“A Senate subcommittee passed a bill to thunderous applause Wednesday that would allow people to carry guns in public in South Carolina without a concealed weapons permit,” lohud.com reports. Like many in law enforcement, Charleston Police Capt. Brian Ambrose is SO against the idea of open carry, constitutional carry or open constitutional carry. Capt. Ambrose worries “it will make officers’ jobs harder because they will have to wait for someone openly holding a gun to commit a crime before they can confront them.” How about that? Speaking on behalf of the South Carolina chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, Former State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart showed an equal understanding of the document he’d sworn to defend. Apparently, “there are more rights in the constitution than just the right to bear arms . . . ”
“You also have a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness whether you carry a gun or not carry a gun.”
What was that about it being better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool? Anyway, good luck to them, ’cause I reckon Open Carry is the way forward for American gun rights.
It’s the reverse of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s doomed effort to force cigarette retailers to hide their product. You can’t ignore gun rights if there they are, gun-shaped, right in front of you. Until or unless you can. Which is just how it should be.
That was surprisingly compelling.
Wow! Waiting for someone to actually commit a crime BEFORE the police confront them. What a wonderful concept.
I see the issue with the EO Tech, but i would also call out the officer with the pump acting like he is getting ready to shoot a .50 . What happens if he needed to take a second shot with his hand all the way away from the slide?
I live in Charleston and it saddens me to say that it’s the most left wing city in the state. Don’t get me wrong, we are still mostly righties here, but a lot of big city retirees love our warm weather. Lets just pray they don’t get in the way of this bill passing.
Thanks but no thanks. I caught this guy on Gun Talk and he’s not one of us ‘gun guys’. He disparaged the NRA and those who are in it with a broad brush then proved that he didn’t even know what he was talking about. Unfortunately, Tom let him get away with the lies, then had LaPierre on the show following this Dan guy. Just because Dan owns a gun doesn’t prove anything to me. I *won’t* be buying the book as it’s a waste of the paper.
Police that are actually politicians: FO.
The head of SLED used to be all for constitutional carry. And I think he was black!
SC residents: don’t fear the piggies. Fear the retail federation and tourism industries. Remember what happened to Florida in 2011.
SC residents
That is the funniest damn thing ever! LOL
Talk about a big ‘L’ on the forehead! DOH!
hahahahahaa No wonder why he’s not looking through his sites!
What a dumb ass! Hahahahaa
Very good!
Gander Mountain had Remington 223 ammo when I was there yesterday. I did a double take when I saw it. It was priced at $34 a box. I thought to myself $34 bucks for 50 rounds seems a little pricey but it’s a good sign that it’s here. Then I noticed it was a box of 20. No wonder it was in stock. That’s $1700 per 1000 rounds.
More than all what?
+1
Thank you!
Data is inaccurate. The number of Americans defending themselves IAW the Center for Disease Control AND the Center for Injury Prevention and Control came up with 2.5 million cases of self defense gun use JUST LAST YEAR!!! Since January 1st of 2013 at 8:45p.m. central time the number of cases is around 435,719. Almost a half a million and its still March.
These self defense cases include brandishing a weapon and scaring off an attacker as well as shooting the bad guy. I think everyone agrees that brandishing a gun and avoiding the unfortunate consequense of actually having to discharge your weapon, is a HUGE WIN. Unfortunately these cases are rarely reported on. Even when someone shoots in self defense it isn’t reported on even by local news.
I am sceptical of the statistic of 2.5million cases in a year, but I am even more sceptical of the statistic of 2.4 since 1968. I believe the real number is closer to the CDC stat.
Either way. People using firearms for self-defense far outweighs those who use guns for ill purposes
Other than cops/wannabe grunts with toys. The rear quarter panel of an M966 HMMWV MIGHT stop a.17 pellet. Fender is aluminum about the thickness of a tool box lid. The cap and hatch are fiberglass will stop medium sized hail.
Concealment is not cover.
Magpul, all in FDE:
* ACS-L stock (mil-spec)
* MIAD grip
* Temporary setup: Mid-length MOE forearm & M4-type gas block/front sight
* Getting installed next month: Rifle-length MOE forearm over low-profile mid gas block, fold-down front sight immediately behind flash suppressor for max iron-sight radius
Also has a Tapco receiver end plate for attaching a single-point sling because I’m not a total Magpul fanboy.
In the early stages of shopping for a 1-4X or 1-6X scope, or possibly a nice red-dot with a slide-to-side magnifier setup. If I go with the scope I’ll be mounting up a compact red-dot on a 45-degree right side offset bracket.
Did I mention that it’s a 5.45×39 that only costs me 20c/round (steel) or 35c/round (steel milsurp, bullet pulled and reloaded with resized Hornady bullets) to shoot? I’ll build my other AR lower in 5.56 when ammo prices come back out of the stratosphere.
Or maybe I’ll be completely perverse and build my other AR for 7.62×39 so I can have all-American rifles that only eat Russian ammo. 🙂
A nit-picky question: Does the stat still hold true if you tweak the language to support a much more succinct argument? For example, “2,475,000 Americans protected themselves from criminals and madmen” as opposed to “gun violence”? Leaves a lot less room for doubt that the gun owners were the ones being accosted and we were justified in our use of force in those instances.
The reason I raise this distinction is the anti-gun community will want to know specifics or they’ll just say that most of those protection scenarios wouldn’t have involved a gun (hence gun violence) if the defender didn’t have one to begin with. It’s a silly argument, but that doesn’t mean they’ll try to use it.
NYT discovers something any 2nd grader could have told you. DUH? Is the the nyt still hiring idiots, or did they take over the main office there?
How dare you! These animals cause trouble every day which is why he records it. The people he confronted and tased were reoccuring problems and he banned them.
Here is yet another example where an artificial 10 round magazine limitation could have proven deadly for the armed citizen trying to defend themselves.
WTF does it matter if she melted it down? The fact remains that she carried it when she felt threatened. She sure as shit didn’t carry around a cross made from a melted gun at the time.
Only a moron San Fran writer could come up with something as stupid as this. Oh and yeah, Dummy Debra, Feinstein is irrevocably on record wanting to ban handguns. Look it up you putz it’s not hard to find.
I liked it for what it is – goofy, spoofy, time-wasting fun.