Contrary to an earlier post based on LA Times coverage, the shooter at Los Angeles Airport was not a former TSA worker. [“A federal law enforcement official said that the gunman was a ticketed passenger entering the airport. Officials don’t believe the gunman has ever worked for TSA. Law enforcement sources had earlier told The Times the gunman was a TSA employee.”] At a press conference, Mayor Eric Garcetti said the situation is now “static”; flights are taking off and leaving the airport. Airport Chief Patrick Gannon said an individual pulled an “assault rifle” from a bag at 9:20am local time and shot an TSA Agent at the checkpoint. There are “multiple victims” and “other injuries.” He proceeded to a gate at Terminal 3 where he was engaged by airport police, shot and killed.
A TSA agent was shot and killed? Oh we should arm them. Oh, wait…
I just purchased a G19 Gen4, can anyone recommend a good concealed carry holster? And does anyone have sound knowledge of the advantages of keeping bullets in the freezer?
Michael Siegel did a pretty good post on this. I recommend that you guys check out his site, he’s also made some really good responses to Mother Jones’ articles on gun control:
http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=6204
By the way, I find this post amusing because CBS was reporting this almost an hour before the LATimes did.
Obviously CBS interns use Twitter.
Also, for SD situations, would one recommend Remington Golden Sabre 124gr or Speer Gold Dot 124gr?
I collect and shoot WWII rifles. I love my M1, but there is nothing like defending the Rodina from Nazi zombies at the range.
I’m sure the media could dig up someone somewhere who say something anti-Semitic like “We don’t need that there jew-boy telling us what’s what.”
But I’d bet it more likely has to do with the fact that no one wants their city/town/state to be end up like NYC, and everyone knows that mini-mike is the biggest nanny in America right now. I’d further bet that the idiot’s support probably pushed some people who were on the fence over to our side, under the thinking “If bloomberg supports it, it can’t be good.” And they’d be right.
“What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh Language?”
It’s perfectly legal to bring a gun into an airport, as long as you follow the procedures and regs regarding traveling with them as checked luggage. It’s illegal to carry a loaded firearm and shoot people though.
“12:17 p.m.: A federal law enforcement official said that the gunman was a ticketed passenger entering the airport. Officials don’t believe the gunman has ever worked for TSA. Law enforcement sources had earlier told The Times the gunman was a TSA employee.”
Humm…reminds me of the Men In Black.
“No, what you ACTUALLY saw was swamp gas reflecting light from venus….”
This makes zero sense.
My comment? Watch Men In Black and it’ll make sense. (hint…federal agents coming in to pull the wool over witnesses eyes disputing initial reports).
I’ve had my SMLE #4 Mk2 for over 15 years. It has a lot of kick compared to my AR, but is still fun to shoot. My adult son is a big fan of well.
Many of the books mentioned will have great drawing of various parts of many many guns. While your location may preclude working on the real thing or even going to the campus machine shop (These days it’s probably in the robotics department.) nothing will prevent you from making models of things like trigger systems locking methods etc out of wood and plastic. Also get into courses that teach you to actually machine metal and the features and limitations of modern CNC production. A firm grounding in materials science is also needed today. And as others have said try to handle disassemble and assemble as many different designs as you can… Perhaps a summer job at a movie prop house that does a lot of firearm work as an intern might be found. Museums with firearms collections need people to clean and care for their guns… There are ways around the problem even in California … Good luck and keep in mind that many great designers of guns were gunsmith/tinkers first… It just that today and going forward materials science is and will be a growing part of the art as well understanding modern automated manufacturing methods… Going forward thos two items will be vital to be kept fully abreast of their development through your entire working life.
Cheers
Headline from the New York Daily Snooze: “TSA worker dead after automatic rifle rampage”
So are the authors stupid or just ignorant?
“Former journalism students”.
“Very strong anti-government views” says MSNBC.
“Should social media be scanned by the NSA so that people with very strong anti-government views can be added to the prohibited persons list? Piers Morgan reports…”
Um, DHS has been scanning social media for years. Along with the NYPD (and probably the LAPD also).
Oh yes patent drawing and descriptions are available for free on the net I use google patents but there’re is a vast repository of things gun design related for free on the net
It’s a pellet gun, borrowed from a kid in Santa Rosa who won’t be needing it anymore.
The more amazing event is here is that someone was likely fired by the TSA at some point. He had to be seven kinds of crazy to get that done.
