I just bumped again on this subject matter in a forum somewhere.  And what I see it is pretty much the same idea: “I feel safer carrying an empty chamber.”

Bull.

Modern sidearm technology has given us amazingly safe weapons that do not go bang unless you start screwing around with the trigger. That might be because you inserted your booger collecting appendage (finger) inside the trigger guard or something caught the trigger and made it move. Either way it is your fault.

When you say you feel safer carrying on an empty chamber, it is telling people you have had little or no training and practice with your firearm or (on a lesser extent) that you are carrying your pistol in such a manner that might not be safe to carry such a pocket pistol in a pocket with some foreign crap sharing the space or in a cheap holster that keeps folding on itself. And yes, negligent discharges have happened by these causes.

So, if you don’t have instruction, get some. Practice that instruction on the range with live ammo and at home with dry-fire. And please, don’t be carrying your $600 gun in a $20 nylon holster that you picked up at the bargain bin of your local Army Surplus store. With good Kydex holsters from reputable companies like Comp Tac going between $65 to $90 for a OWB and $40 to $90 for IWB,  you have no excuse not to properly and safely carry a gun. Since I do not carry inside the pocket regularly, I can’t give you advice other than if you do not have a pocket holster, make damn sure the gun and only the gun is in the pocket.

Via Reason.com

Last week, a year after the passage of rushed and poorly drafted gun restrictions in Connecticut, the organization Connecticut Against Gun Violence issued a press release celebrating the anniversary and deriding gun owners for continuing to call for repeal of the law.

“Nonetheless, gun rights activists are holding a rally at the Capitol on April 5 to protest the law. They are demanding that the law, which they call “one of the most unconstitutional gun laws in the nation”1 be enforced or repealed, warning that “State-provoked chaos and violence will be required to enforce the anti-gun laws.”2

A coalition of state Gun Rights Prevention Groups will be holding a press conference on Thursday, April 3, at 10:00 am at the State Capitol, 3rd Floor, Old Judiciary Room. ( See logos below of participating organizations).
Link to the original press release here.

And in case it gets memory-holed:

Hat Tip Say Uncle

Not making it up

An all-female self-defense class in Glendale has been postponed to an unknown date while officials review allegations that holding it is discriminatory to men.

On March 13, the National Coalition for Men, a San Diego-based nonprofit focused on gender equality, drafted a letter to Glendale City Attorney Michael Garcia, Glendale Commission on the Status of Women Chairwoman Denise Miller and SHIELD Women’s Self-Defense System instructor Nelson Nio, stating the organization is “troubled by the no-men-or-boys-allowed self-defense classes.” The letter claims that by not including men, the city is violating federal and state anti-discrimination laws and the city’s own Employee Code of Ethics.
Glendale’s women’s self-defense class postponed amid discrimination charge.

For the love of Holy Testosterone, what the hell is wrong with these people? You feeling somewhat emasculated because they did not invite you to play? I have bad news for you sweet cheeks: your emasculation is self-inflicted.

There are plenty places you can go learn to defend yourself with or without girls. You are just a bunch of kids that probably were never picked to play sports at school and got to learn the intimacy the inside of a locked locker. Now that you are an adult, you get your fun by screwing anybody else’s life.

Grow up, deal with it or rename your group The National Coalition for the Testicular Impaired.

Still more from Spain’s Guardia Civil museum:

From what I can see, it is a percussion gun. It has to be fun reloading that thing without losing fingers. Rumor has it that it belonged to Gail Pepin’s great-great-great-great-grandmother 😀

An Orlando security guard landed in jail early Monday for firing warning shots near a crowd of about 15 to 20 people — an incident that occurred just days after Florida lawmakers passed a bill permitting warning shots as part of the state’s “stand your ground” law.
Claudy Petit Frere of Signal 88 Security was working at Nassau Bay Apartments about 4:45 a.m. when, he said, a fight broke out and people in the crowd tried to disarm him.
Fearing for his life, Petit Frere told police, he drew his handgun and “shot it in a safe location” behind him to make the crowd back up. Two of the bullets struck a nearby apartment building, according to his arrest report.
Police charged him with three felony and two misdemeanor crimes, including shooting into an occupied dwelling, false imprisonment with a weapon and aggravated assault with a firearm, records show.
“It’s not a law yet,” Orlando police spokesman Sgt. Jim Young said Monday afternoon.

Guard’s arrest for firing gun near crowd comes days after warning-shot bill passes.

It is not all front sight-press trigger-make holes. You have to be aware and know the laws of the land and stay within its parameters.  And the other very important thing you must do is to stay abreast of what is happening at the legislative level but trying to avoid the “information” and “analysis” given by the Media as they will probably be less than accurate in the best of cases and downright liars most of the time.

I am not saying that Mr. Frere was confused by what has been said in the news lately, but I would not be surprised if that would turn out to be the case. Unfortunately, he is going to have a tough time in his near future.

Attorney General Eric Holder said gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” as part of its gun control efforts.

When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee on Friday that his agency is looking into technological innovations.

“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
Holder: We want to explore gun tracking bracelets

Hmmm.. he wants to tag gun owners with a device that is visible to others. For starters, it kinda screws with the whole concept of Concealed Carry and the advantage we get against attackers. But it also does other things:

It identifies us as a separate group of people. We would be wearing the equivalent of a sign saying “Gun here!”  I am sure this would make “Stop & frisk” legally easier since there is no doubt we are carrying a gun. And once stopped and frisked we would have to go through the whole showing of a permits, FOID (where applicable), the cops checking to see if the gun is stolen…you know, being treated like a felon. It would also makes us targets of criminals looking to get a gun…yes, sorry, nobody is aware enough to avoid an ambush and survive it 100% of the time.

And with the Opposition declaring their undying hate for Gun owners and multiple expressions of hate towards us, I can see them following a gun owner to their house of place of business and do the brick through the window and occasional arson because, you know, we are too dangerous! Our kids ridiculed in school and tagged as weirdos… you know the whole story.

But I have to say something for this new technology: It is more advanced than a  Yellow Star on your lapel or in an armband and a serial number tattooed in your arm.