What is in that frigging icing? Napalm?

His mind is no longer based on reality.

Let’s start with the obvious.

Last year, officers shot 256 bullets in 26 incidents with suspects. But cops’ missed their target in half of those incidents, according to NYPD data. When cops don’t hit their target, they are likely to fire more shots, police said.

Now, after field tests at the NYPD firing range at Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx, police believe that officers fire more accurately with a 9mm handgun that has a trigger pull — meaning the pressure required to fire a bullet — of five pounds.

For more than 100 years, the NYPD has used firearms with 12-pound trigger pulls.

The 457 recruits who were tested, most of whom never fired a weapon before, had an average score of 93.7 with the lesser pull and 88.7 with the 12-pound pull, police said.

Accuracy tests showed that 129 officers already working the streets also scored better with the lighter pull.

NYPD will issue easier-to-shoot guns to new recruits (nydailynews.com)

Institutional inertia is an amazingly stupid characteristic to have, but one that is firmly embedded. NYPD has known for a long time that a heavier trigger results in less accurate shooting, hell, anybody six months shooting any kind of pistols or revolver knows it, the companies know this which is they on average go for a 7-pound trigger pull.

This is from the NYPD’s Annual Firearms Discharge report of 2010.

But the fact that NYPD is finally figuring out and implementing a change that the average civilian shooter has known since JMB was sitting in his workshop is a sign of improvement.

Now back to Ladd. What is with this “white world” shit? Is he suddenly identifying himself as Black? Is he trying to pull a Dolezal or a Talcum X? Somehow, I don’t see him on the streets, marching with his left fist high up and shouting “BLACK POWER!” or “BLACK LIVES MATTER!” convincingly.  Maybe he got by accident on the mail a Race card, and it is trying to use it before it gets cancelled.

As for the second part, I believe Bruen will be blamed for pretty much everything. From new COVID variants to climate change, Ladd will manage to insert somehow that the Bruen decision is to blame.

Hat Tip Royko

Back in February of 2019 Miguel posted I made the decision on a Truck Gun & Travel Combo..

His post got me to thinking about the elusive truck gun.

What are the characteristics of a good truck gun for me?

• It has to fit in the truck
• It has to be unobtrusive when in the truck and going to and from the truck
• The weight of the ammunition can’t exceed the my limits
• It can’t be another exotic caliber
• It has to be easy to handle
• It has to be low maintenance
• It has to be accurate at urban ranges
• It has to pack enough punch

Well the PC 9 was mentioned. It meets most of these criteria. It lives in a gun bag that doesn’t look like a gun bag. It looks like an oversized briefcase. It is gray. It doesn’t have any tacticool stuff on the outside. Inside it holds the PC 9 broken down, a pistol an a boat load of magazines. The ammo and mags weigh more than the pistol and rifle combined.

Nobody ever left a fire fight saying “I wish I had less ammo.”

Right now it has just iron sights. I did have a red dot on it, but that got moved to another rifle. It is light, carbine length rifle. It is easy to put round after round in the 10 ring from urban distances. It is ambidextrous.

It has been very reliable. And it fires 9×19.

So the cons. It is a Ruger which to me means that it is overly complex to break down and clean. It is simple blowback so it gets dirty, fast. If you take it down far enough to clean the receiver properly you have springs that want to go that away.
The magazine release is on the left side instead of the right side.

Still it is fun to shoot and it is my truck gun. Being able to sling the bag over my shoulder and walk out of the parking lot and nobody give you a second glance is wonderful. The nosy neighbors know every time I go to the range because it is pretty damn obvious what’s being loaded into the truck. But this? nobody notices.

I’ve had conversations with cops with the bag hanging off my shoulder without them twigging. Of course it does make for a sort of weird dynamic…

I’ve got my EDC on my person. I’ve got the EDC bag which happens to have IFAK and another firearm (and spare mags and boxed ammo), and then I’ve got a bag slung over my shoulder with another pistol plus a rifle. And all I’m doing is driving to work…

The reality is that the EDC bag is also my computer bag. People see me pull my laptop out of it all the time. People have seen me pull my first aid kit out from time to time. At no time has anybody seen the rest of what is in that bag. You can take the laptop in and out without even opening the main compartment where the IFAK+ is stored.

