A gun dealer (not shown) who was prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison during the aftermath of Fast & Furious may soon walk free. A Federal magistrate ruled that Ian Garland deserves a new sentencing hearing due to errors made in the original proceeding, which saw him convicted because, according to prosecutors, he “had reason to believe the firearms he sold were destined for Mexico.” For his part, Ian is protesting his innocence, saying “I’m nothing more than a scapegoat. I’m here because the ATF let me sell for 18 months to people they knew were smuggling arms to Mexico…. It’s because of that stupid Fast and Furious operation.” His attorney added, “After these guns surfaced in Mexico and a Border Patrol agent was shot dead, they kind of reversed course and started prosecuting this firearms dealer that they were allowing to sell. And I honestly don’t think Ian fully knew what was happening with these guns.” But I bet Holder did…
Add some more dollars to the damage done to Colorado by the passage of their ill-considered gun legislation, with the announcement Tuesday that Maverick Ammunition, also known as Ammo Kan will be relocating from Littleton, Colorado to Laramie, Wyoming, bringing about 50 jobs along the way. Company management sent out relocation feelers shortly after the passage of Colorado’s gun control legislation. This is the second firearms related company to relocate to Laramie since the legislation. Fort Collins, Colorado-based HiViz Shooting Systems, a maker of sights and other gun accessories, announced a move last spring, and has recently approved a contract for construction of a new headquarters.
A group of five burglars got more than they bargained for in Oak Hill, Florida on Tuesday afternoon, when a gun-toting homeowner chased them out of his yard and into the arms of a neighbor, a 44-year-old woman who is a former boxer. She tackled one of them to the ground, and the other four were apprehended later. Two were caught about four miles away in their car, one was caught by a K-9 unit in some nearby woods (and sent to the hospital with dog bite wounds), and the fourth was caught the next morning walking down the road when a resident reported a suspicious person. Homeowner Ira Roberts said, “I knew I couldn’t shoot them. Legally you can’t shoot them when they’re running away. So I pumped one into the ground. Which was good, it alerted all my neighbors.”
A few days ago, I told you about the San Francisco Police Officers Association filing suit challenging SF’s recently passed confiscatory ban on magazines greater than 10 rounds. Well, it seems that their reasons were not entirely altruistic. You see, like the SAFE Act in New York, the authors of the law forgot to leave a hole for their friends in law enforcement. Unlike NY, officers’ duty weapons aren’t affected, but their personally owned weapons definitely are. The San Francisco City Attorney’s office confirmed this, saying the ordinance “does not prohibit off duty officers from keeping their duty weapons because those weapons are issued to them in connection with their official duties.” Police officers who have any magazines over ten rounds in their personal collections, or any magazines they were authorized to purchase for off-duty use, must dispose of those magazines. If they don’t, the officers will become criminals. In theory.
Jerry Miculek shoots three in the body, two in the head with an Open Division M&P-15 through a Vortex Razor red dot. Five shots, 1.1 seconds from the buzzer, 0.51 second RT. So, taking off my shoes to do the math, that’s five shots on target in 0.59 seconds. He makes it look easy. It’s a good thing he had slow motion cameras on him, because my eyes don’t move fast enough to see this at normal speed.
I hate those people that hand a new shooter, a large caliber gun so they can get some laughs. Awesome story though.
Before Larry, Curly and Moe found their niche in comedy, they had a rather unsuccessful attempt in making a gangster movie. It all came unraveled when a grouse flew into Curly’s overcoat.
Three Cicero, Illinois residents guard a candidate’s headquarters during the 2014 election.
holy shite. Miculek must be violating the laws of physics there. If he shoots any faster the bullets will be hitting the target before he pulls the trigger. We’ll need a time machine to score it.
This is so hilarious and the backward world of liberalism. It is YOUR LEADERS that need to be arrested for violating their oath of office, violating the Constitution, and usurping your God-given natural rights which even EXCEED the CONSTITUTION!!!!
You should immediately issue a citizen’s arrest for your leaders which shouldn’t be hard to do. We outnumber them by one hundred million to one. Someone will find them! That’s why they have their underground rat holes hardened and their private jets on standby when they realize we are on to them.
Third try.
I don’t understand why high quality modern polymer pistols have crappy stock triggers. From my experience they are good enough to reliably hit center mass in a DGU but if you want something smooth you have to “pimp” you trigger. You would think that Glock or S&W would be able to make a gun with a stock trigger as smooth as a cheap 1911.
As the IRA learned from their Americal rebel counterparts from 150 years earlier, don’t wear red coats, Micheal O’Donnel, Rory O’Brien and Kevin Kilkenny model the new “just blend in with street clothes” camo.
Shit, I wanna live in Oak Hill, FL.
Ahh… shootin’ ARs gangsta style!
