Our man ShootingTheBull410 ripped RIP ammo a new one. Using proper FBI protocol, STB410 refuted the company’s claims for the round and concluded “this isn’t all that impressive.” FPSRussia’s latest video uses a different gel and has a different take. “This is a very, very deadly self-defense round,” FPS opines, once again inflicting his painfully pathetic Russian accent on unsuspecting Millenials. Even assuming Kyle doesn’t get a commission from G2 (or free ammo), even assuming the ammo maker didn’t prepare the faux Russian’s ballistic gel, FPS does his viewers an extreme disservice by pretending to know what the hell he’s talking about. Will someone please tell Kyle to please go back to simply shooting stuff with big guns?
First, the Federal Reserve is blaming weather for slow economic recovery (btw there’s no recovery, not yet anyway, but it’s not due to weather). Now this guy says warmer temperatures = more gun crime? How about a cold climate? Is there less violent crime when temperatures drop? It was pretty cold, freezing even here in NJ the past few months. I don’t remember violent crime going away or slowing down. I think Matthew should find a new dissertation topic.
Fps Russia is out of north Georgia, and so is Dixie ammo dump, who I think is responsible for the ammo.
Leave FPSRussia alone. If lying about firearms were a criminal offense, 75% of gun shop customers and range visitors would be in jail.
So what, FPS lied about RIP ammo on his youtube channel. Im more worried about the counter jockey at Gander Mountain telling a woman she can’t handle anything bigger then .38 Special.
I am also worried that people think 38 special is under powdered 😀
I find FPS entertaining. The auto shotgun video is a favorite. I DON’T take him seriously. EVERYTHING I see on YOUTUBE I take with a grain of salt.
Millennials? I’m just an old fart 60year old baby boomer. I find TNOUTDOORS ( spelling?) pretty ammo informative.
In the 1970’s, the chicken littles, er, I mean, experts, warned of the global cooling and the coming ice age. Didn’t happen. In the 1980’s, they switched gears and harped on global warming. Also didn’t happen, not to any discernible and impactful degree, anyway. There are ups and downs, but they can’t pin them down and can’t pin them on CO2 levels. So now they go around whining about amorphous “climate change”, so they can take credit and cash a grant check no matter what happens. Nice scam.
There are about half a dozen major mathematical models in service to predict climate activity. Not only have they all failed to predict future temperature, for failing to account for confounding variables like cloud coverage, heat reflection, and the Pacific vent, but these silly models have failed to predict past climate activity. That’s right: when applied to the known historical data set (which itself is suspect, but I digress), they can’t even come up with the right numbers historically. How can you credibly predict the future when you cannot even reliably pattern the past?
So here comes Mister Matt Ranson, hard working, high thinking, smart young chap, with his freshly minted Harvard Ph.D. in Public Policy (professional pusher arounder, aka, nanny stater), to tell us what’s what. He’s taking long discredited ideas about global warming, and using them as the basis for a laughably unproveable claim about crime a century or so hence.
I long for the good old days when our top universities graduated people who could really do something, like split the atom, land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, or cure/prevent major diseases. Even New Coke and the hot side hot, cold side cold, styrofoam box contraption of 1980’s McDLT sandwhiches are looking pretty impressive compared to what passes for research today.
What would be a great resource for the defense of one of us in this situation to have compiled in one spot, all of these police shootings. Especially off duty cops because the are half cop and half us. If need be these scenarios could be presented to a jury, a half dozen cop shootings that have similar scenarios to our DGU where cop was put on paid admin leave and never even charged, let alone tried.
FPS Russia has jumped the shark.
if you want to look like someone who has premeditated murder on their minds if you happen to go to court over a self-defense shooting, this is the ammo for you
The shark analogy is utterly stupid and irrelevant. For a self defense round to do what it’s supposed to do, it needs velocity, but it needs energy to properly expand, penetrate and create a nasty wound channel and hopefully CNS shock. The energy comes from the bullet moving real fast (velocity), and expansion happens when the bullet meets resistance (target). The key is, that to retain maximum energy, it must retain maximum mass. So, I’m not real confident in a bullet that loses half of it’s mass the moment it hits it’s target, even if those sharp pieces create their own little wound channels. Sure, you could get lucky, but I wouldn’t stake my life on it.