Or caught stealing from luggage for the eighth time by someone not TSA.
The boys at the station will have a chuckle, Eric will be embarrassed for a while and then everything will return to normal.
If it were you or “me”.
My mother often corrected I.
It’s a good thing that I bought my AR-15 yesterday. Talk about timing the market.
“Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them”
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/mlk-document-friday-through-counter-intelligence-it-should-be-possible-to-pinpoint-potential-trouble-makers-and-neutralize-them/
and couple that with a side dish of this:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/
The mag seems to have an AR arc, is the mini 14 similar?
Try getting an apprenticeship with an experienced gunsmith. You’ll have access to his books and gain experience working on a firearm as well plus you’ll be able to learn how to tear a gun down to a bare frame and build it back up which will help when it comes time to build one from scratch or design one from scratch.
If that where my Daughter’s bedroom, I have raised Holy Hell until said Officer was charged.Will they EVER learn that cops should be held liable, just like you and I. Or me.
“Multi-tiered justice.”
I was watching a live feed on the LA Times website and an eyewitness stated that the suspect had a handgun and a shotgun–a pump shotgun.
IF this is an airsoft where is the required by law orange tip?
I’m sure if that were me in the exact same scenario I’d be sitting in the pokey right now facing felony charges, my guns would have been seized, and my picture would be all over moms demand actions website as a poster child for civilian disarmament. A child’s life was endangered, after all.
Here is the old “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” argument which defines the position of feeble thinkers and lazy essayists.
There may well be a high black death toll due to firearm injury.
There may well be a propensity among white, rural men, to own firearms.
These two facts are not linked in any way.
White men are not shooting black men.
Black men are shooting black men.
The paucity of firearms in “Great” Britain and Australia is not in any way a cause for limiting firearm ownership in America.
In fact the US Constitution enables the right to keep and bear arms. (So does the English 1689 Bill of Rights, but this has been disregarded by Commonwealth parliaments since the 1930s).
This discussion requires a little bit of common sense, something utterly lacking in academic circles.
Perhaps they were angling for a little share of Bloomberg largesse?
I’m going with a bump ski or slide fire……..
There is a real dichotomy in the number of blacks vs. whites shot, but the cause is the War on Blacks which they euphemistically call the “War on Drugs.”
A primer on sewing machine design and the latest papers on modern materials MFG especialy ceramics
I live in Ca. After going to BC Canada Bear Hunt. I went to Paso Robles Ca, Bison Hunt. Lead Free zone. Had to order them, didn’t have any. Double Tap 7mm Rem Mag140 Lead Free at 288 yards. 1/2 inch from aim point. No reset on scope prior to hunt after using Hornady 154gr in Canada. Hit right in front of the right ear and entered the brain. Instant kill shot with copper bullet. Having a Bison burger church BBQ tomorrow at my house. I don’t like the price but I do love Double Tap Ammo. Real good stuff and legal in Ca..
I’m sure Mr. Ayoob will be/has been a great deal more composed after a DGU than most of us could hope to be. Five points from him seems like good advice, and I usually defer to his advice, but I recall reading a statement by a Massad Ayoob some years go in which his advice was more along the lines you espouse: 1) “I was in fear for my life!” 2) “I want to speak to my lawyer.” 3) “Shut up.”
When he added the other two I’m not sure. I like the shorter version.
“I’ll talk to you in a couple of days. I’ll present myself with my lawyer” guarantees you a trip to the cop shop in handcuffs.
“I’m too shaken to talk right now and I don’t feel well. Please take me to the hospital” guarantees you a trip to the hospital in handcuffs. At which place you will call your attorney and get your injuries (if any) documented.
Looks like a Ruger Ranch Rifle (Mini 14) with Tapco adjustable M4 stock and Pro-Mag polymer 30rd magazines.
Turned out the shooter had a suicide mission. So, it is a mental illness thing.
In the meantime as her video was done was made, doctors, smoking, heart attacks due to being too fat, and vehicle accidents killed at least 100x more that this shooter did.
Ok time for my good deed of the day.. ATTENTION TTAG PERSONNEL AND VISITORS: YOU CAN FLAG MS. WATTS’ VIDEOS AND GIVE THE REASON THAT IT INFRINGES ON YOUR RIGHTS. that is all.
These pond scum tyrants are looking for any excuse to engage American patriots, all Hell will be unleashed!