Very Good looks! Go check out Chasing Freedom (AKA Mrs. Heath) and her lovely Ren-Fair outfit.
Note the rocking Dragon Leatherworks Pistol pouch.
Just because you’re dressed in medieval garb doesn’t mean you can’t pack 20th Century firepower!
I really dig the “concealed in plain sight” idea behind the pistol pouch. Its the same idea as those who carry in a fanny-pack, but with vastly more class!
Check out this Video sent to me by Blackhawk101
Caption is:
A home surveillance video captures an armed assault, and a Parkland homeowner’s defense, that occurred early Sunday morning. The homeowner – who only wanted his first name, Danny, used – said he and his brother were checking security around the house prior to a trip out of town. When the two men walked back into the open garage, a man wearing a Ninja mask ran from across the street waving a pistol.
The assailant got into a fight with Danny’s brother, Mike, but then ran away when Danny pulled out his own pistol and fired three shots. Danny said the man returned fire, but only hit the house and a Mercedes Benz parked nearby.
This reminds me actually of this morning. We went out for pizza last night and brought the last slices home for leftovers. And like the dumbasses we are I forgot them in the truck. I remembered that this morning, so I decided to go out and trash the pizza before I forgot again and things turned really nasty. It was still dark, and for no other reason than “just in case” I holstered my 1911, went outside, trashed the pizza, then got on with my day.
Paranoid? Not really. Overly Cautious? Sure, why not, but I was putting on the gun anyway so why not then? I bet the guy in the video was glad he was packing his piece.
Also I can’t really tell who’s shooting and when, but it does appear that the fleeing robber is shooting behind him as he runs. There are ALWAYS exceptions to the “Never Shoot Anybody in the Back” rule. Remember that, as that’s why the School security guard hesitated during this event.
Great video, and carry your damn guns. Sounds like this is a nice neighborhood, it can happen to you, it can happen to me. I may not, but I’ll be prepared anyway.
VPC, the Joyce Foundations Favorite propiganda outlet tells us we should now fear Glock pistols. And with VPC’s usual disregard for the scientific method they give 6 shootings over the course of 20 years.
Of course anybody knows that over the last 20 years the most common pistols in America are the Glock series of pistols, and various makes, models, and sizes of M1911 pistol. So yeah of course they used Glocks, EVERYBODY uses Glocks. Gabriel Giffords was shot with a Glock 19….Gabby Giffords herself owns and carried a Glock 19. Sung Cho used a Glock 19 in the Virginia Tech shooting, guess what the cops who responded to the shooting were carrying? GLOCKS.
Also what’s interesting is that the firearm world is starting to crowd the niche that was once dominated by Gaston’s Polymer pistol. We have S&W M&Ps, Springfield XDs, Walther P99s, The Sig P250, and a bit further out the Ruger SR9, Sig Pro, H&K lineup, Taurus, FNP, etc etc. Heck even Lone Wolf has made the Timberwolf which is a non-Glock Glock.
Given also Glock’s resistance to change, and the various problems with the 4th Generation of their pistols, I wonder how hard Glock is hemorrhaging market share to the other people who are building simple polymer pistols at an affordable price. Glock certainly isn’t dominating the market like it once was, then who will VPC pick on?
Frankly I have no interest in picking on Glocks, they work, and the people who have them love them. Frankly I dislike their grip angle, and while just some basic dry-training will fix the high point-of-aim problems I have when picking up a Glock, I’ll note that they are the ONLY company (Maybe besides Styer who’s pistol line has an even more aggressive angle to the grip) who feels the need to angle the grip as such. Also it seems that other gun makers seem to do just fine when it comes to reliability and can do it with fully supported chambers. That being said the Glock and the M1911 have been around for so long, and sold so well that you won’t find parts and magazines with greater ease than these two pistols.
I like that politicians are getting the right idea that the 2nd Amendment isn’t about ducks and deer, and that carrying and personal defense are great reasons to own guns. Looks like Tim Pawlenty is giving a good showing for those who love freedom.
Still this is the lead image:
Good choice on the Glock 19, probably one of the most popular Conceal carry and self defense gun on the market. Still LOOK AT THAT STANCE! This is one of those things anybody who teaches proper shooting needs to look for. When you hold the gun out in front of you even a lightweight Glock weighs a good deal, as does that double-stack magazine. (Good idea also only to gas it up with a few rounds with new shooters) all that weight forward the natural reaction is to lean back to cantilever the weight of the gun at your hips. If the game was just lining up the sight and say shooting a laser at the target, this would actually be an ideal stance. But that isn’t the game, you’re going to have to launch that projectile, and adsorb the recoil. With your body canted back the recoil is going to knock you off balance and make even that very controllable G19 feel like a handful.
It pisses me off even more when I see it in publications about people receiving instruction. I got a Second Amendment Sisters newsletter once that had 3 women in a row on a firing line all rolled back on their heels shooting pistols. When teaching new shooters get that weight forward. The weight should be on the balls of the feet, not the heels, if you teach Weaver or Modern Isosceles where the feet aren’t squared with the target, about 70% of your weight should be on that front foot, and you should be bent slightly forward at the waist. You’ll need to watch and reinforce this, as when the new shooter works to align the sights they will naturally want to roll back to get better balance on the gun. This will only make the recoil feel worse, and they will not be as in control of the firearm, which not only decreases safety (tho not drastically) but will also require more confidence building in the long run.
