Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Barely recognized some places and others, have not changed very much other than the look of fear in people’s faces.
Every idiot that called me crazy for leaving when I left has either died, emigrated or is stuck living in that shithole.
I win.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the rifle was wildly popular during the Obama years because of its simplicity of use, the wide variety of accessories available for it, and the Democrats’ constant push to ban it from civilian ownership.
In total, “companies made 9.3 million AR-style and similar rifles in the U.S. for domestic sales from 2009 through 2016.” Only 2.1 million ARs were made for domestic sales during the 19 years leading up to Obama’s presidency.
Over 9 Million AR-15s Manufactured for U.S. Sales During Obama Presidency
And we have no idea how many AKs, SKS, FALs, built-from-kits and 80% receivers are out there. I forget where I have heard the number 14 million total “full semi automatic assault rifle clips”, but I guess it fits in a very conservative estimate.
Now let’s take it to numbers that we can enjoy: 9.3 million AR 15s for the eight years of the Obama administration come to 3,185 a day or 132.7 per hour or 2.2 rifles a minute or one rifle every 30 seconds.
You are now free to laugh out loud.
Adler A 110 Lever Action Shotgun.
What is that line from Jurassic Park?
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
“Hold my beer” is not a sound principle in weapons design.
This post I blame on Tacticool Memes. 🙂
From USA Today:
En garde! Texas open carry sword law takes effect Friday
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The phrase “everything’s bigger in Texas” is about to become even more clear-cut.
On Friday, Texans will legally be allowed to carry blades longer than 5.5 inches in most — but not all — places.
Good for Texas. Laws like these, especially in big hunting and outdoor recreation states states like Texas is common sense. Five and a half inches in not a terribly big knife. The almost ubiquitous Buck 119 has a six inch blade and can be found at just about every Wal-Mart in America that has a camping section. Laws like this allow hunters and outdoors enthusiasts to walk into a gas station or sandwich shop with their knife still on their belt and not break the law.
This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.
“Bowie knife” is the original “assault weapon.” There is no specific details of the original Bowie knife made by James Black for Jim Bowie. It is usually described as a large butcher knife. The only reason it is so famous or infamous is that Jim Bowie used it as his famed sandbar fight. The term Bowie knife pretty much means “a big fucking knife that scares Liberals.” Daggers, stilettos, dirks are similar. Yes, those have slightly more technical descriptions, but are people really carrying around 18th century double edge knives designed for ship to ship boarding parties in large numbers?
The new law was introduced by Republican state Rep. John Frullo this year but met resistance after a student was killed and three others were wounded at the University of Texas by a suspect wielding a hunting knife.
Some kid ran over students in a car attack on a campus in Ohio. That might as well be an argument for banning cars on campus. Good for Texas overcoming hysteria to pass good law.
It will still be illegal to carry a knife over 5.5 inches at:
• Schools and universities.
• Polling places.
• Secure areas of airports.
• Racetracks.
• High school, collegiate or professional sporting events (unless the person is a participant in the event and a location-restricted knife is used in the event).
• Correctional facilities.
• Hospitals, nursing homes and mental hospitals (unless written authorization is given).
• Amusement parks.
• Churches, synagogues or other established places of religious worship. Also, people under age 18 will not be allowed to carry such blades if not directly supervised by a parent or guardian.
Eh… I don’t foresee a lot of people EDCing a full size Kabar so this doesn’t seem very restrictive to me.
The two wisest comments I saw on this topic are:
“I carry a pocket knife on my hip everyday. Have forever. Never killed myself or anyone else with it. Doubt I would if I chose to carry something bigger.”
– Charles Hodges
Totally reasonable. Under 99% of circumstances I agree. If I’m going on a fishing trip with the Boy Scouts, I might carry a bait knife with a blade longer than six inches. It’s all situationally dependent.
“Not too worried about it. Everyone made a big stink about open carry and I have not seen people going around shooting up people left and right like so many people said would happen. This won’t be any different.”
– Sandy Seidel
100% spot on.
Of course there were plenty of comments about how guys with tiny penises will Cary big knives or “who needs to carry a machete on them?” These are exactly the same arguments made against CCW and just like Sandy said above, none of that blood in the streets ever materialized.
Way to go Texas for expanding knife rights. Especially while so many other places are restricting them.
Derrick Brown is a knight in a Hawaiian shirt coming to the defense of a pregnant woman.
A teenager’s driving lesson led to an armed confrontation in the parking lot of a Leesburg Wal-Mart— a video of which is going viral on social media.
The incident happened shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wal-Mart on Citrus Boulevard, according to a police report. Felicia Russell, 36, said she was teaching her 15-year-old daughter how to drive. They were backing out of a parking spot when Russell heard several honks.
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The video starts with the pair arguing near Russell’s car. She’s pointing toward the car and saying, “She’s 15, you dummy.” The man walks closer to Russell, confronting her face-to-face. That’s when 60-year-old Derrick Brown approaches to ask what’s happening.
“Why are you walking up on this lady like that?” Brown says before telling the man he needs to back up.
“I need to what?” he says. He takes a step toward Brown, who again tells him to step back. The man says something to Brown that’s not heard clearly in the video.
