Last night I was listening to Shooting the Breeze Podcast (which you should be listening too. Yes, that is an order. 🙂 ) and Walt was talking about a gun buy-back in Chicago reading from an article in PoliceOne from the Chicago Sun-Times. One section of the article had me screaming a top of my lungs and I am sure I scared the local drug dealers and assorted ganbangers near work.

““That’s a killer right there. That small gun,” said Chicago Police Sgt. Kevin Johnson, a member of the citywide Anti-Gun Enforcement Team. “It’s a North American Arms .22 caliber,” Johnson said. “That bullet is so small it will bounce. It will travel and you’ll have internal bleeding going throughout your body………Jones winced as Officer Sean Hayes, an instructor at the Chicago Police Academy, tried to unlodge bullets from the gun. The .22 caliber bullets were jammed inside. He even tried using a hammer to remove them, but couldn’t.“

I own a NAA .22LR and the idea that a hammer was used to try and unload it because the moronic police “instructor “did not know how to do it literally made me cringe. I rally don’t know what kind of instruction Officer Hayes gives, but sure as hell is not firearms or at least he should not. If you don’t know how to unload a firearm, you secure it and wait till you find out or find somebody who does. Or even frigging Google for a video for Pete’s sake!

“Some of us read “1984″ as a warning. Others read it as a how-to manual.”
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That reminds me that I have not done my annual readings of 1984, A Brave New World and Unintended Consequences.

Just reading Breda’s latest post and I had to laugh; apparently them hypocrite hippies are everywhere. Mine came last night on my way to work.

For all the peace signs, coexist and anti war stickers, the no-aggression lesson seemed lost on the young female driving the car:

She cut me off….badly…..twice. That is not a healthy way to behave in South Florida where it is not unusual that offending cars get the demolition derby treatment. Lucky her stars I am not easily offended by vehicular stupidity.

By the way dear peace loving hippie chick, you may wanna pay attention to one or two shampoo commercials, your hair needed it and if I caught it at night, you really need it badly. Don’t be choosy on the brand, I hear Pet Supermarket has a sale you may want to take advantage of.

Terrorist Wounded in Failed Gun Grab Attempt – Latest News Briefs – Israel National News.

If we treated our local Gun Grabbers like that…well… there wouldn’t be any.

More chips are falling on the Martin/Zimmerman case. GZ passed a Lie Detector test willfully and without a lawyer present giving a “No Deception Indicated” answers to key questions. Either George Zimmerman is the greatest actor/liar in the world or a county in Florida better get ready to turn in its whole bank account after the lawsuits.

I forget who said it but he was right: “At the end of this trial, George Zimmerman will walk free and Angela Corey will go to prison.”

 George Zimmerman Passed Police Lie Detector Test Day After Trayvon Martin Killing | The Smoking Gun.

 DMV clerk’s freaks about a picture of a gun in a T-Shirt.

She can also get a job as TSA “fondler.” You cannot make this **** up.

Are you in good hands when it comes to your guns? Some insurance companies may want to drop you like a leper if you have guns after you bought your house or not cover you if you have them prior. Some will not mind as long as the amount can be covered by the amount in the basic homeowners insurance or may make you take a rider if you have a decent amount or valuable firearms.

If you are a member of the NRA, you already have coverage up to $2,500, but with the price of guns literally skyrocketing in the past few years, you may want to reconsider that replacement value for what you paid back then may not cover what you need to spend if you were to lose them. I was just checking one of my shotguns that I bought for $250 years ago and I was shocked to see that it now costs $340 and I have an extra barrel!

If your insurance company does not want to cover your guns or are asking way too much, you may want to check the NRA’s Endorsed Insurance Program that covers up to $1,000,000. I did a quick and dirty check for $10,000 worth of guns and came back with an annual fee of $125 which is about 10 boxes of 9mm Winchester White Box from WallyWorld. Not bad if you ask me.

UPDATE: Pull out your bills of sale and compare what you paid for your gun with actual prices. You are gonna find yourself quite surprised. All the guns in my measly collection have gone up in value, in some cases 30% or more.