“Stephen J. Sedensky III, State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury, today released his report on the investigation into the December 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and a private residence in Newtown.” That’s the intro from the state of Connecticut website were you can read a summary version of what happened in Newtown almost a year ago. [Click here for our initial analysis.] As part of the report, the State released a series of photos from the crime scene and Adam Lanza’s bedroom (a.k.a., the “gunman’s lair”). This one shows that the killer did not, as reported, shoot through a door to enter Sandy Hook Elementary School. He shot through a window. Does it matter? It would to anyone building or modifying physical security for a school. If they did so before this report was released, well, what’s vital information compared to political correctness, gun control and whitewashing the police response?
Interesting quote here:
“Indeed, according to a report last week by the Reuters news agency, active-shooter incidents at such places have tripled in the last three years.”
Meaning what, they have gone from one-to-four? I hate junk observations like that.
Reading this made my head hurt. It sounds like this guy had his game face on, but clearly you buy cops some cool tactical gear and send them to a Blackwater range for a few hours and they’ll immediately disregard all that situational awareness crap and run back to sign their timecards at the first opportunity.
After major (big, scary) surgery last year, I discovered that I could no longer work the DAO trigger on my newly purchased S&W 640. Heavy triggers seem to be the new normal on even the finest revolvers. I took it to the local gun guru (if you’re in St. Louis, you’ll know who Otto is) and had him install an Apex spring kit and do an internal polish job. All was right with the world! As a side benefit, now that I have my grip strength back, I now have the easiest handling, most controllable J-frame I’ve ever fired.
Who knew that glass doors and windows didn’t make a school safe from a madman? Years after Columbine and I can take you to local schools that not only have no armed response in an emergency but in some cases they haven’t even got a fence around them.
True conversation. Me,”Your classroom door is locked but there’s a floor to cieling window right next to the door.”
Her. “I’m turning my lights out if trouble comes and hope the glass is thick enough to keep out an intruder.”
The entryway to that school in #16 looks like virtually every school I ever attended. Minus the crime scene tape, of course.
Also, his bedroom is remarkably bare.
Glad the police were afforded this valuable training opportunity/LFX.
A with all things conspiratorially speaking.
The public wont see or know most of what actually went on.
JFK was fiddy years ago and they are still sticking to the lone gunman theory.
I for one don’t know anyone even with the smoothest bolt action rifle there is who is not a professional.
Can pull off 3 shots in the given time period. Let alone hit anything that far away with a 4 power after the 1st shot..
I think I’ve said it about 10,000 times today, but I’ll say it one more time…you are on your own. And that’s just the way it should be.
Other than that, interesting read but mostly irrelevant as far as I’m concerned.
Tom
It is a good training opportunity for POTG as well. If you find yourself in a mall, etc., in such a situation, and you are armed, be aware that even if you never see a target there are dozens if not more very tense LEOs looking for ANYONE with a gun. Act accordingly.
did anybody notice the book ‘Train Your Brain to be Happy’ in his bedroom?
Yeah, he definitely needed help, although I don’t know if it was his or for someone else in his family.
Cant believe this story. I live in Canada and am not a fan of a lot here. This is one. Damn. The only scary thing I can get out of this is if it was in a more rural area, you can’t have a shootout in front of your house. But I’m sure residents would call the Police. But in his situation, I agree with Thompson. No time to call police and he’s in open land. These guys looked fearless and were fearless as the laws are protecting the suspects. Change the laws to Castle Doctrine and people will be more scared. Check out the video. Also a string of knock knock robberies in the states are happening. Check those out. Im sure id blast someone who is in my house.
So since they heavily implied that video games were a contributing factor (by dedicating 3 photographs in the series to his video games and systems) I’m assuming that we’ll see an inquisition leveled at that website similar to what the NRA received after LaPierre’s stupid remarks on video games, right?
I mean, unless that was just an excuse for people to whine about that evil old NRA…
They don’t give a damn what we have to say, Obama has already told them what rules he wants and those are going to get passed.
Our only recourse is winning in 2016 and getting sanity back in the White House.
