Around 2:35 p.m., Little Rock firefighters carrying a power saw and a Halligan tool —a large pry bar— were seen walking toward the house. An ATF agent was overheard saying they were at the scene to help agents open a safe in Malinowski’s house,

Arkansas airport executive director, ATF agent wounded in Little Rock home shootout – CBS News

This is something I have been musing about for a while now: If you are involved in a defensive shooting, you will have any firearm you have with you confiscated as evidence.  If the shooting is away from home, then it will be only what we have with you. But if it is at home or where you have all your weapons, you are pretty much left disarmed and won’t see them for long time.

I believe one needs to have a cache of weapons and ammo legally stashed somewhere or with somebody you trust. Mind you, if the legal proceedings make it illegal for you to be armed, then you should not add to your crap pile and even get somebody innocent involved in a felony. But otherwise, the idea of being unarmed and probably a target of retaliation by a Bad Guy’s fellow criminals is just plain stupid and suicidal.

Just a thought.

Federal agents were involved in a shootout early Tuesday as they tried to serve a search warrant at the Little Rock home of the person who leads the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, authorities said.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said agents were trying to serve the warrant just after 6 a.m. at a home in west Little Rock when someone inside the home fired gunshots at the agents. The agents returned fire, striking the shooter, who was identified as Bryan Malinowski, 53, the executive director for the airport.

Malinowski was treated at the scene before being taken to an area hospital, Arkansas State Police said. His condition was not immediately available later Tuesday.

An ATF agent, whose identity was not released, was also shot in the exchange of gunfire but suffered a non-life-threatening wound, officials said. The agent, too, was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

Neither the ATF, state police nor federal prosecutors would provide details of what agents were looking for, citing an ongoing investigation.

Around 2:35 p.m., Little Rock firefighters carrying a power saw and a Halligan tool —a large pry bar— were seen walking toward the house. An ATF agent was overheard saying they were at the scene to help agents open a safe in Malinowski’s house,

Arkansas airport executive director, ATF agent wounded in Little Rock home shootout – CBS News

It is interesting to read the assorted headlines of this incident so far. Half start with “Executive wounded/injured” and the other half with “ATF agent wounded/injured.” There was a time that the Media would immediately default towards the ATF agent without exception.

Also called “Record player” (proigryvatel’). Shoots the 7.62×54mm R at about 500 rpm. Not a bad gun to pop the full auto cherry.

Took out some new and old guns for a spin.

I had to change the barrel of the PSA Dagger. I was using a Lone Wolf which is an amazingly accurate bastard, but super finicky about ammunition, specifically my reloads. Apparently, the tolerances are so tight, I would get failures to extract no matter how tight I resized the case. Not one of my other nines have issues with my ammo.  And, of course, the point of impact was no longer the same and I had to adjust it somewhat, but I will need to spend time at an indoor range to make it more precise.

And confirmed, I am getting old and delicate. Shooting the .357 without gloves hurts like a MoFo.

And then… fun was had! Mad Mike Willamson trotted out his DP28 Degtyaryov machine gun.

I cannot believe I did not take a pic with the magazine on it, but since we were over Oleg Volk’s, I know some cool looking photos will come up soon.

It is ugly, heavy and the finish is what you expect from Soviet craftmanship, but we were surprised with the accuracy (for an MG) and how controllable it was.

And sweet god, loading those magazines by hand is a torture designed by the NKVD to punish those who betrayed the Revolution.

Mad Mike convinced Oleg that a dead trip in his property needed to be taken down (It really does) and we should use the DP28 as axe. He approved (reluctantly) and we gave it a go.

Sumbitch is still standing. However, this should be a reminder that Cover is dependent on the incoming caliber and speed.

It was fun, but I am not young anymore and the wife complained when I got home dragging ass and collapsing all over her clean bed.

PS: I forgot to confess this was my first time shooting anything with a happy switch.

Fun was had,

Who knew Self Defense is against Twitter/X rules?

I specifically stated, “if they attack you.”

I should have contested, but they said initially that I would be locked out for 6 hours if I deleted it.  I did, but know they are saying it may take a week.

Lying fucks.

UPDATE: I am finally released. Let’s see how long I last after this post.

And to the remaining wokes in Twitter/X, I am not some Redneck advocating for the extermination of poor Venezuelan criminals….  because take a mother rucking guess where I came from almost 30 years ago?

Why? Because I was ambushed with it by Mad Mike Williamson and I love to share the misery.