Surprised to hear that when CBS News put together a list of the 30 most heavily armed states in the country Arizona didn’t make the cut? So were many gun advocates, some of whom are calling out the network for releasing what they say is an inaccurate and misleading story.In a recent article with no byline, CBS writes: “As America reels from yet another mass shooting, inevitable questions resurface about gun laws and the nation’s pervasive firearm culture. Here is a look at the 30 states with the most guns per capita, according to the ATF’s National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and 2013 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.”

Source: Gun Advocates Call B.S. On CBS News Story | Phoenix New Times

After these many decades of Anti-Gun propaganda, you would figure that CBS understood that only four or five states enforce some sort of gun registry and that the rest of the Free USA is pretty much left to its own independence. Some intern browsing the net for Vietnamese starfish porn bumps into the NFA registry and bingo! We have a story that does not make sense and goes against what the Gun Nuts say.

But the inaccuracies go deeper, explains Rob Reed, a Detroit-based gun expert. He wrote the following in an article for The Examiner: “CBS News once again displays both complete ignorance of firearms-related topics and an absence of basic journalism skills…They mistake [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’] National Firearms Act (NFA) registration data on rare and heavily regulated firearms such as machine guns, short barreled shotguns, and silencers, for some mythical ‘national registration database’ for all firearms.”

And how far out off the receptacle is CBS spraying their mellow yellow?

According to the CBS list, Florida is the 30th most heavily armed state with 10.2 guns per 1,000 residents.

That would come to 1 gun per 100 people or 0.1 guns per 10 people. But just concealed weapons permits issued, we have the total of 1,415,301 in a population of 19,893,297 and that comes to be one permit per 14 citizens. So we are either having a Gun-Sharing program nobody has told me about, or CBS might be just off the marker and by a serious lot since I am just using as example a very narrow segment of Florida’s population.

One assumes that assault rifles were picked on because they are particularly lethal. Key attributes that make them so include accuracy at range, rapid-fire capability and, most importantly, fearsome ballistics. In their most common calibers – 7.62 and .223 – these weapons discharge bullets whose extreme energy and velocity readily pierce protective garments commonly worn by police, opening cavities in flesh many times the diameter of the projectile and causing devastating wounds…

…It’s not just “assault weapons” that pose an unreasonable threat to the public. Over the past decade, 18 law enforcement officers were killed by rifle bullets that penetrated their so-called bulletproof vests (only one was killed by a penetrating handgun round), according to the FBI.  While most deaths came from ammunition associated with assault rifles, nearly every round down to the old-fashioned .30-30 proved lethal.

Source: Ex-ATF Agent: America is only pretending to regulate lethal firearms. – The Washington Post

Basically what the ex-agent is saying is that if we only had muzzle-loaders, cops would be safe to do their jobs. I went to Youtube where many body armor has met its demise at the hands of evil gun owners testing rounds and…. found that there were no videos of people shooting a .50 caliber round from a muzzle-loader into a vest rated IIIA which is pretty much the police standard. I was shocked.

I then ended up in Facebook and asked if anybody had seen a video like that…nope. We went to the math and checked muzzle-loader ballistics and they are nothing to sneeze at when you can send a .50 caliber round between 1,700 and 2,100 feet per second. Somebody came with the solution: Compare to shotgun slugs since a 12 gauge is the equivalent of a .50 caliber…. BINGO!

Actually the shotgun slug is a tad slower but it is close enough for comparison.

And I found this video. Go to 00:57

The important captures:

Good News: The slug did not go through the vest. Bad news, the slug took the vest with it about five to six inches in what would be the person’s chest. That is more than enough to gravely injury or kill.

I’ll wait till a helpful soul does a test with a muzzle-loader, but I am going to call it a very probable chance that a modern cop shot with the gun that the Founding Fathers used at the time they wrote the Second Amendment would be in a very dire situation if not outright killed by a muzzle-loader bullet hitting the vest.

Update: Please check the comments for some corrections and further instruction. The Muzzle Loading brigade showed up to save the day!

If you are an old fart of my generation and do not get goosebumps, you are probably dead.

This is one of the songs I wanted to hear her singing since I first knew about her back in 2009. Check her original music in iTunes and download at your own pleasure, you will not be disappointed although I am partial to “Train Go By” and “Sugardaddy” from her first album. I am downloading her latest so you are gonna have to wait till I am done enjoying it.

An arrest has been made in the case of a New York Rabbi who was murdered in North Miami Beach back in 2014.
According to Miami-Dade Police, 15-year-old Deandre Edwin Charles was arrested early Wednesday morning, after a 16-month long investigation.
Sources said the teen, who was 14 at the time of the crime, went on a robbery spree throughout Northeast Miami-Dade and North Miami Beach when he ran into Rabbi Joseph Raskin. Raskin was walking to a Synagogue, on that Aug. 9, Saturday morning, not carrying any money. Charles, who is accused of shooting Raskin to death got away empty handed.

Source: Teen arrested in 2014 Rabbi murder case – WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

It was from Clint Smith that I heard “You don’t know what your attacker looks like” and that is the truth. If we make a mental composite of what we think who a bad guy can be, we are setting ourselves for adding extra time to our reaction gap.

It is the aggressive action and not the image that determines our defensive posture and reactions. Book…cover…judge.

The Trace (A.K.A. paperless bird dropping catcher for Everytown & Moms Demand) has this new interactive tool that allows you to check for “gun violence” in your neighborhood.

I checked my zip code and found one from January this year:

Defensive Gun Use for the win! According to the news, the bad guy broke into an apartment at four am and a confrontation ensued. Resident got injured and was taken to the local hospital while the attacker just ruined the floor grouting with assorted internal liquids.

That’s how we roll where I live, baby!

(Too much? yeah, sorry!)

I figured that after almost 30 years of regular membership, it was time to get serious. The NRA is having great discounts to join before the end of the year at all level and the rates are going up in January. Go join or upgrade.

I know, that will make me officially a part of the No Fly/Terror Watch list.

Tough titty said the kitty when the milk went dry.

Supposedly the gun is kaput and unrepeareable …but still.