If you’re planning to attend the open carry rally at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX tomorrow, some tips for your protection and safety have been published over at Sipsey Street Irregulars (and another longer set here). Among the instructions are to avoid individual movement, and probably most importantly, leave your lock-blade knives at home. San Antonio has a prohibition on lock-blade knives, and also fixed-blade knives over 5.5 inches, so don’t make yourself a target for police attention. . .
Students at a North Carolina middle school were reportedly terrified last Friday when they were told there was a masked armed gunman roaming the halls of their school. The alert turned out to be part of a lesson — a school employee dressed up in a ski mask and carrying a fake gun pretended to be a robber — trying to teach kids to be aware of their surroundings. The school system admits it was maybe not the best idea. “In this situation, the exercise in its original intent was appropriate, but in how it was executed it obviously lacked judgment,” said Ken Derksen, Public Information Officer with the Wayne County Public Schools.
With the veto of SB374 in California recently, Senator Leland Yee is fighting on, recommitting himself to passing his legislation to extend and expand the existing California Assault Weapons Ban. His bill, SB47, was tabled when SB374 was introduced, as it covered the same ground. Yee’s SB 47 will prohibit the use of the bullet button and other devices that allow for easily changeable magazines on all military-style assault weapons, such as AR-15s. The bill is currently before the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where it could be heard as early as January.
Want to write a nice letter instead of a nasty one? Consider dropping a note to Mayor John Inks (L) of Mountain View, California. While the mayors of the neighboring cities of Sunnyvale and Palo Alto have been assimilated into the Borg collective that is MAIG, he has refused their overtures on more than one occasion. Members of a local Civilian Disarmament Movement group held a march today to try (again) to get him on board. While his reaction to the latest demonstration is not yet known, group head Josh Wolf notes that in the past, Inks declined joining the coalition as the mayor questioned whether it would truly stem violence and perhaps was more of an “anti-gun” agenda. Sounds like Mayor Inks has his head on straight, and should be commended.
The Yankee Marshall is not a fan of having a manual safety on his carry gun, but he loves his new (for carrying) Beretta PX4 Storm. The PX4 is a DA/SA gun is apparently available in a few different versions, including one with a manual safety and one with just a decocker. Since his has a manual safety, but he’d prefer a decocker, he sets about changing it. I was unaware this was possible, and it’s pretty neat, as manual safeties are frequently the target of “I like everything but…” statements.
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January 14, 2008, The NSA gets approval to ramp up the domestic spying programs and data gathering facilities.
Oh if I could covert the safety on my canik55 into a decocker . . . .
Ze money, Lebowski!
Is this the same Gabrielle Giffords that stumped for gun control before she was shot in the melon?
Is this the same Gabrielle Giffords who is married to Mark Kelly, who was stopped at a gun dealer before he could make a straw purchase to which he openly admitted to attempting?
If so, she really needs to STFU. Seriously. She’s emotionally compromised and literally brain damaged. While I and everyone else here can certainly sympathize with her, after being viciously attacked by a lunatic who killed six other people in the same incident, she does not have a monopoly on suffering and certainly no expert on anything. Literally nothing. At all.
She was not competent to hold office even before she was shot, let alone now.
Mark Kelly is a baby seal clubbing anti-rights, anti-Humanist regressive hypocrite that should have been prosecuted with.. wait.. only 40-something other felons? Are you kidding me? Of all the many tens of thousands of paperwork violators in 2010 that lied on their Form 4473s, only 44 were prosecuted, and 14 convicted? Fucking Hell.
Well, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody, seeing as how U.S. Attorney General Eric “Fast & Furious” “We Must Brain Wash The People” B. Holder was forced to admit to Congress during the F&F investigation (which he illegally stonewalled every step of the way mind you) that his office doesn’t have the resources to prosecute everybody.
Regardless, Mark Kelly should have been one of them that was summarily thrown in prison. Period.
But, oh, there’s a special double-standard down there in D.C., waaay down there at the bottom of the food chain where all our government officials live. You see, Herr Fuhrer Feinstein was able to coordinate with the D.C. police to gather together all the verboten goodies she always displays at her anti-rights propaganda meetings. They even go so far as to laugh and scoff that they can do it, but Republican representatives can’t when they try to do the very same thing. That is because, once again, special preference is given to liberals in all things political. End of story.
Avoid the Noid!
“Take it again, I think I blinked.”
“Most important, I am a firm supporter of our Second Amendment rights – all of them!”
Wait, there’s more than one?!
After going down the rabbit howl that evolves myfacespacebook is, it it my humble opinion that evolve is clearly anti gun. Maybe not full on retard anti, but certainly anti. But that’s just my opinion, and I could be wrong.
And thanks for the follow up Dan.
“… allow for easily changeable magazines….” says a person who does not own a Kalashnikov pattern carbine with a mag latch obstructing device…..
Doesn’t Leland Yee have a hooker to see?…. some sun tan lotion to shoplift?….. some books to cook?….
Another fine pistol that can be converted easily from safety to decocker and back again is the CZ P-07 Duty.
Converted yes, easily I’ve heard otherwise.
This could go south really quick, should someone try to arrest anyone there. It’s about time a line was drawn.
http://coonaninc.com/blog/2013/10/15/press-release-gun-responsibility-group-and-gun-manufacturer-team-up-to-save-lives/
“We should not live in a society where people feel that they have to be armed to be safe, or that their house must be a fortress to be secure.” On the topic of home security, Dan Coonan says, “Get a dog “.
I have a feeling this isn’t going to go the way Dan Coonan thinks it will.
“a teacher checking the glove compartment ”
Which begs the question… what the fuck was s/he doing going through his glove compartment?
I have a 4yo in preschool. Haven’t asked. Security is okay, I mean they keep the place locked up. Should probably ask about the active shooter thing. Newtown really sends home that it really can happen anywhere.
Lots of tin foil hat wearing I see in here, that want they can come and get it.
I hope they keep this Government and guns related ONLY.