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Breaking: Yale on Lockdown

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“Yale University ordered students and staff to ‘shelter in place’ Monday because of a ‘confirmed report’ of a person with a gun on or near the Old Campus,” usatoday.com reports. The following statement appears on the Connecticut University’s website: “New Haven Police have received an anonymous call from a phone booth in the 300 block of Columbus Avenue (between Howard Avenue and Hallock Street) reporting a person on the Yale campus with a gun. There have been NO confirmations or sightings of this person. Yale and New Haven Police are in the area. If you have information, please call 911 immediately. The Yale Police Department advises those on campus to remain in their current location until there is additional information.” newhavenindependent.org reports . . .

A SWAT team has arrived there. So have members of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Meanwhile, police prepared to shut down College and Elm Streets and possibly other nearby streets, and kept pedestrians away. Both New Haven and Yale cops are on scene.

An officer there reported to the Independent that no one has been shot; and that cops are “actively” searching for the reported gunman.

The ATF? Man those guys get around.

Police on the radio reported keeping an eye on an “older white man, balding, in a heavy overcoat, walking toward” Linsley-Chittenden Hall.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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      • Bull – this is the school that gave us George Bush. I know, I know – B.O. is a trainwreck – old Georgie wasn’t even bright enough to LIE effectively, though.

        I say keep it locked.

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        • So stupid that….he became president of the United States.

          I’m not accusing Yale folks of book-learnin’ smarts… but they’re plenty smart enough to get what they want.

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        • It is strange to hear a gun guy fall for the MSM narrative that Republicans are all stupid and Democrats are all genuses. It goes back to Eisenhower vs Stevenson. The guy who ran the most complex military operation in history was a dolt while Stvension, who did nothing more than serve as the era’s version of Pat Quinn, was brilliant. Bush was a lot smarter than either Gore, Kerry or Obama. And he is certainly much smarter than you.

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  1. allegedly. Lets hope not. My personal ego is tied up in this brand.

    On a more positive note I understand that soon OFWG will be “the new black”.

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  2. I just turned in my application for CCW today. Suddenly, I find myself fretting over these kinds of stories. I envision some politician somewhere (he always has a bow tie and a fat face in these lurid fantasies) rubbing his hands together and thinking: “Clearly more legislation is needed. We must freeze all concealed weapons permits at once. Especially in Maine, for some reason.”

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  3. Probably some guy with an umbrella again. Then again, this is New Haven. When I lived there, it was pretty shitty. Lots of gang violence. There might actually be someone walking around with a gun.

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  4. Well, the good news is that if this some-campus-or-airport-on-lockdown-every-single-day thing keeps up, sooner or later even the thick headed will realize how stupid the current MWAG procedure is.

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  5. All of this “Shelter in Place” BS is just victim conditioning and the epitome of Terrorism.

    It does nothing but instills fear in an entire community and it is happening at very regular, if not predictable intervals. The TTAG should tally all the false alarms…that would make for some interesting analysis.

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    • Make the people feel like they can’t and/or shouldn’t protect themselves. That they need someone else to do it (aka government) and then you can easily control them.

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  6. Article18 chapter 926a; Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1968. Apparently Malloy or the State of CT. never read it.Regarding Gun Registration in the United States,IT’S ILLEGAL.why should they care ,these states break Federal Law every day and they step all over the 2nd Amendment like it’s not there.They could care less that they are sworn to protect the Laws of the United States and it’s Constitution,once they get in office all bets are off.
    Recalls and Lawsuits are all they understand .Their enacted Gun Laws only embrazen criminals as it does nothing to stop Sandy Hook Types.They are still out there and they just prey no one is armed when they strike.
    I hate to say it ,but until these knot heads learn a thing or two about firearms,self defense,and oh ya,THE 2ND AMENDMENT,more Sandy Hooks are potentially out there and this Idiot is ill prepared!
    Unarmed the State,ya that’s a good idea,let the criminals try to pass OUR background checks,ya that’s gonna happen NOT. 12,20,30 and in our state 62 time offenders have guns.they didn’t get from dealers,gunshows Internet,etc. they got them off the street,stolen from homes of law abiding citizens.But Idiots like Malloy and all the rest of these bleeding heart liberal clueless know nothing’s have to impress the rest of the bleeding heart liberal know nothing’s cause that’s who elected them.

