So Uncle is talking about “Jump Drives”, I asked if that was the same as a “Thumb Drive”, and was told it was.
Well Decided since there was no set name, and being a crass asshole, I declared them all “Cock Drives”, and it lead me here.
Capitalism RULES!!!!
I’ll link directly to the blog of Joyce Shill “Ohh Shoot”
20-year-old Jason Denison and 20-year-old Jonathan Flores, both of New Bedford, Massachusetts, have been charged with murder in connection with a gun battle last month that fatally injured an innocent bystander….Denison has also been charged with armed assault with intent to murder, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and obstruction of justice. Flores has also been charged with possession of a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearms and possession of a firearm without an FID card.
Why somebody who campaigns for tougher gun laws would link a post like this shows how short-sighted and desperate they are. Two violent criminals illegally owning guns, at an illegal street-fight, likely affiliated with the many street gangs of New Bedford, who are carrying their illegal guns illegally, in a state that does not allow the transfer of a firearm without a background check, and are willing to murder each other aren’t going to balk at yet another stupid rule.
This is the world they want for us, they should be PROUD, not upset!
There’s been a little bit of banter in this post about Point Blank Range.
I was unaware that point-blank may or may-not have a forensics definition of “Shot at Very Close Range”, and the linked wikipedia page cites a dead link so I can’t confirm that. Generally when a non-gunnie says the term that’s what they mean, and to some extent they are correct, but read this definition:
Point blank range is the distance a marksman can reasonably expect to fire a specific weapon hitting a specific target without further adjustment of the fixed sights.
Now on handguns (which is the gun used in the Kroger shooting) this is more-or-less true. The factory fixed sights on most handguns are set for a very close zero, of about 10-15 feet. That means you line up the sights at this range and the bullet trajectory won’t wander too far from that zero in that range or a bit beyond it. The furthest I’ve ever shot pistols with any expected results is about 25 yards, and with that you need very little hold-over, and generally no matter what my sights are set on, my skill with a pistol is not suited for those ranges.
Also as a defensive shooting I’d find it VERY hard to justify a lethal force scenario much beyond those ranges without getting into a bit of fantasy. Generally we’re talking contact to maybe 30 feet, which on most pistol sights “Point Blank”.
On a rifle things can get interesting. First with a modern rifle like an AR-15 you have a little something called “Sight Offset“. Rifles that have a stock that his more-or-less inline with the bore to control recoil and muzzle climb need to elevate their sights a few inches above the bore-line of the rifle. The AR-15 is known for having high iron sights as you can see in the link. On the linked rifle it means at very close range the rifle will print about 2 inches low because the sights are about an inch high above the rifle.
Since the bullet travels in an arc it actually RISES to the line of sight before dropping. The faster the bullet travels the flatter this arc will appear if fired on a level plane.
When zeroing my FAL for the first time I did a little research and found that if I set the zero on the gun at 100 yards using 150 grain NATO 7.62x51mm Ammo the rounds won’t stray much beyond +/- 2” from muzzle out to about 125 yards, at which point I’d need to either adjust my hold higher on the target, or crank the sight ladder up a notch, which is conveniently set in 100 meter graduations. Since I’m not doing any match target shooting with this gun, and it is generally a defensive arm, and possibly a deer rifle for Maine “Brush Hunting”, that is VERY reasonable.
This means that taking a shot with the rifle at a target inside of 125 yards I would indeed be shooting “point Blank”.
But what if I click the rear sight up one mark? Suddenly my zero will be moved to approximately 200 yards (I say approximately as I haven’t done any of the math, nor marked a page at these ranges to verify) And things start looking a LOT different.
A shot held dead-on at 100 yards will be about 2″ HIGH and suddenly “Point Blank” is at about 35 yards, and 200 yards.
Just an interesting term to think about, and also its always interesting to study bullet ballistics because most people assume when they level their sights it means the bore of their gun is also level, but in fact its canted slightly up so the bullet will rise and then fall to the point of aim.
Just found this interesting.
Police continued Friday to seek answers as to why Stewart opened fire when a total of 12 officers arrived to serve a “knock-and-announce” search warrant on a red brick home at 3268 Jackson Ave. Police say no one answered, but the officers came under heavy fire when they entered the home. Police have not released details about the firearms Stewart had, but the suspect reportedly was armed with multiple guns.
According to this it was a standard warrant, not a no-knock. Also this was a bit fishy:
Stewart, 37, the oldest of five children, served as an Army multichannel transmission systems operator in North Carolina and Germany for four years. He was awarded the Army Achievement Medal and a National Defense Service Medal before leaving the military in 1998, an Army spokesman said. He worked as a security guard for the IRS before getting a warehouse job on the graveyard shift at Walmart in Riverdale three years ago. A check of Utah court records shows only a traffic ticket for driving without insurance.
However, his father, Michael Stewart, said his son, who has “issues,” may have been growing marijuana to “self-medicate.” The father said they are estranged, but maintained that Matthew Stewart was not a drug dealer and may have been surprised by police.
According to this he was not a combat vet, and served honerably, also had no criminal background. Also no claims he was dealing drugs, or using anything worse than Marijuana. As for “self medicating” I’ve heard of people using weed for everything from Anxiety to sleep troubles. I do know that a dozen men with automatic weapons in ninja-garb would make me a might bit anxious.
Could it have been he just didn’t want to open the door, or was taking a nap? There is nothing about this that smells right.
Also, no disrespect for the fallen officer, but this story is disgusting.
Ogden officer Jared Francom died early Thursday at a hospital, hours after he and a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Ogden house to serve a search warrant in a drug investigation.
When no one responded, the officers burst inside only to meet a hail of gunfire, authorities say.
