OK Liberals, you need to stop beclowning yourselves…wait, never mind, carry on.

BTW, the whole line of tweets from this guy is to raise in revolution or some happy horse shit like that to fix all the GOP evils and stuff.

But the National Russian Association? That is some outdated kombucha you are drinking there buddy.

Damn.

Say what again? How much?

Pricing, Cooper said, is expected to be between $800-$1,000 for shooters.

“It’s hard to say exactly, but a good guess will be around $1,000 minimum,” he said. “One reason for this is that the 1911 is a very valuable pistol. Even though they may be shot out or busted up, we don’t want them falling into the hands of people who will just leave them in a glove box. We want a perceived value — more of an heirloom. We don’t want them considered a standard sidearm. All we need is to have someone commit a liquor store robbery with one and then we’ll be held accountable.

CMP General Manager: What you can expect to pay for a surplus 1911.

Dear Mr. Cooper: Unless you present written and photographic proof that $1,000 1911 was used by either Audie Murphy or John Basilone to mow down the enemy in World War Two, you are out of your frigging mind.

We got us an elitist asshole pissing on the people that called, wrote, emailed and eventually voted so those guns could come home.

R.I.P. Pyle.

As you can imagine, the video of the instructor shooting at the ground near the student has been making the rounds among the Gun Community. In one of the discussions I saw in Social Media, somebody pointed out that possibly the very fucked up intention of the instructor was to “immunize” the student from the shock of a firearm, not his, was being discharged nearby. Basically to inject adrenaline to the exercise in order to develop a sort of immunity when shit really happens.

This I understand. And the way he went about it is still 1,000% wrong, dangerous and the instructor should be asked to move to Great Britain.

Do you want to simulate stress? Do you want to simulate stress while going pew-pew? Join an Action Shooting Club. Go shoot IDPA or USPSA or Cowboy or whatever other sport has a bunch of people shooting on the move on the same morning or afternoon. You will be sick and immunized of hearing shots go off over and over.

“But Miguel, that is not enough! I mean the guy was shooting right there! That is some serious stress!” Well, guess what, if you really want to feel the shock of the shot up close and personal, become a Range Officer or Safety Officer for the above-mentioned sports.

That would be the guy holding the little blue box called Shot Timer.  You are supposed to be at arm’s length of the shooter at all times to avoid a mishap with the firearm. Now, both individuals in the photo are experienced shooters but you know what it is stressful? Having a totally new shooter participating in his/her first shoot-and-move Course of Fire. That will shoot plenty of epinephrine in your bloodstream.

And goes without saying (Lord knows I have expressed in this blog many times before) that regular participation in Action Shooting Sports is a great way to practice your gun handling skills and marksmanship on the move and under simulated stress.

So, to other instructors out there who want to be “edgy” and “Oh-So-Tactical” to be different from others: Don’t be. Keep your students safe at all times, be innovative but not dangerous and stupid. Firearms training has inherent risks and it has been the strict adherence to safety practices what has kept the accidents to a statistically insignificant number.

It is not “IDPA will get you killed on the streets” but that shit you are “teaching” will get one of your students killed in your range.

Heed the warning.

But never forget, police officer and even detectives are not the gun experts other wants us to believe they are. This is how the rumor mill gets started:

And yes, there is still old questions left and a couple of new ones. We are gonna have to wait. At least it is not Las Vegas PD doing the investigation.

Hat Tip Jeff A.

Sorry, a Facebook video.

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When training goes full retard.

Hat Tip to George C.H.

PS: If you find it in Youtube, let me know in the comments.

While learning the ins and outs of the Music Business back in the 80s, I learned that the Grammys had then little to do with how good music was but how important for sale was to have one of the little statutes attached to the name of an album.  When I was done with my first recordings and understood what was behind working an album, I was kinda pissed off that the NARAS (National Academy for the Recording Arts and Sciences) only gave 2 Grammys for recording/mixing: Best Classical and Best Non Classical. That was it. You do not record and mix Rock the same way you do Jazz or Salsa or Gospel and so on.  Each has its very particular way to be treated and it takes years to perfect, so I (and many others) felt that it was an insult to engineers that no more specific Grammys were issued to the craft in the business while the academy kowtowed to the artistic side. The clinch was one of my professors, somebody who had his own double copies of the little golden gramophone in his shelf tell us straight that with the exception of two categories, he’d let his secretary fill the ballot and that the practice was not uncommon among the established members of NARAS as the secretaries either voted for their favorite artists or followed whatever the business interest the company may have. Oh yes, record companies make it a big drive to have their Academy members vote for their product, quality be dammed. We need to sell!

Even though I was sent the forms, I never joined NARAS.

NARAS then became a bit more truthful and is now known as The Recording Academy: no Arts and no Science. After this year’s nominees, I have to agree the name change fits.