That’s TTAG contributor Alan Brooks on the right, above, who had just taken one for the team by covering Saturday’s SXSW anti-gun confab (read his full account of all the fun here). And we bet you know who that is on his right.
Obviously wanting something to hand down to his grandchildren, Alan used his prodigious powers of persuasion to convince Bloomberg sock puppet and Moms Demand Action gun-grabress-in-chief Shannon Watts to pose for a happy snap.
The best part: Shannon didn’t know Alan was packing at the time. And somehow the gun didn’t break loose and shoot anyone. Eat your heart out, Dirk.
Haha…
This needs to be tweeted thousands of times asking her how she managed to escape such a close brush with death.
She’ll probably shake uncontrollably and collapse when she finds out how close she was to a loaded gun. Such trauma will damage her delicate psyché.
Unless you’re suggesting she was involved in some near-fatal disfiguring accident while enroute to Austin?
I don’t think you would say such a thing. Just checking.
Oh the irony. I love it.
Cold dead hands, yada yada, kiss my ass, etc and so forth.
I have a SP-01 and a P-01 (compact). The compact was altered incredibly from cz custom and has a the 85c combat trigger, race hammer, polished internals, and aluminum grips… work of art..crisp 8lb DA, and crisp and smooth as butter 3lb SA pull.
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Alan Brooks has won the innerdwebs for life. No one else need ever apply.
Someone *has* posted this to Shannon’s FaceWhine page, right?
Well-played, good sir. Well-played indeed.
I’ll “2nd” that….
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{shrug} Haters gonna hate. I do Crossfit, and I absolutely get my ass kicked at most workouts. You know what? It’s worth it, because after a year-plus I still haven’t lost interest and I’m in better shape than at any point in the last 25 years.
It’s also been a huge boost to my ability to shoot competitively. So there’s that.
I’ve had calluses tear off, but I learned how to take care of my hands so that doesn’t happen. I get sore after heavy workouts, but nothing like the first few months after I started.
Don’t like it? Don’t do it. Want a challenging fitness program that will never, ever be boring? Try Crossfit for six months at an actual gym with trained coaches and see what it does for you.
Exactly this. CF is legit. No really please tell me about how dropping 100 pounds and being in the best shape of life is hurting me. I ran a marathon last year without doing anything but CrossFit. CF has made me more focused at everything I do. As AlphaGeek has said: Don’t like it? Don’t do it.
What do you expect when it comes to selective enforcement ???..The guy with the highest position in the country, concerning law enforcement – Eric Holder, just told the attorney generals of the United States that they don’t have to enforce any laws that they don’t agree with….WTF???….When the guy in the highest position in the country says this, what do you expect ?…It’s just another example of the Obamanation Administration thumbing their noses at the constitution & the laws of our land………MOLON LABE
For those wondering, it was a Rossi model 641, .357 mag in an Uncle Mikes ankle rig.
OK, so I guess I’m going to be the first to address the elephant in the room…
Dude, what the hell is going on with that profile picture you got there?
“You know the thing about a gun grabber, she’s got… lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When she comes at yer guns, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until she bans yer assault weapons and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch gigglin’ and the legislature turns blue and spite of all the petitionin’ and the blog posts they all come in and rip your ARs and AKs and FALs to pieces.”
So, eleven hundred guns went in the water, three hundred and sixteen guns come out, the gungrabbers took the rest.
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I don’t. I have a class A commercial driver license. When I took my training I was told that carrying on the job, any kind of “weapon” including pocket knives over 1inch, was a felony offense. I was told this law was put in place by the FMCSA, but i have never seen the law in print.
This has always been upsetting to me. I deliver supplies to convenience stores in the middle of the night and have to break up fights between drunks around once a year. So far, I haven’t had to use anything more than my “drill Sargent” voice… But I don’t know if that will last forever.
Any advice?
I guess this guy just wants more games like Amnesia: The Dark Decent, where all you can do is hide in a closet and hope the monster doesn’t find you.
Come on, if she can’t tell someone dressed like that with that beard has got a gun, what hope is there?
Can’t tell if his fingers are crossed…
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Make sure you snail mail her an autographed copy.
It’s a southern thing as a rule, those blue laws. Businesses, alcohol sales, hunting, etc. Church and sex with your wife, so long as you were married and not prone to violating any prohibitions aganist other than the missionary position, were about the only legal activities for sundays in blue law states.
It’s not a Southern thing. Mass still to this day has a ban on hunting on Sundays. Pilgrims for you…
Woo hoo! Perhaps it had something to do with the deer running everywhere… I saw one in downtown richmond once I have no clue how she got there
The GRTC #6 bus?
No, if only we could do the same thing in PA. Maybe we can even hope to hunt varmints with our semi auto rifles.
There are lots of varmints in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, but I don’t think you’re allowed to shoot them.
That’s a cool shot.
Yes it is.
They can try to candy coat it all they want, but we know these laws don’t do anything to stop violence. The dishonesty with these kind of people is very alarming and quite sad.
[This was in response to a comment that is now deleted where a user complained that someone else posted under his name.]
This comment system sucks. Usernames cannot be reserved or protected in any way. Gravatar makes it look like a real user account system with password login, but anyone can post under any general name, including Gravatar, from any location.
Also “notify of follow-up comments” seems to just email me whenever someone posts a new comment to the post, not when someone replies directly to one of my comments.
Yes, but as a Virginian, McAwful still s _ _ _s. He’s a gun grabber, don’t let this little law make anyone think otherwise.
Heh, the absurdity is strong with this one, but maybe that makes it even funnier.