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  7. I’m witht he unconfirmed prank. Either someone being “swatted”, or wanting to avoid taking a test or something (i.e. pulling the fire-alarm to get out of class for the day).

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  8. Jesus Christ, even if he *has* a gun, what behavior occurred to warrant a SWAT and federal response? Nothing about shots fired, no threats to anyone…

    Blue states do nothing but raise generations of weaklings with this kind of fear mongering.

    I guess that’s what the statists are looking for.

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  9. TTAG, and other pro-gun outlets, have constantly decried the fearmongering our schools and society at large have been putting out these days regarding scary icky guns.

    But guess what? The second one of these things happen, pro-gun outlets are one of the first to spit out a BREAKING news story, adding to the chaos and fearmongering, as this story does.

    Yes, you (we) are part of the problem, not the solution. In an effort to fight back against the propaganda, we have become the propaganda.

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    • You’ll get no argument from me. Half the time I think the response should consist of a single line, “Hey, someone might have spotted some guy who may have had a gun on campus at Yale. We’re aware of the story, and we’ll check back in 24 hours if it turns into anything.”

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    • I understand that here is a law mandating a Leftist Pity-Pool in every public facility perhaps you should take your infantile expressions to the nearest one and have a wallow

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  10. A reliable 9mm variant is exactly what the 1911 platform needs to remain competitive with modern designs. JMB only developed the 1911 around a .451 calibre because the Ordnance specification prescribed it. This was borne out of experience with black powder and round ball. This can be discarded when fast burning propellents and conical bullets are used.

    In truth the .45acp is outperformed by the 9mm in almost every respect. The .45acp cartridge is too bulky and too heavy to justify its marginally superior terminal performance over the 9mm. The weight isn’t just felt via heavier magazines, but in the weight (and shape) of the slide. The weight of a full length 1911 slide is just about adequate for full power .45 loads, but insufficient in shorter lengths. That’s why Glocks have square slides. If you want to keep the svelte contours of the 1911, it’s time to ditch the antiquated .45 acp and accept that the “light and fast” orthodoxy is superior to the “slow and heavy”. There’s a reason that big bore autpistols aren’t popular ouytside the US.

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  11. “More germane to TTAG, how many people are going to tell a complete stranger the number, kind, and uses for the firearms in their home? People lie, sometimes for understandable reasons, and sometimes just for kicks.”

    Got that right. And some of us feel that it is our moral duty to LIE to pollsters, in hopes of putting them out of business. Just imagine a world without polls – where politicians tell you what they actually believe, rather than what they think you want to hear. Okay, that gets into Fantasyland.

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  12. What they said – why not just follow proper pistol handling procedures and keep your finger outside the trigger guard until the barrel aligns with the target?

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  13. I am still surprized Glock has not put a grip safety on thier pistols for the finicky American market.

    Also, $39.99 for piece of mind, extra level of safety, extra step to get you killed, or whatever…..pass.

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  14. Let’s just take off the warning labels and let God or Darwin sort em out.

    Looks like a selector switch, but isn’t a selector switch.

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  15. I suppose this gadget has its place. Practice with it, and it should be fine.

    Still, the second I saw what it was, I had one thought: SPRINGFIELD XD. If you’re interested in extra safety in non-emergency handling of your pistol, buy one that’s designed for it in the first place.

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    • Agreed. This made me think instantly about how I reholster my XD. I move my thumb to the back of the slide on top of the cocked indicator and off of the grip safety. It gives me a little piece of mind while I reholster. But still I always visually check the holster area at least briefly to ensure there are no obstructions.

      It also is a habit that I use to the same effect of hammer fired pistols as well. Can’t go off if your thumb is over the hammer preventing from moving.

      On draws though I just make sure I practice a lot to make sure my finger is high up on the receiver. Even in my Serpa I don’t have any issues with my finger coming any where close to the trigger.

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  16. Other schools in the region are also locked down. Schools miles away, someone is getting a lot of bang for their dime(or are pay phones a quarter now). State media has also interrupted normal programming to continuously televise this nonstory.

