My daughter (not shown) played field hockey in Houston this weekend, in the shadow of a tall apartment building. After the Mandalay Bay shooting, I’ve been more aware of large buildings looming over parks and city streets. Of course, there’s not a lot I could do if someone goes all clock tower on me and mine — except recognize the threat ASAP and scurry to safety. Still, I’ve upped my situational awareness. And I [still] don’t do crowds. What, if anything, has been the impact of the LV spree killing on your SA or behaviors?
Situational awareness is higher, and I now carry two tourniquets in addition to my EDC and standard first aid kit. I have a few extra tourniquets in my truck too. I’m more likely to use my first aid equipment than my Glock.
Yes, But I’m glad I never own a gun and NEVER will.
Because statically, Your more likely to turn your own weapon on yourself or a loved one than stop a “bad guy.”
A “good guy” would not have stopped this either.
Honest question for everyone on here including the racist American-hating robert farago: Isn’t EVERY gun owner a “good guy with a gun” until he/she does something bad? I’m not talking about ex-felons that aren’t supposed to have guns. I’m talking about people with “no record or previous run in with the law” and own their guns legally. There haven’t been too many cases where a mass shooting occurs and we say, “Yep, ole boy did it again!”…..It’s always the “first time this guy has went bonkers”.
We should also ignore that your ‘statistical examples’ would use a knife, car, bat etc to accomplish their suicide or abuse.
Take for example that not too long ago a man in Canada circumvented their gun laws and brutally murdered his wife and kids with an axe, and no one called for sensible axe control and the gun laws did nothing for these poor people. But I guess being butchered in Canada is better than being shot in America right?
Not to mention in this particular case the guy could have inflicted more death and injury with an F-150 than all those AR-15s.
False equivalence.
Axes are mainly used as tools, Guns are not tools of good, but tools of oppression.
One incident in Canada does not compare to the same incident that happens here everyday, Except replace axe with gun. It’s easier to run away or fight back against a nutter with an axe than a gun.
Let me know when axe rampages are an epidemic, Oh wait, They’re not.
‘…tools of oppression.’
So if a black woman fends off a rapist with a gu n, does that make her her rapist’s oppressor?
Gu ns are only tools of oppression if the only people who have them are part of an oppressive government.
“Let me know when axe rampages are an epidemic, Oh wait, They’re not.”
Ask some Tutsi around in Rawanda. They can tell how 1,000,000 people were brutally oppressed and murdered by simple farming tools (tools of food that harvest food mind you).
Do you know what stopped the violence? Not the armed peacekeeping agents of the UN watching the slaughter guns introduced by neighboring countries to the Tutsi to protect themselves.
Still claiming false equivalence? There are examples from plenty of communist states in Asia where guns aren’t owned by civilians. Plenty of Jews in east Europe during either world war were murdered by ropes and tools not guns
So every time I go to the range, I’m oppressing the paper targets?
^^^ to this douchebag, why must you think just because we uphold our constitution and have a firearm or two that we must be racist? do you have the first clue how many blacks, hispanics, Asians ect ect own firearms for multiple LEGAL reasons? any REAL pro gun people out there know damn good and well it’s not just backwoods honkies that like their guns. calling out someone you know nothing about (Mr. Robert Farago) a racist only concludes that you are ignorant to the world around you. take your hillary, gun control loving, slave to the government ass elsewhere, that will be all.
that was meant for the outsider flame deleted above, ended up on the wrong area of responses somehow
I don’t think he knows what the word ‘racist’ means. Everyone on the left throws that out so much I think he just knows it’s some kind of pejorative.
I believe RF’s parents were labeled ‘subhuman’ by a guy named Adolf.
What grade are you in this year? Who is your favorite character on Henry Danger?
I’m also happy that you’re not a gun owner. Because statistically, mass shooters are overwhelmingly liberal and Democrats. Even this shooter in Vegas was a registered Democrat. 90% of Felons vote Democrat. Democrats shoot up Senators. Democrat controlled cities have the highest rates of gun violence no matter what their gun laws are.
You want a party that’s going to ruin education? Check out any Democrat controlled city. You want a party that’s going to screw up the economy? Check out any Democrat controlled city. You want a party that’s going to squander options of their constituents to the point that they have nowhere to turn except crime? Check out any Democrat controlled city and compare it to something with split or Republican control. You are the problem. Your hatred and bigotry and desire to blame anything else except for what’s really responsible is exactly what’s wrong in the world.