My .357 rhino 200d will only fire one(1) round of .357 and it jams. It will fire .38p all day. I have tried to contact chiappa four times,but have not had a return answer yet. Looks to me like they dont care about the coustomer,just the money!!
Does crime go up with higher or lower temperatures? “Yes”, is likely their answer, as that is the answer to what weather climate change will bring. Is it too cold? Climate change. Too windy? Climate change. Too humid? Darned global warming. Too wet? CO2 excess. Too dry? Recycle more. Too many hurricanes? Redistribute carbon credits to poor nations. Not enough snow in the mountains? Donate to Al Gore. Too many forest fires? Vote for statist politicians to fix it.
What a devient, power-lusting hoax.
“Between 2010 and 2099, climate change will cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft in the United States.”
Guns kill people. Weather steals cars.
Right, so here’s the plan. The Liberals take all of their pet topics that they are against: climate change, misogyny, war against women, racism etc and relate them back why we need gun control.
How’s that working so far? They are certainly testing all of the weak points and trying to find a way in at minimum.
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t disagree with the ruling in this case.
In the gun rights debate, people can be divided into three groups: those who believe that everyone should be allowed a weapon regardless of their past history, those who think that no one should be allowed a weapon under any circumstances, and those in the middle who believe in gun rights, but also believe in responsible gun ownership and reasonable regulation.
I put myself in the third group. Believing as I do in responsible gun ownership, and recognizing that a CPL comes with solumn responsibilities that cannot be ignored, I think that the “guns for everyone no matter what” crowd do a disservice to the gun rights movement, and do more harm than good when advocating gun rights to people whose backgrounds have, traditionally, be the source of the anti-gun press for years.
Normally I would not discuss a persons personal problems, but since the person in question has openly submitted his story for public discussion, let’s discuss it.
It is not unreasonable that confinement to a mental facility (whether voluntary or involuntary) is a disqualification for carrying a weapon. And even though the charges were eventually dropped, without knowing the circumstance of the initial charges or why they were dropped, I am not comfortable with someone who has a history of domestic violence carrying a weapon.
Those of us who DO carry, and those of us who promote the safe and responsible use of firearms have a duty to self-police our own constituency.
Excluding this individual and looking at the same situation with a random unknown individual, consider this…
Suppose someone commits a murder. And then it is found out that they had a legal CPL. And then it was found out that they had been in a mental institution and had a domestic violence arrest.
What would that do to the pro-2A movement? and what would that say about the pro-gun crowd that they would have defended the decision to issue such a person a CPL?
I fully disagree with the ruling. He was arrested but the charges were dropped, that means he was innocent in the eyes of the law. Or at least the spirit of the law. What most likely stopped his permit was the stay in the psych ward. Even though that was voluntary. That’s the whole problem with the mental health stipulation in the gun control bullcrap. We hear every single day how most of us have some need for therapy, it’s in the news, on tv talk shows, from friends, etc., etc. Yet if one goes to seek any sort of help suddenly they are not qualified to make rational decisions regarding firearms?? No, it’s total garbage and another way to deny someone their rights. In addition, it WILL force people to deny themselves help for problems, most of which are minor and just some therapy sessions where one only speaks to a professional without ever being prescribed any medication can help.
Is FPS’ shilling for G2 really any worse than any number
of “professional” magazines that give every POS that
appears in their mag 5 stars?
There is a strong statistical significance for crime and temperature, but it is a very limited band. Go from 70 to 80, Solid increase. Go from 110 to 120, no increase, everyone is laying in the shade or under an air conditioner. If global warming were real, the crime increase we could expect would be small overall. It’s not an unlimited effect.
I just received my Shield in .40 . I have not fired it yet so I cannot comment on that subject.
I will comment on the other worthwhile things abt the Shield.
It is thin and comfortable in the Hogue modified H721 OT. The trigger pull is reasonably good[crisp] for a toy gun. I call all plastic guns toy , no disrespect just my humor.
If you have spent ANY time with 1911’s the safety is no problem, easy to flip OFF with the thumb, and simple to switch on with the pointer finger of your off hand, if you are a righty.
Affordable ,small ,powerfull and from an American Co.
I cant wait to run a box or two thru this lil gun. tom
Wait, did I misunderstand something? The acceleration caused the door to open? Newton’s 3rd law says it must be a funky door.
