This is part of Benetton’s “unhate” campaign. As usual they are going for the shock value of having Obama and Hugo locking lips in order to promote their wares.

What is really shocking is the number of people like me that see this ad and say: “Yep, that’s about right.”

Man accidentally kills himself at Va. grocery store.

While the man was waiting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, it appears he tried to unbuckle his seat belt and mistakenly hit the trigger of his handgun, shooting himself in the hip area.

I’ve been racking my brain on this one. If he was on the driver’s seat and got hit by his own ND, he was not carrying on a holster or crossdraw. Plus he got hit in the pelvis area and that makes me think he was  Mexican Carry.

I cannot stress enough the need to carry a gun in a way that the trigger is completely covered. Booger Hook found Boom Stick with deadly results.

UPDATE: It was indeed Mexican carry and a Glock to boot.

(Hat Tip to Bob Owens)

Mother of God… Like we don’t get enough new shooters already 🙂

I am gonna have to ask for a raise next year. LOL

IDPA is close to hit 50 thousand members. Last Member number I saw was in the 47K area. When I started a decade ago I drew a 11K number and it was akin to be a carpetbagger wet behind the ears shooter… which I was if you realize we have club shooters with memberships the very low 3 digits (100’s).

We have come a long way baby!

Congress is debating H.R. 822. The amount of bullshit and outright lies by the opposition is just amazing.

They have no shame, do they? And I am guessing a Congressman lying his ass off on the floor of Congress is not against the law.

And that would be reason 12,348 why I cannot be a politician.

I am all for free ammo, who isn’t in this day and age? So last month when Sam Jacobs from Ammo.net asked me if I wanted to review some ammunition in the caliber of my choice, I played easy to get and said Oh Hell yes!.

Days later I got a box of Speer Lawman in 9mm (115 grains) and it went inside my range bag for the next available range time.

Unfortunately it was not till last Saturday when I had the chance to shoot it. It was supposed to be used at last month’s Zombie Killing Match, but I had to leave before I could get to the Pistol Stage. However last Saturday I had one of my regular IDPA matches and it was as good time as any to test the Speer ammo.

Now, competition shooters, serious and not so serious as myself go through lots of ammo so we are always on the fight of volume versus pricing versus quality. Many of us go the way of handloading as a way to control all three within reason and end up developing our own combinations that work just fine for a particular pistol. After trial and error, I find myself reloading with 124 grain bullets and my secret formula of powder and primers for a hot round. I was never too fond of 115 grain ammunition and lots of serious IDPA  shooters prefer the 147 grain bullet for their shooting. Needless to say that Speer Lawmen started with a negative in the test.

I shot two stages with nothing but the Speers in my mags and they performed without a hitch in my FNP-9, a nice gun that has swallowed any ammo I fed it. Not a hiccup or a flyer which came in handy when I had to do some double head shots, strong hand only from inside a simulated tunnel. The gun cycled smoothly and the perceived recoil was very manageable. The Speer ammo performed reliably to the point of boredom so I rummaged the bottom of my range bag and loaded a cocktail of assorted reloads, and leftover factory ammo (including defensive) into a couple of mags and shot two more stages with it. The idea was to see if the Speer would feed reliably even though the gun itself was shooting different loads and it did.

So basically I am happy with the performance of the Lawman 9mm 115 gr. Speer has a great reputation for quality in the defensive ammo line and that quality apparently extends to the “cheap” practice ammo. I wish I could add an After Action report on the quality of the brass for reloading, but the darn vultures in my club that also reload would pick it up before I had a chance to do it myself.

God was playing with an Etch A Sketch.

See what happens when you read The Feral Irishman?

The New York Times is having a seizure today. Apparently they found out that once a Felon has his rights restored, one of them is the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. And what do you know? Apparently bad people with guns do bad things. No shit Sherlock.

For years Liberals have beaten the drum of Rights Restoration for Felons and many states caved in to the pressure. As a matter of fact, the own NYT on an article published the week before, laments that five million Americans will not be able to vote because they are disenfranchised by a previous felony conviction. As usual what they never saw coming was that when you restore the Rights of an individual, you have to restore all of them and not what you want to pick and choose. It has been dogma that Jimmy Jose J’Quan, local coke dealer slashed the living crap out of his girlfriend, shot three of his customers and led police on a three county chase that ended with the misunderstood fella crashing into a school bus full of handicapped kids served his sentence and should have his Rights restored so he could vote for the Democratic ticket that helped plea down his original multiple murder & drug trafficking charges to reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter with five years sentence and served only two and a half for good behavior.

But the NYT says that the real culprit behind this madness is (drum roll ) the NRA! Holy crap! I never saw that coming! <snicker> OK NYT reporters, as a Public Service from this blog, I leave you with this video in the hope you are able to detect your problem: