Goodbye to a friend.
Last night I got the bad news that dear friend and my IDPA mentor Frank Akey had passed away after battling cancer.
He is the one that greeted me the first time I dropped at an IDPA match and was my training/safety officer while I pulled the trigger the first time in a match. Wicked and twisted sense of humor which I have missed for a long time now. My world is less because of his passing.
Shooter ready? Stand by!
Vaya con Dios and I shall see you in the Heavenly Range.
Why do we keep accepting subpar responses?
I caught this before my morning coffee.
Nashville teachers learn trauma care, chokeholds, and how to stop a shooter (newschannel5.com)
I did a double take at the graphic.
We doing Jet Li acrobatics now?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — On their day off, dozens of Metro Nashville Public School teachers trained to take down an active shooter if one ever darkened the doors of their schools.
This placebo training, a tactical sugar pill and nothing serious to be used when it comes to actually stop a deranged killer. How do we know? Police do not respond to shooting incidents with empty handed martial arts but with superior firepower.
It was hands-on training as one demonstration, Defend Systems, showed teachers how to stop someone from bleeding out if they were shot.
This I have no beef against. In fact that is something we have been supporting for ages here and pretty much everybody in the Gun Culture community.
Defend Systems is the same group that did active shooter training at The Covenant School a year before their shooting. Police believe it saved lives. Tracey Mendenhall, the director of training and operations, is passionate about teaching educators how to fight back.
You draw your own conclusions.
Not the victim they were hoping to get.
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — Police are still on the lookout for several suspects after an online marketplace meetup resulted in a shootout at a popular Mt. Juliet shopping center Friday evening.
The Mt. Juliet Police Department said it responded to the Target parking lot at Providence Marketplace around 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10 after reports of gunfire, including a bullet that hit the window of a nearby Red Robin. Two off-duty officers who had been eating at the restaurant jumped into action before other officers joined them at the scene.
Upon further investigation, police said they learned a Smyrna man and his wife drove to the parking lot to sell a firearm to someone they met online.
“While the husband, an adult male, was outside of his vehicle meeting the person to sell this firearm, he was ambushed by another person who began to shoot at him,” Mt. Juliet Police Capt. Tyler Chandler said in a Friday night press conference.
According to authorities, the seller grabbed a gun out of his car and began firing back. Three suspects took off in an SUV, which was captured on license plate readers and found later that night in Nashville.
Police warn of online marketplace meetups after Mt. Juliet, TN parking lot shootout (wkrn.com)
Being involved in a private cash transaction with a total stranger is always risky. The last one I did was in the parking lot of a gun range, and it was proposed by the other side to which I agreed. Still, I checked the person on arrival, and I am sure he did the same to me and we both were properly “attired.”
Live! From the Caliphate of New York…
Jews in New York being told to “shelter in place.”
Biden’s America. pic.twitter.com/dkSy5v5I0c
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 11, 2023
Cossacks in keffiyehs…
“Hang in there for the cops, buddy!”
They were nice about it. In some other latitude, they would “accidentally” drop the wreck from high up…several times.
Hat Tip PaulK
“The ATF can’t arrest anyone for owning a pistol-brace-equipped gun.”
The ATF can’t arrest anyone for owning a pistol-brace-equipped gun.
That’s the outcome of a ruling handed down by United States District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Wednesday. He granted a motion to stay enforcement of the agency’s rule banning the possession of effectively all braced guns that weren’t registered earlier this year. He found the ATF exceeded its power when crafting the rule.
“[T]he Court is certainly sympathetic to ATF’s concerns over public safety in the wake of tragic mass shootings. The Rule ’embodies salutary policy goals meant to protect vulnerable people in our society,’” Judge Kacsmaryk wrote in Britto v. ATF. “But public safety concerns must be addressed in ways that are lawful. This Rule is not.”
Federal Judge Blocks Nationwide Enforcement of Pistol-Brace Ban | The Reload
It is a war of attrition and for once, our side is the one causing it.
Two favorable rulings in a row makes me feel slightly confident, but I know better that dance a jig.