Done. 1jx-88y3-qu4u
The other day, my political science professor said something that I liked quite a bit. While talking about terrorism, she said, “You know, at the end of the day I’ve come to the conclusion that we have to accept a certain amount of risk in our lives, and we can’t let a fear of that risk control our lives.”
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Wonder how long it will take for them to come knock on my door.
Sorry random thought here but did anyone else not see a dragonuv stock on the saiga in the video?
DAYUM! That Glock finally found a suppressor as ugly as it is.
And one that is well designed and effective so definitely a nice match for the similarly well designed and effective Glock. The design of the Osprey suppressor in that picture is superior when it comes to using with standard height sights and offers better suppression than a normal cylinder design option until it is too large to use with anything but raised sights or possibly at all on a Glock. This “ugly” setup is one of the sweetest configs I have ever used. Oh well looks are all that matters. Better sell it off 🙂
Soooooo someone wanted out of a test or something?
In my option not that it really matters I believe that suppressors should be treated like a striped lower for an ar15. When you buy it, show your ID, fill the form for the background check and wait for the ATF to do the stander N.I.C.S. check. Once you done and come cleared of a N.I.C.S check you can pick up your new suppressor. Now of course you local and state laws will affect this depending on where you live.
So in Illinois an 18-21 year needs a permission slip from mommy? I can undstand people wanting extra scrutiny of younger adults (without agreeing with them of course) but I don’t get where the parents should have special powers over these adults.
But since Obama has declared people to be children until age 26 then I guess we wil be destined to have perpetual children.
Well, the part that got me is that the parent has to be FOID eligible, too. That could suck for some people. Set aside the fact that an 18-21 year old shouldn’t have to get mom’s permission to begin with, but let’s say this was a kid whose parents had a checkered past, but the kid was trying to do it right. They still want to defend themselves/hunt/recreate, but they can’t because mom or dad (who they may not even live with) can’t legally possess a gun? That’s messed up. That’s literally “visiting the sins of the father on the son,” and last I checked, we didn’t do that in this country.
As a few have hinted at it I’ll go ahead and say it.
Many of these MWG calls begin with an anon. tip phone call or the like and the police find nobody. Many of these happen around schools, malls, etc. where there is a high percentage of young people.
If I were a govt. intent on conditioning my populace to see armed govt agents monitoring them day and night the first thing I would do would be to make sure the younger generation sees them as a normal presence.
Pleading with this administration not to violate our rights is like asking Hannibal Lector not to eat us. They are going to do it, they can do it, and they will do it. Why? Because it is a way to get around Congress since that is a stalled front on their war on Freedoms.
As for trusts being used in crimes; Christopher J. Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer who embarked on a personal war against the agency used a trust to purchase asuppressor and a SBR in Nevada when we was a California resident. So yes, sadly they have been used in crimes.
I am against trusts not because of this but because I believe Suppressors, SBSs, SBRs, and AOWs should be over the counter items. Have the dealer collect the tax, call in the background, hand the purchaser a form with an approval number and he/she can walk out the door with his/her purchase. I have a trust because where I live no CLEO will sign off. I hate it… I hate the fact that I had to resort to a trust to simply enjoy the hearing safety that a can provides or that a four inch piece of barrel is missing.
Not that it is a huge deal, but the Post also identifies the weapon used to kill his mother as a Bushmaster, which it wasn’t. It was a .22 Savage(not the evil black rifle), the Bushmaster xm15 was used at the school.
Excellent article. I’d never thought about the possible sensory overload factor. Mannequins suddenly becoming apparent bad guys, mirrors, and bright lights and colors. something to think about. From now on, I’m going to look at our local malls with new eyes.
BTW, I saw an article on a prepper site that said a packet of instant mashed potatoes works just as well as Quik-Clot, and ER docs can rinse it off with water.
Has anyone else heard this? Any thoughts?
It looks like his 10mm Glock jammed. It’s not in battery, but not at slide lock either. (Picture 8)
Lots of great .22LR’s out there, I would say get a rifle if you can handle it (any rifle is usually better than any handgun.)
Don’t let people discourage your choice to defend yourself due to the inability to wield a larger caliber.