Get them in control of the gun and recoil, then you can see if they want to work up to more powerful guns.
Be safe out there, and have fun!
I’ve always refereed to “Progressives” as “Perpetual Children” as they have strong desired to be cared for by and authority, not much interest to be self-sufficient or self-supporting, and they are prone to wild phobias, and demand their Big Daddy Government protect them from that which they fear without concerns for validity, or for the rights of others.
Well it seems that Miguel discovered the apex of that on the CSGV Facebook. You MUST have a look, and a LOL!
I have noted that all “Progressives” are Trolls and Stalkers, just some conceal it better, they are also all like this guy, just some conceal it better.
Go over hear and give a good read to TinCan Assassin’s account of turning range scrap into loaded ammo.
Very very cool! I thought about casting my own bullets, but my club forbids berm mining (the club lets the company that does the berm replenishment keep all the lead and copper they find, and the scrap cost covers the replenishment) furthermore the local auto shops are all holding on to their lead wheel weights and such, so really if I were to cast my own I’d need to buy the lead, and at that point I might as well just save my time and buy the bullets…and buy them coated in copper.
Still if you can get your hands on scrap lead of some sort it acutally seems like a pretty slick way to further turn “Trash” into live ammo.
VERY cool!
A scary story of an Officer and her daughter killed by her own son.
A veteran San Diego police detective was stabbed to death in her Rancho Peñasquitos home early Monday, and responding officers found her son sitting calmly outside as his naked teenage sister was dying from stab wounds on the sidewalk nearby.
The son, Brian Rockwell Williams, 24, was arrested without incident and booked into jail on suspicion of two counts of murder, San Diego police homicide Capt. Jim Collins said.
Note that in San Diego generally the Police or those who are connected can carry guns. Still no matter what you have if you killer lives under your roof. Of course this is also a multiple murder that isn’t a “Gun Death”. Still I think this is the most telling detail:
A large kitchen knife, believed to be the weapon used, was found on the front lawn, Collins said.
Who doesn’t have a large carving or chef knife at home? I imagine that’s most. There might be a few houses that only have paring knives or maybe the odd mis-matched steak knife, but if you know your way around the kitchen, or have a family you probably have a bunch of kitchen knives, and maybe one giant knife if anything for just chopping a watermelon in summer.
Now let’s expand that even further down the anti-freedom fear-hole. How many houses have guns in them? Handguns? So-called “Assault Rifles”?
How many houses have gruesome multiple murders? The idea that guns cause crime or even “Gun Crime” is as foolish as the thought that playing violent video games, or watching violent films…or to hop in the way-back machine, Dungeons and Dragons, cause violence crimes. Really when you look at all the homes that have deadly weapons in them capable of mass murder, you quickly can see that tools really aren’t a limiting reagent.
Now look at homes that have severely mentally ill people, or people with a history of violent crime. Hmmm now that seems to make some sense.
So I’ve been reading a bit on the massacre in Norway. I’m not going to hash into too much because #1. I don’t have a lot of details, and frankly #2 I really don’t care. Call be cold, but frankly the people of Norway made their bed here.
It seems the bulk of the deaths was some nutburger disguised himself as a police man, went to a crowded swimming area with a bunch of guns, and just started spraying fire into the crowds.
One thing comes to my mind. Fish in a Barrel. It took close to an hour before the Police arrived by one account I’ve read. People were running, swimming, and hiding from this guy. And a huge number of them died or were wounded.
Why? Nobody fought back. Guess what, if some nutball starts shooting YOU ARE NOW DEAD. What are you going to do before you die? You gonna try to hide under your desk and pray, or are you going to tempt fate and try to kill the attacker first.
Of course this is much better if you have a knife, club, or a gun of your own. We all know what I prefer.
Still this case, and the Mumbai attack, not to mention all the street crime in places like Chicago, New York, and LA that more-or-less ban gun ownership, show that all the gun control in the world isn’t going to stop evil people from getting guns. But what gun control DOES do is when that jerk DOES sneak under the radar, they will be a GOD able to chose who lives and who dies for whatever time it takes for the Police to arrive.
Carry your damn guns! You just might save a life other than your own, and certainly the tendency of freaks to pick gun-free zones for their attacks, carrying your gun may indeed get a few creeps to think that maybe their master plan is a REALLY shitty idea.
This one is just Grisly! I thought shit like this only happened in movies!
Michael Raper, a 26-year-old employee of meat processing company Bar S, died this week after falling into a meat grinder.
There’s a video on the news page. According to the story the man fell into the grinder feet-first and lost both legs, and died a day later.
My god! What a horrible way to go! But not a “Gun Death”, right?
h/t Wallphone
Found this video from a google wander from The Kennedys Mini-Series.
What’s interesting is they sound a LOT like my Great Grandparents from Bridgton Maine, who were children of Immigrants, and hardly gentrified at all. Just common working people living in the woods of Maine.
Neat stuff!
