Alyssa Milano is an actress and producer in Hollywood. She grew up in New York.
I doubt she has ever been to Oklahoma, I doubt she could point to Oklahoma on a map without labels, and I guarantees shes knows nothing about Oklahoma except for Rodgers Hammerstein musical.
Oklahoma decided to adopt Constitutional Carry.
Alyssa Milano voiced her opinion on twitter about this.
My first question is: why would she care? She’s in California and will never travel to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma, as America’s 35th least densely populated state is entitled to pass laws that are for the good of its people. Much the same way states like Wyoming and Alaska did before. Notice a trend here? When you have low density states with large open areas and economies heavy in energy/oil and agriculture, it’s easiest just to let people be and defend themselves as they please.
What works in Oklahoma and was voted on by Oklahomans is fine by me.
Not for Milano. She had to busy body in the Sooner state. I would put even money on her still thinking about Oklahomans as Okies. Just stupid, poor, country bumpkins. “Flyover country rubes” I believe is how the elite like to refer to people from the middle of the country.
This is the great American divide. A celebrity from California and raised in New York can’t let Oklahoma be Oklahoma. She has to get involved and criticize and condescend.
There are some people in this world who just want to let others the hell alone for them to decide was is best for them. Then there are others who just have to interfere.
Milano lives to interfere, and there in lies the cause of the divide.
I know we are a wide-encompassing crowd with people liking or disliking the Prez, but just copy and paste the pic in your favorite Social Media to see them having fits.
If you are willing to put a bit of work or buy a six pack to get that friend who is handy. From Palmetto State Armory: A lower for $49.99.
And an upper for $299.99
$349.98 for an AR 15?
Shipping for the lower is gonna be around $8.50 IRRC plus the FFL fee. Assembly the lower is not that hard and there is a LOT of videos on how to do it, just take your time, do one item at the time and take breaks before watching the video you selected again and proceed to the next step.
And yes, I am tempted to feed and grow the Freedom Seed I got as spare. But you know something will pop demanding cash 5 minutes after I place the order and SWMBO* will have me executed.
If you are one of the heathens (like I was) without an AR, go ahead and order yours even if you don’t assemble it right away.
I need to buy a lotto ticket. I have been forgetting for the last 20 years. Damned memory.
What I would love to hear coming from the NRA AM today:
WAYNE LAPIERRE REMARKS IGNITE CONTROVERSY OVER STAR WARS.
. DALLAS. MAY 4.
NRA’s Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre outraged many by a statement he made during the opening ceremonies of the NRA’s annual meeting.
“It is the official position of the National Rifle Association and its millions of members that Han shot first.” said LaPierre. It was followed by a standing ovation that lasted well over 5 minutes.
News of LaPierre’s statement made an immediate impact in both Hollywood and Washington. Actress and Gun Safety activist Alyssa Milano decried what she called “a unskillful attempt to rewrite history by a Death Merchant.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that “Wayne Gterzky is trying to get our kids in school killed.” while Senator Cory Boker not only condemned LaPierre’s words but also demanded that the NRA paid reparations for the years of having slaves build Assault Weapons.
George Lucas could not be reached for comments. His manager simply said “George is tired of that shit. It is his movie and might as well leave it alone.”
Meantime at the Annual Meeting, NRA Member Cedric Jose White, wearing a t-shirt with “Let the Wookie pack.” stamped on it, had this to say: “The NRA is simply standing firm on what millions of Gun Owners and Star War Fans always knew. You can try and lie all you want, but the truth is out there!”
I don’t spend a lot of time of gun forums these days, and even less time in “gun related” facebook groups. I realize that as a result of this, I’ve largely self-selected my circle down to people who are relatively like minded about the whole concept of EDC. This means that when I do venture out into the wild of FB or youtube comments, I end up running into ideas that I forgot people even had, such as the terrible idea of a “carry rotation.”
Echo chambers exist everywhere.
To understand why this is such a bad idea, first we have to define exactly what a carry rotation is, and more importantly what it isn’t. What is NOT a carry rotation is carrying specific guns for very specific purposes, or if you want to be all operator about it, mission profiles.
That doesn’t sound so bad. I have different guns I carry because they fit the weather and what I’m wearing.