Acceleration usually causes doors to shut. Perhaps in a cornering maneuver, or with an old car with suicide doors, but not with straight line acceleration and any modern car.
Shawn,
Good luck to you. It’s possible the CCL Review Board is so overwhelmed with LEA objections they don’t have time to examine them and make determinations on the merits, so they’re just rejecting them all and letting the courts sort things out.
The CCL Review Board is appointed by our hoplophobic governor so they’re certainly not going to err on the side of 2A.
Please keep us in the loop, if you decide to take this to court.
I never shot anybody when I was two. Even at three, I could hardly aim.
“An officer’s weapon accidentally fired”. You know, you gotta appreciate the balls to use such blatant manipulation of the English language. No, it’s not “an officer’s weapon WAS accidentally fired”, but rather, “an officer’s weapon accidentally fired”, with the wording insinuating that firearms are sentient things, and the didn’t mean to fire itself, but it did, because as we all know, guns are horrible things that are fully sentient and have an insatiable thirst for blood (especially the blood of children).
Modern trucks and the RX-8 have suicide doors that are designed to be inoperable while the car is in gear…
The SFPD carry .40 Cal Sigs (used to carry the Beretta 96, but they phased it out around 2004 because it wasn’t “accurate enough” for some officers to qualify with)
In CA LEOs can own non-CA DOJ approved firearms…
And Broadway and Montgomery is no where near Yee’s Sunset neighbourhood home (that’d be all the way across town)
Expect an announcement from the Obama regime supporting Chinas efforts, after all, “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
I’ve read the English translation of the Koran, twice; this is perfectly in line with the actions of Mohammad and his writings.
These “terrorists” are just following his example.
The cops in Mumbai did the same thing when the Muslims shot up the place; the cops hid out ; even when they had a gun instead of engaging the mass murderers.
Think of it like this? Who is more likely to harm you or interfere with your life in the US — a three letter agency or a terrorist group?
I have to be honest, I’m getting a little tired of the “nobody trains enough or trains correctly” mantra you hear so much. I am a former LEO and I shoot in competition regularly. I trained martial arts for 12 years so I understand the fundamental need for training. You have to train. I get that. One of my old instructors used to say, “You can’t shoot pool with a rope.” If you carry, no doubt you should train. I’m headed out to a training class next month to improve my skills, but the truth is most people need to carry to defend themselves and their families but cannot afford financially or cannot spare the time from work and family to train relentlessly. We do the best we can. People need to be aware of the details, such as trigger control and discipline, but no one can train as much as it seems to be advocated. You don’t have to be a Navy Seal to carry on a day to day basis. Most DGUs I hear about or read about go over much better than most police involved shootings you read about and they are the ones who supposedly have all the training! Which really isn’t true anyway. When I went through the Academy they did the best they could but it was short and sweet and the rest was left up to you. I wish I could train and shoot all the time, but to most of us some local competition is the best we’ll get. You learn a lot there and while I realize hope is not a strategy sometimes you just have to hope it’s enough.
WG
I can speak from personal experience about the Ruger 77/22 – bolt action .22 with a wood stock, looks like a scaled-down Ruger 77 bolt action. NICE little gun. with a 2.5-10X scope on it, using CCI Green Tag (good like finding any now), I can consistently put 10 rounds into a 6″ circle at 200 yards (from a cross-stick rest on a bench). Consistently – no flyers. If the new 22 American is anything like the 77/22, it will be a very nice little gun – especially for the price.
The guy in the video wins the caliber war.
I recall a tragic incident in a NYC tavern many years ago. As I recall the newspaper account, two off-duty police officers shot and killed each other. The investigation revealed that they never worked together, did not know each other, and had probably never met.
Witnesses said there was no altercation between them, and neither spoke to the other before they fired at one another from opposite ends of the bar. The result of the investigation was that one officer had apparently accidentally exposed his off-duty firearm, and the other officer saw it. That officer drew his off-duty weapon to challenge the first officer, and his display of a gun lead to the first officer also drawing. Both fired simultaneously, and both were killed.
Ms. Miller’s solution would of course be “Cops can only be armed if they are on duty”, ignoring the countless times off-duty LEOs stop crimes in progress.