Gun Free Zone

A man posed as a UPS driver to gain entry into a home in London.

Before the homeowner could close the door, the ‘ups driver’ and his three accomplices stormed the house.

They slashed the father’s head with a knife and shot his 11 year old son.

They both survived.

The wife and… pic.twitter.com/8visopPFKC

— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) December 13, 2023

We are seeing more and more of these types of attacks.

Having a front door camera is good, but that’s not enough.

Situational awareness and layers of security is important.

Give it five or ten minutes between the delivery and opening the door.

Watch to see that the delivery driver has driven away.

Make sure he was in the proper delivery truck.

A little patience and some forethought will go a long way in keeping you safe.

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A quick update regarding some 2A cases kicking around. Touching on how bad case law begets bad case law.
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In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued the Bruen opinion. This case answered one question: Is New York’s “proper cause” requirement for a CCW constitutional?

The Supreme Court answered with a resounding “NO!”.

In dealing with the question, they stated that subjective criteria was not acceptable. They went on to explain how they reached their opinion using text, history, and tradition. In the associated dicta, they told the Article III inferior courts how they should analyze any Second Amendment challenges.

It is important to understand that the Supreme Court gives explicit answers regarding the question they are answering and instructions on how the inferior courts can do it themselves.

When an inferior court says that the Supreme Court hasn’t issued an opinion on something, that is the court being cowardly, ignorant, or attempting to subvert The Constitution.

If the plaintiffs make a Second Amendment challenge, they are responsible for proving that the proposed conduct implicates the plain text of the Second Amendment.

To take just one example, a 16-year-old wishes to purchase a firearm. They are refused because they are underage.

The text of the Second Amendment reads; A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The state might argue that 16 year-olds are not part of the people for reasons. But this is not the first step.

The plaintiffs wish to purchase a firearm. All firearms are arms. Thus, the “Arms” requirement is met. They wish to purchase, possess arms. This satisfies “to keep and bear arms”.

They are a part of “the people”. That means the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated.

If the state starts arguing that they are not part of the people protected by the Second Amendment, that is part of the second step: history and tradition.

Anytime the state is arguing that something is not an arm, or it is not being kept, or it isn’t bearing, or they are not part of the people, they are attempting to subvert the clear intentions of the Supreme Court.

Once the plaintiffs have proved that the proposed conduct implicates the plain text of the Second Amendment, the burden shifts to the state. The plaintiffs are done.

In that second stage, the plaintiffs can argue why particular regulations are not analogous, or not of the correct period. That is their job, to eliminate the regulations presented by the state from being considered.

Everything else the state brings up can be challenged as being irrelevant. If an expert is giving an opinion on legal matters, that is inappropriate. The legal experts are the attorneys and the Court, experts give opinions about non-legal issues.

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I read J Kb’s post (Performative goon bullsh*t – Gun Free Zone) and one thing that immediately came to mind is for all the prepper mania, many people fail to carry useful tools. I am referring to something old and simple as a Swiss Army knife or equivalent.

I am sure if you were at a reunion with several of your friends who may be in the same defensive mind range as yours, you would be offered a smattering of knives, folding or fixed from the best brands and reviews. Same reunion, same people and ask for a screwdriver or a corkscrew, and they would be at a loss.

Unless they carry a multi-function knife.

I commented in these pages how I have been carrying a Swiss Army knife since I was 11 years-old and I was given one by a relative.  A S.A.K. has helped from fixing cars. cut food, debride wounds, open packages and in a couple of occasions, modify bad behavior from third parties and all in a nice little package.

And I do have a Leatherman that I carry with me, but just not on me. It is a great complimentary tool, but I use it less and my pockets and belt are already overloaded.

The other reason to carry a multi-function knife id that you will not abuse your expensive tacticool knife doing stuff not designed to do and possibly damaging it. A defensive tool like that must be kept pointy and sharp to change the minds of those who seek to harm you and yours.

Old Fart Rant off.

If you have a favorite multi-function knife, let us know in the comments.