Now that we understand what a carry rotation isn’t, we can look at what a carry rotation is, and why it’s a bad idea. Note that with the three guns I carry regularly, they are all similar trigger types (DA/SA or DAO) and each gun is used for a particular set of circumstances. A carry rotation on the other hand is when you say “oh well it’s Sunday I’m going to carry the 1911 today, Monday I carry the Glock 19, Tuesday I carry the HK P30L, etc etc.” Choosing to carrying a different gun because it’s a different day of the week, or the moon is in retrograde, or because “I felt like it” is a pretty terrible idea and here are a few reasons why.
That’s just stupid. Sometimes I get in the mood to be different. I have a shitload of knives that I put in rotation. Why? Because I can. We actually had a competition at work with who could carry a different knife every day and go the longest before repeating. I didn’t win but I came in towards the top.
First is a lack of consistent practice. If you’re carrying four different guns with four different action types, how do you consistently practice? How do you adapt to the trigger going from a DA/SA to a striker fired to an SAO with a safety?
Shoot more, it’s not that hard.
The real answer of course is that you don’t.
Um…
Sure, some people are at a high enough skill level that they can pick up basically any gun and shoot it pretty well, but it’s been my experience that the sort of people who have “carry rotations” aren’t those people.
Kiss my ass. The only gun in my collection I can’t shoot well is my Glock. It’s probably because I’m not a Teutonic Ubermensch but my hand doesn’t attach to my wrist at 22 degrees.
I shoot competition with a 1911 and carry either a 1911 or a DAO revolver. Pretty much opposite ends of the handgun spectrum, and guess what? I can use them both.
Second is the equipment issue! I already have a box that has 100 holsters in it, and at this point I don’t really want to have any more holsters laying around. I can’t imagine trying to have enough holsters to carry four different guns simply because it’s a different day of the week. It would get exhausting and expensive.
I’m sorry that you are poor and can’t afford more holsters or a bigger house to store them all in. Tell me more about how sour those grapes are.
Finally, there’s the issue with access. Let’s say sometimes you carry a 1911 in a traditional IWB holster behind the hip, but today you’re carrying a j-frame AIWB because it’s J-frame day or whatever. What happens if you actually need that gun? Are you going to be able to access it from a holster position you don’t practice with and manage a trigger you’re not used to? Like the 8-ball says…signs point to no.
Or just carry the same way all the time. I carry strong side in competition. I carry strong side for CCW. I still don’t get appendix carry. I’m a fat guy, it’s not comfortable. I also don’t want to thrust my crotch at the bad guy like some music video backup dancer in order to get my gun out.
I get it though, guns are cool. Sometimes we want to show off guns and carry different things. However, I’d suggest that if the primary reason that you’re carrying a gun on a specific day is because you think that gun is cool…you might want to re-examine your priorities.
I’m pretty sure I can have both by cake (cool gun) and eat it too (effective for defense).
There is an old saying: “fear the man who has just one gun, for he knows how to use it.”
That may have worked for the cowboys. Today, the only reason I fear the man with just one gun is that the guy who has it is probably a Fudd who only does one thing like shoot skeet or hunts pheasant and doesn’t mind me having my arsenal confiscated by the goverment.
Personally, I believe in carrying what you are comfortable with. I am comfortable with a lot of things. I got a new 1911. I knew it came with the wrong sight height the second I pulled it out. Why? Because I lined up the sights and it felt wrong. It just pointed… wrong. I got it out to the range and I was right, it was off.
At the same time range trip as I was tinkering with my 1911, I had my LRC with me and was going back and forth between a SAO 45 and a DAO 38 and doing equally well.
The trick is… shoot a lot and practice with what you have.
But forget me, let Clint Smith explain it.
Know how to use everything because you never know what you will have when shit goes down. If I have to pull a gun off a dead cop or a bad guy, I need to be able to fight with it. I can’t say “it’s not fair, this is not my usual carry gun.” Gun fights aren’t fair.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —
A homeless man was arrested for trespassing at the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento, but not until two days after walking through an unlocked door.
In a jailhouse interview, Steven Seeley, 51, said he ran inside Gov. Jerry Brown’s home April 19 through an unlocked side door after being frightened outside.
“He’s an open-door policy kind of guy, so I figured the door would be unlocked, or else I wouldn’t have ran over there if I thought the door would be locked,” Seeley said.