1.) I live, by choice, in a free, very low crime, nondiverse state and in a rural area where the only likely crime is home meth/pot producers. THREATCON = zero
2.) Not going to “request” permission of the state to exercise my Constitutional right to keep and bear.
What my state (shall issue) needs is a test case of a citizen being arrested for not having a CCW permit of someone that would have received such if an application had been made.
I wouldn’t have been able to keep a straight face.
HIs grin says so much…talk about non-verbal cues.
Don’t be naïve, lets wait for the other shoe to drop.
I live in LA county and don’t have a spare $50,000 for a bribe, excuse me I mean “campaign contribution” to the sheriff.
A very tiny pro-gun move from a largely anti-gun politician.
Travelling to an anti-state (including my native CA), airport travel, anyplace that has security screening/ x-rays at the entrance, or places that are “No Guns Allowed” but I need to go and the possibility of it being exposed (such as the VA hospital). That being said now that I can, I almost always carry; usually open, and concealed in places where people have delicate sensibilities.
What a charming young lady. Homeless, you say? Probably another victim of the Republicans’ war on women. I’m sure that NYC’s new mayor, Kaiser Wilhelm, will object strongly to this woman being punished for defending her class against a capitalist oppressor of the brave proletariat.
BTW, if you have never been to the PA bus terminal on 8th Avenue, I have one word for you: don’t.
Any good rancher would know when to cull the herd…
I’d do her! Give me one night and i’ll give her something a liberal could never.
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I’ll bet you were a hall monitor in school, Paul.
This thread has taken a fugly turn.
Well, you come close to being correct then you fudge the whole thing up by calling their “job illegal”. Lets get it right, their job is entirely legal justified and important but you don’t have to give up your constitutional rights to aid with their inquiry. Law enforcement personnel have a very important job to do immediately following an act of violence and we have agreed as a society that they should do it. You as a citizen can protect your rights if you so choose but to call the job of the police illegal when investigating a potential crime of violence is just plain stupid. How would you like an investigation of a potential crime of violence against a member of your family to be handled?
This is what Obama wants the people to be defenseless to protect themselves from thugs and from the government’s national army, NSA, so they will have little resistance from the public when our country turns into a dictator government. Its Hilter’s play book being ran on the American public.
When the Carolina Panthers became an NFL team, the “blue laws” were no alcohol sales prior to 1pm, or otherwise, until church let out….That “suddenly” changed to 12pm, when big $$$$ came to Charlotte, and the surrounding citiesthat benefited from the NFL coming to town….Than revenue from tailgaiting overcame such religious convictions,…
The whole thing stinks of hypocrisy,,….. Virginia, west of the northern territory has an amazing normalcy, and a plan. Sadly Northern Va, has been assimilated by the Borg long ago….
Woman looks demon possesed. Cops should have beat the demons out of her with old hickory, or new aluminuim. Either save her from those evil spirits or kill her in the process.
I’m good with either.
I would loved to have see this photo taken 1 second after he leaned over and told Mr. Watts, by the way my dear, I’m packing right now, isn’t America great.
Awesome picture! Soaking with irony. And Dirk, dang, we really, really have different taste in women. Yeesh.
I am a pig. (shrug).
only in Hollyweird.
This thread might be giving new meaning to “Lock Down of the Day.”
On topic: I still cannot stop laughing about this photo. It’s so full of win it’s almost scary.
Why don’t they just hang “Pirate Free Zone” signs all around the ship?
That would be discriminatory. The ship and/or waters would need “No Hijacking” signs. Come on, some of these pirates could be children or at least used to be. We can’t ban children.
I’d like to hear the LA Times explain how this isn’t a happy ending. How is one hijacking more fortunate than repelling three attempts?
How does the old saying go? By the time a man reaches 40 he has earned his face.
Perhaps he got some information from that meeting that could be researched as to accuracy and biased.Since this group is notorious for sprewing in accurate information and absolutely refuses to report anything based on fact,this would be a great opportunity to use their own publications against them.Just sayin!
I was a financial Planner as well for 26 years and ran a brokerage,I Carry.! And everywhere I could I did.You are in essence driving around without auto or life insurance cause others have it!Be my guest but no one has an obligation to come to your aid!
get silencers off the NFA. shouldn’t be too hard to get people who live near shooting ranges to give support.
Part 2…
A reader asked earlier if the thumb lever gets in the way with the line of sight. It absolutely does not! They cleverly tuck it on the down slope of the design. My lever closes partially offcenter to midline along the top stock. So I am not sure if that is by design, but it’s just slightly noticeable and does not affect performance. I am a huge fan with their engraving and that star they place on the very top, it reminds me of the Lone Star. Again, gorgeous detail and design throughout.
Dean, just clarify one point for me. Is the above picture a guard or a pirate?
I’m sorry I have to post this
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Liberals love to pretend that every effort to allow the presence of firearms in (insert sensitive area here) is a new idea. Idaho is now the seventh state to allow concealed carry on public university campuses.
Ignore his repugnant hyperbole, present him with data on campus violent crime, and let the facts speak for themselves.
I have a Kel-tec p-3AT thats a perfect pocket pistol, its almost a clone to the ruger LCP . A little small in the grip, But carrys in your pocket perfectly.
When I grow up, I want to be just like Alan Brooks. And if Shannon is “freaked” out by armed men, how does she explain being around Bloomy? Those men in suits with dark sunglasses are not cops and they are not part of the cool crowd in NYC. Them is armed dudes.
In the words of Charlie Sheen: WINNING.
I’m glad my mom isn’t a communist puppet.
Alan, this has got to be impacting you. Being hated by 7 or 8 moms…
Why is it that every time someone uses the word “but” everything before that is a lie.
I support the second amendment, BUT here’s how I don’t support it.