Amazon.com: Victorinox Swiss Army One-Hand Trekker Lockblade Pocket Knife (Black)

One of two Florida burglary grand theft suspects with a long criminal history bragged that he would be out of jail shortly after his arrest before he realized he was taken into custody in a county where the law is enforced by a no-nonsense sheriff with a tough-on-crime platform.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said his deputies spotted a stolen Dodge Ram just after 1 a.m. Wednesday. The driver, identified as Tamari Lucas, 24, a Tampa resident, and a passenger eventually stopped the truck and fled on foot, authorities said.

Lucas was arrested but the passenger was not found, Judd said. Upon his arrest, Lucas allegedly told the deputies that he wouldn’t be in jail for long because he was arrested in Osceola County. He was then informed that he was in fact taken into custody in Polk County.

“Oh, my God! Not Grady Judd! Are you (expletive) serious? This really sucks because you guys don’t play around in Polk County,” he allegedly stated.

Florida burglary suspect brags about bail until informed about sheriff; ‘Oh, my God! Not Grady Judd!’ (foxnews.com)

Imagine that! Chasing relentlessly after bad guys and putting them away makes criminals feel unsafe.

This post:

A note on keeping the enemy at range.

You've secured your house from top to bottom.. burglar bars, reinforced doors, 4/6m high walls and cameras/alarm systems.

You're training with your friends on a weekly/monthly basis – going to the range, lifting weights and getting fitter.…

— k9_reaper | T.I.A (@k9_reaper) December 12, 2023

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A note on keeping the enemy at range.

You’ve secured your house from top to bottom.. burglar bars, reinforced doors, 4/6m high walls and cameras/alarm systems. 

You’re training with your friends on a weekly/monthly basis – going to the range, lifting weights and getting fitter. As a unit. 

Your entire neighborhood is mapped out on the wall of your garage.. you’ve labeled water sources, comms advantage points and choke zones.

The plate carrier, battle rattle and go-bag are all sitting by the front door – just waiting to be used when the time is right. 

You’ve bought @DolioJ’s Tactical Wisdom series books and studied them.. knowledge that you so desperately needed.

You also followed @6Voodoo and clicked the “notify” button to see when he posts a new thread on warfare. 

You kitted yourself with a radio and picked up @Brushbeater’s Guerrilla’s guide to the Baofeng radio and even learnt how to make your own bush antenna.

You then followed @s2_underground’s YouTube channel for more knowledge on tactical things in a world gone mad.

And slowly, over time – you started to understand that things are getting worse.. so you took a long look at @GarandThumb1’s YouTube channel for further content on tactical environments.

You bought the best gear and equipment from guys like @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl, @solatac and @spiritussystems. 

You trained with the best guys out there – @WL_TAC – @wayofftheres – where you were forced to drink water and shoot for defensive purposes. 

Knowing the time is soon, you also bought kit from @thewardoll and @nola_nobody – in matching colours. 

And you followed the guys over at the CFC – @DolioJ @MScottMcCulloug @WatcherontheWeb @TheVirginiaGen1 for their knowledge on extreme environments.

And because you wanted a bit moreedical knowledge, you jumped onto @therealpackard’s account to follow his Substack on the matter.

But.. you never took into consideration that your house borders your property wall – and so it got petrol bombed by the masses who couldn’t get in. 

You didn’t put up any early warning devices of any kind further out from your property – you centralised everything. In one place. And now you lost it all – to 1 fire bomb.

Keeping your enemy at range also means knowing where they are, how many they are and if they’re heading your way. A high wall means fuck all to a hungry guy with molotov cocktails. Plan.

Ps – give the dudes above a follow. ?

I go to the gym.

I’ve trained at SIG Academy and made a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Thunder Ranch.

I have some fun toys.

But I also have two kids and a job.

Training and preperation and physical fitness are great.

But…

This goon shit prepper Instagram bullshit is a lifestyle that is getting out of hand.

Doodfuses running around with $15,000 worth of NODs but don’t have a fucking Harbor Freight tow strap to unstuck themselves from a snow drift.

