About a month ago, I told you about an opinion issued by Virginia’s then-Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli which said that trusts were unable to register machine guns in Virginia as is required by state law. Shortly thereafter, Delegate David LaRock introduced legislation (HB 1266) to clear this oversight. Now the Virgina State Police has weighed in. According to attorney John Pierce, the VSP has no issue with the ownership of machine guns in VA. VSP’s practice was to have one of the trustees register machine guns owned by the trust in their own name (as trustee) when submitting the state registration form. This allowed the trust to still own the machine gun, while having it registered to a person according to VSP’s rules. The opinion from AG Cuccinelli came about when a trustee challenged the policy . . .
demanding to only provide the name of the trust on the document, not his own. Pierce summarizes the issue thusly: “while it is absolutely true that machine guns may not be currently ‘registered’ to trusts in Virginia, the VSP are more than willing to let a trust ‘own’ the machine gun so long as it is registered at the state level to a trustee of the trust.” Presumably, LaRock’s bill, if passed, will alleviate this situation.
Delegate David LaRock also introduced another bill this session, HB 878, which would require Virginia CLEOs to sign NFA applications for qualified applicants within 30 days. That bill has now been killed in committee. Though passing the republican-controlled House of Delegates 64-32, last Tuesday the Senate Courts of Justice Committee killed the bill for this session on a 9-5 party-line vote. The 9 Dems who voted against it were Senators Marsh, McEachin, Saslaw, Howell, Lucas, Edwards, Puller, Petersen, and Wexton.
About a month ago I told you about a school lockdown prompted by a TV reporter’s efforts to test school security in Kirkwood, MO. Now state Rep. Stacey Newman has proposed a bill that would actions like those of the reporter a felony. She said that information about school security needs to be private to ensure that procedures are effective. Some other legislators are not convinced however, like Rep. Brandon Ellington, who questioned why this law was needed. “We want to pass a bill to stop people from exposing the holes in the system when there shouldn’t be holes in the system,” Ellington said. Newman said her bill would also deter vigilante parents, saying that there have been incidents around the country where not just the media but parents have decided to test the security of schools. “This is a loophole,” she said. “There is nothing to make this criminal.” Perish the thought. If it’s not forbidden, it’s allowed, so by all means, let’s forbid it.
Gunny firing the GLOCK 41, filmed at high-speed by Richard Ryan. Check out that teacup grip! Go ahead. You tell him he’s doing it wrong. [The good part’s over in the first 20 seconds.]
From The Tactical Wire: Cabela’s, Inc. announced the passing of Cabela’s co-founder Dick Cabela on Monday. According to the release, “Dick, along with his wife, Mary, and brother, Jim, founded Cabela’s somewhat inadvertently in 1961 when he purchased $45 worth of hand-tied fishing flies while in Chicago on a furniture and housewares buying trip with his father for the family’s Chappell, Neb., furniture store.” Today, Cabela’s is a huge catalog and internet sales organization with fifty retail locations.
An armed confrontation at a Walmart in Flagstaff, AZ last week led to a man’s arrest. According to witnesses, the man became angry when one of a group of teenagers rotated a jewelry display the man’s wife was looking at. The teenager apologized, but an argument ensued, and one witness said he heard the man suggest they “take this outside.” When the man and the four teens went out to the Garden Center, the man pulled out a gun and a knife and said, “Have you ever killed someone? Well, I have.” One witness said he saw the man briefly point the gun at the teens, at which point the teen told one of his friends to call police, and a Walmart employee told the man to leave immediately. Police pulled the suspect and his wife over a short time later, and the man blamed the whole incident on the teenager, saying that the teen had disrespected the man’s wife and that going outside was the teen’s idea. The suspect was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct. Save money, live better, Walmart.
Jerry Miculek’s brother-in-law’s wife is taken hostage, and Jerry takes out the trash with a KRISS Vector.
I think my favorite part was the triple-tap on the popper in the first string.