As a vet, I’ll stand for your freedom of speech to spit your hatred and your 2nd Amendment rights to own a gun. As a human being, I am very, very, VERY happy everytime a hate filled, murderous liberal like you decides to stay away from guns.
All the Pa. ones are RINOs…
Playing into the fear porn RF?
In a word Nope. Since I’m normally aware of what’s around me 99.999% of the time. I don’t let things like being around a high rise or underground parking garage change my daily movements.
Strasser does have a Spartan bipod that works on their products. It’s listed on their website.
https://www.hms-strasser.com/en/strasser-spartan-bipods.htm
Nope…it’s already skyhigh. I think my wife would call it paronoid. So be it…head on a swivel,avoid stupid places and people(if possible) and always be armed.
If the police cruiser hits a pothole, the officers finger could easily bounce the trigger . It sure makes no sense to me .
a MSP officer here tased a 15 yr old on a ATV during a chase, causing him to crash and be killed. I’m glad I don’t have that on my conscience. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/detroit-teens-deadly-atv-crash-state-trooper-resigns-after-15-year-olds-death
Ban all tall buildings? This is the left’s logic, not mine.
An attacker who is willing to die in the process, who chooses the optimum time and place of ambush, and who has decent resources is going to kill multiple people, period. The only question is how many victims the attacker will produce.
In that sense situational awareness is basically useless. The odds that you just happen to see such an attacker seconds before his/her ambush is pretty much nil. Rather than focusing on trying to see the attack before it happens, I focus on noticing how to get to cover and exit an area should someone ambush my location.
Beyond that, I make it a point to NOT go to locations where there are dense crowds of people in the midst of a myriad possible attack vectors — noting that “attack vectors” includes fire, poison, explosive, and vehicle methods of attack as well as firearms.
No , not really. I’m trying to balance my concern with the likelihood of an event. My SA is pretty good already.
I can tell you if I were in vegas, whether or not I knew where the fire was coming from I would have been running . you may get accidently get closer to the attacker, but moving targets a so much harder to hit you will probably still be better off.
The best rule of martial arts is ” don’t be where the fight is” , but you have to live your life too.
Sure a bit I suppose ,but I did use it to,reaffirm my thoughts to,our two 20 something concert going daughters . Flip flops, and sandals are not good in crowds .
Most likely your feet would just get dirty or stepped on causing pain or injury , but if you had to run, climb and jump for your life it would really suck .
Nice review. The rifle’s key features are designed to meet the needs of European hunters. Many countries have limited the number of receivers that can be owned or transported. That is what spawned the interchangeable barrel bit. A consequence of that flexibility is the necessity of a bolt head that can be swapped. The result is inherently weaker than a one-piece bolt. As for the removable side plates or the notion that 4 or 6 shots makes “a driven hunt gun,” I can only laugh.
I’d rather just throw two Winchester (FN) Model 70’s in the trunk. Restocked to a very high standard with exhibition-grade wood, the 70’s will each cost about what the MSRP in on the Strasser. With the as-provided Supergrade wood, the pair will cost less than that, total. Steyr and others make good rifles for which a 10 round magazine is available.
Well I found Michael Moore without makeup.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr06/1/17/enhanced-buzz-orig-17688-1383340088-55.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto
I am aware of what’s/who’s going on around me most of the time, so I don’t think that’s going to change. Since this Vegas massacre was such an unforseeable exceptional event, and not one that I am likely to encounter in my daily life, my answer is that I will probably not become even more alert and increase to full-time Condition Orange.
What someone said above about being aware of potential escape routes/cover and other personal protective measures is the thing to do no matter what you’re doing or where you are. So if you’re attending a big-crowd event near a tall building (or even a no-crowd field hockey match), consider that and be ready if/when any emergency occurs.
The atf already reviewed it.
It’s legal.
I think that’s their stance as well.
It’s politics. We can’t be seen as doing nothing. So we do something that amounts to nothing.
It’s stupid. And it’s why I hate politics.
It’s always a crude ‘awakening’ to see where, day-to-day, I’ve let my situational awareness ‘slip’.
Mark, at Article 15 Clothing, does some funny videos, and has one about “you might be a veteran” https://youtu.be/0AxkVJO0208 that has some funny moments of ‘heightened situational awareness’ at home.
Just have some situational awareness. ‘Murica.
Who needs enemies with friends like these…sheesh.