They wanted to LARP as CAG but actually LARPed as the Wermacht 6th Army and were turned into casualties by the fucking weather.

Let’s take a peek at the last two urban shit storms.

Kenosha during the George Floyd riots and the Summer of Love.

Kyle Rittenhouse went three for three stacking shitbags and misting biceps with no NODs. He didn’t even have BUIS on his big box retail AR.

Then there were the Israelis who successfully defended their Kibbutz during 10/7.

They weren’t kitted out. They were reservists with M-16s with irons and some mags duct taped together.

They returned fire.  That’s all it took.

The most realistic scenarios that you or I in the suburbs, living in single family hones, might have to deal with is a George Floyd type riot, a post Hurricane Katrina type looting, or a Great New York Blackout type riot and looting with the power out.

Even throwing in a 10/7 type pogrom against the Jews, Antifa and Hamas in the US are going not going to be as well armed and equipped as Hamas in Gaza.

Will stuff in America go to shit?

Absolutely.

But unless the Chinese nuke us, in which case all your prep work is fucked anyway, if the power goes out, it will be out for days or a week or two, not forever.

Trust me, I lived through Hurricane Andrew.

Selling doom and gloom is how these goons make their money.

I’m old enough to remember the internet forums and gun store Rambos who would sewar up and down that if you only carried a 38 Spl snub nose and a speed strip for self-defense, you would die in the streets.  To survive a gun fight, you needed a Glock 17 or 19, with a 19 or 21 round extended mag, and at least three reloads.

Now take those douchebags and give them sponsored and monetized Instagram and YouTube channels.

They have to sell you the idea that the the next social upheaval won’t be a few hours to a few days of chaos, like all the others, but will be the apocalyptic “big one.” And if you’re not trained and equipped out of your own pocket like a CAG operator, you are absolutely dead and just a loot drop.

Of course the guy sponsored by the company that sells NODs is going to tell you that you need to have NODs to survive the next big shit

They are selling you a lifestyle.

Training is good.  Do it.

Buy quality gear.

Don’t go overboard, bankrupting yourself, buying into a goon prepper lifestyle that is being sold to you by an Instagram and YouTube hydra that is sponsored and monetized by the people selling the gear that these people telling you that you will absolutely due if you don’t have.

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All recipes for charges are given by weight. Normally, to 0.1 grains.

Each powder has a different density and a different required charge.

Powders come in different granule shapes. There are flakes. There are cylinders, formed by pushing wet powder through round holes, then cutting them into small cylinders. Finally, there are spherical granules.

The surface area of a granule is the biggest factor in how fast a given powder burns. The same composition, in different shapes, will burn at different rates.

For each lot of powder, the density for that powder should be the same, on average. For each can of powder, the density will be the same.

The volume required to for a charge is the density of the powder multiplied by the weight of the charge.

There are powders that take small charges, some take larger. For example, the Hodgdon recipe for 45ACp says that IMR Blue can be used with a starting charge of 9.0 grains. They also say that you can use Clays with a starting charge of 3.7grains.

There is only a 0.3grain difference between the starting charge and maximum charge when using Clays. This is not a lot of room for error.

There is a bit more range for IMR Blue. Regardless, the point of this is to let you know that we are measuring small values accurately and repeatably.
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Before you ask, that is a B&T APC556 and I did not shoot it. I may in the future, but I can only say that looks pretty but mounts slightly weird.

I do want to mention the body armor: OPX Elite Concealable Body Armor IIIA+. I have worn body armor and plate carriers in the past and the feelings went from donning a strait jacket to suffer inside a half iron maiden. This one was amazingly comfortable even though your body knew you were wearing something other than the usual clothing.  The kicker is that it is a soft body armor that supposedly can withstand pistol calibers and up to a 12 gauge slug and a 300 Blk subsonic. Of course, I do not wish to give an AAR on this one or similar products, so I will just post this video.

I wore a medium IRRC and that is priced at almost $800. Pricey, but it is an investment on life after all.
I do need to get them winning Power Ball numbers. [sigh]