Then maybe you’re a sick bastard. Well if you missed Vicious Circle last week, we’ll be going live tonight at 9pm Eastern 8 Central! (I believe that widget in the corner of the page will stream the show when we go live)
All show notes can be found here. May be NSFW!
So Join us for another depraved evening of Vicious Circle! Its more fun than having non-consensual sex with a Marine Mammal!
Police locked down the Albany campus of Linn-Benton Community College after getting reports of a man wearing full military camoflauge running along the streets firing a rifle…Police said the boys had just watched “Heartbreak Ridge” and were playing with a replica M60. The gun was painted black but had an orange tip on the barrel.
Kids playing with toys. I’ll note that we used to play with toy guns all the time, often on public land, and this was before the law mandated that orange tip nonsense.
Of course this is Albany NY where they clamp down on gun owners with an iron fist, (Sorry its inOregon -Management) and instill irrational fears in the mushy skulls of the “Progressive” residents.
Kids playing….and adult children shitting their pants.
(image ocurtesy of Robb Allen)
Grow the fuck up!
Very very interesting article by Todd G. at Pistol training.
So finally I put it on the shot timer and it was slower: on average, 0.06 seconds slower. Six. Hundredths. Of a second. If you’d asked me, I would have told you it felt like half a second or more. Feelings lie.
Go read the whole thing. I know when I handled Jay’s S&W360PD with the VZ Grips it was wearing in this now-famous shot:
The grips felt hard, and while the G10 is grippy stuff, they’re “Smooth” G10 not the really aggressive stuff that feels like it was chopped off an Alligator’s tale. It was my guess that this gun was gonna wanna twist and buck in my hands, and that the hard grip was going to make the punishing .357 recoil out of a flyweight gun feel like a tack hammer to my thumb.
I was DEAD wrong. Its still a flyweight .357, you can erase physics, but the grips must allow for a firmer grip so there is LESS bucking, and therefore less hammering.
I’m strongly considering getting a pair of them for my S&W642 for those exact reasons!
Wow, this is a bad one.
A Northern California woman has been accused of knowingly killing her infant son by breastfeeding him shortly after ingesting large amounts of methamphetamine.
Mom doesn’t have the maternal sense to get off the bathtub crank while caring for an infant (also I wonder if she was off the crank while she was pregnant), but certainly was maternal enough to breast feed her kid, despite her fluids being lethal.
Also for the lovely “Gun Death” folks. They point out that by banning or restricting guns they’ll stop “Gun Death” (and somehow that alone without an overall decrease in violent crime). They never seem to look much at the drug culture. First up, the majority of “Gun Deaths” are tied in with the illegal drug trade, as well as many of the violent crimes seen here in the “Gun Death?” Files. But also look at all the people using, abusing, and dying from use of ILLEGAL drugs. In Massachusetts we need a permit, background check, and take a training course to buy a gun. You can’t do ANYTHING to legally get a hold of Methamphetamine. Yet they both exist in the criminal population.
Maybe we need a different course of action. Its the PEOPLE not the tool!
h/t Bob
Yep this is EXACTLY what offshore life is like.
When the weather is REALLY nice I think I miss it. Then the weather turns shitty, or I think about the stuff in this post, and I decide I kinda like the lab.
Caleb has a presser on the Charter Arms Pit Bull. Its a neat idea, and as Caleb Says ” Are there better defensive revolvers out there? Certainly. Are there better defensive guns chambered in .40 S&W? Yes. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want one, I just can’t help myself.” Its a neat gun, and I haven’t handled one, so I won’t comment if its a good gun or not. Also .40 S&W is not a cartridge I have much love for. I think 9mm and .45 do just as good a job as it does, and with a more pleasant recoil.
Still I was struck by this statement from the presser:
Nick Ecker, president of Charter Arms, said, “The Pit Bull is the ideal revolver for law enforcement officers to use as their back up, because they can now carry a revolver that utilizes the same ammo as their sidearm.
Now first up, I’d say a gun in their “Undercover” size (S&W J-Frame Equivalent) that eats 9mm would make a LOT more sense for this angle, as it would be much smaller, and much lighter. As it is, this Pit Bull appears to be the same size as their famous Bulldog .44, and it has an all-steel frame, so its also heavy.
Essentially if the Officer carries a Glock 22 or 23, this “Backup Gun” is about the same size and weight as the duty gun it supports.
Now personally I could care less what I carry for a BUG, as I’ll be drawing and shooting my primary gun in things go bad, and I’ll only be going for the BUG if I run out of ammo, or my primary has a malfunction. (or to arm an unarmed comrade who I know is proficient in firearms…or has either run dry or has a malfunction).
Still I don’t put on a pistol thinking I’m going to use it (otherwise I’ll bring a rifle or a shotgun) and on that vein I don’t carry spare mags because I think I’ll run dry, and I don’t carry a BUG thinking I’ll have to go for it. But I also don’t carry a gun because I’m an optimist.
Still with all that I really don’t expect to utilize my primary ammo into my BUG…I imagine If I had time to be stripping .40 Rounds from my duty mags into a revolver I’d have time to get my primary working. Personally when I carry two guns its a 1911 and a S&W642. One’s a .45, the other is a .38. No ammo interchangeability, and the .38 is just there to hopefully end a fight my .45 couldn’t quite get me out of.
