If you’ve ever given a PowerPoint presentation, we feel for you. Actually, we feel for your audience even more, but sometimes these things must be done. Be that as it may, there are some basic pointers the pros will impart to make the experience more informative and less sleep-inducing. Things like, don’t read every word on the slide out loud, keep it to no more than four bullet points to a page and make them brief and punchy. Now, though, we have to hand it to Jerome Hauer. New York’s Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services has found a new, sure-fire way to make damned sure no one in his audience nods off while he’s droning on . . .
According to timesunion.com, back in October, he gave a briefing to a Swedish delegation on the state’s response to “superstorm” Sandy in a “highly secure state emergency operations center below State Police headquarters.” In order to get his point across, he drew his GLOCK and used its laser to enhance the experience.
These officials, one of whom claimed to be an eyewitness, said that three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun’s laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point.
Hauer, commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, was disabled by a stroke a few years ago and can be unsteady. He isn’t a law enforcement official. He carries the loaded 9-millimeter Glock in a holster into state buildings, an apparent violation of state law barring state employees from bringing weapons to the workplace, several witnesses say.
He definitely would have commanded our attention if we’d been there.
According to one person who witnessed the scene in the conference room, which has mid-wall-to-ceiling windows so that people can see into the meeting space, two people opposite Hauer at the table moved quickly out of the line of the laser when he brought out the gun.
Thank goodness New York’s SAFE Act makes it harder for John and Jane Q. Public to own their own guns. Surely Empire Staters are sleeping more soundly now, secure in the knowledge that it’s much more likely that only highly trained, qualified individuals like Mr. Hauer will be handling dangerous tools like firearms. Still, literally lasing the heads of visiting dignitaries can be bad for international relations. So for that reason alone, we’ll be sending the Director his very own IGOTD keepsake for prominent display in his palatial office. Your tax dollars at work. [h/t One_if_by_land1776]
The A1 improvements are all good and I totally approve of using modern manufacturing and metals to improve the product line. But once you go down that path, they really shouldn’t still call it “Mil Spec”. or maybe they are intending to offer another line called “historically accurate milspec” and then a third product line “Really historically accurate old worn out 1911’s like you had in the Army”. 🙂
Also… Mike and the Mechanics ‘Silent Running’
Priceless.
Where’s Shannon when you need her? Oh, wait… I forgot…
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver, Mission of Burma
http://youtu.be/I8piMHsOya4
Jebus H Christ…
Just the kind of person I want playing diplomat with a foreign delegation.
“Seven Spanish Angels” – Willie Nelson, Ray Charles and Merle Haggard.
She reached down and picked the gun up,
that lay smoking in his hands.
She said, “Father, please forgive me,
I can’t make it without my man.”
And she knew the gun was empty.
And she knew she couldn’t win.
And he final prayer was answered,
when the rifles fired again.
There were seven Spanish angels,
at the altar of the Sun,
They were prayin’ for the lovers,
in the valley of the gun.
When the battle stopped and the smoked cleared,
There was thunder from the throne,
and Seven Spanish Angels,
took another angel home.
——–Plus two mentioned above: “I shot the Sheriff” and “Big Iron”
No wonder she and her droogs can’t see clearly, they has done so many drugs that her eyes are perma-goofy… (see her pic)
More Bikini Model dancing please…. easy to mute video….
Weapon World- Prince Paul
Seems no one learns the lesson of Jim Zumbo. Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. Seems Dick Metcalf didn’t learn that lesson. The Fudd’s (with their “sniper rifles”) would be much better off to align themselves with those of us sportsmen who collect and shoot “sporting rifles”. Once the antigunners finish with us who do you think they will turn on next?
This is simply shocking. Well not really, but still, my jaw hit the floor. This guy deserves the IGOD award, and a one way trip to jail. If this were any joe six pack that is what would have happened.
why not send this to USA Today and MDA (aka, Bloomy’s b!tch) and ask them for an official comment on the record. Then when they don’t respond, send a note to Fox News and highlight curiously their failure to demand this numb nut’s resignation for clear violations of law and safety. Oh, and copy the NY Legislature’s leadership and inquire as to why this is kosher.
Nice review!
Now I just need a TAVOR…
I was trying to google Hauer’s salary in between boring PowerPoint slides I’m currently subjected to, but haven’t run across it. I did learn, however, that he’s apparently the only non-statewide official who has his own state-supplied security guard. This one happens to be Hauer’s personal friend of some two decades and former cop; who recieves a salary of $80K+.
Why does Hauer get a personal guard at taxpayer expense? Although, if the guard is intended to protect others from the irresponsible Hauer, then that might actually make sense.
I would think having a lithium battery right next to a very hot barrel would be a bad thing, probably will void your warranty as well.
Just wait till they put a scope like this on top of a rail gun in 5-10 years.
Jimi Hendrix. Machine Gun. Dedicated to my Internet Boo, Shannon Watts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTBMeLqWsk
Does Glock (oops, I mean GLOCK) make a .45 acp pistol in a compact (G19/G23) size? All I can seem to find are subcompacts or ones with crazy-long slides.
*bait*
You know what guns really suck? SCARs. Hate those dumb things.
*/bait*
That should have gone in the cluster waaaaay above. Now it just looks even sillier than it would have otherwise.
““I’ve been vanished, disappeared. Now you see him. Now you don’t,” he said in a recent New York Times interview.”
Oh, poor baby got a timeout?
One thing that is for sure, The Swedish people DO tend to know how to handle firearms safely. Their citizens are permited to own guns, and like other nordic nations many do.
I have a couple of AKs. Bought them cheap long ago. I’ trade ONE of them even up for a Tavor….I’ll keep the other thanks,
However, it is just another firearm. My guess is that the guy defending himself in this instance did not care what the action type or looks were. He just wanted a firearm that works!…and there is no better example than the one he chose!
The article itself isn’t all that bad, it actually seems fairly middle of the road what with supplying two opposing viewpoints and all. But Goddard’s comments speak to a severe case of cranial-rectal insertion.
“mouthpiece organizations seem to be able to drum up fear endlessly”………so, MDA, MAIG, Brady, none of them drum up fear, right? Never once said “for the children?” The difference would be that when gun rights groups “drum up fear” they have facts supporting their arguments.
“none of the predictions on which they base their fear mongering come to pass”…..Right. I heard LaPierre mention armed guards in schools. We never needed one of those. I hear other gun rights groups advocate armed self defense, but I’ve never heard of anyone being robbed, raped, or murdered. On the flip side, I’m glad the grabber’s prediction of “the streets will run red with blood” and “it will be like the wild west” were absolutely correct…
Two weeks away from TTAG and I can’t even fake snark…..no more vacations for me, I guess.
I am firmly middle of the road when it comes to open carry. On one hand I firmly believe that it is a right, and very nearly a requirement, that every citizen in this country carry a firearm and carry it openly. On the other hand I am not ignorant of the fact that decades of demonizing firearms have shoved this belief farther and farther to the “extremist” label.
The intertubez are full of open carry advocates who almost certainly open carrying for no other reason than their 15 minutes of YouTube fame. Then there are other advocates who are far less vocal and would rather, ahem, advocate than antagonize.
We need more of the latter. We need more people to open carry, I’ve started to open carry occasionally myself. But we need more people to open carry who are aware of the stigma associated with the practice and are more of the passive resistance mindset than the “AM I BEING DETAINED?!?!?” mindset.
You can accomplish your goals more efficiently by being courteous and polite (but not a pushover) than you can by being a d*ckweed.