“Such is the debate on firearms in our society. Common sense is nowhere to be found.”
Yes. I can see that that is true from where you are standing. Especially when you will REFUSE TO SEE it even if it is smack in front of your face.
You can’t blame Gunny. He was never a combat Marine, but was in aircraft maintenance and support.
obamas kids guards will not have smart guns & you really don’t need to look further than this. They argued for awhile that the constitution only guaranteed a musket. Now they have gone on to hideous AR stocks & presumably a flat screen on your gun so the gubmint can watch. They will play untill protecting yourself is a right that can’t be discriminated against. When jury awards for gun discrimination match the Black civil rights violation awards it won’t be so funny to go after gun owners.
Eh, I’ve always been a Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb sort of guy, but I don’t see the point in getting worked up about this. PepsiCo is a business, and businesses try to plaster their logos wherever possible as a matter of course. If the dude said something like “We stand proudly with Ms. Giffords and her mission to reduce violence,” outrage would be perfectly justified, but I’m giving him the benefit of doubt and guessing that he’d [wisely] rather not get involved in the gun debate at all.
If anyone really wants to throw a fit over the “hunting” part, though, go right ahead; it’s not my blood pressure you’ll be unnecessarily spiking.
Welcome to Obamacare!
and since HE waived the privacy rules in HIPPA to encourage reporting, expect lots of non medical agencies to have all your medical data plus what they have already collected.
If you want to read a whole lot of reports of problems with TR, here is a good thread to follow:
http://forum.snipershide.com/snipers-hide-bolt-action-rifles/137906-warning-%7E-tr-%7E-my-experience.html
I can’t even touch the level of paranoia and absurdity in the OP so I’m not going to try. I think it speaks for itself; either anti-gun agitprop intended to speak to a certain fearful, low information sort of person or actually written by someone who needs to seek psychiatric counseling because they appear to have an anxiety disorder (and that’s overlooking the ridiculous language and poor writing skills).
Instead I’ll rebut the above as if it were worthy of such by pointing out that the most heavily armed gatherings are without fail the absolute safest from violence. Concealed carry conventions and gatherings? Never a shooting. NRA conventions? They hold one every year and one would argue that it’s densely populated by pistol packing people, but has anyone ever been shot at one? No! How about open carry demonstrations, now those people are crazy and menacing right? Heck, they’re even upset about something to the point that they are protesting with guns! There are sometimes even counter protesters there whom the armed contingent vehemently disagree with, people must be shot dead all the time at those events, right? No, never happened, not even once. What about gun shops? I mean, all those guns and people carrying guns and people looking at guns and talking about guns and guns guns guns . . .shootings? Only when someone attempts an armed robbery while the shop is occupied. Know of an example of two patrons (neither of them attempting to rob the store at the time) of a gun shop getting into an argument and shooting each other? What about the proprietor or employees shooting it out with a dissatisfied customer? Bet you can’t find even one example.
The thing is that the probability of violent crime goes down in direct proportion to the percentage of armed citizens in a given group. That’s not anecdotal, that’s the real statistics from any sort of gathering one would wish to examine. In fact, if the relevant data is to be believed at face value, one could reduce crime by simply passing a law that everyone carry a gun at all times. While I don’t advocate this ‘solution’ for reasons of both practicality and liberty, it would still (based on the data) be more effective in reducing crime than lowering the number of people carrying guns or creating more gun free zones.
Ardent’s Axiom still applies: Those who cannot reach rational conclusions after having been presented with ample evidence suffer either from the inability to interpret the evidence (they lack the cognitive ability to employ reason), an inability to believe their own interpretation (they’re delusional) or they have reached a rational conclusion but for whatever reason won’t admit to it (they’re dishonest).
Thus one could insist that the writer of the OP is either stupid, insane or a liar (intentionally attempting to mislead others regarding something they don’t believe themselves). The only conceivable escape from this conclusion is that the writer hasn’t availed themselves of the facts, in which case they’re both ignorant (by definition) and incompetent (for penning such a thing from a position of ignorance).
