A parent volunteer at Newington Elementary School in Summerville, South Carolina is demonstrating how to be a bad parent and a bad gun owner in one shot. Stick with me here, I’m breaking this one into sections. On February 6th, police were called to the school because a 2nd grader had found a gun in her book bag. Reports say that when the child discovered the gun, she immediately called her teacher over and told her. The student’s mother works as a parent volunteer at the school. Now, we back up a day, and hear from another volunteer (we’ll call her “A”) that the same mother had bragged to her about having a gun . . .
opening her purse and showing her a black and pink pistol (actual gun not shown). When questioned by “A” about the wisdom of having the gun, her response was that she had a concealed weapons permit. [Not for much longer, I’m thinking.] Volunteer A then told another volunteer (“B”) about the gun, and the next day (now we’re back to February 6th), “B” told the principal. That same day, the mother had a conversation with one of the volunteers who the previous day had asked her if having the gun at school was a good idea. That volunteer said the mother became “flustered” and left. Later that day, the pink & black Ruger .380 was found in the child’s bag. The child’s teacher later told police that the mother had stopped by her daughter’s classroom and asked the teacher if she could put a book in her bag. The teacher OK’d it, and the mom put the bag back in the classroom after she was done.
So, in case you had trouble following the Pulp Fiction-esque timeline twisting, here’s the short, in-order version: Mom brags about gun to coworkers, coworkers question mom’s gun, mom and coworkers have another conversation about gun the next day, mom gets nervous that she might get reported for having it, mom decides to stash gun in her child’s bookbag so she won’t have it if confronted, child (unfortunately for mom) finds gun, tells teacher, police are called, The Aristocrats.
A man traveling south to Mexico was arrested recently at the Brownsville & Matamoros Bridge in Brownsville, Texas, after Customs & Border Protection officers discovered he was carrying two boxes (100 rounds) of .40-caliber ammunition inside a box containing juice bottles. The man agreed to give statements to agents with Homeland Security without an attorney present, and told them that in the last six months he’d “smuggled approximately 15,000 rounds of various high-caliber rifle and handgun ammunition and approximately 600 magazines for various high-caliber rifles and handguns and delivered them to unknown persons in Mexico.” Well, smuggling is bad, of course, but I’m not nearly as mad as I would be if he’d been transporting .22LR ammo out of the country. That’s a hanging offense at this point.
Colion Noir quick-reviews the SIG Sauer P229 .40 S&W.
Just an advisory for the California folks. State Sen. Kevin de Lèon, of “ghost gun” fame, is proposing an ammunition background check bill, currently under consideration in the Assembly Public Safety Committee. Capital Public Radio reports he says that his bill would provide commonsense safeguards to the sale of a potentially lethal product and give law enforcement a useful tracking tool. “We have no regulations whatsoever. We don’t know who buys it. We don’t know who sells it. And that’s simply wrong.” This will be de Lèon’s second attempt at this type of bill; a previous effort in 2008 failed in the Senate. Governor Jerry Brown’s office is working with Senator de Lèon on drafting the latest bill.
Gabby Giffords is working on a book about gun control. She is collaborating with her husband, Space Cadet Mark Kelly on “Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence.” The book is based on an essay by Giffords that appeared in the New York Times in April, in which she raged against the senators who blocked the gun control legislation that had failed to make it through the Senate. Kelly, in a statement released by Scribner, the book’s publisher, said in part, “As Second Amendment supporters and gun owners ourselves, we hope our book rouses the long-overdue conversation our country needs to make responsible changes to our gun laws so that no more precious lives are lost.” The book is due out in June, be sure to reserve your copy so you don’t miss out.
Primary Weapons Systems Half Cocked returns with Episode #2 (I guess the SHOT Show episode doesn’t count), “Lizard Lick.” It’s, um… not safe for work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCdiGx2oGQ
It’s gotta be the heat.
I have no reason to doubt the integrity of the reviewers at this point.
the ability to reassemble a weapon incorrectly without knowing it
would be a Critical Factor.
It’s true; I had trouble navigating the narrative, until you distilled it for my sleep-deprived brain.
This is what happens when you have people who think guns are ticking time bombs, ready to blow the roof off the sucker.
And others who are even more ignorant. Rationality comes through knowledge about a given subject. Some seem to think knowledge itself will make the gun turn on them.
SO. MUCH. WILLFUL. STUPIDITY. I fear for the children.
68gca made signing for every box of ammo mandatory. Every dealer had to have a ledger and enter the buyer’s info from their id in the book for all ammo purchases. This went on for years until it was done away with. One of the reasons the requirement was done away with was that leo’s had never solved a crime based on that info.
The lady was dumb enough to show off her gun to others at the school and then stashed it in her kids back pack? You can’t make this sh!t up.