When things are not overly stressful, i.e. before “mostly peaceful protests” became a thing, I didn’t feel the need for a truck gun. So it was just the EDC bag and the EDC on me.

One of the selling points of the PC 9 is that it uses a compatible magazine. Since it takes Glock mags it means that a single magazine can be used in both a side arm or the rifle. The ads talk about taking the mag from your pistol and putting it in your rifle. I don’t see that as happening. But being able to carry spare magazines that fit both is a big win.

So that bag also holds a holster. If it is time to bogie and I have gone to “needing a rifle” mode, I’m going to switch out the .45 on my belt for the Glock in the bag. Yes, I know they shot differently. I practice with both so I hit where I want with both.

It isn’t my go to rifle. Depending on what is going bump in the night determines what I pick up. A LBV with IFAK, 180 rounds of ammo and my ready rifle if it seems to be two legged bumper. Or a 30-30 lever action for something with four legs. This is a rifle with a particular niche and in that niche it does very well.

Shot:

Chaser:

This is so transparently corrupt it’s un-fucking-believable.

Biden is going to kick start WWIII because he owes Ukrainian for bankrolling his son and Nancy Pelosi is going to make bank profiteering of what WWIII is going to do to the stock market.

If there is anything that more clearly demonstrates that they see us as just canon fodder for their  megalomaniacal plans to enrich themselves, I have no idea what it could be.

Happy Che Day! pic.twitter.com/g6EkaOViCm

— Dan (@DanLtcR) October 9, 2022

The YouTube algorithm hit me with this:

Okay, that was funny.  Probably funnier if you were in medicine and really got the jokes.

But it makes me curious about something.

Why in the fuck does medicine make med students do this?

It seems like a needless and expensive waste of time.

I briefly dabbled with the idea of med school instead of getting my PhD, based on some research I did in orthopedic bio-materials.

The ONLY field of medicine I had interest in was orthopedics.  Putting screws into bone.  Human carpentry.   That’s it.

Why would someone like me have to do a  nephrology or pediatrics rotation?

Instead I’m an engineer.  I’m a professional engineer.  I, like a doctor, have had five years in internships and passed two sets of board exams to earn a license to practice.

I didn’t have to intern with a civil engineering firm, a mechanical engineering firm, a structural engineering firm, a chemical engineering firm, etc., to get licensed in my field.

I work on a team where there are engineers of other backgrounds who have expertise I don’t have.

Doesn’t it make more sense to train doctors in the field they want to learn and tell them “if you don’t know something, call in someone with that speciality.”

Trying out a few different field might make sense for some who is unsure what speciality they want and then they could try a few.  But this rotation system seems like something that could easily be gotten rid of.

Then again, I’m absolutely convinced that medical education is a cartel created to artificially reduce the supply of doctors to the public, driving up the salaries of doctors disproportionately.  So maybe the inefficiency of the system is the goal.

I am lucky in that I live in these United States. This makes me one of the wealthiest people in the world. The poor of the US are richer than many rich people in other countries.

I remember reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and listening to her describe the house in which she was living. While it was old and well built, most people on Section 8 housing allotments would refuse to live in a home that small or that required so much manual labor to keep running.

We are rich.

I grew up in a home that where there were no firearms. My parents, at the time, were not anti-gun, they just didn’t own any. I still got to go hunting. I still got to learn how to handle a shotgun. There are pictures of me as a kid with a good half dozen rabbits from a rabbit hunt I went on with 4 other adults and another boy my age. I was in grade 7, maybe?

The point being, I wasn’t a “gun person.” I wasn’t afraid of them. It was just something that I wasn’t around.

I lived in a home with an actual firearm for about 4 or 5months. I was renting a room from my boss. My parents had moved after I graduated from high school and I was slated to start University in the fall. So I stayed. Shortly after I moved in, my boss showed me the derringer he had attached to the side table next to his TV chair.

