Gun Free Zone

“Give me one perfect shot.”
Irv, my first serious firearms instructor is fond of saying that. But the catch is that he demands that perfect shot cold bore, your ass not just adjusted that you are about to shoot and your mind still somewhere but in the range. But the beauty of that command is that you promptly realize it applies to the real world with uncanny realism: you may only have that one chance for one perfect shot that might save a life.

At IDPA matches I am usually behind a laptop setting up and doing scores. When everybody is finally registered and with at least one stage fired, I get to go shoot. There is a good chance I have not heard the Course of Fire description or seen the good shooters raze through the CoF I am about to shoot so basically I go cold bore both of gun and mind. Add to it that I will consider that every target has the capability of actually shooting back and that makes me treat cover very seriously which precludes any temptation I may have of gaming.

By the end of last year I was all over the damn place accuracy-wise and at the Florida State IDPA Championship where I truly sucked in points down, I decided to slow the hell down and go back to improve accuracy. I started the year with a terrible 56 points down in the first match to a low of 15 at my last match.

What have I done differently? First, I slowed the hell down. I have never been fast or agile so, why try to go as fast as the Master Shooters? I am the one to beat, not them. Second: Front Sight, Front Sight and Front Sight.  If that front sight is not covering what I want to shoot, the bullet is not going to change its flight path to please me. Third: Make sure the target is down. The CoF may require only two shots, but I will shoot whatever number of rounds are necessary to make sure it is down or slow even more. Although it might be considered spray-and-pray I find myself needing less shots as I apply less speed and more Front Sight and it shows on those Limited Vickers CoFs . But since I am not shooting for competition but for life practice, making sure that I place rounds where they are effective take precedent over shaving seconds in competition. Funny thing also happened when the accuracy improved: my time has gotten a smidgen better since I do not have to go back and reshoot a previously engaged target.

One last comment. Competition shooting will always beat static range as practice and as a gauge of your shooting accuracy. In these first five months I have shot on the move slow, on the move fast, shooting from the ground on my back, on my face and on my sides. I shot kneeling and sitting or transitioning to or from any combination of positions. Since most ranges will not allow shooters to do nothing more than static practice, I must recommend that you find yourself an action shooting club and join. It does not matter if it is IDPA, IPSC, Cowboy, Polite Society, etc. Get yourself involved in a discipline that challenges that imposed legal paralysis found at ranges. Also pay no heed to the crowd that bitches about action shooting is not real life practice and the only way is by taking classes: THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE THAT CAN DUPLICATE A REAL LIFE SITUATION. Anybody telling you that Pistol Ninja Tactical Handgun Class 402 with Mr Joe Instructor DuJour  does that is 100% bullshitting you and he is either an idiot or trolling for customers. Do take classes with good instructors because you will learn to do things right, but the responsibility of practice is all yours and competition is the best way to practice…unless you have mongo moola to take Pistol Ninja Tactical Handgun Class 402 every weekend.

It began with this ABC News report on a video by California-born AlQaeda spoke-dunce Adam Gadahn telling fellow terrorists to:

“go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?”

The Twitter Feeds from Gun Enthusiasts were ablaze with laughter and the same for Facebook and other social media hubs. Apparently Mr. Gadhan is unaware on how difficult and how controlled and complicated is the acquisition of a full auto firearm. It is not just like going to your local supermarket and by a loaf of bread.

But, of course, there is a group that has no qualms siding with idiocy and the enemies of our country if it serves their purposes.

And they had the cojones to accuse us of insurrection and treason?

An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a beer. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’

The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, ‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:

The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
The bouncer is a blonde girl.
I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weightlifter.
The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.

‘Now, think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?’

The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head, and mutters, ‘No…not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.’

PS: I just realized that this is my 1,000 post. Not quite the memorable one I intended!

Video taken by Bitter of Snowflakes in Hell of the protesters outside the NRA Annual Meeting.

I could extract many quotes that would be very representative of the lack of information and even brain power of these participants, but this guy took the prize for me:

“They (NRA Members) feel like they are isolated, they have to protect themselves. It is all about ‘me and protecting mine.’ Let’s put it this way: I think it is a truly unfortunate mindset.”

Because Self-defense is soooo last year and out of fashion. BTW, if anything I think this guy should get the Oscar for Best Looney Videotaped In A March. His later comments about Castle Doctrine are truly amazing and shows that the concept of Useful Idiot is alive and well.

Heartfelt congratulations and Salutations to Bitter and a job well done.

I was just reading Linoge’s post about religious door to door people and I had to chuckle. When we moved to our home, I printed and taped to the front door a small sign that said “Solicitors will be shot, survivors will be shot again” and it worked like a charm till my Non-English Speaking Mother came to live with us and I made the mistake of translating the meaning. She was horrified that I would be so nasty and impolite and took it down. (Don’t ever try to argue with an Spanish mother, they can make Jewish moms feel so guilty they’d convert into Catholicism)

Lately we are seeing a serious increase on Door Knockers: From Jehovah Witnesses to Avon Ladies to Magazine Sellers to Roof repairers and this being South Florida, I am sure one or two were offering door to door Santeria works. So I am thinking on having this sign made:

It is either that or a minefield.

Privacy of Firearm Owners: Provides that licensed practitioner or facility may not record firearm ownership information in patient’s medical record; provides exception; provides that unless information is relevant to patient’s medical care or safety or safety of others, inquiries regarding firearm ownership or possession should not be made; provides exception for EMTS & paramedics; provides that patient may decline to provide information regarding ownership or possession of firearms; clarifies that physician’s authority to choose patients is not altered; prohibits discrimination by licensed practitioners or facilities based solely on patient’s firearm ownership or possession; prohibits harassment of patient regarding firearm ownership during examination; prohibits denial of insurance coverage, increased premiums, or other discrimination by insurance companies issuing policies on basis of insured’s or applicant’s ownership, possession, or storage of firearms or ammunition; clarifies that insurer is not prohibited from considering value of firearms or ammunition in setting personal property premiums; provides for disciplinary action.

And the usual suspects are throwing fits and threatening to challenge the law in court.

Just hours before Scott’s office announced the bill signings, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and three Florida physician groups announced they would challenge the gun gag law if the governor approved the measure pushed by the National Rifle Association.

“Gov. Rick Scott should realize the risks to public health and safety that he would be sanctioning by giving into the gun lobby’s agenda,” the groups said in a joint statement.

Other organizations planning to take part in the legal challenge are the Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians and American College of Physicians.

Mind you, these medical organizations were approached beforehand to try and get some sort of compromise before having to result into going for a law. They ignored any possible conversation and now they are bitching.

If the silly play on the Second Amendment text was not bad enough, the rest of the exchange between Andrew Goddard and Ladd Everitt is really worrisome to say the least.

And this is the people that want to have us found mentally unstable, remove our weapons and send us to the local mental gulag for safekeeping.