There isn’t an HSLD, Internet warrior out there volunteering to take multiple round of .22LR to the face, or high center chest, so it must be effective enough.
Done 1jx-88yd-8wd3, have to try at least.
Not only irrational but psychopathic as well. Legalizing marijuana would have no impact on the behavior since harder drugs are more profitable and there is always kidnapping as a side job. The bad guys aren’t going to take up farming and factory work, unless it is for drugs. Meth production is a growing concern these days as is heroin.
Take a corrupt state, throw in a little gun control and a lot of poverty, and season with bravado you’ll get Mexico.
Then legalize the other drugs as well. It’s not that complicated.
They say that Gandhi was a valuable focus of media attention, but not the cause of India’s liberation from British rule. That liberation was in good part caused by WWII, during which the Japanese supplied Indian rebels with a large number of rifles. This made large parts of India too expensive in lives to hold on to.
knock telephone poles down fore and aft and see if it can negotiate that obstacle.
Wide distribution of military equipment to the local PD simply makes it more easily accessible to the “irate, tireless minority,” once the need arises.
What the hell does kvetch mean and why is it emphasized so strongly? I don’t get it.
And I thought Turkey had the highest gas prices in Europe
According a business insider article, gas in the UK costs $7.27 per gallon, and in Turkey costs $9.54.
Just fact checking, like we do here ay TTAG.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-most-expensive-places-to-buy-gas-in-the-world-2011-4?op=1
I just finished my Master’s paper on Deitrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who led a pacific resistance movement in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, and who was later involved in an actual plot to kill Hitler. Of this plot and its relation to messages of non-violence, Martin Luther King Jr. said:
“If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and non-violence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.”
In other words, there are some folks with whom negotiation is literally impossible, and it is better to eliminate them through violence than to allow them to continue to commit atrocities unchallenged.
Very good Magnus. I would love to read your thesis.
Bonhoeffer should be studied by all Christians, especially those who have erroneously selected pacifism as a philosophy.
“I say send ‘em MRAPs! And get them out on patrol ASAP. The sooner Americans see the danger of a militarized police they sooner they’ll move to stop the SWAT team trend in its tracks. At least in theory”
i don’t think this will happen. Americans are to sleepy to wake up and realize what is happening. many Americans (even strong supporters of the constitution) if they saw a mrap in action would probably think it is justified. they would just say well it was probably a drug bust and our cul de sac is safer without these people. or if they don’t convince themselves they are now safer, the media would create convincing lie to put you on the swats side.
I expect none of these sheriffs has considered the possibility that home grown insurgents might have means to neutralize their new toys that the rag heads in Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t have. Pretty much sure there are a lot more 60 foot tall white pines along the road in Warren County than there were in Bagdad or Kabul. Just saying. How about plugging up the air intakes with spray foam insulation. I imagine that’s a little easier to come by in Lake George than it was in the sand box. It’s kinda depressing really the lack of imagination some folks have. Of course we could outlaw trees over 6 feet tall and register all the cans of Great Stuff but that’s a pretty slippery slope don’t you think.
Armor must be supported by infantry: Budapest v Red Army for example. These things are useless for anything beyond intimidation. With all the mods they aren’t even going to make for good cover. But don’t tell them. I kinda like the tactics gap.
Anyone else here think that the names of the members of your local SWAT team needs to be public knowledge?
No such thing as a free puppy. Or a free MRAP either.
Warren county is two things: a conservative, red county, and about as peaceful a place as you can find on this planet. This is ludicrous. It’s either conspiracy theory fodder, a colossal waste of money to boost a Sheriff’s ego, or both.
I’ve always understood those “fancy sliding buckles with thirteen straps going in every direction” affairs to be proper slings. Correct me if I’m wrong, but what has been reviewed here sounds like it is simply a ‘carrying strap’ and not actually a ‘shooting sling’.
Can the UltraFlex actually be used as a rifle sling (http://www.shootingvoodoo.com/index.php/articles/sling__more_than_a_carry_strap/), or is it only for carrying?
The first job of a sling isn’t carrying a rifle. The second job of a sling is to aid in carrying a rifle.
This is not a sling for a shootist.
