The bear hit Uptain as Chubon went for the pistol. “He said he had [the Glock],” Hovinga told WyoFile. “He had a hard time trying to find a clear shot.”
Chubon tried to shoot the bear, Hovinga said. “He grabbed [the pistol], was unable to make it fire,” Hovinga said. “There was not a round in the chamber, so the gun was empty. He couldn’t make the gun work.”

Wyoming Bear Attack Glock had No Round in Chamber, Magazine & Pistol Separated

Paraphrasing somebody I saw in the webs: To carry with an empty chamber is the same as thinking you will have time to put on the sat belt before the accident.

If you do not have confidence on yourself to carry with a round in chamber, you need to practice the manual of arms, unholstering and holstering till you do it automatically. Remember, gun does not go bang unless the trigger gets played with.

“Putting on an Appendix Holster on Turkey Day was a tragically stupid move.”

Next year I am going with Tanker rig myself. And since I can’t Open Carry in Florida (yet) I’ll wear a poncho.

We know we are in an era of everything being seen through racism Glasses and Gun Control is no Different. Blogson Justin posted in FB to a link to a collection of tweets about the Chicago Hospital shooting.

And of course, when the information finally came out, oopsie?

And he used a pistol.

But we are the racists.

Somebody (and as a joke) calculated the amount of ammo used in the movie not counting the enemy expenditure or the mini-guns rounds. He determined that HBD (Hour(s) of Blackhawk Down) comes to 65 rounds per minute, 3,900 per hour, 93,000 per day, 187,200 for the two days.

So, anybody knows any good Black Friday ammo sales? I might need to up my ammo count to a least a shift.

If you have not read the Monster Hunter International series, you can get started via Kindle with the first volume for free. We have a Facebook group that somebody has defined as a “Book Club with a gun problem.”

Still mulling a bit about this one:

I never made claim to be an extensive or even good writer. In fact from day one I have called myself a pamphleteer, nothing else. But I also have an enormous amount of respect for my readers because if there is something I have learned through the years and specially since I got into guns, is that people do not need to be treated like idiots when I write something. Do I need to go into a 5,000 word essay about the AK v AR? Nope, that would be trying to compare a 1938 VW Beetle with a 1965 Ford Mustang GT 350 and then tout the superiority of the AR as if they were equals and that was not the point I was trying to make.
Most of the readers understood (without having to pull out the crayon caddy like Evan wanted) that not 10 years ago, you could not get an AR15 for less than $700 but AKs could be found for around $350. Many people could not afford to shed a lot of money and went with AKs for SHTF weapons, including myself. Nobody back then would have believed that we would be in a time where an AR became affordable enough to have by most people. Hell, you can buy 30 round magazines for 7 bucks rather than the $50 and more if you survived the AWB decade.

And here is the kick: the young readers that might no be aware of the shift, are smart enough to either ask or find out on their own. Again, they don’t need a keyboard snob trying to impart his Gun Forum wisdom to the uncouth masses.

Again, I don’t write to make you feel good, I don’t write to get hits (I know, I took a hit on visits with my electoral positions) or to massage your fragile egos. I write because I want to, on the subjects I want to and the length I want to. I use memes, screen caps and stories of short length. If you want a cascade of gun-related words, you can always visit TTAG.
Oh dear, I am about to lose more readers.