When the revolution comes I will wait in line for days if necessary, for the privilege of desecrating Eric Holder’s body. I just hope they let me urinate on him AND fire a round into his cold dead body.
I heard a talk show jock in California opine once that criminals who are executed should be cremated and their ashes consecrated to a porta-potty at a desert rest area with their name over the door. This seems like a proper resting place for many in the Obama regime when their time comes.
It’s a shame that both times the lawsuit in CA has been mentioned, it’s been a bit buried in the digest. Looking at the comments from the last time everything got derailed by some turd in the punchbowl…
I HOPE THAT NEXT TIME YOU WHOLE PEARL JAM BAND GET ABOARD A PLANE, THIS ONE GOES STRAIGHT DOWN FROM 35,000 FEET AND MAKES A BIG BALL OF FIRE ON GROUNDS NEAR THE DESERT WHERE THERE ARE NOT INNOCENT GUN OWNERS ANF THEN I WILL THROW A PARTY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I DO NOT OWN ANY CDs FROM YOU AND NEVER WILL. YOUR MUSIC IS ANY WAY A BIG SHIT AND HAVE NO INTEREST IN BUYING MUSIC THAT I DON’T LIKE ANY WAY.
I have yet to find a pair of earbuds that don’t cause me irritation after 15 minutes or so. Hard plastic in my ear gets painful quick, which is why I finally invested in a quality pair of Sennheisers.
One gun I don’t think gets enough love is the Walther P99. I don’t claim to be an expert on anything gun-related, but I’ve fired a few polymer framed handguns, and my P99 is by far the one of the best, maybe even better than my USP Tactical. Among me and my friends, we own several Glocks, an M&P 40, a SIG P250, and my USP Tactical and P99, whose trigger is far better that the aforementioned pistols that belong to my friends. And the trigger reset is literally like a quarter of an inch!
Mine’s an older first gen (the one made famous by Pierce Brosnan), but the newer ones have ambidextrous slide releases as well as the “European” ambidextrous magazine releases ubiquitous on HK pistols. The P99 was one of the first to offer interchangeable backstraps too! The only non-ambidextrous feature is the decocking button on the top rear left of the slide, but since it doesn’t have a safety its always ready to fire, single or double.
Here’s a crazy idea – every company in a red state that produces food and grain cannot sell said products to a blue state unless their 2A laws coincide. Seriously – let them go hungry. I’m talking about sanctions against our own to get a very serious point across.
Fly over states my a$$. This is America.
A “Free” American does NOT need permission to own a gun. Screw New York!
Very interesting, Hitler did this about 75 years ago. The Germans let it happen, look where it got them. The British tried doing it to us and see how it worked for them. We got a free country. Now our government is trying to do it. We can now see how it is working for those areas that have gun control. I prefer having a well armed, country wide, militia where we will all be safe from terrorist, criminals, and out of control politicians. (In case you didn’t know, politicians work for us, we are not their subjects). Forward this to our senators, representative, and governor. I’m sure they will not look at it and will not respond for they have the best interest of citizens at heart. but we let them know.
Nicely done review. My experience has been similar to the reviewer. I am recovering from being a long time Glock fan to regular S&W user. It started with a classmates full size M&P 9 that I shot at a training session about a year ago. I immediately shot it as well as my Glock 19 and it fit me better.
I recently picked up a M&P 9 CORE Pro Series 5″. Trigger is really good, even new, and the gun is amazingly accurate, smooth and effortless to shoot. It is very 1911 like in the way it handles and shoots IMO, which is a very GOOD thing for me anyways. The extended sights allow for really accurate shooting however they may be too tall for any sort of practical carry as they seem a bit snaggy. Yesterday at the range, I threw my brush gun red dot on the CORE. After a few shots to tweak the sight in, my son and I were both easily shooting pie plate groups out to 50 yards off hand. After they thought I was nuts for trudging out to the seldom used 50 yard line to place my target, I had several people come over to shoot the gun at that range and every single one walked away saying , “I gotta get one of those.”
“In the fundraising appeal, Dewhurst sneered: “Hey, Obama: Come and take it!””
Did they really just use the word “sneered” in a “news” report?
Nice to see our media continuing their tradition of fair, unbiased reporting.
One of these is not like the others
I just purchased a Tavor. The only thing that surprised me was how much heavier it feels then my ARs. I’ve purchased a sling, so hopefully that will help with the weight. I’m using an Eotech reflex sight and I do have to really smash my face into the stock to get a good sighting picture. I need to look into the sight that is recommended for this rifle. I purchased this gun for several reasons… I wanted to try a bullpup and I’ve heard Israel has refined most of the bull pup issues out of this one, also Israel usually makes great firearms, so I was going a bit on reputation. I like it… I prefer my AR15 at this point but I need to get a little more comfortable with my Tavor to make a clear choice.