The artisan is Kevin Jonson of Bits and Spurs.

The news item:

WICHITA
Police are still looking for the men who they said threatened a youth football league coach with a gun and then began beating him after a dispute over playing time. The coach’s wife pulled out a gun and fired it in the air to scare the men away.

via Group attacks Wichita youth football coach over player’s eligibility; coach’s wife defends with gun | The Wichita Eagle.
How dare that couple have the means to defend themselves from a mob! And from the description in the article, the attackers had a long history of being disruptive and overall idiots besides truly dangerous as this bit lets you know (but CSGV kinda forgets to mention:

One of the men lifted his shirt to display a handgun tucked into the waist of his pants, Espinoza said. Moments later, five or six other men began beating up the 37-year-old coach. One of the men used a set of brass knuckles, Espinoza said.

In previous years the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) National Police Shooting Competition (NPSC) included events with names like “Head Shots Only,” in which the event’s course description contends that police officers need to practice shooting directly at people’s heads.
Courses like this are only one of the many reasons why, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, activists and family members of police shootings victims call the annual NPSC the “killer cop contest.”

via NRA Hosts “Killer Cop” Competition Amid National Outcry Over Police Violence. Truthout.

Truthout is a very Progressive site. It seems they do not like cops and certainly have no love for the NRA. So I can imagine the paroxysm of having both entities together and shooting. I can imagine they may have needed some sort of counseling sessions afterward.

I have non idea how many years the NRA has been developing, training LEOs and having police competitions. If anything and from we see sometimes, there are departments that truly need both training and practice. It is amazing how some training not only makes anybody more accurate but also much more responsible of his/her shots. Confidence in shot placement makes spray & pray fire unnecessary because you are not doubtful you can stop the threat and only apply the necessary amount of force to do so.

And no, department cutbacks are not an excuse not to do it. If you consider the gun a necessary tool to keep you alive,you find the way to become proficient and even excel at it even if the money has to come from the beer & chips fund.

So let the wailing babies scream as much as they want, they are not gonna be between you and the bad guy when things go bad.

Gainesville stores are sold out of pepper spray and rape whistles following a string of four attacks on and around UF’s campus since Aug. 30.
The Target on Archer Road is completely sold out of self-defense tools. The Walmart Supercenter on Northeast 12th Avenue is also sold out, as are the ones on Archer Road and Southwest 13th Street. Hibbett Sports on Archer Road is sold out as well.
There is still pepper spray in stock at the M&C Army Surplus store on Northwest 13th Street.

via Local stores run out of self-defense weapon stock – The Independent Florida Alligator: Campus.

Female students at the University of Florida in Gainesville are arming themselves with Less Lethal devices after the news that three of their fellow students have been attacked. Now this puts the administration in sort of bind because according to their own policies, stuff like pepper spray is not kosher on campus.

Firearms or Other Weapons Violations. Possession, use, sale, or distribution of  any firearm, ammunition, weapon or similar device not explicitly permitted under University of  Florida Regulation 2.001. Prohibited devices include, but are not limited to, stun guns, pellet  guns, BB guns, paintball guns, slingshots, archery equipment, any dangerous chemical or  biological agent, or any object or material, including but not limited to knives, capable of  causing, and used by the offending person to cause, or to threaten physical harm.

Not for nothing, but to the students I say screw the policy and be as ready as you can be to fight. Gainesville seems to be a magnet for sick individuals going after females. Until this new predator is caught, I don’t expect to see the Administrators even considering expelling any female student that has been caught with a can of pepper spray or is carrying grandma’s knitting needles.

Leave it to an Italian to create both beauty and utility in one piece.  Alberti Archeri has some great custom-made classic bows.

I don’t even know how much one of his bows will go for, but I doubt it is gonna be cheap. Probably worth every single penny.

The Center for American Progress is waving a white flag on banning assault weapons in a study out Friday titled “Assault Weapons Revisited.” CAP authors Arkadi Gerney and Chelsea Parsons argue that gun control advocates focus their energies primarily on expanding background checks and firearms licensing laws instead of pushing to prohibit assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle.

via Finally Waving the White Flag on the Assault Weapons Ban – Washington Wire – WSJ.

It is a victory. But it is not nailed down so we can stop worrying about it, just what they think is a tactical retreat to concentrate in other areas they think they have a better chance of winning and then they will come  back for the Evil Black Rifles.

So, what are their next targets? According to a “study” made by the George Soros’ founded Center for American progress, they will be concentrating their efforts on:

• Require background checks for all gun sales
• Require dealers to report multiple sales of long guns
• Equalize interstate sales of long guns and handguns
• Require federal firearms licenses for individuals that manufacture guns using 3D printers
• Bar possession and use of machine guns by individuals under the age of 16
• Require a permit for possession of assault weapons.

