Arapahoe County, Colorado sheriff’s investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who stole a bunch of ammo from a Centennial Walmart. In October. According to cops, the man forced open the locked ammo case, loaded a bunch of it into a shopping cart, and wheeled it out the door. He reportedly stole ~1000 rounds of .223, ~1000 rounds of 7.62, and ~100 rounds of .40 S&W. No word on why it took them three months to ask for help. . .
Your Lockdown of the Day™ is out of Kirkwood, Missouri where a reporter working on a story about school safety prompted a 40-minute lockdown at Kirkwood High School. The reporter set about testing the security of local schools by going undercover with a hidden camera and trying to enter the schools. While he was unsuccessful at gaining entry to four of them, he made it inside KHS and asked to speak with security. When told that the resource officer was unavailable, he asked directions to the restroom, but then headed off in another direction, causing alarm to the administrators.
When they called the cell phone number he’d left at the office, the outgoing message identified him as a reporter with KSDK, but when administrators called KSDK, the station refused to confirm or deny he was an employee, even when told that an inability to identify the man would cause the school to be placed on lockdown. In the aftermath, there was quite a bit of backlash against the news station (including an editorial written by a senior in the school paper the next day), but their initial response was only to issue the statement that “NewsChannel 5 will continue to be vigilant when it comes to the safety of our schools and your children within.” They later issued an apology in their 10 p.m. broadcast for “causing undue stress and fear.”
A Mississippi legislator is trying, once again, to put onerous requirements on the basic act of buying ammunition. Rep. Omeria Scott (D-Like I had to tell you that) has proposed House Bill 231, which would require every person who sells pistol or rifle cartridges to keep records of those sales, records which would include info on the ammo, and the name, address, and SSN of the purchaser. Those records would then be open to any member of the public at any time. The bill has been referred to two committees: Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and Judiciary B. Both committee chairmen say they will not take up the bill.
If you live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, your tax dollars could be going to fund a gun buy-up (again, I refuse to call it a “buy back”). The city council’s public safety committee voted to bring the proposed buyback to the full council in the near future. They propose to pay $150 for assault weapons, $100 for handguns, and $75 for rifles and shotguns. The city plans to finance the program with $10,000 from the city budget and another ten grand raised from donations. (Unless, like in California, they don’t get the donations, in which case I’m sure the city will magnanimously make up the difference.)
The Florida Senate Banking and Insurance Committee passed a bill last Tuesday that would prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against gun owners by charging them more, or canceling their policies, because they own a gun. The bill, SB 424, would allow state regulators to fine auto or property insurance companies that refuse to issue, renew, or cancel a policy because the policyholder owns a gun. It also prohibits the disclosure of gun ownership information to a third party. Honestly, this doesn’t seem to be much of a problem in Florida. When I told my insurance company (State Farm) about my guns, she didn’t blink except to ask for an approximate value to determine if I needed a separate rider.
A few months back this space featured a video of Jerry Miculek rapid-firing a Barrett M82A1 from the shoulder. Now he’s back doing it again, this time with the high-speed cameras running. Six rounds in .98 seconds.
As Jerry likes to say, “Get some!”
The bigger question here is why is anyone watching CNN let alone Piers?
They ceased being a source for news a decade ago.
This is a gun I envision someone bringing in to a pawn shop on a future TV show like ‘Pawn Stars’ where the person describes it as “unique, more than just a novelty & very collectible, thus making it sought-after & worth big bucks.” At which point, the guy behind the counter says something like, “Yeah, it’s unique, but they made a zillion of these things – they’re just not that rare, and from what I know about them, they also weren’t very reliable to go ‘bang’ with every pull of the trigger. I’ll give you $50 for it.”
Ah, these days an ammo “bunch” = ~2100 or ~3 containers.
J.D. Nelson. Ain’t he the guy that’s always helping the mythbusters at the explosives range behind Santa Rita?
Finally. The logical sense of the Sheriff was what I wish Morgan could be faced with constantly. The problem is, Morgan so biased he’ll NEVER get it.
We need to lock him in a room with Shannon Watts and let them emotionally rhetoric themselves to death. “Do it for the children!”
Guy found a Wal Mart with that much ammo? I’m looking for him too!
