on criminals is in full-effect. A better Analogy for Chicago is like having a house with strict rules, but Mom and Dad both work two jobs and are never home!

Frankly most of the laws Chicago passes are completely redundant to federal laws, but since those laws aren’t being enforced, they SEEM ineffective, so more laws are demanded…that aren’t enforced.

Institutions like gun ranges and gun shops aren’t a problem. Institutions like gangs and the illegal drug trade are a very real and large problem.

We don’t have a gun problem in America, we have a criminal problem.

H/T Mrs. Weer’d

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Another Huge Sink for the War on Drugs

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Massive HQ for the drug war in Chicago:

A first-of-its-kind headquarters has opened in Chicago for 70 federal agents, police and prosecutors to work side-by-side, year-round to fight drug traffickers — a set-up meant to end inter-agency rivalry and miscommunication that can hamper investigations.

The recent, fanfare-free opening of the Chicago Strike Force building comes as Mexican cartels now supply over 90 percent of the narcotics in Chicago, and as street gangs vying for turf to sell those drugs kill each other and bystanders caught in the crossfire….A major focus of their investigations will be the point of contact between major traffickers and local gangs, who serve as street-level salesmen. That’s when traffickers are especially vulnerable, Reilly says, because they meet at unfamiliar places or use phones that can be wiretapped.

The ultimate goal is to arrest suspects, squeeze them to cooperate and then move along the cartel’s chain of command to indict everyone from the street dealer to the kingpins in Mexico. They hope to replicate investigations like one that led to the 2009 indictment of key leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and the extradition of Sinaloa lieutenant Vicente Zambada, who’ll stand trial in Chicago this year.

What do you think, you think this ultra-expensive new building and framework (no mention in the article about price of all of this) will stop the illegal drug trade in America, and keep the Cartel soldiers out of this country?

How much longer will we continue to fight this losing war?

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Another Pending Political Disaster

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Politicians making rulings on things they know nothing about.

Days after a federal appeals court said the Obama administration is setting overly optimistic production quotas for the struggling biofuels industry, the government issued new standards Thursday that raise production estimates for 2013.

New standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency require production of 14 million gallons of so-called cellulosic biofuels made from grasses and woody material. That’s up from an 8.7 million-gallon requirement in 2012 — when actual production was near zero.

An oil industry representative said the Obama administration was thumbing its nose at a ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court threw out the 2012 mandate for cellulosic biofuels, saying it was based on wishful thinking rather than accurate estimates for an industry the Obama administration wants to encourage. Administration officials have said that increased use of biofuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, as well as lower U.S. dependence on foreign fuel.

I’m 100% for biofuels, as I think its one of the few renewable formulations that actually seem to work as well as Diesel Fuel. Not sure what they have as a gasoline substitute, still I don’t know if we will EVER have the infrastructure to make a full replacement for traditional oil-based fuels.

Still politicians are going to make rules by pulling numbers out of thin air, and demand we meet their hopes and dreams. This is fine if its a little girl asking for a pony for Christmas, despite living in a 2nd floor walk-up apartment, but these rules come with penalties, enforced with men with guns.

Scary really!

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