Now, Suncoast is taking on one of the largest, most active and most effective gun-rights groups in the state.

The promoter has effectively barred Florida Carry from their shows, according to Sean Caranna,  Florida Carry’s hardworking executive director.

“Suncoast won’t allow Florida Carry to rent tables that we’ve verified they have available or even reply to our emails asking why,” Sean said in an email.

“Earlier this week my co-Exec. Director called to secure tables for Florida Carry at your shows throughout Florida.  I’m told that we have been rejected without any indication as to why,” Sean wrote in an email to Suncoast. “I think that our record of defending the rights of Floridians to keep and bear arms in the courts, local government, and the state legislature speaks for itself.”

via Suncoast Gun Shows snubs Florida Carry, Inc..

I don’t get it.

Maybe there is a reason why they are banning Florida Carry and I would like to know it.  If you happen to attend one of their shows, try to find the organizers and see if they can provide an answer…that makes sense.

They also should be reminded that the only reason Gun Shows are not banned through the country is because courts have found that Gun Shows are not just mercantile enterprises but where people gather to talk about guns and politics, stuff protected under the First Amendment. It is kinda silly to torpedo what helps you keep making money.

Update 2/12/15:
“Three other gun show promoters are now giving us free tables – Right out front where everyone will see us!”
Sean Caranna

I am figuring at least #4 buckshot, twice in a row followed by bathtub napalm.

Sure as hell I would have either a heart attack or bowel movement.

DALLAS — A Central Texas man who shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy entering his home will not be charged with capital murder, attorneys said Thursday.

A local grand jury declined Wednesday to indict Henry Goedrich Magee for the Dec. 19 death of Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders, who was part of a group of investigators executing a search warrant for Magee’s rural home.

via No murder charge for man who fatally shot Texas deputy.

We are seeing cases like this and probably will see more in the future.  But same as SWAT, No-Knock warrants have been abused for too long on entries that did not need such strategy.

Again we do  not see here a case where the police was attacking a Drug Cartel hideout filled with guns and crazed enforcers, but some local yahoo who “had a small number of marijuana plants and seedlings” probably for his personal use. Was it worth the life of the Deputy? Simple answer is no.

The suspect is still going down for the possession & weapons charge and probably will get the full attention to the DA to make sure he gets nailed to the wall and then some. But I bet little effort will be paid to the review of the use of dynamic entries for crimes that do not require it, at least not till more officers and civilians get unnecessarily killed.

Marlene was the best female singer that came out of Venezuela. I remember listening to this song for the first time and being hypnotized by her voice.  But she never recorded another album again. Story goes her husband saw the real underbelly of the music business (smart guy, he never left her side) and gave her an ultimatum: Music or her Family. She chose family and that is what the rumor/legend says it happened.

According to Wikipedia, she is living in Miami. I have not heard a siren call, so I am reckoning she is not living close to me. Thirty years later, I still get chills listening to her.

Last Saturday I posted about a Moms Demand (Florida Chapter) link to an opinion letter by a retried police officer and former firearms trainer pontificating about civilians were no good with guns and they could not compare with a trained police officer. Fellow blogger/Shooter/Safety Officer Robert The K. of Suburban Sheepdog had a small rant of his own in Facebook regarding the same piece:

This times a million. I’ve been an SO for more than a dozen years. And I know more than a few LEOs from every level who have fine pistol skills and compete regularly and well. Indeed, some of the best practical shooters I have known are cops. . . . BUT . . .

. . . .I cannot count the number of LEOs from every level who have been brought out to a match for the first time by a buddy and simply STB — they bitch about taking our 30-minute new-shooter indoc (they go home if they refuse), they are unable safely to handle their weapon administratively, they are unable to clear a malf (and I have seen plenty of neglect-caused malfs in neglected service weapons), they are unable to reload, they are unable to draw their weaposn with speed and efficiency; they are unable to employ cover, they are unable to hit the target standing still, let alone while moving. A few — too few — experience an “aha moment,” realize their agency has trained them for crap, and dedicate to make an improvement.

Andrew Ansah said a neighbor tried to intervene when the dad chased the mother and daughter outside but could not stop him from shooting the two.

“(They) ran out of the house and he ran after them” Andrew said, reporting what his neighbor told him.

via Douglas County shooter described as ‘mysterious’ man | www.ajc.com.

Not trying to make light of an extremely sad situation, but it confirms that Duty to Retreat is just the stupid belief that you can outrun a bullet. I also think that in the next several days, we are gonna find out the shooter gave plenty warnings about his possible behavior and they went ignored.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) –
A gamer known online as “Famed God” — who made up a murder to get police to go to an unsuspecting west suburban resident’s home last year — is behind bars in Nevada awaiting extradition.

Brandon Willson, 19, was arrested Thursday after authorities searched his home in the 4600 block of El Presidente Drive in Las Vegas, a statement from the Will County state’s attorney’s office said.

via Las Vegas man arrested for Naperville ‘swatting’ incident – FOX 32 News Chicago.

If we are lucky, he may end up playing with a different version of “joystick” in jail.