He told me the safety rules and told me not to “play with it.”

Of course I did. I had to examine it. But I did treated it as loaded and kept my finger off the trigger and the gun pointed in a safe direction while handling it.

It was scary.

At University there was no firearms. Hell, they had problems with me having a real knife.

The only firearms I handled during that time was when I went on a rescue call for our technical assistant. She had heard somebody prowling around her home and her husband was away. So I drove out to her place. When I got there she meet me holding a M1 Carbine. We talked for a while, made sure that she was ok and I went home.

It wasn’t until right now that I put together what she said about that gun and what I know now and was able to identify it from memory.

After I left the University I went to the range a couple of times with my Mentor. He had a Colt AR-15, a Ruger .22, and a German Mauser that his father had carried in WWII.

He was the person that got me started in gun rights.

During this time I was a working stiff. I got a divorce and lost all of my savings and ended up paying a large part of my income to support my ex.

I was poor. Yet I ate every meal, stayed in a warm home and had a car. I didn’t have money for frivolous things, and firearms fell in that category.

Then I got very lucky and had a big windfall. After paying the US Government their cut, it was still a big windfall.

My 2nd wife then wasted most of the rest. But I came out of it with three motorcycles and some firearms.

The firearms I purchased I purchased because of the ammunition they used.

• 9×19 This was the standard NATO pistol ammunition and was the standard ammunition used by the MSP
• 5.56×45 This was the standard NATO rifle ammunition.
• 7.62×51 NATO. Again, the standard NATO rifle ammunition.
• 7.62×39. This was the standard Soviet/communist block rifle ammunition
• .44Cal Black powder pistol. Just in case I couldn’t find ammo for the pistol.
• ?? Cal Black powder rifle. Again, just in case I couldn’t find ammo for the other 3 rifles

I’m sorry to say that the black powder rifle still sits in my safe. I’ve never shot it. My lady has. She loves it. But I have not.

The pistol I purchased was a used Glock. It had belonged to the MSP. My magazine was loaded with the standard MSP ammo. I also purchased 1000 rounds of 9mm range candy. There are still a couple of 50 round boxes from that purchase kicking around the house.

The rifle I purchased was an AWB era AR-15 heavy barrel by Bushmaster. There were only a couple of manufactures at that time, that is what I decided on. It came with a 5 round mag. I alos purchased a 2000 rounds of of NATO surplus that came in a wooden crate. Some how a couple of 20 round mags and a 30 round mag found their way into my car. I certainly didn’t purchase them during a standard capacity magazine ban.

The second rifle was an AK-47 style with a thumbhole stock. 2000 rounds of Wolf ammo came home with it. Along with a box containing “garbage” that the FFL was throwing out. Said garbage turned out to be 2 thirty round mags and the original furniture for the AK.

The third rifle was a Remington 700 originally with no sights. I didn’t know I needed sights. Don’t all guns come with sights? Later it had a Nikon scope put on it. It is still my deer rifle of choice for long distance shooting.

The AK and AR and the Glock all took three weeks to purchase. Maryland had a 21 day waiting period at that time. I think it was actually a bit longer than 21 days because they sold it as 21 days (three weeks) but they meant 21 business days or four calendar weeks.

In contrast, buying the black powder rifle and pistol took but minutes. Yes, that’s what I want. What do you mean there is no paperwork? Oh great! Thank you, have a great day.

Since that time my purchases have tended to be ammunition centric OR something classic.

The last rifle I purchased was a Henry in 45-70. This was to match the Springfield Trapdoor ammunition.

There is a lever action plus SAA replica in .45Colt. Because I wanted a pistol/rifle combination that used the same ammo.

Same reason I have a PC-9. It is a breakdown rifle that shoots 9mm and uses Glock magazines. Then I had to buy a Glock because I suddenly had a bunch of Glock magazines and no Glock pistols.

Even today, my next firearm purchase is going to be a lever action in .357 Magnum to match my last revolver purchase. Then a SAA in .357 to match the lever action.

I have way to many calibers today. But it feels like they all had a logic to the purchase.