For people who want to see what a proper sling looks like, find a 1907 sling, then go find the USMC or USA training manuals on how to use it. Turner Saddlery makes one of the better leather slings, but you can find slings made in a polymer called “Biothane” that work almost as well.
Or, you know, you could oil up your leather sling for foul weather.
Once you learn how to shoot with a sling, you will be amazed at how your hit percentage goes up when you’re not shooting off the bench.
What is it with you guys? Do you need an attractive young lady to show you how to use a sling? Well then, maybe it’s time for Ms. Weiss to show you guys how to use a sling – because I am absolutely certain that Ms. Weiss shoots in competitions with a sling. No one who is a serious rifle shootist will say “Oh, that’s OK, I don’t need a sling, I’m not carrying my rifle that far…” when shooting standing off-hand.
And the games and consoles are relevant evidence, how?
Did any stock split over that time? If so, you might be up more than you think.
Hudak is the spawn of the devil. I couldn’t believe she was unswayed by the rape victim’s testimony. How could she (Hudak) continue on with the notion that disarming women is going to protect them – let alone insinuate such to a rape victim. Basically she was saying… your being raped is worth it (worth the existence of this kind of gun control). Amazing. I hope she is recalled and never serves a public office again.
“The issue escalated Monday after state Sen. Evie Hudak, a Westminster Democrat, told Amanda Collins, a college rape victim who testified against the bill, that even if she were armed the night of her attack, odds are she would not have stopped her rapist.”
What a crock of garbage. A gun is not going to stop a rapist??? Total delusional opinion stacked on lies.
here:
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22733244/colorado-sen-evie-hudaks-concealed-carry-stats-dont
ATF came about because the enabling legislation needed someone to collect the taxes. The NFA ’34 was merely a way of controlling guns via taxation. After prohibition, they needed a way to collect and handle tax stamps on booze. The tobacco thing was just thrown in for fun.
It was in the 70’s I recall the ATF getting “mission creep” when they started showing up on arson and explosive investigations in NJ/NY/CT/etc, sticking their noses into local jurisdictions and events, providing “help” and “expertise.”
As for being a store: There is such a place, in Fallon, NV, right on US-50 as you’re coming into town from Fernley. On your right hand side, just past the Big R ranch supply store, is a liquor store that deals in good booze, beer, cigars, pipe tobacco, cigs, guns and ammo. They have a drive-up window. You can pull up, get a case of beer, a case of #6 shotshells and some chew, all at once.
The same mentality is everywhere, a year or so ago I had one of my new neighbors ask me to sign their petition to try and force Long Beach Airport to move it’s landing pattern because it was disturbing them, the airport has been there since 1923, it’s not like it was a secret.
Some years ago, I was president of a Rod & gun club located in a small town on Boston’s north shore. Although the club’s range had been active for nearly 20 years, some people had recently built a house on a hill about 1/4 mile behind our range, and had complained to the local board of selectmen about the “incessant noise and stray bullets flying through our yard.” I presented the selectmen with sound meter readings from the complainants’ property, plus aerial photographs of their house in relation to the range. It turned out that these characters were serial litigants, but it still took nearly a year to get them to give up their complaints and, eventually, move to another state.
I’m in the process of moving. One of the houses we looked at (really nice place) is directly accross the street from Wright-Patterson AFB. While we were walking through they were doing touch and gos with a C-5. I wonder if I bought and complained about jet noise if they’d shut it down….
Second paragraph, second sentence you used knows instead of known. Next to last paragraph, second sentence, “Newcomers aren’t not” instead of are not or aren’t.
Where legal, if you are a gun owner, open carry! Be respectful, friendly, and peace-loving. I live in CT, where, like NY, the majority of people are either anti-gun or closet gun owners. There’s a social stigma against owning a firearm as the owner is often viewed as paranoid or looking for trouble. The stigma allows a relatively weak and unconstitutionally based minority (those who favor disarmament) to shift the focus from people’s actions to an inanimate tool. Let’s break the stigma! It’s not the tool that is the problem, it’s the person. Troubled people will find any tool, whether it’s a firearm, a fertilizer bomb, or even a laptop to inflict terror.