After I posted my truck mess, one of the commenters pointed out that it might be the case that you only have what is on your person in that instant.

They are correct. That is one of the reasons I have so many first-aid/stop the bleed kits.

For example, the LBV for my office area is a Condor Recon Chest Rig, in black. It comes with the AR mag pouches built in. It adjusts to “fat” and it is fast and comfortable to get into.

To that, I add one of my blow out kits. I need to add pistol mag pouches to it, which would require me to decide on a SHTF pistol. I like my 1911s. Likewise, I’m uncertain if that’s what I would be carrying in a situation where I’m wearing my LBV.

My normal EDC is actually pretty good. I mentioned much of what I have on my person. I forgot to mention two things:

Two days of my prescription meds and ear plugs.

Dxhycc 6pcs Waterproof Aluminum Pill Box Case Bottle Cache Drug Holder Keychain Container Color Random

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There are many of these available from all the usual places. They are lightweight, waterproof and can be attached to things to keep them from being lost.

I believe this is the size that I have, which holds a pair of the squishes into ear, earplugs. The number of times I’ve used them when not shooting is surprising.

Much of my EDC is like that. I didn’t know I wanted that capability with me until I had it.

My silly example is going around my office and pulling all the staples out of beams, columns, door and window frames, and doors. Those little stable nubs always bother me and I would scratch myself from time to time. When I started carrying my Leatherman and later my Gerber, I would just pull them when I found them.

Regardless, it is worthwhile, in my opinion, picking some of these up. The different sizes can be used for different fun things.

This story from Metro UK:

Woman fined for fighting back ‘too much’ during sex attack

Milica Živković walked into court as a victim, but the judge gave her a slap on the wrist for ‘exceeding the necessity of self-defence’.

The 24-year-old was walking home with a friend after a night out in the town of Kolašin, in northern Montenegro, when she noticed a man was following them.

Milica said: ‘He grabbed my chin… and then he grabbed me by my intimate part (bottom area).

‘Defending myself, I hit him with a closed and then open fist, which I learnt while training kickboxing for four years.’

She added: ‘In such moments you can only think of the worst. But I fought as hard as I could, and of course I knocked him out.’

In court, Milica was fined €82 for ‘exceeding the necessity of self-defence’ and for ‘violating public order and peace’, which made her feel ‘very uncomfortable’.

Meanwhile, her attacker had to pay only €370 before being released from prison.

This guy grabbed her by the face and ass and she exceeded the necessity of self-defence by knocking him out?

Fuck Europe.

If that was America, and if she gave that man a sucking chest wound with a JHP I’d have called it good.

European countries hate when citizens subjects defend themselves.

In most European countries, even non-lethal tools of self-defence, such as pepper spray, are illegal.

In England, women are only allowed to carry personal alarms. But those are limited to 140 dB, so they don’t hurt the poor rapists ears.

I’m an American. I want women to be able to defend themselves from sexual assault with whatever tools they feel are necessary.

Remember: It is physically impossible for a rapist to maintain an erection while suffering from hypovolemic shock.

Normally, I would spend time analyzing a filing. This particular filing is by the Appellants/Plaintiffs (good guys). It is a good history of DC gun infringements over the last decades.

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Big Boy Revolver .357 Mag/.38 Spl Gunfighter Grip.

Borrowing design cues from its long gun brethren, the Big Boy Revolver touts highly polished blued steel throughout the medium-sized frame, quick-release cylinder, and 4” barrel. In addition, genuine American walnut grip panels are affixed to both sides of a mirror-like brass trigger guard that’s visible around the grip to the top of the backstrap.

Big Boy Revolver | Henry Repeating Arms (henryusa.com)

Running an M.S.R. price of $928.00, makes it for a very expensive sidearm. It is accurate as hell, the perceived recoil with defensive loads was meek and joyful, but the disgusting 16 lbs. or even 18 lbs. (We did not have a trigger pull scale that went above 10 lbs. I felt I needed a propane tank scale) double action trigger pull was just atrocious. Single action pull is about 6 lbs. and it is smooth and breaks clean.

I love the look of the revolver and if it was not for the bad double action trigger, I would have said this is a Church Gun out of the box.

I do hope Henry gets that fixed. It is not like Chicago PD or NYPD will issue revolvers with crappy trigger pulls.

It has been a good week overall. We got some great news out of a local court in Massachusetts regarding honoring out of state permits to carry.

It is really great news. About a half dozen of the people I watch have talked about it as well as J.Kb.

One point, it is an “as applied” ruling. In any court opinion, the court can rule on how something applies to the plaintiff/defendant OR they can rule on the law. In this case, the court ruled that their finding only applied to the defendant.

This means that if J.Kb were to travel to Mordor and was investigated by the authorities and found to be carrying under his New Hampshire license, he would have to go through the same type of trial. Until the Massachusetts courts knock down the law, this will be the case.

It is still wonderful news.

The Rahimi case is getting attention in all the usual places. You’ll be hearing more about it as it will be the next big Second Amendment case heard by the Supreme Court.

Sometime in the next month or so, the good guys will have to have all of their briefs in. That will be easier reading. In looking at all of this, I might actually attempt to write a brief for the case… I am not sure how that will go.

The comments are open, feel free to be commenters.

“the police keep us safe” -people who think America isn’t a failed state

The police watching criminals break into vehicles and steal everything in them *literally* right in front of them and doing nothing about it… ?#SanFrancisco #California #cali #CaliforniaDream #bayarea… pic.twitter.com/WND6ZM0qnm

— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) August 24, 2023

I believe that we are witnessing the ending of Law Enforcement was we know it. We have to have laws that allow us to use deadly force to defend property or the powers that be will have to deals with people doing it anyway.

If you count on any police department to come rescue you, you are in for big (and sometimes final) disappointment.