Brown said the aggressor threatened him, so he pulled out a handgun. For the next minute, they continued arguing, with the man telling Brown to put the gun away.
“You’re not a man,” he tells Brown in the video.
Viral video: Armed man intervenes in argument involving pregnant woman at Leesburg Wal-Mart
Why do I say that planets aligned? Number one: Because if this had happened some years ago, Mr. Brown right now would be in jail awaiting a bail bondsman. Remember the cries of doom from the Liberals and assorted Gun Controllers when Florida approved the badly named “Warning Shot” Law?
776.012 Use or threatened use of force in defense of person.—
(1) A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.
(2) A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. A person who uses or threatens to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be.
The statue before read ‘Use of deadly force’ only. If you drew your weapon without the intent to shoot somebody during a forcible felony, you were on your way to jail. It was dumb that if you drew your weapon and had the fight de-escalate without having to shoot anybody, you would become a felon.
Second: Video evidence. Although we live now in a world that has a video camera everywhere and with everybody, the fact that somebody was shooting what happened before Mr. Brown arrived was a godsend. It gives us a background to how the vents unfolded.
Third: Orlando PD or the local Prosecutor did not feel that they needed to make an example of Mr. Brown. We have seen how even when the evidence is there, some less-than appreciative members of the executive will push their power because they can.
My only criticism? I would not have used such a confrontational/foul language with the asshole. It is my personal belief that it will help you down the road if the evidence shows you seemed to be in control of your emotions and whatever you did was not out of spite or anger but you were forced to take action. Maybe I am just of a delicate nature, who knows?
At the end, a gun was used in a defensive manner, lives were spared, nobody got injured, a baby is safe and a good law gets its vindication while poking the eye of Michael Bloomberg.
Good job and kudos to all the officers involved.
I am just going to copy/paste the description as it appears in the PoliceActivity YouTube page. And somebody did not have a secured magazine and probably is getting all kinds of hell from his fellow officers. He did transition rapidly.
Cincinnati police released body camera and security camera video footage showing the harrowing moment when officers shot and killed a gunman who opened fire on a downtown bank on Thursday morning. Surveillance video from the Fifth Third Bank headquarters near the city’s Fountain Square shows the gunman, identified by police as 29-year-old Omar Perez from Northbend, Ohio, walking methodically through the building. Perez, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, pants and a shoulder bag, could be seen behind the security turnstile, pointing his gun forward. In one clip, a security officer could seen helping a man off the ground and to safety before Perez walks by moments later. Isaac described the security guard’s actions as “heroic.” The gunman could be seen taking “shots at anyone he sees,” Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said in a press conference Friday. Later, when Perez appears to see the officers approaching, he turns to run away but is propelled forward after he is struck by gunfire. Isaac also played body camera footage from two of the officers who engaged the suspect and 911 calls reporting the shooting. Officers approaching the building could hear multiple gunshots ringing out, which “enabled the officers to pinpoint the shooter’s location,” Isaac said. As the officers ran toward the building, they spotted the gunman “actively firing shots in the first-floor lobby,” the police chief said.
Four officers then engaged the subject, shooting him through the glass window, Isaac said. The officers fired 11 rounds, eight from 9 mm handguns, two rounds from a shotgun and 1 round from a rifle, Isaac said. By the time one officer cracked open the door to the lobby, the gunman was on the ground, the body camera footage shows. The officers then entered the building, subdued the suspect and began to render aid to the victims, Isaac said. In a 911 call, a woman can be heard telling an emergency dispatcher that she’s locked in a bathroom with others. The emergency dispatcher tells her to stay there and wait for officers, who were already on the scene. The 911 center received “hundreds of calls” reporting the shooting, the emergency dispatcher said. Three people were killed and two injured in the shooting. The injured are still being treated in the hospital, Isaac said. Perez arrived at the location in his own vehicle and parked his car on a nearby street, Isaac said. He then entered through the side of the building and opened fire before continuing into the lobby are and firing more shots, Isaac said. About 4 minutes, 28 seconds passed between when Perez fired his first shot and he was stopped by officers, Isaac said. Emergency dispatcher received the first 911 call about 55 seconds after Perez fired the first shot, Isaac said.
Fire personnel determined Perez dead at the scene, the police chief said. Coroners will determine how many times he was struck be police gunfire. Perez was armed with a Taurus 9mm semi-automatic handgun, which was legally purchased from a Cincinnati gun store in August, Isaac said. He fired 35 rounds during the shooting, but while exchanging gunfire with police, his firearm malfunctioned and jammed, according to the police chief. Perez had about 200 rounds of extra ammunition in the briefcase he was carrying, Isaac said. Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting. Police believe he may have been trying to eventually make his way to the federal courthouse. Perez was not a current or former employee of the bank, Isaac said at a press conference Thursday. He had been living in Cincinnati since 2015 at seven different addresses, Isaac said. He had been issued several citations in the area but did not have a local criminal history. Perez also has a “brief criminal history” in South Carolina and Palm Beach, Florida, Isaac said. Court documents show that Perez filed two lawsuits against NBC Universal, Inc. and CNBC Universal Media in the Southern District of Ohio earlier this year, alleging that the oranizations used his cell phone harvest and broadcast his personal information. No such broadcasts appear to have been aired, ABC Cincinnati station WCPO reported.
