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I had the chance to play with this Turkish puppy yesterday.

K-12 SPORT X – Sarsılmaz Silah (sarsilmaz.com)

Right out the gate, it felt great in my hand. The trigger was goldilocks and breaking clean with a nice reset. A bit heavy, but I got used to it pretty quick because it was a very comfortable weapon.

Nice checkering gives you great purchase and the aluminum grips have what they call “cooling channels” and are smooth, but my meaty hands felt secure and comfortable with them.

Sights are adjustable front and back, but my only complaint is that front sight is black, and my old eyes sometimes had issues acquiring.

I only experienced a malfunction, a failure to reload but I am undecided if it was a low powered cartridge, or I limp-wristed like a baby. Probably the later. Other than that, it ran beautifully.

Reverting to my old IDPA days, this is a great ESP gun. Very much fun gun to shoot.

Choose your poison!

Henry. 357 Mag / .38 Special. A bit heavy, but makes for a soft percieved recoil.
Not cheap apparently. $2K neighborhood.

Sent by angry cybernetic gnomes 

First story:

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) — One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting late Friday night involving a large crowd that had gathered for a party in San Bernardino, authorities said.

The gunfire began just before midnight inside THA Blue Flame, a hookah bar near the intersection of Palm and Highland avenues, during a party, according to investigators.

The shooting then continued across the street, a witness told ABC7. The witness, who asked not to be identified by name, said she was at a nearby gas station when she saw teenagers who appeared to be gathered for a graduation party. She said at one point a car pulled into the gas station and a person opened fire from inside the vehicle, shooting two girls.

San Bernardino shooting: 9 shot, 1 fatally, after gunfire erupts among large crowd of partygoers – ABC7 Los Angeles

And the second story:

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – One person was killed and nine others injured during a shooting in San Bernardino Friday night.

Officers with the San Bernardino Police Department responded to a shopping plaza at the 3600 block of E. Highland Avenue just before midnight.

When officers arrived on scene, they located one victim dead outside a business. They say nine other people were shot while attending a party.

 One of the victims was as young as 10 years old and another was 12 years old. Many of those people transported themselves to the hospital. Their conditions are not known.

10 shot, 1 fatally during after-prom party in San Bernardino (fox4news.com)

And yes, the race of the shooter (s) is not mentioned and probably won’t be till the news cycle finishes disappearing.

Compare it with the Buffalo Mass Shooting where we had color, motive name and photo of the asshole shooter within 2 hours of the event.

If the shooter ain’t White, the Mass Shooting does not count.

A country legend whose reign was tragically cut short; one of the last surviving pioneers of rock and roll and an executive with a peerless eye for talent join country music’s most esteemed club later this year.

Keith Whitley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Joe Galante will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Country Music Association announced Tuesday.

Country Music’s Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 announced (tennessean.com)

The Killer is still kicking it. Lord have mercy.

Tesla driver operating car on autopilot in deadly crash ordered to stand trial
Los Angeles driver to be tried on two counts of vehicular manslaughter

Kevin George Aziz Riad, 27, will be tried on two counts of vehicular manslaughter, Fox 11 LA reports.

Police reportedly said his Tesla Model S took a freeway exit and ran a red light before plowing into a Honda Civic Dec. 29, 2019.

The crash killed Gilberto Alcazar Lopez, 40, and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez, 39, who were on a first date the night of the accident.

The car’s Autosteer and traffic aware cruise control were activated at the time of the crash, according to prosecutors.

A Tesla engineer also testified that sensors indicated Riad had a hand on the steering wheel.

Crash data reportedly showed that no brakes were applied in the six minutes leading up to the accident.

Tesla officials have said that Autosteer and the more sophisticated “full self-driving” function cannot entirely drive the vehicle, and drivers must monitor and respond to needs based on traffic conditions.

Let me see if I understand the situation.

Tesla sells a car with a “full self-driving” mode.

Tesla says that actually full self-driving isn’t actually fully self-driving and the driver still have to drive the car because the full self-driving mode can malfunction and cause an accident.

If the driver doesn’t understand that full self-driving isn’t actually fully self-driving and causes and accident, the driver who was trusting the full self-driving mode is legally liable.

So why buy a self-driving car?

It only encourages you to not pay attention but requires you to pay attention while making you legally liable for its malfunctions.

This seems like more of a risk than not having it at all.

If people can’t trust their self-driving system and will go to jail if their self-driving system makes a mistake, self-driving is dead.

You may remember Samuel Young:

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The man who was found guilty of several criminal charges for firing a gun at a Jeep he believed was trying to run over protesters on Interstate 225 was sentenced to no prison time and will serve five years probation.

Young will serve 90 days in jail for the first count of second-degree assault and an additional 30 days consecutively after for the second count as part of his sentencing. Young already has credit for 50 days served in jail.

The prosecution in Arapahoe County was seeking six years in the Department of Corrections, which was significantly less than the maximum time he faced under sentencing guidelines, which was 16 years.
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At one point, a blue Jeep came speeding down the highway, past the crowd. The crowd rushed to get out of the way. That’s when prosecutors say Young pulled out his gun and fired five shots in the direction of the crowd. The bullets hit the back of the Jeep. Two fellow protesters were slightly wounded but the driver of the Jeep was not hit.

Young was originally charged with attempted murder but those charges were reduced.

SAMUEL YOUNG: I-225 protest shooter sentenced to probation | FOX31 Denver (kdvr.com)

Any of us not aligned with the politics of the Left, would have been tried to the full original charges of attempted murder, more than likely convicted and sentenced to the full extent.

I believe this was part of the continuous message sent to the Left: You will not face grave consequences if you perform violence in the name of our politics.