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  17. One of the reasons I like SA/DA pistols is that when I re-holster I can place my thumb over the hammer. If something enters the trigger guard and presses on the trigger I get instant tactile feed back that something is amiss. I wonder what happens with this thing if you get something inside the guard pressing the trigger and then once you are re-holstered you let go of the button. Does the button give you the same feedback when the trigger is pressed?

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  18. I was eying one of these and for sure like the gun…..but the price was the ultimate deal breaker for me. So I bought a PTR-91 and 20 mags for less then half the price of one of these guns.

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    • I like my PTR-91, but the ergos suck on it. Hard-to-use charging handle, and a selector that requires Teutonic-ubermensch-size hands. The optics mounting options also leave something to be desired. Oh, and it eventually shoots itself out of headspace. It’s also maybe a 2-4 MOA gun.

      That said, I feel like the best buy in .308 is the cheap DPMS gun. They’ve got an excellent rep for reliability, take pmags, and tend to shoot damn well out of the box. I can take the money I save and buy the upgrades I really want/need, like a Geissle FCG.

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  19. Glock was designed by Gaston Glock for the Austrian military. Later it was adopted by US law enforcement agencies. Both use external, hard case holsters. An external safety wasn’t nessasary. The problem is that Glock is now used by people in the concealed carry universe and predictably one after another keep blowing a hole in their leg. The pistols are exceedingly dangerous as ccw and if you disagree I’m sorry for you. In aviation we have a saying, “There are 2 types of pilot… Those who’ve had a gear-up landing and those who will have a gear-up landing.” The parallel I’m drawing is that even with experienced pilots, if you fly in retractable gear aircraft enough, one day you’ll make a mistake and forget to lower the landing gear. Clearly it isn’t true in all cases but there is meritt to that old saying. Likewise, if you carry a Glock in a soft IWB holster long enough and are stupid enough to chamber a round, you are courting disaster. I cringe at the local gun store watching new gun enthusiast by a Glock as their ccw. I know someone will insult me and say grip safeties are dumb ( I guess JM Browning was a dunce…) but I will laugh too as I hear story after story of pistols discharging into purses, legs, your junk, etc.

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  20. The school is on holiday, students who have a home are there or headed there for a pleasant Thanksgiving dinner, this is an obvious prank, and the local cops have issued a shit in pants shelter in place order.

    Is Harvard lampooning Yale? We’ll never know.

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  21. Glocks without this addition have worked great for militaries, civilians and police. Yeah, a jagoff has an ND once in a while but it’s easy to blame the gun when the alternative is blaming the jagoff.

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  22. There’s a tendency among progressives to invest too much power in words and symbols rather than actions. I think it comes from the fact that most have educational backgrounds in art or the humanities, and feel a need to emphasize that these things are Important Matters.

    Me, I have a feeling that having a gun tattoo tends to indicate some degree of absence of hoplophobia. Regardless of whether one agrees with it as an artistic or fashion choice, I can’t help but think that’s a good thing?

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  23. An AR in .308 looks kinda…wonky. Like it simply wasn’t meant to be. I don’t know, why spend the money when you can buy a SCAR17 or M1A? I don’t particularly care for SCAR but it was at least built around the .308.

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  24. Mr B impresses me as a teacher who would do well with almost any student teaching almost any topic.

    Thanks for sharing your experience.

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  25. Arent’ you supposed to draw with a fully proper grip on the pistol? Meaning a grip where your thumb is most certainly not on the back of the slide?

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  26. This picture gives rise to the hope that the young miscreant will lift his shirt in the presence of myopic peace officers, who will spray the general area with bullets and inadvertently hit the warbling wanker. Boy bands represent the nadir of popular culture. They all wanna be the Beatles, but lack any discernible talent. Any chance one of them can be taken out should be welcomed.

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  27. THIS. Right here.

    “…while many of the roots of my opinions concerning firearms are comprised of emotion, those roots are entwined in a rich soil of dates, statistics, court cases, and a thought-provoking history that is worth digging up and running one’s fingers through in order to uncover the truth.”

    The world needs more people who think like this. Good writing and good teaching, Mr. B.

    Give this man his pistol.

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