Poor Harry Reid. He can’t seem to do much of anything right these days. Not long after he went to the trouble to introduce Frank Lautenberg’s opportunistic black powder background check bill in the Senate, we get news that the Flying Tsarnaev Brothers didn’t, in fact, get their bomb-making components from a gun store or any other reloading gear seller. Instead, Tarmerlan went to the same fireworks retailer that would-be Times Square car-bomber Faisal Shahzad used to source his explosives. That one Phantom Fireworks purchase yielded the Chechnyans about three pounds of powder, enough for one of their two pressure cooker IEDs. And there are five other fireworks stores in the same area. Of course, now that we know where the welfare-subsidized jihadis got their explosives, we’re sure Senators Lautenberg and Reid will want to kill their ill-conceived, knee-jerk attempt at yet more firearms regulation. They will, won’t they?
I cannot wait for Ted Cruz to have a field day with this . . . .
When reporting this story, the now fully biased CBS Evening News showed one of these mortar charge cylinders yesterday IN CLOSE UP, without any measure of scale within view, to make the mortar charges appear to be as big as 5 gallon paint cans or larger – and held that view for about 5 seconds to make the point sink in.
It wasn’t until a later split second view in the report showing one of these mortar charges sitting on the cash register counter next to a cashier that one could see they are only actually about 6-8 inches tall.
THAT should be the Incendiary Image of the Day!
(Literally and figuratively.)
A certain Mr Abbate forgot she was a minor.
Finally a pleasant break from the latest Sturm und Drang.
If that was an Area 51 reference in the first paragraph, you did your math wrong. 6 + 47 = 53
Most states banned fireworks decades ago. Obvsiously, prohibition doesn’t work.
The sad part is these guys feel none of the shame that any normal person would feel at being hopelessly inept at their jobs.
f’en idiots
Reading the comments section of the article on NYDN makes me want to puke and cry. Not to sound insensitive, but 3 people die and we should ban fireworks? Why not ban fertilizer plants, many more people died in the TX explosion. Also many comments advocate restricting “fireworks” to sparklers only. Clearly they have never seen a sparkler bomb.
Is personal responsibility dead in this country?
It’s as if I woke up one day and was no longer living in America. I know this happened a long time ago but to hear these people knowing their vote cancels mine is disgusting.
You guys aren’t thinking tactically. You’re imagining people hiding behind it. You have something bullet proof, and so far from what I’ve seen no mass shooter has ever been buff.
Tear it off the wall, throw it against the door, and sit there until the cops come.
The shooter can’t shoot through the door to you and then push your dead body aside, he can shoot out the glass in the door and unlock it, but he still has a large bullet proof white board with 110-300 pounds of angry school teacher behind it, possibly even more if its a Junior high or high school and there is like a giant line backer in the room. After maybe 30 seconds of trying to do it he will probably move on to easier targets. People stuck in hall ways would be screwed but it does block off a room that literally is nothing more than a tiny room full of kids ready to be shot.
Welcome to the school district in which I teach.
It’s a terrible tragedy of people being in the wrong place, wrong time… not to mention another case of domestic violence escalated to terrible levels. A chilling reminder that 9-1-1 can’t save you every single time… better to be armed and have a sliver of a chance than no chance at all.
A couple of years ago, about a mile away from my school, a father took his 2 sons to 7-11 to buy slurpees / treats. He got into a verbal argument with a wannabe gangsta who then shot him dead in the 7-11 parking lot… right in front of his 2 sons.
Our school goes into lockdown at least 1-3 times year because of stuff like that.
“Common Sense”?
Hah! How ’bout practical, logical “sense” is not so “common”.
This “common sense” approach hardly makes “sense” at all!
Knights carried swords and maces with their shields. Where is the offensive weapon to go with the defensive one?
These white boards probably can only take 5 hits before they are completely shattered. I am totally guessing on that one.
I guess its okay. Doesn’t seem to address the problem though. I guess they are supposed to just stand there and let the shooter empty all his magazines in the whiteboard? Probably wouldn’t even stop a rifle round. An emergency gun next to the emergency fire extinguisher would be better. Teacher could run up to it – it could scan her thumb – gun releases and she’s ready to go.
Yes, give all the kids bullet proof white boards, and a grease pencil so that can write a goodbye to their mommies and daddies. Because if all that people are going to do to keep kids safe is give them white boards, then all the kids are going to die.
What’s past “full retard?” I suggest “whiteboard retard.”
Never go full whiteboard.
Autistic, sure. But not full whiteboard.
Now that’s a well protected beagle.
I used to carry my 442 as a back up. I picked up a Taurus snub .357 for that and gave my wife the 442. She loves it and handles the pull well. I just found Hogue makes a bigger rubber grip and am ordering one today from Brownells. We shall see if it makes the gun even better.
“My dog will poop on any lawn he wants, damnit!” Lol
I would put Beretta Urikas up against the M2 or SBE II. I know the dove outfitters of Argentina use Beretta over the M2 or SBE II because they handle millions of rounds through their guns in a year. It’s not unheard of for a Beretta to spit out 2000 rounds a day shooting doves. The M2 falls just short of the Beretta in handling the cheapest, dirtiest ammo and stay held together. The dove outfitters literally shoot these guns until parts fly off or forearms melt. I wouldn’t pass up an M2 or SBE II, just that it’s not the toughest, most reliable italian semiauto.
Yeah, they never quit. I just heard a puff piece on NPR that blamed … yes, the NRA … for the fact that there were no taggants in powder used by the Boston bombers which made their efforts to investigate the attack “SO much harder”.
The libs will use anything they can get their hands on,
OK, I be calling my Senators … AGAIN
I was an employee of GE for 30 years and supported the products and the company. Based on GE Capital’s decision to not provide credit to gun shops I will attempt to avoid purchasing or supporting any GE products in the future. Understand that GE Capital backs numerous branded credit cards so if you disagree with this decision you should check who provides the credit for your branded credit cards. If you find it’s GE you may want to stop using it.
I will not be purchasing any GE products and will do whatever I can to convince others to do the same.
The question isn’t whether there will be guns; it’s who will have them. Funny how the same people who think slave state, communist China is a great role model for government (which murdered scores of millions of its own people little more than five decades ago), also want to disarm the American people.
Looks like they are both watching a stuffed parakete fly around, like one of my ex girlfriends, Randy
So long as our licensing system remains intact, I’ll be happy with this. Arkansas is tied with Michigan for the most states that honor our licenses. I look forward to the day when the whole United States honors the Constitution, but until then, I want to keep what good we do have.