If I really was concerned about ammo interchangeability, you’d be making a much better tactical decision to pack a subcompact version of your duty gun. So if I had a Glock 22, or 23 as my duty gun, a Glock 27 is much smaller and lighter than the Pit Bull, and there’s no need to fiddle with the ammo, you can just stuff the bigger mags into the smaller gun. Same goes with the S&W M&P series, as well as the Springfield XD series, as well as the full-size 1911s vs the compact models. Don’t know Sigs too well, but I suspect the 226 and 229 can share mags. The list goes on.
Still this is all gun-geekery. Bottom line, carry your damn guns! Carry a gun you like and are familiar with. Carrying 2 guns, or a reload, or both is better than not, but don’t get too twisted about your loadout. If you find yourself going toe-to-toe with the red Army and you don’t have a long gun, and a SQUAD behind you long guns (and light machine guns) you’re fucked no matter HOW many guns you have, or what ammo they eat from.
Don’t over-think things. Just carry and be safe!
So I was listening to the latest episode of Empty Mags (BTW its a super-fun show for those who like guns and need a little more podcast in their life) and in this episode JP talked about an interesting phenomenon that is one of my big reasons for owning heavy weapons.
What happens if all the officers in your general area are busy? What happens if a disaster happens where 911 service or phone service in general is disrupted?
While I’m vocal and very pro-freedom, and not terribly happy with how the .gov runs the show, I’m hardly a threeper. Overall the guns that get the most mileage in Weer’d World are my carry guns and my nightstand gun. Still if there are no police available, and I’m in position to be calling for backup, a handgun just won’t do. A long gun is something you really might want, and preferably of the so-called “High Capacity” kind.
JP gives a far more scary story (in commonality not in disruption) than what I had been thinking about. He mentioned a bank robbery in Tuscon that had all the Police force occupied. (I wonder if that was also the case with the umbrella scare)
My big scare is the Big Dig collapsing, and possibly taking a big hunk of Boston with it. This seems even more real with this new discovery. The tunnel is a dangerous piece of shit that very well may fill itself in just from the simple elements we get every year in Boston, but add in an Earthquake (which are rare, but VERY possible in New England), or a terrorist or industrial accident, and the deck is really stacked to the side of Entropy.
For the people a little further south we have the hurricanes. For California they have Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Mudslides, Wild Fires, and like ANY place that has copious amounts of “Progressives”, riots.
The antis always say “Why do you need a gun? Just call the cops and have them use their guns!”, and we all know that’s foolish. But have you thought about what might happen if there are no cops to help you out of an ugly situation, such as an angry mob, looters, or riots?
Guns to have: Carry guns (and carry setups that allow you to comfortably carry EVERY DAY) a home defense gun (I prefer a handgun for mobility, ability to use a phone in my off hand, and the ability to conceal it for the event that somebody that isn’t a threat knocks on the door unexpectedly. But a long gun is plenty acceptable. Use what you’re comfortable with) and a SHTF gun, which should be a long gun with a large capacity and the capability to quickly reload it. Personally I prefer a rifle (I has an FAL) but a shotgun with an extended magazine, and a means to quickly get reloads into that gun when the tube empties out like a side-saddle, a shell-holding sling or bandoleer…or do the smarter thing and get a gun like a Saiga shotgun that eats from a removable magazine.
Be safe, and be prepared!
Because of the electrical issues with the patio we have the power cut to a few sections of the house. One of those sections has the Sonos transmitter, so I didn’t get my usual fix of morning news radio which usually gives me a few bits of blogfodder (tho it seems the news of the day is the UK riots, and the Union tantrum, which we already covered). Also given we’re going on vacation next week I took some time this morning to catch up on the backlog of the “Gun Death?” Files (BTW you got stories, send them in to weerdbeard AT gmail dot Com, I’ll be filling the mag for the next week tonight and Friday), so I did blog work that will trickle in on the next few days, but not today.
So yeah, I was bummed that today might be a low day, but now Uncle has delightfully given me some traffic on the High Heels “Gun Death”. Funny how that works!
New readers, enjoy yourself!
So the Patio project is shaping up, but man its becoming a slog. Everything looks top-notch so far, but we’ve had some troubles with the contractor, and some setbacks with the electrical systems that run through the back yard. Hopefully it’ll all shape up, but man its breaking our balls every step of the way.
Like all home improvement projects, its a pain, and we’ll be glad when its done (hopefully by Friday evening) and with a little luck it will be all worth it.
You can add to his list of epithets among “Nazi”, “Marxist”, “Aspiring Dictator”, and “Hypocrite”, we may soon add “Domestic Abuser” to George Soros’ resume!
“While still in bed, Soros slapped Ferreyr across the face and proceeded to put his hands around her neck in an attempt to choke her,” her lawsuit claims.
Soros, 80, then allegedly attempted to strike her with a glass lamp, and though he narrowly missed, it smashed on the floor and she cut her foot, which required three stitches.
According to a police report, she called cops, but no charges were filed.
He’s going for the world record under “Most Despicable”.
h/t Duck
