January 11th marked the one year anniversary of the passage of the NY SAFE Act, and Second Amendment advocates across New York marked the anniversary with a “Shot Heard ‘Round New York.” Opponents of the SAFE Act gathered at multiple locations around the state and fired a single shot in unison to protest the law and send a message to Albany. WHEC Rochester did a surprisingly evenhanded job of reporting the story, however, I got a decidedly FUDD-ish vibe off the man interviewed that left me with a bad taste. What possible points could he be referring to?
Your Lockdown of the Day™ comes from Henrico, Virginia, where Glen Allen High School was placed on a two hour lockdown on January 7th and searched room-to-room by SWAT for a student who was reportedly “distraught” over a relationship and may have a weapon. Police said the student threatened to hurt himself or others, but didn’t say how they obtained that information. The student was taken into custody at a home in a nearby neighborhood; police later said the student was never seen on campus, and no weapons were found in the home the student was in. He was released later that day, but then arrested three days later and charged with threatening to commit serious bodily harm to a person on school property.
GunBroker.com has reached the milestone of $3 billion in online sales, according to a media alert TTAG received recently. They reached $1 billion back in September, 2009, and it took them over three years, until November of 2012 to reach the $2 billion mark, but the latest milestone has come much more quickly. The NSSF presented GunBroker CEO Steve Urvan with a plaque in commemoration of the milestone at SHOT Show on January 14th.
In the latest twist to the Wesley Chapel, Florida theatre shooting, a Pasco County, Florida couple has come forward to describe having a run-in with a man in the same theatre just a few weeks earlier, and she says it’s the same man involved in the shooting, Curtis Reeves. She said she was texting on her phone as the movie started, and the man became enraged, speaking to staff about her, pointing at her and acting irritated. Amusingly, the woman with Reeve in the theatre that day got a phone call, ringing out loud and clear. When the movie was over, she says, the man’s wife went to walk arm-in-arm with him, and he shook her off and stormed out. The couple has been in touch with law enforcement to let them know about the incident.
A home with flammable liquids and ammunition inside burned to the ground recently in Promontory, Utah, with the flammable liquids reigniting the fire and the ammunition reportedly “keeping the firefighters hopping.” The good thing is the news story didn’t go the “everyone’s gonna die!” route that normally happens in these cases, with the county Fire Marshal saying that “the bullets weren’t exactly whizzing around, since they were in containers, not gun barrels, so they just exploded in place.” A hole was found in one ammo can, indicating the bullet escaped, but “It didn’t hit anybody, so that was good.”
Nick had a post yesterday about Greg Jordan winning the 3-Gun Nation Championship, and briefly mentioned the the shootout between Lena Miculek and Dianna Liedorff for the women’s division. Lena took the top slot for the women’s division and a $25,000 check. Kirsten’s enthusiasm has been mentioned a number of times around here, but I think Lena could give her a run for her money in that area. Here’s her recap.
She sure can make that shottie sing.
Primary Weapons Systems has released the second installment in their Half Cocked animated series, SHOT Show. (nsfw language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXe_NSHOMU
Getting better. “World’s biggest mouthbreather magnet” made me laugh right out loud.
“The Hook” (Marcus Hook) is a nasty s-hole, I grew up near there….Dyspetic it is in PA along the Delaware River south of Philly, close to the DE line.
Dern! I just purchase a pair of Redfield Rebel 10X42 binos because I borrowed a friend’s pair on an elk hunt a few weeks ago and was very impressed. They are an extremely good set of optics, but if I’d known the Mil-dot option was coming out I definitely would have waited.
It needs binocular red dot optics and a violin style chin rest.
This + Tac-Con 3MR trigger = WINNING?
Too bad the mag wells are too close together to slide those SureFire quad-stacks in.
I wouldn’t make any business decisions that rely on him remaining a free man.
Hmm. In principle I admire the heck outta this guy. But in daily practice he is losing. Now that the gub’ment has his name on file as a baddie bad guy in their eyes, his life will never be the same. And if he continues to press the issue he will merely find himself back in jail. Jail ain’t no place to run a revolution from.
SQUIRREL!!!
People are swallowing the VPC lie that these killers had concealed weapon permits.
Some did.
Many did not, having instead occupational permits (armed security guard licenses), permits to purchase (which do not authorize a person to carry a weapon) or were retired law enforcement officers who carried under authority of their retired LEO status.
And some had no license of any sort at all.
Step 1 when dealing with the VPC is question every single claim they make. They are notorious flagrant unprincipled liars.
Stupid question but is the gun offender thing real?
Apparently it is: http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-offender-registry-in-washington-dc/
Ho hum. Let the demonizing begin. Just like the Legal Wrecking, er… Lethal Weapon movies. The trouble with blatent propaganda is that most people with an IQ above room temperature know it is a load of rubbish. And if you have announced your intentions in advance, it is even going to be more obvious so most people will take it as either parody or comedy and not the intended driver of social change.
Just wait for the inevitable YouTube parodies, such as those done for the movie “Downfall”.
I wouldn’t want anti-gay right-to-lifers in my state either. Those people creep me out.
Not understanding those rights are as important to some people as the right to defend yourself is to all of us is something that absolutely blows my mind.