We are back to our old friend Universal Background Checks. Without that one, the rest of the list is pretty much wishful thinking and the machine gun prohibition for those under 16 is basically trying to suck on the sensationalism of the recent death of an “instructor” by allowing an 11 year old girl shoot a mini-Uzi and that shows they are not very serious about it since in pretty much died on the news cycle by time of publishing the report.

It is gonna be interesting to see what kind of pressure the Left is gonna put on the democrats. The “study” I mentioned above, Assault Weapons Revisited. Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns,and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban was created by Arkadi Gerney and Chelsea Parsons, both coming directly from Michael Bloomberg’s Gun Control machinery via mayors for Illegal Guns and New York City criminal justice system. What you will find is the repetition of the old song about the evil black rifles, but now we have a new theme that should worry even those who claim they have no use for ARs, AKs and weapons of the sort: the new target is Long Guns.

By 2011, handguns continued to be the main instrument for killers using firearms, but the share of homicides using long guns had increased: 73 percent of homicides nationwide committed with a firearm involved a handgun, while rifles and shotguns were used in 27 percent of gun murders

And if you are still thinking “well that only applies to gangbangers in urban areas, not we country folk” I have bad news for you:

While handguns are used in 91 percent of gun murders in the largest urban areas—those with 1 million or more residents—long guns are used in a much higher share of murders in other types of communities. In rural areas, nearly half of gun murders—47 percent—involved a gun other than a handgun, typically rifles and shotguns.

Remember when it was said that eventually the hunting rifle would become the dangerous military sniper rifle and needed to be restricted? Here you go.

And to add to the “indignation,” they go straight and tell you that if you are the owner of a long gun, you are a potential cop-killer, always a favorite flavor with the Antis:

In addition to these regional variations, rifles and shotguns are also used against law-enforcement officers with alarming frequency. Of the 535 law-enforcement officers murdered in the line of duty nationwide between 2003 and 2012, 24 percent were killed with rifles or shotguns.

They accepted that targeting one category of rifles did not work so let’s go ahead and include them all as bad cop killing machines and let us not forget that long guns were used to mow down kids too!

In my opinion, this is gonna backfire spectacularly.  Gun Culture 1.0 (hunting & Outdoors) cannot longer say they are not included in the gun bans and that their weapons are for sporting purposes so Government has no reason to come after them. Bloomberg & Co. are making no distinction between the Remington double barrel shotgun bought at sears sometime in the early 20th Century for $35 or the $12,000 Perazzi shotgun to a Mossberg 500 set up for tactical use: They all are bad and must be regulated and eventually destroyed.

The same will be applied to bolt-action rifles: That pre-64 Winchester 70 that your granddaddy used to teach your dad  to hunt and that your Dad taught you with is gonna be as bad as those awful .50 cal for-terrorist-use-only Barret rifles that have no use in the world we live in.

My take they are betting on trying to split both Gun Cultures and advance more than they are trying to convey. If a bill so invasive is introduced in Congress, howls of anger will be heard from Gun Culture 1.0. But then the wheeler-dealers will come back and say that they understand that the podunk country gun to hunt Bambi is not the same as the cheap AK hoisted by an MS-13 gang member, but you have to work with them: How about you register your sporterized Springfield ’03 so we know it is a “good guy gun” and help us get rid of those awful “assault weapons” that are killing people by the millions? Your vote is all we need to keep your gun safe from us. Extortion, plain and simple.

I am wondering if Dick Metcalf has read this report. Maybe he’ll figure out then how come the reaction to his article was not an exaggeration  but a well founded rebuttal from those who can see this kind of things coming.

I am quoting Michael Bane again (I am like a month behind on his podcast, damn it) and say that any attack on any gun is an attack on all guns and we will not let it stand. And that goes for both version of the Gun Culture.

Stand together or hang separately.

PS: I haven’t finished with this report. There is more but that will be addressed in future posts.

I have been a cop for 23 years and after all that time as a Violent Crimes Detective, Robbery Detective, Patrol Officer, Traffic Cop, SWAT Team Leader, Trainer, and now night shift Watch Commander, I have learned a thing or two about your expectations of Law Enforcement versus our ability to meet those expectations.  My wife has been a communications officer and 911 Supervisor for about 15 years.  So, when I make the following statement, take it as factual.

I won’t be there for you when you need me.

via Where Is A Cop When You Need One? | Concealed Nation.

We know this. But needs repeating and sharing with those who still hold the belief that the Calvary  cavalry will show up instantly as if teleported by the Enterprise.