As a firearms instructor of police and civilians, a firearms store owner, and a longtime ‘gun guy,’ I like to think I’ve seen it all when it comes to firearms techniques: the good, the bad, and the ugly. And while I’ll argue that there isn’t a ‘right way’ when dealing with self-defense firearms training, I can promise you there are many wrong ways.

via 10 common mistakes in self-defense firearms training.

This is very well thought list. It basically won me over after this introductory line:

Just because someone owns a lot of guns or is a police officer or veteran does not make them a firearms expert.

Go over there and save this link for future reference.

I like my shorts clean, thankyouverymuch….

You guys at home can go *** yourselves.

The first underlined did happen to me but it was solved via the application of a big drill and a couple of metal bits.

I have done the second underlined passage but with other items.

I want the last item!

47.3 percent of those convicted for federal gun crimes were black — a racial disparity larger than any other class of federal crimes, including drug crimes. In a 2011 report on mandatory minimum sentencing for gun crimes, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that blacks were far more likely to be charged and convicted of federal gun crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences.

via Shaneen Allen, race and gun control – The Washington Post.

You know the evidence is hard when the WaPo begrudgingly admits that Gun Rights advocates might be right on certain issues and that they back people up no matter the color of their skin.

Hat Tip to The Roadgunner.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police are searching for four or five people they believe scaled to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge’s two towers in the dead of night, disabled lights illuminating two large American flags and then replaced the flags with bleached-white ones.

via Police probing switch of flags on Brooklyn Bridge – Yahoo News.

This is not some nowhere bridge somewhere in the middle of the Iowa corn fields, this is supposed to be one of the most watched & secured roadways in NYC because we have been told over and over that they are prime terrorist targets that can be attacked any time.

And a small group of people bypassed security ….twice the same night at opposite sides of the bridge…with cops on location….and planted surrender flags.

Billions of dollars spent on Theater Security and I bet the solution will be to throw some more.

Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013 – Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to revise the definition of: (1) “intimate partner” to include a dating partner and any other person similarly situated to a spouse who is protected by the domestic or family violence laws of the state or tribal jurisdiction in which the injury occurred or where the victim resides; and (2) “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” to include the use or attempted use of physical force or a deadly weapon by a current or former intimate partner.

Prohibits: (1) the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking; and (2) the shipment or possession of a firearm or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce, or the receipt of a firearm or ammunition that has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce, by an individual who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking.

via S.1290 – 113th Congress (2013-2014): Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress.

Shannon Watts & Moms Demand are gushing over this more than if they had a wild weekend with John Stamos and a hot tub full of greek yogurt all set.

I did a quick check so I might be wrong but it seems Stalking is a felony in 31 states and in most of the rest a second charge of Stalking gets an automatic upgrade to a felony charge. So basically at least in 31 states, you will become a prohibited person with a stalking conviction.

I already have issues with the Misdemeanor Domestic Abuse prohibition since it has been so abused by divorce lawyer and spouses trying to inflict harm for no good reason. Adding one more misdemeanor to federal regulations may lead us on a path of adding more and more and that is a path that nobody will want to face later on as the law unintended consequences has taught us before.

But the really interesting part on this bill is the watering down of domestic partner. The way I see it, you better be a damn good first date and do nothing that can be considered abuse or you will face time in the pooky. Just imagine what is going on in colleges around the nation where now students can be charged with rape even is sex is consensual because she changed her mind six months after the fact.

If it wasn’t because this kind of laws are so prone to abuse, they may make a very infinitesimal sense, but when we have prosecutors that have no problem exaggerating and making up shit to win a case, the potential for misconduct is too great. That much power cannot be allowed to roam free, or better yet exist.

This bill needs to die quietly and the sponsor needs to be smacked on the back of the common sense to see if it starts.