More gnashing of teeth from a movement that’s seen it’s glory days and has entered into decline.
Very great article. Just a note; the pledge of allegiance was written by a hardcore socialist as a form of indoctrination, I believe to brainwash elementary school students. Francis Bellamy I think was the author.
Exercising a constitutionally protected right in Texas can get you a charge of disorderly conduct, but intentionally causing a school lockdown gets the “move along, nothing to see here” treatment?
Would this mean that agents of the state, the police, will be disarmed at these meetings also?
I carried a 1911 in the service (Navy), and was taught the teacup grip. Worked fine for me. While there may be better grips (I’ve changed to one more suitable for rapid fire), it’s plenty accurate.
It’s like a lot of things: it’s worth trying something different to check it out, but there’s no absolute requirement to fix something that’s working. Sometimes, truly, “better” is the enemy of “good enough”.
jeez everyone keeps wanting me to be a domestic terrorist, maybe one day I’ll have to acquiesce.
That video should be posted on the writer’s FB page or linked in the comments in his article. Re; The video…he held that school board hostage, ranting and raving for over 5 minutes….disgraceful. When seconds count, the swat team is still getting dressed. But clearly (someone) was there, waiting for the guy to start shooting BEFORE taking action. Nice tactics…wait for someone to get killed by a raving lunatic BEFORE you take action. That’s not how they do it round here.
You know that GPS technology we all have in our phones? Why haven’t they thought to put that in guns to track them when they are stolen so they can be easily returned to the owner? I know that still can be easily construed as a violation of the Federal registry law, but I have never heard of that being suggested.
Leave that fookin’ prawn, man, I’ll shoot a pig! Sir, I’ll shoot a pig, but I’m not shooting that prawn, you hear me?
*applies cattle prod*
I tried to come up with a witty, pithy comment, but all I could really do is shake my head.
Anyone who grew up on a farm can see why there is no substitute for live animals.You need to know who is capable of working on a wounded animal and who isn’t. I have seen macho men panic and become completely useless when confronted by farm animals with only minor wounds.
I have been emphasizing trigger finger safety when I teach new shooters. After reading this thread, I think I’m going to change my approach. There are good arguments all over this thread and I can see where each side is coming from. I don’t think these various approaches are wrong (with a couple exceptions) but I think there are advantages to other approaches that are worth changing up my technique. I do not agree that we should only teach “one rule to rule them all”. That gives up the redundant checks behind the four rules of gun safety in favor of being easy to remember. I don’t think that trade off is worth it.
However, my rule #1 is going to be muzzle control instead of trigger control. I am now convinced that its easier for new shooters to exercise muzzle discipline than it is trigger discipline. Its easy to put your finger on the trigger. Hell, the gun is designed to make it easy for you to put your finger on the trigger. It’s going to happen. So I’m going to do my best to insure that another rule is already in place before the inevitable trigger finger rule violation. So thank you, Robert, for helping me improve my teaching.
From rlc2, I’m going to start using the short & sweet approach as an easy way to remember the rules. “Barrel SAFE, Trigger SAFE, Target SAFE”. My safety instruction won’t stop there, naturally, but that’s an easy phrase to say, repeat and remember.
From Speleofool, I’m definitely going to steal that idea about looking for fingers on the triggers in Hollywood’s products. That’s a great way to get students to internalize the rule and reinforce it once they leave the range.
From Sam Spade and Tommy Knocker, I’m going to take his suggestion and follow the routine of 1) Tell Them, 2) Show Them, 3) Make Them for each step (holding, loading, dry fire, live fire). Let them concentrate & learn one thing at a time.
Great discussion. Thanks.
These look very handy to me. I will likely try some.
I love it when mothers defend their families. First, it’s great news in and of itself, for a host of reasons. Second, it reveals just how anti-family, anti-child, and anti-woman the gungrabbers’ policies are.
I was once advised to marry a woman with small hands, in that anything she held in them would look bigger.