Chris, unless you are speaking of one felon only (“felon’s”), the correct usage is “felons'”.
I taught my third-grade grandson how to use apostrophes (NOT “apostrophe’s”). Do you need my help with this one?
One can learn the difference in less than five minutes. I suggest you look it up online. Everybody should be able to do right by their native tongue.
I don’t mean to be cruel. This epidemic of lack of knowledge did not exist in my heyday.
Thank you volunteer A for being the perfect case for gun control advocates to point to when they say it’s a bad idea to have parents carrying guns in schools. Showing off your concealed gun and then stashing it in your kid’s bag? Was she drunk too?
I’ll go ahead and start the bidding here; it’s obvious that volunteer A was an agent of the NSA/CIA/FEMA, and her actions were designed to provide ammunition for the powers that be so that they can repeal the 2nd Amendment. Discuss.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
“Conspiracy” implies a certain level of job competency. Experiment: when you think “United States government agency” is “competent” the description that comes to mind?
So, that mom thought she’d be better off stashing her gun in a kid’s backpack than potentially face questioning from an administrator? More Lois Griffin, this one, than Carol Brady.
Well, if the daughter hadn’t found it, or had found it but hadn’t told the teacher, it would have worked out fine.
Just to play devil’s advocate, you know how I know that parent hadn’t done much (if anything) in the way of educating her kid about guns?
Of course, now that I think about it, even if she had, Eddie Eagle says, “Stop, don’t touch, tell an adult.” There’s nothing in there about what to do differently if it’s your mom’s secretly stashed gun.
Thank you your honor
I will take your advice and start carrying three hanguns with the 10 round magazines.
though this may increase the chances of one of them being stolen or otherwise misused
OK, serfs. Back to work.
King Andrew has spoken.
Putz.
I am very pleased to have read your troll article. Had I not I would have never known that only a 1911 can fail. If only I had this information 25 years ago.
I thought about getting an FFL for a side/retirement business. I was just wondering what happens with your records when your dead. To you have to set up a trust or something? Or for that matter if you LGS goes out of business, what do they do?
“Kelly, in a statement released by Scribner, the book’s publisher, said in part, “As Second Amendment supporters and gun owners ourselves, we hope our book rouses the long-overdue conversation our country needs to make responsible changes to our gun laws so that no more precious lives are lost.””
Again with the “conversation” talk. Hey Mark, we’ve had the conversation. I understand why didn’t know because you disable comments on every piece of propaganda you put out. Your side lost. Again. Still. Support search and rescue, get lost.
how about banning murder instead????
If you qualify to open carry then you more than likely qualify to get your CCW. Here is a simple solution, go through the legal process of obtaining your CCW and carried concealed. I like CC exponentially more than OC. No one needs to know that I’m carrying a gun until it’s too late and it’s already gone bang in a justified DGU.
Please correct:
“Many part-time niche adventures possible with gunsmithing, Dura coating, Internet transfers, hydro-graphics, class 3 silencer sales, auction sales, Internet sales, etc.”
Class 3 is a tax bracket, it is not the only tax bracket for a FFL. You are, generally, either an 07/02 or an 01/03 SOT, this is not to say that a 01 without a SOT can’t deal in NFA items, you just have to do everything on a F4. If you are in the business of doing work on firearms you better have a 07 Manufacture license. ATF considers the assembly of a lower and upper receiver, even those fully assembled by other parties, into a working firearm to be manufacturing. In relation to this, the cost for a SOT is an additional $500 for an 03 or an 02 with less than $500,000 gross receipts per year, else $1000. Also not addressed is that an 07/02 is required to pay ITAR of $2250 each year to remain compliant.
I’d vote for way more than three if I could.
The only fair way to do it though is random drawing.
Why does “Without bloodshed, thank you very much” sound so much like “Just don’t leave a mark”?
I have no interest in a 1911 beyond just having another gun. My Kahr is much easier to carry, and my g19 is more simple. My FNX-45 has twice the capacity of a standard 1911. I may own a 1911 once all my children graduate college and I’m just rolling around on piles of money.
You know, I just dont get it..New Yorkers are always bragging about how tough they are, since 9/11, they portray the tough guy image on tv. in interviews.. yet they are the biggest pussys in the country when it comes to giving up their rights.. they would roll over and sell their own mothers if someone told them it would make them feel safer.
Aw shucks, just having a little fun! Boys will be boys…
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After seeing that, I don’t think I’d have stuck around for my lunch. I’m not picky, but I do have SOME standards.
The guy relieving himself violated “The Safari Principle” – never ever get our of your vehicle. Applies in South Chicago as well.
As my daughter, she owns a phd in chemistry, likes to say, it is BS, MA, PHD. Bullshit, More shit, Pile it Higher and Deeper.
There are more tigers in captivity in TX than the wilds of India.