“Jared died doing what he loved,” brother Travis Francom said. “He worried at times, for his safety. I don’t think so much for himself, but for his family, his two little girls and his wife … but I don’t think he was ever afraid.”
So you’re saying he loved kicking down the doors of stoners? This is either a sad story of the Police State, or a Newspaper trumping up a bad story to glorify a man who died doing something VERY stupid, and very bad.
This story is bouncing around from the antis.
A 24-year-old man was taken to the hospital Wednesday evening after accidentally shooting himself while on the Weber State University campus.
WSU spokesman John Kowalewski said the man, who is believed to be a student enrolled at the university, was injured around 6:30 p.m. when his handgun accidentally discharged…..The man was taken to an Ogden hospital for treatment of his wound, which was not believed to be life-threatening, Kowalewski said.
The antis will say that this is reason why no college students (or anybody in general) should carry a gun. I’ll just point that this is a wakeup call about respect for your carry gun.
USE A HOLSTER! and not just any holster, but a good holster that is designed for the gun you’re carrying, and the method you’re carrying it in.
STOP TOUCHING IT!, the more you handle a firearm, the greater the risk of a negligent discharge. Put on your holster in the morning, and do NOT touch the gun unless you are disarming for the day, or are engaging a deadly threat.
PERIOD! Don’t Show your gun to friends by manipulating the gun (you may manipulate the holster if you are using a good one), don’t adjust the gun (you may adjust the holster, as per the first corollary), and don’t fiddle with, or play with your gun!
There is no way this happened without one or both of these rules being ignored.
Don’t be that guy!
Carry your guns, and be safe about it!
I officially hate Scott Brown. He campaigned as a conservative and used the support of the national Tea Party chapters. His big campaign issue was he would vote against Obamacare. Recently he told me he “Supports The Second Amendment” by being anti-gun and anti-freedom, and now this.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said he supports President Barack Obama’s decision to name Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog despite the objections of Brown’s fellow Senate Republicans.
I’ll be voting against Senator Brown in November. He has broken every promise, and has shown himself to be a despicable human being.
When I was talking about this with Jay, Jay noted that for me to vote AGAINST Senator Brown I’d need to vote for the moonbat “Progressive” who’s running against him.
I asked Jay to name a single vote that Scott Brown made that Leftist Puppet Martha Coakley wouldn’t have made?
I extend that same question to my Massachusetts readers who will be voting in November.
Also I’ll point out that with Scott Brown in office it will require a successful Massachusetts GOP Nomination challenge to get anything but a leftist scumbag in that seat (The current occupant included), and I don’t see this happening. Putting a green, idiot “Progressive” in the seat is the ONLY move that will keep Scott Brown to be sitting in that seat in his turncoat “Progressive” 70s, as a better-looking Barny Frank, or John Kerry.
Meanwhile Elisabeth Warren is a CarpetBagger from Oklahoma, a College Professor, and a general Leftist Useful Idiot. Her first term as a Senator won’t be any different than Scott Brown as Brown will ALWAYS vote with the Marxists, and hopefully her first term will be her last. Meanwhile if Scott Brown gets re-elected, the chances of him never being successfully opposed again is a very strong possibility. Remember, the man who held that seat before him was a murderer, a drunk, and a rapist.
I look forward to seeing your concession speech, Senator Brown, you’re a disgrace to the Senate, To the Uniform you wear for the US Army, and to the Country.
Go over to A Girl and Her Gun and have ra look at her sweet give-away for training for a new female shooter.
And it looks like with the training comes a case of ammo!
Simply Amazing! I’m humbled by the people I share company with in the gun blogs!
Here’s how we do our Bad Justice in Massachusetts.
State police say a man on the state Probation Department’s Ten Most Wanted list has been captured.
Authorities apprehended 46-year-old Dennis Lauber at an apartment in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood on Thursday night.
Lauber is wanted out of Essex Superior Court for armed robbery while masked in violation of probation conditions. Since the issuance of that probation warrant, he has picked up additional charges from Saugus police stemming from an attack on a 23-year-old woman.
All of that and he was still freely roaming the streets. This is why I carry a gun, and I carry my gun ALL THE TIME! You never know when you’ll come toe-to-toe with a violent criminal deemed “Safe” by our broken and dysfunctional corrections system.
There is a way to make these monsters safe, and I carry it in a holster.
This made me smile
At the New England College Convention on Thursday afternoon in Concord, N.H., the former Pennsylvania senator and darling of Tuesday’ Iowa caucuses was met with a hostile reception from students who didn’t appreciate his absolutist views against legalizing gay marriage.
Now I have no idea how representative that crowd is to the populous of New Hampshire, nor the Primary voters, but New Hampshire is one of the few states that allows Gays to marry by popular vote rather than questionably legal Judicial Bench Legislation.
Video is here
Really the sad state of affairs is this election appears to be picking between the candidate that hates the Gays, or the Candidate that hates the Jews, or the Candidate that hates the American Way of Life.
And depending on how the polls roll it could be combinations of all of those in each!
We need to PURGE this crap from American Politics. We should know better by now!
From the Utah SWAT shooting.
Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.
That’s when the gunfire erupted.
When it was over Wednesday night, a 7-year veteran officer was dead and five of his colleagues were wounded, some critically. The suspect, an Army veteran whose estranged father said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been self-medicating with marijuana, was injured.
We originally talked about it here, and because of the dubious nature of SWAT drug raids in the past I wondered how valid this raid was. Also 40+ shots being fired, one officer dead, several severely wounded, and the suspect suffering only minor wounds? And over Marijuana? With images like this still fresh in our minds. I have to wonder was the suspect even armed? Did the SWAT member shoot themselves?
Why was this raid even necessary?
I think we need to keep a VERY close eye on this case. Les said in his email: “Is this Pima County II?”
He may be right.
