OK, they didn’t call them APBs back then, but the idea is the same:

It is unfortunate the history is taught so badly that it seems like a tale of fantasy created by some bored mind and so diluted is uninteresting. But sometimes a small historical jewel pops up and brings that story to reality. Stuff like this seemingly unimportant piece of paper create a bridge to the past and gives us a sense of reality on the times and lives of Bonnie and Clyde.

Thanks to JD Kinman for sharing the photo.

“Chicago teen gang ‘kidnap and torture’ special-needs man while streaming entire ordeal live on Facebook and screaming racist and anti-Trump remarks.”

Also visible, assault with a deadly weapon.

Note for the comments’ section: Grandma is out of town visiting relatives..

This is a rebuttal to Miguel’s post.

Like I said, I destroy guns for a living.  I have become quite and expert in determining causes of failure in firearms. 

Often I am asked to evaluate a firearm that someone else destroyed in a less controlled manner.

I’ve done a few dozen evaluations in the last few years on pistols and aftermarket pistol barrels that blew up.  Most were due to obstructed bores, and almost all of those were with handloaded ammo.

Either in competition or some guy doing his best tactical awesomeness, gets a squib and taps and racks and fires and blows up his gun. 

Why?

They didn’t take the few seconds to figure out why thir gun didn’t go bang like it was supposed to. 

Sure a few seconds in a competition is winning vs last place, but is winning worth blowing up your gun?

If your pistol doesn’t cycle like it should, use your brain.  Check and see if you had a squib and the bullet is still in the barrel. 

Even in a defensive shoot, what is the point of blowing your own gun up and injuring yourself in front of the bad guy?

Stop all the fast tap and rack.  If the gun doesn’t go bank like it should, look at it.  Make sure it is in safe working condition before shooting it again. 

Or you might be on the way to the hospital to have pieces if your beloved pistol surgically removed from your hand.

Sometimes the Brits do it right. And the sensitive cultural snowflakes are throwing fits about the video.

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Update: Now available in Youtube

The shooter’s pistol had failed to go into battery and the shooter had aggressively hit the back of the slide with his left palm in an attempt to clear the malfunction. As he did this his left fingers went forward over the top of the slide just as the round detonated in the open ejection port. Fragments of brass severely cut his left index and middle fingers. After examining the shooters injured left-hand, a doctor at the scene determined that he was not seriously injured and only had some bloody but not serious cuts.

Source: Sensible Self Defense: Tap, Rack–or How Not to Blow Up Your Pistol

I have a Kahr and tried to simulate with a dummy round the events in that article. Oh yes it can happen if you are dumb enough. Go read and process.

TAP (the magazine) RACK (the side. More than once if needed.) Those two items in that order

Via Bearing Arms:

 

VALLEY BROOK, Okla. – It started out as a normal traffic stop but ended with Valley Brook Officer Brian Southerland in the hospital…
…Officials said the officer had his back turned and was making his way back to his vehicle when the driver shot him in the leg.“It’s dangerous anytime you pull somebody over and, in this case, he had actually already made contact with the person he had pulled over and, then, he turned around to walk back to the vehicle,” said Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Spokesman Mark Opgrande. “A sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene and began giving CPR and putting a tourniquet on him to stop the bleeding.”

Source: Suspect still on the loose after shooting, seriously injuring Oklahoma officer | KFOR.com

Officer Southerland is recuperating and the culprit (a felon, what a surprise) has been arrested.

I did forget to update you guys on the gift for the Missus. The Oh Shit Pack that is described back in November was surprise and kinda overwhelmed her, but we took time and I got her to practice with the spare tourniquet till she felt confident. How do I know she felt confident? She was giggling like a schoolgirl when my extremities went numb and then when the pain of flowing blood returned to them.

I am gonna tell you what I told her:  This is not where you keep the band aids and the headache pills, you should have your WalMart Johnson & Johnson kit aside for that minutia.. This is for emergencies only, a big Hit Shit The fan and it goes to you FIRST. You don’t use it on anybody unless all hints of threat are gone and you are safe and uninjured. If you are going to keep it n the office, you do not tell anybody about it and keep it hidden but accessible. Basically, treat is as a concealed weapon: Nobody needs to know, and it is to keep you alive. Everybody else comes a distant second.

I just rechecked the prices and the whole thing is still affordable with the tourniquet still at $14,97. There is no excuse not to have one or three. Go get it and go get training. If you carry ear protection and eye protection to the range, it does not make sense not to have unnecessary blood spill protection in your range bag.

I’m on a kick of watching old episodes of Law & Order, old like seasons 1 – 4.  These were the Mayor David Dinkins, tail end of the crack epidemic years of Law & Order.  Season 4 took place in 1993.

What I like about the old episodes is that most of the crimes weren’t the politically charged “ripped from the headlines” conspiracies  that newer episodes are centered on.  The crimes being dealt with were muggings, robberies, gang shootings, and all the daily quality of life crimes that made New York City notoriously dangerous in the pre-Giuliani era.

Once NYC got cleaned up, Law & Order had to turn to more fanciful plots to keep the show going.   There were some good later episodes, but the election of GW Bush and 9/11 kind of ruined the show in many ways.

The thing is, as I watch the old episodes, keeping in mind how Mayor de Blasio pissed away 20 years of social and criminal reforms in NYC, I understand why a Mayor de Blasio and his supporters would be against concealed carry, and especially out of state concealed carry, in NYC.

I wouldn’t consider being threatened with a knife on a subway or attacked by some crack addled pile of screaming hepatitis to be part of the NYC “experience.”  The first homeless guy that jumps out of his cardboard box and grabs my wife while yelling incoherently is going to get shot.  I’m not going to have time to consider the social justice of the situation of this person trying to redistribute my wife’s privileged property, it’s going to be Steel Challenge reflexes.    If you are used to be hassled by squeegee men who shit on the street as just some of the sights and sounds of New York, than I really am the most dangerous thing in your city.