The reason it still had ammo was that no one was manning the desk to unlock the case and sell it to him, so he just engaged in a “self-help” remedy.
With LEOs so incompetent as to defy historical parallel, it’s little wonder that rank and file Californians fear guns in supposedly less-skilled hands.
Crike.
Whiskey Tango is “Thunderclap”?
Sounds like a particularly nasty venereal disease.
Are you sure it’s not contagious?
John
LOL….you win the interwebz today
Personally, I like it when liberals disarm themselves. If the liberals take this tyranny thing too far, and the people rise up against them, California will fall quickly. 🙂
The trouble with overt propaganda is that the message can be so overt and in-your-face that it can turn viewers away. Weinstein should look at the overtly anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda that tried to associate Jews as a plague of rats. The film flopped at the cinema. So the Nazis got subtle and made a love story where the villain appeared to be Jewish, at least in the stereotypes. That movie was a success at the cinemas but it is not clear how successful it was as a tool of propaganda.
Bet they charge the absent tenant with murder…
Actually, it seems clear to me that most voters are sick of the gun grabber bullshit, the people trying to earn some publicity or donations whining about how the nice man down the street shouldn’t be able to carry a gun.
Most voters (other than the neurotics, half of whom are prohibited persons because of the meds or drugs they take) know that the gun grabbers aren’t doing squat about the drug gangs in the core hard neighborhoods. They know that Mr. Smith isn’t popping his neighbors. They know the problem is hoodlums with anything (guns, clubs, garden hoses), and that MDA et al aren’t part of the solution, just a bunch of attention whores trying to build their own name recognition, their own brand.
The same politically active people professing deep gun-grabber conviction are the same ones who militate against severe penalties for armed robbery and illegal gun possession by criminals. It’s a game. It’s played for money.
The blood of this poor guy is in the hands of the financing agency. You don’t think for a minute that all these agencies now have paramilitary SWAT teams on their own dime do you? What do you think all those millions of rounds were bought for?
I live in the Beaumont area and go to Parkdale mall frequently. I do think it was a little reckless of the guy to have openly carried the rifle in the mall, especially in these days. Something like would tend to only alarm people rather than make them think “oh that’s okay, it’s legal for him to carry that”. That being said, I have a CCL and carry all the time. I knew there would be some knee jerk response like posting the state legal sign and barring people from carrying concealed. I have all ideas that there have probably been quite a few people that have been legally carrying concealed in that mall for awhile. I know that I will visit that mall less because of their posting of the state legal sign. So from me at least, they will lose some business. However, I have noticed that stores at that mall that have doors that open to the parking lot have not posted the sign at their entrances, so a person can legally still carry concealed in them. The only place the signs are posted is at entrances that go directly into the mall.
Does an image of a hand giving the middle finger to the state of California qualify as a mark of identification? If not maybe Calvin pissing on California?
And you can keep your insurance if you like it. Whatever.
A bill that would allow identity thieves to steal identities of gun owners was squashed? Say it ain’t so.
I wonder if they ever pause to think before they propose legislation.
Maybe it was like what happened to Terry in that first episode of The Shield.
I have owned my 91/30 hex for about 2 years and it shoots very well. I found an ATI stock cheeeeeep at a local show and invested in an angled bolt handle. Finally I added a scout scope with one of the cheaper mounts. It seems to hold zero juist fine but it is not the mount you want on a field piece. Mine sits in a case and goes to the range a few times a year….that’s it. One misconception I would like to clear up. I have read and have experienced that rounds must be loaded in proper stager to feed properly. This is a real pain and indicates that there is a “problem” with the weapon. Imagine a Russian in gloves at 20 below punching in a stripper and attempting to set the rounds in proper stagger……..daaaaa. There is a feed “interupter’ in the feed mech that holds the “next” round below the current feeding round allowing it free travel into the chamber. There are several blogs that adress this issue and many pieces do not work properly from the factory. Especially if the stock has ever been replaced. There is a clearance issue that needs to be addressed in the stock. Once you understand the concept fixing it is easy. For the money you can not beat the old Russian weapons…. MN, SKS, AK are just a few examples.
Glock 26. I compete with a Glock 17 and usually carry a Glock 19, so that makes the 26 the logical extension. Go with what you know and what you are confident in.