I know it is a compilation of extreme cases, but there is always somebody ready to heal his/her ego with fists, doesn’t it? In that sense I do miss shooting matches as nobody thinks they can apply violence to get his butt unhurt.

We had a in couple of occasions some strange visitors that did not inspire confidence (public range and all that)  and several club members were told to discretely load their guns and keep an eye on them. At least in one occasion, a group of four individuals came looking like they thought we were easy pickings only to be greeted by a bunch of guys with predatory smiles and guns on their hips. They left rather quickly.

But I want you to go to 11:06 when the police arrives and watch the armed car owner’s behavior and actions when cops arrive.

Putting the weapon on the ground, raising your hands and not moving do help make the officers feel a bit less strained about you.

This was in Texas and I am not going to discuss the smarts about confronting a burglar at night.

I have gone through almost a hundred videos and I think we were making assumptions not quite based on reality. As with anything else related to guns, it is not going to be a gear issue but more about mindset and training. I think the video represents the average of what I have seen and tabulated so far.

And I bet you are gonna get slightly ticked off.

Update: The hits keep coming.

These two tweets caught my attention:

As far as I know, ATF is the agency in charge on Firearms Tracing, specially in states that do not have firearms registration. California’s registration is at best incomplete to non-existent depending on what law came to be what year and I am sure ATF is not going to open their database unless they feel they need to have a congressional probe up their asses. So I can’t figure out what database they are using unless the state gave them the incomplete crap they have.

This would not be another case of the Brady Campaign making promises somebody else ends up paying for, would it?

Update: Stolen firearm from unlocked vehicle. This is what I mean.

I had mentioned about it last year. I want to make guns stolen out of vehicles our safety priority this year.

First, I need to define the problem and thanks to the magic of YouTube and inexpensive surveillance systems, I have material to look through and I am doing so.  If anybody can find police stats on car break ins, it would be of great help, I don’t care if it is one little town or a major city because I have the feeling they are pretty much the same thing.

What I have seen so far (small sample yet) has made me change my initial idea of this being just a question of gear alone and more of combination of gear and lack of brains. but I don’t want to jump to a firm conclusion yet.

Any other ideas are welcome. I will be asking the opinion of metal workers and automotive people because there will be a need to either find the proper devices or maybe you will get a chance to create the new strong box for guns in vehicles. We will need to offer a not-so-expensive device that could help frustrate a criminal into stealing your gun.

I’ll come back with this when I have more stats.

PS: Dear God! I may have to use Excel! The Horror!

I was watching the video of the new Springfield Armory SAINT Victor. It had the appropriate somber music and tactical operators doing the obligatory conga line for a house clearing when they show one of the targets.

I started laughing at the bug eyes of the guy and the whole “I was an extra in ‘The Waterboy’ movie” look.  However, I do hope that is not my answer if I were faced with a similar armed funny looking guy or gal in real life or I would be laughing all the way to St Pete’s Gates.   I don’t know if that was done on purpose, but I do have to say that by the very subdued use of a non-shooter behind the bad guy is a touch of evil but necessary training: even if you do not miss, there are places on Buggy Eyes anatomy where a shoot through may end up taking out an innocent person.

So, whomever created the target, well done.  Lessons have been assimilated.

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law bipartisan legislation named for the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, the White House announced in a statement.

The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act aims to improve the US response to emerging or potential genocides and passed final votes last month in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Trump signs into law genocide prevention act named for Elie Wiesel

But we were told a couple of years ago that he is Hitler!

Do you think that maybe 100 years in the future, historians are going to look back at this era and say “what the f*** what wrong with those people? What kind of mind-stupidifier drugs were they consuming?”

I am still owed the concentration/re-education camps and the gay electrocutions the Left say we were going to get if Trump was elected.