Garrett Howell riding the roller coaster at the 3-Gun Nation regional side match. I wonder how many competitors demanded a re-shoot.

Video by Matt Martini.

Found in reddit:

It is a shotgun, no idea what brand/model.

I will freely admit I am a lazy bastard when it comes to clean guns. But this is a bit much. I am a fan of Shooter’s Choice Polymer Safe Quick Scrub because it will remove a lot of built up crap by just spraying it on the proper place and I still go back with the green toothbrush, dental tools and patches to clean those crooks and nannies that are stubborn.

Also, we have advanced enormously with lubricants and a I also prefer the newer generations of synthetics. I will use nothing but Slipstream Weapon Lubricant that will keep the buildup of crud to almost non-existent levels while running the gun smoothly.

And the second they make very good ultrasonic cleaners for under $50 and the solvent at $10 the gallon, I will take that road too.

I did say I was lazy, right?

This is the only version that counts. Screw the movie.

Many of the civilian hobbyists were much better shots than he expected. In fact, they were more than good—some of them gave the special ops warrior a run for his money.

“There were guys in their eighties—barely held together at the seams—who were out-shooting me,” he recalls.
It was a humbling experience—and an awakening for Satterlee.

via Top U.S. Army Marksman Explains Why Gun Nuts Shoot Better — War Is Boring — Medium.

Master Sgt. Scott Satterlee is  a member of the U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Group, a nationally ranked competitive precision rifle shooter and one of the military’s best marksmen. So we have here somebody who has walked the walk, can shoot and understand that training in the Military does not come close to what civilians do every weekend on their own.

He has a great line” “Standard operating procedure becomes dogma.” Unfortunately this is true with any big conglomerate of people as they get so mentally entrenched that the idea of change is seen as almost treason. The fact that the “upper management” in the Military and Law Enforcement will require a brutal shakedown before they accept that changes are needed even though when most of their top shooters come from a civilian background of either competitive shooting or hunting. The smart ones without any formal shooting history, make it personal to go outside the system and get into training and competition because they understand it is not just going pew-pew at a piece of paper but acquiring life-saving skills that may come handy is some God-forsaken piece of sandy crap halfway around the world.

Hat Tip to Jon B.

I saw this posted yesterday in the MDA Facebook page. Laughter ensued.

The article is a long babble about how much Universities have to spend on gun safes and de-escalation training and gets destroyed when a reader comments that the Campus Carry bill does not mandate any of that crap and that those expenses are voluntary. But it was the photograph that sent me into giggles: That is the tower of University of Texas at Austin where in 1966, Charles Whitman opened fire against the student body killing 8 people and wounding a bunch more. Whitman had previously killed 5 more, but they were family and people inside the tower and I am making the distinction because he was unable to add to the count from outside the tower thanks to the many armed civilians that came to the scene and started to return fire making impossible for Whitman to tally more victims.

So, the “media director” or appropriate intern for Moms Demand used a photo of one of the most iconic examples of Good Guys with Guns Stopping a Bad Guy.

Although still the tally is running higher on the side of the bad guys, stories of Home Owners turning the tables are getting more common or at least more reported:

• Even in the Bay Area of San Fran, breaking into a home does not pay.
• In North Carolina, a shotgun is God’s way to say “You are done.”
• Young Pregnant teen faces three guys and they run away.
• In Alabama, a Bad Guy assumed room temperature after selecting the wrong apartment.
• “Drunk and stupid is no way to go though life, son.”
• “Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.” – David Mamet.
• Old age a treachery, part 2.

Home Invasions tend to be very fast and very brutal. You cannot take the chance of wishing the bad guys have good intentions towards your life. If they cared about life, they would wait for you to leave the house.

Gut reaction after seeing this headline? Another idiot with a gun solving a discussion with lead:

But then (and if you happen to have the time to read it) you realize they have pulled an intellectual bait & switch on you:

ORRESDALE (WPVI) — A verbal dispute broke out in Philadelphia’s Torresdale section, and left one man in critical condition.

It happened around 5:40pm Sunday night in the Pathmark parking lot on the 8700 block of Frankford Avenue.

Police say a dispute between two males took a turn for the worst when a 37-year-old male threatened a 38-year-old male with a knife.

After seeing the weapon the 38-year-old asked the 37-year-old to drop the knife numerous times but his requests would go unanswered.

According to police the 38-year-old shot the 37-year-old after he allegedly charged at him with a knife.

via Man shot after verbal dispute in Torresdale | 6abc.com.

Simply put, the News Team at WPVI lied to its viewers/readers. Why would they do such a thing? Your guess is food good as mine, I will go with my standard of “They are in the News business, not in the Truth business.

I find myself every day more and more disgusted with the Media for stuff like this, but not surprised. How sad is that?