Based on this language, doesn’t this mean they want the ATF to begin to ban everything? all it would take a another shooting for this language to hurt us “We believe the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) should interpret and enforce existing laws and regulations.” With more shootings, semi could get banned, no? I understand that that maybe not what they really mean, but from the left, isn’t that what it means?
How the hell…? Who is really behind this?
And why don’t I see any such wobbling and backstabbing from the citizen-disarmist side?
If someone is shooting innocents in my presence , I will engage with whatever is at my disposal. He has to reload, that’s your best chance,if you can wait for that. changing clips does take a couple of seconds.
Even if they didn’t go into the room , if he’s shooting through the door at you, why not shoot back through the door at Him? I don’t understand why they wouldn’t have done that .
I just wanted to say I recognized that spot. My alma mater, St. John’s School, corner of W Alabama and Buffalo Speedway (aka Buffalo Speedtrap)
I find it interesting that so few see this move by NSSF, the NRA, and others as the clever strategy it is. Think of it this way. The ATF has already reviewed the product and determined it legal based on the letter of the law. Demanding that the ATF review again delays the rapid fire legislation efforts of the left (assault legislation?), but also relies on already proven interpretations of the laws involved (NFA definition of a machine gun still unfulfilled). There is just no room for creative interpretation here. At least not if you don’t want a very obvious and blatant misinterpretation of clear law on your record.
Pelosi, Schumer, and gang get delayed by the very bureaucracy they want to inflict on any rights they disagree with, all while opening their mouths further and exposing them for the self righteous fascists they want to be. Remember, time is not a friend of the left when it comes to exploiting tragedies. Lefty can’t dance with a dried up shirt.
Definitely trying to keep as few people behind me as possible and know where the exits are. Also keeping the kid closer and trying to keep an eye out for people who just look strange.
But the knife never runs out of bullets. I would like to see a bump fire on it tho. That’s s good basic EDC however. A little much for the knife tho
“I can only conclude . . . that the firearms industry as a whole is happy to have the ATF violate the letter of federal law in a misguided, not-to-say doomed attempt to prevent future spree killings and/or appease gun control advocates. True?”
Not even close to true. The NSSF and the NRA are supporting the regulation of bumpfire stocks because any other position would be the death of both organizations.
Bumpfire stocks were gone the second that the schmuck started shooting people in Las Vegas. Maybe some of us need to wake up to a big dose of reality.
If the NRA and NSSF had been around on April 19, 1775, they would have freely handed over all arms and powder to the Redcoats at Concord. And then invited them to tea.
Freaking cowards – all of them!
How bout we follow the constitution and ban nothing. Because that is what shall not be infringed usually means. Allow bumpfire stocks, allow machineguns, allow SBRs, allow all the small arms. Mybe i don’t need a tactical nuke, but if it has a barrel and goes boom i should be able to own it.
I agree with you, but there are about 227 million American adults who disagree and they make the rules. I doubt even Neil Gorsuch would go along with your program.
“video and audio from Las Vegas showing a man with a bump fire stock murdering more than 50 people and injuring another 500 . . . made a push to outlaw them inevitable.”
No. It made outlawing them inevitable. I think we both know that.
A bump-fire stock is not a firearm. Strangely, doesn’t that mean that it does not have any constitutional protections?
Does anyone have a link to the forum post?
I bailed on the NRA several years ago. After a while, I observed a very consistant and disturbing pattern, where NRA-ILA supported incumbent politicians, notably state-level offices, who may have done something nice for us long years ago, but who have since flipped and worked against gun owners on many critical issues. I began to disregard the NRA’s endorsements because they were endorsing, supporting, and giving undeserved high ratings, to incumbents who had been trying to cut our throats in recent years. I, and several friends and family, contacted NRA-ILA about this damnfoolery and were more-or-less blown off, told they would “look into it”, or similar. Often, NRA-ILA was supporting these turncoat incumbents at the expense of defeating solidly Pro-2A challengers who would have voted for rather than against things we needed such as CWP restaurant carry and more. I contacted NRA then and let them know that I would no longer be renewing when my membership expired as they were no longer representing my interests as a gun owner.
Screw the NRA and their apologists such as Hickok45 and others who keep making excuses for them!
Guess what, psycho paths with bags of money will not care if bump stocks are illegal.
If the exact questions asked aren’t given, the poll should be tossed out. Period. Same with methodology for selecting a random and demographic sample.